Love to Craft Challenge Blog #46: Mixed Media Bird Tag

Hello crafty friends!   This is my post for Love to Craft Challenge Blog,  every month is Anything Goes.   We want to see what you have been crafting.

The image Birds Hair from artist Julia Spiri was color with my Prismacolor pencils.  I decided to make a mixed media tag.  Paint, scrap paper, tissue, sewing maching stitching, ink, gold & purple paint, cheese cloth:  just for the background.  After the sewing the stitches, I couldn't stand looking at the back of the tag, so I fixed it .

I did the same technique with a new tag to place over the back of the front tag, but without the stitching.  This little wooden bird has been sitting in my craft closet for awhile, some gesso paint, ink and gold paint to tie it into the project.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this tag in the following challenges:

• Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge: #60 Aything Mixed Media
• Creative Fingers Challenge: #185 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #4 Anything Goes

stamps: Julia Spiri: Birds Hair
paper: scraps
embellishments: paints, inks, embossing powder, cheesecloth, wooden bird,  the Paper Studios: flowers

Love to Craft Challenge Blog #34: Victorian

Hello crafty friends! 

A new month and as always it's Anything Goes at Love to Craft! Challenge Blog.

I love this cute image from Julia Spiri, it reminds me of Holly Hobby.  This is The Victorian Hat image .  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.  I love doing monochromatic colors with images like this.  I did add a hint of color.

Here's the inside.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

stamps: Julia Spiri: Victorian Hat
paper: Bazzill, MME: Lost & Found, scrap
die-cut: MFT: oval stax 1 & 2
embellishments: Wild Orchid: cottage rose, the Paper Studio: fibers, Recollections: pearls

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #18: Monochrome

Hello Crafty friends!  I don't know how I forgot to post this one back in October.  I love making monochromatic projects.  This was for MIUCB.

I used the classy image from Julia Spiri called The Butterfly Hat.   The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I wanted an antique vintage feel for this card.  I went for the brownish/grey tones.

 Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Julia Spiri: The Butterfly Hat
paper: Bazzill, Tim Holtz: Crowded Attic
die-cuts: Spellbinders: Marvelous Squares
embellishments: 3GJ: ribbon, the Paper Studio: fibers & petite flowers, Pearls Mist: heirloom gold, Stampendous: fran-tage aged-gold ; buttons

Mix It Up #3: Distressing

Hello crafty friends!  I'm very excited to say, I have joined another DesignTeam with DT Leader Leslie.  I feel very honored to be joining these crafty ladies at Mix It Up Challenge Blog 

This month's challenge is distressing (ink and/or tool).   I created a card using Julia Spiri image The Grape and Hair.  The image was colored with my PrismaColor pencils.  For the challenge I used a distressing tool to distress the paper edges.  I also used distressing ink around the image.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• A Perfect Time To Craft: #7 Anything Goes  
• Creative Ladybirds: #28 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #23 Anything Goes

stamps: Julia Spiri: The Grape and Hair , Unity Stamp (sentiment)
paper: SU, K&Company
die-cuts: MFT: oval stax2, sentiment strips
embellishments: the Paper Studio: purple petite flowers, poppies & paperier flowers

Let's Craft & Create - Love Is In The Air

Hello Crafty Friends!  I'm here today with my post for Let's Craft and Create and "Love Is In The Air".

I absolutely love this image from Julia Spiri called The First Kiss.  It's just a beautiful, innocent and adorable image.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.  I wanted to keep the design fairly simple that way the image could be the main focus.

Here's the inside stamped with a stamp from MFT.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create: #194 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft: #38 Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar: Love Is In The Air
• Dragonfly Dreams: Heart and Flowers
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #19 Anything Goes

stamps: Julia Spiri: The First Kiss, MFT: Sentiments about Love
paper: Bazzill, BoBunny: Sweet Tooth Delish & Flirty, MR Designs
die-cuts: MFT: heart stax
embellishments: lace, jute

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog: Angel

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with the start of our new challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  It's a busy week here with Thanksgiving this Thursday and my family is already starting to arrive.  By Wednesday there will be 16 people in my house...sleeping, eating and gathering.  That's a lot of cooking and cleaning for me, I'm already exhausted :o)

Hopefully you will find time to enter our challenge, it's an easy and favorite one....Anything Goes.  Just remember, we want to see some form of stamping on your creation.

We have 3 wonderful sponsors and that means the DT will select 3 wonderful winners.

Winner will receive 1 digital stamp set & paper pack

Winner will receive 2 images of choice

Winner will receive 7 images of choice

Still working on my Christmas cards, I created this card using sponsor image from Julia Spiri called Ofelia Angel.  I wanted the angel to look wintery.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I know this is probably an unusual type of Christmas card, but I think it works.
 

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting From the Heart - #139 Anything Goes
• Incy Wincy - Use a Non Traditional image to create a Christmas Creation
• Inkspirational - #122 Chill
• Julia Spiri Challenge - #26 Anything Goes with twist use a new media
• The Crazy Challenge - #236 Getting Ready For Christmas
• The Pencil Case - Wk 33 Anything Goes

stamps: Julia Spiri: Ofelia Angel, Unity Stamps: Jacqueline Girl (sentiment)
paper: Bazzill, Recollections, Tracy Way
die-cuts: MFT: oval stax2 & Let It Snowflake
embellishments: Recollections: adhesive rhinestones, Lace, String

House of Cards - Gorgeous Chaos

Hi fellow crafters!  I promise this is the last post for today :o)  This is the first of the month and that means another wonderful monthly challenge will be starting at House of Cards today.

Here's the inspiration pic for the challenge.  Use twine and/or colors for this challenge.  (Some people would call this floss, but whatever you have twine/floss you can use it.)

For this challenge, I decided to use Julia Spiri's image, The Secrets of Venice.  It's a beautiful image that I colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I try to match the colors as close as possible to the inspiration pic.  I did use twine/floss just to make sure.

Here's the inside.   This sentiment is from Unity Stamp, I don't know if they sell it individually anymore or just in a set now.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Hope to see you in the challenge!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - wk#18 Anything Goes
• Crafting With Friends - #26 Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - #98 Anything Goes
• Jo's Scrap Shack - #149 Anything Goes

stamps: Julia Spiri: The Secrets of Venice, Unity: sentiment
paper: SU: perfect plum, Bazzill, MR Designs: Vintage Peach
die-cuts: Spellbinders: Marvelous Squares, Decorative Labels One
embellishments: We R Memories: red twine, Fancy Feathers, K & Company: tickets

Scrapping4fun #67 - Travel/Holiday

Hello crafty friends!  Summer is here with all the hot temperatures we have been having, but I'm not complaining.  I love summer :o)  I'm here today with our new challenge at Scrapping4fun.  It's summer and everyone is traveling and taking their vacations.  Guess what our new challenge is?...Travel/Holiday.

Julia Spiri is our sponsor for this challenge.  Check out her cute digital stamps at her etsy shop.

I got to work with the beautiful stamp from Julia Spiri called Love in Paris from her "The Paris Collection".  I've been working on my French, in hopes that one day I'll make it to France.  I colored the image with my color pencils.  The little charm under the bow, is also of the Eiffel Tower.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• 2 Creative Chicks - #11 Anything Goes
• 4 Crafty Chicks - #302 Vacation
• A Beautiful Mess -  #3 Anything Goes (2/3)
• Card Mania - #81 Around the World
• Fussy and Fancy - #165 Anniversary/Wedding
• Julia Spiri - #20 Anything Goes
• Little Miss Muffet - #139 Anything Goes

stamps: Julia Spiri: Love in Paris, MFT: Love Sentiments
paper: the Paper Studio: black & white, MME: Traveler & Lost & Found
embellishments: Bead Landing: found objects charm, Simplicity: lace, 3 Girl Jam: rustic country ribbon

Julia Spiri Guest Design - Cake Bag

Hello fellow crafters!  I'm excited because today I'm Guest Designing for Julia Spiri Challenge Blog.  You can check out her Etsy shop for some cute and elegant images.

I decided to play in their "Craft Bags" Challenge.  You have 2 weeks to create a beautiful bag :o)

I'm using this beautiful image The Cake Hat.  I wanted to keep the colors soft and elegant.  The birthday dp was a lucky find, just happened to match the colored image perfectly.

I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.
Strawberries are my favorite and a yummy strawberry cake sounds good right now.  This image also reminds me of Strawberry Shortcake.  I had a collection of Strawberry Shortcake items growing up.

I even found this cute little cupcake charm.

Even the back of the bag is decorated.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Hope to see you in the challenge!

I would like to enter my bag in the following challenges:

• Craft Your Passion - #307 Anything Goes
• Crafting by Designs - Ribbons and Lace
• Crafting From the Heart - #107 Anything Goes
• Fab 'n' Funky - #300 Girly & Pretty
• Fussy and Fancy - #161 Green & Pink
• Incy Wincy Designs - Colour Me Wonderful (Color Pencils)
• Melonheadz Friends - Let's Get Girly
• Not Just Cards - #31 Anything Goes
• The Corrosive Challenge - #4 Girls, Ladies, Women
• The Crafty Addicts - #13 Anything Goes/Girly
• Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

stamp:  Julia Spiri: The Cake Hat
paper used: Bazzill: tutu pink, sparkle (mint green), Recollections: Cupcake
embellishments: 3 Girl Jam ribbon, Bead Landing: BoHo cording, cupcake charm, Celebrate It: lace & ribbon, the Paper Studio: gemstones, Stampendous: fran-tage

Scrapping4Fun - Happy Birthday

Hello crafty friends!  I hope you are ready for another challenge at Scrapping4fun.  For the next 2 weeks, we want to see birthday projects.  Who couldn't use a  few more of these in their stash.

We are sponsored by the wonderful artist Julia Spiri.  Go check out her Etsy shop :o)

Working with this cute sponsor image My Little Fairy for this challenge.  I had fun coloring up this little cutie, but finishing up the project...ugh, my mojo ran away.  The image is colored with my color pencils.  I used sponge dabbers with ink to do the background circles.  It's not what I had in my head, but this is what came out of my fingers.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)


stamps used:  Julia Spiri - My Little Fairy, Unity-party all day (sentiment)
paper used: Bazzill, Paper Pizazz-soft tints lavender swirls, the Paper Studio-whtie
die-cuts: MFT Rounded Banner Stax & Fancy Flourish, Martha Stewart butterfly punch
embellishments:  the Paper Studio-white beaded micro flowers, Studio G printed ribbon

House of Cards Shape Challenge

Hello again fellow crafters!  This is my second post for today, which is unusual for me to post twice in a day.  That just means more goodies for you to see.

This post is for the new monthly challenge at House of Cards.  This month's challenge is all about shapes, no plain square or rectangles for this challenge.

My shape card is actually a mini album die-cut with lots of curves.  I used a vintage style image from Julia Spiri called Vintage Hair.  I couldn't resist a big bow with a clock hanging, just like the one in her hair.

I tried my hand with a monochromatic color scheme.  Using just my French Grey color pencils to color the image, this was a great challenge and I love the look.  It's just adds to the vintage feel of the image.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Hope to see you in the challenge!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps - #119 Anything Goes
• Colouring in Scrapland - #7 Shaped Cards
• Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes with a Bow
• Craft Your Passion - #297 Anything Goes
• Crafting From The Heart - #97 Anything Goes
• Fussy and Fancy Friday - #156 Monochrome
• Julia Spiri Challenge Blog - #10 Anything Goes/Pocket Letters
• Not Just Cards - #29 February Challenge Anything Goes
• The Crafter's Cafe - #142 Monochromatic

stamp used: Julia Spiri-Vintage Hair
paper used: Bo Bunny shadow, the Paper Studio white, discount paper and scrap
die-cut: MFT mini album bracket
embellishments: 3 Girl Jam ribbon, the Paper Studio antique brads & clock metal charms, Tim Holtz mini gears, Bead Landing found objects, Stampendous frantage powder, gauze

Scrapping4fun #55 Anything Goes

Hello fellow crafters!  We are celebrating Thanksgiving here this week.  I say week, because my family comes in from out of town and we are together for the week or several days for some.  I'm thankful for this time with family.

We have a wonderful challenge for you at Scrapping4fun. For the next 2 weeks....it's Anything Goes.  Let's see some beautiful projects.  We are sponsored by Julia Spiri.

For this challenge I worked with the beautiful sponsor image April Elf, from The Forest Dwellers Collection.  I used my color pencils to color the image.  

Here's the inside.

Hope to see you in the challenge and please check out the other DT inspirations. 

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting with An Attitude - #9 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - #23 Use a stamp or Digi (2nd entry)
• Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes
• Crafty Girls Creations - #9 Anything Goes
• CraftyHazelnuts Patterned Papers - Use patterned papers
• Julia Spiri - #7 Anything Goes - twist altered art
• The Pencil Case - Wk #7 G=Green Pencil Colouring Challenge

stamp used: Julia Spiri-April Elf

paper used: Bazzill, Michele R Designs-Whimsy Romance, Cottage Garden & Shabby Vintage Rose

die-cut used: MFT Circle Stax2

embellishments: the Paper Studio light pick flowers & white micro flowers, gauze, Simplicity lace ribbon