Let's Craft and Create: #132 Christmas

Hello crafty friends!  It's time for the mid-inspiration for Let's Craft and Create.  Tis the season, so Christmas projects we want to see.  Sadly, this will be my last post for this wonderful team.  I'm stepping down for some new adventures, but I'm seeing as, letting someone new inspire you.

It's hard to crank out a bunch of Christmas cards during the season.  I try to have half done before the holiday seasons begin, but that didn't work out this year.  This card was created using Alicia Bel's image Santa Claus Sleepyhead.  The image is colored with my Prismcolor pencils.  I try to make the design like a wrapped present.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Gem of a Challenge: #209 Anything Goes
• Christmas with the Cuties: #12 Santa Claus is coming to Town
• Crea Chicky's: #16 Christmas
• Hiding in My Craft Room: #331 Use A Digi

stamps: Alicia Bel: Santa Claus Sleepyhead, SU: All Holidays
paper: Recollections: red, the Paper Studio: Scribble Candy Canes
die-cuts: MFT: Postage Stamp Stax
embellishment: RRR: ribbon

Let's Craft & Create #130: Witchy Halloween

Hello crafty friends!  I'm getting ready for some more Fall Festivals around my area.  This weekend is the Apple Harvest Festival, with apple cider, apple cinnamon donuts, and picking your own apples.  Don't forget the hayrides and cute little farm animals.

We are half-way through our Anything Goes/optional Witchy/Autumn colors challenge at Let's Craft and Create.  Hopefully you can post your Autumn creations in our challenge.

I created this card with the image Halloween Cutie Sweet Tooth Witch from Tiddly Inks.  Just couldn't help myself when I saw this cutie.  The image comes with or without a kitty, but I love the little black cat.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils and sprinkles some Stampendous fran-tage powder around the edges.  I stamped a simple little sentiment in the corner.

Here's the inside.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

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

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies: #7 Anything Goes
• Animal Friends: #55 Autumn/Halloween
• Crafting By Designs: It's Halloween
• Crea Chicky's: #13 Halloween
• Deep Ocean: #166 Halloween
• Pause Dream Enjoy: #195 Spooky Cute
• Tiddly Inks: #206 Spookaboo
• Tiddly Inks: 2:3 Challenge: Theme #3 Anything Goes

stamps: Tiddly Inks: Halloween Cutie Sweet Tooth Witch, Unity: Happy Fall Baby (sentiment)
paper: Bazzill: fairytale, K&Company
embellishments: Stampendous, Simplicity: lace

Let's Craft & Create #129: Snowboarding Fun

Hello crafty friends!  It's hard to believe it's Autumn, because its still very hot here.  I really love this time of the year, there are SO many festivals and yummy things to do.  Hopefully you can find some time to join in our new challenge at Let's Craft and Create, it's about Child's Play.

For this challenge, I finally got to use this cute image from The Paper Shelter, Snowboarder Girl.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils and for some reason, you cannot see the swirls and background behind the image that I colored. (you can in the darker photos).  I've never snowboard, but cross country skiing and sledding were big growing up.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Gem of a Challenge: #203 Fun Outside
• Crafting From the Heart: #175 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge: #26 Anything Goes

stamps: The Paper Shelter: Snowboarder Girl, CC Designs: Amy R Stamps Frosty Sentiments
paper: Bazzill, the Paper Studio: white, Tracy Way: Winter Frost
die-cuts: MFT: oval stax 1 & stax 2, Fishtail banner stax, Let it Snowflake
embellishment: YNS: gumdrops

Let's Craft and Create: Just Beachy

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with the Let's Craft and Create mid-post inspiration.  The challenge theme is Just Beachy or Red, White and/or Blue.

Using this cute Saturated Canary/Krista Smith image Beach Blanket to create my Just Beachy theme card.  The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils, with the sky being sponged with ink.  I did use a little bit of a white ink pen to put caps on the waves.  No beach card is finish without some flip flops.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 2 Sisters on the Blog: #5 Beach
• Come and Get It Challenge: Use 2 or More Designer Papers
• Everybody Art Challenge: #407 Summer/Topic
• Sunny Day Crafting: #43 B is for Beach
• The Cutie Pie Challenge: #113 Here Comes the Girls

stamps: Saturated Canary: Beach Blanket
paper: Bazzill, Recollections, MME: alphabet soup girl, the Paper Studio: flip flops
embellishments: twine, 3GJ: lace, Space Arts: Sea Creature charms

Let's Craft and Create: Girlfriend Gossip

Hello crafty friends!  It's the mid-post for Let's Craft and Create.  This month's challenge: Girls, Girls, Girls.  We want to see your girlie projects.

I created a girlie card using Saturated Canary image Broken Heart.  What gal hasn't sat eating a gallon of ice cream because of a broken heart.  I love these images from Krista.  The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  Sponged ink around the image and distressed the edges.  The sentiment is from Unity Stamps, it was in a bag of stamps I won from Unity, so I'm not sure if it was from a stamp set or kit.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Perfect Time To Craft: #6 Anything Goes
• Crafty Friends: #60 Friendship
• Classic DT Open Challenge: #15 June Anything Goes
• Creative Ladybirds: #27 Anything Goes
• Kleuren mot Potloden: June Anything Goes
• SheepSki Designs Challenge: #3 Girlz Rule
• The Ribbon Girl: June: Any Image (yellow ribbon in between layers)

stamps: Saturated Canary: Broken Heart, Unity
paper: Recollections. discount paper, MME: alphabet soup girl
die-cuts: MFT Fishtail tag stax
embellishments: YNS: gumdrops, 3GJ: harvest ribbon

Let's Craft & Create: Hope

Hello crafty friends!  This is my second post for the day.  We change the date by a couple of days at Let's Craft & Create, this is to allow a little extra time for you to play in the challenge.

For this challenge I created a card using Saturated Canary image Quiet (this image is part of the subscription images).  I colored this beauty with my Prismacolor pencils.  This month's challenge is to create your own background.  I colored a background around the image for starters.  I added a bow with a charm that has "hope" on it.

Then I created a background paper using staz on ink, alcohol inks and pearl mist (which I sprayed on heavy to make a dripping effect and you can't see in the pic anyway) on glossy photo paper.

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: #5 Anything Goes (2/3)
• Classic Design Team Open Challenge: #14 Anything Goes (2/3)
• Craft Dee BowZ: May Challenge: Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore: May: Anything Goes (2/3)
• Dare 2B ArtZy: Girly Challenge
• Fab'n'Funky: #351 Backgrounds (use background stamp or create own)
• The EastWind Challenge: #71 Celebrate with Women
• The Ribbon Girl: Anything Goes with ribbon

stamps: Saturated Canary: Quiet
paper: Bazzill, Recollections, glossy photo paper
embellishments: Tim Holtz: lace, 3GJ: ribbon, Charmalong: charm

Let's Craft & Create: Rain or Shine

Hello crafty friends!  Today is the mid-post for Let's Craft & Create.  This month we are looking for projects that are gear towards Easter &/or April Showers.

I created this cute little card using the image Chick in the Rain from Unity.  It's nice to finally use some stamps I bought awhile back for projects.  The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  Big yummy bow to hold the sentiment tag and the coordinating dp was a x-mas gift from a DT leader.  As you can see, I went with the April Showers challenge.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 613 Avenue Create: #196 Anything Goes w/ twist Spring
• Crafty Calendar Challenge: April Showers/ or Spring
• The Crazy Challenge: #246 Spring is Coming
• The Cutie Pie Challenge: #110 Bunnies & Chicks
• The Ribbon Girl: Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door: week of April 18th: Anything Goes

stamp: Unity: Chick in the Rain
paper: SU: old olive, raspberry, Bo Bunny: Peacock Lane tweet & Peacock Lane Ivy, the Paper Studio: white
die-cuts: MFT: square stax 1 & stax 2, traditional tag stax
embellishment: 3GJ: raspberry ribbon

Let's Craft & Create: enTwined

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with the mid-challenge post for Let's Craft and Create.  This month we are looking for projects with twine.

This birthday card was create using Saturated Canary image Birthday Girl.  This image is exclusive to yearly subscribers when Saturated Canary decided to close her doors.  Krista did announce she has re-open her store and you can buy old images in packs of 5.  None of the new images will be release into the store.  I did use twine behind the image and behind the the floral paper.  As always, the image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Saturated Canary: Birthday Girl, Unity: party all day
paper: Bazzill, Paper Pizazz: swirls, SU, scraps
die-cut: MFT: sentiment strips
embellishments: Recollections: brads, Tim Holtz: lace, Timeless Twine

Let's Craft & Create: Things with Wings

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here with today's mid-reminder post for Let's Craft and Create.  This month we would like to see projects with " Things with Wings".

I used this cute image from Alicia Bel called I'll Miss You.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils and I went with some bold and bright colors.  I love this new cut away die-cut from Tim Holtz, it allowed some of that turquoise to be seen from underneath.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Bastel-Traum (Dream): Friendship/Love Freindship/Love
• Crafty Creations: #333 Anything Goes

stamps: Alicia Bel: I'll Miss You, Stampin' Up: Blowing Kisses (sentiment)
paper:  Bazzill: dark blue & turquoise, MFT: Wild cherry, the Paper Studio: white
die-cuts: Spellbinders: marvelous squares, Tim Holtz: mixed media #2
embellishments: YNS: gumdrops

Let's Craft & Create: Mother Mary

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with the mid-challenge post for Let's Craft and Create.  This month's challenge is Christmas and/or New Year.

Many of you know that Saturated Canary closed their doors to pursue new things and spend more time with family,but she offered subscriptions to still receive images that were never in her shop.  Every month you will receive 4-5 brand new images or you could get bi-monthly (maybe some other packages), in your mail box.  This image called Mother Mary was one of those beautiful images in my mailbox.  It's just a gorgeous image and a great reminder what this season is all about.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Come and Get It: Christmas Challenge
• Colouring in Scrapland: Christmas
• Crafting From The Heart: #141 Anything Goes
• Deep Ocean: #144 Silent Night
• Dream Valley: #146 Christmas
• Merry Monday Christmas:  #227 Holiday Cheer

stamps: Saturated Canary: Mother Mary, Unity: Remember YOU baby Jesus (outside sentiment), Stampin' Up: God's Blessings (inside sentiment)
paper: Bazzill, the Paper Studio: blue & brown paisley
die-cuts: MFT: oval stax 1 & stax 2
embellishments: 3 Girl Jam ribbon, metal corner pieces

Let's Craft & Create: Vintage Christmas

Hello crafty friends!  I'm getting ready for my family to start arriving for Thanksgiving.  Some come and stay a week, some 3-4 days, which I enjoy each minute with my family.  I just found out that we will have 16 people in our house for at least 3 days....and I do ALL the cooking.  I'm already exhausted.  Wish us luck :o)

Anyway, it's time for another challenge at Let's Craft and Create.  We want to see some "Winter" creations.

I create this wintery card using vintage stamp set from Flonz called Vintage Christmas Pack 4.  I love old vintage items.  As you can see one paper is winter and the other is more decorative. I decided to sponge this image instead of coloring it, that's because it was part of a 20 card commission and I already colored tons.

Here's the inside with a sentiment from Stampin' Up.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Old Fashion Christmas
• Fantasy Stampers Challenge - #76 Vintage Christmas

stamps: Flonz: Christmas Pack 4, Stampin' Up: Snow Swirled
paper: the Paper Studio: cream, blue&brown paisley, classic snowflakes-blue
embellishments: Wyla: lace, metal corners

Let's Craft and Create - Halloween and/or Fall

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here for a second time today...It's my Let's Craft and Create half-way post.  This month's challenge is about Halloween and/or Fall.  What a great and fun season!

For this challenge, I decided to use this adorable digital stamp from Tiddly Inks called Molly Witchy Poo.  (This image is a 2 image set right now, Halloweeny Molly.  The other image is Pumpkin Patch Molly.)  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils and used some glitter and embossing fragments around the image.  The pumpkins come in a big stamp/die set from MFT (My Favorite Things) called Primitive Pumpkins.  I found some great background paper in my stash from Me & My Big Ideas.

Here's the inside.

Hope to see you in the challenge.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Classic Design Team Open Challenge - #07 October Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore - #34 Anything Goes
• Crafty Awesomeness - October Anything Goes
• Crafty Boots - Halloween
• Crafty Cardmakers - #175 Things that go Bump in the Night
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
• Creatalicious Challenges - #101 Anything Goes with Halloween
• Digi Choosday - wk #42 Anything Goes
• Fantasy Crafters - #4 Anything Halloween
• The Cutie Pie Challenge - #104 Five of a Kind (5 pumpkins)
• Unicorn Challenge - #14 Pretty Pinks or Halloween
• Tiddly Inks - #193 Spookalicious

stamps: Tiddlyinks: Molly Witchy Poo, MFT: primitive pumpkins
paper: Recollections, the Paper Studio: white, Me & My Big Ideas: mambi
die-cuts: MFT oval stax 1 & Stax 2 & Primitive Pumpkins
embellishments: Really Reasonable Ribbon, Stampendous: embossing, Recollections: glitter

Let's Craft and Create: Stripes or Spots

Hello crafty friends!  Well, a little bit of unexpected here...I'm a new DT member for Let's Craft and Create.  Feeling excited about this.  This is my first post and it's the mid-way reminder post for the current challenge, Stripes or Spots.

I decided to go with "spots" using this image from The Paper Shelter called Autumn Trends.  I've had this image printed for awhile, so it was nice to finally color her up with my Prismacolor pencils.  Yes, I have a stack of digital and stamped images ready for coloring.  Sometimes when I print something off for a DT projects, I don't want to waste paper, so I print off other images to take up the rest of the page.
Anywho, I used some scrap spot and very discounted paper for some of the card.  The perfect spotty flower just happen to be in my stash, with some petite purple flowers.  Of course circle die-cuts had to used to complete me spot creation.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• Crafting From the Heart - #128 Anything Goes
• Ooh La La - #213 Anything Goes
• Crafting Circle: Crafty Awesomeness - September Challenge: AG
• Craftyhazelnut's Patterened Paper - September Challenge
• Left of Center - #148 4 Legged Creature (dog in the bag)
• Oddball Challenge - Circles

stamps: The Paper Shelter: Autumn Trends, SU: Best Yet (sentiment)
paper: the Paper Studio: kraft & white, scrap (base spot paper) discounted (purple), Dr Digi: polos
die-cut: MFT circle stax1 & stax 2
embellishments: the Paper Studio: green vintage paper flower & purple petite flowers