Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #25: Spring Chick B-Day

Hello crafty friends! Remember this is the first of the month and lots of inspiration day. 

Here's my post for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog

I was asked to make a special card for a lady's mother to give to her best friend.  The sentiments are exactly what she needed to make it special.  The image is Birthday Chicks from Pickled Potpourri and colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  I just so happened to have some feathers to add.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

Be sure to check out our new sister blog Merry Little Christmas! Challenge Blog

stamps: Pickled Potpourri: Birthday Chicks
paper: Recollections, SU
embellishments: feathers

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #104: Christmas Window

Hello crafty friends!  It's the last month of the year......how did it go by SO fast??!!  New month, means new challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  Since it's the first of the month and all the new challenges start, I have 3 posts for you today.  Enjoy some inspiration.

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog has 3 wonderful sponsors and that means the DT will pick 3 awesome winners.

 Winner will receives 4 images of choice

Winner receives $7 gift certificate 

Winner receives 15% off coupon store

Using sponsored image Christmas Window from Pickled Potpourri, I created this Christmas card.  I love the classic, old timing Christmas.  This image comes with 4 sentiments for you to choose from and it won't break the budget at $1.49.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils and distressed ink the edges.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• A Vintage Journey: Winter Wonderland
• Card Mania: #99 Christmas
• Challenge Up Your Life: #80 Trees
• Crea Chicky's: #16 Christmas
• Your Next Stamp Challenge: #78 More Inspriration (Color Challenge)

stamps: Pickled Potpourri: Christmas Window
paper: Bazzill, Bo Bunny: Midnight Frost Flurry
die-cuts: MFT: Let it Snowflake
embellishments: Celebrate It: burlap ribbon, paint, Stickles: diamond

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #74

Hello crafty friends!!  It's officially Spring...YAH!  Just means lots more yard work and lot less crafting for me...lol.  I enjoy the warmer weather, but having a big yard is a lot of work.

Are you ready for another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog?  It's an easy one and shouldn't take up too much time so you can play in your yard....Anything Goes.  Remember we still need to see some stamping on your project, either rubber/clear and/or digital.

We have 3 wonderful sponsors for this challenge and that means 3 wonderful winners will be chosen by the Design Team.

Winner will receive 7 images of choice

Winner will receive $7 gift certificate

Winner will receive 3 images of choice

I created a birthday card using a provided sponsor image from Pickled Potpourri called Birthday Chicks.  These ladies are just cute and full of sassy I'm sure.  They were colored with my colored pencils.  I used the sentiment that came with the image and added a few embellishments.

Here's the inside using a sentiment from MFT.

Hope to see your creation in the challenge!!

thanks for looking and reading :o)

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

• 613 Avenue Create - #68 Anything Goes/twist Use a Bird
• 2 Creative Chicks - #8 Anything Goes
• Chocolate, Coffee, & Cards - #105 Use a Ribbon
• Craft Rocket Challenges - #11 Anything Goes (2/3)
• Craft-Dee BowZ - March Challenge with a bow
• Dream Valley - #127 All About Birthdays
• Glitter N Sparkle - #180 Anything Goes
• Really Reasonable Ribbon -#137 Welcome Spring

stamps used: Pickled Potpourri: Birthday Chicks, MFT: PI-It's Your Birthday
paper used: Bazzill: vibrant blue & turquoise mint, SU dp, the Paper Studio: white
die-cut used: MFT: oval stax 2, Corner punch
embellishments: 3 Girl Jam: Aqua Splash & Saturday Morning ribbon, Metal candles

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #57 It's A Triple Play

I want to thank everyone for their kind and sweet comments from the Blog Hop!  I've been working hard on my coloring skills and it really means a lot to me that SO many of you have noticed.  Thank you :o)

We have another great challenge for you at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  For the next 2 weeks we want to see triplets in your embellishments.  That means use 3 of any type of embellishment, 3 buttons, 3 brads, 3 flowers, 3 gems...etc.  Remember we want to see some stamping, either rubber and/or digital.  

We have 3 wonderful sponsors for this challenge.

The winner will receive 4 images of choice.

The winner will receive a $7 gift certificate.

The winner will receive 7 images of choice.

Thank you sponsors :o)

For this challenge I worked with the set Summer Boys by Pickled Potpourri.  Since there were 4 images to this set I created a card with each image.  

Here is a cute little baseball boy.  I colored him with my color pencils.  For this challenge, I used 3 baseball type buttons.  (I did decorate the inside of my cards, but I didn't want this blog to be overly blogged down with pics.  I just don't feel like the card is finish unless the inside is done too.)  The sentiment is from MFT Baseball Boy.

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

• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #9 Seeing Red

Next, is this cute little guy in the tire swing.  The image was fussy cut out so I could hang him from this tree image I had.  The sentiment, tree and grass was from the stamp set MFT Let's Hang Out.  I sponged the sky and colored the images with my color pencils.  I used 3 corner tabs for this challenge.

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

• Crafting For All Seasons - #105 Cute & Summery
• Crafts Galore - Use a Stamp or Digi anywhere
• Whimsie Doodles - June Challenge - Summer Fun

Here's a cute little swimmer.  I fussy cut this little guy out and put him on some waves.  I used 3 brads for this challenge.  The sentiment is from MFT Surf's up VIP Collections.

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

• Digi Stamps4Joy - #114 Anything Goes
• Natalie & Amy's Challenge - #34 Summertime
• Pile It On - #76 Hot Fun in the Summer

I put this guy last, because he might not be actually what the challenge is all about, but I didn't want to break up the set.  Colored with my pencils again.  I saw this image where others colored like they were playing in the water, but the holding in the hand part got me.  It had to be mud, because that's what boys do :o)  He also has a cute frog friend playing with him.  I used mica around the card to look like mud splats.  I used 3 different embellishments and that's why I feel it really doesn't go with the challenge, but the image is part of this set. 

I hope to see you in the challenge!

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

• Kleuren met Potloden - June Anything Goes (must use color pencils - 3rd entry)
• Scribbles Designs - #30 Feathers, Fins or Frog Legs
• Crafting When We Can - #98 Summer Fun

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used: Pickled Potpourri Designs - Summer Boys, MFT PI Baseball Boy, Let's Hang Out & Surf's Up VIP Collections.

paper used: Baseball card - Bazzill, Recollections dreamy, the Paper Studio baseballs

Tire Swing card - the Paper Studio kraft & white, discount paper

Swimmer card - Recollections cape cod, the Paper Studio turtle & fish patchwork, green scrap

Playing in Mud card - the Paper Studio kraft, MFT grapesicle & natural, discount paper

die-cuts used: MFT Circle Stax 1 & Stax 2, Fishtail Flag Stax & Catch a Wave

embellishments: Dress It Up baseball buttons, the Paper Studio Brads, Recollections fish brads, Making Memories antique copper brads, Ribbon Carousal twine, Stampendous mica