Colour My Life

Happy MLK Day!  

Hope if you have the holiday off you are enjoying it!

This morning it is time for another great challenge at

The Challenge!

Remember, you can play with just the Colors OR the Sketch OR BOTH!

Stop over at Lesley Croghan's blog for all the details and more inspiration from my fellow design team members.  So many talented ladies with fabulous projects!  Then link up your own project to share with us.  You have two weeks to do so.

For my project, I used a new stencil for me, the Tim Holtz splatters stencil.  After posting the card, I decided it needed a little something more, so I added a couple enamel dots to it.  Hopefully I will have another small photo of the addition here later.  I also did the "smash the emboss folder with a hammer" technique too.  That's not the formal name for it but that's pretty much what you do!  LOL  I had a lot of fun playing around with it and love the result of my final card:

For Following Challenges:

CAS on Sunday #50 - Stencil It!

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: Sentiment -  Color and Sunshine(Simon Says Stamps).

PAPER: White cardstock from Core'dinations.

INK: Teal, Tomato (SEI); Dandelion (Memento).

EXTRAS: Distressed Bubble embossed folder (Tim Holtz).

*RESERVE Tim Holtz Layering Stencil SPLATTERS THS009

*Tim Holtz Sizzix BUBBLE & HONEYCOMB Texture Fades Embossing Folders 657846

*Tsukineko Memento Ink Pad DANDELION Yellow

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Colorful Challenge Blessings!

Vase Of Hearts

Good morning!  

It's Sunday once again 

and you know what that means ---

A new challenge over at 

Cupcake Inspirations!  

YEA!

This week our sponsor is 

Fresh Brewed Designs!

They have some really awesome digital stamps!  

They also are giving out a great prize to our randomly chosen winner!

Thanks for sponsoring us!

Here is the inspirational photo for this week:

It's a COLOR THEME this week --

GREY ~ BALLET ~ CHOCOLATE

So stop by the CIC blog and see the inspirational projects my fellow Sweeties have scooped up for you and leave them some blog love!  Then link up your own project using this week's colors and share it with us!  We love having you play along!

I chose the Fresh Brewed Designs digi, "Love Blooms" and sentiment for my card:

STAMPS: Love Blooms digi and sentiment -(Fresh Brewed Designs).

PAPER: White cardstock (Core'dinations); Chocolate cardstock; Cotton Candy (Bazzill).

INK: Copics on digi image.

EXTRAS: Decorative oval label die (Spellbinders); Scallop oval die (Spellbinders); bow die (Impression Obsession); Thin banner die (Lil' Inker Designs); Medium banner die (Taylored Expressions); heart banner die (Penny Black); glitter (Stampin Up).

For Following Challenges:

I used the sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges.  I haven't played this challenge in a very long time.  So I thought I'd give it a go again!

Crazy 4 Challenges #269 

Sweet Cupcake Blessings!

Love You Shaker

Good Morning!  Happy Monday!

It's a rainy Monday here, all I can say ---- it's better than snow!  I won't mention it's 50 degrees too.  Go to love the south and the quick dissolve of arctic blasts! 

I WILL mention --- it's time for another challenge with Ella and her team over at 

The PINK Elephant Challenge - #281

This week we have a technique challenge for you ---

Shaker cards!

Stop by the challenge blog and see the rest of the team's fabulous shaker projects to inspire you to make your own and link it up to share with us!

Here is mine:

PAPER: White cardbase. DP - 

EXTRAS: Decorative label (Spellbinders D-lites); Love die (Paper Smooches); You die (Simon Says); Heart dies (Sizzix Framelits); Heart arrow die (Taylored Expressions); Shaker sticky foam (Stampin Up); glitter.

It's a little more busy than I originally envisioned.  I wanted to do a Valentine shaker and try doing more than one shaker on the card.  It's one of those cards that kind of grew and took on a mind of its own.  lol  

PINK Elephant Blessings!

Arctic Blast!

Happy Sunday!

It sure is a brisk one here!  How about you?  

Hope you are keeping warm and healthy!  

Brrrrr!

It's been a great weekend so far --- the Tar Heels won, the PATRIOTS won and my brother, sis-inlaw and 8 month old niece came to visit!  I'm having a very wonderful weekend!  Don't want it to end!

I even got a little crafty too and now, it's time for you to have some crafty fun!  So, grab a cup of something warm and come check out the challenge at Cupcake Inspirations!

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #293

Our sponsor this week is

Doodle Pantry!

Thank you for sponsoring us!

This week is a theme --- Snow Friends

Doodle Pantry was so generous to give each of the team members a digi of choice for today's challenge.  

I chose 'Igloo Fun':

STAMPS: Igloo Fun Image and Sentiment (Doodle Pantry).

PAPER: Heavy white cardbase (Core'dinations); Light blue cardstock. DP - Jack Frost (American Crafts).

INK: Copics on digital image; White special Sharpie for snow specks.

EXTRAS: Decorative circle die (Spellbinders); Decorative square label die (Spellbinders); Stitched circle mat (Lil Inker Designs); Scalloped border punch (Fiskars); light blue heart enamel dots; Crystal Stickles; yellow baker's twine.

These little guys just seem to be having a blast in the cold!  Wish I could say the same!  lol  Don't forget to check out the rest of my teamies' snow friendly projects!  Then, link up your own "snow friend" project and play along!

FOR FOLLOWING CHALLENGES:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - #282

Sweet Cupcake Blessings!

Snow Buddies

Good Morning Tuesday!

Today's another DT day for me and 

the 1st challenge of 2015 for

{PIN}spirational Challenges #131!

Here is our inspirational photo for the next 2 weeks:

Our sponsor is Bugaboo Digi Stamps!

Thank you for sponsoring us!

They are giving our winner a prize of 7 Digis!  YEA!

Stop over at the {PIN}spirational Challenge blog 

and see 

the rest of the Design Team's wintry projects.  

Leave them some blog love too!

STAMPS: Snowball Penguins (Bugaboo Stamps); Sentiment (My Favorite Things).

PAPER: White cardbase.  DP - Jack Frost (American Crafts).

INK: Copics and Spectrum Noir pens on digi image. Parisian Night (Memento).

EXTRAS: Stitched rectangle mat (Lil Inker Designs); Snowflake dies (Taylored Expressions); Banner die (Taylored Expressions); Diamond Stickles; White Liquid Pearls; Blue candy dots (Stampin' Up).

I love this digi from Bugaboo, it's so stinkin' cute!  I decided to print it out nice and big so it was center stage.  And, I used LOTS of stickles on the snowballs to help them shine.  I'm still having some printer issues that I hope to have remedied by the end of the week.  Having to borrow my son's printer as mine broke three weeks ago.  Have no more excuses now but to try and look online how to fix mine as my boy goes back to college Wed and needs his at least by the weekend!  Technology--a love/hate relationship!  lol

Eureka Stamps - #122 Snowmen or Snowflakes

Wintry Blessings!

Happy New Year!

Good morning again! 

It's now time for 

The PINK Elephant Challenge - #280!

This week is a color challenge ---

Black & Gold

Stop by Ella's blog and see all the fabulous talent of my fellow Design Team members and leave them some blog love!

And remember, we are now back to weekly challenges. 

I decided to make a New Year's card:

STAMPS: Penguin (Kaiser Craft); Sentiment (Papertrey Ink); Bow tie (Lawn Fawn).

PAPER: Various paper from my stash - DP from Die Cuts with a View; Gold paper from Recollections.

INK: Onyx (Versafine); Gold metallic ink (Staz On). Gold pen.

EXTRAS: Notebook paper die cut for little border (Lil Inker Designs); Stitched rectangle mat (Lil Inker Designs); Large star die (Lil Inker Designs); Snowflake die (Taylored Expressions); Smaller star dies (Sizzix Framelits); 

This cute little guy I've had for ages.  He's so festive with his little top hat.  I added the gold bow tie so he'd be ready to party!  lol  The rest of the card kind of evolved from there.  I wanted a festive effect so I chose stars and snowflakes.

FOR FOLLOWING CHALLENGES:

Retrosketches #147

Little Red Wagon - #270 Another Happy New Year

Happy New Year Blessings!

Going Buggy

Good Monday Morning!

Lots of posts today as all my design teams are back from holiday break and in full swing!

Right now,  check out the 

2 Cute Ink Challenge #121

This week's theme:  

Going Buggy

We want to see your projects using bugs.  Remember, you don't have to use a 2 Cute Ink image but we love it when you do!

Stop by the 2 Cute Ink Challenge blog and see all my fellow design team members projects.  Be sure and leave each of them some blog love.  

The design team are all using Heidi's current new image, Bee Happy for the challenge.  Isn't it adorable?  It was so much fun coloring it and designing a card around it!  It is also the freebie digi over at the 2 Cute Ink Newsletter. You have to subscribe to the newsletter to get it free.  AND, there's a challenge on the 2 Cute Ink Facebook page where you can enter your own project using the freebie.  All you have to do is subscribe to the newsletter and join the Facebook page.

I did two cards with it.  One was debuted on the Newsletter and this one I made specifically for today's challenge:

STAMPS: Bee Happy (2 Cute Ink); Sentiment (Anna Griffin).
PAPER: White cardstock.
INK: Copics on digi; Colored Pencil; Libpstick Red (Simon Says).
EXTRAS: Honeycomb stencil (Heidi Swap); Alphabet dies (Lil Inker Designs); Crystal Stickles; black chevron ribbon.

For this first card, I decided to use some different medium, so I used a yellow colored pencil and colored in one of my Heidi Swapp stencils.  I was inspired by this month's Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking digital issue where they have a section on using colored pencils and crayons with different techniques. Despite printer issues resulting in a little smeared ink on the digi, I like how this card turned out.

For the card below, I used patterned paper from my stash and the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

STAMPS: Bee Happy (2 Cute Ink); Sentiment "Bee"-(Studio G).
PAPER: White, black, raspberry cardstock from stash; DP - Love Notes (Crate Paper). Honeycomb paper from stash.
INK: Copics on Digi; Tuxedo Black (Memento).
EXTRAS: Heart dies (Sizzix Framelits); Love word die (Simon Says); white sequins.

FOR FOLLOWING CHALLENGES:

Do More

Happy Monday!

Well, the holidays are over and it's back to school and back to work for many!  

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday time!

And in the crafty world, challenges are starting up again!  YEA!

So, hop over to Lesley Croghan's blog, 

Always Playing With Paper

and

 check out the new challenge of 

The Challenge!

As always, you can use the Colors, the Sketch OR Both!

And as always, you have 2 weeks to play!

Make sure while you are over there to check out the rest of the Design Team's fabulous projects and leave them some blog love on their corresponding blogs!

We have a special guest designer, Angel Johns, for the month of January, as well as a special week designer, Tenia Nelson.  Welcome ladies!

I also was remiss last month in welcoming our newest Design Team member, Kim Heggins, so a warm belated welcome from me to Kim!  I'm so blessed to be be working on The Challenge Team with so many awesome and talented designers!  

Here is my card:

STAMPS: Sentiment (The Paper Studio).

PAPER: Espresso, white, red cardstock. DP- Merry Little Christmas (Fancy Pants).

INK: Timber brown (Staz On).

EXTRAS: Doily die (Quickutz), Large dot emboss folder (Sizzix); brown polka dot ribbon; twine; olive enamel dots.

Crafty Challenge Blessings!

Hello...Cupcake Inspirations #292

Happy New Year!

So does anyone else feel a little "off" from crafting?  I'd been away from my craft room for two weeks until last Wednesday.  And I feel like I'm still getting warmed up!  LOL

Well, it's a new year and this week it's crafting mania for many!  Lots of challenges are starting up again after a holiday break.  

Today, it's time for some sweet crafting ---

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #292

Our sponsor this week is

My Creative Time!

PRIZE:  One Stamp Set to our randomly selected winner!

This week our challenge is a Color Challenge!

Here is our inspirational photo:

Here is my card: 

STAMPS: Bicycle from Main Street set (My Creative Time); Sentiment (Paper Sweeties).

PAPER: White, light blue, raspberry cardstock.

INK: Versamark; White emboss powder; Sky blue, Carnation Pink, Rose crayons.

EXTRAS: Square die used as a stencil around the bikes (Spellbinders); Pink and blue flower sequins.

I used the stamp set Main Street

by My Creative Time.

I received the January digital issue of Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking this week.  As usual, it has some really wonderful ideas and tutorials.  I decided to try one of them out with my card.  This month has a section on using crayons and colored pencils.  I did an emboss resist using crayons.

Sweet Cupcake Blessings!

Have a Rice day!

So that wasn't my last post for 2014!  This one is!

A sweet little birthday card...

SPIES:

STAMPS: Image and Sentiment - Rice Rice Baby (SugarPea Designs).

PAPER: White cardbase.  Yellow and Red cardstock; Background - wrapping paper.

INK: Copics on Image; Sentiment - Black Onyx (Versafine).

EXTRAS: Small tag die (Reverse Confetti); Stitched round mat (Lil' Inker Designs); chat balloon (Taylored Expressions); Striped emboss folder (Sizzix).

FOR FOLLOWING CHALLENGES:

Little Red Wagon #269 - Happy Birthday