Sending Birthday Wishes

Hello again! I have a card to share today! I made this card for the DT call going on at Mo's Dream Team. I am leaving it to the last minute as I have been super busy with my boys' baseball practices and games! It was everyday last week-can't wait for the season to end!

Here is my card:

I just love this image! She is adorable and always fun to color! I used MME paper and the tags are freebie printables from Prima's Friday Freebies on Facebook from several weeks ago. I love to check in an see what they have. Not too long back they had Nature Garden notecards and I was so excited as that collection seems to be my go to paper pad!

The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts, the stamp is from Whimsy and I colored my girl with Copics.

I hope you all like her as much as I do.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Challenges I'd like to enter:
CLP (sketch- I rotated it)
613 Ave Create (Anything Goes)
Gingerloft (Happy Birthday)
Creative Inspirations Paint (Anything Goes)
Whimsy (Anything Goes)
Great Impressions (Celebrations)
One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi)
Scrappy Frogs (Anything Goes)
Corrosive Challenges (Sentiment on the Front)
Color Me Creative (Anything Goes)
My Sheri Crafts (Flower Power)
One Stop Craft (Anything Goes)
Wags n Whiskers (Anything Goes)
A Little Bit Crafty (Use Kraft)
By the Cute and Girly (Flowers)
Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
Mad for Markers (One for the Girls)
Crafter's Cafe (For a Female)

World's Best Dad/Man

Good morning, crafters! I hope everyone's enjoying their weekend! We have a new challenge for you at Kenny K's:

World's Best Dad/Man

It's time to get out your masculine papers and stamps and make a card for that special dad or man in your life! Kenny K has the perfect images for the manly men and great fathers in your life and the Krafty Krew have whipped up some great masculine inspiration to help get your creativity juices flowing.

Our wonderful sponsors:

Kenny K Downloads 

with 5 digis of  the winners choice!

Our second prize is sponsored by Flonz

with a $20 gift certificate

Everyone knows a good guy who deserves recognition, so I hope to see lots of entrants for this challenge. Don't forget to check out what the Krew has made and have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

Steampunk Fun

Wow! I can't believe it's been almost two weeks since my last card post. How sad:(  But, it's Sunday and that means another challenge over on the Kenny K blog. Seeing as it's Team A's turn to inspire for this challenge, I have a card to share! If you haven't guessed by my post title the challenge is 

Steampunk

Our sponsors this week are

Kenny K

with a rubber stamp for the winner

and Marianne Designs

with an awesome prize package

And here is my card using the sassy Jayne Jetpack:

I used the Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante papers for my color inspiration even though all I used of the paper is the postage stamp girl image I tucke dinto a Tim Holtz pin. I have very few papers as I was late getting in on the Graphic 45 obsession, so I am hoarding the few I have and constantly looking for more. No luck locally or online so far:( Any suggestions welcome!

 I used my Silhouette to make all the fun gears, which I then frantaged and also used some homemade copper and gold embossing powder. I made the flower using blooms from Wild Orchid Crafts that I colored with the same Copic colors that I colored the image,then stacked and shaped. I also frantage'd the flower in antique gold, as well as the Tim Holtz gear in the center. The brown bling flourish is Kaiserkraft. I am a little disappointed with the DCWV paper I used, as it doesn't look as nice in the photo as it does IRL. Should've broke down and used the G45 papers! Lastly, I stenciled some gears around the image using Vintage Photo and Frantage'd some more!

I hope you all like my efforts and join in on this super fun challenge! Don't forget to hop on over to see what the rest of the Krafty Krew have created for you. I am, again, blown away with there talent!


Challenges I'd like to enter with this card:
Crafty Calendar (Blooms and Blossoms)
Di's Digis (Show us your bling)
My Sheri Crafts (Flower Frenzy)
Our Creative Corner (Anything Goes)
Jellypark Challenges (Girly Girl)
My Heart Pieces (Anything Goes)
Paper Crafting Journey (Anything Goes)

Flowers, flowers, flowers

Happy Sunday morning! We have new challenge for you this week over on the Kenny K Krafty Krew blog:

Flowers

A super easy one for you all!

Our wonderful sponsors this week:

http://www.kennykdownloads.com/

with 5 digis of the winners choice!

And Loves Rubber Stamps

The winner will win a stamp up to a $10 value!

 Team B has some gorgeous cards for your enjoyment, so don't forget to hop on over and check them out!

I hope to see you there!

Anything Goes at PTT

Good morning! Party Time Tuesday has a new challenge this week and it is 

Anything Goes!

Our sponsors this week are Stamp Fairy and SRM Stickers. I have you one of the adorable images from the Stamp Fairy. I did another CAS card and colored it in Distress Inks.

I used Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey and Tumbled Glass.

Check out the Party Time blog to see some other creations by the DT and a few by the Stamp Fairy DT!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Bloggers Network (Anything Goes)

Kaboodle Doodles (Brown/tan)

Mema's (Anything Goes)

Make it Monday (Anything Goes)

Sparkle N Glitter (Digital Image)

The Squirrel and the Fox (Furry Friends)

Addicted to CAS (Flower)

Kenny K's New Release and a New Challenge!

Good  morning! We have a new challenge over at the Kenny K's Krafty Krew blog for you! Tic tac toe; choose any column, row or diagonal!

Our generous sponsors this week:

Kenny K $20 Gift Certificate

Natalie and Amy's

Marianne Design

Yes, three awesome prizes are up for grabs!

Not only that, Kenny K Downloads is releasing some brand new, fabulous and fun images and the Krafty Krew have some inspiration for you this week using the fun new images!

I had the pleasure of coloring up Tomboy Trouble. I used a scrapbook layout by Keren Tamir as my inspiration for the card's design. I just loved her layout with the layers, curled paper and brick stenciling. 

I used the first line down: flowers, lots of layers, swirls and glitter. The paper is Prima's Nature Garden, the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the swirl stamp I used is Inkadinkadoo. The flower swirl stamp was causing me issues: I could not get it to stamp with white. I finally had to go over the stamped swirl with white gel pen to make it more visible in the top left and bottom right corners, although after adding everything else they are back to being barely noticeable!

With my Cameo, I created a brick template to stencil with gesso on the design paper and on the images background with Milled Lavender DI. Not bad, although I am hoping to buy the Crafter's Workshop one soon and maybe a few others ;) I also used the Cameo to make the die cut corner pieces on either side of my image. I frantaged them with aged white or shabby white, something like that. It has flecks of gold and gold glitter amongst the chunky white. I also frantaged the wood heart that I stamped the sentiment on after white washing it with white paint.

In between the design paper and the corrugated cardboard that I gessoed, I stuck some gauze that I bought at the 99 cent store- a nice substitute since I didn't have cheesecloth. I also added some underneath each of the flower clusters along with some punched out leaves and curled flower stem wires.

Here's a closeup of the spunky Tomboy Colored in with Copics! She screams for a fun/funky design and I knew I wanted something different like the brick background I finally decided on. Can't wait to make another one using paint splatters in the background! 

I hope you all find some inspiration in my creation today and don't forget to check out what the other talented DT members have created!

******Have a great day!*******

Challenges I'd like to enter:

613 Avenue Create (Anything Goes)

Creative Inspirations Paint (Anything Goes)

Eclectic Ellapu (Anything Goes)

Gingerloft (Torn and distressed)

Glitter N Sparkle (White + one other color)

Lacy Sunshine (Monochrome)

Pile it On (Flowers)

365 Cards (Emboss It)

Sweet Stampin' (Anything but Birthday)

Crafty Catz (Color Purple)

Dorcerela Creations (Flowers)

Just Add Ink (Fun Background)

Stampin' For the Weekend (Punches/Die Cuts)

Wags n Whiskers (May Flowers)

Art Impressions Stamps Challenge (Layer It Up)

Copic Marker Europe (Girls Allowed)

DRS Designs (Pastels)

Happy Campers (Use a Stencil or mask)

My Heart Pieces (Embossing, wet or dry)

Crafting by Designs (Anything Goes)

Nutcrafters (Anything Goes)

Penny's Paper Crafty's (Anything Goes)

Simon Says Stamps Challenge (anything goes)

Sisterhood of Crafters (Anything Goes)

Die Cuttin' Divas (Flowers)

Crafty Sentiments (Monochromatic)

Tic Tac Toe

Hello crafters! I have joined in on the Party Time Tuesday Challenge this week and it is Tic Tac Toe!

This one presented a challenge for me. It was my own fault. I made my card without even thinking about the tic tac toe challenge part of it! I had a CAS idea for this Bugaboo image and got my card all finished and then remembered, "Hey! You have to follow the challenge!" So I tweaked it to add glitter to his party hat, rhinestones on either side of the sentiment and ribbon to the inside. Phew! Dodged that one!

I also added glossy accents to the glasses and the clock face.

I colored the poor old man with copics and the sentiment I created with my dad in mind. It is just so him..he has a crude sense of humor :)

Join in the challenge this week for your chance at several awesome prizes: Bugaboo Stamps, SRM Stickers and Paper Pretties!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cards fro Men (A.G.)

Cutie Pie Challenge (CAS)

Lexi's creations (Lace and/or Ribbons)

Sparkle n Sprinkle (Use Digital Image)