Happy Birthday LOTV!

So, I love LOTV stamps and bought this stamp and a few others when they were having their sale around the holidays. When I heard they were having their 9th b-day and were encouraging us all to make a birthday card in their honor with a chance at winning some stamps on their inspiration blog, I had to join in! This stamp is so perfect for the challenge, I thought.

 I have had Distress Ink pads since I began card making last July and have always loved the look of coloring with them. Well, I finally plucked up the courage to try it and this is actually my second attempt! I will show you all my first when it posts Sunday after next!  I drew my own cupcake and colored it and put it in the silver frame for a charm. The flowers are lovely Wild Orchid Craft and the sentiment stamp is Whimsy Stamps.

The paper pad is Love Me from MME. It was after Valentine's that I bought it in anticipation of next year, but the banner paper screamed birthday for this card!

I hope you all like it and my newbie DI coloring. If anyone has any tips I would love to hear them. I need more shading and I don't know if DI pads are okay to use or if reinkers or markers are better? I have lots of DI pads that I rarely use and just want to use them more often.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

LOTV (Birthday card)
Papertake Weekly (Sketchy #66)

Two's Company

***This is my second post today, so please scroll down to see my Kenny K DT card if you haven't seen it                   already! ***

Good morning again everyone! I am so glad it is a three day weekend as I am sick again:( I don't know what's going on, but I just keep catching everything these last few months. Ugh! The good thing though is that it is another challenge at Stamptacular Sunday!

This week's challenge is a…

“TWO’s Company!”

For this weeks challenge you will create a card that uses 2 stamps, 2 colors and 2 embellishments!  Oh…and don’t forget to STAMP!  Afterall…we don’t call this the STAMPtacular Sunday Challenge for nothing!      

You will have from now until midnight (EST) February 23^rd, 2012 to complete this challenge and post a DIRECT LINK to your submission into our InLinkz in order to be entered into the drawing for this week's fabulous prize donated by:

STITCHY BEAR DIGITAL STAMPS

PRIZE:  $10 GIFT CERTIFICATE!

For my card, I used "Wish Upon a Star" from Lili of the Valley. I've had it for awhile and finally colored her up and got her on a card.

The papers are MME In Bloom. The flowers are Wild Orchid Craft and the perfect sentiment is a Whimsy Stamp. I finally remembered to use my ticket die to cut it out! So, the flowers and the die cuts are my two embellishments and my two colors are peachy-pink and yellow. You might be able to tell from my image close up that I got a little caught up in the decorating that I almost put too many embellies on! I made a tulle bow with a charm and adhered it, took a picture and then remembered what the challenge was all about! Whoops! Thankfully it came off easily.

Isn't she sweet? I used R81, 83, 85 to color her and then went over it with a little R20 and 22 to try and give it a little more of a peachy tint. I have had the heather flowers for a while and finally used them. They were white and I used a little paint in a mini mister with water and sprayed them. I also colored the largest peachy flower, too. 

I thought I'd try something different and stamp the image using gray. I think the no line stamping that some people do is interesting, but I still really like the look of a slight line. So, I thought gray was a nice middle ground and I really like the softness it give the image compared to black.

I hope this gives some inspiration to someone out there! Make sure to stop by the Stamptacular blog to see what the other talented DT ladies have to share!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge (Dies and Punches)

Papertake Weekly (Hearts/Flowers)

CMC (Girly/Feminine)

ABC-Challenge (H-Happy Birthday)

Simply Create Too (Female)

QKR Stampede (A. G.)

Stampin' For the Weekend (Distress)

Charisma Cardz (A.G.)

Christmas is On the Way

Here's my other quick card I wanted to share. I hope the pictures are coming in better for you all than they are foe me. They looked fine when I edited them, but now they look terrible on this device. Oh, well.

This is a brand new stamp to me. 'On the Way' by Lili of the Valley. They are having a sale and I was quick to order some stamps and as soon as they arrived I had to color this one up!

It is another flowerless card, but I really thought the sweet image was enough.

I added some blobs of glitter for some snow and Copics to color!

Ta-ta for now!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps (Merry Christmas)

Lili's Little Fairies (Something New)

Color Me Creative (Metallic Gleam). 

Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)

Paperplay (Out with the Old, In with the New)

Papertake Weekly (favorite-Anything Goes)

Little Miss Muffet (Christmas)

Divas by Design (Anything Goes)

Oozak (A touch of Red)

Sparkles (Anything Goes)

Bunny Zoe Crafts (Celebration)