A Little Birdie Told Me

Today I am honored to be Guest Designier for June over on the MarkerPop! blog! For my first card this month I am sharing a card I made for a friend's birthday. She loves animals and soft colors.

I used Prima Madeline paper pad and Prima flowers from the Nature Garden collection. The Cherry blossom, Chrysanthemum and Sweetheart blossoms are from Wild Orchid Crafts. 

The gorgeous flourish is a Cheery Lynn flourish that you can find here. I made the tile with the butterfly and dyed the seam binding with Tattered Rose Distress Inks.

I used Copic markers to color my sweet Tiddly Inks image:

Hair- E51, E53, E57, E59

Skin- E000, E00, E11 R20

Clothes- RV000, R81, R83, R85

Bird- BG10, BG11, BG15

Tree- E11, E13, E18, E18

Grass: YG03, YG63, YG67

The clouds were done using a cloud template I made, Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and a sponge.

As always, thanks for stopping by and I love to read your wonderful comments!

Danielle:)

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Allsorts (In the Garden)
Polka Doodles (Birthday card using scraps)
Totally Papercrafts (Dies/Punches)
Sweet Pea (Birds of a Feather)
Charisma Cardz (Tons of Layers)
Creative Moments (Layers)
Inky Impressions (Birthday/Anniversary)
Penny's Paper-Crafty (Birthday)
Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)

Grow a Little Love

Another good morning to you all! I hope you didn't miss my post earlier where I shared my card for Kenny K's new challenge: Squares! This week at Stamptacular Sunday we are challenging you to make something inspired by Spring!

We are sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps with a $10 Gift Voucher!

For my card I used one of the adorable Wryn stamps by Tiddly Inks called 'Grow a Little Love'.

I got out my Copics to color her up. The coloring was fun, but I struggled with the card. There were certain elements I was obsessed  with using really wanted to use, so I did my best to make them work. I used a wood heart that I white washed and inked, a Tim Holtz pin, and some MMW paper scraps. I used a Whimsy stamp for the sentiment and WOC flowers. 

I'm down to slim pickings on my flowers because I've been putting off my order as several items are out of stock :( I'll soon have to get really creative without them and make more CAS cards or something, lol.  I added some white paint to my flowers to tone the yellow down. I seem to be into adding white paint to everything lately!

Here's a close up of sweet Wryn:

The lovely ladies over at the Stamptacular Sunday blog have some more 'Spring' creation to inspire you with so don't forget to check them out and join in on the fun!

Happy Easter!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

613 Avenue Create (Anything Goes)

Lacy Sunshine (Anything Goes)

One Stitch at a Time (Spring)

Corrosive Challenges (Spring Fling)

A Gem of a Challenge (Make it Cute)

CMC (All About Hair)

My Sheri Crafts (Spring)

Sweet Stanpin' (Oh So Girly)

Simon Says (Anything Goes)

Truly CAS

Hello! I have been having Tiddly Inks withdrawal and when I saw what the new challenge was I knew I could take a few moments out of my busy schedule to squeeze in some Tiddly Inks time! It is CAS and I have been wanting to make a card that is super simple with the image as the only decoration. I have always seen them and loved them, so I knew that was the CAS design I would use. 

The image is 'Wryn- Close to My Heart'. I thought the winged heart would look great with a black and red theme and the sentiment font I thought worked really well. I tried adding a nose to her and think it looks pretty cute! I drew the black frame because I felt like I needed to do more, but I think I would've liked it better without it? I don't know. I love how it turned out never the less! Hope you all do, too!

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Tiddly Inks (CAS)

TTCRD (A.G.)

Papertake Weekly (A.G.)

abc challenges (Anything Goes)

Artistic Inspirations (Things with Wings)

Created With Love (Anything Goes)

Catered Crop (Frame)

Doilies Galore!

Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful time over the the holidays with family and friends! I sure did! We had a whirlwind of activities which included Christmas parties, my eldest having a birthday (the big 8!), then of course Christmas Eve and Christmas! It was only hampered by the flu as it made its way through me and three of my four kids! Hubby got away scott free!! Anywho, I was busy as I am sure all of you were, so I am proud to say I was able to make a couple cards, one of which I am sharing to day for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge!

The challenge is to use: Doilies! I guess my title gives it away, he he! Meljens Designs is our sponsors and they are offering the winner four digis of their choice! So, without further ado here is my card!

I really like how light and bright it is. I was in the mood for banners, so I made a bunch of strips and moved them around until I was happy. I really like this paper pad, but of course I don't know the name. I will have to add it later! Wild Orchid Craft flowers to embellish and a few pearls and it's a card!

The image is "Wryn" by Tiddly Inks, so cute! Colored with Copics and the sentiment is stamped with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink! I use regular printer paper for my images since my husband prints them out at work, so you can see a glare in her hair where the paper wouldn't take anymore ink :(  I really need to break down and by some real blending paper! One day, maybe. 

Well, that's it! I hope you all enjoy this card as much as I do! Don't forget to stop by Stamptacular Sunday to see what my other teammates have created with doilies! And, join in, I would love to see what you all come up with!

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

Simon Says Stamps (Anything Goes)

Cute Card Thursday (Anything Goes)

Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)

Bunny Zoes Crafts (Celebration)

Emboss Me!

It's Sunday and that means a new challenge at Stamptacular Sunday!

This week's challenge is a…

“EMBOSS Me!”

For this week's challenge you will create a card or project that uses some sort of embossing...your choice, can be heat embossing or dry embossing.  Oh…and don’t forget to STAMP!  After all…we don’t call this the STAMPtacular Sunday Challenge for nothing!      

You will have from now until midnight  (EST) , December 29, 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:

DIGI DOODLE SHOP

PRIZE:  $10 Gift Certificate!

For my card this week, I have used the adorable 'Spring Bling' by Tiddly Inks. I have turned her into a Christmas Bling image as my last Christmas card for the year. Phew! I am Christmas card-ed out!

So, for my card I used MME Traveler paper pad and embossed the background paper with a Swiss Dots embossing folder. 

I handmade my poinsettia and holly. I scored the veins, added bling to the center and around the card which I then colored with my Copics. 

I added glossy accents to the berries for some added dimension and then stamped around the image with a postmark stamp that went well with the stamp sentiment. I tried my hand at some folds in the dress based on the videos of from Zoe of Zoe's Craft Blog! I admire her skills so much! I am happy with some of it and not so happy with other bits, so I'll keep trying. 

I thought this was a fun little card to send to my nieces and nephew in Utah to enjoy along with their gifts.

I hope you all enjoy it too and please stop by the Stamptacular blog to see how the other DT members have outdone themselves with our embossing challenge!

Happy Holidays to all!

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

Color Me Creative (Metallic Gleam)

Simon Says Stamp (Merry Christmas)

Marker Pop (Deep dark coloring)

Bunny Zoe Crafts (Celebration)

Gift Giver

Hi everyone, I have a quick couple cards to share with you all before too much more Christmas chaos happens!

This is Wryn Birthday Girl from Tiddly Inks! I thought I would turn her into a Christmas card and think she looks pretty  cute.

I kept it pretty simple since it was a quick card and added my favorite accessory behind flowers: bling!

I used Pop's card as inspiration for the Tiddly Inks challenge. I hope you all like it and stay tuned for my next quick card post!

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

Simon Says Stamps (Merry Christmas)

Dream Valley (Christmas)

Celebrate the Occassion (Anything Goes Christmas)

Little Miss Muffet (Christmas)

Just Hanna Stamps (Christmas)

Tiddly Inks (Make it like Pops)

Whimsy Stamps (Anything Goes Christmas)

Delightful Sketches (Anthing Goes)

Sparkles (Anything Goes)

Warmest Wishes!

  I'm back with another Tiddly Inks "Cocoa Wishes" card! I hope I don't bore you with repeat images so close together, but I find I like coloring up multiples of the same image different ways as soon as I get them. That way they are still new and fun for me! This one is a Christmas card through and through! 

I used the sketch from The Sketchy Challenges! I just found this blog and I am so happy as they have fantastic sketches! And a talented Design Team!

I used My Mind's Eye paper pads: Traveler and Union Square. All Wild Orchid Craft flowers!!

 It seems I am obsessed with adding jingle bells to my cards at the moment! The rhinestones are colored with Copics, as is my image. 

I had it in my head that I was going to have a sweet red bird on the plate, so what did I do? I started coloring the plate with red, doh! Now I have an exotic green bird, instead!

Copics: hair and shoes E11,15,18,57; Skin E000,00,11 R20,22

Clothes YG03,63,67 E50,51,53

Mug and plate R32,35,37,59

As always, thank you for looking!

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

Papertake Weekly (Flower Power)

The Sketchy Challenge (Jane's Sketch)

Little Miss Muffet (Textiles)

Bunny Zoe Crafts (Winter)

Whimsy Stamps (Traditional Christmas)