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)

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)