Ice Skating

Ice Skating - Time for a new challenge at Gruffies and Guests. This month we are looking for Blue and Silver creations using a House Mouse, Hopper or Gruffie image.

I used this adore ice skating image, which I colored with Copics. I added a bit of Tumbles Glass and Squeezed Lemonade distress ink on the edges.

I added this sparkly silver ribbon and bow, with a button

I cut my trees using some mirror paper.

Love to Create Challenge #144 Shaped card
House mouse-Challenge #184 Christmas
Top Tip Tuesday #134 buttons and bows
Simon Says Stamp Blog Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks #223 Animals
Moving Along with the Times Christmas Climate

This card made the top 3 at Moving Along with the Times. Yike!

Candy Cane Snowman

Candy Cane Snowman - Time for a new sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy!!!

Here is our sketch. I hope you join us. Our challenge runs for 2 weeks and we even have our next sketch posted, just for you!

My image is Snowman, Candy and Holly by Crafty Sentiments, who is one of our sponsors. Our other sponsor is The Robin's Nest. 

My DP is Fancy Pants, Merry Little Christmas paper pad. The image is colored with Copics and I added some chunky glitter for the snow.

My papers were inked with distress ink. I don't remember which color I used.

Creative Knockouts #65 Glitter
Moving Along With the Times Song inspired. Frosty the Snowman
Jingle Belles Rock food or drink
Simply Create Too #75 Snow
My Time to Craft Challenge #269 Snowman
Just us girls Challenge #269 Anything Goes
ABC-Challenge Y for Yuletide
Emerald Faeries #62 Christmas red and green

This card made the top 5 at ABC-Challenge.

Unicorn

Unicorn - It is my double team week again. 2 teams and 2 fun challenges. Can you make 1 project for both challenge blogs also?

Crafts 4 Eternity is Furry Friends. Any furry animal. This challenge is sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs. The prize is 4 digi images.

Alphabet Challenge Blog is a bit more diffecult, U for unicorn. I remembered that I had this fun unicorn image by A Day for Daisies. 

I colored this image with Copics, then placed it inside a recessed card front. I like this style card, but I rarely do it. 

My designer paper is Bo Bunny's Lemonade Stand. My sentiment is PTI and it was punched with SU punches. The die cut word is also PTI. I finished off my card with some gemstones that are scattered around the frame.

ABC-Challenge X for extra special
Cupcake Inspirations #286 Cupcake Inspired
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #212 Girly
Just Inspirational Challenges Frame it
Paper Take Weekly #82 Girly
Clear it Out Challenge Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter #183 For a Child
Fab N Funky Challenges #237 Birthday

This card made Sweet 6 at Cupcake Inspirations.
It also make the top 3 at Corrosive Challenges by Janet.

Tepee Dreams

Tepee Dreams - Our new challenge at The Sweet Pea Stampers is Thanksgiving. What a fun challenge! After tis one we will be taking a break, so that we can get all of our Christmas preparations done.

My image is Thanksgiving by Regan Kubecek. I colored her with Copics. I really love how the sky line turned out.

My papers are Authentique's Something for all Seasons.

My banner is Stamps for life, stamped with Fired Brick distress ink.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #276 sketch
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #23 Birds
Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog #46 Thanksgiving
Craft Your Passion Challenges #240 Pumpkins or turkeys
Card Mania Challenges #60 digi
Shopping Our Stash #178 Thankful
Pinspirational Challenges #128 photo inspired

Woo Hoo! This card was picked as a favorite by Erin at Open-minded Crafting Fun

Bows

Bows - Time for a new challenge at Creative Card Crew. This fortnight we are hoping that you will join us in our bow challenge. :)

My designer paper is Authentique's Two Christmases in One. I love the funky green in the Santa paper and the blue spuce color in the background of the tree paper.

My image is Lacy Sunshine Stamps, Lucy Boo's Christmas Package. I colored her with Copics and added Stickles to her lacy skirt. I also added some double bows to her hair. I used a die on the image and then used the same die and cut it into 3 pieces for the matting. I finished off the image with some red pleated netting. It reminded me of her skirt.

I used some tree dies to make the blue spruce trees. The trees and all of the papers were ink with distress ink.

My sentiment is SU and I used a quick tie ribbon for the bow.

Friday Sketch Challenge #80 Sketch
Oldie But a Goodie Challenge Christmas
Fab n Funky Challenges #233 Christmas
Christmas Cards All Year Round Embellish it!

This card made top 3 at Friday Sketch Challenge.

Minnie

Minnie - A friend needed a card for his 3 year old niece, who is a very big Minnie Mouse and this is what I created for her.

I believe the paper is Imagination Station. I just had to use it, as it is the traditional skirt pattern for Minnie.

All little girls love bling, so I added lots of to the front. I have no idea what to call this bling. It comes in a strip.

The card is an accordion card that uses EC die set.I love these dies for children's cards.

The Minnie was cut using my Cricut and the Mickey and Friends cartridge; as is the flower.

The balloons were colored with Copics and I used twine for the balloon strings. 

This card is my DT card for Creative Card Crew. Our challenge for the next 2 weeks is twine. I hope you will come and play with us.

Fussy and Fancy Challenge #123 main color of red
All Sorts Challenge #277 Movie inspired - Minnie first appeared in "plane crazy" along side Mickey Mouse in 1928
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #19 Red
Top Tip Tuesday #129 For Kids

This card made top 3 at Top Tip Tuesday.

Fast Rollin

Fast Rollin - Time for a new sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy. This challenge is sponsored by Kenny K Downloads. 

I flipped the sketch for this challenge.

My designer papers are Doodlebug Design Inc, Day to Day.

My image is Kenny K Downloads, Airborne. He is such a great image. I love the position of the hands.

I colored Airborne with Copics and then added Stickles to the side edge of the skateboard and his helmet. I think even boys would wear a sparkly helmet.

My sentiment is Studio G and I used 2 SU punches on it.

Here you can see the dimension between the layers. You can also see the 3 brown pearls I created using a pearl pen. The brown always flattens more than I like. The other colors don't do that, so I am not sure why the brown does.

This card is a slider card. Here the image is in the down position and below it is up. Some little boy is going to love playing with this.

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog #115 Masculine
Pile It On Challenge #38 Shiney

This card made top 3 at Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog.

Frozen Beauty

Frozen Beauty - The challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity this week is YOUR STYLE. So this is an awesome one for you to play along with us. I do hope you will join us.

My favorite style is soft and girly, I like lace and bling. I also love cards with fancy folds.

This challenge is sponsored by Sassy Designs Studio and I used one of their fabulous images. This one is Let It Go, featuring Elsa from Disney's Frozen.

My Designer papers are Teresa Collins, Tell Your Story. I started this card with some teal Christmas papers, but I needed some contrast and nothing was working, Then I noticed this pad of paper. It would still give me Elsa's signature teal dress, sorry, I tried to "see" her dress in another color and it was a bridge to far.

I used Elisabeth Crafts die set to create the card body, then used some flowers for the front. The sentiment is also from Sassy Studio Designs. I colored it with Copics. The butterflies are a MS punch and the heart is a SB die.

Here is the lovely Elsa. I colored her with Copics and added lots of Lacy Frost Stickles. The banner is from a sheet of the DP. I fussy cut it, then pop dotted it up.

The back sentiment is also from Sassy Studio Designs. Again I used Copics to color it.

I love how this card came out and it was really fun to turn myself loose and create in "my" style.

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #247 Pretty Women
Sister Act Card Challenge #75 Anything Goes
Card Makin Mamas #89 Vintage/ Shabby Chic
Shopping Our Stash #169 Who's Who - have a person on it.
C Inspirations #281 Back to School
Paper Take Weekly Punch
Inky Chicks #38 Anything goes
Clear it Out Challenge Polka Dots Polka Dots

This card got a Saturday Shout out at Shopping Our Stash.

Chalky Seashore

Chalky Seashore - It is time to have more fun with a new challenge at Creative Card Crew!! We have a great challenge this fortnight - Chalkboard technique. I have been wanting to try one of these for a while and I must say that it is really fun.

My designer papers are Heartfelt Creations, Balmy Breeze

My image is Heartfelt Creations, Sand and Sea Precut Set. I used the lighthouse image and stamped it with versamark, then poured on while embossing powder and heated it up. Next I used some Snow Cap ink and rubbed it around the image a bit to make it looked a bit smudged after inking up all of the edges.

The little anchor was cut from the Balmy Breeze paper. I added a ribbon and some black pearls to finish off my card.

Friday Sketch Challenge #76 Sketch
Divas by Design Challenge Pearls
4 Crafty Chicks #208 Masculine

This card made top 3 at Friday Sketch Challenge.

Sweet Sprinkles

Sweet Sprinkles - I am guest designing for Top Tip Tuesday today. Thank you Samantha for inviting me. 

The challenge there is everyone's favorite. That's right - Anything goes!!!

I made a shaker box card for today's challenge. 

I used the papers and dies from Paper, Trey, Ink Market kit. I have been making a lot of these shaker boxes since my kit arrived. 

My image is Girl Love Cupcake by our sponsor, Bugaboo. I colored her with Copics and added just a hint of Stickles on the ruffle and hearts on her apron. The heart shaped sprinkles are some that I bought on clearance eons ago.  

I moved the sprinkles around a little, so that you could see that they do move.

This fabulous die cut is also in the package.

Thanks for stopping and by and please go by and see what the other girls have done and to play along with us.

4 Crafty Chicks #207 Pink, Turquoise and lime

Seize the Birthday Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss #247 Celebration
Cupcake Inspirations #274 Cupcake Inspired
Card Mania Challenges #53 Birthday party

This card made the top 4 at 4 Crafty Chicks and Sweet 6 at Cupcake Inspirations!

Pink Angel

Pink Angel - A new fortnight and a new challenge at The Sweet Pea Stampers. This fortnight we are challenging you to emboss, wet or dry. I was so excited about this challenge that I did both!!!

 I have done this image before in white and deep red and I loved how it came out, but when I seen that many challenges out were to use pinks and burgundy, I thought how beautiful this image would be in those colors. You can see my white and red creation here.

I dug around in my scrap drawer for this paper. I thought it would be perfect for my pink and burgundy card. I dry embossed the paper with a snowflake folder. 

Using Sweet Pea Stamps digi image Angel of Christmas Stars. Also available in rubber.

I colored this breathtaking image with Copics and added some clear Wink of Stella to the wings and some white Wink of Stella to the snow-globe and some of the decorative elements on her dress. Then I Fran-taged it.

My snowflake is made of several SB and a Crystal brad.

My sentiment is Inkadinkadoo and 3 burgundy pearls.

All Sorts Challenge #271 Sentiment
Crafty Calendar Challenge Anything Goes
Sketch Saturday #322 Sketch
Christmas Cards all Year Round Sparkle and Shine
Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge #43 Snowflakes
Sketchy Colors #220 White, Rose, Burgundy
Christmas Card Challenges #37 Pinks and Greens
Clear it Out Challenge Embossing wet or dry and Embossing powder

This card made it to the top 5 at Sketchy Colors. Thank you Sketchy Colors!