Heart Breaker

Heart Breaker - It is time for another challenge at Seems A Little Sketchy. Just take a look at the below sketch. Isn't is a great one for the upcoming Valentine holiday!! It is pink, so of course it caught my eye!!!

We are sponsored by Stamping Dragon. This is a new digi company for me. I love the image that they gave me to work with. Isn't she delightful? She is so pretty, but a bit naughty in her lingerie.

My image is called Fairy Hearts and is colored with Copic's. I added some Stickles to her wings. After all, a fairy needs sparkly wings. LOL

My DP is Paper Pizazz's Soft purple Ferns. I used Cuttlebug's fern for the embossing. The flower is Petaloo. The ribbon has been in my stash forever and was tied using my Bow Easy.

Come and get Sketchy with us at Seems a Little Sketchy!

Crafty Creations Challenges #153 Valentines Day
Moving Along With The Times #132 Things with Wings
Chocolate Coffee Cards #4 Glitter - On the wings and flower
Simply Create Too #5 Love is in the Air
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #141 Love is in the Air
Cupcake Craft Challenges #176 All you need is love

You Rock

You Rock - Looking for high adventure? Or would you be distressed? I would be distressed or distressing and that is our challenge at Craft Your Days Away this fortnight. Distressing. You can ink or tear distress and I choose ink distressing. I used Ranger's Vintage photo.

My DP is SEI's Windsor. It is a simple card as the only other thing that I added was ribbon.

My image is Bugaboo's AKVS Rock Climbing. This image is actually only one climber. I wasn't sure which way I wanted the climber to face, and as I was flipping it I kind of liked it and so printed it that way. I like the 2 guys together. After all you should never go rock climbing alone. LOL

My image was colored with Copics and I added some Polar White flower soft.

Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog #36 Sketch
Anything Goes #58 Anything Goes
Do You Stack Up #55 Patterned Paper

Seeing Red

Seeing Red - I am participating in a swap at CDAC that is to make stick pins with a Love theme. This is my swap. We had to make 6 sets of 3 stick pins and then package them, so as to be a little gift for the 6 in our group. These are so fun to do. I love how romantic these pins can be. You can be looking in the months to come, all the lovely pins that I will soon be receiving.

The challenge at Creative Card Crew is Seeing Red, so I thought these stick pins would be perfect for my DT project. We are sponsored by Pizzazz Aplenty who has the most amazing prices for stick pins. I bought most of my stick pin supplies from Pizzazz Aplenty and was amazed by all that I received.

Here is the front of my pin holder. I cut the little booklet from the Damask Decor Cricut cartridge. I then went around the image with a gold pen. This was very time consuming, but I think well worth the effort. I then added the gemstones.

Here is a shot of my pins. On the left pin, I used a crytsal stick pin, that was colored with a gold Copic. Do you notice the rhinstone spacer? Those came from Judy at Pizzazz Aplenty. I bought only 2 packages and I used every one of them between this swap and my Christmas gifts to my scrapbooking buddies. I will soon be ordering more of these. LOL

The middle stick used a silver pin and heart. They were also from Judy, as was the crakled bead.

The right stick pin used another of Judy's pin, the red crystal ones. The red bead was also from Judy's shop.

You can see that I am a very loyal customer of Judy's and I am sure that you will be too, once you see her prices.

To make the beads all you do is put them on the pins, then use Glossy Accents as your glue to hold them in place. Warning: these are very addictive!!!!! LOL

I wrapped my ribbon around my card, then tied bows in my ribbon using my Bow Easy.
I hope that you will also be seeing red and join in our challenge at Creative Card Crew.

The Play Date Cafe #114 Burgundy and Gold
CES Challenges #68 Vintage
Our Daily Bread Designs #Beginning with 3 letters from WINTER W=white, I=gold Ink, R= Red and ribbon
Paper Sundaes #103 Any past challenge #96 Beautiful Bows

Reasonable Ribbon #40 Valentine's Day

I Wuv You

I Wuv You - Sew Many Challenges started back up today and we are all so excited to get back into crafting.

This little Duncan image is one of the new releases for the 2012 Valentine season. Duncan is a favorite critter of many of our loyal fans and I was thrilled to have him assigned to me. I first colored him in teal to match my DP, but to say that it didn't turn out well is an understatement. I much happier coloring in traditional baby duck colors. But I will be trying it again soon, as it is now a challenge for me. LOL

My DP is Magic Scraps Beach pack and kraft cardstock. I added a few tiny eyelets, embossed the corner pieces with CB houndtooth folder and distressed everything in Ranger's Blue Jean ink.

You can get my Duncan image here.

My second card is a critter that is new to Sew Many Cards. Introducing ... Eddie!

Eddie was added to the Sew Many Cards line to help with a EDS (Ehler's-Danlo Syndrome) quest for the cure for Stryder. Stryder's story is a touching one and you can read about his journey here. Purple is the color for his ribbon.

My DP is a scrap that has been in my scrap drawer for quite a while. I no longer remember which paper company made it. I used my new MS punches to make the frame and I used a piece of scrap ribbon.

Eddie is colored with Copic's and I added some Stickles to the dragonfly's wings and the ribbon on Eddie. I also used some Diamond Glaze on Eddie's eyes to make them shiny.

Eddie is free with any purchase at Sew Many Cards starting on the 16th and ending on the 19th. So get 2 cute images for the price of one and help with the quest for the cure!

I am entering my Duncan with Heart card in the following challenges:
Here Come the Boys #18 Sketch

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Spots and/or stripes

For Fun Challenges Anything Goes

Dutchdare-Card Challenges #147 For the Boys

Moving Along With the Times #130 Spots and Stripes

Totally Paper Crafts #99 Spots and Stripes

Simply Create Too #4 Layers, Layers and Layers

My Eddie card is entered in the following challenges:

Card Patterns #148 Sketch

Corrosive Challenges by Janet #140 Ring in the NEW year (Eddie is a new critter and the MS punchs I got just a few days ago.

Crafty Creations Challenges #152 Something New (New critter and MS punches)

Meljens Designs DT #92 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #115 Use something new (New Critter and MS punches)

Phindys Place Challenge #88 Tic-Tac-Toe - Pearls, Ribbon and Flowers

Fairytale-Challenge Blog #32 Something new (New Critter and MS punches)

Stampin For the Weekend #24 Out with the old - all of the paper and ribbon cam from my scraps. Seems funny the the same card is old and new at the same time

Stampin Sisters in Christ #122 Something new (New Critter and MS punches)

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Are You Ready For Some Football? - Seems a Little Sketchy is sponsored this challenge by Crafty Sentiments. Here is the sketch. Isn't is a fun one?

This adorable image is Crafty Sentiments "Charles Bear Lets Play." My sentiment is also by Crafty Sentiments. My DP is Little Yellow Bicycles' Love Letters. I cut the helmet with my Cricut using Sports Mania and inked everything with Ranger's Black Soot ink. I have had the Sports Mania cartridge but this is the first time that I used it.

I colored the image with Copics. I am taking Copic classes with Suzanne Dean and one of our class assignments was to color an image using the dotting techinque to make the image look soft and cuddly with some texture. This was the one that I did for the class. If you look at my post below this you will see that I used the same techique, but this is the image that I first colored with this technique.

Simon Says Stamps Challenge Something new

For Fun Challenges New

My Mums Craft Shop Challenges #38 Something new

Cute Card Thursday #198 What's New

Ces Challenges #67 anything goes

Birthday Sundaes #38 Birthday Sentiment with new

Corrosive Challenges by Janet #140 Ring in the NEW year

Bubbly

Bubbly - I have seen so many white on white cards and finally I took the plunge and tried it! I love how it came out.

The challenge at Craft Your Days Away is "New Beginnings." This card could be used for a wedding or a celebration of any kind, such as a new job, not to mention New Years.

I used the sketch from Chocolate, Coffee and Cards.

We are sponsored by Stamp Fairy and they let me play with one of their images. I colored the image with Copics and added Stickles to the tie and bubbles. I also used Diamond Glaze on the goblet and the Bear's nose.

I used 3 little flower buds that I cut off a stem then added lots of Stickles to make them sparkly.My DP is a free down loadable from Gina K. I used the canvas. I love the EK Success punch that I used then added some tiny gemstones. I used a scrap of white embossed paper and inked everything with Tea Dye ink. My flower is a fabric trim that I centered a pearl in and added Stickles on it. I finished the flower off with a white feather and a small strand of pearls.

TIP: I store my gemstones in bead trays that I find in the jewery department in my local craft store. I really like the craftmates ones. I also store my brads and buttons in these.

What are you starting new this year?

Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards #3 Sketch

Craft Your Passion Challenges #91 Anything Goes and Distressing
The Ribbon Reel #18 photo inspired plus White, cream, grey, silver, black

Top Tip Tuesday #67 Anything Goes

Paper Take Weekly Anything Goes New

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #16 Lots of white

Alphabet Challenge Blog X = xtra Special Occasion

The Paper Shelter #45 Anything Goes

Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #146 New Beginnings

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #114 A new beginning

Eskimo Kisses

Eskimo Kisses - The first challenge of the year at Creative Card Crew is "Snow Day." This is a nice easy challenge to ease us back to crafting after our busy holiday season.

This image made me think of my son and his wife, who are stationed in Alaska. Unfortunately Adam was deployed to Afghanistan and will not be there for his first Christmas since being stationed there. He returns in early winter in 2012, so we are all planning an Alaskan Christmas next year.

We are sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp. Simon Says Stamp has a huge stock of crafting supplies. They are our monthly sponsor and are giving a $20 gift voucher to one lucky winner.

My sketch is from Sketchy Colors. They are a site that I recently found. I really like that they have combined a color with the challenge and they give you a lot of time to do it. Their color challenge is different in that it is not a color combo that I would never use without the suggestion of their color challenge, but they are classic color combos that are really pretty together. As for this challenge is to pick one of their past color combos, I looked through all their past challenges and was delighted with each one of them. I choose the pink and turquoise.

My image is Siku and Shiya from Mo's digital pencil. I love Mo's images. The look on the faces of Mo's images are always heart warming. I view her as the Norman Rockwell of digi images.

My DP's are Wintry Christmas by Wild Rose Studio. I used some ribbon from my scrap ribbon jar and the snowflakes were punched with white and blue sugar paper, then topped with a gemstone.
Sketchy Colors # 98 for sketch and color combo #42 Pink and Turquoise

Fairy tale-challenge blog #31 something easy

Totally Gorjuss #112 Happy

Paper Sundaes #101 Something old (an image that I have had for a while) Something new (Designer Paper)

The Pink Elephant Challenge #129 Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge # Anything Goes

Reasonable Ribbon #39 Sparkle

Digital Tuesday Challenge #141 Winter Wonderland