Crazy 4 Challenges #61

Today we have a sketch challenge for you over at Crazy 4 Challenges. Here is the sketch:

Here's how I interpreted it:

I turned the sketch around and made the oval a square.  These are 2 Meljen digi images that I got from Whimsy. I used the Fall Quilt image and Thomas Turkey. Here is a close up pic of the images:

If you would like to play along with us at C4C, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C61 then link it at the C4C challenge blog.
Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great weekend!

Paper Romance #22 - Pleated ribbon

Our challenge this week at Paper Romance Challenges is to add pleated ribbon to our card. So here is what I came up with:

This image is made by Laurie Furnell for High Hopes Stamps. I do love sunflowers and couldn't wait to use this lovely image.  You can find this image along with other High Hopes Stamps at the Paper Romance store.

I hope you can play along with us this week.  You could be the winner of a $5.00 gift certificate to the Paper Romance store.  Hope to see you there!  Thanks for stopping by!

Inky Impressions Challenge

Happy Friday to you! We have another challenge for you over at Inky Impressions Challenges.  Our challenge is to add flowers to our card/project.  Here's what I came up with:

I made a pumpkin basket using my spellbinder oval dies. I thought it would serve as a cute little treat basket for someone. Isn't it darling?  Love this Inky image using sweet Lili with Pumpkin that I picked up from the Inky Impressions store.

I will enter this project at the following challenges:

The Crazy Challenge - Halloween
Stamp With Fun - Halloween
A Spoonful of Sugar - Boo


Well, this marks my last DT project for Inky.  I've been with them for about a year now and have really enjoyed working with these beautiful stamps. I've worked with so many talented and lovely ladies on this team and have learned so much and made some wonderful friends there. Thanks so much to Nicole and Crystal for giving me my first DT experience!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Paper Romance #21 - Round card

I couldn't wait to use this image that I got from Paper Romance. This Kraftin' Kimmie stamp is called Witchypoo.  Isn't she gorgeous!?  She was fun to color!

This week at Paper Romance Challenges, Cindy has challenged us to make a round card. I hope you can join us this week and play along.  You could be the winner of a $5.00 gift certificate to the Paper Romance store.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

The Crazy Challenge - Halloween
Stamp With Fun - Halloween
A Spoonful of Sugar - Boo
Creative Cottage challenge - Halloween
Creative Inspirations - Spooky
 

Paper Romance is looking for a new team to start on November 18th!!!

The term will go for 6 months, and end May 31st 2011

This call will be open until November 4th at midnight

Please visit the challenge blog for more info!

Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!

Crazy 4 Challenges #59

October is such a beautiful month with the leaves changing.  Our leaves here in CT are just about starting to turn. In another week or 2 the colors will be amazing! Then rake rake rake... (my back hurts just thinking about it). Well this week at Crazy 4 Challenges we need to create an *Autumn/Fall* card!!!
Here is the easel card that I created:

I had the front door background stamp that I got from Magnolia-licious and my adorable trick or treators are from Whimy Stamps.  These digital images were created by the very talented artist Chrissy Armstrong.  My sentiment is computer generated. Don't you just love that checkerboard border punch?  That is an EK Success punch - LOVE IT!

Here are a few more pics:

These kids are just tooo cute!! ;)  I will enter this card at the following challenges:

The Creative Cottage Challenge - Halloween
Crafty Cardmakers - fancy folds
One Stitch At A Time - use your digi stamps
My Grafico - anything goes
Challenge up your Life - autumn (halloween reminds me of autumn)

I hope you can play along with us this week at Crazy 4 Challenges. I'll be looking for you! ;)

October Whimsy Digital Blog Hop

It's time for the October Whimsy Digital blog hop!  If you came from Danni's blog then you're in the right place.  Otherwise, please start at the beginning at the Whimsy Inspirations Blog.  You want to make sure to comment at every stop on the hop for your chance to win some awesome prizes. There will be 3 chances to win. So here is the stair-step card I created for the hop today:

I found this haunted house image on the net and used these adorable Meljen images as my trick or treators.  Do you think they'll stop to trick or treat at this house?  I certainly wouldn't - too spoooooky and I'm a big chicken! LOL!  That fun GONE HAUNTING sign is from Raindrop Echo Designs' Halloween sentiments release and can also be found at Whimsy Stamps.

My family and I love watching the Charlie Brown Halloween classic, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."  Don't these guys look just like some of the Peanut's gang?  Just need to add some extra  "eye holes" to one of the ghosts. ;)

These digital images and more have been released today.  So hurry on over and pick some out.  This blog hop will remain open from 12 noon EST  Friday 15th October and will close on Friday 22nd October  at 12 noon EST.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

The Creative Cottage Challenge - Halloween
Papertake Weekly Challenge - 3 of something (I used 3 bats)
Crafty Cardmakers - fancy folds
Cupcake Craft Challenge - scary creatures
Lexi's Creations - spooky
I Did It - spooky
One Stitch At A Time - use your digi stamps
My Grafico - anything goes
Challenge up your Life - autumn (halloween reminds me of autumn)

Thanks for stopping buy today and for any comments you might leave. I enjoy reading them so much!  Your next stop on the hop is my friend Domi.

Paper Romance #20

Happy Thursday to you! Today at Paper Romance Challenges, Andrea is our host and she'd like for us to use 3 buttons on our card/project. So I created this card using this image from High Hopes Stamps.

You can find this sweet image at the Paper Romance store here.  I hope you will play along with us this week, you could win a $5.00 gift certificate to Paper Romance.

** News Flash ** Paper Romance is having a DT Call, please visit the challenge blog for more info.

I will enter this card at the following challenge:

Mojo Monday - sketch

Short and sweet today! Please stop by tomorrow, hope to see you then! Have a great day!

Crazy 4 Challenges #58

Today's challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges is to create a *Birthday* card or *Birthday Gift*. So this is what I came up with:



I made a birthday card for a fall baby. Isn't this image from Verve so sweet - it's called Hello Pumpkin!? They are our sponsors again this week at C4C.

Here is a closeup picture:



If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword *C4C58*.

I will enter this card at the following challenge:

Diva Coffee Break Designs - sketch


Just a short post today. Well, thanks for visiting me. Have a great weekend and thanks for any comments you may leave. They are so appreciated!

Inky Impressions Challenges - Anything Goes

I love "anything goes" challenges and over at Inky Impressions Challenges this week, that is exactly what our challenge is. So today I used Inky's new image called Nickie - the Sweet Witch.

Oh she is sweet isn't she!? Here is a closeup pic:

I used K & Co. papers, that fun bat charm is from Inky Impressions, and the ribbon/gems/and flying bats are from my stash.  I used a spellbinder scallop die and tried to color it with copics and distress inks to make it look like the moon.  I think it worked out, what do you think?

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Crafty Creations Challenges - sketch
Stampin for the Weekend - autumn inspiration
Pollycrafts Monday Challenges - anything goes


This challenge will run for two weeks,  players have until noon eastern time October 21st for a chance to be inked by the inkettes.  I hope you can join us over at Inky Impressions challenges. I'll be looking for you!! ;)

YNS Christmas New Release Blog Hop

Hello again, my friends! If you are here for my Paper Romance post, please scroll down. Here I am again with another post for you! Today I am lucky and thrilled to be a GDT member for Your Next Stamps' New Christmas Release Blog Hop. I absolutely LOVE YNS images and wait till you get a look at the sweeeet stamp I am working with today.

Gingerbread houses/people are some of my favorite decorations during the Christmas season. I love the old fashioned country charm they provide and the wonderful gingerbread and cinnamon-y smells just warms up your heart and home! ;) Every year, my girls and I make a gingerbread house and gingerbread cookies to hang on our tree while listening to Bing Crosby's Christmas CD. We love it - can't wait for the holidays!!

So for this card I used this Gingerbread House that you can find HERE. I made a shadow box - instructions can be found here at Splitcoaststampers. I cut out the gingerbread man with my Cricut and used white Scribbles paint for the frosting details. I found the buttons and snowflakes at Joanne Fabrics. I colored my image with copics as always. ;)

Following is the blog hop rotation in case you get lost on the way:

Crystal Irwin
Cindy Haffner
Wendy Ramlakhan
Chris Olsen
Kerri Michaud
Angela Wood - you are here
Beth Ranney-Thomas
Simonne Clay
Sylvia Blum
Jen del Muro
Linda Cummings
Jenny Cierley
Maureen Wong
Tori Wild
Karen Dedman

Please make sure you stop at every blog and leave a comment. There will be 4 opportunities to win something with 1 of the 4 being the Grand Prize Winner!! Woot Woot! This hop will run from October 7 to October 12. Also right now there is a 15% off sale going on at the YNS store (which is where I'm heading in just a minute) ;)

Thanks for visiting me today, your next stop on the hop is my friend Beth. Have a great day!

Paper Romance # 19

Cindy is our host at Paper Romance this week and she'd like for us to create a Fall or Halloween card/project. Here is my card:

I made a card and a small treat box that can be filled with candy corn or Hershey kisses (my fav).  I used an image named Pumpkin Treat.  You can find this image at Paper Romance.
Here are a few more images:

Supplies:  Papers from Debbie Mum, charm from Inky Impressions, flowers from Wild Orchids, ribbon from my stash.

I will enter this set at the following challenges: 

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - anything goes
High Hopes Stamps Challenges - halloween

We would love for you to play along with us, if you do you could be the winner of a $5.00 Gift Certificate to Paper Romance! Just link your card over at the challenge blog and if you're loading into an online Gallery, use the keyword prc19. Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Crazy 4 Challenges #57

Happy Saturday! Silke Ledlow is our host this month at C4C and she has wonderful challenges for us this month. This week she has presented us with a color challenge and the colors are: Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Kraft, and  Black.

So here is the card I created with this sweet image from Inky Impressions.



This is Lili's Chalkboard from the new Inky Impressions fall release.  Don't you just love her?! My "thanks" sentiment is from Verve and they just happen to be our sponsor this week.  I love their sentiments and this one is from the  Circular Sayings set.

I used Debbie Mumm papers and those black pearls and awesome leaf charm are from Inky Impressions.  They have the best charms!!



I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch
Crafty Creations - owls

If you would like to play along with us at C4C, all you have to do is create a card/project, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C57 then link it at the C4C challenge blog.  Hope you can join us there! Well, have a great weekend and see you soon!