Little Darlings Challenge - Ghosts and Goblins

It's Wednesday and time again for another Little Darlings' Challenge. Our theme this week is "Ghosts and Goblins" or Halloween theme. Here is my card:

I used Tricks or Treats from the new fall collection from Little Darlings and can be found at Love To Stamp. Isn't she fun? My background witch's house is a digi image and can be found at Make It Crafty. I thought these images went well together. This was a fun scene to color!

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Haunted Design House Macabre Mondays -  make a scene
Make It Mondays with Kraft Outlet - witches, ghosts, goblins - must use kraft paper
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - anything goes
Paper Sundaes - anything goes

Thanks for visiting today! Hope you can play along with us at Little Darlings' Challenges.

Make It Crafty Christmas Blog Hop

Hello everyone! I am back today with a Christmas Blog hop for Make It Crafty's new Christmas release. OMGosh these are the cutest images ever! Wait till you see them!  Here is the card I created for today's blog hop.

Isn't she just the sweetest angel?  I'm not sure that I quite like how I've colored her but I gave it my best shot due to time constraints. I used a combination of copics and colored pencils for this image - actually I tend to use both mediums with every image that I color. I'd love to hear what you think?

Today, we are also celebrating Zoe's birthday during this hop and are all offering up some candy that we've assembled on our own.  I have a Magnolia unmounted stamp to share with my followers and who comment on this blog post. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZOE!! <3

You'll have two weeks, until October 12th, to visit each member in the hop below and winners will be announced on Friday, October 14th on their individual blogs.

Make it Colourful
Jane

Jen
Viv
Angela  -- YOU ARE HERE
Annika

Delphine

Elaine

Tracy
Debbie
Maria
Beccy
Carole

Barbara

Also, Zoe if offering 15% off ALL the Christmas digis from now until Sunday, October 2nd. It's only for this week so hurry on over to Make It Crafty to pick up a few of these adorable  new Christmas digis. There will be a coupon code listed at the Make It Colourful blog.

We wanted to make sure everyone was included in our celebration so we're giving away Party Girl Zoe as a freebie to everyone who wants to join in and spread some birthday cheer!! All you need to do is create a new project using a Make it Crafty image or chippies and upload it into the gallery HERE by October 12th.  Then email Barbara, at ForgottenScraps@gmail.com with a link to your project to claim her!

We hope you will enjoy the hop and make sure you head on over to Zoe's personal blog and wish her a Happy Birthday!

Take care and have fun hopping!

Magnolia-licious Challenge - Inspiration photo

Today at the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog, we have a photo inspiration for you.  Here is the spoooky photo:

And here is my interpretation of the photo:

Today, I have used Tilda with Spiderweb that I got from Magnolia-licious a few years ago and paired her up with a MIC background.  I also used some doohickey dies also from Magnolia-licious. I used Basic Grey papers and the black tinsel ribbon I got last year from Walmart (I think).

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Haunted Design House Macabre Mondays -  make a scene
Make It Mondays with Kraft Outlet - witches, ghosts, goblins - must use kraft paper
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - anything goes
Paper Sundaes - anything goes
This was a fun card to put together. I hope you like it  and can let me know what you think. Thanks for visiting me today! Have a great day!

TOMIC - Challenge 17

Good morning everyone! Hope you had a great weekend?  Well, today at TOMIC we have a sketch challenge and an inspiration photo for you.

Inspiration photo

Here is the card I created with these 2 themes:

This is Tilda with Cat from the Pet Collection 2009. My papers are by Magnolia and flowers from WOC. Everything else on my card can be found at Michael's Arts & Crafts.

I do hope you can play along with us at TOMIC this week. You could win an amazing prize sent to you from Magnolia! See you there!

Little Darlings Sneak Peek #2

Happy Sunday to you! I am back with another sneak peek from Little Darlings. This image is called "Throwing Leaves."

Doesn't she look like she's having fun? So sweet! I coupled her with my favorite oak tree by Magnolia. I sponged the background using distress ink and I used flowersoft for my grass. I used the Dutch Mustard Jillibean Soup paper pad again for this card.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Crafting for all Seasons - fall colors
I Brake for Challenges - fall
More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - fall theme
Penny's Paper Crafty - fall

Well, that's it for today. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Little Darlings Fall New Release Sneek Peek

Hello everyone! Are you enjoying this autumn weather like I am? I just love this season! We'll be closing up the pool this weekend and if I know my daughter, she'll be climbing into the attic looking for our fall decorations. In a couple week we'll head on over to the local pumpkin farm and pick out a few pumpkins to add to our decorating. Fun!

Anyways, today Love To Stamp has a new Little Darlings fall release. This weekend and coming week the DT has sneak peeks of this adorable new release.  Today I am showing you "Autumn Friends:"

The template for this little gift bag/purse came from a gift that my daughter had received. I thought the style was so cute so I opened up the purse, traced it onto cardstock, and recreated this version. The bag is large enough for a gift card or a very small gift.  These papers are called Dutch Mustard from the Jillibean Soup Collection and can be found at Love To Stamp. These papers are perfect for fall! So warm and yummy and Love To Stamp has the best prices for 6x6 paper pads!

I used copics to color my image today. Other tools used are Magnolia Doohickey flower dies, Martha Stewart border punch, and spellbinder circle die and lacy circle die. Flowers are from WOC. The ribbon and wooden heart button are from Michaels Arts and Crafts.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Crafting for all Seasons - fall colors
I Brake for Challenges - fall
More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday - fall theme
Penny's Paper Crafty - fall
Simon Says Stamp - use dies or punches

Well that's it for today.  Come back on Sunday for my next sneak peek of this adorable new release! See you then!

House Mouse Birthday Card

Hi there! I have a quick card to show you that I made just for fun. Last week my family and I went to the Eastern States Exposition, the "Big E" as it is known to us locals. It is a huge fair that is held every year for 3 weeks in Massachusettes. We had the best time and they even have a craft section where I came across the House Mouse booth. I've always loved their cute stamps and was so excited to get to buy some of their unmounted stamps.  Here is the card I made using one of the stamps I bought:

These are the cutest stamps and so whimsical. I know my kids will enjoy sharing these stamps with me (I bought a bunch).  House Mouse is currently holding a birthday celebration blog hop and challenge at their blog and I will enter this card there. Wish me luck! Have a good day!

Little Darlings - Brown and Red

Our challenge today at Little Darlings Challenges is to use the colors brown and red primarily.  I created this card using "Checking It Twice" Little Darlings image.

Don't you love his little bunny slippers? Hehehe, too cute! The papers I used  today are Nitwits digi papers. The copic colors I used today are: E11, E00, E000, R27, R24, R22, R20, E53, E51, E50, C5, C3, C1, C00, E31, YR23, Y23, Y000. Other tools I used are the seam binding and metal corner by WOC, spellbinder die, EK Success border punch.

I hope you like my Christmas card today and will let me know what you think. Please visit Little Darlings Challenges to see the rest of the DTs beautiful projects. I hope you can play along with us. Have a great week!

Magnolia-licious Challenge - Color Challenge (orange,brown,teal)

It's time for another Magnolia-licious Challenge. We have a color challenge for you today and the colors are orange, brown, and teal.  Today I made a candy bucket tabletop decoration:

Unfortunately, the teal color I used didn't photograph quite as "teal" colored as I hoped.  I used Sitting Witch Tilda, which doesn't seem to be available right now at Magnolia-licious, but I'm sure it will be soon.  I also used a couple images from Whimsy stamps which I thought worked well in this project.

Copic colors used today are:  E99, E97, E95, E39, E35, E33, E31, E57, E55, E53, E51, C1, C00, Y000

It sure was fun picking out the brown and orange M&Ms to fill this bucket LOL! I'm stuffed! ;) As for the bucket, I can't quite remember where I got it from but it can only be from Michael's or Joanne Fabrics.

I will enter this project at the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps - anything but a card
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - fall colors
Sentimental Sundays - autumn/fall


I hope you like my little project today. Please visit the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog to see the teams' awesome cards/projects.  Have a great day!

The Official Magnolia Inspiration Challenge - TOMIC 15

Our challenge today at TOMIC is coordinating with this month's issue of Magnolia Ink which has a chocolate theme.  So here is my creation for today:

I used that sweet cupcake template that Lillemor created and was in the Magnolia Ink chocolate issue. I love this little basket and it was so easy to make. Wouldn't it be cute for little party favors for your child's birthday?

This adorable Tilda is Oops Tilda from the "A Little Yummy For Your Tummy Collection."   I also used the butterfly and swirl doohickey dies from Magnolia to accent this project and my papers are digital papers from Nitwits. That fun pink fringe that I used to mimick frosting is from Love To Stamp - love that stuff!

I will enter this project at the following challenges:

Allsorts - flowers and swirls
Stamp Something - anything goes
Wags n Whiskers - anything but a card
Colour Create - pink, brown, cream, white

For my BLOG CANDY, please visit HERE.

If you haven't picked up this month's Magnolia Ink issue, you definately need to get this Chocolate issue - it is positively YUMMY! ;) Have a great week!

Make It Colourful - Coloring with Purple

We have a new challenge for you at Make It Colourful today. The challenge is to color with purples.

So I made this Halloween wall hanging using some fun new Halloween images from Make It Crafty. They are sooo cute and so spooooky!

The wall plaque, from Michael's, was unfinished and I painted it black and glued on these 2 images: Mini Gothilia and Mini Morticia.  

The purple color I used for both of their dresses is V99, V95, V93, V91. Other copic colors used are C3, C1, C00, N7, N5, N3, N0, E42, E40, E29, E25, E21.

Following are the challenges I will be entering with this project:

Paper Pals Arts - Halloween
Crafty Creations - Anything but a square
Crafty Sentiments - Halloween
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

Our sponsor today is Some Odd Girl. Some Odd Girl is the place to find fun and quirky digis that I know you will love!  I hope you'll play along with us at Make It Colourful for your chance to win 3 freebies from Some Odd Girl.

Ready for Christmas? and..... Blog Candy

Hello stamping friends! I am back from a much needed vacation and break from posting.  The summer's always feel like they fly by don't they? But I got to spend alot of time with my family making happy memories!

Had a great time earlier this month at Hershey Park. Definately the place to take your family if you like rides and my kids love them!  I'm ready for the cooler weather though, I do love the fall season. But before we start the fall cards, I have a Little Darlings Christmas image to show you.  Here is the card I made using "All For Me:"

I paired this cute Little Darling image that I got from Love To Stamp with this Christmas tree digi image that I had saved on my computer. I'm not quite sure where the tree came from but it could be a Mo Manning image...?  I thought the images fit nicely together.  What do you think?

I colored this image with copics and the papers used today are from the Basic Grey Jovial paper pack and my flowers are from WOC. The brads and stickers were part of my stash and I also used a Martha Stewart punch and Spellbinder die to make this card.

** Blog Candy Alert **

I have some blog candy I'd like to offer. I received some duplicate Magnolia stamps from Sweden that I'd like to share with you.  I have 2 lots to give away.

Candy #1: (Tilda in Star Dress and Tilda's Summer Car)

Candy #2: (Tilda w/Stuffed Animal, Strawberry Yummy Tilda, and Explore Tilda)

I am offering this candy to those of you who follow me. Please leave me a comment on this post if you'd like to be in on the drawing and tell me if you have a preference for Candy 1 or 2. If you'd like to post a picture of this candy on your blog, I would appreciate it and tell your friends! ;)

Winners will be announced on September 30.
That's it for now. Am off to a Labor Day picnic and celebrating my 18th Wedding Anniversary OMG!
Have a great day!