Little Darlings - Saturated Canary Windy Day

Hi Everyone! This is Angela and we have a new monthly inspiration for you today.  This month our theme is Die/Dye It. So I chose to use Dies on my project today. I made a wall hanging for my daughter to hang in her bedroom using my favorite Saturated Canary image from Little Darlings.  This is Windy Day:

I used a spellbinder grand oval die for this project and also 2 papertrey ink cloud dies.  My background image is from Make It Crafty - Rainbow background digi image that I thought worked perfectly with this image.


Here is a bit of a  closer look:

I added lace and beads around my scene.  I think it will look pretty hanging in my daughter's room which is outdoor themed.  I hope she likes it!

I will enter this at the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge - no patterned paper
Ink it Pink - anything goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge blog - diecuts and/or punches
Stampotique Designers Challenge - weather

Well thanks for visiting me today. Have a great day!

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!

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.

Make It Colourful Anniversary Celebration

Happy Sunday to you! I have a long post for you today but I hope you will read on as I have a prize to be won if you hang in there with me! :)

This month at Make It Crafty we are having a birthday blast extravaganza! Make it Crafty is turning ONE and we have a huge challenge and fabulous prizes to be won if you join in!!

We are bringing you a reminder that the celebrations are going for the WHOLE month of July so you have plenty of time to play with us.

Today we are excited to be playing with two other international resellers of Make it Crafty products, Susana’s Custom Art & Card Design in the USA & Stempellädle Der Bastelmarkt in Germany.

To celebrate we thought, rather than a blog hop we would set a CHALLENGE using Make it Crafty products!!

There are FIVE challenge categories and there will be FIVE GRAND WINNERS! More about the 5 categories if you read on.

PLUS, there will be Random winners throughout the month!

There will be random winners throughout the whole month. The numbers have been pre-selected and as soon as an entry is added that matches that number they WIN! Winners will be announced soon after entry on the sidebar of Make it Colourful.

PLUS THERE’S MORE!!!

Zoe, the owner of Make it Crafty has a super duper HUGE Candy give away – choc-a-block FULL of Make it Crafty goodies!! AND I have heard a whisper that she is planning on having random giveaways on her blog throughout the month of July! All you need to do is leave her some love as she’ll randomly be choosing people who have commented on her posts throughout the last year!!

So I do hope you will celebrate with us this month and get into the Make it Crafty spirit of FUN!

There are 5 categories you can enter and you are welcome to create a card combining more than one category.

1. Merge as many Make it Crafty images into one scene.
2. The most creative combination of Make it Crafty images
3. Create a project using ONLY Make it Crafty rubberstamps
4. Create a project using ONLY Make it Crafty Laser cut embellishments. NO IMAGES!
5. And lastly, create a project with Make it Crafty images and coloured with Blue, Mustard/Yellow, and Brown (Make it Crafty Logo colours!)

******** CANDY ALERT ********

As a little special EXTRA, Zoe the owner of Make it Crafty, has told me that I can choose FIVE very lucky commenters to win this special ‘Zoe All Excited’ digistamp. Just leave your comment below and I will choose the winners on July 17th!

We hope you will join us in the celebrations!!


So I have made 2 cards to show you to fit into 2 challenge categories.  My first card fits into category #1. I have used 3 digi images for this one. They are: Lulu swings, Petals and Palings, and Peaches of Plenty.  I love combining different images to create one scene.  Check out Zoe's tutorial section on her blog for a tutorial on how to combine digi images on MS Word.

My next card fits into the 5th category - using MIC logo colors.  I used Siren Lorelie. She is gorgeous! Don't you love the pearl necklace she's holding? ;)

I used my scallop circle grand nestabilities to create my shell card. Also added stickles to give the mermaid some sparkle. I used MIC flower swirls chipboard cutouts as my seaweed. I got my sentiment made by Whimsy from Love To Stamp.

I had fun making these cards. I hope you liked them and can let me know what you think. Please stop by Make It Colourful and join in our month long challenge. I'll be looking for you! Thanks for stopping by!

Make It Colourful - Coloring with Blues

Coloring with blues is our challenge this week at Make It Colourful. We have to color something on our card blue.  So this is the card I prepared for today:

I used this beautiful Hula Girl from Make It Crafty and layered her with another Make It Crafty background, Tropical Beach.

I think she's so gorgeous! I used the following copics to color these images:  E77, E74, E71, E70, E53, E51, E50, R20, YG97, YG95, YG93, YG91, E35, E33, E31, E30, W3, W1, YR000, YR00, B26, B24, B21, B000, B0000

My papers are from Annalese and my flowers are from WOC. 

I hope you can play along with us this week at Make It Colourful. You could win a fabulous prize from this week's sponsor Tiddlyinks.

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Fairy Fun Fridays - summer fun
A Spoonful of Sugar - summer
Bearly Mine - anything goes

Well, I have to keep this post short and sweet.  We're working on opening the pool and then off to my daughter's dance recital. Have a great weekend and I hope you can leave a comment to let me know what you think of my card today. Thanks so much!

Make It Colourful - Coloring with yellow and purple

Happy Saturday to you all!  It's almost June and SUMMER! Can't wait for the hot weather and spending some time with the kids outside in the pool and at the beach. We had ourselves a long and snowy winter here in CT this year.

Well, today at Make It Colourful our challenge is to color something yellow and purple.  So here is the card I prepared today:

I created this fun little scene using the Wonky House on Hill from Make It Crafty and also using several Magnolia images ie; Tilda With Bike, Tree, Little Birds, and Sun.  All my Magnolia images came from Magnolia-licious and they just happen to be our sponsor this month at Make It Colourful.  

Thanks so much for your visit and for always leaving me such sweet and positive comments on my cards. They mean the world to me! Have a great weekend.

Make It Colourful Challenge - Coloring Water

Isn't she a cutie!? This is Sandy at the Beach and she's from Make It Crafty.  All the images I used today on my card are the newly released Make It Crafty digi images. I prepared this card for the Make It Colourful Challenge where we were challenged to color water.

I combined the following digi images all from Make It Crafty:

Sandcastle
Sandy at the Beach
The Beach

This is such a fun release, perfect for summer cards. I had fun making this scene.  I used the grand scallop die from Spellbinders to make the shape of this card. Papers are from Stampin Up and I used Distress Inks and Diamond Stickles to the edges of the cutouts. My sentiment is computer generated.  The ribbon is from my stash as well as the pearls.

Our sponsor at Make It Colourful this week is Quixotic Paperie where you can find Make It Crafty's rubberstamps along with so many other products.  I need to go shopping!!

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew - cute and girly
Stampavia and more - summer
Truly Scrumptious - anything goes

I hope you liked my project today and can leave me a comment. I love to read them! Have a great weekend.

Mo's & Zo's Carnival Blog Hop - Make It Colourful

Welcome to Mo 's and Zo's Carnival Blog Hop.  If you've come from  Barbara's  blog then you're in the right place otherwise start at the beginning here at Jak's blog.  

Today Make It Crafty and Mo's Digital pencil have teamed up and are showcasing some Carnival digital images.

Along the way you will find balloons with a letter in them. Write down the letters as you go because at the very end we want you to guess what the saying is! My letter is the letter T.
 
There will be THREE grand prizes randomly drawn from the correct answers PLUS there will be hidden prizes along the way so make sure you leave some love as you hop along!
 
Now we know this is a super big hop, but we wanted to make sure you would get LOTS of inspiration! The hop will be open until the April 28th so you will have plenty of time to come back each day with a cuppa to soak it all up! (Just don’t lose the letters you have been collecting!)
 
We would like to thank our fabulous sponsors, Mo’s Digital Pencil, Make it Crafty, Stamping Bella and Quixotic Paperie for providing the fabulous prizes for this grand carnival hop!

Here is what I came up with using several of both Mo's and Zoe's images:

I made a picture for a kids room. It would fit perfectly for a bedroom that has a circus/carnival theme. I layered several digital images together to create my background scene using MS Word.  The Make It Crafty images that I used are: Candy Cart, Circus Tent, Uni-cycle,  and Fair Carousel.  The images that I used from Mo's Digital Pencil are: Jojo (clown) and The Fat Lady.

Whew! This took forever to color (over a week).  I'm glad to finally get a chance to use this unfinished picture frame (12x14)  that I've had for years that I had bought from either Michael's or AC Moores.  I pulled it out, dusted it off and painted it red. Then I adhered some Martha Stewart border punch die cuts and then embellished with some of Zoe's (MIC) chipboard corner cut outs that I painted with red Smooch paints and glued on some red crystals.

I hope you like my project today. Would love to hear what you think! :) Your next stop on the hop is Shirley.  Thanks for visiting!

Make It Colourful - Coloring Skies

Happy Saturday! I can't believe I haven't posted anything in over a week.  Sometimes life just gets in the way, you know?  But I'm back today with a challenge from Make It Colourful.  Our challenge is to color skies. So here is the card I came up with:

Here are the details:

Images: MIC image - Rainbow Dandelion digi stamp; House Mouse stamp called: Happy Hoppers - Gone With the Wind
Ink: Memento ink for stamping and Copics for coloring

I definately need better lighting for my photos as I had trouble photographing this one. Well, thanks for stopping by today! Have a great weekend!

Make It Colourful - Coloring Backgrounds

Happy Saturday to you! Thanks for stopping by!  We have a new challenge for you today at Make It Colourful. Today we are to color backgrounds for our challenge.  Our wonderful sponsor this week is Magnolia-licious. Woot woot!  Here is my card:

I did a simple background around my tree image.  I used B21 to outline around the outside of the tree and blended out with B000 and B0000 and my colorless blender to create a blue sky.  Following are the details:

Images: Tilda with Stuffed Bunny from Magnolia-licious and Tree of Love digi image from Make It Crafty. The bunny is from the Tilda and her Bunny image also from Magnolia-licious.
Papers: Crafty Secrets and Bazzill cardstock
Flowers: WOC
Tools: Spellbinder die, stickles, and pearls/ribbon from my stash
Copics: E11, E00, E000, R20, RV34, RV32, RV10, C5, C3, C1, C00, W3, W1, W00, E35, YR23, Y21, Y000, YG67, YG63, G21, G20, YG000, E59, E57, E55, E53, E51, B21, B000, B0000

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Aly's Sunday Challenge - spring
Card Cupids Blog - spring
The Crafty Pad - use a digi
Creative Stamp Friends - spring
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - spring has sprung
Crafts and Me Challenges - anything goes
Creative Cottage Challenge blog - spring has sprung
Southern Girls - add an animal
Card Makin' Mamas - animals
Fairy Fun Fridays - spring

Hope you can play along with us at Make It Colourful. Thanks so much for visiting! Have a great weekend!

Make It Colourful - Colouring with Green and Yellow

We have a wonderful sponsor this week at Make It Colourful. Chrissy Armstrong will be sponsoring this week's challenge which is to blend yellow and green together. ** Remember at Make It Colourful it is not about just using the colors green and yellow but it's a coloring challenge where we have to color with the colors yellow and green and show how we blend them together.

Today I used this sweet puppy digi image from Squigglefly called "Forgiven" and paired it up with Make it Crafty's Daffodile Dell image.

Isn't he a cutie!? My papers are by Basic Grey Max & Whiskers paper pack. I used various brads/ribbon/eyelets from my stash to embellish.  The copics I used to color this image are: W7, W5, W3, W1, W00, YG67, YG63, YG01, G21, G20, E35, YR23, Y21, Y000, R81, RV10, R24, R22, R20, B000. My sentiment is computer generated and I used spellbinder heart dies to cut it out.

I hope you enjoyed my card today! Thanks always for visiting and leaving me such wonderful comments! I appreciate them so much! hugs,