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!

Whimsy Projects

Hi there! Today,  I wanted to post some of the projects that I made for the Whimsy Online Magazine. I had fun making these projects and worked hard on them.

Full details of the products I used on these projects are listed in the magazine.  Hope you like them! I have 2 more projects from the magazine that I will post here next week.  Thanks for looking! Have a great day! hugs xx

Vive la France

Hi Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend?  My kids had off from school all last week and kept me so busy chauffering them all over so I haven't had a chance to comment on everyone's blogs like I usually do. Hopefully we'll get back to normal this week. 

Today I made a fun card using this adorable Victoria Case image from SCACD.  Her name is Lola (she was a showgirl -- lol ok now I'm dating myself).  My youngest daughter for the longest time called herself Lola and made us all call her that too. I had to pick up this image for the name alone haha!  I thought she'd be cute paired up with the new Make It Crafty Paris line they just released and hurried over to pick up this digi background. Did you know that you could buy Make It Crafty rubber stamps and chipboard embellishments right here in the USA from SCACD.  Yay!!

The Eiffel Tower was a freebie image that I got when I ordered the Cafe de Paris background from Make It Crafty.  I used the Fleur De Lis Accents Spellbinder dies on this card, my sentiment was computer generated, and I used copics to color this image.


I had so much fun making this card. Please let me know what you think! Have a great day and see you soon!

Make It Crafty - Coloring white

Good morning everyone! Todays challenge at MIC is to color something white.  I created this card for today's challenge:

I love these MIC background scenes. They go so well with the Magnolia images (especially with my favorite Santa image). This winter scene is called Little Village Scene and can be found HERE and so can those fun chipboard snowflakes.

So I used a few different combinations of copic colors to color various white items on this card.  For my Santa, I chose to use the W's (more specifically they are W3, W1, W00) to color Santa's beard, socks, and fur trim.  For the picket fence I chose the C's (more specifically they are C5, C3, C1, C00). For the snow I again used the C's but also used B000 to change it up. I like this combination best.

Sadly, this will be my last post for MIC. I've decided to step down from the design team due to time constraints and being so busy in my life right now. I've thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this amazing team. My coloring has improved SO much since joining them and I learned so much from Zoe and my other fellow DT mates. Thanks Zoe!! I'll miss you gals!! :'(

Well, that's it for today. I'm off to Christmas shop! Have a great weekend!

Magnolia Noah's Ark & Kenny K/MIC Stair Step Card

Hi there everyone!  I just wanted to share with you a couple cards I made in the past that were published.  My first card was in a past issue of Magnolia Ink magazine.  I worked pretty hard on it and wanted to share it with you here. I used several Magnolia animal images and a Make It Crafty background.

Next up is another stair step card I made for the Whimsy Stamps Online Magazine that was published a little while ago using Kenny K and Make It Crafty images.

I loved making these scenes and I hope you enjoyed looking at them and would love to hear what you think. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

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!

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.

Happy Sunday everyone!  This is another prescheduled post. As you read this, I'll be in Hershey Pennsylvania with my family riding the roller coasters! :)

Whimsy Stamps & Make it Crafty have come together to create a fun Urban Themed digi collection!

Ann Vento has whipped up her magic and designed an incredible collection of
funky wall sayings, city landscapes and of course a range of super cool street signs.

Checkout the Sentiments collection HERE.

Make it Crafty is trying something new offering all the different elements for you to build your own urban backdrop.

Checkout the Urban Street Collection HERE.

Then of course, what better characters to incorporate into such a scene than the fabulous KennyK rubber stamps available from Whimsy Stamps!

Our incredibly talented Design Teams have had a blast playing with all the different elementsto bring you LOTS of inspiration!

We have broken it into TWO HOPS
HOP A Starts Here & HOP B Starts HERE!

There will be a winner for EACH HOP and if you hop your way through BOTH, you’ll go in the draw for the GRAND PRIZE TOO!

HOP A & B Winners will each receive a $15 voucher from both Whimsy Stamps and Make it Crafty

GRAND WINNER will win our full Urban Digital Collection
4 Digi Sentiment sets by Ann Vento & the Urban Elements Collection from Make it Crafty

You are currently on HOP B and should have arrived from Elaine's blog.

Here is my card:

I used the wooden fence and sidewalk digi background image from Make It Crafty. The KennyK image I used today is Brooklyn Babe and fun urban sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs both can be found at Whimsy Stamps. I also embellished with Make It Crafty's awesome chipboard gears.

Your next stop on HOP B is the Whimsy Inspirations Blog but before you go make sure you leave a comment below!

You have until August 21st 8PM Australian QLD time to make your way through the hops!

Be there... or be square!

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 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.

Love To Stamp sneak peek

Good Morning!  I have another sneak peek card to share with you using  a Love To Stamp image. This is another Little Darling image - stamp soon to be available from Love To Stamp on May 16.

I made a stair step card and combined this Little Darling image with a Make It Crafty background.  Also added some Magnolia birds and cut out the words with my Cricut machine and added some stickles to it. The chipboard corners are also from Make It Crafty - love those lasercut chipboard corners.

The copic colors I used today are:  E11, E00, E000, R20, W5, W3, W1, W00, C5, C3, C1, C00, R27, R24, R22, Y15, YR23, Y23, Y21, Y000, YG67, YG63, G21, G20, B0000, B000, G14, YG13, B26, B24, BV13, BV11, YR18, YR16 - I think that's everything  whew!

I will enter this card at the following challenges:

Allsorts - use 3 different stamps
Catch The Bug Challenges - anything goes
Challenge Up Your Life - travel related
Mark's Finest Papers - no embellishments
Stamp Something - use a digi
Divas By Design - anything goes
Creative Cowgirls - anything goes
One Stitch At A Time - fancy folds
Stampin' Sisters in Christ - all things beautiful

Love To Stamp will be having their first ever blog hop on May 18, please come hopping with us and try for your chance for an awesome blog hop prize!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hope to see you tomorrow!