Spots and Stripes Papertake Weekly Challenge

Happy Rainy Tuesday! The challenge this week at Papertake Weekly is called Spots and Stripes. I just got this little penguin digi image from Pink Cat Studio here and thought he'd be perfect for this. I used my Prisma pencils and OMS to color him, added some Glossy Accents to his candy cane, and put liquid applique on the fur. The paper is from last year's Martha Stewart Christmas paper. The sentiment is computer generated. I've finished two Christmas cards now!

Cute Card Thursday and Just Magnolia Challenges

I didn't realize that I hadn't posted anything at all last week. Anyway, I have now made my first Christmas card for this year. Over at Cute Card Thursday the challenge is to make a candy/sweet themed card. I got this 60's Tilda stamp from 7 Kids College Fund a while back and thought she'd be perfect for it. I colored her with Copics and added pink stickles to her lollipop, rain dot hearts, and pink pearls on the snowflakes. I used the sketch from the Just Magnolia Challenge. I liked this Christmas paper from Hobby Lobby with the pastel colors. The pink is Bazzill Dotted Swiss which I love. I sprayed the whole thing with Shimmerz Spritz "Baby's Breath" so it has a nice shimmer, but it doesn't show in the picture. I am pretty happy with this one. Check out both of these challenges. The DT teams have some beautiful things posted and

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Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Happy Thursday! I made this card for the Cute Card Thursday Challenge. I just love this stamp. It's called Sugarplums Cow Emma available here. I colored her with Copic markers and inked the area around her to look like nighttime. I used my Martha Stewart spiderweb corner punch,added a spider sticker, some Halloween Dress-It-Up buttons for the candy, stickled her pumpkin and she was done. My husband and I are headed off for a long weekend (yay!) , so have a great weekend. Thank you for visiting here. I love your comments.

Santa Card for Copic Color Challenge

Well, it's a cool and rainy day in the South so I have spent the day card-making. Yay! The Copic Color Challenge this week is use Copic Markers G02, Bg05, and R27 or the closest color you have to those. This week I had all three of the colors ! I've been waiting a while to color this Santa stamp from Whippersnappers and I thought those colors would look great on him. I tried my new Polar White Flower Soft on the snowy parts and was a little disappointed with my effort. After it dries I'll go back and fill in the bald spots. Anyway, I loved the colors with this stamp.

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House Mouse and MCPT Challenges

Good Morning!

I made this card for the Magic Colored Pencil Technique Challenge over on the Cricut Messageboard. Every month we get an image to color with our Prisma colored pencils and OMS (odorless mineral spirits). I LOVE seeing what everyone does using the same image. This month we got this House Mouse image. I colored it and used papers from my stash. The spider , web, and bat are stickers I found on sale at Michael's. The fence is the Martha Stewart Spooky Fence punch. I stickled the little dragon costume with Lime Green stickles. The inside says.."Halloween..It's all about the candy corn. " I've seen that on several cards and thought it was perfect for this one.

The House Mouse Monday Challenge here has a challenge to use a House Mouse image and give it a movie title. I think this one looks like the children's movie " Dragon Tales". I hope you like it.

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Boss's Day Card

Happy Tuesday!

My daughter asked me to make a card for her group to give to their boss for Boss's Day. I used Christmas Cheer for the cup and steam and cuttlebugged the cup with my Distressed Stripes folder .The green part is embossed with my new folder, Morrocan Screen. I love it! I inked most of the edges with Jim Holtz Distress ink (brushed corduroy).

The best thing about the card is that it smells like coffee. I used Scent My Cards Coffee available at Stamping Scrapping here. I love the way it makes the card smell. I have Coffee, Baby Powder, and Snickerdoodle scents and like all three of them.

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Vintage Wedding

We're back from the beach. I was sad to see that Artful Legacy is closing their storefront. It was a great scrapbook store and I looked forward to going there whenever we were at the beach. They are still going to have an online store and will be going to festivals and conferences though.

My daughter asked me to make a wedding card so I quickly made this one with an image from my Vintage Wedding CD Vol.1 from

Peggy's Vintage Images . The wedding rings are from Hobby Lobby . The rest is just some wedding paper I had in my stash and a ribbon. Super easy !

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Bella and Riley Halloween Cards

It's Saturday and today is World Card Making Day! Over at SplitCoasterStampers it looks like there will be lots of fun and prizes all day. My husband and I are leaving today for our fall beach trip today, so I won't be able to play along, but I will post two Halloween cards before we leave. The first one is a Riley Moose and was really a simple card to make. The swirly purple was in my box of scraps but seemed perfect for him. The bats , black dots, and pumpkin are acrylic stickers.

The second one is a Bella stamp. I still love the Bella stamps, but it seems that I don't see many cards being made with them lately. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss pumpkins on the orange cardstock and cut the Trick or Treat bag with my Cricut and Paper Doll Dress Cartridge. The eyelets for the ribbon were easy to do with my Crop-o-Dile. I love it! Both were colored with Prisma pencils.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

*****Edited to add that over at 2 Red Bananas there is challenge to make a Halloween card.

Since I'm at the beach and not crafting I'll submit the cards above for the challenge. Head over there and see what their talented DT has posted. ****

Two Challenge Cards

Happy Friday! I have two cards today.

The first one is for the Copic Color Challenge. The challenge was to use the colors G02, Y11, and V15. I don't have V15 so I substitued V12.

I used a digital stamp is from Mo's Digital Pencil. She has the cutest images for sale and I have fallen in love with digital stamps. This one is called Kimono and she was so much fun to color. I am just learning to use Copics, but I keep practicing. I used Glossy Accents on the teapot and cup to make them shiny. The flower was make with my circle scalloped Nestabilities and added Martha Stewart copper glitter beads for the center. The butterfly is a M Stewart punch.

The second card is a Baby's First Birthday card I made for the challenge over at Cute Card Thursday. The challenge was to make a card for any "first". I used a vintage baby image from my Peggy's Vintage Child's Birthday Vol.1 CD available here: There are several awesome blogs that have beautiful cards made with these images that have inspired mine.

One is here and I hope she won't mind the link.

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Snowflakes and Sparkles...

The Pollycraft Challenge this week was to create something with at least 2 of these 5 "S" things: snowflakes, sparkles, spots, stripes, and swirls.

With this card I tried to get in all 5. I cut the snowflakes with my cuttlebug, used glitter on the border and Stickles for the snow, the spots on the scallops were made with a white gel pen and embossed on the sentiment, the snowman has stripes on his scarf, and since the swirls on the paper didn't show in the photo I added one under the brad for good measure. This was a really fun challenge and they have cute images for sale, too.

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