THE ROBYN'S FETISH CHALLENGE #307--"EASTER CARDS"--13 MARCH 2016

Thanks for all the lovely projects that were submitted for our "Tags" theme at The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog last week!  They were beautiful!!!  Our new challenge at The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog is Easter cards.  Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish, and the prize is the winner's choice of three digital stamps from the Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More Store.

I chose the "Cross and Flowers" image from Robyn's Fetish for my project this week.

Supplies Used

~Cardstock from stash
~ColorBox mini ink in Razzberry
~Colored pencils in brown, dark brown, golden yellow, green, lemon yellow, light brown, light green, magenta, orchid, and pink
~Making Memories Just Chillin' 6x6 paper pad
~Robyn's Fetish "Cross and Flowers" image
~There She Goes Clear Stamps "Hunny Bunnies" sentiment (company no longer in business)

We look forward to seeing your Easter cards this week!  Be sure to get them linked up at the Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog before Saturday.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

THE ROBYN'S FETISH CHALLENGE #297--"ANYTHING GOES!"--3 JANUARY 2016

This week's challenge at The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog is easy peasy--Anything Goes!  Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish, and the prize is three images of the winner's choice from the Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More Store.

The Design Team members were provided with an image for our projects, and my chosen image is "Teapot."

I'll use this for one of my Mother's Day cards in May.  It never hurts to get ahead, right? ;-)

Supplies Used

~Close To My Heart Simple Beauty stamp set
~Color Box Mini ink in Razzberry
~Colored pencils in bubble gum, light green, magenta, and sand
~Glitz Cashmere Dame 6x6 paper pack

~Pop dots

We look forward to seeing the projects you create this week!  Be sure to get them linked up at the Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog before Saturday.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #36--New Folding Technique

Everyone has really been rockin' the challenge entries at Through the Purple Haze lately!  Thanks so much to everyone who's entered, but we'd love to see more of you!  This week, the Design Team was given images by Stitchy Bear to use on our creations.

This week, we want to see your creations using a folding technique you've never tried before.  I've done a few different folds, so here's my newest one:

I did a search in the tutorials section of Splitcoast Stampers to find this.  It's called a free-standing pop-up card, and you can find the directions here.

Supplies Used

Cardstock--stash

Colored pencils

Ribbon--stash

ColorBox ink from Stephanie Barnard--spearmint

Pop dots

Rhinestones--stash

Leaves background wooden stamp

Challenges Entered

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' April Card Challenge--Anything Goes

There are TONS of folding techniques out there!  Show us what you can do with a new technique that you've never tried before.  Be sure to hop over to the TTPH challenge blog to get your project linked up by the end of the week!  Good luck and happy scrapping!

My Partner in Crafting Crime Challenge #34--Colour Palette inspiration

Happy Monday, everyone!  It's time for a brand new challenge at My Partner in Crafting Crime!  For this challenge, we'd like you to use the following colour palette for inspiration:  white, mint, green, bright pink, light pink.  You can use this photo for some extra inspiration:

We'd love to see you use at least three of these colors, and it would be REALLY awesome if you could incorporate them all!  Here's my project for this challenge, along with some additional views:

This was one of my FAVORITE recent projects!  Pink and green are two of my favorite colors, so this was a SUPER easy card for me.  The slingback bow shoe image is from Bows and Berries, and I colored it using my Crayola colored pencils, then added a rhinestone from Queen & Co. on the bow.  The sentiment and smaller shoe are from the Ellie's Day Out clear stamp set from Nikki Sivils, and I stamped them using a ColorBox mini in Razzberry.  I'm also entering this in the Pals Paper Arts Challenge 116--A Sketch Challenge.  This sketch just seemed to fit what I wanted perfectly, and I love the way the finished product turned out.

We can't WAIT to see what you can create with these colors!  You've got until November 6 to get your project completed and linked up at the My Partner in Crafting Crime blog.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Paper Cutz Challenge #109--Caution! Ghost Crossing!

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Today is my first challenge as part of the Paper Cutz Challenge Design Team, and we've got a great one for you!  This week's theme is "Caution!  Ghost Crossing!" and we want to see your ghostly projects with Cricut cuts, traditional stamps, or digital stamps using the colors of white, black, purple, and orange ONLY.  Since I've recently REALLY gotten into card making, I decided to make an easel card for this challenge.

I found my directions for making the easel card here at Split Coast Stampers.  I thought it was SUPER easy!  I'll also be entering this in the This to That Tuesday Challenge #5 at Cher's Studio.  As I was looking through my stamps, I discovered I didn't have ANY ghost stamps!  I turned to my Cricut cartridges and very quickly learned that amidst all the cartridges I have, not a SINGLE ONE had a ghost image on it!!!  As a result, I had to improvise.  I DID find a ghost 3-D sticker in my stash, so I turned it upside down and traced the shape on white cardstock.  I cut the first one out and, using it as a template, traced and cut out two more.  

I used my black Fibracolor marker to color the ghost's eyes and ColorBox Cat's Eye ink in Blackbird to distress the edges of the ghost.  Once I had the top layer finished, I used mini pop dots to add some dimension to the ghost.

All of the papers came from my Halloween paper stash, as did the ribbons and stickers.  As I was finishing up, I thought Mr. Ghost needed something a little extra, so I found a pumpkin bucket sticker and a couple of purple candy stickers.  I wanted to give the appearance of a piece of candy coming out of the bucket, so I used my craft knife to cut a small slit in the top of the bucket and slide a portion of the piece of candy through.

I used this sketch from The Sweetest Thing:

I'll be entering my card there, as well as at The Paper Variety, where their challenge is to use stickers.

We'd love to see what ghostly projects you can come up with!  Be sure to link up your project by next Thursday at Paper Cutz Challenge!  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

It's almost fall!!!

Is anyone else as ready for the fall season to get here as I am?!?  I KNOW everyone in the South is!  This year, I was REALLY glad to be living in sunny Southern California for the summer, since the South had that HORRID heat wave!  I AM looking forward to getting back to the South, though.  I've been away WAY too long, and I need the slower pace of life back.

Have you seen Bo Bunny's new Forever Fall line?  I absolutely LOOOOOVE the colors!!!!  I hadn't seen it until my friend Suzanne (Check out her blog at Scrap with Suzy!) put it on her scrapbook Wish List in our Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin'.  My LSS, Ever After Scrapbooks, recently got this in stock, so I stopped by and picked up the 6x6 pad and a couple of 12x12 sheets to go along with it.  I picked one of the first sheets in the pad to create this card:

The base of the card was green cardstock from my stash, which I folded to make a 6x6 card, then I adhered one of the 6x6 sheets from the Bo Bunny Forever Fall pack to the front.  I stamped the flower stem on the right using Close To My Heart's Garden Green ink, and the stem is from CTMH's From Me to You stamp set (got both of these from my CTMH consultant, Heather!), both of which came in CTMH's From Me to You card kit.  The flowers and brad were from my stash, and I added Tim Holtz Distress Stickles in Scattered Straw to the yellow flower for a little bling.  The sentiment along the flower stem is from the We R Memory Keepers Banner stamp set, and the brown ribbon across the top is one I picked up at my LSS.  I finished off the card by distressing the edges with Color Box Cat's Eye ink in Chestnut Roan.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

--Kaboodle Doodles

--Make It Monday

--Paper Creations Ink

--Pollycraft Challenge

Thanks for visiting!  Happy scrapping!