HEARTSTRINGS TUESDAY THROWDOWN #133

Happy Tuesday everyone, so glad that you decided to stop by for a visit. Today it is time for another fun challenge over at Tuesday Throwdown where I had the chance to become one of the newest Design Team members. This is my second post for them and it has been such a great way to make new friends and get to look at so many wonderful blogs in the process. So if you have not visited Tuesday Throwdown before, you should stop by and check out all of the fantastic artist/crafters that are on the team. Today our challenge is "HEARTSTRINGS". Your projects should have hearts and some type of string or twine. Our sponsor this week is "ROBYNS FETISH DESIGN SHOP". You really should stop by and check out the store, they have some really great images.

I have used the I heart you heart, it was colored with copics E24,, E27, E29 and then I used Christmas red stickles around the scallop part. the tag is one that I had stamped with a faded text background stam from Stampabilities and the sentiment is one of the Michaels new $2 stamps I inked the edges with fired brick distress inks and stamped it with Momento red. The sting is stretchy and came in a pack of 5 colors that I bought on clearance some where a couple of years ago. The bling is from my stash. So thanks for stopping by be sure to go by Tuesday Throwdown and join us in the fun.

 

Delicious Doodles Red, Red and More Red

Simply Create Too Valentine's Day/Hearts

Stampin With the Dragon Love is in the Air

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes Love

Tammy's Scrapin Corner Valentines Card

Digital Tuesday Hearts

Top Tip Tuesday Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Oldie But a Goodie Red & Pink

Party Time Tuesdays Love and Romance
Crafty Sentiments Designs Anything Goes
Creative Belli Blog Rhinestones
Order of the Opus Gluei Bring on the Bling

 

 

 

GDT @ TAMMY'S SCRAPIN CORNER

That is right, my title says it all. I was chosen to be the Guest Designer at Tammy's Scrapin Corner, I found this blog a few months ago and have really enjoyed playing in the challenges over there. So, I was really pleased to be chosen to to be the Guest Designer for the week. This weeks challenge is Anything Goes.

My project this week is a tag that I made for my scrapbook group. We will be going on our annual retreat in a couple of weeks and I like to commemorate the event. I used a resist technique, I used a text background stamp from Stampabilites and stamped with versamark and then used clear utee to emboss it. Then I went over the whole thing with Tim Holtz distress ink Wild honey. I used the Tim Holtz sewing room die cut and then painted the dress form with a bronze acrylic paint, the tulle and ribbon is from Hobby lobby. the bling is from my stash. I typed the information about the retreat on my computer and the fun in the sun stamp is out of the $1 bin at Michaels. I used glazed pens to color in the fun in the sun stamp. I love the raised effect. It is like it was embossed. I colored the sea horse charm with copic marker #77. The ribbon is from my stash. The tag is 4 1/8 x 8 1/2. I bought them from Ellen Huston online. I really like the size of them. The flowers are Recollections and have been sitting on my shelf since last year. I bought about 8 jars of them when they were clearanced out and I really love them. The corner punches were made with the Corner chompers from We R Memory Keepers I love these because you get to different cuts on each one. This one has art deco and ticket cuts.

 This really looks better in person than it does it the photo. But, I do love how it turned out. I will be using mind as the cover page of my beach travel journal for this year. That resist technique is fabulous and I will be using it more. The type of stamp used will determine the results that you get. and the way that you ink the project will also make the looks different. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to go over to Tammy's Scrapin Corner and join in the fun.

Moving along with The Times Tag It

4 Crafty Chicks Tag You're It

My Mums Craft Shop Tickets

Crafty Sentiments Anything Goes

LadyBug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge Flowers & Embossing

Die Cutting Divas Fall Colors

 

Well, the end of another post. Do come again.

 

 

A VISIT WITH MO'S DIGITAL

Hi everybody, this has been a really strange week and I still feel like everything is moving in slow motion. I have worked late every day since we went back to work, but I have been crafting because it keeps my mind off of all of the devastation of the past couple of weeks.

I have not made anything using my images from Mo's Digital in a very long time. The challenge this  week is Monochromatic and she is having a GD call. You have to enter the challenges the first two weeks of each month to be considered for a GD spot. I have missed Mo and her images and I have used one of the two year olds with attitude. The card I have made is  the second one of this type that I have finished, but I have two more started on my desk waiting to be finished. It is a diagonal pocket card. The instructions can be found on Splitcoast Stampers, it was just so easy to make and it only took 1 sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. The tags were cut from scraps.

Aren't these just the cutest. I thought that they would be hard to do, but they were not. You should give it a try. The image was colored with copics E09, E11, E13, E23, E15, BV00, BV02, BV04. I used the lilac spica glitter pen on the stripes. The 2 sided card stock is from Recollections and there were 5 different colors and the animal prints, this paper is just perfect for this card. The flower punch is from the Paper Studio. The bling is from Kaiser Scrapbook. the smile stamp is from Paper Inspiration. The sentiment is from Stampablities. I used one of the animal print embossing folders from Cuttlebug to emboss the scalloped ovals. The tags were cut with my Cricut

Of course there are challenges. Where have you been? I always have challenges.

Raise the Bar Flower Power

Top Tip Tuesday Open Challenge

Crafty Catz Challenge Give us a Quote

One Stitch at a Time Embossing

Phindy's Place Embossing

Paper Romance Use your Favorite Die (spellbinders)

Secret Crafter Challenge Dust off your stash (Mo's image-it has been months since I used one and the ribbon on the tag has been in my box for a couple of years)

Crazy 4 Challenges Flowers

Stamp Something Use Digi (Mo's Image)

Well, I have come to the end of this post. I hope that you have enjoyed your visit and that you will come back soon. There is so much going on at my desk and I will have an announcement to make in my next post.

I HEAR WEDDING BELLS

Wow, 2 post in one day. What is going on. Maybe we should check to see if I have a temperature. No, its not that. But, I have been really busy creating. I have orders for cards that have to be filled. This is one I did just because I had never done a wedding card before and because of the Royal Wedding, there are several challenges for weddings or here comes the bride. I kept it simple and this post will be really short. I bought the stamp at Hobby Lobby over the weekend, all stamps were 50% off and I bought a set of Stampabilities loose rubber stams also. Which included a cake and several sentiments. The bride and groom stamp is by Stampendous and is no more than line art. But, I thought it was cute.

Now, how cute is that. Although, the photo it self is not all that great. You can not see the rhinestones in the flowers and the scrolls on the sentiment. I colored the faces with E13 and the hair with E25, E37, E09. The card stocks are Bazzill and I used Cuttlebug swiss dots and swirls. And Spellbinders Label one.

Stampin' For the Weekend Wedding

Crafty Cardmakers The Royal Wedding (2 weeks)

2 Sisters Challenge blog Photo Inspiration

I pulled my colors (white and purple) from the inspiration photo

Fab N' Funky Challenge Here Comes the Bride

Creative Craft Challenges Embossing

I think that this is it for today. I will see you again really soon. and hope that you have enjoyed your visit.

BIRTHDAY WISHES and GREAT SURPRISES

"THIS CARD WAS A WINNER AT DELIGHTFUL CHALLENGES METAL MANIA CHALLENGE"


Happy Saturday everybody. Before I get to my card, I would like to thank Pricilla Styles at MIDNIGHT MADNESS and her wonderful design team, along with Janice Hopper of Sunshine and Giggles for the wonderful prize that I won in the Midnight Madness Monthly (September) contest here is a picture. Plus, $20 worth of digital images from Sunshine and Giggles which I have received already and can't wait to start coloring them.

How wonderful is this. Flowers, ribbons, lace, webbing, bling, pearls, paper and more paper. Wow,  I can't wait until in arrives. Thank you again Pricilla and Janice.

My card for today is a Midnight Madness sketch:

And, yes I chose the more fancy of the two. My card is a birthday card that a friend asked me to make for her cousin. this card is a little different because the image is on the inside instead of the outside. The image that I used is a stamp that I bought at Hobby Lobby last year. and it states that "I don' do mornings". It is not how I feel, because I love the mornings. But, it was a sentiment that I know many people do feel. I was not sure how I would work it into a birthday card, but this is what she wanted so here is what I came up with.

This is the outside, so perfect for the Midnight Madness challenge.

and the inside. My friend loved it and says that so did her cousin. It seems the cousin is the one who really is not a morning person. She took it to work with her and guess what. People at the police station where she works liked it and wanted to know if they could get cards. I will let you know what happens from that.

Now, a little about the the card. The image is from Stampabilities at Hobby Lobby. The paper is Bazzill, the DP paper on the front, I am not sure where it is from it was just in my stash. I think my daughter sent it to me. I used the Spellbinders nestibilities to cut the frame. And it was cut on my Cuttlebug. The embossing was done with the birthday embossing folder from Cuttlebug. The written sentiment was made up by me and typed on the computer. The front of the card was embossed using the swirls embossing folder. The brads are from my stash as is the ribbon. The birthday sentiment is from a set that I bought at Michaels on clearance. I colored the image with copics E00, E11, BV20, BV23, RV91, RV93 and spica lilac and pink

And of course, there are challenges.

Crafty Den Anything Goes Challenge Ribbons

Paper Cutz Anything Goes

Our Creative Corner Embellishments, the more the better

Delightful challenges Metal Mania (my brads)

Digi Doodles My Peeps (people images)

Well, I guess this is it for this card and this post. I would love to hear from you and all comments are welcome.

Mummu Dances

Ok, I am back and I think this one is really good. First off let me say that the image rocks... it is from Mo over at Mo's Digital Pencil. I love it. When I am more mature I hope I can rock it like Mummu...

Now for a little about the card. I'm sure that those of you who check me out on a regular basis know that this card is for a couple of challenges. First, is the Colour Create Challenge. The colors were lilac, aqua, black and white. I think that I hit it on the head. Secondly,  its for a sketch over at Mojo Monday challenge #116. once again this is totally there. Of course I colored it with my Copics; the hair was done with W1, W3 and W5. The skin is E31 with just a touch of E33. The jacket was done with B21, B24, B32. And then this morning I added a little of BG72 over it and I knew that was what I wanted. The skirt was a challenge in itself because I just wasn't sure what I was looking for.  I used V04, V12 and RV00. I even put a little R29 on her toes. Last but not least on her shoes I used E09, E37 and E33. Don't you just love it. I used my scalloped Nesstibilites in the 3 larger sizes for my circles.The paper was from Hobby Lobbies Paper Studio. I bought it specifically for the color challenge. The ribbon is from my growing stash and I actually tied a bow. The words in the sentiment come from a stamp that I have from Stampabilities. They were typed on the computer and then I used an EK punch for the edges. I have really got to learn how to use these stamps. I guess it will take practice, practice and more practice.

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of my newest card.