THE PIXIE COTTAGE EASTER or SPRING CHALLENGE #113

Good morning crafters, it is time for another challenge as guest designer at The Pixie Cottage, this week the challenge is Easter or Spring and they also have a sketch that you can use. So you could go with the theme or the sketch. But, I have done both. I have been having so much fun as the guest designer this month and I am on week 3. It will soon be over and I will be so sad to see it end. But, that is for another day. Here is my card for this week.

I am not sure who designed the image, but it is a Pixie Cottage image. It was colored with copics E09, E11, E13, E23, E53, G21, G24, YG03, YO2, Y04, Y08. The papers are all from the scrap file. Got to try to use it up. The eggs I found in my stash from last year. The sentiment stamp is from Stampendous. I embossed the 1st layer with the cuttlebug swirls embossing folder and then rubbed the peeled paint distressed ink over it, added a few gems and used Spellbinders label to make the mats. I think that it came out kind of cute. The butterflies were punched with $1 punch that I have had forever. So now it is your turn. Go on over to the Pixie Cottage and join in with the fun. You will be glad that you did.

Anything Goes Challenge Blog Get Ready for Easter

Divas By Design Distressing

Oldie by A Goodie Challenge Easter Wishes

Tuesday Throwdown Spring Cleaning

Incy Wincy Challenge Things with wings

Love to Create Challenge Anything Goes

Well, that is it for this card. And I hope that you enjoyed your visit. See you soon.

5TH BIRTHDAY CARD

Good morning, it is a rather foggy cool morning here in the south. But, I am getting things done. I am in the process of working on my craft room and it has been slow going since I painted the walls about  8 months ago. Storage is my issue. Before, the tornados hit here in April, I was putting together my storage system, (the box cubes (dark wood) I bought at Hobby Lobby, well Hobby Lobby got blowed away with a lot of other property and we still don't have one here in town. So, I have had to drive over 50 miles each way to get to a Hobby Lobby. If you know any thing about me you know that I love a good deal or sale or coupon use. I won't buy a cube without a 40% coupon. and that is another of the reasons that it is taking me so long. Hobby Lobby only allows you to use one coupon per visit. So I normally have to go into the store at least twice when I drive that far.. But, hurray for us, Hobby Lobby will be opening in February not 5 minutes from my home. Oh well, enough about my storage drama and on to my card.

The card that I am showing today is a birthday card made for a special little girl who turned five a few weeks ago. When she was born the doctors' told her parents that she would never walk or talk and that she would not live very long. Well, guess what, she does all of those things. Yes, she has some issues, but she is a sweet loving child who walks and talks and she loves monkeys. So her card had to have a monkey on the front and the envelope. I used several stamps on this card because I wanted it to be special for her. Her aunt told me that her favorite colors were pink and brown. So those are the colors that I chose. One of the stamps was Tilda, from Magnolis stamps. The monkey is from Stampendous. The sentiments stamps are from my stash, I really don't remember who makes them. I know the smaller is a $1 stamp from Michael's. I typed the Happy 5th birthday on my computer.

The images were colored with copics, but I can't find my list to say what they were. The card stock is Bazzill and the DP is My minds eye. I do love how this card turned out.

Once Stitch at a Time Challenge Round and Round

Stamptacular Sunday Seeing Spots

Secret Crafter Challenge Food and drink (cupcakes)

Crazy 4 Challenges A Childs Birthday Card

C.R.A.F.T Challenge Use  Numbers (5th)

Pixie Dust Studios Going Dotty

Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you have enjoyed your visit.

A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY CARD

Wow, I am back with another post. 2 in one day. This one is a card I made for a friend to give to a lady at her church. She had seen another one of my cards and kept asking my friend about them. It seems she really loved the one she saw and she wanted one for herself. So my friend is giving her this one for her birthday in a couple of weeks. The image is one from Tellen's Place Designs and just because I no longer design for Tellens, I still love the images and you will be seeing even more of them in the coming weeks. I love the DIVA images they are easy to work with and the women that I know love getting the cards I have made with them. There is a little diva in everyone of us.

I think that this card turned out even better than I could have imagined. The DP papers are from Making Memories and it is from their black and white pad 8x8. Which is one of the last few things that I bought at Tuesday Mornings before the tornado. The image as I said before is from Tellen's and it was colored with copics E09, E11, E13, E15, RV02, RV04, RV06, I used spica glitter pen pink of the scarf and shoes. The flowers are from 2 different sets by Prima and I love that they had swiss dots to match my papers. I put stickles on the flowers after layering 3 deep to give them shine and sparkle. The clear bling is from my stash. I used 2 stamps from a clear set on the front of the card and on the inside is two different stamps used. The sentiment stamp on the right is from Stampendous and the celebrating you stamp is from Michaels dollar bin. The black and pink cardstock is from Bazzill. I used Spellbinders Nestabilities labels 10. and ran it through my Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder. I also used one of the art deco embossing folders from Cuttlebug and the swiss dots folder. As you can tell, I love embossing. Well, that is it for this card and yes I do have a few challenges.

Kaboodles Doodles Challenge Lots of layers

2 Sisters Challenge Blog How does your garden grow?

Top Tip Tuesday Flower Frenzy

Creative Card Crew May Flowers

Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge Black, White and one other color

Crafty Catz challenge Pink, Black and white

Creative Inspirations Decorate the inside of your card

The Sisterhood of Crafters Let it Shine

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog Let's Feel it (texture)

Do it With Digi's Sassy and Sparkly

Well, that is it for now. I hope that you have enjoyed your visit and will come back again soon.

HEY CUPCAKE (BIRTHDAY CARD)

Are there cards that you want to make and then you wonder just what you're going to do with them? Well, for me there are a lot of images that I really like, but I just don't have a clue how to use them. That is how I have felt about the cupcake images. I have several different ones, some digital and some stamps. I just could not seem to make a card with any of them that I really liked. Until now.

 This is a card that I made for a friend. I hope she is not checking on me this weekend. I was out of the office all week, so I did not have a chance to give it to her. A little about this card, the image is from Meljens Designs it was a freebie. But, they have such wonderful images, I am already working on the next one. I had a little accident with the image. It is actually surrounded by swirls and hearts and such, I tried to use the Martha stewart punch (one of the first that I ever bought on the image paper and cut to deep. So I had to cut each cupcake out and use it the way that I did). I don't know the name of the punch, but I used it on my brown paper. Which is from the Paper Company. The pink paper comes from a pad by The Paper Studio. I embossed with the Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and the dots and spots embossing folder. I used my inverted scalloped circle under the cupcakes. They were colored with copics E31, E33, E53, E51, E25, E37, R81, R83 and other pinks, spica glitter pens pink, chocolate. The brown pearls on the inside were from the stash of stuff that I recently won. I am going to have to have more. I really love them. The sentiment on the inside is from Stampendous. I typed the "Hey Cupcake" on the computer and printed it in pink and then went over it with the pink spica glitter pen. The flowers are white paper flowers from Recollections which I colored with the same color pink copics that I used on the rest of the card. After the cupcakes were colored, I used glossy accents to make it shiney. The buttons are from my stash. The swirly paper that I stitched with my trusty little pixie machine is from my stash. Well, that is about it for the card. And yes, I do have challenges. Was there ever any doubt? The sketch is from Diva Coffee Break Designs

Tuesday Morning Sketches Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes

Alphabet Challenge D is for Doodling (I think that my swirls could count as doodling)

Top Tip Tuesday Buttons, Buttons Galore

Simple Doodles Cute as a button

Fab N' Funky Long Forgotten stamps or digis (my cupcakes)

Crazy 4 Challenges Going Around in Circles

Pals Paper Arts Clean and Simple

Well, for now that is it. I will be back.

I would like to thank all of the people who made my anniversary a success. I will be posting the winners very soon. I was so surprised to realize that there were  over 100 comments left for me. And I am so excited by the number of followers. It will take a while, but I will be visiting each blog. Thank you all so very much. Stay tuned for the winners.

Flower Garden

Ok, I am back with one more card. Boy, did I have a very busy weekend. I loved every minute of it. I completed a total of 5 cards and that is a record for me. I took them to work and one of my co-workers decided she wanted me to design a card for a friend of hers. How cool is that. So that is my project for the week to come up with a card to make some one feel better. But, now I want  to keep this post short. So, on to the card.

The image that I have used is a  Gorjuss - she is the Purrfect friend comes with a cat. This is a Sugar Nellie Stamp. It was colored with my copics. I tried a new skin combination E00, E11, E13, E15, E25, R83, R81, R85, Y11, Y21, YG63, YG25, YG95, YG03. The paper is Basic Grey, the lemonade pad. I used paper peicing, I stamped 2 images and one was on the flowered paper. The second stamp (flowers) is from Stampenous. The Primas, they were a light pink and I used R85 to make them darker. The twine is from Hobby Lobby (I was so glad that they had small packages and different colors). Once again I used my new distressing tool from Tim Holtz, I love that thing.  My card base is Bazzill. There are only a few challenges that I want to enter this into. The first is Basic Grey Challenges (fortnightly) the challenge is paper piecing. They are also having a DT call. And I would love to design for them. So, I am going to give it a shot. The next challenge is Sir Stampalot Challenge the challenge is distressing. I know, I entered my last card and got a message that I had to many challenges to qualify for the prize, but I could try again. Maybe this time I got it right. You can't have more than six challenges to qualify. The next challenge is Our Creative Corner Sketch Weekly

That is it for challenges and I am coming to the end of my post. I hope that you like my card and I would love to hear from you.