Lift an Odd Girl Challenge

Have you checked out the new challenge over at Some Odd Girl?  The challenge is to lift an odd girl.  So I spent some time roaming through the odd girl design team blogs.  I say that like I have never done that before, right?!! LOL, of course I have. I seriously love these stamps. They are some of the funnest images to color.  When I stumbled upon the card at Zarah's and in english blog I knew it was the one I wanted to lift.  You can find her card here.  I hope you can see the lift. :)  I used the new clear stamp Sweet Thinkin Mae.  She is from the new releases. You knew I had to have her!!

I pulled out some of my favorite papers from My Mind's Eye and decided to paper piece her dress and bow.  I added some flowers and lace from Wild Orchid Crafts, some dragon fly buttons and fancy pants pins.

The little charm is from my stash from when I used to sell CTMH.

Mae has been popped up.  I used E-000,01,11,13 for her skin and my favorite pinks R-89,85,83 for her shoes and shrug.  Her eyes are YG-83 and 85.  I distressed the edges and added some ink with CTMH creme brulee ink.   We wouldn't be done til I showed you the inside of my card.

I am going to add this to the challenge at Moving Along with the times that wants us to use our favorite things. They are Some Odd Girl, My Mind's Eye papers, copics, and wild orchid craft flowers.

Lollipop Crafts has anything goes.

Sparkles forum challenge has lace and elegance. 

Totally Papercrafts has girly girls for the challenge.

Do you stack up is stitching.

Little Darlings Challenges is buttons, brads or eyelets. I used buttons.

Thinking of You

I was blog hopping this weekend and I came across a blog that I follow that is asking for Get Well Cards for a special lady.   It seems that Sheree's friend Ethyl had a horrific accident.  You can read all about it over on Sheree's blog, Vancouver Island Craft Junkie.  When I was in the 6th grade I lived on Vancouver Island for 1 year. It is one of my most favorite places that I ever lived.  Anyways, when I read her story I wanted to make a card and I thought I would also share.  Crafters are some of the most kind hearted, giving people I have ever met.  Along with my card goes many prayers for full healing.

On this card I have used some of my new favorite things.  I have used this gorgeous paper from Echo Park called For the Record.  The background red paper is actually from EP as well, but from the Holly Jolly collection.  The birdcage and bird are from Tim Holtz.  The tag is a Magnolia tag and the flowers and lace are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I have had this lace for a while but was just waiting for the perfect project to use it on.  

You can actually pull the tag out from between the two papers.  The punch is and EK Success punch.  It is hard to tell but the bird was actually edged with some Creme Brulee ink from CTMH. As were the edges of the scalloped papers.

I used a butterfly spellbinder on the inside with more of that EP paper.  Sheree said that Ethyl is in her 

late 70's so I was going for a vintage flair.  I hope that she gets enjoyment from the cards that are being sent to her from all over.  

I am going to go ahead and enter this card into a few challenges.

Cute Card Thursday has lace as it's challenge.

Bearly-Mine has anything goes.

City Crafter Challenge has birds of a feather using birds or a birdcage.

Creative Craft Challenges has pretty blossoms 

Party Time Tuesdays challenge is a square card

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will check out Sheree's post as well as see the candy she is giving away to someone that sends a card to Ethyl. 

Anita Be Stampin Challenge 23~Shaped Card

Hey there everyone, here we are for another Anita Be Stampin Challenge.  This week we are challenging you to make a Shaped card.  There is a twist this week, to add buttons.  Now I know not all of the Design Team Members did this, so it is up to you.   I love to do shaped cards.  I love to use my Grand Calibur, just wish I had more Grand Nesties!!  They are on my wish list for sure!!  This challenge I used Tallulah.  

Don't you just love this GORGEOUS paper by Cosmo Cricket?  I love the purses and the gorgeous colors in this paper.  I started with my image, picked my papers and then my colors to match the paper.   The Happy Birthday stamp is  LOTV circular sentiments.  And that gorgeous lace is Wild Orchid Crafts.   Love it!!

I distressed all the edges of the card.  Do you see the cute paper on the inside?  So cute.  I recently hit a sale where all those 6X6 paper pads were $3.99.  Yup, I got a few!!!  Here are the Copic colors I used on this card.  

I hope you can find some time to join us in the challenge at Anita Be Stampin.  We are still on the Bi~weekly schedule, so you have some time!!

I am adding this card to the challenge over at Paper Sundaes Challenge~Girly Girl.

Clearlyistamp challenge is distressing.

Anita Be Stampin Challenge #21

It is Tuesday again and time for another fabulous challenge over at Anita Be Stampin.  So excited to play with  pearls and lace for this challenge.

 Now I know a lot of you hopped along a few weeks ago when we were showcasing the new fairies over at Anita Be Stampin Store.  I decided to use Ariana again this week.  I thought she would be gorgeous with lace and pearls.

The lace is from Wild Orchid Crafts as are the flowers.  This gorgeous paper is from....you guessed it, My Mind's Eye!!!  I can't help myself, I love all their paper!!

And check out the inside.  I used a Martha Stewart around the edges punch as well as more of that gorgeous lace and of course the pearls.

The copics I used on this image are as follows: 

These RV's are some of the newer copics.  Did you hear that Copics are going up in price in August.  I have been trying to get what I need before then.  Not sure though that I will ever have everything I need!!

What do you say?  Are you gonna give the challenge a try this week?  You need to head on over and check out all the fabulous projects by the design team this week.  

The iCopic challenge this week is blonde hair.  I always use E's now for my blond hair. 

And don't forget, since it is Tuesday, check out my other post today for the Tuesday Outlawz Color Challenge. 

Congrats

We have a fabulous new doctor at one of the dental offices I manage. She just finished up her first month with us at the children's clinic.  Well she is just such a go getter, not to mention she is just a sweetheart!  In her first month with us she was in the top 6 in production in our Region. Well, that is just dang good.   She was so excited about it that I thought I would make her an "award" for it!  I decided to use reds so that I could put it into the iCopic challenge this week.

So this is my first attempt at hispanic skin.  She is not only sweet but she is beautiful with the most beautiful skin coloring.  I hope I did it justice. 

I used this stamp from Some Odd Girl that I love.  I got an email for a coupon from there and just added 3 more to my stash!!  I just love them!  This one is Dancin Mae.  She is my fave!

I used these awesome flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.  And I love this ric rac from the closeout of one of the Joannes stores in our area.  The paper is from My Mind's Eye.

And a picture of the copics I used on this project.  She loved the spica on the ipod!

As always thanks for stopping by my blog!!

Anita Be Stampin Challenge #19

It is Tuesday and time for another Anita Be Stampin Challenge.  This weeks challenge is a color inspiration challenge.  This color challenge came from Rachel's shirt.  Teal Blue, Smokey Plum, Purple, and Sage Green.  Here is Rachel's Shirt!!

I wanted to do something a little different this week.  So I printed off Meadow and colored her up.  I have had this large letter "P" hanging on my board in my craft room for well over a year.  My oldest Granddaughter is named Peighton and I bought this on clearance one day and had not done anything with it yet.  I thought she would love Meadow so I painted it with a smokey plum color, added some paper that I have had in my stash forever that fits the color scheme and mod podged it on.  I added some iridescent medium to Meadow's wings as well as some of the flowers on the paper.

Only thing is, this thing is hard to photograph!!  I also made a huge mistake, I had the image completely colored and cut, and I messed up her eye and couldn't fix it.  So, I decided to pop dot her face, add another wing and make the image 3-D as well.  I had spent way too much time coloring to throw it away!!
I added some Wild Orchid flowers, some Recollection flowers from M's and here it is!!  I hope Peighton likes it. I have a feeling she will.  She is a girlie girl that will be 5 next month.

I hope you can find some time to play along this week.  You can find all these gorgeous fairies over at the Anita Be Stampin Store.  We only need one more member over at Papercraftplanet to get another free digi image.  There are 2 there now.  See, no reason why not to enter the challenge this week!!  And we are getting ready for another release later on this week so I hope you will come on back later to check out my projects!

Remember this is my second post today, check out my earlier post for the Outlawz Color challenge.   As always, thanks for stopping by today! 

Money Can't Buy Happiness

Don't you just love this image. I have had her for a while and haven't inked her up yet.  I thought the iCopic Design Team call would be the perfect place to ink her up for. This stamp is Whiff of Joy Willow Shopping. You can also find her here at One Crazy Stamper where they are having a challenge for Spring Flowers. I am going to also add this card to their challenge.  

I used some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers along with some flowers and lace from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I sewed around the edges of all the mats.  I used my favorite R's on here.  R-81,83,85,89.  Her boots are E-50,51,53. Her skin is E-11, E-02,E-93,E-000, her bags are E-55,57,59 and BG-10,11,13. The tissue is BG-000 and 0000 and her hair was colored with E-30,31,and 35. The fabulous sentiment is from AmyR over at All That Scraps, called Sassy Sentiments.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  Wish we could brew a pot of coffee and color together!!! I can't leave though without a shot of the inside. It is very simply done, but I must add it! You know me!

More Challenges:

Pals Paper Arts~ Add flowers

Pixie Dust Studio~Say it out loud (Add a sentiment)

Art Impressions Stamps~ Anything goes

Feb 21st Guest Design Team for All That Scraps

I can not believe how fast time has flown.  I have enjoyed every minute of my time being the Guest Designer for All That Scraps.  I only have 1 week left!!  The cards I have to share today were so much fun to make. I went a little outside the box for my first card today. I used Spring Brigitta Bouquet on this flip flop card.  I saw this type of card in the March edition of Card Maker, but I bet if you google flip-flop card you can find the directions. Let me know if you can't and I will post them here.

I used different My Mind's Eye papers on here.  I also used the Tags it Rubber stamp and die set to cut out the flowers.  I used AmyR Get Well Sentiments on the inside. 

You know these sentiments from AmyR have so much more than get well sentiments. This may just turn out to be one of my favorite sentiment sets ever.  Check out the shot from above.

OK, now this second card was also so fun to make. I used the Spring Kiki LaRue.  You know how much I love Kiki!!!  I used her twice! I love the look of featuring her on the inside of a card, just in a monochromatic ink.  I also used another sentiment from the AmyR Get Well Sentiments.  I used a Spellbinders Label 8  to cut out my card.  Again some fabulous My Mind's Eye paper for this one. The 2 sheets of paper I used are actually one.  The layer is the opposite side of the cardstock. One of the things I love about My Mind's Eye is that their paper is thicker and textured. Love it! It looks so rich on this card. 

I used my Copic Color Chart to find the BG's in the paper to choose the colors for her dress and headband.  Here is the inside of the card.    

And a close up of the sentiment.

And another shot of the front of the card. I used a bigger wild rose from Wild Orchid Crafts. And a Gold sheer ribbon bow tops it off.   This card just really showcases that great image and that fabulous paper.

  This card is going to go out in the mail today to a sweet blogging fried that just lost her mother.  Sympathy cards are not easy to make and sentiments are not easy to find. I think this one is perfect.

If you have time, head on over to the All That Scraps Blog and Challenges.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  So sad that next Monday will be my last as GTD.  I have had a blast!!

A Day For Daisies Very Vintage Challenge #12

I recently was invited by an online friend to join A Day For Daisies on the Simply Scrapping ning group.  When the group has 100 members there will be a free digi image given out.  Head on over and tell them Brenda sent you.  :)
They recently released some gorgeous images  of mother and babies.  The images are called You Make Me Happy.  I just think these are gorgeous images.  I had a hard time choosing, but I really love this image.  I have a friend that just recently had a baby.  This week in fact and I wanted to make her a special card.  She had a sweet little baby girl, so there has to be some pink involved!!  I wanted to make a card for the Challenge this week.  The challenge is Very Vintage.  There are new releases as well as a freebie to use if you want to make a project and enter it into the challenge.  I have been wanting to get this image inked up though so I chose to use it instead of the freebie. I will use that later!!!
I had this gorgeous paper called  Lost & Found by My Mind's Eye, I thought the roses looked vintage.  I used CTMH creme brulee ink to ink around the edges of the image and papers to give it that vintage feeling.  The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The black bling is from Prima. Ok, onto the card.

I stepped away from my favorite Copic Colors that I use so often and used the G-21,24,28.  I had used the G-21 as well, but just didn't like the blend and went over it.  The baby's blanket is R-20,21,22.  The skin colors were E-0000, 00,01,02,93,95.  I wanted the mom's hair to be black, I hope it is not appearing grey!!  I used C-5,3,1.  

The sentiment is from AmyR, Get well sentiments. I thought this sentiment would also be good for a new mom.  I inked again with the creme brulee and added another piece of Prima swirls bling.  The paper on the inside is another from the same line, but it has smaller roses.  I also used 3 different nesties on this card.
As always, thanks so much for stopping by. I am enjoying a quiet Sunday, doing some coloring and catching up on design team stuff.  Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for my Guest team spot for All that Scraps.

Lily Of The Valley Challenge 81

As I said yesterday, I have been browsing through everyones blogs lately and fell in love with these darling LOTV stamps.  I was excited to see the new challenge this week at LOTV challenge blog was a sketch.  I love a good sketch and I really enjoyed working with this one.

I bought these awesome papers by My Minds Eye.  I love the gorgeous pink and green colors of these papers.  I wish I had bought a ton of this pink plaid paper!  It is so yummy!!

Anyone that knows me knows that I would fall in love with this stamp.  My friend Gina linked it a while back but I was wary of ordering from the UK.  You know what, the shipping was quick!!  And not that spendy either!!  I also invested in some flowers from wild orchid crafts.  They have the best paper flowers and even with shipping from the UK, the most inexpensive flowers I have bought.  I may have went a bit overboard.  Nah!!!

Last Friday I had a second surgery and the Church that my husband and I have been going to since Christmas brought us meals every night until last night.  How awesome is that?  Anyways, I have lots of Thank you cards to make.  Lots!!!!!  This will go to one of the women that brought us a meal this week.

Let me show you the inside.

Very simple inside, but isn't that paper just delish!!!  The solid paper is from Coredinations.  It is glittery.  And it is the perfect color to go with the R-85,83,81 that I used on the dresses.  The greens are YG-05,03,01,00.  Hair Y-26,23,21  and  E-13,17,11.  I also used on the shoes E-74,77 and E-25,27,21.   The flower pots are E-97 and 99.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Wish I could brew us a cup of tea and we could sit and color together!!