CYP #98 - Red, White and Blue - Mami Doodles

Monday has rolled around again... One thing to look forward to on Monday? Of course, another challenge at Craft Your Passion! This week our challenge is Red, White and Blue to help celebrate Presidents Day here in the great USA. This adorable digi came from one of our sponsors, Mami Doodles. I thought she was a cutie-patootie! Don't you? But there was something kinda sad in her face, so I thought she looked as if she was missing someone... She's colored using my Copics. I added some fun design papers from my scrap stash, the one already had the great faux stitching on it, some simple buttons and a sentiment from Studio G.

Time to join in the fun at Craft Your Passion - lots of goodies up for grabs this week.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

Make it Monday - #77 - Linky Party
One Stitch at a Time - #101 - Use a digi or no image
Crafty Catz - #120 - Favorite Things - buttons
DYSU - #59 - Layers
Paper Crafting Journey - #3 - Make it cute

New Gig - Scrapper's Delights

I am excited and thrilled to annouce a new team I just started designing for... You gotta go check out the wonderful images over at Scrapper's Delights! Janice is soooo talented and her designs have such a wide range and variety.

I got a chance to design with this image called Rabbit Parka 2. Isn't she just too cute? There are several in the series with this adorable girl... You gotta go check them out.

For this card I colored her with my Copics, then used my Cricuit to cut the loopy frame. I used some fancy papers from DCWV, added a bubbly silk ribbon bow, a small flower I had made months ago that turned out to be an extra, some silky leaves and finished it all off with some black rhinestones. The simple sentiment was a dollar bin one from Studio G... I love the colors on this one - the purple, grey and black make for a very rich card, don't you think?

Well, be ready for some more examples from Scrappers Delights - I finished up another couple this weekend and will be showing them off as the digi's become available in the store... Until then, go check out all the great images over there - you'll fall in love just like I have!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday - #77 - Linky Party
One Stitch at a Time - #101 - Use a digit or no image
Saturday Challenge - #173 - Recipe - gem, flower, leaves
Crafty Catz - #120 - Favorite Things - ribbon/bows
DYSU - #59 - Layers
Paper Crafting Journey - #3 - Make it cute

CYP 97 - Recipe Challenge - Delicious Doodles

Our challenge this week over at Craft Your Passion is a recipe challenge and we are sponsored by one of my all time favorite digital stamp designers - Delicious Doodles! I absolutely fell in love with this image (I am NOT goth) when Teri recently released it to us - it screams teenage angst! And with a 15 year old girl in my house, teenage angst is something I know more about than I really want to know.

The recipe this time around is 1 ribbon, 2 design papers, and at least 3 buttons. I used the green printed background paper, along with a fun splotchy one from DCWV. Then layered the image digitally on top of another set of stamps from Make it Crafty - the brick wall. I colored that with my Copics, then put some netting and lace behind the image. I added the cord (my interpretation of ribbon) to hang the cross on and cut the shanks off of some black bubble buttons to accent the corners. The title was printed on white cardstock, colored with my Copics and then cut out. I am very happy with the final results on this one!

Jump on over to Craft Your Passion Challenges for more inspiration from our design team - then get your fingers inky, your scissors sharp and get to work... We would love to see what you can do with our recipe!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday - #76 - Linky party
One Stitch at a Time - #100 - Anything goes
Inky Impressions - Use two trims or ribbons
Crafts and Me Challenges - #68 - Use a new digi
Paper Take Weekly - Anything goes

Copic Marker Scrapbooking - Mythology Release

Copic Marker Scrapbooking has done it again! Tonight a new line of stamps is being released unlike any I've ever worked with before. This set is illustrated by Guy Gondron and captures the true look and feel of many different mythology characters. I found these both challenging and amazing to work with... I loved coloring them with my Copics! They made me stretch my normal coloring techniques and truly work with the colors I have. I am thrilled to showcase just a few of them here on my blog, but you really should hop over to Making Our Mark and check out all of the AMAZING projects our design team created. I am honored to be among these talented and true artists!

You can find all of these stamps and may more in this set over at Making Our Mark. Plus a FREEBIE over there - all thanks to the talents of Guy Gondron.

I will be entering the Pegasus card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday #76 - Linky Party

One Stitch at a Time - #100 - Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz - #5 - Things with Wings

Crafts and Me Challenges - #68 - Us a new digi

Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes

CYP #91 - Anything Goes + Distressing - Paper Shelter

Happy New Year! I hope everyone out there had a wonderful holiday season and I hope 2012 is your best year ever!

The weeks are flying by and we are on to another challenge already at Craft Your Passion. This week is our "anything goes" plus distressing challenge. We have several great sponsors including the Paper Shelter.

I got a chance to work with this delightful image of a beautiful ballerina. I found these wonderful papers that I thought would go terrifically with the serene feeling of the image. I colored her with my Copics and then added some glitter to her skirt. Then I fussy cut her out and placed her on the handstitched oval frame.

I punched the scallop border, added a bubbly bow that I had died to match and some cut-out flowers from the same design papers. Everything got a layer of stippled distress antique ink to give it an aged feel and add the distressed touch.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday -#70 - Linky party

Paper Creations Ink - #16 - Die cuts / punches

Paper Sundaes #101 - Something old and something new (new image, old papers, distress ink)

One Stitch at a Time - #94 - Use a digi

Card Crafter's Circle - #3 - Anything goes

The Paper Shelter - Tie a bow

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your week...

CYP Challenge 89 - Things with wings - Lauretta's Digital Stamps

It's been a busy weekend over at Craft Your Passion - our Holiday Havoc blog hop has been generating lots of buzz. If you haven't already been there, you really should go check it out!

Our challenge this week is "Things with wings" and our sponsor is Lauretta's Digital Stamps. I found this very intreguing image that just seemed to show someone watching over you. I thought it would make a good 'Best Wishes' card. I paired it with a lacey Cricut cut background set on some Heidi Grace papers. A sparkly bow draping two edges framed the image nicely.

Come join our blog hop and our latest challenge - you're sure to see plenty of great inspiration!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Make it Monday - #68 - Linky Party
One Stitch at a Time - #93 - Anything Goes
Just Add Ink - #98 - Just Add Sparkle
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - #2 - Tag Your It

Happy Monday!

CYP Challenge #88 - Tag Your It - Stretch and Bubbles

When I saw this adorable image from Stretch and Bubbles, I knew exactly what sentiment I wanted to add to it...it's it just the perfect match? Yea, I thought so too.

Over at Craft Your Passion, our challenge this week is "Tag Your It"... Easy peasy, huh? All you have to do is create a tag, or add a tag, or ... anything with a tag. We've got some great prizes from Stretch and Bubbles and an opportunity to show off your creative ventures...

For this one, I colored her with my Copics to match this great new paper I found from Michaels (I think it was a Reflection's pack to be exact). I created the frame out of small strips of the striped paper (which was my favorite), add some other DP's, the sentiment, a small tag, and a bubbly organza bow... It was done and ready to be sent.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time - #92 - Use a digi
Make it Monday - #67 - Linky party
Joyful Stamper Inspire me Friday - #36 - Link party
Whoopsi Daisy - Sparkle and shine
Paper Sundaes - #99 - Anything Goes

Have a great week!!!

CYP 86 - Tis the Season - Simply Betty

I love the adorable images over at Simply Betty Stamps - so creating a card this week for our challenge at Craft Your Passion Challenges was such a pleasure... This cutie was a breeze to color in red and turquoise Copics... I accented her with an off colored yellow/green and white as a neutral to really make her pop. I added some hand stitching and some snowflakes cut from a Winter Wonderland Cricut cartridge. The sentiment was also from a holiday Cricut cartridge. I love the color combination and finding some great Die Cuts with a View printed papers that matched was easy with all their wonderful paper packs.

Our challenge is great to get a jump start on those X-mas cards you all need to make... So, come show us what you can do. You might get a chance to win some fun new digi's from Simply Betty!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Paper Sundaes - #97 - Winter Wonderland
One Stitch At a Time- #90 - Red
Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Friday #34 - Linky Party
Deep Ocean Challenges - #13 - "C" - Christmas
Charisma Cardz - #46 - Snowflakes
Make it Monday - #65 - Linky Party

I hope your week is full of plenty of crafting time!
Hugs,
Jodi

Delicious Doodles #7 - Hairy Legs

Hairy legs? The challenge this week over at Delicious Doodles is hairy legs... That one made me laugh - I thought maybe our design team had lost their minds (or in my case, just looked down). The challenge could include anything with hairy legs... animals, hubbies, spiders, etc.

I picked this new image from Teri that reminds me of Happy Feet. I fell in love with these adorable penguins and they just seemed the perfect image for a manly card. The image only needed the yellow highlights on the penguins and a little blue on the icebergs to color it. I dry embossed a raised frame in the lighter blue and then kept the card very simple in design. I felt like the image didn't need much as far as embellies. Just a sweet Hampton Arts sentiment and matching ribbon.

Come join the challenge - let's see what crazy thing you can come up with for hairy legs!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

The Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Friday #34
Moving Along With the Times - Ribbon / Bows
Rainbow Ladies - Card for Men - #180
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes - #89

Enjoy your week!

Hugs,
Jodi