Delicious Doodles #13 - "Pink"

Oh my gracious the day got away from me... I should have posted this first thing this morning, but obviously that didn't happen. It's challenge day over at Delicious Doodles and I really enjoyed this one. The full challenge title is "Pink to make the boys wink". I needed a get well card so I used one of Teri's amazing floral images to create this slightly shabbychic card. Isn't that image just wonderful? Her florals are so terrifc and versatile!

I colored it with my Copics, then grabbed my pink and blue scraps - added a touch of distressing to all the edges along with some sepia stippled ink. A simple sentiment, some pearl embellishments and some sweet lacy ribbon was all it needed.

Drop by the Delicious Doodles Challenge site to see some other great examples from our design team - then get your creative groove going and join us. There are five digi's up for grabs!

I will be entering this in the following challenges:

My Mums Craft Shop - Pearls and swirls

Crafty Catz Weekly - Favorite things

Paper Sundaes - Recipe - blue, distress, pearls, cream

DYSU Challenge - Layers

Moving Along With the Times - Get Well

Shelly's Images - Show us what you've got

Copic Marker Scrapbooking - Love Fest

Kathy Zaban has designed another great set for Copic Marker Scrapbooking. It's a Valentine's Day set and so adorable. I picked a couple of them to make these cards, but you can check out all of the design team's inspiration at Making Our Mark. Stop by and check them all out!

I used my Copics (what else?) to color these images. The top card is made with DCWV papers, American Traditions ribbons, and the scallop border punch and sentiment stamp from EK Success. The cupcake card is a tri-fold card with a Cricut cut oval flower cut twice and folded over the edges of the folds. I added a little ribbon and some little glitter pen details to highlight. The inside sentiment stamp is another EK Success one. All the papers on this one were just from my stash of scraps.

I will be entering the "I just love you" card into the following challenges:

Make it Monday - #74 - Linky Party

Stamps R Us Challenge - Valentine / Love

Paper Makeup Stamp - #21 - Digi Makeover - Be My Valentine

Paper Sundaes - #105 - Valentines

Saturday Challenge - Ribbon

Just for me... Create With TLC card

I love working on the design teams that I am currently on - I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't... But I have to admit that occasionally I love working on something "just for me". You know what I mean... when you see a stamp and it is just singing to you, so loud and clear! Well, recently I discovered a site "Create With TLC" and there were sooooo many of her stamps doing just that! Singing to me!!

Paulette is amazingly generous with freebies on her sight and her ability to match her word art sayings and designs with her vintage images is pure talent. I found this adorable bubble image over there and couldn't wait to get a chance to work on a card with it.

I kept the vintage feel as well as keeping it fairly simple in design so that the image would remain center focus. I used a lot of sepia ink to tone all my colors down and in keeping with the vintage feel. The bubbles were so much fun to color (using my Copics of course). I used very light tones of turquoise, violet and yellow to give them the translucent sheen look. I added touches with my glitter pen, then covered them all with glossy accents. The lace has been inked to age it and the cheese cloth torn apart to give just a hint of ragged edges behind the image.

I hope you stop over to Create with TLC and check out all Paulette is doing over there. You won't be disappointed.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Stamps R Us Challenges - Anything goes

Sketch N Stash - #78 - Sketch

Make it Monday - #70 - Linky party

Paper Sundaes - #101 - Something old & something new

Card Crafter's Circle - #3 - 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...

My favorite Mo design this year

One of my all time favorite stamp designers is Mo Manning. She never ceases to amaze me with her talent. Her images are so easy to use, adapt and create for any occasion. When I wanted to enter a Copic contest, I knew I had to use some of Mo's images for my project. (By the way, it got me on the Copic Marker Scrapbooking design team! :)

Once I saw all three of these ragamuffin carolers, I knew that would be my base. Adding the simple lamp post was a must. I enjoyed coloring these images a ton and love the way they came out.

I fussy cut each image so I could place them on this glittered music background paper. There are many layers of hand stitched patterned paper, cheesecloth, doilies, ribbon and some poinsettia flowers. I added some mini pine cones, stick pens, holly leaves and a small sentiment in the corner. This is all built on a wooden background that has a stand. It became a decorative present for my parents for Christmas.

I will be entering this project in the following challenges:

Mo's Digital Challenge #115 - 2011 Favorite Mo Project
Card Crafter's Circle #3 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs #126 - Winter Wonderland
Paper Sundaes #100 - Celebrate

Thanks for stopping by - I hope this next year brings you all the joy and happiness you can handle!
Happy New Year!

A Dicken's Christmas stamp release - Copic Marker Scrapbooking

Over at Copic Marker Scrapbooking, the amazing and talented Guy Gondron is back with an awesome set of Christmas stamps. A Dicken's Christmas set includes a bunch of wonderfully illustrated images from this tale's of Christmas, past, present, future. Head over to Making Our Mark blog to see the design team's take on the images, plus you can even pick one of them up for FREE to wish you a Merry Christmas from Colleen and Guy!

I went a little bit different on my cards for this one - My "Frosty" card was just a creative jolt that hit me when I looked at the image. I made the old-fashion postcard, just using some old wooden stamps I had in my collection. Then the hat was colored with, of course, my Copics. I created the sentiment and water pool just using my computer and freehand. I added some crystal lacquer to the silk ribbon on his hat and the water, postage stamp cut it out and added it to the postcard. I think it will make my favorite aunt smile when she opens it up this year!

I colored the candle/lamp image before I even knew what I wanted to do with it... Then the biblical reference of the Psalm scripture kept resonating in my head. Well, I've learned over the years that isn't just a coincidence - that's the still small voice! So, that became the sentiment for my card. A simple layout, some homemade flowers and the image all stood so beautifully on the flocked cream and white background. This too will find it's way into the hands of a loved one.

Don't forget to head over to Making Our Mark to check out the other eye candy and pick up your freebie. I know you'll need the entire set after you see the detail Guy uses on his illustrations.

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

Catch the Bug Challenge - Baby it's cold outside

DYSU Challenge #50 - Winter

Charisma Cardz Challenge - #49 - Last minute xmas makes

Paper Sundaes - #99 - Anything Christmas

InkImpressions - #37 - Winter fun

Thanks for stopping by - hope your week is full of holiday cheer!

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 87 - Anything Goes + Glitter - Pixie Cottage

Craft Your Passion has an easy one going on this week. The challenge is Anything Goes with glitter! I'll be honest, when I went to make this card with this relaxing scene from Pixie Cottage I forgot I was supposed to use glitter on it... So, I pulled out my trusty micro glitter pen (love that thing) and went crazy. My end result turned out better than I had hoped. I love the way it covered on my Copics and turned ordinary things into metalic looking chairs and table. I edged just about all the papers with it as well. The flowers are a Cricut die cut from the Flower Shoppe cartridge... so easy to make to match all the papers! The papers were from Die Cuts With A View and I really have no idea who the sentiment stamp is from. It just screamed easel card since the chairs and table need to stand - LOL.

No excuses for not joining the fun at Craft Your Passion this week - easy challenge and lots of great prizes. Hope to see what you create!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Paper Sundaes - #98 - Sundae Bar - die cuts

Catch the Bug - December - Anything goes

Paper Shelter - #42 - Anything goes

DYSU - #48 - Ribbon

FabnFunky - #101 - Anything goes

Simon Says Stamps - Anything goes

Make it Monday - #66 - Linky Party

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

CYP Challenge #85 - Doodle Pantry

Our challenge at Craft Your Passion this week is a fall theme picture inspiration... Using this adorable image from Doodle Pantry fit the inspiration even before I started coloring... I picked some design papers that didn't have a lot of orange in them, which really made the image pop. I added the bubbly sheer bow to help tie it all together...

Come join our challenge this week - I'd love to see what you can come up with!

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

Make It Monday - #64 - Linky Party
Paper Sundaes - #96 - Beautiful Bows

Thanks for stopping by... Enjoy your week!

Delicious Doodles - #6 - Remembrance

I was so excited to have a day to spend with my parents yesterday - having them live close by is such a blessing - and one I take for granted too often. I had the pleasure of spending the day working with my daddy on teaching him how to restore some old photos and crafting with my mommy...making cards together. What an awesome way to spend a day... They both mean so much to me and I am very honored to have them as my parents.

This is the card I made while playing in mom's craft room. I love these images from Teri (over at Delicious Doodles Shop). Her sketching ability is amazing and I am so jealous of her talents. Our challenge at Delicious Doodles Challenges this week is "Remembrance". I think these images go together so nicely and made for a lovely sympathy card for my stash. I colored them very lightly with chalk, just to give the hint of color... added some great paper from my stash (no clue who makes it), some ribbon and a simple sympathy stamp I recently got from the $1 bin.

Pop on over to the site for some inspiration by our design team - they've blown me away yet again! Join in the challenge for a chance to win some great images from Delicious Doodles!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:
Make it Monday - #60 - Linky Party
Fab'n'Funky Challenge - #98 - All White in the Night
Paper Sundaes - #93 - Rectangles
DYSU Challenges - #45 - Inspired by a Song (How Great Thou Art)
Sir Stampalot Challenge - Nov - Blue/Green

Thanks for stopping by!

CYP #77 - Color Combo - Lauretta's Digis

Our challenge this week at Craft Your Passion is all about the color combo! The original colors are brighter than my choices, but that's because the bright green, yellow and black didn't suit my image. I chose to use lighter tones of them to help set the mood on this simple and sweet card. The image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps. I brushed in a light cloud background, colored her with my Copics and added some shimmer paint to her wings. The shape is cut from a Cricut cartridge and the sentiment banner is hand drawn. I finished it with a bubbly yellow bow! Simple but beautiful!

Come join our challenge this week for a chance to win some great digi prizes.

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

Make it Monday - #56 - Linky party

Paper Sundaes - #88 - Anything goes

Southern Girls Challenge - #28 - Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and I hope today is an awesome day for you!

Steampunk goes wild...

This was soooo much fun to create... I've been working on it for about two weeks, not really sure what I was doing, but loving the images so much that just kept trying to mix and match them to get it all to come together. I started with the adorable ladies from TidlyInks, then came up with the wonderful Steampunk treehouse from Make It Crafty. Then added the amazing frame from Delicious Doodles. After all the coloring with my Copics I layed some scrap paper, some funky ribbon mesh , some lace, on the background before adding the images. The the buttons, butterfly, roses, flowers, and the such all found a home on the by-now-very-heavy card. I ended up spraying some Glimmer Mist in copper over most of it, giving it a little added sparkle and speckled grunge look. I hope you enjoy!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Make It Monday - #54 - Linky Party

Sunday's With Crissy - #21 - Friends

Paper Sundaes - #86 - Finishing Touches

Paper Play - #36 - Use 2 or More Stamped Images

DYSU - #37 - Textures

My Mums Craft Shop - Layer it Up

Truly Scrumptious - #65 - Decorate the Inside

TidlyInks - #64 - Good Bye Summer, Hello Fall

That's it for now - I'm off to try and find my craft table under all that leftover stuff piled on top! Hope your Monday is amazing!

Thanks to Angie

My crafting time this week has been very limited - fighting off some vertigo and that hasn't allowed me to spend too much time doing what I love to do... But yesterday I had to sit down and make a card for my dear neighbor who has been such a sweetie this week. She has amazing knowledge and has been so kind as to share some of it with my hubby and I. She's also been giving me some acupuncture to help with the vertigo. Walking around with needles in my head seems to help...LOL Anyway, I wanted to do a card to say thanks and keep it simple and elegant. The stamps are from Stampendous, colored with my Copics, the paper from My Minds Eye. Added some bakers twine, stitching and destressed edges... That's about it!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - #65 - Anything goes

Make it Monday - #44 - Linky party

Paper Sundaes - #76 - Stitching

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge -#124

Happy 4th of July - God bless you!

Favorite Things

I found both this stamp and the sentiment in the dollar bin from Studio G (Hampton Arts) and was excited to make this cheery and cute card to send to my bestee. Although it's small and the coloring couldn't be very detailed, I still love the way it came out. The paper is one of my new favorites from DCWV - georgeous colors and richness! I used my Cricut to cut the frame, then handstitched around it and the base. The flower is just looped ribbon sewed together with a large green button in the middle. I liked the way this one came out!

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

Ribbon Carousel - RCC6 - sketch

Truly Scrumptious Challenges - #58 - Summer sparkle

Sundays with Crissy - June challenge - Here Comes the Sun

Paper Sundaes - #73 - Girly Girl

A Spoon Full of Sugar - #155 - Here Comes Summer

Now it's off to mail this one!

B-Line Designs / Shabby Chic

Another amazingly cute image from B-Line Designs inspired this wonderfully feminine and shabby chic card. I loved coloring her with my Copics and popping her up on a double image. I added handstitching around all the paper edges, then curled them slightly to add to the shabby vintage feel of the image. I added some lace and pearls on top of a sheer ribbon, then tied a bubbly bow to frame the collage of roses/blooms. A few more pearls and a small sentiment finished the look.

I will be linking this card to the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar - challenge 154 - Flower Power

Paper Sundaes - Vintage / Shabby Chic

Ribbon Carousel - RCC5 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - #56 - Sketch