My picture inspirationfor the Beary Scrap

Happy 4th of July Weekend! Tomorrow is the big day. I hope you have some fun plans for the holiday. When I first saw this inspiration picture, I knew exactly which stamp I would use - Warm Apple Pie from Belles N Whistles. I used copics to color her and then made the frame around her using Spellbinders Classic Frame. The papers are from Pink Paislee, 365 Degrees.



Have a great weekend and come back to see new inspiration from the Beary Scrappy Gals starting on Monday. We have a new challenge - to use embossing. You could win some great Bo Bunny goodies.

Challenges:
Midnight Madness-sketch
Flourishes - Fruit Inspired
Papertake Weekly - In stitches
Crafty Catz- distressing
Pixie Dust - Red, white, blue
Stamp Something - the colors of your flag (The Beary Scrap is sponsoring this challenge)
Belles N Whistles - Since I'm on the DT, I'm not entering it, but the challenge is Red

Card for Today

I really wanted to make a card using the sketch from Card Patterns this week. The deadline is in an hour and fifteen minutes, so I was kind of cutting it close! But, I am really happy with the results.

This cute little dragon stamp is by Nancy Hain for Stampavie. I always have a hard time coming up with masculine birthday cards, and this stamp was perfect!

Here are my challenges for this card:
Card Patterns - sketch
SAV Challenge #27- Dots
Paper Sundaes - Birthday
Practical Scrappers - Border punches
Lexi's Creations - Layers/ 3-D Decopauge
Stamp with Fun- Birthday
Simon Says - checks, plaid, gingham

I've got some exciting news!

I've know a little secret that I just couldn't wait to share with you....I have been asked to join Louby Lou's Delightful Challenges DT! And besides announcing the new DT, starting July 8th, our challenges will be held weekly - So you can play with us even more!


I made a card to celebrate my new DT position and the 4th of July, using Lovin the USA Bongo. Isn't he just adorable?

Here are the other members of the team:

Lisa Vaughan, DT Coordinator
Rachel Arambula, DT Coordinator
Anita
Becky
Cec
Diane
Gini (Me!)
Karen
Rosalien


We hope that you will come play with us each week. We have an awesome lineup of sponsors, so you won't want to miss out!

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday: sketch
Crafty Pad - embossing
One Stitch at a Time - Stars and Stripes
Quirky Crafts - ribbons
Stamptacular Sunday - Stars and Stripes
Stampin Sisters in Christ - stripes
Cuttlebug Spot - Celebrate Independence Day
Papertake Weekly - In Stitches
Spoon Full of Sugar - Animal Crackers
Penny's Challenges - Something with a Dog
Allsorts - Embossing

Let's Hear it for the Red, White and Blue!

I imagine there will be quite a bit of red, white and blue this week in blogland - after all, the 4th of July will be here this weekend! Our challenge at Karen's Doodles is just to use this color combo on your project along with any of Karen's adorable images. We give away a lot of images every week - and you might be one of the lucky winners!

For my card, I used Icecream. While this is not a 4th of July image, I think she is perfect for any summer day card.

Challenges:
Flourishes: sketch
Design Dollies Elements challenge - Ice cream colors (strawberry icecream)
Crafty Creations - Shine (used Swarovski crystals)
Simon Says - You've Gotta Have Friendsk
Crafty Catz - digital
Crafty Ann's - embossing
AllSorts- embossing
Caardvarks - stamps/embossing

Adele and Fresh Apples

The challenge at Copic Creations was "other paper." I must admit, I kind of turned up my nose and thought I did not want to color on other paper - I love my Gina K. paper too much. Well, I decided to go ahead and give it a go, and I love the results! I used some Bazzill kraft cardstock and colored with my copics. It turned out so vintage and yummy, perfect for this Stampavie stamp and for the Graphic 45 papers. I will definitely be using this technique again.

Challenges:
Copic Creations: other papers
I {heart}2stamp - sketch
ABC -"X" eXtra dimension
Crafty Creations -Shine
YNS- patterned ribbon
Stamp Something - Vintage with flowers
Oh Alice - twinkle
Bunny Zoe's - Nice and Girly
Pile it On - Fold it, bake it, something fancy
Corrosive - Flowers. flowers, flowers
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Stripes