July Release at Digital Delights!

It is finally time for the big reveal for July's new images from Digital Delights! I am so happy to share with you today my card featuring Ouch Lili along with Skunk Sentiments. Even though this poor little skunk has had a run of bad luck, she still looks very cheerful!


I also got to use one of my new 4-in-1 punches from Just Imagine/Kreaxions. I love how versatile these punches are!

Challenges:
Create4Fun- sketch
Craftilicious - cute
Colour Create - baby pink, peach, black

Thank You Card

I realized if was was going to get my entry in for this week's JustRite challenge, I better get busy! So, here is a quick post for you. I used two different sets of JustRite Stamps - Autumn Blessings and the new Baroque Nested Frames.

Challenges:
JUGS- sketch
JustRite Stampers - Inside Out
Color Throwdown -regal rose, certainly celery, real red, baja breeze
Alota - Inside and Outside
Clearly I Stamp- Thank You

Flower Soft and The {Stamps} of Life Blog Hop

The {Stamps} of Life and Flower Soft Design Teams are playing together for a very fun hop! If you have been following the hop, you should have arrived here from Debbie Seyer's blog. If you just stumbled across this blog hop, you will want to go back to the Flower Soft Blog to start.

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be 6 prize winners chosen randomly among the blogs…..

3 prize packages from Flower Soft and 3 stamps sets from The {Stamps} of Life!!!

The prize winners will be announced on the Flower Soft blog and The {Stamps} of Life blog on Wednesday July 14^th. Good luck!

For my card, I used the clouds and sentiment from Kites2Fly stamp set. I stamped the clouds and cut them out and added my Polar White Flower Soft for some very fluffy clouds. My flower was made using one of the Cuttlebug quilling sets, and if you look, you can see that I added Citrus Crush Ultrafine for the center of my flower.

Want even more inspiration? Do you like video tutorials? Make sure and check out both The {Stamps} of Life and Flower Soft TV for weekly videos, specials and product news!!!

****You have one more stop on the hop - Stephanie Barnard (The {Stamps} of Life Blog)

Challenges:

Paper Crafts Planet - Sketch

Simon Says - Checks, plaid, gingham

Oh Alice- Red, white, blue

Show us your bling!

I guess all of us Americans were so inspired by the fireworks of the 4th of July, we decided that we would like to challenge you to use some bling - this time on your Karen's Doodles cards.

To show a little sparkle, I thought what better image than Tango ? I used all kinds of sparkle on this card. The cardstock is from MME Laundry Line, so it is beautiful and glittery. Then I sprayed my rose with Glimmer Mist and added some Prima bling. I was so thrilled to find this new embossing plus Cuttlebug folder- Lace Door. Isn't it yummy?

I used the sketch from Tickled Pink, and for that challenge they also wanted to see a matching bookmark. I cut another center panel from the Lace Door folder and added some accent paper and ribbons - and it's a perfect match.

I hope that you will come play along with us at Karen's Doodles-USA challenge and that you have been inspired to share a little bling-bling with us this week. I would love for you to win some of Karen's adorable images!

Challenges:
Tickled Pink - sketch
Design Dollies- use at least 2 ribbons
Spoon Full of Sugar - Animal Crackers
S2G - sparkle
Crazy4Challenges - at least 2 ribbons

Glitter and Pearls

I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July if you are here in the States and a great weekend for my friends elsewhere.

How girly is this theme - glitter and pearls? And of course so many of the Belles N Whistles stamps are perfect for this challenge! I used one of the newest stamps, Fairy Play, from the Forever Young collection. I highlighted her fairy dress with Copic Spica pens and added stickles around my border and on parts of the DP. I used a pearl swirl and single pearl accents to further enhance the card.

We would love to see you join us for this challenge. One lucky winner will get to chose the BnW stamp of their choice!

Challenges:
Quixotic - sketch
C.R.A.F.T. - purple and green with gems
Basic Grey - photo inspiration
Dutch Dare - photo inspiration
Paper Play - card for a child

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