Animals and Insects, Dots and Stripes

It's another challenge day at Delightful Challenges. This week our theme is Animals and Insects, Dots and Stripes. I used the adorable Lara Ladybug (since she came with dots attached!).

Are you stopping by the shop each Friday to pick up the weekly freebie? You won't want to miss tomorrow's - he is so cute!

Also, Wendy drew this exclusive image that you can only get at Crafty Emma's Store.

All proceeds from the sale of this image will go to raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance in memory of Emma's Dad who was tracically killed at work in September 2009. So please stop by Emma's store and get your copy!

Challenges:
Corrosive Challenge: sketch

Falling for You with Really Reasonable Ribbon

I really love fall, so you will have to forgive me if I am rushing into using my autumn colors! But, I have to admit, that is my favorite palette ! This easel card features Hansel - a digital stamp from the Stamping Bazaar. I folded paper pleats and machine stitched Cranberry Grosgrain ribbon down on top of it. This made a really cool texture. I also used, I think my last piece of Brown crochet lace on the bottom portion of the card. Bonnie, you know I will be ordering more of that one! Doesn't this card just make you think of crisp, fall days? I can't wait!

Challenges:
Scrap Girl Angie - Red and Brown Easel card

Flower Soft and Impression Obsession Blog Hop!

Are you ready for some fun?

The Impression Obsession and Flower Soft Design Teams are playing together for this hop!

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be 4 prize winners chosen randomly among the blogs:

Two $25 gift certificates from Flower Soft and two $25 gift certificates from Impression Obsession!!!

The prize winners will be announced on the Flower Soft Blog and The Impression Obsession blog on Wednesday August 18th^th. Good luck!

If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.

For my first card, I used Shuttered Window Box accented with

Ultra Fine Flower Soft - Sage and
Flower Soft - Christmas Green
I love how much depth it adds to the flower box! I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday.

My 2nd card used the Watering Can Stairs Stamp, highlighted with Russet Red Flower Soft.

I used the sketch from CPS for this card.

Want even more inspiration? Do you like video tutorials? How about Challenges? Make sure and check out both Flower Soft TV and the Impression Obsession blog!

****Next on the hop is my very talented DT Sister, Jacque Beddingfield.

In case you get lost, here is the order of the blog:

The Flower Soft Blog
Jenny Gropp
Jeanne Streiff
Julie Koerber
Linda Beeson
Kathy Menzies
Deborah March
Vicki Garrett
Dina Kowal
Debbie Seyer
Laura Fulcher
Kelli Richardson
Gini Cagle (You are here)
Jacque Beddingfield
The Impression Obsession blog

Hope you enjoy the blog hop and thanks for looking!

Get Zesty with Karen's Doodles!

Welcome to Monday and another challenge day at Karen's Doodles. This week Joey has chosen the theme - Summer Zest. We want to see yellow, orange, lime green and a splash of blue. It really is a fun summer palate to play with!

I used Butterfly Puppy and think that he looks quite happy to be surrounded by such vibrant colors. The papers are from Kaisercraft.

There's not much time left for summer, so you better pull out your bright papers and have a go at this while you can. We can't wait to see what you come up with.

Challenges:
Pile it On - Butterflies, bugs, bees
Stamptacular Sunday - Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
Flourishes - Kid's Play (Hide and Seek - because my tag is hidden)
Papertake Weekly - White and bright
ABC - "A" August
Color Throwdown - yellow, orange, green
Friday Sketchers - sketch
Colour Create - Hot pink, saffron, warm orange
Stamp Something - pic inspiration
By the Cute and Girly - animal antics
Clearly Delightful - Tag, you're it
Dutch Dare - open

Have you been watching Flower Soft TV?

You know, every Friday, there is a new episode of Flower Soft TV - and this week is just so fun! It's also a Special Offer week - so you can get this very cute digital download for a great price!
I made a telephone numbers magnet for the side of the refrigerator- all of the papers and images come with the download - so I just printed them, cut them out, popped some dimensional tape between them and inked the papers a little bit. I added some Russet Red Flower Soft on my dotted lines. Very easy and very fun! I do hope you will go check out our new episode!

There must be some Hocus Pocus going on here!

Ahhh, Saturday - the weekend! And so it must be time for me to share this week's Beary Scrap creation with you. The Beary Scrappy Gals have been sharing CAS projects based on this sketch. This is also our challenge to you for another week, so please join us.


So, I got out my Spellcaster Tilda, and told her, "Look, Miss Susan said this was to be a clean and simple card - so no flowers, no layers, no distressing, no glitz, no frou-frou." Well, I don't think she was very happy with this - I mean, after all I was using the Bo Bunny Peacock Lane - How could I not embellish that? I held strong and made this very CAS card.


I should have known better than to leave Spellcaster Tilda alone in my studio with her magic wand! I came back and found that suddenly there were layers, and ribbons, and flowers, and butterflies and stickles - All the things that we had agreed would not be on this card! I think Tilda even got into my Glimmer Mist and sprayed that clear butterfly! This certainly was no longer clean and simple.

So, if you are looking for a little magic, drop by the Beary Scrap and see what we have in store for you!

Challenges:
Just Magnolia: acetate (butterfly made from Cricut packaging - cut with Spellbinders)
Crafty Pad: Ribbons and Flowers
Crafty Cardmakers: punches
Alota: Distress
Stamp and Create: Flowers
Pixie Cottage: Feeling Blue
Simon Says: Sing it Baby - Magic - Olivia Newton John

Some changes at Karen's Doodles

Welcome to another Monday Challenge at Karen's Doodles! Notice, I did not say her US team challenge? That's because we have joined our US, UK and Scandinavian blogs along with newcomer Peri Hill, into one fantastic team! Our challenges will be on Mondays, and I'm sure you will see tons more inspiration each week.

So to get this party started, we have a super easy challenge for you - Anything Goes. Just remember you must use one of Karen's images to qualify to win. For my card, I used Bovine Beauty. She is just so sassy!

We are also going to be awarding prizes a little differently....

* 1st Place Winner of 3 digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles will be awarded by merit. The DT members will vote on their favorite entry. The winner will also get a Card of the Week blinkie to display on their blog

* 2nd Place Winner of 2 Digi stamps of your choice from Karen's Doodles and

* 3rd Place Winner of 1 Digi stamp of your choice from Karen's Doodles will be chosen by Random.org

I know you are going to make it really tough for us to choose our favorites, but we really look forward to seeing the fantastic things you will make!

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - sketch

Simon Says - Going Dotty

Fun in the Sun!

Where is the summer going? My husband is a teacher, and he will soon have to go back to school! At Belles n Whistles, we want to keep that summer feeling going by seeing a little Fun in the Sun!

For my card, I used Little Eden. I decided that she would have fun watching the penguins hula dance for her!

I hope you will get a chance to play this week! You could win a BnW stamp of your choice!

Winner - Digital Delights Blogoversary Hop

Hi! Thanks for everyone who hopped along for the Digital Delights Blogoversary! I just wanted to let you know that my winner of the Cupcake Timmy image is KATIE! Yay! I've sent you an email. If you didn't win, and you've got to have your own Timmy, just head over to Digital Delights and you can get your own.

Mini Book

I had time to put together a mini-book for the challenge at Cuttlebug Spot. Luckily, I had embossed a few sheets of white paper, that I brought with me - otherwise, I would not have been able to play along.

For my pages, I alternated stamping (with great stamps from Layers of Color) and using a punch from Kreaxions.

Challenges:

Cuttlebug Spot - mini-book

OSAAT- black and white plus one

Creatilicious - 3-D

Fussy and Fancy - Pink and black