The First Date

The new images are in the PaperWorks Store now!

Here's the card I made for the release party we had tonight. It's called “The First Date” from PaperWorks newest release of Little Loud Stamps. It was great to play with pinks and flowers and pretty things! I coloured the image with Copics and used my Nesties Ovals and Scalloped Ovals to cut out and layer it. I also used a Cuttlebug Embossing Border from the “With Love” set along the bottom edge of the card and added a pearl to the center of each embossed flower.

Copics:
C00,C3,C5,C7,C9,
E000,E00,E11,E13,E17,E18,E19,E25,E29,E31,E33,
G21,G24,
R000,R20,R22,R24,R27,R30,R32,R81,R85,R89

Materials:
Prismatics Cardstock – Rose Dark
BoBunny Designer Paper – Love Bandit Collection “Tweetheart”
White Ribbon
White Crocheted Flower
Paper Rose Buds
Pink & White Pearls
Nestabilites Ovals, Scalloped Ovals and Fancy Tags
Cuttlebug Border Folder - With Love

PWCO Release Day!

Don't forget to stop by the PaperWorks Blog to get to the chat room for tonights new stamp release party!!

Party runs from 6-8pm MST, hope to see you all there!

Sneak Peek of New PWCO release!!

If you love PaperWorks Little Loud Stamps then you are in for a treat! They have a new set being released on Dec 30th and they are so super cute!! Here's a sneak peek of one of the new images that will be availble. Be sure to check out the PaperWorks Blog and the other design team members to see more sneak peeks and to find out more info about their release party!

I have been wanting to make an easel card for a while now and I thought what better time then now! The flowers I used on the top right corner were white and I sprayed them with Wild Current Glimmer Mist to get them to match and have a shimmer look to them. It was my first time using Glimmer Mist, but I love how it turned out!

Stamp: Little Loud Stamps - Freckle Stamps Love Collection "Charlotte's Valentine"

Copics:

E31,E29,E25,E11,E00,E000

B95,B93,B91,

R20,RV99,RV95,RV93,RV91,RV34,RV32

Atyou Spica - Pink

Materials:

Glimmer Mist-Wild Current
Kaiser Flowers - Snow
Blue Ribbon
Imaginisce Birthday Sprinkle Brads
Bazzill Collection Polished Pebbles - Blue Eyes

Designer Papers:
BoBunny - Love Bandit "Nuts 4 U" and "Whoo Loves U"

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Day 2 of My Debut & BLOG CANDY!!

This is now closed ... I'll post a winner shortly...

Here we are on day 2 of my big debut! I wanted to do something other then a card for this post so I decided to make a luminaria, which is a little light box for one of those flameless tealights. I don’t actually have one of those tealights, so I cheated and put a light behind the box, but you get the idea. When I saw these darling little snow angels from Little Loud Stamps “Christmas Freckles Collection”, I knew they would make a perfect addition to the luminaria, so I coloured them and cut them out and adhered them to the box.

I embellished the box with stickles and snowflakes and the images were coloured with Copic markers.
Materials:
Cardstock – Navy & White , Vellum – Light Blue
Spellbinders – Nestabilities Ovals and Shapeabilities Create-A-Flake
Stamp – The Snow Angel Duo
Stickles – Crystal
Copics: (Skin) R20, E11, E00, E000 (Hair) E29, E25,E31 (Jacob’s Clothing) Y21,Y11, B95,B93,B91 (Charlotte’s Clothing) RV34,RV32,BG13,BG10

BLOG CANDY

To celebrate my excitement of becoming a part of the PaperWorks team, I've decided to give away some blog candy!!

Now if you want to win this blog candy, all you need to do is leave me a comment and post a picture of this candy with a link back here in your sidebar! If you want to become a follower (or if you already are one) that'll get your name in the draw twice!

The candy includes:

3 PaperWorks stamps - Under the Mistletoe, Charlotte's Christmas Tree and Tiki the Toucan,

Elzybells - Mark and Ela

High Hopes - Hop-Along Hallie

5 spools of ribbon and an array of various flowers.

I will Draw the winner on New Years Day!!

My Circle Journal

I recently joined a swap where we alter a journal, write something about ourselves in it and then mail it to the next person who writes a little something in it and so on. The idea is to mail the journals around 3 times and get to know everyone in your group through our journals. The idea sounded so neat to me, that I just had to try it out. The image I used is a Bildmalarna Stamp called "Mimosa's Book".

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Sunshine Sunday!

Here's my Sunshine posting for this week, this is the last time I'll be posting on Sunday as after we take a little break for Christmas, my day has been switched to Saturday, so keep an eye out for that!

Sunshine wanted us to make a snowglobe for this week so, I decided to make mine a little one and make it into a Christmas ornament. I coloured with copics and I added stickles and raindrops. This was a quick and easy project to make to stop by Sunshines Stamps and make some last minute Christmas decorations :)

Exciting News!!

Today is the big day! I have been holding this in for over a month, but now I get to spill, I made the PaperWorks Design Team. I have been a huge fan for a while now, so you can image the happy dance I did when I got picked!

For my first post, I decided to play with a couple of the adorable Jungle Jesters “Mikey the Monkey” and “Sammy the Snake”. I gave this card a patch-quilt look with Sammy and Mikey as the focus. I paper pieced the patches and layered them with cardstock and designer paper. I also sewed along the edges and paper pieces to add to the quilt effect. After sewing the card front I mounted it on the card base and added the flower and gems. I love the look of sewing on cards and it’s a technique I’d really love to incorporate more often! I used Copics to colour these cuties and all the supplies I used for this card can be found at the PaperWorks store.

Card Details:
Copics used: (Sammy) YG17,YG11,YG05, R27, R22, Y08 (Mikey) E21,E18,E17, E13, E00
Prima – Belle Fleur, Bling Fling – Amber, JilliBean Soup Designer Paper

3rd VSD Challenge

Here's the 3rd challenge that I'm posting from our Crafty Critter VSD. I had a lot of fun, I just didn't get a chance to do the scrapbook challenge before the deadline. I used a cute image from Magnolia.

Challenges entered:

Sketch from Splitcoast Stampers #243

Just Magnolia - It's Christmas

Color Throwdown - Pink, blue, red and green

2nd VSD Challenge

Our 2nd challenge for our Crafty Critter VSD was to make a card using paper piecing. I chose a cute image from the newest Whiff of Joy Christmas collection. This card also qualifies for the following challenges:

Whiff of Joy Challenge - Sparkle

Stamp Something - Winter Wonderland

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Sunshine Sunday

Here's my Sunshine's Stamps card for this week. Sunshine is hosting the Day 12 challenge on SHOW and TELL CARDS and SCRAPBOOK PAGES. To make this card I used the sketch that she provided. I also made this a monochromatic card for our VSD that we had on our Crafty Critters blog. I painted the ice and the snowflake with Candle Light Shimmerz and I coloured the image with Copics colours, G09, G05, G02, G000. I also entered it in this weeks Spoon Full of Sugar challenge which was to make a Monochromatic card .

Flourishes Challenge

I think I barely made it on time to enter the Flourishes release challenge. We had to make a card that reflects what we like to see in our gardens. I love Petunias because they are availble in so many beautiful colours. Also I like to fill my garden with lots of pinks and purples.

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Lovely Lolita

I had so much fun playing with this digital image from Ildi Co. I just think she's so pretty! Used gems, stickles and ribbon to embellish and I coloured with my Copics. I also used an embossed background that I got in a swap.
Here are the Copic colours I used:
Skin - R20, E11, E00, E000
Clothing - B26, B24, B21, B0000
Hair - C9, C7, C5, C3

Challenges Entered:
Pile it On - Glitter
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Sketch (I LOVED this sketch, it was so fun to use!)
StampTV Color Challenge - Blue and White
Stamp Something - Glitzy
Cute Card Thursday - Swirly Girly

Split Butterfly

Here's my 1st attempt at the Split Negative technique which was the Crafty Critter challenge for this round. I didn't get the butterfly centered, but I'm still happy with how this turned out. The ink I used was CTMH Vanilla and Lilac Mist and then I embellished with flowers and ribbon. I'm hoping to try this again sometime, it was a fun one to make!

Sunshine Sunday

Here's my latest Sunshine's Stamps post. I used another of their Christmas Images and Sentiment, be sure to check out their store for a whole selection of Holiday digital stamps. I also used the Sketch from Midnight Madness this week which Sunshine Stamps happens to be hosting so if you want a chance to win some of their images for yourself go check it out! And the colours were from one of the GinaK release challenges over on SCS.

A Christmas Wish Hop

If you came here from Crystal M's blog then you're on the right track, otherwise you can start at the beginning HERE.

Here's my card for the Christmas Wish Hop hosted by Michelle Perkett. This beautiful Angel is one of her designs and it's called "The Wishing Star Christmas Angel" This beautiful image can be found at her Etsy Store HERE. She asked all who participated to use this image and make a wish for someone other then ourselves.

To make this card I coloured her with Copic markers and accented all the stars with Stickles. I used a Nesties to cut out a frame from the white cardstock which was embossed by my friend Kristina who was nice enough to send me some. I then inked the edges of the frame with CTMH Sunshine Yellow ink and CTMH Outdoor Denim ink was sponged on for the sky. The gold and blue glitter borders were made with score-tape and glitter.

Now for my wish/prayer. I want to pray for all those little children belonging to our friends in the stamping community that are suffering from various illnesses, including cancer. I wish that they will recover and their families will be able to spend time with them for many more years to come! Nothing breaks my heart more then hearing about children suffering. And I'd also like to wish everyone a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!

Challenges entered:
Stamp Something: Glitzy Somethings

Digital Tuesday Challenges: Christmas Sparkle

Now head on over to your next stop in the hop which is Deanne

Gingerbread Farmer

I whipped up this simple card with one of Ildi Co's new gingerbread images. This one is called Gingerbread Farmer. Isn't he a cutie? When I first got these images I knew I had to play with this one. Anyway, I used black and bright colours which is this weeks Ildi Co challenge. I also used this weeks sketch from PaperWorks. I coloured him with Copics and inked the edges with CTMH Sunshine yellow. The flowers are Kaiser flowers.

December Guest Designers

We got to see some pretty fabulous work from our November guest designers, but now it's time to welcome our December guests!!

Julie

and

Ellen

My first award!

Yay! I was so excited to find out that I was given this award from Kerrie (aka Kez). It's my first award, Kerrie you're the best!! So here is what you need to do to receive this award:

1. thank the person who nominated you.

2. copy the logo and place it on your blog.

3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.

4. name 7 things abut yourself that people might find interesting

5. nominate 7 kreativ bloggers

6. post links to the 7 blogs you nominate

7. leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

7 things about me:
1. My favorite colour is purple
2. I studied Criminology in university
3. I LOVE history
4. I come from a big family
5. I don't like cold weather, but I live up north where winter is 6-8 months of the year (yuck)
6. I love "guy-type" movies and shows, like X-men and Smallville
7. I'm not the greatest at prioritizing (play before work, lol)

Now for my nominees:

Alica, Kristina, Tracey, Melanie, Deanne, Jacquie, Jennifer

Sunshine Sunday!

For this week, Sunshine's stamps challenged the DT to create a project with the same image as last week, but use paper piecing. I have to admit that I panicked, as I have only paper pieced once before, however I made the image bigger (the lovely thing about digi stamps) and decided to paper piece the ornaments and the holly leaves, but color the rest. I am quite pleased with how it all turned out in the end! It's hard to tell, but the pink and green papers that I used do have a swirled pattern in them, but it ended up being quite subtle, so I think if I try this technique again, I'll go with more obvious pattern in my papers. I also inked the sentiment with Close To My Heart Baby Pink.

Little Loud Stamps

I was playing around with Photoshop for these pictures and I'm happy that I've figured some things out :) I made these cards for our November grab bag swap (which is somewhat like a card kit swap). These cute stamps are called Little Loud Stamps from PaperWorks.

I also entered these into the following challenges:

Top Card: PaperWorks Sketch Challenge #10
Middle Card: Tuesday Morning Sketches
Bottom Card: StampTV Sketch

Sweet Pea Ornament

I found this wonderful stamp company called Sweet Pea Stamps and they make the most beautiful rubber stamps, very good quality and super reasonable prices. I decided to make an ornament, because I really liked the tutorial Deanne had up on her blog a while back and I wanted to give it a try. I coloured her with Copics and I painted the background with Shimmerz in the Blueberry Cobbler colour. I also used pearls from Basic Grey in the Aqua shades. I also entered this in this weeks Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential and Inky Impressions challenges to make an ornament. This is also my entry for the Inky Impressions DT Call. They have the cutest stamps and I'd love a chance to be on the team!

Copics: E000,E00,E11,E13,E17,E18,E19,E53,C9,G05,YG63,YG67,BG10,BG45,BG49,R20,
RV32,RV34,RV91,RV95,RV99

Sunshine Sunday

Here's my Sunday posting for Sunshine's Stamps. I really enjoyed working with this image and sentiment combo!

Materials:

Copics: C9,C7,C5,C3,R89,R85,R81,YG67,YG63,R29,R24,V17,V15,V12,YR23

BG Pearls

Nesties Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

Princess

Here's another card that I made at the VSN last weekend. I used a digital Image from Sassy Studio Designs. I LOVE their images, they're so pretty :)

Antique Christmas

Here's another VSN card I made. The challenge was to use the "Cracked Glass" technique. I also used the sketch from Card Patterns. The image is from Gina K's Holiday Cheer StampTV kit. I also entered this in the challenge at PaperWorks to make a Christmas card using non-traditional colors.

Sunshine Sinday!

This weekend I had a lot of fun playing over at SCS for their Virtual Stamp Night. There were 14 challenges in total and so far I managed to finish 9 of them :) This is one of my favorites and I used one of Sunshine's Stamps Christmas sentiments for it. I was supposed to make a Baroque style card using White, Cream, Gold and Black, a Border punch (I used a Bordabilities), ribbon and pearls.

On another note, today is the switch over day for Ildi Co's DT! The term 2 team is taking over so be sure to check my right sidebar for a list of the new teams blogs to check out :)

NOTE: A lot of people were asking about the die cut I used, so I thought I'd post it. I used the Nestabilities Labels 7

Holly Christmas

I made this card for one of the challenges over at Virtual Stamp Night on Splitcoast Stampers. The challenge was to CASE a card, change 2 things about it and then add ruffled ribbon and other embellishments. I choose to CASE THIS gorgeous card and I also am entering it into the PMS Sketch challenge for this week. This cute image is from Paper Makeup Stamps.