What's My Favorite Color?

New challenge (#49) at Creative Craft Cottage starts today! The topic: Your Favorite Color!  My favorite color(s) change depending on the season.  Currently in October, which is my favorite month of the year, I love purple and green for Halloween!

Of course you can add orange and black into that mix as well. These 4 colors just scream fall to me...or, Happy Halloween, in this case! This darling image is by Lacy Sunshine (this fortnight's sponsor!) and is called Fangletta. 

I colored her using Prismacolor Pencils and distressed around the image using Bundled Sage Distress Ink.

 I used a Mambi Sheets Halloween paper pad and cut the sentiment from one of the 12x12 patterned papers. The pretty purple foil sheet is from that same paper pad. Glossy accents were added on her eyes and the 3 little bats.

I had a roll of black glitter tape from The Paper Studio and punched 3 little cats from it using a punch found at Joann's.  Only had to remove the release paper from the back of these tiny pieces after punching. So much easier than messy loose glitter! 

 

Link up your project using your favorite color by October 19th 2015 for a chance to win your choice of digital stamps!

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Supplies used:

•  Fangletta digital image by Lacy Sunshine
• Prismacolor Pencils and colorless Blender Marker
• Black cat punch from Joann's
• The paper studio black glitter tape
• Mambi Sheets Halloween paper pad
• Distress Ink in Bundled Sage and Black Soot
• Scotch foam tape
• Glossy Accents

Melonheadz Challenge and Day 4 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

It's Day 4 of the Fall Coffee Lovers Bloghop as well as the start to Melonheadz new challenge: Fall is in the Air! I fell in love with this adorable little owl in their Halloween Stuff digital image bundle and chose to use candy corn colors.

Really enjoy the rich color of these Hero Arts Mini Ink Cubes and used Orange Soda, Butter Bar and Cup-O-Joe for today's card. 

I love the thickness of Recollections 110lb card stock from Michael's craft store and these Hero Arts Inks absorbed into the paper beautifully! First and second generation stamping was used for the background with an older stamp by Stampin Up. The yellow tag was also distressed using Spiced Marmalade ink by Tim Holtz.

Foam tape was used to pop up the tag as well as the 2 little owls.  To finish this card, I used Copper Stickles and covered both owls in Glossy Accents.

Link up your fall coffee/tea/cocoa creation HERE by October 2nd for a chance to win fun paper crafting prizes and please leave me some comment love! 
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Entering this card into: Unruly Paperarts - September Monthly 

Our Crafty Corner - Challenge 1
Supplies used:

• Melonheadz digital image bundle Halloween Stuff
• Fiskars Latte Love stamp set
• Stampendous Coffee Stamp
• Stampin Up wooden block leaf stamp
• Hero Arts Ink Cubes in Orange Soda, Butter Bar and Cup-o-Joe
• Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink
• Recollections 110 lb and 65 lb card stock
• Tags dies from Catherine Poolers 1st Stamp of Approval Box 2015
• Scotch foam tape
• Copper Stickles 
• Glossy Accents
• Love and Patience

Anything Goes Challenge!

This fortnights challenge theme is Anything Goes! Our sponsor is Rick St. Dennis and I used his that-a-way witch digital stamp to create this fun Halloween card.

The background was created by stamping the images onto purple card stock using Versa-mark sticky ink and embossing with Leaf Zing Embossing Powder. I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils, fussy cut and adhered to the panel with foam tape. Glossy Accents were applied to the witch's hat, boots and cat!

Link up your creation by  2015 for a chance to win your choice of digital images! 

Supplies used:

• That-a-way Witch Digital Stamp by Rick St. Dennis
• Prismacolor Pencils and Colorless Blender Marker
• Inkadinkado "Pattern Play Halloween" stamp set
• Zing Lime Embossing Powder
• Recollections 65 and 110 lb card stock
• Glossy Accents
• Scotch foam tape 
• Versa-mark ink

Try Something New!

The newest challenge theme at Melonheadz... Try Something New! My new technique was double-dipping a background. I used Mowed Lawn and Seedless Preserves Distress Inks on parchment paper, sprayed with water, and dipped a piece of watercolor paper into the ink. After drying, I dipped parts of the paper in a 2nd time and flicked water droplets onto the paper with a wet paintbrush.

I'll admit, I was nervous to try it at first...I'm such a perfectionist and this was out of my comfort zone. I love how this turned out though with a fun messy background effect!  The cute football player / cheerleader were printed out, fussy cut and adhered with Scotch foam tape.

Link up your creation using a new technique by September 27th, 2015 for a chance to win your choice of digital stamps!

Supplies used:

• Mowed Lawn & Seedless Preserves Distress Ink Cube
• Melonheadz Football Combo Pack
• My Favorite Things "All Star" Stamp Set
• Strathmore Watercolor Paper
• Recollections 65lb and 110lb card stock
• Jet Black StazOn Ink 
• Scotch foam tape

Time for School Challenge!

Time for School challenge at Melonheadz! I used this cute digital image from the Library digital image bundle.  Those that know me know that I LOVE books!  Can't wait to have an extra room to start my own home library and get my extra novels out of storage.

After fussy cutting this image, I used Scotch foam tape to make give her dimension.

Link up your creation before September 10th for a chance to win digital images of your choice! 

Supplies used:

• Melonheadz Library digital image bundle
• Gold Stickles
• Gold Sequins
• Craft Smith paper pad
• Scotch foam tape

Anything Goes at CCC!

This fortnights challenge at Creative Craft Cottage is... Anything Goes! I adore digital images from our sponsor All Dressed Up and this card was so much fun to make!

Link up your creation by September 6th for a chance to win your choice of All Dressed Up digital images!

Supplies used:

• All Dressed Up Image "To have and to hold"
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Spellbinders Blossom One Die
• Spellbinders Damask Accents Die
• Recollections 65 and 110lb card stock
• Tea Party paper pad by Craft Smith
• Spun Sugar and Bundled Sage Distress Ink
• Rhinestone Embellishments 

Summer fun!

It's a new Melonheadz challenge: Summer fun!  I used this adorable digital image from Melonheadz along with a new stamp set from The Stamps of Life monthly die hard kit club. The sentiment says "Hope to 'Sea' you soon!" and thought it paired well with this summer digi.

 

Share your creation by linking up at Melonheadz for a chance to win your choice of a digital stamp image bundle!

Supplies used:

• The Stamps of Life whale2stamp set and matching dies
• Melonheadz digital image
• Prismacolor pencils
• Black Stickles
• Teal StazOn ink
• Jet black StazOn ink
• Recollections card stock 65 & 110lb

Lots of embellishments!

It's time for another challenge at Creative Craft Cottage! This fortnight's theme is Spots and/or Stripes.  I'll admit I forgot about the theme while creating my first card using a Rick St. Dennis image.  I've been battling nausea for a week now. Taking the time to glue all these small embellishments helped distract my mind for a while during the creative process and it helped a ton!

The small gold gems are actually tiny sequin-like embellishments found in nail art kits.  I had enough of a challenge getting these into the image, let alone my own nails! Needless to say, they are staying in the craft room and not with my nail polish lol!  The quote says "The warmth and kindness of your heart...makes you more beautiful year after year! Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!" 

 The 2nd sponsor for the challenge is The Cutting Cafe.  I used their cute Pocket Shaped Card cut file to create a gift card pocket on the front. The message says "Wishing you a pocket full of birthday wishes."

Share your creation by linking up at Creative Craft Cottage for a chance to win cut files from The Cutting Cafe or images from Rick St. Dennis!

 Supplies used:

• Miss Razz Matazz image by Rick St. Dennis
• The Cutting Cafe Pocket Shaped Card cut file
• Prismacolor pencils
• Tiny nail art embellishments
• White Gelly Roll pen
• Glitter Card stock by The Paper Studio
• Paper Lace embossing folder Cuttlebug
• Washi tape
• Black Stickles
• Yellow ribbon
• Stampendous gold micro glitter

Bright Birthday Colors!

The challenge this fortnight at Melonheadz is Bright Colors! This cute luau girl digital stamp inspired me to create a colorful birthday card for my sister...just don't tell her yet lol!  She's not a big internet surfer, so I don't need to worry about her seeing it here. *wink*

I colored this image with Prismacolor pencils and added Glossy Accents to her glasses. The ribbon and beautiful hibiscus stamp were gifts from my mom. (Thanks mom!)

 Link up your colorful creation by June 21st for the chance to win digital images of your choice! Can't wait to see what you create! :)

Supplies used include:

• Melonheadz digital stamp
• Prismacolor pencils
• Prismacolor colorless blender marker
• StazOn Jet Black ink
• StazOn Pumpkin ink
• Embellishments from The Paper Studio
• Ribbon and Hibiscus stamp given as gifts
• White Jelly Roll pen
• My Favorite Things Vintage Cameo stamp set
• Glossy Accents
• Colorbox paper pad/Recollections card stock

New Challenge at Creative Craft Cottage!

My first card for the challenge at Creative Craft Cottage uses an adorable digital stamp created by our first sponsor: Lacy Sunshine!

 

This stamp is titled "Darla Dogwood" (link below) and she was colored using Prismacolor Pencils. The background uses an A2 size piece of brown card stock embossed with one of my favorite embossing folders. I used pink patterned paper from the Sweet Soiree paper pad to mat each piece.

 

Here is the 2nd card using a digital image from our 2nd sponsor: The East Wind!

I just adore this cute fairy image from The East Wind! The colors purple and green popped into my head while coloring her. This also gave me the chance to use some candy stripe embellishments and twine I received from another wonderful papercrafer, Deb!  Thank you sweetie! :)

Some flowers in the embossed background were dusted with Perfect Pearls. I mixed Perfect Pearls powder with a tiny bit of matte Mod Podge to give her purple eyeliner.  Glossy Accents were added to her wings to finish this card.

Supplies used:

• The East Wind Digital Stamp - Flower Fairy and Birdie Love 
• Prismacolor Pencils
•  Prismacolor colorless blender marker
• Lacy Sunshine Digital Image - Darla Dogwood 
• Dogwood stems from Hobby Lobby
• Stamp set by My Mind's Eye "True Blue Stamps"
• Embellishments, green twine, thin white ribbon
• Recollection 65lb card stock
• Embossing folder "  " used in the Cuttlebug
• Sweet Soiree paper pad from Craft Smith
• Recollections gold embossing powder 
• Flower petal punch
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Spare Parts small white flowers from Hobby Lobby
• Garden Paper Pix double sided 12"x12" paper pad by Paper House
• Candy Stripers self-adhesive stones from Queen & Co.
• My Favorite Things Cameo stamp set (Happy Birthday stamp)

A little birdie told me...

There is a new Challenge at Creative Craft Cottage this fortnight and the theme is: Add a bow! I colored this digital stamp image by Ppinkydolls with Prismacolor pencils and had to use my cute new stamp/die set from The Stamps of Life.

The small bird die cut from the set went perfectly with this image! I'm a little behind on my birthday card stash, so the stamp set's sentiment was just what I needed. Link up your creation with a bow at Creative Craft Cottage for a chance to win 3 digital stamps of your choice!

Supplies used:

• Digital Image by Ppinkydolls
• Core'dinations card stock
• Staz On Saddle Brown Ink
• The Stamps of Life stamp set "birdcage2stamp"
• The Stamps of Life  Birdcage Club Die Set
• Pearl embellishments from Orientaltrading.com
• Prismacolor Pencils
• Elmers permanent glue tape runner
• Embossing folder