Christmas Card Challenges: Pop It Up!

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I couldn’t let this Sunday go by without posting our latest Christmas Card Challenge!

This week, we’re adding some dimension to our cards!


Here’s my card:


Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

We also don’t require that you use Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps on your cards, but if you have them, we’d love to see you ink them up when you play along!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the beautiful cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie…and our October guest designer, Deonna!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there! 


Drunken Stampers: Pretty Little Liars

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Happy Saturday, crafty friends! It’s my team’s turn to post this week at the Drunken Stampers challenge blog, and this week, we’ve got secrets to share with you…our theme is to create a card with a secret.



Maybe you’ve never heard of “Pretty Little Liars“…it’s a TV show as well as a book series. Its target audience is teenage girls, but I have to say, the show is very good…I’ve gotten hooked on it, I’ve recommended it to several of my friends (and my husband), and we all love it! 

Recently, the show aired its annual Halloween special…creepy and so fun! The basic plot of the show revolves around four friends (Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna) whose mutual friend, Allison, disappeared and was later found dead. Soon after Allison’s funeral, the girls start receiving creepy texts from someone named “A”, who seems to know all their deepest, darkest secrets.

Here’s my card for this week’s challenge:


The secret on my card is how I created the 3-D effect. The recipe includes acetate, a colored digital image, and some foam tape.

I printed the digital image onto the acetate (we have a laser printer, but I am sure ink-jet compatible transparencies would work as well), and another print on card stock to color. 


Once the image was colored, I lined it up and adhered it on the underside of the transparency. Then, I used foam tape to give the acetate some dimension, layering it over some patterned paper to create a scene.

The frame was cut with a Spellbinders die from black card stock, and then I hand-trimmed it to the width I wanted. Then, I inked it with metallic pigment ink. It’s ok that it rubbed off in certain places…it kind of creates a worn metal look!

Because my patterned paper didn’t quite match up to the opening, I added some punched grass to the bottom of the paper.

To play along with us, all you need to do is link your project on the Drunken Stampers blog using the Linky Tool, and add your blog link, gallery link, etc. (for more info on how to participate, please click How do I participate? tab) 

Please add the link directly to your project (any generic blog links will be deleted from the list) and leave us a comment! (if Linky Tools isn’t working or just misbehavin’, just leave a comment with the link to your card) You have until  Friday, November 2 at 11:59 PST to post your link for this challenge!

You can check out what the other members of Team Mojito (and maybe some members of Team Flirtini) have created for this challenge by visiting the Drunken Stampers blog!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend! I’m going to the All-American Rejects concert tonight with my friend, Sparkle! 
I’ll be back tomorrow with a new Christmas Card Challenge as well as my card for Your Next Stamp‘s “Hop for Hope”! See you then, and thanks so much for stopping by!

YNSC #21: Sketch Challenge!

Happy Thursday, everybody! It’s time for a new Your Next Stamp challenge, and this week, we’re inspired by this fun & fabulous sketch:
Here’s my card, featuring the ever-fabulous “Dress Up Ellie“:
 
I added a few details, like rhinestones, Stickles and some Liquid Applique’ to give dimension to her boa!
Ready to play along with us? Here’s the scoop on our challenges:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc21)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • Every month we will pick a lucky participant to be our special YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!!!
Our Rockin’ YNS Guest Designers get:
  • a NEW RELEASE YNS Stamp package! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designers Annie Rose and Stephanie, at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Don’t forget, you still have time to play along in our other October challenges: our sketch challenge, our color challenge, our “Think Pink” challenge, and last week’s “Anything Goes” challenge! Check out all the details on the YNS blog!

Christmas Card Challenges #47 – Bows

Happy Sunday, crafty friends! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge, and this week, we’re inspired by:
For my card, I chose to keep my bow simple by using twine, and used some fun patterned paper that reminded me of bows:

Supplies: patterned paper (Doodlebug Design), twine (Trendy Twine), Spellbinders Labels 28, Copic markers, sentiment stamp (PaperTrey Ink – Signature Christmas), image stamp (Your Next Stamp –  Merry Mouse Candle), brads, ink (Stampin Up – Real Red, Brilliance Graphite Black Ink).

Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

We also don’t require that you use Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps on your cards, but if you have them, we’d love to see you ink them up when you play along!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the beautiful cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie…and our October guest designer, Deonna!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there! 

Friday Fun: Halloween Treat Toppers

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Hi, crafty friends! I’m popping today in to share some treat toppers I made for a recent get-together with some of my best crafty gal pals: 
(click on the picture for a closer look)

Here’s my supply list for these toppers. (The actual sizes for your project will vary depending on what size treat bag you use.)

  • Spellbinders Labels 28 (I used the two largest dies to layer the paper and card stock.)
  • Spellbinders Lacey Circles die
  • Spellbinders Classic Circles die
  • Digital Stamp (Tickled Pink Stamps – “Lil Pinkette Witch Audrey”)
  • Sentiment stamp (Impress Rubber Stamps – Happy Halloween script)
  • Copic markers
  • Patterned paper (Graphic 45)
  • card stock (Core’dinations)
  • clear cellophane treat bags
  • a sweet treat

To make assembly easier, I die cut the card stock, paper, digital image and mat first.

Then, I colored each image, one section at a time. After coloring, I assembled each topper, inking the edges of the paper and centering it over the card stock, adhering, then folding it in half. Then, I added the image and its mat on top. Finally, I stamped the sentiment, cut each one out, and layered it on top of the image.

To attached the toppers, I folded the treat bag down and used a staple on each top corner to keep it closed.

Here’s a close-up of the finished topper:

(click on the picture for a closer look)

These are really fun to make, and easy once you get all the pieces together. Hope you enjoyed these and were inspired to create some treat bag toppers of your own!
Hope you have a wonderfully creative weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by! 
Hugs,

Play Date Cafe’: 3rd Anniversary Celebration

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Hi, crafty friends! I’d like to share my card for The Play Date Cafe challenge (#154), which is part of their 3rd Anniversary Celebration! How will you be inspired by this color combo?

I decided on a simpler design for my card::
Be sure to stop by The Play Date Cafe’ to see how their Design Team, guest designers and alumni can inspire you with this week’s color story! You can also check out their blog’s new design and play along in this challenge to be one of the 15 lucky winners of fabulous prizes! 
For all the details, click HERE to visit The Play Date Cafe’!

Thanks for stopping by! I have a “sweet” surprise to share with you tomorrow!

Hugs,

YNSC 20: Anything Goes!

Welcome back, crafty friends! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp, and it’s time once again for the ever-popular theme of “Anything Goes”!

My card for this week’s challenge features Your Next Stamp’s “Cute Witch Ellie and Her Kitty,” a spooktacularly cute stamp set! The sentiment I used is from YNS’s “Trick or Treat” set.
Ready to play along with us? Here’s the scoop on our challenges:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc20)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • Every month we will pick a lucky participant to be our special YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!!!
Our Rockin’ YNS Guest Designers get:
  • a NEW RELEASE YNS Stamp package! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designers Annie Rose and Stephanie, at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Don’t forget, you still have time to play along in our other October challenges: our sketch challenge, our color challenge and last week’s “Think Pink” challenge! Check out all the details on the YNS blog!
Hugs,

Christmas Card Challenges #46

Happy Sunday, crafty friends! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge, and this week, we’re inspiring you with a sketch:





Here’s my card, featuring Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps‘ “Holiday Emily“:


Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

We also don’t require that you use Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps on your cards, but if you have them, we’d love to see you ink them up when you play along!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the beautiful cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie…and our October guest designer, Deonna!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Drunken Stampers #101

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Happy Saturday! It’s my team’s turn to post our cards for this week’s challenge at Drunken Stampers, which is to use animal print(s):




I paired some funky patterned paper with a stamp set from Unity Stamp Company, “Change is a good thing“:


I paper pieced the design on the underwear, and used some of my grey Copics on the waistband and trim. I had a hard time figuring out the layout of the underwear, and probably could have added some brads or twine, but I ended up leaving the card this way.

To play along with us, all you need to do is link your project on the Drunken Stampers blog using the Linky Tool, and add your blog link, gallery link, etc. (for more info on how to participate please click How do I participate? tab) 

Please add the link directly to your project (any generic blog links will be deleted from the list) and leave us a comment! (if Linky Tools isn’t working or just misbehavin’, just leave a comment with the link to your card) You have until  Friday, October 19 at 11:59 PST to post your link for this challenge!

You can check out what the other members of Team Mojito (and maybe some members of Team Flirtini) have created for this challenge by visiting the Drunken Stampers blog!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend! I’ll be crafting today with some local friends, and I’ll be back tomorrow with a new Christmas Card Challenge! Don’t forget, there’s still time to play along with the THINK PINK challenge at Your Next Stamp!
Thanks so much for stopping by! 
Hugs,

Your Next Stamp #19: Think Pink!

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Happy Thursday, crafty friends! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp, and this week, we want you to “think pink“!
For my card, I used Your Next Stamp’s  “Ellie Loves to Knit” and made a little change to her hair (she is normally wearing a snowflake barrette, but I punched out two mini hearts and gave her a new look! You might recognize the sentiment from the YNS stamp set I used last week, “Ellie Loves Sunflowers.”
Other supplies: patterned paper (Basic Grey – Kissing Booth), lace trim, opaque white gel pen, card stock (Stampin’ Up), Copic markers, silver gel pen, brads, liquid applique, mini heart punch, Brilliance Graphite Black ink.

Want to be our next YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer? 
Our new challenge guidelines make it even easier for everyone to play along!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc19)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • Every month we will pick a lucky participant to be our special YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!!!
Our Rockin’ YNS Guest Designers get:
  • a NEW RELEASE YNS Stamp package! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Annie Rose, at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Don’t forget, you still have time to play along in last week’s color challenge! Check out all the details on the YNS blog!