Delightful Challenges Anything But a Card Challenge

Good Morning.

Time for another challenge from

Delightful Challenges.  

Today's challenge is 

Anything but a Card

with a Love Theme!!

For this challenge I decided to 

think outside the box.

Sorta.  

Usually for an 

Anything but a Card Challenge,

I go with a box.  

If you recall I did a box last week

and really didn't want to do the 

usual box.

I have seen a number of Explosion Boxes

lately....yeap I am doing this a week before

Thanksgiving.

Every time I see one

I think I can do that!!

And well here is my attempt!

The inside...

The top...

Close ups of the Inside...

For this box I have used

Digital Delights'

Love Birds,

Loving you Sentiment,
February Cupcake Set,
Flower Power Rosie ,
Heart Peeking Larry.

I have colored the images using

Copic Markers

B05, B24, E000, E00, E31, E33, E37, FRV1, 

R02, R17, R20, R29, R35, Y13,Y17, YG09, 100

and my white, Silver and gold gel pens.  

The patterned paper is from

K&Company's

Kelly Panacci

Valentine Pad.

The flowers were cut on my Cricut.

The lace and ribbon for the bows
are from Michaels.

The stick pin is from a swap.

The rhinestone hearts are from
Recollections.

The metallic dots are from Dazzles.

There are Crystal Stickles around the hearts
on the sentiment. 

Thanks for stopping by.

CWLC #74 Anything Goes

Created with Love Challenges

#74

Anything Goes

Once again we have a new sponsor this month.

Sparkle N Sprinkle

is getting into digi stamps.

So be sure to stop by 

and see all their great stamps.

For this challenge 

I am using

Rusty with Flowers,

and boy did Rusty 

make a mess.

Here is my card.

I colored the image with 

Copic Markers

B05, E000, E00, E25, E37, R17, 

R20, R29, Y13, YG09, YG17, 100

And my white gel pen.

The patterned paper is from
K&Company's
Kelly Panacci's Valentine's Pad.
This is 2 sided paper.

The image oval and scalloped oval
are cut on my Cricut using
SCAL.

There are 2mm clear rhinestones
on the scalloped oval.

There are pearl hearts and foil hearts
surrounding the image.

The rhinestones and pearl hearts
are from
Pizzazz Aplenty.

Using my
We R Memories
Envelope Punch Board
I made a matching envelope. 

 

You have until Saturday,
February 3, 2014,
9 PM EST,
to enter to win. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Digital Delights Paper Piecing

Good morning friends.

Today I have a 

Scrapbook page using files from

Digital Delights.  

As you may know, 

I now own a horse,

named Jubilee.

So this will be the first page in 

her Scrapbook.  

For this project I am using,

Farm Animals Paper Piecing Set #1,

Farm Background Paper Piecing, 

and 

Farmgirl Polly Paper Piecing.

Here is the scrapbook page...

On Polly's dress,

the buttons on her straps are

Pearl Gold Liquid Pearls.

Can't wait to add pictures!!

 

Delightful Challenges You have a Heart

Delightful Challenges

You Have a Heart

I love this time of the year.

Love is in the air.  

Do you have your Valentine Card

all done?

I think this just about does it for me. 
Might be one or two more. 

For this card I am using 

Digital Delights'

Cupid Kiddles 

and 

Happy Valentine's Sentiment.
The box is also from Digital Delights.

This week I made a box
for Valentine's Candy for some friends.

I colored the image with

Copic Markers

B05, E000, E00, E37, R20, R29, R35, FRV1

The paper is from K&Company's
Kelly Panacci
Valentine Pad.

I uses Spellbinder's
 Nestabilities Big Scalloped Rectangles SM
for the image.

I chalked around the image with
Color Box's
Cat Eyes
in
Lipstick Red.

The flowers were cut on my Cricut as well
and sprayed with Pearl Glimmer Mist.

I added Silver Stickles to the feathers of the arrows.

Thanks for stopping by...

CWLC #73 Winged Things

Created with Love Challenges

#73

Winged Things

Good morning. 

This week our challenge is a favorite of mine...

Winged Things.

There are so many ways to do this...

image with wings,

paper with wings,

embellishments with wings.

Butterflies, Birds, Bees, Fairies, Bugs...

the possibilities are endless.  

Our sponsor this week is...

 

For this challenge I used 

Blue Jay and Raspberries

I colored the iamge with...

Copic Markers

100, B05, R17, R29, YG09, YG17

Prismacolor Pencils

919, 928, 929

and my white gel pen.

The patterned paper is from

Black and White paper pack from

Recollections.

In the other corners of the image are 

Onyx Pearl and Rouge 

Liquid Pearls. 

I made a matching envelope using my

We R Memories

Envelope Punch Board.

Delightful Challenges Brrr Anything Winter

Delightful Challenges

Eslimo BRRR...Anything Winter

It's time for a new challenge.  

Since we are in the middle of 

January,

I just love this challenge.  

Is it cold where you are?

Do you have snow??

Well this challenge will help 

take care of the winter time blues.

The challenge is 

BRRRR--Anything Winter.

So if it is winter related,

it works.

For this challenge I am using 

Digital Delights'

Eskimo Emily
and
Winter Fun Sentiment Set

I have seen so many WOW cards lately.
What is a WOW card, you ask?
White One White.
I think they look elegant.
So for this Winter card,
I thought WOW would look good.

Here is my card....

I colored the image with 

Copic Markers

E000, E00, E25, R20, R17

and my white gel pen.

The background paper is a slimmer paper from Michaels
and is embossedwith a folder from
Darice.

The sentiment is cut on
Spellbinder's
Die-DLites
Frame Two
and chalked with
Color Box Cat Eyes' Orchid Pastel.

 The ribbon for the bow is from
Michaels.

I hit all the highlights of the fur
with Star Dust Stickles.

CWLC # 72 Color Challenge

Created with Love Challenges 

#72

Color challenge

Pink and Purple

We have a new sponsor this week.

The winner of this challenge will receive the

5 images the Design Team has used.  

Here is my card...

I used image 875.  

I colored the image with

Copic Markers

B05, BV13, C5, E000, E00, E25, 

FRV1, R20, Y13, YG17

Prismacolors

956, 1008

And my White Gel Pen

The purple paper is embossed with

Spellbinders M-Bossabilities

Butterfly Kisses...side B.

The die cut around the image is 

Spellbinders 

Big Scalloped Rectangles SM.

The pink is a die cuts from

Spellbinders

Die D-Lites

Sprigs.

The scallops around the image

have drops of

Flamingo

Liquid Pearls

Digital Delights Paper Piecing

 It's my Saturday

to do a project for 

Digital Delights'

Paper Piecing.  

This week I decided on a card.

I am using 

Handy Handy.

Here is my card....

The sentiment is from 

the Birthday Sentiment Set.

The patterned paper. twine and charm

are from my stash.

The metallic pieces were in a birthday card

I received last year.

You know one of those cards 

you open and end up with a mess!!

Well I cleaned up that mess and bagged it...

thinking maybe one day I would use them...

and not make a mess!

Thanks for stopping by.

May your worries be few 

and your crafty days be long.

From the Heart Stamps...Monthly Freebie and Sketch Challenge

From the Heart Stamps

Monthly Freebie Challenge

and 

Sketch #48

This month,

From the Heart Stamps 

is giving everyone a free stamp...

so no excuses for taking part.  

If you took part in the December 2013

Monthly Freebie Challenge,

your image is a little different.  

Either image can be used in this challenge. 

Here's how it works.

Use this image

(did I say it was free to everyone?)

make a card and 

link it to the blog.

Next the beginning of February,

you will receive a FREE image...

to be used in February's Freebie Challenge.

I am also using there Sketch #48.

Here is the sketch.

 

This card is to be a square, 

but you can flip it, change it and 

make it your own.  

Here is my card.....

I colored this image with

Copic Markers

100, B05, E21, E25, E31, FRV1, R20, R29, Y09

My gold and white gel pens.

The paper is from K&Company's

Kelly Panacci Valentine Pad.

This is 2 sided paper.

The glitter tape is from

American Craft

and is the color...Taffy.

The charm is from 

Pizzazz Aplenty

and the ribbon is from Micheal's.  

I used my

We R Memories

Envelope Punch Board 

to make a matching envelope.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Delightful Challenges January New Releases + Designer Paper

Can you believe it is January already???

Ok so I can't...

why?

Well it is actually before Thanksgiving.  

That's right!! 

I hate waiting to do projects.

Since so many people need time for the holidays,

Wendy, the artist behind Digital Delights,

gave us January Challenges before Thanksgiving.

Now if you know me, 

you know I don't have much planned over the holidays.

But I am not one to wait to the last minute to get projects done!!
So here it is before Thanksgiving,

doing January design team work,

and they are Valentines projects!!!

But again if you know me, 

I like doing things early,

so this really works for me.  

 As the subject line says...

its new release time

at Digital Delights.

And this week's challenge at Delightful Challenges is

Designer Paper.  

Now Wendy has a lot of great designer paper in the store.  

But I knew this was going to be a 5.5" x 8" card

and printed paper isn't big enough to make 

a matching envelope.

Here is my card.....

The image is Heart is A Flutter Daisy.

I so love Daisy,

and Wendy does so many cute things with her!!

 The sentiment is from

Cupid's Quote Sentiment Set

I colored the image with 

Copic Markers...

E000, E00, E25, E31, FRV1, R17, R20, R29

and my white gel pen for highlights.

I cut the tag and hearts

on my Cricut using 

Sure Cuts A Lot

(SCAL)...

it is in the library that comes with the program!!

The ribbon on the tag is from 

Celebrate it,

Spring is the name of the color

(it is Distributed by Michaels).

The designer paper is from 

K&Company

Kelly Panacci Valentine Pad.

I used 

Opal, Rouge, and Petal Pink

Liquid Pearls

on the hearts and tag.  

The die cut I used on the sentiment is

Spellbinders

Die D-Lites

Frame Two.

 And I chalked the edges with 

 Color Box's

Cat Eye

Lipstick Red.  

I made a matching envelope using my

We R Memories

Envelope Punch Board.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Kelly and Shane's Wedding Invitations

As you may know, my daughter, Kelly, is marrying her high school sweetheart, Shane, on May 17, 2014.  I am making their wedding invitations.  All 300 of them.  My goal is to have them in done by mid-January.

I am gonna keep this at the top between now and then.  At the bottom you will see my goals for each day.  Hopefully I can keep them...and maybe even beat them. 

This is one of the 2 samples....somethings are being changed.

This is the front...

The paper is purple and the final invitations will be a bit darker purple.  I was able to get the darker purple on sale.

This is the inside...

This is with the invitation taped into place and the RSVP card in the pocket...

The bottom is a little pocket for the RSVP card, directions, local hotels, and where they are registered at will go in there.  It will have the black lettering on the RSVP card and the reception time has been added.

This is the back....

The butterflies and tag were my original idea but I didn't like the way it looked.  It would have been the front of the card...a regular card...not the folder type thing we settled on.  I had sent this to Kelly with the other samples I did.  She and Shane love it and wanted it on the invitation.  :(  I shouldn't have sent it with the samples I sent.  Oh well as long as they like it, its ok.  I still think something needs to go around the edge, but haven't decided what yet.