~I Can See It Clearly at Frosted Designs Challenge Blog & A Giveaway~

I was recently asked to be a Guest Designer at Frosted Designs Challenge Blog, and how could I say NO! I got to work with a great image from Stitchy Stamps AND be a guest at Frosted Designs...and like that wasn't enough, I even got this cute little blinkie to put on my blog... now on to the challenge this week!! 

This week over at Frosted Designs, our challenge was to use Acrylic, Vellum, Acetate, or some sort of transparency on your project. I knew immediately what I wanted to make with Valentines around the corner. I chose to work with a cute little image from this weeks sponsor, Stitchy Stamps, called Puppy Love. I thought he/she was just the cutest, and what's more loveable than a puppy! I used acetate, which in my world is just an old piece of transparency from an old package or box that I recycled. Why pay high prices when its right there in a lot of the things you buy. So I warn you now there's a lot of pictures!

So I took my adorable puppy and decided to make a little box with card set. I used the Stationary Box with lid and Envelope/Liner cutting file from The Cutting Cafe and the Words of Love Colored Printable Stamp set to accomplish this idea of mine. I used a larger puppy on the lid of my box and then smaller puppies on my cards to keep with the focal point. I think it turned out rather cute and I hope you think so as well! So head on over to Frosted Designs and play along for a chance to win a Gift Certificate to Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps!!! 

Hmmm and now to figure out who to give it to...maybe a little blog candy to help celebrate my Guest DT spot?? If anyone's interested in this posted project, please leave a comment below stating that you'd love to have this card set, and I'll do a drawing on Jan 27th, the end of this weeks challenge at Frosted Designs!

~SUPPLIES USED~

Stitchy Stamps - Puppy Love

The Cutting Cafe - Stationary Box with lid and Envelope/Liner cutting file 

Words of Love Colored Printable Stamp set

 Papertrey Ink - White Cardstock

Stampin' Up - Basic Black Cardstock

Gina K - White Cardstock

DCWV - Envelope Liners

Pink and Red Cardstock for Envelopes - From Stash

Copics - E000, E00, E51, E11, E53

R20, R22, R24, R27

C1, C2

Y13

Liquid Pearls - Mint Green, Petal Pink, Ruby Red

Stickles - Xmas Red

Acetate - From Stash

Target - Ribbon - Grosgrain 3/8" Red hearts and Pink Hearts

Ebay - Ribbon - Nylon 3/16" Light Pink

Nylon 1/4" Natural and Red

Cats Eye Colorbok - Lipstick Red

Tattered Angels Glitter Mist - Candy Apple Red

Adhesive Gold 3D Heart Embellishments - From Stash

I'm entering this project in the challenges below:
One Stitch At A Time - Theme is "New" (new stamp set from The Cutting Cafe, New Ribbon)
 Just Us Girls - Valentine Container (Card box)
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Heart and Ribbon
Send A Smile 4 Kids - Puppy Love
Wee Memories - Any creation goes
Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges - Anything Goes
Totally PaperCrafts - Add a Heart
Do You Stack Up? - Think Pink
Meljen's Designs - Pink and Red
Paperplay Challenges - Back to Black
Southern Girls Challenge - Lovey Dovey
Fab n' Funky - Animal Magic
Freshly Brewed Challenges - Love or Valentine's Themed
Tuesday Throwdown - Valentine
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Love is in the Air
Pile It On - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Favorite Challenge from past year - Valentines
Craft Your Days Away - Love 

~2 IN 1 GAME SET...TRICK OR TREAT...GO FISH & MEMORY~

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful crafting weekend!! It was a great weekend here. The Vikings beat the Cowboys yesterday so my weekend ended on a high note!! Better than that, my week is beginning on that same high note with a new project using an awesome printable set!! Todays project uses the Halloween Mini Colored Set Printable Stamps from The Cutting Cafe! I loved working with this set as I do all of Regina's awesome creations. For some reason I have been on a gaming kick, maybe its all the Halloween Parties I hear being planned, so I decided to stay with that theme. 

This week I made a 2 in 1 Game set. It started out as Go Fish, but ended up Go Fish and Memory!! I used an old deck of cards and covered the front with the printable stamp from the Halloween Mini Colored Set and then I colored the back with printed Halloween paper from DCWV. I couldn't find a box that fit the card shape since the cards were alot thicker after adding both papers to the front and back, and then I remembered these little baskets my sister had given me a few years ago. I stripped them down, repainted them and gave them more of a Halloween look. I added this cute lil witch from Stitchy Stamps called "Can I Go Too?". The cards fit in the little basket perfectly! I hope ya like it and thanks for looking!!

I hope you'll head over to The Cutting Cafe and check out all the great new things Regina is releasing in the store!! Don't forget that Thanksgiving is right around the corner and she's got some wonderful new releases that would help decorate your invites and tables this season!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

The Cutting Cafe -- Halloween Mini Colored Set Printable Stamps

Stitchy Stamps -- Can I Go Too? 

Stampin' Up -- Whisper White Cardstock

Papertrey Ink -- White Cardstock

DCWV -- The Fall Stack

Copic Markers

Offray Ribbon -- Garbo Black

Stickles -- Lavender, Golden Rod

Liquid Pearls -- Lemon Yellow 

Acrylic Gesso -- White

Folk Art Acrylic Paint -- Metallic Sequin Black

Mod Podge

Bat Ribbon from Stash

Various Ribbons on Handle from Stash

Old Deck of Playing Cards

Wood basket from my sister

I'm also entering this into the following projects:

Aly's Sunday Challenge -- Halloween

Craftilicious -- Anything Goes 

One Stitch At A Time -- Embellish It (Love ribbon)

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge -- NO CARDS ALLOWED!!

Tellens Place -- Trick or Treat
2 Sisters Challenge Blog -- Halloween

Bee Crafty -- Halloween

One Stop Craft -- Halloween

Sweet Stampin' -- Ribbons

Stampin' For the Weekend -- Fall or Halloween

Stamp Something -- Halloween Somethings

Craft Your Passion -- Colors-- Purple, Black & Orange

The Crazy Challenge -- Halloween

Ooh-La-La -- Something Scary

Pile It On -- Kid Themed Halloween

Moving Along With the Times -- Halloween

Double Dutch -- Boo To You! Halloween

Crafts and Me -- Halloween

Fussy and Fancy -- Halloween

Crafty Ann's -- One digi and favorite Coloring Medium (Copics)

Lil Red Wagon -- Something Old (Basket & Ribbon), Something New (Stamp Set)

Really Reasonable Ribbon -- Halloween

Creative Craft Challenges -- Trick or Treat

Wee Memories -- Anything Celebrated (Halloween)

Creative Friday -- Altered Projects

Inky Impressions -- Anything Goes

Easy Craft Projects -- Halloween

PapercutZ -- Anything Goes

Anything Goes Challenges -- Ribbons

~SMC #27......LET's SEE YOUR EMBOSSING...WET OR DRY~

This weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges is to use wet or dry embossing in your creation! Even though I don't use embossing in my projects that often, I do love the look of it. I guess I need to use this technique more often, it's one of those techniques that slip my mind until after I get my project done, and then I think I should've used embossing in a particular area. Sort of like a V8 moment lol
So for this weeks project I used a new image from Sew Many Cards called Duncan Under Mushroom Umbrella. It's available through the SMC VIP September Club. For more information you can check out the VIP GROUP.
Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and the winner will receive 5 digital images of their choice from the SBS Store! So hurry over and play along with us!

Without further ado, my project...lol Thanks for looking and hope you like!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Sew Many Cards VIP Image -- Duncan Under Mushroom Umbrella

"If A Kiss" Sentiment -- Create with TLC

Embossing -- Shimmery Blue embossing received from an Embossing Swap I hosted
Raindrop Embossing -- Fiskars Texture Plates - Raindrops (not sure if I like these or not)

Papers -- DCWV scraps

Papertrey Ink White Cardstock

Copics - B01, B21, B24, B26, B91, B94

BG10, B11

E00, E11, E13, E25

Y11, Y13, Y17

YG03, YG11, YG13

YR12, YR16, YR18

Stitching from Machine

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Smooch -- Kiwi

EKSuccess -- Chalk

American Crafts - Metal Photo Corners - Denim
I'm also entering this into the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge -- U is for Unused Stash (Papers, Fiskar Texture Plates, Photo Corners)
Fairy Fun Fridays -- Embossing Wet or Dry
Cute Card Thursday -- Bird or Butterfly (Ducks considered a type of bird right? lol)
Pixie Dust Studio -- Fur or Feathers
Southern Girls Challenge -- Anything Goes
Stampin' Sisters in Christ -- Stitching Faux or Real
Stamp Something -- Sept Digi Challenge - Use a Digi
Copic Creations -- Shading On or Around Images or both
Stampin' Royalty -- Stitching 
365 Cards:Day 201 -- A Happy Heart - 2 things that make you happy (kisses and Rain)
Stamping Vacation -- No! No! Sparkle
Creative Belli -- "B" themed Embellishments ("BLUE" Metal Photo Corners)

~Runnin' A Lil Behind..Stitchy Stamps & More Inspiration~

This week at Sew Many Challenges we have an awesome sponsor for our "Christmas In August" challenge...Stitchy Bear Stamps!! Stitch is an awesome artist and lady, so you need to hurry over and check out all her images and the fun stuff they have going on at their challenge blog, One Stitch At A Time, as well!! 

Stitch was generous as always and allowed our sponsor team to pick out an image to work with, and I chose "Lil Behind". She is absolutely adorable...the image that is...well Stitch is too, but we're on the image now!!..lol Anyways, as soon as I seen her, I knew exactly what I was going to use her for, my belated Birthday card for my Father-In-Law! Isn't sad when you know a month ahead that you're going to need a belated card lol And I was right! Maybe I can tell him I was distracted by mine coming up on Sunday That I forgot about his?? lol Hopefully when he gets it, he puts the sentiment inside the card with the image..we'll see...lol 

I love checking out challenge entries because you never know what talents you'll come across, and that's exactly what happened today! We had an entry over at Sew Many Challenges and when I went to the blog, I discovered a blog of inspiration through Sketches! Arianne Addicks has some awesome sketches that you can use for inspiration on her blog, and thats exactly what I did with my card. You need to really check out her blog. Not only are her sketches great but her work is amazing!! 

 

So what are you waiting for?? Grab ya some images at Sew Many Cards and Stitchy Bear Stamps and start creating!! We've got two great challenges for you to join in and have fun with!!

Ok so I'll hush now and post my project lol Thanks for looking and hope you like it!!

~SUPPLIES USED~

 DCWV Summer Cardstock Stack

DCWV The Stack 6

Neenah Super Smooth Cardstock

Copics

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher (Staples as Candles)

Smooch -- Moonlight & Kiwi

Computer Generated Sentiment -- Comic Sans Font

Martha Stewart -- Cake Charm

 Stampin' Up Classic Ink -- Taken with Teal

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time -- Say It With Shapes

Rosie-D's Challenges -- One for the Big Boys

Andrea's Stampin' Moments -- Simply Squared 

Create 4 Fun -- Birthday Card

Stampin For the Weekend -- Anything Goes

Stamp Something -- Use Something Digi (Image on front)

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp -- Blooms and Charm (flowers on front and charm inside)

Meljen's Designs -- Brown, Teal & Orange

Paper Romance -- Metal Heads (Birthday Cake Charm inside)

The Craft Den Anything Goes Challenge -- 3 Layers

Digital Tuesday -- Use Your Scraps (Papers are from Scrap box)
Paper Cutz -- Anything Goes

~CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST~

Aaaah I love Christmas!! So when challenges present themselves to help me get some of my Christmas projects completed ahead of time without the hustlin' and bustlin' of last minute creating, I take advantage. Every year I try to make a few new handmade ornaments for our Christmas tree and make a few as gifts. My goal is to have our entire Christmas tree all handmade ornaments, so we'll see how that goes and how long it takes me to get there lol 

This week at Sew Many Challenges, our challenge is to exactly that. Make a Christmas themed project. So I took the opportunity to make another ornament for my tree. For this ornament I used the lovely Bear in Stocking image from Sew Many Cards! I think he's such a cutie looking over the top of the stocking. Reminds me of boys faces when they were younger and would keep getting up and checking their stockings to find that Santa hadn't came yet. With both of them leaving the 'nest' soon, it'll be a bittersweet happy reminder of those times as they're off starting their new journeys!

We hope you'll join us this week at Sew Many Challenges as we have

 sponsoring us!! You have a chance of winning 3 digital images from the Stitchy Bear Store! I'll be posting another project later today using an adorable image that Stitch let me play with this week!! So be sure to check back!

Hope you like this weeks project and thank you for looking as always and for leaving such nice comments! They're all appreciated!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Bear In Stocking -- Sew Many Cards

Neenah Smooth Cardstock

Stickles -- Frosted Lace

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Doodlebug Design -- Bon Bon Flock
RibbonFX (Hobby Lobby) -- Red/Black Plaid

Copics

Multiliner 0.3

G12, G14

R22, R24, R27, R29

E13, E33, E34, E53

I'm also entering this project in the following challenges:

A Spoon Full Of Sugar -- Christmas In August

Pollycraft -- In Stitches

My Time to Craft -- Glitter and Glitz

Creative Cottage -- Christmas 

The Character Cafe -- Use Dimensional Glaze (Eyes, nose and heart on stocking)
Crafty Ann's Challenge - Christmas In August 
 The Beary Sweet Challenge -- In Stitches 

~I CAN BE......~

This week at Sew Many Challenges we are lucky enough to have Stitchy Stamps sponsor us!! Stitch has so many cute images in her store, so you really need to go and check her out!! She's got some wonderful designers in her store also, so be sure to check them out also!! Stitch was generous enough to supply our sponsor team with images to work with this week and below you'll see the one I chose. It couldn't fit me more perfectly lol When I first came on the internet scene my handle was "Lil Devil" so as soon as I seen this image, I knew I had to work with it. 

If you haven't joined us yet over at Sew Many Challenges, it's not too late! All ya need to do is make a Christmas Project. You've still got a few hours to get something made!! If ya need an image check out Sew Many Cards or Stitchy Stamps for some great choices in digital stamps!

Now for on to my sponsor project! Hope you enjoy!!

I took two pictures, one with the flash, which is directly below and then one without. I can never get my pictures the way that I'd like. I apologize for that! 

Anyways, I had this card in mind for my husband on our anniversary last week, but as always, doing what I'd like and finding the time do it, are two completely different things lol Sooo I just may use this card as a little surprise one of these nights...lol...yup you got it...when I find the time!!

Enjoy!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Stitchy Stamps -- Ms South

Stampin Up -- Whisper White Cardstock

Tan & Black Cardstock from Stash

DCWV - the All Dressed Up Stack

DCWV - Cardstock

Copic Markers

Sentiment from my head and computer generated using "Showgirl" font
Stampin Up -- Border Punch (Have to look up name..eek)

Cuttlebug Folder -- Swiss Dots

Nestabilities -- Classic Circle & Classic Scallop Circle

Jolee's Boutique Career Police -- Handcuffs

InkEssentials Glossy Accents 

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:
Stitchy Stamps -- Going Dotty
Simple Doodles -- You're On My Mind
Dare You to Digi -- Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge -- As You Like It
Stampin' for the Weekend -- Card for a Male
Cute Card Thursday -- Someone Special
Pixie Dust Studio -- Cut It Out
Treehouse Thursday -- Masculine Theme
ABC Challenge -- U is for Unused Stash
La La Land Crafts -- Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday -- Make Me Laugh
The Crafty Pad -- Give your project a Punch
CAS-tastic Challenges -- Cards Using Circles 
Shelly's Images -- Anything Goes

~FRIENDS HAVING FUN--MONDAY RECIPE CHALLENGE~

Welcome to the first Friends Having Fun Recipe Challenge!!!

Once a month we will be bringing you a special recipe for you to work with and see what you can cook up!! Don't limit yourself to what you come up with! It can be anything that you can fit the recipe to, so lets see what you can create!!

Here's your recipe for this month...

• Use at least 3 patterns paper (Your 3 patterned papers must be handcut!! NO CUTTERS...ahhhh)
• Use something shiny (stickles, glitter, glossy accents...etc.)
• A funny phrase, sentiment or quote

The winner of this challenge will win a $10 Gift Certificate from our sponsor:

Ok so here's my project that I came up.

So handcutting is always a challenge for me, well when it comes to straight lines. Heck I can't even walk straight, so me and a pair of scissors don't always go well. Thank gosh for square rulers, but I still don't think my sides are straight lol

My shiny is found on my image..."Pearls and Leather" by Stitchy Bear Stamps. I colored it with my copics using V12, V15, and V17. I used InkEssentials Glossy Accents and Lavendar Lace Liquid Pearls. You can see it a little better in the picture below. I've also got shine through one of my patterned papers.

The three patterned papers I used are from DCWV All Dressed Up paper stack and Me & My Big Ideas Black & White Specialty Cardstock stack.

The sentiment I used is computer generated. "They say money doesn't buy HAPPINESS! Apparently they're shopping at the WRONG stores!"I love this saying because it's soooo true!! On my worst days, even if it's only for five minutes, I can go into a store and come out a happy girl!!

We hope you'll join us in this month's recipe challenge. You have until next Saturday, midnight EST to submit your recipe project HERE!

Please stop on by the FHF Recipe DT to see their creations:

Sarabeth

Juanita

Margie

Piali

Rebecca

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge -- For the Girls

ABC Challenge -- S is For Sparkly

KL Stampin N Scrappin Blog -- Bling It On

Crafty Angels -- My Favorite Things (Glossy Accents & Liquid Pearls)

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges -- Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday -- Touchy Feely

Stamp Something -- Something Layered

The Crazy Challenge -- Don't Call Me Flat

My Time To Craft -- Pretty Pearls

Meljen's Designs -- Add those 3D Elements