Pike Playground - Birthday Challenge

In honor of Dustin Pike's birthday he has posted a challenge.  Make a card with a birthday theme using one of his Doodledragon images.  He has soooo many great images that you can easily use for a birthday theme.  I chose the Flying Dragon.  I shrunk him and then flipped the image to create a duplicate. 

I sponged some clouds in the background and colored the dragons with my Copics markers.  The grass and flower stamp I used for the edge has no markings.  The cake and candle stamp is from Stampin' Up.  The sentiment is computer generated.  For the inside of the card I stamped a simple "Happy Birthday".  If you get a chance check out Dustin's Blog to see some of his work, http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/.   It's worth the trip.  Happy Birthday Dustin!!

My Knight in Shining Armor

I just wanted to post this card I made for my husband for our Anniversary.  I had an idea in my head on what I wanted to do and usually that means the finished product never stacks up to my expectations and I'm disappointed.  But this time, it came out just like I had envisioned. 



And the inside reads..

The castle is a digi from The Octopode Factory and my knight "Sir Galahad" and the sentiment are from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.  I sponged the background with a cloud template and colored the castle and knight with my Copics markers.    Thanks for stopping by. Please leave me a comment if you like my card.

Hambo Hoedown-Two different circles challenge

Each week I say that I am going to post more items to my blog and not just challenges.  Then I'm finishing a card in the last minute to get in the mail and forget to take a picture of it so I can't post it on my blog.  Now that I've admitted this out loud I 'm hoping this will help and I'll get better about posting additional projects.  For this week's challenge for the Hambo Hoedown I received the balloon-cost digi.  The challenge is to use 2 or more different size circles in our project. I took the digi and split the words up and punched out various size circles.

Here is the inside of the card...



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Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everyone!   I know the calendar says January 7th, so 2012 has just started and I'm already a week behind. That's okay I'll catch up by Valentine's Day!  I'm not too far behind because I still have time to post a "Happy Newt Year" project for the HamboHoedown Challenge.  I received this cute "Reptile" digi and some Happy Newt year sentiments.  The challenge is to create a project using something new.  For Christmas I got some new Sizzix Tim Holtz Alteration dies.  I used the die called "Ornamental" to create the design.

You can't see it very well but the background paper looks like the skin of a reptile.  As I mentioned I used my new Sizzix Tim Holtz Ornamental die to cut out the design in green and then my digi in white.  I trimmed the white diecut and attached it to the green diecut then added ribbon where the 2 designs layered. The "reptile" digi is another great design from Tim at HamboStamps.  If you haven't seen some of his digi's you have to take the time to check them out at http://hambostamps.com/digishop/.  I colored the "reptile" digi with my Copics Markers and I paper pieced his shirt using the Stampin' Up stamp "Solid Stripes".  I wish you a Happy and Healthy 2012 and hope you find time to stop by my blog throughout the year.

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge 95- Snowman with a Die Cut

I love love love snowman and Sassy Cheryl has some GREAT snowman digis.  If you haven't seen them, you've got to check them out. What a great challenge!  Who doesn't love a snowman.

I used the Sizzix snowflake embossing folder for the background.  The large snowflake die cut is from the Winter Lace Cricut cartridge.  I colored and cut out this great Sassy Cheryl digi called "Flat Bottom Snowman" with my copics.  I know the snowflake is red and my husband says he's never seen a red snowflake but I wanted the snowflake to match the scarf. For all you crafters and card makers out there I know you'll get it.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Hambo Hoedown - Show off your corners

Well Christmas is almost here and I still have a long list of things to do.  I love the holiday season, there's always so much to do with decorating, shopping, baking, wrapping and crafting and they usually happen in that order.  My paper crafting and card making seems to get the last few minutes of my available time.  I took a few minutes to play in the Hoedown this week, I didn't receive the free digi since I didn't play last week but I have a good collection of Hambo stamps & digis to choose from.  Staying with the winter theme I used one of the stamps from their Winter release called Snowman Sled. The challenge this week is to create a project that shows off our corners. 

I started to cut the corners to show the snowflakes and ended up almost removing the corners to show off the embossed snowflakes.  The background was created using the Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder and sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink-faded jeans.  I then applied Stampendous Boss Gloss and hologram embossing powder and heated it.  The stamps are from the Stampin' Up set - Thanks snow much and the white swirl was created with the Die-namic die called elegant scrollwork.  The Hambo stamp Snowman Sled was colored with my Copics markers and then dazzling diamonds added to the swirls. Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog.

Hambo Hoedown - Dry Embossing

This week's Hambo Hoedown challenge is to incorporate dry embossing on your project. We received a really cute snowball fight digi for playing last week, but I'm having all kinds of computer trouble this week.  So frustrating..... So I decided to use a great Rubber Image from Hambo Stamps called Christmas Window.  The background of bricks were dry embossed using a Tim Holtz/Sizzix embossing folder and then I swiped a white ink pad over the embossing to make the texture stand out more.

I colored the Christmas Window with COPICS markers and then cut it out and attached to the brick background. I stamped the icicle stamp, added dazzling diamond stickles, cut them out and glued them to the top of the window.  Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog.