Creative Fingers & Sassy Studio Designs

Welcome to a brand new challenge at

Creative Fingers.

We have an Anything Goes challenge this week.
Our fabulous sponsor is

Sassy Studio Designs

All of the Design Team was lucky enough to be able to choose a

fun and fantastic images from Sassy Studio.

I decided on "The Greatest Gift."

Santa (aka: my hubby) was so sweet this Christmas and brought me a Big Shot.  Yay!!  I used the largest of the Spellbinders Lacey Circles to cut the image.  While the die was still in place, I inked around the image with Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet Distress Ink.  

Lavender seam binding was woven through the scallops.  I added a small Prima mulberry flower and a resin flower over the "tails" of the seam binding to complete the embellishing of the image layer.

The banner was cut using my Cricut Expression and the Create a Critter 2 cartridge.  I merged 2 banners in Cricut Craft Room to make it long enough for all of the letters and the tiny hearts.

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Pile It On --  P is for...pregnant
Cute Card Thursday -- Banish the blues

DRS Designs -- Seeing spots
Rhedd & Rosie's --  Going dotty
Simon Says -- Something new
Inky Impressions -- Anything goes
I Love ProMarkers -- Frame it
Digi Galore -- Girly

Make sure you head over to

Creative Fingers

and check out all of the inspiration pieces
from the rest of the Design Team.
We all hope you're able to join the fun of this new challenge!

ProMarkers	Cricut Create a Critter 2	Sizzix Big Shot	Cricut Expression	Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey Circles	Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet	Martha Stewart Pastel Pearl Stickers, Mini
Resin Flower Cabochons	Lavender Seam Binding	AdTech Hybrid Cordless Glue Gun	K&Company Itsy Bitsy Baby Girl	Neenah Solar White, 80#	Papertrey Ink Cardstock	Bazzill Basics
Prima Flowers, Pink

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Created with Love Challenges #70

Hello!

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend.

Since today is Monday, I'm here to announce our new challenge at

Created with Love Challenges.

This time 'round our theme is

Anything Goes.

Each Design Team member was given the opportunity to choose our own image.  Here's a quick look at the one I selected:

Stella just makes me giggle.

Our fabulous sponsor this week is

Bugaboo Stamps

I absolutely love Bugaboo!

Their variety of images is incredible....

everything from sassy Stella and grumpy Gus

to really sweet little critters.

One lucky winner will receive a 7 digi prize pack!!

Because Stella reminds me of the stories
my Mom shares with me about the fun she has
with her Red Hat group,
I decided to use Red Hat colors.
**Note:  All Red Hatters do NOT look like this...
I'm just referring to the fun, sassy attitude!**

That great iridescent red cardstock
can be found at Paper Temptress. 

Items used to make this card were:

Coloring Medium:  ProMarkers

Cardstock:  Papertrey Ink and Paper Temptress

DSP:  K&Company Kelly Panacci Halloween

Tag punch:  EK Success

Rhinestones:  Recollections

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels $ bin

Beads:  Viva Las Vegas and Joann

Seam binding:  Glitter and Kitsch

You can find this card in the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations -- Merry Christmas!
Joanna Sheen -- Make it sparkle
Pile It On -- P is for...poinsettia and purple
Party Time Tuesday -- Merry Christmas projects
A Gem of a Challenge -- Anything goes
Color Me Creative -- Holiday Themed

All of us at Created with Love hope to see lots of new projects in this week's challenge....good luck to all who enter!

Thanks for spending a few minutes here today.

Crafty Catz Halloween Challenge

This week, I continue my fun role as Guest Designer at 

Crafty Catz

and today begins a brand new challenge.
This week we would love for you to share your new Halloween cards or if you've done a great Halloween layout show that off.
Any new Halloween themed paper project is welcomed.

I hope you'll check out the sponsors' great sites.  Here are they are and the prizes they have so generously provided:

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There will be a winner for each of the sponsors...so you have 2 chances to take home some goodies.  Pretty great right?

Good luck to everyone that joins in the fun!

For my card this week, I used Lacy Sunshine's Candi Corn Sticky Wings image....and I love my coloring on this card.  Yes, that is a trumpet you're hearing as I toot my own horn!

You've got to agree that she has one of the sweetest little faces.  Here are a couple more pictures:

Items used for this card:

Colored with my ProMarkers

Papers: Papertrey Ink, Recollections, K&Company

Oval cutter:  Creative Memories

Button punch: Martha Stewart

Seam binding and twine: Etsy

Rhinestone stickers: Michaels Dollar Bin

You can find this card in the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T. Challenges -- Autumn/Halloween/Thanksgiving
An Inky Situation -- #12 Dress up

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

While you're here, why not check out my blog candy?

It's a great assortment of goodies!

You can find it here:  Queen Bee's Candy....yum.

Everyone at Crafty Catz looks forward to seeing your Halloween creation for this weeks challenge...and, again, Good Luck!!

Paper piecing and Saturated Canary

This week's challenge at Saturated Canary is to do some paper piecing.  I'd never done any before so I thought this would be a good excuse to give it a go.   I love Krista's images so much and I love trying my hand at any new (to me) technique I find so it was a match made in

challenge heaven.

It was really easy and I think it makes a nice impact.  You can see in the photo below that I've pieced sweet little Whispy Fairie's wings, skirt overlay, and leggings.  I used the same DSP for some of the matting on my card to help make everything very cohesive.

 I colored her with my ProMarkers and continue to fall deeper in love with coloring digis.  It's been almost 2 months since I started and every time I finish an image I feel like a little girl waiting for someone to give me my gold star for coloring inside the lines.

Here are a couple more pictures of my card:

The items used on this card are:

DSP: K&Company 

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink

Pink rose: Handmade using Cricut Flower Shoppe

Mulberry paper flowers: Ebay

Heart charm: Michaels Dollar Bin

Bling swirls: Recollections

Tiny ball fringe: Joann (How cute is that?)

Seam binding: Etsy

Large pearl brads and beads for stick pin: my stash

Border punch: Martha Stewart

Sentiment: Papertrey Ink

Cheesecloth: My kitchen

The frame for the sentiment was stamped and cut using my brand new Cricut Posh Frames set.  I just got it a couple of days ago.  After I have a chance to play with it some more, I'll right a little review to let you know what I think of it.

Here is one final shot of my card:

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Saturated Canary -- Paper piecing
Joanna Sheen -- So sweet
One Stitch at a Time -- #184 Use a digi
Robyn's Fetish Challenge -- #180 Use a digi
The Squirrel and the Fox -- Things with wings

As always, I appreciate your visit today and would love it if you could leave me a quick comment!

My first telescoping card

I think I may have just found a new contender for my favorite card style although I'm not sure anything can replace easel cards.  Today I tried my hand at a telescope card and it was so easy!  I love that it has so much impact and is really different from most cards.

It did, of course, take me much longer than it probably should have.  I'm just so darned indecisive on how to embellish cards.  There are so many things yet to learn about color, balance, scale, etc.  I'm getting there....I think.  My comfort level is increasing with each card I make so that's a positive sign.  And, besides, I'm having a blast.  What else matters?

The image used on this card is from Mo Manning.  Love, love, love her work!  It always puts a smile on my face to just look at one of her images.  They're really fun to color too.  There's enough detail to make it look great without so much that it becomes fussy.  There's a fine line between the two and Ms Manning seems to know just where it is.

Recipe for this card is as follows:

Papers:  Papertrey Ink, Bazzill, K&Company

Cricut cartridges: Elegant Edges, Flower Shoppe

Markers: ProMarkers

Stamps: Little Yellow Bicycle, Papertrey Ink, Inkadinka Doo,

Clear Dollar Stamps

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts and handmade for the light peach one

Brads, bling and ribbon: From my stash

Here's the card:

I do wish I had set the brad a little higher on the bottom panel.  I'll know better next time.  But don't you think it looks like there's static electricity in the little guy's hair as if the middle panel were a balloon?  I like the way it looks.  It's what I call a happy accident.

You can find this card in the following challenges:

Bronte & Bella's Blog -- Say it with flowers

Just Inspirational Challenges -- Die cuts/punches
Top Tip Tuesday -- Get in shape
Created with Love -- Anything goes
Digi Makeover Challenge -- Motion card
My Craft Creations -- Stamped or digi image
The Hobby House -- Hobby House artists
The Crafter's Cafe -- Flowers
I Love ProMarkers -- Anything goes
Divas by Design -- Anything goes

Gearing up for Halloween

I've decided to start listing some Halloween items over at my Etsy shop

and have started with a few cards.  Here are a couple of my favorites so far.

This cute little guy is trying to put on his best "mean" vampire look but I can't help but giggle.  His face was done with a stamp from the Peachy Keen Monster Mash Face Assortment.

I really like adore Peachy Keen face stamps.

I only have 3 sets in my collection....so far.

(She types as she fights the urge to go order more.)

The bat was cut at 1.25" using my Cricut and the Create a Critter 2 cartridge.  He's the icon found on page 59.  I cut his body out 3 times and, after trimming the ears off of the 2 bottom layers, glued all together with the wings staggered.  I did ink around all 3 layers with  Brilliance white before I attached them.  Cricut Craft Room was used to hide the features on his face.  As mentioned above, a Peachy Keen stamp added the sweet little face.  I colored his eyes and fangs with a white gel pen and covered the eyes with Glossy Accents.  The Glossy Accents just makes the eyes, in my opinion.

Papers from SEI, Bazzill, DCWV, and K&Company were inked with Momento Tuxedo black for the top layers and Brilliance white was used on the kraft card stock base layers.  I used a Martha Stewart punch to make a paper button using a scrap of the cute spider web patterned paper from K&Company and tied it on with orange, black and white bakers twine that I got at Glitter & Kitsch.

Hope you think he's as cute as I do!

This card will be joining the following challenges:

The Kraft Journal -- Cute critters
Peachy Keen -- Anything goes
Sparkles Forum Challenge -- Autumn colors
Addicted-to-Stamps Challenge -- Lots of layers
Kaboodle Doodles -- Anything with ink or paint
365 Cards -- Rounding the corners
Little Blue Button Stamps -- Use twine or rope

I used my Cricut again to make this evil beauty.  She is from the Art Nouveau cartridge and I love her.  She was cut at 3.5" and I decided not to use the back layer of the cut so that great harlequin patterned paper from K&Company could show through.  Glossy Accents was added to the "jewels" on her crown and just make them pop.  (Can ya tell I'm loving Glossy Accents?)

I used Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink to lightly ink the edges of her face, hair and crown.  Bazzill papers were used for all layers of the witch.

I cut the sentiment frame with Elegant Edge cartridge.  The "wicked" stamp, black and white ribbon and little purple brads were all from my stash.

Please leave me some comments.  I love to hear how others have used the same cartridges.  Or if you know of a challenge that either of these would work for, please let me know!

As always thanks for spending some time at my blog.