Little Red Wagon - Challenge #286 - Seeing Spots

This week over at Little Red Wagon, Joanne has us seeing spots .... Spots, dots or blots.

(After watching the Blackhawks beat the Predators last night in triple overtime, until 1:15 am, I feel like I'm seeing spots this early!)

Anyway ... I chose this adorable ladybug image from Bugaboo called Ladybug Stack - Lots of Spots on these little critters.

 I colored this digital image with my Polychromos, then added Glossy accents to the spots, their noses and their antennae.  Then a little bit of diamond stickles for the flower bits.

Stampin Up cardstock in Saffron and Ballet blue with some digital paper with daisies on them.  Finished off with a strip of lace and a pretty saffron grosgrain knotted ribbon.

Here's a close up of the image:

Hope you like it.  Make sure to head over to Little Red Wagon and check out the challenge - would love to see what you can do with SPOTS - DOTS - BLOTS.

 

Have a wonderful day!

The Outlawz "Paper Piecing" Challenge for this week

This week's challenge over at The Outlawz's Saturday Paper ala Mode is PAPER PIECING.  Our wonderful sponsor this week is Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

I chose the Girlz Bare Feet image and colored her with Copics.  I printed same image out onto the digital paper and paper pieced her dress to match the background print, and then shaded that with Copics as well.

Supplies used:
Bugaboo Digital image
Cardstock:  SU Pink Pirouette, Brocade Blue
DP:  digital paper from Etsy/Quakasue
Heart doily sponged with blue
Dies:  Poppy's Lyndon Butterfly & Elsa Butterfly (reversed each)
Flowers: Wild Orchid
Pearls for accents

Here is a close up of this cutie:

Hope you have a chance to play along in our Saturday Ala Mode Paper Piecing contest this week ... would love to see your creations. 

 

Have a wonderful week!

Saturday's Paper ala Mode Challenge at The Outlawz 1-3-15

This week's Paper ala Mode Challenge over at The Outlawz involved making your own background paper.  Our sponsor this week was Bugaboo Stamps, and I used the image, "Jack and Diane" ...

For this challenge, I started with embossing a piece of Certainly Celery (SU) cardstock with the Cuttlebug "Stylized Flowers".

I then sponged the raised portions with SU inks

After this, I smoothed it with a bone folder to flatten the image and then ran it through the Cuttlebug "Argyle" folder

And then added some navy ink with a sponge before flattening it once again with the bone folder.

The next step was to stamp all over with a script background stamp in rose red (SU).

 

Here's the card, once again ...

 

and a close up of how it looked after the card was assembled ...

I haven't decided if I want to use this for an anniversary card, engagement card, or what, so I'm leaving it without a sentiment for now ...

 

Hope you have time to play along ...

would love to see what you come up with as a background.

Have a wonderful day!

 

Thank you, Chief Smith

Here are some cards I made for a friend's husband who's been deployed to the Middle East.  My cheerleaders are going to write notes to him and send him a little care package this week.  I kept all the layers simple because he's in the military and didn't want a lot of frou frou and we can't send them with anything glittery ...

Bugaboo digital image colored with Copics

 

 

 Meljens digital image colored with Copics

 

 Mo's Digital Pencil digital image colored with Copics

 

 

Sweet 'n Sassy digital image colored with Copics.

Digital papers are from Grepic on Etsy and Bearly Mine Designs

 

Hope you enjoy them, and I hope Chief Smith likes them as well.

Have a wonderful day!

This week at Stamps R Us!

This next fortnight's sponsor at Stamps R Us is Bugaboo Digital Stamps. 

Such a great collection of whimsical images - you're sure to be delighted!

I chose the Big Bow Topper this time and colored her with Copics then cut her out and popped her up in a square of blues to look like a window.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts, popped up even further.

Hope you like it enough to check out the Bugaboo storefront yourself!  Make sure to post your card over at Stamps R Us.

Have a great day!

The theme of the challenge this week at Stamps R Us is "In the Kitchen", and it's sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps.  Jodie has some fun, whimsical images as well as pertinent sentiments that are just as fun.   I couldn't decide which to choose from, so I made 2 cards.

For this first one, I used JJ's Cook image, which comes with the sentiment used here.  I colored her with Copics and added some glossy accents to the wine glass and her spectacles. I found this great digital paper at Bearly Mine Designs. I couldn't believe the selection of wonderful digital papers she has - and I didn't finish looking. Anyway ... I loved this cherry paper on top of the red gingham. So 'kitchen-y'. I added a ribbon and some rhinestones to finish things off.

My second card was made with Bugaboo's Crabby Cathy's Dishes image.  If this isn't the truth, I don't know what is.  Everyone wants to lounge around the table after dinner here at my house talking about their day until I get up to clean up, then everyone all of a sudden has chores or a phone call to return or a facebook account to check, lol.  I colored her with Copics and added some glossy accents to the bubbles and water drip.  I colored the pearls with E08 Copic to match the layout.  Finished with some brown bakers twine.

Head on over to Stamps R Us to see more details on the challenge - it runs for 2 weeks, so get your card in by March 21st to be eligible for a randomly drawn prize, courtesy of Bugaboo Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!