A Huge Happy Birthday-SKdigis

When I saw this so freakin cute elephant that Sonia has just come out with I absolutely had to make something with it!  I think he is just the cutest elephant EVER! 

 I colored him up with copics, used pattern paper, my border punch, some prima flowers, the leaves are from a punch and I just drew lines on them with my copic, the banner was actually part of the pattern paper pad that I used and hand cut, then flipped it so I had the polka dot side.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Paper Smooches and I used orange and blue gems.  I used the sketch at SKdigis Challenge  for the inspiration.  I hope you like it, and I hope you will check out the challenge, see what the other designers have done with the sketch and see some new digi images. 

Also remember, there is a FANtastic Linky Party each month and the sketch challenge each week. There is a progressive challenge with the opportunity to receive a free digi each month.  Please check it out!! 

Have a wonderful day! :)

 

Here is the sketch I used from SKdigis

 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Sunday Stamper-Roses

Lexi's Creations -Birthday

+Hiding in My Craft Room-Use a Critter

+Seize the Birthday-Birthday Celebration

 

SKdigis Inspiration and a little Magic!

Happy Tuesday to ya!! 

 We have some more inspiration coming to ya from SKdigis.  I used this cute image called Little Magician & it comes with the stage...how awesome is that?! 

 I printed out the stage on colored paper and paper pieced that part, punched out a bunch of stars with a paper punch and silver glitter paper, then colored that adorable little guy with my copics.  I typed the sentiment on the computer and added a black brad, a border punch at the bottom and white line stitching around the edges.  I hope you like it!  Please come check out the other DT girls and their amazing projects. 

Sonia also has a sketch and a cut file for that sketch you can find HERE

Also there is a month long SKdigis FANtastic Linking Party that you can link up to when you create anything using an SKdigi image!

I would like to enter the following challenges:

+ABC Challenges-V is for VERY cute

+Crafty Catz-Men/Boys

+Sister Act Card Challenge-ATG

+Totally Papercrafts-Birthday Boys

+Seize the Birthday-ATG

+Stamp and Create -Birthdays

SKdigis Inspiration

Hello to ya! I want to share this darling little image called Traveler Snail and it's an SKdigis image.  Sonia has been super busy drawing up some of the cutest images.  I chose this image and colored with copics, added some stickles to two of the flower centers and then glossy accents on the other two flowers and the butterfly. I had a sheet of stickers and I used the Hooray for Today one, most likely this will be a birthday card! 

Head over to SKdigis to check out the other girls and their amazing projects, and remember our month long SKdigis FANtastic Linky Party.  Link up any of your cards or other projects using an SKdigis image!

Hope to see ya there and hope you like my card...I think that snail is so cute!! :)

Sonia has provided this sketch for us to play with and she even has an SVG cut file for the sketch.  Please head over to SKdigis to check it out, she also has a couple of freebies available!! 

 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

+ABC Challenges-Use your Markers

Just Keep Swimming

Look how cute this image is!!!  Sonia at SKdigis has been drawing and creating again and has some super fun images she will be releasing.

 I got to play with Coral Reef 1 and created this fun card.   I colored with copics, used papers from  My Minds' Eye Follow Your Heart 6x6 paper pad.   I cut banners and printed the sentiment out using Spicy Sushi Roll font.  You can find the image HERE,  and then keep looking for some other fun releases in the next few days!  Sonia is also offering a freebie until July 24th at noon EST, go pick it up and then join our month long FANtastic Linking Party, we would love to see your wonderful creations using SKdigis!!

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Paper Playtime-Patten Paper

+Creative Creations Challenge-ATG

+Brown Sugar-ATG

+Sister Act Card Challenge-ATG

+Your Next Stamp-photo or sketch

+Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog-An Octopus's Garden

SKdigi Fan Linking Party

I put together this card using the SKdigi image FLOWERS in Vase #3http://www.shopskdigis.com/2013/05/flowers-in-vase-3.html

for some reason my linking tool isn't working and my blogging is really wonky...UGH. 

Anyway, I had fun playing with this cute image, colored with copics, used some prima flowers, embossed the background and inked it and then layered some papers. 

I'm linking it up over at SKdigis linking party.  Here: http://skdigis.blogspot.com/2013/07/FANtasticLinkingParty-july.html

Sketchy Friday #16

Here is another awesome sketch from Sonia over at Sketchy Friday.  I used Bo the Dragonfly, colored with copics, used some gems, some primas and pattern papers from My Minds Eye-My Girl 6x6 stack.

Hop on over to Sketchy Friday to check out the other awesome projects from my DT sisters and join the fun for a chance to win SKdigis!

I am entering this into the following challenges
+Aud Sentiments-Happy Birthday
Crafting-With-Dragonflies-  Dragonfly image

Happy Octopus!

I made this card using the adorable Happy Octopus from Skdigis and used the sketch from Challenge 14 over at Sketchy Friday as my inspiration.  Isn't she just the cutest??!!!  Now, I just need a sentiment to go with her.  I was thinking something along the lines of "YOU OCTIPY my thoughts".  I'm not sure if Octipy/Octipi  is a word, is that what you call plural octopus?? Does anyone know! lol...I'm not sure, but if you have any suggestions for a good sentiment, please feel free to comment!! :)

Also, there is a new sketch up to play with over at Sketchy Friday, come join us for some fun!!

I am linking up over at +Craftin Desert Diva's linky party

Sketchy Friday #9

Here is the awesome sketch for this week over at Sketchy Friday



I just love the sketches that Sonia comes up with and also her super fun digi images. She is one seriously talented woman!  Come on over and join us...you can use any image, any stamp from any company, just follow the sketch!

Here is my card using this sketch!

 I used the cute SNAIL WITH LADYBUG image and colored with copics.  I used white pigment ink on the edges, white gel pen for the stitching, the clouds and sun are svgs from Miss Kates Cuttables, the border is from my fiskers punch, yellow ribbon, grass is paper cut with Martha Stewart multiple blade scissors. I embossed the clouds with cuttlebug swiss dot folder.  The sentiment is from Red Rubber Designs and the inside says "Is Simply Delightful"   I just love that cute snail!! Hope you will come join us! :)

I am entering the following challenges:
Craft Us Crazy-Anthing Goes
Crafty Ribbon Challenge-Anything Goes
+Cute Card Thursday-Something Old-Ribbon and all papers are from stash that I have had for several years.
+One Stitch at a Time-Use a Digi
+Pile It On-Sunshine

Follow the Rainbow ....

over to SKdigis to pick up all the cute images/sentiments/digi papers you will need for your St. Patricks projects!   I used the Pot of Gold to make this fun card and also the circle sentiment is from SKdigis, along with the shamrock pattern paper!  So cute! Go check it out, I'm sure you will find something you can't live without!! ;)

 

 

 

 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Craft us Crazy-Show your favorite....copics! :)

 +ABC Challenges-stitching faux or real

+Digi Makeover Challenge-Anything Goes using a digi stamp

 

 

 

Sketchy Friday #3

You ROCK my world!! I love this image! It's an image from Skdigis and I used it for sketch #3 at Sketchy Friday Challenge.  Here is the sketch.



And my card...I colored with copics and used various pattern paper, the border is a punch from fiskers, I added the brads and some line work.  I also flipped the sketch.  Come join us for another fun sketch and link up for your chance to win! Also check out the awesome projects my DT sisters have created...they have some wicked skillz! :D

Merry Christmoose

 I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  I traveled a couple hours to spend the day with my grandparents, their health isn't good and I'm not quite sure how much time they have left, so it was really good to see and spend time with them.

 

I had a very relaxing holiday weekend, 4 1/2 days off of work...YAY!!  Did NO black friday shopping and tried to stay off the roads at all times during this crazy weekend.  Ash was in Vegas with her dad and Steve had to work most of the weekend, so I had alot of alone time.  I don't know about anyone else..but I LOVE ALONE TIME.  I've always thought I would make a really good hermit.  I'm more of a homebody and most of my hobbies are done indoors, and I just sometimes love solitude.  I've considered that maybe I'm just weird...and I'm ok with that!

 

Ok, enough rambling and on to my card.  I've used SKdigi's Christmoose image.. he's just so stinkin cute! I knew I had to color him up right away.  Look at him..he's too fun!  I really need to work on my coloring though, I am definitely wanting to take a class and learn to color better so images really stand out.  In fact, I'm hoping to take a class from Created from Color, the basic class and work up from there. I've hinted at it for a Christmas present, so I'm crossing my fingers!  Anyway, here is my card, I've used scrap Winter papers, a few punches, gems, the snowflakes were a cricut cut from Joys of the Season cartridge and then the moose and sentiment were from SKdigi's.  I inked around the edges and looks like I got a little carried away with the ink on part of it... :/    ACK!

 

You still have a couple days to join our linking party over at SKdigis HERE the theme is ANYTHING GOES!

 

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday!! :)

 

 

 

I am entering the following challenges

 

+Love To Create-Non-Traditional Holiday Colors

 

+Paper Playtime-Anything Goes

 

Scrap Creations-Merry Christmas

 

+Card Mania-Pearls and Swirls

 

+The Paper Girls-Christmas or Winter

Home Sweet Home --SKdigis Challenge #6

I made this card using the super cute Mushroom Home from SKdigis.  Our challenge was to use a shape other than a square or rectangle-I chose hexagon and bought the hexagon card cutting file from The Cutting Cafe.  Also, our challenge is ANYTHING GOES as far as the image, Sonia has several really cute freebies on her site.

 I just layered several hexagons, paper pieced the mushroom and grass, everything I used came from my scrap bin!  Love when that happens!! I also  used glossy accents on the caterpillar and stickles on the butterfly.  I hand cut the clouds and ran a copic marker around the edges and then dotted them with white enamel accents.  The Home Sweet Home sentiment is from Doodlebug rub on alphabet. I also shaded a little and used a white gel pen for line work.  I LOVE this image and had fun playing with it.  I hope you will join our challenge over at SKdigis!

I am entering the following challenges:

+Cute Card Thursday-Paper Piecing

+PaperPlay-Simply Cute

+Flutterby Wednesday-Butterfly or Fairy + Kraft

+Pile It On-Shaped Card

+Papertake Weekly-All creatures Great and Small

Hiding in my Craft Room-Scraps

BOO! SKdigis Spooky Nights Challenge

Our challenge this week is SPOOKY NIGHTS...use any SKdigi ghost on your project. There is a cute FREEBIE ghost image that you can use to play with our challenge. HERE

 Here is the card I made.  The background is a 6x6 square from Bo Bunny Hoolians collection, I added the cute little ghost and the BOO sentiment and frame. This made for a very cute but very simple card. Love when that happens!   So...come join us for some fun and play along with our challenge.  Hope to see ya there!!

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

+Craft Us Crazy-Anything Goes or Halloween

+Paper Playtime-Trick or Treat + Die cut or punch

Black & White + 1 SKdigi Challenge

Come join us for a fun challenge over at SKdigis Challenge Blog, this is our second challenge and it's a fun one!

Here is the card I made for the challenge.  I used Happy Frog, colored with copics, cut the lily pad, and the sign from Create a Critter, the black and white polka dot background is from Bo Bunny. Can I just say that I LOVE polka dots....they are so happy!!  Anyways back to the card, the flowers were primas and I just scrunched them together and added a little stickles for some sparkle and a little gem. The words on the sign are doodlebug simply sweet letters, added some twine, and used a border punch for some added interest.

Hope you like it and don't forget to check out the other design team projects, they have some wicked talent!  Hope you all have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

I am entering the following challenge:

2 Sisters-B&W+1

Owl-ways Love you.......Critter Sketch Challenge

This is the card I made for our challenge that is based on this sketch from Colleen Spangler. I really like this sketch and it worked perfectly for the image I used from SKdigis who is our sponsor this month. 

 I love this little owl, he was a lot of fun to color and play with.  I just used scraps that I had, so I'm not sure what brand or collection they come from, basically, I just used paper and colored the image with copics. No extra embellishments or anything.  Well, I hope you like it and I hope you join our challenge over at Critter Sketch, go check out our sponsor SKdigis, there are alot of super fun images, and lots for Halloween!

Hope you all have a great week!!

I am entering the following challenges

+Corrosive Challenge-Animal Companions

+Di's Digi Designs-Use more than one Die Cut or Punch: border punch, moon and stars

+Craft Punked-Pets

+Willow Sketchie Challenge-Things with Wings

Call Me.....Maybe?

Ok, so I just had to use SKdigis Talking Bird again to create this card so I could incorporate (like my big, unneccesary word?) the song words/title of Call Me...Maybe.   That song is like a broken record that just spins round and round, gets stuck and won't get out of my head. UGH, and while I might be really sick of that song, I am not sick of this digi...I mean, how cute!

the inside says Maybe? 

I used the distressed dots background stamp from Unity, Talking Bird from SKdigis, colored with copics, the letter stickers and torn out background is from the Bo Bunny Ad Lib collection. I googled word bubbles,printed and cut it out, there is glossy accents on the cell phone.  Cute and simple!

I am entering the following challenges

{PIN}spirational- I used the blue and green from this photo.

+Frosted Designs-Phones

+Gingerloft-Birds of a Feather

+Just Add Ink-Polka Dots

SKdigis Challenge Inauguration Blog Hop

SKdigis and the wonderful Design Team invite you to join us as we kick off this new challenge blog with some inspiration using the cute and creative SKdigis images.

If you are coming from visiting Larelyn at Hand Made From the Heart, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to join in the fun during our Inauguration Blog Hop and Challenge, click HERE.

Each designer in the hop line up is featuring a project using one of the many digi designs you can find in the SKdigis online store, even several freebies to download now!

Here is my project for the hop.  I used the Queen Bee image from SKdigis, colored it up with my copics, the base of my card is the blossom card from My Scrap Chick, I used glossy accents on the septer, stickles on the wings, a gold glitter pen on the crown and wand, primas, brads, ribbon, and a small tag with rub on letters. I also used my white Ranger pen for line work.  All SKdigi images are so adorable, your project can't help but to turn out super cute!

What's really exciting about this hop is that you too can participate by creating a project using a SKdigi image and linking it up over at SKdigis Challenge Blog for a chance to win! Winners will be chosen by the DT and will be as follows.

• First Place: Wins a USD $6 gift certificate for SKdigis Store and a special button for your blog.
• Second Place and Third Place: Wins a USD $3 gift certificate for SKdigis Store and a special button for your blog.

Plus, each DT member along the way has a $6.00 gift certificate to SKdigis store to give to one lucky winner. I will draw the winner for the gift certificate on Friday September 7th, that will give you the chance to shop for some new digis and enter the challenge! Please leave your contact information in the comment section!

Before you get started, there's a twist! You need to visit all the blogs in the hop line-up to collect the hidden words that when put together will reveal the challenge.  Once you have revealed the challenge, link up your project over at SKdigis Challenge Blog so we can see your fabulous work.

Now, your next stop is Shelly over at Cards By Shelly. See what she has in store for you today and look for her hidden word.  If you didn't catch my hidden word...it's images

Remember, once you have hopped to all the blog stops, it's your turn to show us your Inauguration Blog Hop project.

Deadline to link up your project is Midnight EST September 12 to be eligible for the prize.

And for an extra prize, I'm adding my own blog candy to the hop.  To be eligible for this prize you must do two things:

1) Be a follower and leave me a comment that you are following.

2) Leave a comment on this post & tell me which SKdigi image so far is your favorite, and leave a way for me to reach you if you are the lucky winner. 

This prize includes a 48 sheet Halloween paper pack from Recollections (4.5x6.5) a paper pack from K&Company 18 sheets-double sided (4 3/4 x 6 3/4), K&Company spider/bling stickers, 5 Halloween stamps, 2 pkg gems white/green and 3 ink pads in black, green and purple.

There are lots of prizes to win, so join the fun, show us all your wonderful talent and have fun!!  It's that Easy!

I will draw the winner for my blog candy  from those who leave a comment and follow  Sept 15th. Good luck and Happy Hopping!!! 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

+Tammy's Scrappin Corner-Anything With Wings

+The Poodles Parlour-Winged Things

+C.R.A.F.T challenge-Shaped Card

Back to School-Critter Sketch Challenge

Over at Critter Sketch , we have a fun Back to School challenge today. SKdigis is our sponsor for September, which is really fun, because I am a part of that design team and today they are kicking off their very first Blog Hop and Challenge!  Come check it out and take a look at the SKdigis store to find some super cute images!

I made these fun treats for my daughter and a few of her friends, I'm a little late, as school started over 2 weeks ago, but it's the thought that counts right?  I just used clear treat bags and made tags with the Happy Fish image, used scraps of paper and washi tape on the tag, and put Swedish Fish in the bags

Here is my card for the Back to School challenge using SKdigis Happy Fish image.  I did a "school" of fish for the front and inside it says "Best Fishes for a Great School Year" 

I printed out a couple sheets of Happy Fish in all differents sizes, colored them with copics, added stickles, pattern paper and a tag hanging from twine....I was going for the fishing line look with the twine, not sure if it works or not,but I think it turned out anyway!

I based this on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, but won't enter the challenge.....I tend to get messy with the inks and distressing, but after I flipped the sketch, it was what worked for this card.

So come join us over at Critter Sketch, link up your creation and play along!  Hope to see ya there!!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

+Card Mania-On the Beach/In the Sea

+Incy Winchy Designs-Back to School

+Love to Create-Back to School

Let's Chat

I used SKdigis Talking Bird image to create this fun card.  The card base is from Studio G that I picked up at Michaels. I colored the bird with copics, the flower and flower center is a SVG cut from My Scrap Chick, I covered the base with washi tape, embossed the flower and inked it with orange ink...it's kinda hard to see, for some reason it didn't photograph well... I printed out the sentiment...think Verizon commercial and added some ribbon. Believe me, it looks better in person! ;)

Just a reminder to mark this fun blog hop on your calendars!!

I'm entering the following challenges:

Crafty Catz-Ribbon and Bows

Tammy's Scrappin Corner-Anything Goes

Paper Playtime-Polka Dots and a Sentiment

A Parade of Hippos and a crazy week!

This past week has been a little busy/crazy....Steve and I went to LA to visit his daughter in the hospital, we ended up getting lost twice on the way to our hotel at 10 at night. We ended up in downtown LA caught in the maze of high rises and backstreets, then  we finally got to our hotel.........(seriously we were bordering Compton......not a great place  & I'm never letting Steve book our hotel again) by the time we got to the hotel, my nerves were so shot and I was so uptight I thought I'd never get to sleep, but coming down from that adrenaline rush must have wiped me out, cuz I slept really good.  The hotel was really bad, I mean bad, and that's all I'm going to say...I'm still trying to block that memory out!    Then the difficult stay with my step-daughter, watching her as sick as she is and then two days later having to leave, talk about hard.  Plus, that LA traffic is a nightmare, we almost got hit for serious twice and had some close calls several other times.  I was so grateful to get home and out of that rat race.

Back home we got right into school registration, class changes, school shopping and all the time I was just wanting to carve out some space and time to sit and create.  I finally got that time and finished up these cute cards!

I made several cards using the Happy Hippo image from SKdigis, they are all about the same style & design, but with a few differences on each one.  I paper pieced the hippo and either put googly eyes on some, or traced and cut out white ones and put a drop of black enamel accents for the center of the eye.  I cut the water and the bushes from Create a Critter-accessories for the hippo, all was matted on kraft, then black, then another color.  I printed out the sayings and used HUGE or TON in the sentiment...anything using those words are perfect for a Hippo!!!  I used my grey copic C7 to color in the ears, mouth, toes, and spots, then added white line detail with my white pen from Ranger.  I added ribbon, flowers, photo corners and finished the inside with a coordinating strip of paper with another bush or two.  So......here they are, six in all!!





I love how they turned out, and how stinkin cute is that hippo!!    Please go check out SKdigis for some fun digital stamps and backgrounds!