TSGBC03 - Part 2

Here I am again!

Wow... 2 posts per day... a record for me!

Here's my card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 3:

If you rember my previous post, the theme for Day 3 was given by a photo with a turquoise + red + white color scheme.

I've used a paper from DCWV and this lovely girl from There She Goes Blossom by Blossom stamp set.

It's such a lovely color scheme, it gives such a fresh look to cards!

Well, better go and prepare the card for Day 4: my daughter is already done and, I must confess, she had a couple of brillant ideas... I copied the two clouds glued together you see in this card, I loved the idea!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 3 - Part 1

My daughter is always ahead of me!

She finished her 3rd card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Challenge before me and she has already done her 4th card.

Here's her card:

On Day 3 the challenge was to make a birthday card inspired by this image:

We both chose the turquoise + red + white scheme and, of course, a There She Goes stamp (the dog is from the Puppy Love set while the tulips are from the Blossom by Blossom set).

There She Goes is opening a new store! I've already had a look and believe me, it's great! My computer is old and slow and looking through the stamps in the old store was a nightmare while now it's quick and easy!

See you later for my 3rd card!



TSGBC02 - Part 2

Here's my daughter's card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 2:

My stash of There She Goes Stamps lacking male images, she chose a dog from the Puppy Love set and the cake from the Ruh-roh set (it was her idea, not mine... I copied her...).

She then added bones on the picnic tablecloth and some pawprints (also from the Puppy Love set) assembled as a banner.

She wanted her card to resemble a gift, that's why she added a ribbon and bow on the top.

Her coloring of the dog inspired mine (well, yes, she was finished before me... she works fast!) and I love how she uses colored pencils!

We are already working on our card for Day 3, see you tomorrow!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 2 - Part 1

Good morning!

Here I am again, ready to post my card for There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 2:

The theme for day 2 is a masculine birthday card and I've used a lovely little dog from the Puppy Love set and a little cake from the Ruh-roh set.

I realize that I'm not too much into masculine cards, I'm more for pinks, blings and girly things!

Come back later for my daughter's card!

TSGBC01 - Part 2

Hi again!

Ready to post my card for Day 1 of There She Goes Birthday Blog Hop!

As I mentioned in my previous post, the theme today is Birthday + number.

I chose two images from the Believe in You stamp set and added some pretty papers and number 6.

I love it!

Both my daughter and I have worked hard today and are almost ready to link our cards for Day 2 of the blog hop! See you tomorrow!

There She Goes Birthday Celebration Day 1 - Part 1

Yesterday I saw that There She Goes Clear Stamps is turning 4 and that they are hosting a new Challenge everyday for the whole week.

I couldn't miss it and I immediately reached for my There She Goes stamps and started planning my card.

As soon as my daughter got up, I told her about the Challenges and she decided she wanted to create some cards too. She chose her image and, once the ink was dry, she created this card:

In addition to the birthday theme, each day there's an additional theme and yesterday it was to use numbers on the card or project.

She worked faster than me and managed to created this card with an image from the "Wrapped in Joy" stamp set (I'm sorry but the shop is under maintenance so I cannot save a direct link to the products). She then put number 2 on her cake and used an incredible quantity of rhinestones (she now has her own jewels so she can use as many as she wants without hearing me grumble...)!

Later today I'll be posting my card for Day One of this birthday celebrations!

Owls...

When I discovered Etsy a few years ago I discovered owls too.

I have friends who collect them but I've never taken too much care. But on Etsy... well... I've discovered such funny, tender, whimsical, cute owls that I'm starting to love them!

Even if I keep myself from starting a new collection of "physical" owls, I realize that I'm collecting digis with them as theme.

With one of my latest buy I created this card:

It was a pleasure to color and to embellish with glitter and I wanted to achieve a "night look" in the card, so I used very dark blue colors.

The image is Little Wizard Owl from Meljen's Designs, while the paper is again an old scrap and I don't remember the name of the Company.

I used Copics to color it and some glittery paper from DCWV.

I'll enter this card in Meljen's Designs Challenge # 125 - Anything Goes.

Isn't he cute?

Brown Bags

I've noticed that Brown Bags are a favourite among crafters and that there's a variety of small and big sacks around the internet.

I've always seens brown bags here too so when I read the theme for this week's challenge at Broken Box Stock I thought it was super easy.

It's about incorporating a brown bag into your card or project so I decided to go shopping.

I bought some fresh bread from the baker's and... it came in a white paper bag. I headed to the greengrocer's and bought some fruit and veggies and... they all came in white bags! I then bought some tiny pizzas in a bar for my daughter and again, white paper bags...

I was really worried that no brown bags were still available when, one day, I stopped at the grocer's I have close to my house and bought some peaches... voilà, a brown bag!

I cut parts of it and assembled them in this card:

I then printed this cute set of girl's faces available here at Broken Box Stock (it's a freebie so you cannot miss it!), colored them with Copics, cut them and glued them with 3D dots on the brown bag panel.

A simple ivory card, some pink and white baker's twine and an apple charm add a special touch.

Please, read full instructions for this challenge here and let's start creating! I'm sure you'll have less trouble in finding a brown bag!

Back to School? No, not yet, please!

Well... no, not yet!

Our region is one of the last to start school: Sept. 17! There's still plenty of time to think about it and it's still hot and sunny... for us it's still summer!

But it seems that things are a bit different around the world and school themed projects and cards seem to be the trend at this time of the year.

One of the things I love most while papercrafting is to create little notebooks and journals.

This time I've thought about something a bit different: instead of altering an existing plain notebook, I've created tiny post-it note holders:

I've used the Believe in You set of clear stamps by There She Goes. I colored each kid with Copics, cut them and glued them on the cover made with some DCWV patterned papers.

I'll enter There She Goes Challenge # 169 where the theme is Back To School.

I think I'll hide one of these little notes holders in my daughter's school bag!

It's a Sweet Summer at Broken Box Stock!

It's time for Challenge # 7 at Broken Box Stock!

The theme for this challenge is super-sweet: Summer Pastels!

It's been a bit difficult for me to choose pastel colors: we are having such a hot and dry summer that the colors I'd associate to it were mainly primary colors.

But I LOVE pastels, they are MY colors so I finally came up with this card:

I used Fairy Toodle digi stamp which you can find here in the shop, my Copics and a bright patterned paper (I'm sorry, but there was no clue of the manufacturer on the sheet).

Now, here are the directions for the Challenge:

Use a graphic from Broken Box Stock to create a card or paper craft featuring a soft, summery pastel color palette.

Feel free to use broken Box Freebies (you can view the entire freebie collection here).

Deadline is Thursday, August 23, 2012 @ 5:00 pm

Prize is $5.00 Gift Certificate to Broken Box Stock

Challenge Rules:
1) Use a Broken box clipart/digital stamp as the main design element.
2) Follow the challenge's specific design criteria above.
3) To enter your project in the challenge, use the "inlinkz" link tool in the Challenge page.
4) No back linking.
5) Up to 3 entries per person.
6) Subscribe to Broken Box blog so you know if you win (and claim your prize)!
7) We must have at least 5 entries to award a prize.

Have a look here to see full directions, links to freebies and, of course, the wonderful inspiring projects from the DT.
And don't forget to see the winner of Challenge # 6 - Free for All here