Relax!

A very quick post today: I want to show you a card I've just finished and... it's not a Christmas card!

I love making cards for Christmas but I'm working on them since January and I'm starting to be a bit tired...

Thus, I decided to make something with a new stamp from Broken Box Stock and made this card:

She is Bubble Bath Toodle (available here as black & white digi stamp and here in a very sweet colored version).

I chose the digi stamp but colored it with the same sweet colors as in the colored version.

Papers are from the Floral Pavillion paper pad by First Edition.

Ohh... I wish I had a bath tub to be like her!

This card is for the following challenges:

Designed to Color Challenge # 22: Tie It Up

Bunny Zoe Craft October Challenge: Ribbon

Through the Craftroom Door Challenge: Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody Challenge # 31: Anything Goes

One Stitch At a Time Challenge # 186: Anything Goes

Paper Roses.

Ever since I discovered them on a card some years ago, I fell in love with tiny paper roses.

I bought some but I rarely use them. I never reach for them to give a special touch to my cards and projects and I need to be inspired by something to use them.

This week I was inspired by Christmas Card Challenge # 47: the theme is FLOWERS so I had to reach for my paper roses and use them!

She is Wryn Goes Caroling, one of my favorite stamps from Tiddly Inks. I used lilacs to make my card, adding purple and pink roses on one corner (sorry, but the paper is again an old one with no name on it!).

I love how it turned out, I should really rememeber to use my roses more often!

As usual, have a look at the stunning creations of my fellow DT members:


Alanna

Anne C

Heather

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Sabrina

I'd like to enter the following challenges:
Winter Wonderland Challenge: Carol Singers
Moving Along with the Times Challenge: Christmas Cuties
Crafty Little Fairies Challenge: Christmas in October
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 229: Christmas
Polkadoodles Challenge # 42: Christmas is Coming
Deep Ocean Challenge # 62: Christmas is Round the Corner
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for October: Anything Goes

Tags.

I sometimes put my cards aside to make tags.

I love to make them, to prepare the piles of things I need to assemble my tags and I love to work in a sort of "mass production".

A few days ago I made these ones:

I first chose the image: I wanted to use the little mouse on the right and then I decided I needed to pair her with another image to make a set. They were both free from Dearie Dolls a while ago. I used a textured pink cardstock for the tag (I also made a blue version), a paper doily ribbon and a paper green stripe. Some snow dots made with paint and lots of glitter give the final touch.

Simple and oh... so cute!

I'm entering the following challenges:

The Cutie Pie Challenge # 55: Cute and Tag-tastic!

Christmas Cards All Year Round October Challenge: Getting Ready for Christmas

Jingle Belles Challenge: Pink Christmas...for the Cure

Sparkles Christmas Challenge # 33: Anything but a Card

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for October: Christmas

Moving Along with the Times Challenge: Christmas Cuties

Paper Makeup Stamps Challenge # 110: Clean and Simple

Crafting by Designs Challenge: Anything Goes with 2 Sponsors 

Pink, Brown & White at Christmas Card Challenges.

Although I like unusual color combos for my Christmas cards, I wasn't too happy when I read I had to use Pink, Brown and White to make my DT card for this week's challenge at Christmas Card Challenges.

The only thing I managed to think about was a dog or a bear stamp I could paint brown... yes, not very original.

I ended up with two digis painted brown with pink and white accents and I asked my daughter to choose the best one for a Christmas card:

This digi is again from the CIJ 2013 set from Doodle Dragon Studios, a real mine for Christmas images with cute animals!

A kraft card and some light brown, pink and white details here and there and the card was done.

I actually love this color combo!
I didn't add too many embellishments because I wanted to make a card suitable for boys too. Do you think that the pink accents are too many for a male card?

Have a look at my fellow DT cards, you'll certainly get plenty of inspiration!

Alanna

Anne C

Heather

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Sabrina

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Chistmas Challenge #146: Make It Square
Bearly Mine Challenge #107: Ribbon/String/Twine
Stampin for the Weekend Challenge: Anything Goes
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Cards for the Men
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: Anything Goes

It's Time for an Inspirational Photo Challenge at Christmas Card Challenges!

This week I've had a great fun making my DT card for Christmas Card Challenges because the theme fitted one of my new stamps from Doodle Dragon Studios perfectly.

This image was probably the reason why I bought the Christmas in July 2013 set! Here's my card:

(I'm sorry but I don't manage to upload the inspiration photo from our Yahoo group, I've had so many issues since they renovated the site that everytime I need to work with it it's a nightmare!).

This snail is soooo cute with her home decorated for Christmas! She's definitely getting ready for Christmas!Patterned paper is from the Merry & Bright Collection from Cartabella, while the dotted paper is from Pink Petticoat.

Due to my problems with the Yahoo Group, I've had but a few sneak peaks of my teammates cards this week, so we all must have a look at their creations:

Alanna

Anne C

Heather

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Sabrina

Hope you'll have the same fun I've had making this card! Can't wait to see your creations!

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:
Christmas Cards All Year Round: Getting Ready for Christmas
CraftyHazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: Anything Goes
Fab'n'Funky Challenge # 187: Ribbon
Crafty Caz Challenge # 201: Anything Goes

Halloween Princess.

Maybe it's a bit late to make cards for Halloween but I've had an image for almost one year and I wanted to use it!

This is my card:

And this cute girl disguised as a princess is Trick or Treat Princess Toodle from Broken Box Stock (as most of their digis it is available here as a black & white digi stamp and here in a very romantic colored version).

I've used some papers scraps I've had for ages (I'm sorry, no brand was written in my scraps) and some tiny Halloween-themed decorations on a black card base.

This card is for the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs Challenge: Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge: Halloween

2 Creative Chicks Challenge # 7: Halloween

The Stamping Boutique Challenge # 66: Halloween

Autumn Colors.

I love fall!

I esepcially love the colors, the light, the warm temperatures, almost everything.

My mum doesn't like autumn because there's winter just around the corner... I love autumn despite winter is just around the corner!

I was very happy when, checking if I was a winner in last week's challenge, I noticed that this week theme at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge was "Colors of Fall".

I've had this digi stamp from Broken Box Stock ready to be colored for a while and this challenge has given me the right inspiration to create a card with it, this one:

It is called Cornucopia (available here as black and white digi stamp) and I've really loved coloring it with my Copics!

The paper is from the Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Collection.

This card is for the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge # 167: Colors of Fall

One Crazy Stamper Octoner Challenge: Thanksful/Autumn Challenge

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes

ABC Challenge: W for Words

Anything Goes! At Christmas Card Challenges.

When I'm feeling very creative, the "Anything Goes" theme in a challenge is always a joy!

I've had this image from Doodle Dragon Studios already colored for a while but I didn't manage to create a card with it.

A few days ago, I was diggind through my card samples and discovered this buried little kraft card and... it was THE right card for my little owl!

(Buy now $ 3.65)

I had in mind a moon and a simple layout, without papers and embellishments and I finally managed to create it!

This card is for this week's challenge at Christmas Card Challenges where the theme is "Anything Goes".

As usual, take a look at all the other cards from my fellow DT, they are always amazing!



Alanna

Anne C

Anne J

Heather

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Sabrina

I'd also like to enter ABC Christmas Challenge: S is for Stockings

and

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: Anything Goes

Clean and Simple.

I've recently discovered a new digi stamp company with adorable little critters and, of course, I had to have at least one of them...

I also discovered their challenge blog and, inspired by this week's theme, I've just finished a very clean and simple card where, for the first time, I've used colored pencils without watercoloring them.

Let me show my card first:

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This lovely mouse is Columbo from Paper Pretties and the theme of their Challenge is "No Designer Paper".

Probably because I chose a pale grey Canson cardstock which is a bit textured, the job proved more difficult than foreseen but I love the result! A clean and simple look!

This card is for the following challenges:

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC277: No Designer Paper

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge # 166: Clean and Simple

Crafting By Design Challenge: Anything Goes

Aren't Mice Cute?

Mice are one of those creatures that are awful if seen in real life but are terribly cute when illustrated.

I'm not one of those women who cries out loud at the sight of a mouse (not that I see lots of mice in my town) but they are related to dirt and diseases so I always stay far from them.

I remember when I was a little girl and spent my summer in my grandparents' house in the country that everythime a mouse was seen in the kitchen (very tiny mice actually), they threw open food away, washed the containers and everything in the kitchen.

I adore them when I see them illustrated and this week I chose a couple of very cute mice for my Christmas Card Challenge DT card.

The theme this week is a sketch, this one:

And I made this card:

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I've used Mistletoe Mice digi stamp from Broken Box Stock (available here as a black and white freebie and here in a colored version) and my new papers from the Nordic Christmas pad from First Edition. I love this color combo of blue-greys and red!

Have a look at my fellow DT members' creations to get inspired!

Alanna

Anne C

Anne J

Heather

Jenn

Jovita

Karen

Margo

Sabrina