Pinkoctober at Jellypark!

The other day, while browsing my favourite blogs, I discovered Jellypark Challenges. I already knew their digi stamps and I decided I had to enter a card.

The theme is PINK and I bought a digi stamp both my daughter and I liked. The proceedings of the sale of this digi help to raise money for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer and I loved the idea to help such a great cause.

I made this card:

I've used the Breakthrough Breast Cancer song in your heart digi stamp colored with Copics and glitter. it comes with this lovely sentiment so it was easy to finish the card using a patterned paper from the Neighbourwood Collection, a satin ribbon and some pearls.

I'm entering this card in:

Jellypark Challenge: PINK!

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge # 176: Monochromatic

Delicious Doodles Challenge # 6: Monochrome

Pink Christmas

I love to use PINK for Christmas!

And when I read Jingle Belles Challenge theme for this week, I couldn't help doing another pink card.

Luckily enough, I'm quite free from commissions so I've had the time to make this:

I've used Minnie Christmas Lights, a lovely funny stamp from Tiddly Inks.

When I start making my Christmas tree and unwrap my decorations, I often found lights tangled and I have absolutely no patience to untangle them! I feel I'm a bit like this Minnie...

The challenge at Jingle Belles is a serious one this time: Pink Christmas for the Cure! The girls will be donating $2 for each card: read this post for all the info!

This card is for the following challenges:

Jingle Belles: Pink Christmas

Crimbo Crakers Challenge # 26: Pink

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long Challenge # 32: Anything Goes

Let's make some PINK Christmas cards and help raise founds for the cure!

Broken Box Stock Challenge: Halloween!

It's time for a new Challenge at Broken Box Stock: Make a Halloween Card!

I've made two cards this time.

The first one uses Spooky Halloween Toodle:

I colored her with Copics and glitter and mounted her on black paper. She is glued with foam paads on a dotted paper I found a while ago at My Grafico. The moon is made with a circle punch and it is embellished with gems and a glittered bat.

I love her!

The second card is this one:

I've used Haunted Halloween House, colored with Copics and mounted in on a silver cardstock glued over a dark grey card.

Both images exist in a black and white and in a colored version, just in case you need somemthing quicker to create with.

And now for the rules:

Challenge Directions: 

Make a Halloween themed card. 

NEW RULES ADJUSTMENT! 

You NO longer have to use Broken Box Stock graphics within your design. Any cards entered will be considered! However, we do encourage you to take a look at our digi-stamps and graphics at Broken Box Stock.

FREEbies for you!

Feel free to use our freebies!

Deadline: Thursday, October 18, 2012 @ 5:00pm

Prize

FREE MEMBERSHIP to our new Digi-Stamp Club! - Receive 52 digital stamps over a year (one new digi per week), a $9.99 value! This is an amazing prize, don't miss out on the chance to win! :)

Challenge Rules: 

1) Follow the challenge's specific design criteria above.

2) To enter your card in the challenge, use our "inlinkz" link tool.

3) No back linking.

4) Up to 3 entries per person.

Let's start creating your Halloween cards for friends and family!

In case you need some inspiration, don't forget to have a look at the other creations from the DT!

Cards for Boys - Part 2

Here I am with my second Card for a Boy:

This time I've used a very sweet image from Meljen's Designs, colored with Copics and mounted on DCWV paper and card. The flower border is a gift from a magazine and I added two buttons and two little pearls.

Isn't he lovely?

I'll enter this card in:

Meljen's Design Challenge # 129: Just Because

Cards for Boys - Part 1

I'm still pretty busy with commissions and I've just finished a couple of cards for a sweet lady who wanted cards for boy.

It's quite strange but cards for boy are rarely in my cards-to-do list, I always think about girly card, even when I make Christmas or Halloween cards.

This is one of the tow boy cards:

This image is Pilot Ted from Di's Digi Downloads and I think it's perfect for a sweet little boy!

I've treated myself with several Di's Digis in this period because I've had several commissions for Christening cards and her images are lovely!

I've used a very very old paper: I bought it so many years ago... I think it's from an Italian company but I'm not sure.

I slightly modified the digi stamp and put flags in the bear's hands instead of the bunch of flowers it came with.

I had some time this morning to check if there was a challenge to enter my card and luckily enough I can enter two:

Di's Digi Designs Challenge: Animals acting like People

and

Cards for Men Challenge # 20: Animal Magic

See you later for my second boy card!

Busy, Busy...

I'm pretty busy with custom orders and I really have little time to make something different than what I'm asked to create but yesterday I wanted to relax and make a new Christmas card.

Inspired by Moving Along with the Times Challenge I've created this card:

Last year I made a lovely card with Mistletoe Jasper from DigiStamp Boutique and I wanted to make a new one for this year.

The inspiration was to make something red and I've used this perfect paper from Papermania where I added lots of rhinestones to make it sparkle. Jasper is embellished with pearls and two buttons are added to the yellow ribbon.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Movina Along with the Times: Seeing RED!

Digistamp Boutique September Customer Competition: just use a DSB image

and

J and C Creations September Challenge: Cute Christmas

Fall Colors

In these last years fall has become my favorite season.

I love the warm weather, the return to the routine, the light and the colors.

Strange enough because browns are not my colors! I never wear them and I rarely use them on my projects.

This week's challenge at Broken Box Stock is another real challenge for me: use a Fall Foliage Color Palette.

Here's my card:

I've used Reading Toodle Digi Stamp from Broken Box Stock and I colored her with Copics.

I've added an apple themed paper in wonderful fall colors (sorry, again no clue of the manufacturer), a paper border and two apples.

A modern teacher, isn't she?

Now, for the rules:

Challenge Directions: 

Create a card using a color palette inspired by fall foliage. 

NEW RULES ADJUSTMENT!

You NO longer have to use Broken Box Stock graphics within your design. Any cards entered will be considered! However, we do encourage you to take a look at our digi-stamps and graphics at Broken Box Stock.

FREEbies for you!

Feel free to use our freebies! View the entire freebie collection here.

Deadline: Thursday, October 4, 2012 @ 5:00pm

Prize: FREE MEMBERSHIP to the new Digi-Stamp Club! - Receive 52 digital stamps over a year (one new digi per week), a $9.99 value!

Challenge Rules: 

1) Follow the challenge's specific design criteria above.

2) To enter your card in the challenge, use our "inlinkz" link tool below.

3) No back linking.

4) Up to 3 entries per person.

5) Subscribe to our blog so you know if you win (and can claim your prize)!

6) We must have at least 5 entries to award a prize.

 

Don't forget to have a look at all the fabulous cards the DT has made for this challenge!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

I'm busy with a very complicated custom order and I had to put aside my current projects to finish it: Christmas and Halloween images, colored and ready to be assembled into cards.

When I saw the new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge I decided to finish at least one of them.

This one:

I had already colored this sweet Santa digi stamp from DigiStamp Boutique and I only needed to create the card. Colors were easy to choose: I wanted a classic red and green scheme and this paper (from Doodlebug) was perfect mounted on a green card (from DCWV).

A red satin ribbon, two little bells, rhinestones in matching colors and glitter on Santa's hat give the perfect touches to the card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge: S is for Santa is Coming to Town

DigiStamp Boutique September Challenge: anything goes with a DigiStamp Boutique image

Sparkles Christmas Challenge # 20: Sparkle and Bling

Christmas Crafting Challenge # 14: traditional Christmas colors

Exciting News at Broken Box Stock!

There's a new Digi Club around!

Broken Box Stock has started a new Digi Club!

This new club is really a stamper's dream: 52 new digis (one per week) at the incredible price of $ 9.99 for one year! 

If you love Broken Box images, you cannot miss this opportunity!

Read here all the instructions and info on how to join the club!

I've just received my weekly image and I've not worked with it yet but stay tuned, I'll post it soon!

And don't forget!

There's still plenty of time to enter Broken Box Challenge # 9: create a circular shaped card and enter this challenge for your chance to win!

Broken Box Challenge # 9

It's time for another exciting Challenge at Broken Box Stock: Make a Circular Shaped Card!

When I read my DT challenge schedule I started to be a bit afraid of this challenge for I don't have the possibility to cut big circles. But when I found some circular shaped cards on the internet I realized it could be something very easy to do.

This is my card:

I wanted to use the new Surprise Toodles digi stamp and make a very girly girl card. The girls are colored with Copics and glitter and I added rhinestones here and there on their flowers and earrings. I colored a white doily with pink paint, added flowers and again rhinestones everywhere. Finally, a pom pom trim I bought a while ago somewhere on Etsy.

There are the guidelines for this Challenge:

Directions: 

Construct a card on a circular base (the interior design may have rectangles as long as the main outer shape of card is circular). Be creative! 

NEW RULES ADJUSTMENT! - You NO longer have to use Broken Box Stock graphics within your design. Any cards entered will be considered! However, we do encourage you to take a look at our digi-stamps and graphics at www.brokenboxstock.com :) 

FREEbies for you!

Feel free to use our freebies! You can find our freebies collection here.

Deadline: Thursday, September 20, 2012 @ 5:00pm

Prize: $5.00 Gift Certificate to www.brokenboxstock.com

Challenge Rules: 

1) Follow the challenge's specific design criteria above.

2) To enter your card in the challenge, use our "inlinkz" link tool here.

3) No back linking.

4) Up to 3 entries per person.

5) Subscribe to our blog so you know if you win (and can claim your prize)!

6) We must have at least 5 entries to award a prize.