Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - Trees

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog challenge that is going on right now is to create something with trees.  Here's what I came up with:

This tree stamp is so fabulous and is by DRS Designs.  It is stamped with Memento Cocoa Brown and I highlighted the sky and ground with blue and green Dew Drops from Versachalk.  I added some Autumn Flower Soft and cut it out with nestabilities.  The paper is from the Indian Summer paper stack from DCWV and the ribbon is from Offray.  I added some rhinestones on the edges and think it looks great!

 

Here's one side of the card that shows a bit of the inside.

I hope you stop over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and see all the great design team creations and join in our challenge.  I'd love to see you all participate and show off those trees!

Card Ingredients:

Summer's End  tree by DRS Designs, Flower Soft in Autumn, Indian Summer Paper Stack from DCWV, Rhinestones, Ribbon, nestabilities

Try It Out Tuesday #38 - Surprise!

I love Tuesdays!  I get to work up cards with the greatest group of stampers and our uber-talented leader, Suzanne, always comes up with the greatest things for us to work on and create.  This week we were asked to create something other than an ornament with one of the new Special Edition Ornament Collection by Elisabeth Bell for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design.  I chose to be surprised! 

There's nothing like receiving the gift of a pet.  They can bring so much love into your life and the look on  a child's face when they see this unexpected bundle of joy is priceless.  I have my own little thing, my Hagrid, who I wouldn't trade for the world.  He loves me to distraction and only wants my time and attention.  Oh, how good it feels to be loved and wanted!

This beauty is colored with copics and I used my nestabilities to cut her out and frame her.  Don't you just love this Indian Summer paper?  I could use it forever!  Her dress has, yep, Stickles, and I addede some Glossy Accents to her bow and the ribbon on the package and on the pup's package and ribbon.  The edge is cut out using my MS fancy lattice and added some gorgeous Prima Flowers and spacers and colored half moons on the corners and the middle of the flowers.  So the card wasn't too Christmasy, the sentiment is from a Hero Arts set. 

 

Oh, I just love her gorgeous face, don't you?  Now head on over to the store blog and see the gorgeous creations that my fellow DT buddies came up with.  I know for a fact you won't be disappointed!

Card Ingredients:

Surprise for the Special Edition Ornament Collection from Elisabeth Bell for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design, Indian Summer paper pack from BasicGrey, Prima Flowers, Stickles, spacers, half moon rhinestones, ribbon, MS fancy Lattice Edger, MS branch punch

Color Challenge from Roses on Paper Design Team!

It is Challenge Time over at Roses on Paper today!  There were so many beautiful cards from our last challenge and I can't wait to see what you come up with this week.  Our very own multi-talented Jodi has given us a color challenge to use Brown, Orange, and Green on our cards and then follow a sketch of our choice.  I love the colors and have a blast trying out different sketches.  For this card, I chose one of my favorite The Greeting Farm Sets, Never Ever, because of Peter and Tink, and followed the sketech from I (heart) to Stamp.  I love Jen's sketches she comes up with!

My boy Pete and gal Tink are stamped with Staz-On Jet Black and colored with Distressed Inks.  I love coloring with them!  They've got some stickles from all the pixie dust and his boots and Tink's dress is highlighted with Glossy accents.  This gorgeous paper is from Que Sera Fera from K&Company and I added a ribbon and an autumn Prima Flower to the corner along with some Rhinestone beads.

I love his sassy "Never, ever gonna grow up" impish look he has and well, everyone knows how I feel about that magical Tink!  Yep, she's my favorite!

We would love to see what all you create using these colors and the stamps from Roses on Paper.  Head on over to our Design Team Challenge Blog and see what stunning creations my Designing Sisters have come up with.  They never cease to amaze me with the beauty they put on paper!  Make sure to stop by their blogs, their addresses are on my side bar, and leave them some love and appreciation!  Now go put those colors to good use!

Card Ingredients:

Never Ever by The Greeting Farm, Que Sera Fera Paper from K&Company, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Distressed Inks, rhinestones, Prima Flowers, ribbon from stash.

Our Very First Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential Challenge - Halloween-NOT!

How exciting it is to be part of a brand new Design Team of extremely talented and fun stamping and to present some avenues to challenge you to find your hidden potential as a stamper and crafter! Vicki from Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential's Challenge Blog, thanks so much for having faith and belief in me as a card artist in that I can help inspire people to dig deep and find something in them they didn't realize was there and to my other Spotlight Divas, I'm having so much fun with all of you! I'm just thrilled and cant' wait to get get started so let's go!

Our first challenge for you is to create a Halloween-NOT card. Yep, that's right, we'd love to you create a Halloween card and not use something scary or obvious on it. The image I chose is one half of a stamp that had the cutest little wizard on it. If you know anything about me, you'll realize how had it was for me to take my little wizard off of Scarecrow & Little Wizard from Belles and Whistles. Here this cutie is:

Nothing says fall to me like a cutie scarecrow out in a garden.  My mom always had a garden and had a scarecrow in it.  She would dress him up and from the road, you would swear that there was a grown man sitting out in her garden!  What made me dig a little deep was thinking about what I could do to make this crow chaser a bit different and I thought about using raffia where some of the hay would be.  So he has a bit of raffia at the bottom of his pants and coming out of his side.  I love how it looks on him!

Now I want you to go take a peek at what our blog looks like!  And while you're doing a bit of travelling, make sure you stop by all of my Diva gal pals and see what they've unearthed for their hidden potential this week.  So what's going to be your hidden potential this week?  I'd love to see and hear all about it!

Card Ingredients:

Scarecrow & Little Wizard by Belles N' Whistles, Indian Summer Paper Stack from DCWV, Rhinestones, Raffia, Stickles, Petaloo Daisies, Scrapper's Floss, button, copics, nestabilities, Spiderweb cuttlebug folder, MS edger

Falling Leaves

We have another Try It Out Tuesday going on only it's on a Friday! Thank God for Fridays! Suzanne, our ever talented Design Team Leader over at Susana's Custom Art and Card Design, challenged us to create a Fall or Halloween project using one of the stamps from our new release.

One of my favorite seasons is fall and one of my favorite illustrators is Elisabeth Bell. My favorite holiday is Christmas so when I say this adorable ornament from the Special Edition Ornament Collection for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design designed by Elisabeth, all sorts of ideas popped into my mind. The first was that I just adored this collection. The second was how versitile they can be. I wanted to show you one idea I had for Two Turtle Doves.

I was out walking the dogs and an idea came to mind. I could see this little darling sitting with leaves falling around her! I love the Indian Summer paper pack from BasicGrey and decided to use it along with Two Turtle Doves and a few leaf stamps I had from a Debbie Mumm Harvest stamp set. I colored her with copics and cut her out.and popped her up on a circle done with my nestabilities. I added some Glossy Accents to the leaves and the ribbon in her hair and some stickles to her skirt. The flower is from Petaloo and I placed a button in the middle of the ribbon and some rhinestones on the corners. My cuttlebug provided the texture for the card and I drew the leaf free hand. I just love the deep pinks and soft brown in this card.

Here she is close up and you can see the Glossy Accents on the leaves. I think she came out pretty good!

Make sure to go over to Follow Your Heart and check out my designing buddies creations. They all will have something special for you to see!

Card Ingredients:

Two French Hens from the Special Edition Ornament Collection from Elisabeth Bell for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design, Indian Summer Paper from BasicGrey, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Rhinestones, ribbon, button, Scrapper's Floss, nestabilities

Warm Apple Pie

I've wanted to play along with the Tuesday Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. So when I colored up Warm Apple Pie from Belles N' Whistles, I thought this sketch would be perfect for this sweet little baker! I just adore the new Belles N' Whistles release illustrated by Elisabeth Bell. They're just so much fun! Here's the sketch for this week:



And this is my take on it:



My daughter, Tiffany, loves to make apple pie. All of my girls love to cook and bake and they got that from their father, not me! I'll do all the clean up you can throw at me, but to do the cooking, well, it's not my talent.

This little baker is colored with Prismacolor pencils and OMS and I highlighted her dress with Stickles and her ribbon and shoes with Glossy Accents. I love this gorgeous paper from My Mind's Eye and thought the colors were perfect for her. Don't you love the little toile on her dress? I added a few pearls in the corners and thought they were perfect for her.



And how can you resist this sweet little face? Elisabeth illustrates the sweetest little babies! Just adore all of her work! Thanks, Elisabeth, for giving us images that give us so much joy. It's such a pleasure to work this these cuties!

Make sure to stop over at the store blog and see what's going on over there. It changes from day to day so you never know what you might see. Don't miss a thing!


Card Ingredients:

Warm Apple Pie by Belles N' Whistles, Prismacolor Pencils, OMS, Stickles, Glossy Accents, My Mind's Eye paper, ribbon, hatpin