A Little Bit of Metal for Elphine House Australia

It's time again for another challenge over at Elphine House Australia!  This time, Lynda challenged us to use some metal on our project.  This was a stretch for me because metal is something that I don't have much of in the way of craft supplies or embellishments but I did the best I could with what I have!

Daisy: Standing Tall has always been one of my favorites and I thought she's be perfect for the metal sentiment I found.  It says "Moments" and when I look at this cutie pie, I see her remembering or either making a moment.

I colored her with copics and added some stickles to her dress, hat and flowers.  I cut her out with Nestabilities and added some pearls and glass gems on metal stems.  This gorgeous papers are from an Authentique paper pack called Remembrance that I got from Kim at Cutter's Creek.  The pearls are from Hero Arts, the ribbon is from Simplicity, and the sentiment is from Close to My Heart.

Here's a bit of a closer look at her.

I absolutely love the sweet faces that Elisabeth Bell uses in her illustrations.

Thought I'd share a few close ups of different parts of the card.

Absolutely gorgeous, don't you think?  I used some Diamond Glaze on the ribbon on her dress and hat.

Here's a vie that shows some of the dimensions of the card.

I plan on entering her in the following challenges:

Make sure to stop over at the Elphine House Australia Design Team blog and see the other gorgeous creations that my fellow designing team buddies have in store for you.  They're nothing short of spectacular and I'd hate for you to miss them!  And join us for our challenge and get your metal on!

Dare To Be Sassy Thursday at Sassy Studio Designs

Oh Happy Valentines Day everyone!  I love that it happens to fall on a Thursday because I got to do this fun project for Dare To Be Sassy Thursday over at Sassy Studio Designs!  For me, it doesn't get much better than creating something fun and sassy and get to eat chocolate too!  Make sure to stop over at the Design Team Blog and see what fun projects my designing sisters have come up to inspire you!  They never disappoint you!  Our challenge to you this week is to create something using White, Pink, and Red.  Should be easy for this week!

This gorgeous showgirl is Sassy Showgirl and you can find her here.  I adore her!  She's so stunning and bold and I've been waiting for just the perfect project for her.  I made her a little bit sweet, with it being Valentine's Day and all.

She's colored with copics and has stickles all over her!  I added some Diamond Glaze to her outfit and in person it looks just like satin.  I fussy cut her and adheared her to some pink shimmery paper.  This fabulous tube and box are from a Valentine's packet i got from my good friend Bek who sells Close to My Heart.  I got 12 precut boxes, tubes and a stunning silver glittery sheet of cardstock to help decorate her.  You can find Bek's page here.  It's hard to see, but I cut up the silver glitter paper and put it on all sides of the box.

I used some swirls from Cloud 9 and the little hearts are from K&Company.  Love their embellishments!

Here's a couple of views of it from the side.

This girl is so stunningly beautiful and versatile!  I think she'd be fabulous colored up in purples and golds for the Mardi Gras, or soft colors for Easter or spring.  And what about Red, White, and Blue for the 4th of July?  I think she totally rocks, but man, it was hard getting to photograph her because Allie kept getting into the M&M's!

Hope you join us over at Sassy Studio Designs and show us some of the love for White, Pink, and Red!  Would love to see what you come up with!  Happy Valentines Day friends!  Love you all!

Little Honey's Little Red Riding Hood Honey

It's been forever since I've posted but I've been busy!  I had a wonderful but busy holiday season filled with family, friends at work, work, and moving.  There was great food, time with the people I love and the magic of the season.  Although it was jam packed full, I wouldn't have traded it for the world.

I've missed posting and crafting so I'm getting back on board with that.  Today Sassy Studio Designs is sponsoring the challenge over at Crafting When We Can.  The challenge is to use your favorite things!  It could be your favorite image, color, technique, embellishment, whatever is your favorite.  It also is Try Something New over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog.  I tried a couple of new things - working with flowers and adding some texture to them and stamping with a partner!  Here's what I chose:

I used Little Honey's Little Red Riding Hood Honey because she's one of my favorite images and Fairy Tales!  I love the show Once Upon a Time and the gal who plays Red is one of my favorite characters.  Love that show and can't wait to watch it tonight!

I colored Red with copics and Spectrum Noir markers and used some older Basis Grey papers.n  I added some stickles to her cloak and the buttons and baker's twine are from Close to My Heart and I made the flowers with my cricuit cartridge and Nestabilities.

Here is this beauty close up.  This image is exactly how I always pictured her, all bright eyed and beautiful!

I will confess that I had some help making her and here's my Allie showing off her treasure.  It tool a little longer to finish her but it was time well spent!  Hope you enjoy her and head on over to Crafting When You Can and join in and show us your favorite things and at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and show us what you've tried that's new!  !

My Grafico for Tuesday Throwdown and Emma Gifts of Love

I do love every other Tuesday because that means I get to do a project for Tuesday Throwdown!  This week we are being sponsored by My Grafico!  They have some fabulous images and you can find out all the details on the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog.  We are challenging you to use extra layers and I tried to pour them on!

I love gift giving and how pretty little girls are when they get all dressed up.  I fell in love with Emma Gifts of Love from Elphine House Australia and had to ink her up and use her!  She could be any one of my three girls when they were young or my three granddaughters on any holiday.

I colored the gorgeous butterfly from My Grafico and the beautiful Miss Emma with copics and used my nestabilities for the frame and oval.  I had to give that holiday dress some Stickles to make her sparkle and also added some to her present.  I stitched around my layers and added a gorgeous embellishment from Close to My Heart.  I used some distressed inks to the edge of Emma and to the inside and I made the flowers and added the branches from a Martha Stewart punch.  The lace and pearls are from my stash.  I love this gorgeous paper from K&Company.

Here's a close up of the beautiful brass embellishment.  Love says it all, don't you think?

Here's a sneak peek of the inside with the side view.

Isn't she just the prettiest thing?

Here's the inside.  I love this butterfly on the paper.  All shiny and fabulous!

Hope you enjoyed your visit here today!  Make sure to stop over at Tuesday Throwdown and see what my fabulously talented designing team buddies have to inspire you with.  Make sure to join our challenge and show us your layers!

50 Shades of Sassy and Celebrating 800 Members!

Everyone is talking about the Fifty Shades of Grey series.  It's hot, it's sexy, it's entertaining, it's dull, it's shocking, it's ____________, you fill in your thoughts on it!  One things for sure is everyone has an opinion about it.  But for me, today Fifty Shades is a reason to celebrate because we finally reached 800 members over at our Sassy Studio Designs Paper Craft Planet Group!  I'll take any reason to party and celebrate!  I love that there are 800 people out there in cyber crafting world that love the images that Lindsay creates for us to color up and play with as much as I do.  Not only do we get to build friendships with people we have something in common with, but we get some freebies along the way with this bunch!

Over at the group, Lindsay has a super fun extra image for us to have some fun with, so let's celebrate Fifty Shades of Sassy!  If you've come here for Alaine's blog, you're on the right track.  If not, here's the order:

SSD: http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/
Debbie: http://www.craftingwhenican.blogspot.com/
Kim: http://itsallaboutcrafting.blogspot.com/
Alaine: http://www.missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Susan: http://stampingtink.blogspot.com/
Karal: http://karalscreativespace.blogspot.com/
Mary: http://www.mystampinhide-away.blogspot.com/
Lori: http://lorib117.blogspot.com/
Ruza: http://ruzascraftcorner.blogspot.com/
Erin: http://elfiessparkleanddust.blogspot.co.uk/
Rebecca: http://sydneyssentiments.blogspot.com/
Starla:  http://youcouldbewishingonastar.blogspot.com/
Carrie:  http://carrieshandmadecards.blogspot.co.uk/
Regan: http://charmedstamping.blogspot.com/

Regan, our oh so fun and talented coordinator for this fun ride, has challenged us to use black, white, and grey.  Here's my take on Miss Fifty Shades of Sassy:

Isn't she something?  I had the greatest time with her!  This confident lady is colored with copics and Spectrum Noir markers and her shoes and clothing (what there is of it!) is highlighted with Diamond Glaze and the background is cut with my Nestabilities dies and for some added texture, I ran the grey oval through my Cuttlebug.  The paper is from the Black Currant pack from DCWV.  The brad and flourish is from Close to My Heart, the flowers from Recollections and the twine and brads are from my stash.

Here's a couple of peeks to the inside from each side.

Sorry that the pop up squares are showing!  Here's her gorgeous face up close:

Gosh, she sure does look sure of herself!

I love the sentiment!

Now make sure to hop over to Karal's blog and see her fabulous project she has waiting for you!

Laters, gals!

Devil Debbi for Sassy Studio Designs's Fabulous Freebie Friday!

Oh how I love Fridays!  Friday's are so fabulous over at the Sassy Studio Design's Paper Craft Planet group  that it's called Fabulous Freebie Friday!  Lindsay has outdone herself with another two for the price of none images this week!  Make sure to hurry over because these gorgeous babies are only available for 24 hours and then they're gone.  Regan, our fearless fabulous leader, challenged us to use texture with our little devil.   There's always an angel and a devil in every situation and this week I get to share the devilish side of things!  Let me introduce you to the Devil Debbi!

She looks too sweet to be devilish, doesn't she?  Well, she's the devil for sure!  She's so sweet she can talk you into anything!  She's colored with copics and I added Stickles to her dress, spear and tail and Glossy Accents to her boots.  Black boots are always trouble!  The flowers are from Recollections and the gorgeous crystal swirl is from Close to My Heart (Thanks so much, Bec!).  The lace is from Cloud 9 and this gorgeous paper is Black Currant from DCWV.  Just love this pack!  It's hard to tell, but I used my devine swirls cuttlebug folder on the black and beige paper and my Nestabilities to cut this devious thing out.

Here's a peek from one side.

I love this side because it shows the foil on the paper and how it reflects on the fabric.  Gorgeous paper, isn't it?

I showed a side view of her and here's the inside for my stamping sister, Judy!

Make sure to hope over to the group and see what the other Fabettes have in store for you.  I promise you'll be inspired and never disappointed!

Make sure to come back on Sunday for our blog hop we're going to have to celebrate now having 800 members in the group!  Believe me, they'll be some hot, sexy viewings, prizes and who knows what else.  It's theme is 50 Shades of Sassy so who knows what you'll find!  Have a great day and great weekend!