Welcome Fairy Merrily to our family at The Digi Bells!

Our newest Digi is here, and I am quite excited about her!

Please welcome ** Fairy Merrily ** to our little family of Elisabeth Bell Digi's....

Blog hop will start on

Friday, July 19, 2013, at 12:00 pm and ends on Friday, July 26, 2013 at 12:00 pm.

 If you came to my blog from the sweet and oh so talented Lynne's blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, head on over to the multi-talented Julie's blog and start there.  I don't want you to miss a single project because this little pixie is too stinkin cute!  I'm so excited to share my version of Fairy Merrily with you!

Does it get much cuter than this?  Not for me, it doesn't!  I could color her and look at her forever!  She's colored with copics and has Stickles on her wings and on her dress.  I added some Diamond Glaze to her shoes and flowers in her hair.  This gorgeous paper is from a BasicGrey stack called That's My Girl.  She's got some handmade flowers and the Floral Oval frame she's cut out with are both from Spellbinders.  The seam binding and the orange card stock are from Stampin Up (the card stock is from one of the older In Color packs) and  the baker's twine is from The Twinery.  The charm and lace are from my stash.

Don't you just want to be flying free with her?  I'm really loving how she came out!

Here's a view of the pretty charm and the computer generated sentiment.

For some reason, I just couldn't stop taking pictures of her!

Here's one last look at her before you leave.

Now flit on over to my dear friend and so creative stamping sister, Mary Lou's place and see her fabulous creation!  Believe me, you won't want to miss it!

Happy hopping and have a great weekend!

Dare To Be Sassy Thursday for Sassy Studio Designs

Gotta love summer!  It's my favorite time of the year as you all know.  One thing I love about summer is all the vivid colors.  Everything looks so deep and vibrant.  Over at Sassy Studio Designs Dare to Be Sassy Thursday, our challenge this week to everyone is to use your favorite color combination.  I have several, but one of my all time favorites is blue and yellow.  It seems so fresh and renewing to me.  I love the french country look and that's what those colors remind me of.

For my project this week, I used Cinderella Pinup and made a CD case!  It was so fun and easy!  I followed the directions found here .  I colored the beauty with copics and added stickles all over her.  These gorgeous papers are from an Echo Park paper pad that I ordered from Kim at Cutter's Creek.  The flowers are from the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge and the swirls are from Spellbinders.  I added some tulle and pearls and called it good!

Here's a view of the back.  The instructions call for some type of closure, but I was making this for one of Allie's little friends so I left the closure off.  She's only 3 and I wanted to make it really easy for her to get it open.

I know, you're asking why not Cinderella instead of Tinkerbell!  I had one of the Tinkerbell's all done up and ready to go, but I spilled coffee on her and my Cinderella DVD is in storage.  So there you have it!

Here she is close up.  I absolute love this image and hope you do too!  So head on over to our Sassy Studio Design Team blog and see what fabulous and fun color combinations my creating buddies have come up with for you.  I loved their projects and got a couple of ideas of colors to try together that I never though of. Love it when that happens!

Don't forget to head over to our Sassy Studio Design Party Blog and take advantage of the fabulous new image that is being offered today and tomorrow for free before it goes into the store on Saturday morning!  She's so much fun and remember to use her responsibly.

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!

A Glorious Day, It's Allie's Birthday!

This is gonna be pretty quick because we're off to the beach to celebrate my granddaughter, Allie, who turns 5 today!  It's so hard to try and figure out where all the time has gone.  I look at her now and she's getting ready for kindergarten, Daisy Girl Scouts, a new home, so many changes coming up for her.  Then I sit and remember the first time I laid eyes on her right after she was born.  As I am with all my grandchildren and my girls, I was just taken.  Taken to a place I never thought my heart could go.  I didn't think I had much room left in my heart after I had my children.  It was so full of love for them.  But I think God totally enlarges our hearts and reserves a place that we're not aware of existing because it's held for grandchildren.

Here's a few pictures of her doing some of the things she loves best:

Swimming! I swear she was born a fish!

Playing dress up!  Gosh, she must change clothes 4 times a day!  And she does love her some high heels!

Coloring and painting!  This is her at Easter coloring eggs with my sweetie pie niece, Ella.  Aren't they just too sweet?

And showing off a card she helped me make.  She was so proud of this and let me tell you, she colors so well with my copics that it's a shame not to let her use them!

This child makes me laugh every day and you can't ask anymore of anyone than that.  I love her and know that I'm so blessed to have her in my life.  God is very good to me.

If you've read this far, I really appreciate it and want to post a card that I did for Elphine House Australia's last challenge but was so sick that I didn't get it posted. This is Emma Gifts of Love from Elisabeth Bell for Elphine House Australia and I love her!  

She's colored with copics, has stickles all over her dress and is cut out with Nestabilities.  The papers are from a gorgeous My Mind's Eye paper pack and the flowers are homemade.  The pearls are from Hero Arts and the seam binding is from Stampin Up.

This cutie pie is absolutely gorgeous and you can use her for just about any occasion.

Here's a couple more looks of her.

I hope everyone has a fabulous day and enjoys this cutie pie.  As for me, I'm off to the beach for some fun and sun!

New Beginnings for Children with Bubbles for Elisabeth Bell's World

I love this theme for this month's challenge over at Elisabeth Bell's World!  Who doesn't like new beginnings?  I have had a bazillion new beginnings in my life and can only imagine how many some of you have had.  It's renewing and the possibilities are endless.  For me, that's the magic of starting over.  Sometimes it ends up good, sometimes not so much.

Children have new beginnings just about every day.  I'm learning more and more since I've been spending so much time with Allie.  Sometimes children aren't quite sure as to what to do with new starts and new friends.  One thing I've found out is that for kids, a bottle of bubbles is just the thing to break the ice.  Who doesn't love bubbles?  Come on, admit it.  We all blow the first bubbles when we open up a bottle for the kids!  It connects us all together.  I love it when kids take their bubbles to a guy to open.  Even men can't resist releasing the first opaque circles in the air from a new bottle of bubbles!

This is Bubbles from Elisabeth Bell for Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and I think she's everything good and sweet in children!  She's colored with copics and the papers are some of my favorite from BasicGrey and Imaginisce.  The border was made using a scallop edger from Stampin Up, the ribbon is from Hero Arts, the gems are from Studio G and the flowers are a mix of Recollections and home made.  The die cuts I used are from Nestbilities.  Of course, I used some Stickles on the bubbles and her sweet shirt!

Here's a closer look at this sweet thing!  I absolutely love her and can see her slowly letting down her guard and making new friends.

Make sure to stop over at our blog and see the fabulous projects that my designing sisters have for you.  All of their projects just make my jaw drop and I can't believe that I get to design with such great talents!  Come on and show us your new beginnings!  Someone is going o be lucky enough to win a couple of really sweet stamps from on of the ever talented Ms. Elisabeth Bell!  Hope it's you!

Sassy Graduation for Sassy Studio Designs Progressive Challenge

After people decided to share the free images that Lindsay from Sassy Studio Designs was providing over at our Paper Craft Planet Group on Pinterest and everywhere else the social media goes these days,  she made a decision as an artist to discontinue sharing them.  It was really sad because those who used it responsibly had a blast with them and we had some great challenges and saw some fabulous work.  After some serious consideration, we are excited to announce that our Sassy Studio Designs Paper Craft Planet group is going to host a Progressive Challenge!  We're really excited about it and hope you'll pop on over and request the image and play along! You can find all the details at the group here.  Just join our group, request the image and come play along!  

The theme for this first challenge is "You Did It, Happy Graduation!" and our first image is Sassy Graduation.  Love her and here's my take on her:

She's so much fun!  She's colored with copics and a couple of Spectrum Noir Markers.  I added stickles on her gown and hat and some Diamond Glaze on the yoke of her gown.  The pearls are from Hero Arts and the top and bottom flowers are from Recollections and the middle one is handmade.  The papers are from Authentique and the Kraft card stock is from Stampin Up and the yellow is from Co'redination.  I used my Martha Stewart punch for the branches.

Doesn't she have the prettiest face?  All full of hope and dreams!

Here's a couple of side views so you can see the dimensions of the flowers.

I plan on entering her in the following challenges:

Clear It Out - Anything goes, must use stash items 2 or more designers papers

Creative Card Crew - Bling

Deep Ocean Challenge - Let's Sparkle

Love to Scrap - Anything goes

Cards In Envy - Sketch

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything goes

See that middle flower?  I'm going to be doing a tutorial over at our PCP Group on how to make them!  So make sure to stop on over, join the group if you don't already belong, and have some great fun!

I Won!

When I was little, my cousins and I used to get everyone's crinlons (remember those with all the lace on them and all that starch so they would really stand out?) and play Beauty Padgent in the back yard.  My Aunt Jessie had like 7 or 8 steps on her back porch and that was our stage.  We would stand up on our tippy toes in our pretend high heels and walk up and down the steps, doing the light bulb wave and carrying branches for our roses.  What imaginations we had!  I still love beauty padgents and I've got a little 4 1/2 granddaughter who loves to play dress up and parade around in front of us!

I have to admit that I'm cheating on Lindsay and Elisabeth and have fallen in love with the cute, sweet images over at The Paper Shelter!  I kept seeing them and I finally took the plunge and bought some and am having a blast with them!  When I saw this beauty, I knew she had my name written all over her!

This is "I Won" and isn't she fabulous?!  I think she's so much fun and has all sorts of possibilities.  I love here hair, dress, purse, swseet statute and I think she looks like a total winner!  She's colored with copics and cut out with my floral oval frame.  The papers are from Katy Davis, and the flowers and pearls are from Hero Arts.  I added some distressed inks around the frame and added some stickles to her dress, statue, purse, and earrings.

I just love her sweet face!

This view you can get a better look at the coloring without the glitter.  I love my glitter and bling though!

I just adore her and am going to enter her in the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter Challenge - Make It Bloom
Craft Your Passion - Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
Kaboodles Doodles Challenge - Spring
Make It Monday - Always anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes
Crafting When We Can - At the movies

Hope you enjoy her as much as I loved working with her.  She's a winner!

Little Friends from Elisabeth Bell's Digital Collection!

It's always a great day when I get to present and participate in The Digi Bell's Design Team monthly blog hop because it means I'm showing off another one of Elisabeth Bell's gorgeous images!  Today is no exception and I'm so proud to show off "Little Friends", her newest digital image!  You can find this sweet baby at Elisabeth Bell's Digital Collection.

If you came to me from the super talented Julie's blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, please hop on over to Rose's blog and start at the beginning.  There's a chance to win this sweetie but you've got to make sure you hop all around and make sure to leave a comment and some love to my designing sisters!

Please welcome ** Little Friends ** to our little family of Elisabeth Bell Digi's....

Blog hop starts on Friday, APRIL 19, 2013, at 9:00am (Arizona time)

ending on Friday, APRIL 26, 2013 at 9:00am (Arizona time).

  

Isn't she a baby doll?  Simply love her!  She's colored with copics and the papers are from my favorite paper pack, Euphoria from BasicGrey (it's pretty old and so precious to me!).  She's got some stickles on her top, pants and ribbon in her hair.  The flowers are from Recollections and my retro flower punch (gotta give a shout out to Lynda for her fabulous flowers a couple of days ago that inspired me!  Thanks, my dear!), and the ribbon and earls are from Hero Arts.  

Just love her sweet face!  She's just got that look of innocence and wonder to her. I cut her out using my circular Nestabilities and added a little bit of Distressed inks around the image.

Here's a couple of peeks of this inside.

I'm entering her in the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday - Love this layout!
Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - Layer It On
Copics Marker Europe - Girls Aloud (Only female images)
Delightful Challenge - Color my world (anything colorful)
DRS Designs - bows
Forever Friends - Diecuts and punches
MilkCoffee Challenge - Welcome spring
My Heart Pieces Digital Stamp Challenges - Spring or Easter
Shelly's Images - April showers brings May flowers
C.A.S. Colours and Sketch Challenges - colors (Rich Razzleberry, Primrose Petals, Pool Party)
Creative Belli - Pastel colors
Creative Moments - Spring
Inky Impressions - punches/dies
The Paper Shelter Challenge - At least two flowers

Now hop on over to Sofia's blog and see her fabulous creation!  And remember, everyone needs Little Friends!

Punch It for Elphine House Australia

Easter is one of the biggest holidays for my family.  My girls and I always try and make it to my Mom's house and spend the holiday surrounded by good food and family.  This year the kids colored Easter eggs and what fun we had!  Lots of blue and pink hands but the big fun far out weighted the discoloration.  Allie has on a hat that I wore as a little girl.  I didn't even know Mom had kept it all these years!

And here's the babies in their Easter bests!  Alaina looks just so adorable in her blue and Allie is in the pink and getting into Aunt Gail's famous chocolate chip cheese dip!

Today starts a new challenge over at our Elphine House Australia Challenge Blog!  Our ever talented leader, Lynda, challenged us to "Punch It!", and boy, did I ever!  I used this fabulous Fairy Faye Flying High and just find her so adorable!

Isn't she just beautiful and enchanting?  She's colored with copics and has some Stickles on the dandelion, wings, dress, and the sweet petals in her hair.  The flowers in the right hand corner are handmade and I used a scalloped circle punch.

The butterfly punch is from Martha Stewarty as well as the branches and leaves.  The corner punch n the right bottom is a punch from EK Success.  the pearls are from Hero Arts and the papers are from a gorgeous My Mind's Eye pack called Happy Days.  The stick pins are from BasicGrey and the flowers from Recollections.

Aren't the papers so soft and comforting?  I just love them!

I hope you'll stop by our Elphine House Australia Challenge Blog and see the other fabulolus creations my designing sisters have come up with.  They're really wonderful and all so different!

I hope you enjoy her as much as I did creating her.  I think she's just a perfect little fairy and I'd love to be flying with her!