Scrappy Frogs Challenge for March!

At the beginning of each Month, Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog always has a fun challenge going on.  This time we were asked to show some luck of the Irish!  When I heard luck of the irish, I had no other choice than to use one of my favorite stamps, Irish Eyes from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design by Elisabeth Bell.  I have always loved this cutie pie and had such a blast making her up!

I used this sketch from the Just Us Girls Challenge that I'm planning on entering her in  

She's colored with copics and has some emerald and star dust stickles added to her vest and shamrocks.  I used my nestabilities to cut out her and her frame and the flowers are from Recollections  I love this Basic Grey paper and have been hoarding it for a long time.  I love having my Basic Grey papers and hate using them.  Sick, isn't that?!  The ribbon is from my stash.

Here's a couple of side views of her.

I wanted to show off the inside.  While it's pretty basic, I really loved these papers.

I just love any of Elisabeth Bell's images, especially the ones I get to look forward to using around a certain holiday or special celebration day.  I hope you enjoy her and come on over to Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog and show us how Irish Eyes Smile on you!

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!  !

Charleston Tilda for Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog

It's the first Monday of the month and that means it's time for another Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog!  This month we are challenging you to make a "Thanks" card.  it can be a Thanksgiving project, "Thank You" project, anything that has to do with being thankful.  I haven't worked with my Tilda's for a while so I thought I'd ink up one I haven't used yet.  Here's Charleston Tilda!

Isn't she so pretty?  I love her sweet, happy attitude!  I like to think of her as doing her Halloween dance through the pumpkin patch!  I colored her in copics and added some Stickles on her dress and some Glossy Accents on her shoes. The flourishes are from Spellbinders and the pearls are from Studio 112.  The paper is from DCWV and I made the flowers and used a Martha Stewart punch for the branches.  The lace, button and ribbon is from my stash.

I love her sweet face!

Have a peek inside.

And another!

Here's the inside for Judy.  I also added a flourish inside.

Can't wait to see everyone's "Thanks" something!

Pretty Pumpkin for Scrappy Frog Challenge!

I had this really great post all set up to automatically post and was so excited since it was my first post for Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog's team (YEAH!) and all that showed was the pictures of this little cutie pie!  I'm not sure what happened to the text to go with this post, but the pictures got saved but not anything else!  I'm so sorry, Deanna, Billie, and everyone else.

The theme over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog for this challenge is fall colors.  What's more fall than a little sweetie at a pumpkin patch?  Nothing I can think of!  This beauty is Pretty Pumpkin from Pretty Little Stamps and I simply adore her!

She was colored with my Spectrum Noir and copic markers, with some stickles added to her scarf, dress, socks, ribons, and leaves and the paper is K&Company's Halloween pack.  I added some distressed inks in Black Soot around the image and the inside.  The ribbon, crystal flowers and gems are from my stash.

Here's a peek inside.

Here's the other side.

I couldn't resist showing up a close up of her sweet little face.  Precious or what?

Here's my standard inside.  I'm going to have to come up with something different to mix up the inside, but Judy, hope you're having a great time on your holiday!

Stop over at the Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and see what my oh so talented designing sisters have in store for you to inspire you to show us your fall colors!

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

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - Frogs!

I am late in getting this up but maybe it will be a good thing that you see it while you still have a week to get your entry in for Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog. We were challenged to put a frog somewhere on our card in honor of our own Froggy!

I used a Pink Cat Studio set, this one is from one of the Billy sets, and you can get your Pink Cat Studio stamps from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design. I love all of their sets so look out because I'm going to be using a few more of them!

Billy is colored with copics and I used some Stickles and Glossy Accents on that cute little frog! The paper is from the Pets DCWV stack and the dots in the corner are from Colorbok and the ribbon from American Crafts.

Pretty simple but I can't resist a little boy and his frog! Reminds me so much of my nephews out catching tadpoles and little frogs in the back yard. Oh, gotta love those memories!

Make sure you stop by the blog and get your frog entry in! This is such a fun challenge to participate in!

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - Magnolia Stamps!

Don't you just love yellows and purples together? And I think they match some of my favorite BasicGrey paper, Wisteria. Our challenge over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog this week was to create something using a Magnolia stamp and that was right up my alley! I had colored up this Tilda with Tulips by Magnolia earlier that I got from Summer at Roses on Paper and just hadn't put her together. By the way, Summer is a great place to get your Magnolia stamps from! Well, I took care of this baby today for this challenge!

Tilda with Tulips was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with copics. I cut her out and used this gorgeous Wisteria paper as a background for her. I popped her up with some foam dots and sat her on this beautiful yellow ribbon. The flowers are punched with my Retro Flower punch for EK Success and I placed some BasicGrey Bling in the center of the flowers and on the bottom corner. The butterfly is my MS punch and I had to stickle the flowers, her socks, a tiny bit on the dress and on the butterfly wings. And a touch of glossy Accents makes her hair ribbon look smooth and silky.



I love how the flowers came out and I used some Smooch on the middle of them. Just so pretty!

I hope you all stop over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and enter your Magnolia card with us! You get the chance to win a great Magnolia Stamp! Not much could be better than that! And make sure to visit my very talented Design Team sister's blogs and see their great creations! They're absolutely fabulous!

We have another rainy day here in Maine and it looks like the weekend isn't going to be much better. Maybe that will translate into some crafting time. We'll see. I hope everyone has a great weekend and I'll see you over at the blog!

Card Ingredients:

Tilda with Tulips by Magnolias, Smooch, copics, BasicGrey Bling, Wisteria Paper Pack by BasicGrey, stickles, EK Success Retro Flower Punch, MS Butterfly punch.

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - Under the Sea

If you know me, you know I'm a lover of all things that have to do with the beach and ocean. Mermaids fall into that category! And you should also know that I love all things Stamping Bella. I have been dying to use this Underwatergoddessabella forever! When Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog Design Team was tasked with doing an under the sea card, I had to do her! Stop on over and see the gorgeous cards and projects my designing buddies came up with!

I love this paper and hate that I cute the name off of it already! I colored her with copics and added some Shimmerz, Stickles, and Spica glitter Pen to her. I sponged around her with some blue chalk and used some charms and Scrapper's Floss instead of ribbon. I love these Prima Flowers and the Bella Baubles and Kaisercraft Pearls and sea shells just seem to finish her up.

It's gorgeous weather (finally!) here in Maine today and a perfect day to have a mermaid swim up to the beach. Gosh, wouldn't that be exciting? Hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm so excited because I'm going to the Red Sox game on Sunday with my daughter and just can't wait! Too much fun!

Card Ingredients:
Underwatergoddess-Bella from Stamping Bella, Paper from stash, Bella Baubles, copics, Shimmerz, Stickles, Prima Flowers, Blue Moon Charms, Kaisercraft Pearls, Scrapper's Floss, Spica Glitter Pen.

Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Arrrgh!

I've got to apologize because I thought for sure that this posted but I was so wrong. And I loved working on this cutie! I've fallen in love with two things - digital backgrounds, Dustin Pike and dragons! OK, so it's three and I can't count, but when Scrappy Frogs's Challenge Blog gave us a pirate background by the generous and talented Dustin Pike to work with for our challenge, I thought I'd pull out a Cat's Pajama set that I got and have been dying to play with, but this sweet dragon defending his ship stole my heart! I'm now a convert of the dinausaur family!

All of these sweeties are from Dustin Pike's blog and are digital stamps. I love them because you just print and color! How much simplier can you ask for? I colored the background with copics and the barrel, box and dragon with my Prismacolor pencils and OMS. I added some gold Smooch and some Spica Glitter and Glossy Accents and thought it was just right. I used Scrapper's Floss instead of ribbon because I liked the rustic look it gave and put a button rather than tying a bow for this. I distressed the edges and used my SU picture tab punch for the corners. Remember, I've been around girls for too long so bear with me while I'm going for the rough and tough look! And I did get to use my Cat's Pajama's set for the sentiment. Just love this card!

Make sure you stop over at Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog and see the fun creations my design team buddies came up with! What fun we all had using this background! So make sure to take part in the challenge for a fantastic prize! And Froggy, feel better! We miss you terribly!

Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - Faeries!

What's more fun, beautiful and magical than the thought of a little sprite floating around and sprinkling some of their special charm around to make the world more beautiful and bright? That's what I thought of when we got our challenge issued to us for Scrappy Frog's Challenge Blog - do a faerie! Oh, you should see the gorgeous cards my fellow Design Team members have come up with. Make sure you visit the blog and take a peek and join in our challenge. What a sweet prize is waiting for some lucky sprite!

This sweet Butterfly Tilda is from the Chasing Butterflies Collection that you can pick up from Summer at Roses on Paper. I just adore her and can just see this baby floating around in the woods around my house, readying those gorgeous Lady Slippers getting ready to bloom for us. I colored her with copics, added tons of Stickles and used some Round Center Kisses in place of brads and for her antenna. I just love her!
So go chase some faeries or welcome them into your garden. They add life, color and fun to every aspect of this time of the year!

Card Ingredients:

Butterfly Tilda by Magnolias, copics, Stickles, Spring Stack from DCWV, Round Center Kisses,

Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Round and Round

I love digi stamps and I love big hair! I think that Pretty Head Lilly from The Greeting Card is just adorable and she reminds me of those beautiful women from the 60's with their little bows and teased hair. Can we say "Hairspray"? This Lilly makes me think of my sister with the little bow all nice and pretty. Jonalea used to curl her hair all the time and have just the right accessories. She was always wearing head bands and a bow here and there and they were beautiful on her. Me, well, my headbands were mostly around my neck and my hair was in my face. Hair bow? What's that? She was all prissy and I was the tomboy, so Jonalea, this one's for you!

This beauty is done for our Design Team Challenge at Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog. We were challenged to use circles and I tell you, if I had another circle on this babe, she was going to roll right off the table! I love so much about this card because I got to play with my Cricut (my dear friend, Lynn, and my sister, Jonalea, will both be extremely proud!) and the only two cartridges that I own and use some of my favorite embellishments. I love buttons and pearls! And the Scrapper's Floss is perfect because it stays right where you want it to. I used a bit of Glossy Accent on her pouty mouth. All in all, I think she's a babe!

I hope you'll stop over at Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog and see what great creations my talented team sisters came up with. There's a lot of round things going on!

Card Ingredients:

Pretty Head Lilly by The Greeting Farm, Paper by K&Company, Kaisercraft Pearls, Glossy Accents, copics, Scrapper's Floss, BasicGrey buttons, Storybook and George cartridge with Cricut, ribbon from stash

New DT Member for Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog!

I'm so excited to let everyone know that I was asked by Froggy and Mindy to be part of their Design Team for Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog! Thanks so much for the vote of confidence and I can't wait to be part of this very talented, fun team. Stop over and check them out. Great prizes over there so go participate. I'd love to see what you create! My first challenge was to do a spring flower card. I had just stamped up my big Daisy from Magnolia and my sweetie doll Alva popped into my head and I just had to pull her out and stamp her up!

I just adore this Alva! You can do anything with her and she's just got the sweetest face! You can pick Magnolia Stamps from Summer at Roses on Paper. I colored her with my Koh-I-Noor prencils. I haven't used them in so long and had a great time with them. The background paper is from the Citrus pack from DCWV and I used my Hello Kitty die cut from Sizzix. I used some gold pearls in the corners and used my cuttlebug to give the paper a bit of texture. And of course, I had to give her some stickles!

Hope you enjoy my little pixie! I had such fun with her!

Card Ingredients: Alva and Big Daisy by Magnolia, Citrus Paper pack from DCWV, gold pearls, Koh-I-Noor woodless colored pencils, SU ticket punch, cuttlebug folder, stickles, nestabilities, Hello Kitty Sizzix die cut.