DeNami Product Challenge: Glitter!

It's the 5th of the month, so that means that it's time for a challenge over on the DeNami Design blog! This month your challenge is to use glitter on your project!

First of all, I decided to make an easel card. I love these! I used papers from SEI's Play Day and Happy Day collections, and ribbon and buttons from DeNami Design. I also love the Mimi with Birthday Cake image! Call me crazy, but as I coloring Mimi, I was picturing the adorable Michele from the DeNami DT! Don't you think they look alike?

After coloring Mimi with colored pencils, I added Strawberry Freeze Sparklets Glitter to the cake. Even though I had colored the cake with a cream colored pencil, the pink glitter added just a hint of color but a lot of sparkle. The Quickie Glue Pen makes adding glitter to your images so easy. I love this glue pen and I use it for glitter, flocking, and paper-piecing.

So do you have some glitter that you've been saving for a special project? Show us what you can do with it! Head on over to the DeNami blog to see the challenge details and to see the amazing projects by the other members of the Design Team.

Just My Type by Lawn Fawn

I just got these adorable new stamps from Lawn Fawn and I couldn't wait to use them! This set is called Just My Type and has the cutest little retro typewriter stamp. For this card, I paper-pieced the image using papers from Pebbles, Inc. The punched border reminded me of a notepad, so I added a little punched scrap to continue with the office-supply theme.

This card is my entry for several online challenges happening right now: Paper Crafts' Inspired By Challenge, Lucy's Card Challenge to use buttons, Practical Scrappers' Use Your Stash Challenge, and finally Let's Capture Our Memories' Use Your Stash Challenge. Even though the stamps are brand new, I won the paper several months ago and the ribbon has been sitting on my shelf for years (seriously!)

PaperCrafts Winner from the Get Sketchy Blog Hop

And the winner is: Lynn M! Lynn, I tried contacting you through your Blogger account, but haven't heard back from you. Hopefully, because you are a Follower of my blog, you will see this post and contact me. Please email me with your mailing addy so I can get your issue to you! Thanks to everyone for the sweet comments on my cards, and I hope that all of you who are now following the blog find lots of great ideas and inspiration!

Get Sketchy Challenge #29 and a Giveaway!

I have to tell you how excited I was when I checked out the Get Sketchy blog this morning. Today was the day that we Design Team newbies got to have our first cards featured. Check out the variety! I loved that although the designers all got the same images to work with, we all did something completely different. HERE is the link to this week's challenge, with all of the design team's cards.

To play along, simply make a card based on this week's sketch (#29). Take a digital photo of it, upload it to an online gallery (many are free-I like Flickr) and provide a link using the Mr. Linky feature at the bottom of the Get Sketchy post. It's easy-and if you have any problems, you can email me and I will walk you through it.

For my card, I used the digital image provided by The Stamping Boutique (this week's sponsor.) I gotta say, I was nervous when I saw this-I've never done anything digi before! It was super easy, though-I just inserted the jpeg into a word document and printed it. I chose to paper-piece my image instead of coloring it, so I used lots of coordinating scraps to piece my image. To paper-piece a digi image using scraps, simply print your image on regular computer paper. Then, use removable adhesive (or even Scotch tape) to adhere your scraps over the image. Run your paper through your printer again. Keep doing this until you have all of your images printed on the papers that you want. Then you can cut out the bits and pieces and adhere them all together to form the complete image. It's a great way to use up your scraps. Digi images are also budget-friendly because you can use them over and over.

All papers, buttons, and stickers are by SEI, chipboard arrow is from Fancy Pants Design, and ribbon is from American Crafts.

And for my giveaway! I recently was published for the first time in Papercrafts magazine. I received a complimentary copy of the magazine-which I am giving away to a lucky reader! To be entered in my drawing, simply leave a comment on my blog (or email me your comment if you're unsure of how to leave a comment directly on the blog) and become a Follower. Again, if you're unsure of how to do that, just email me and I will walk you through it. I will announce the winner on Friday, March 26th. So you have two weeks to leave a comment and become a Follower. Your comment can be on any post between now and Thursday, March 25th at midnight.

So glad you visited the blog today-be sure to check out all of the design team's creations at Get Sketchy!

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

As promised, here are two of my new Halloween cards. These are minis, made from my 3" scalloped circle punch. This is quite possibly one of my most-used tools. I combined stamps from a couple of different companies. First, I used my little fox from Imaginisce. He is one of my favorites. I love that I can dress him up in costumes by using other stamps with him. It really stretches my stamp dollar. The witch hat (by Studio G) is stamped on patterned paper, then cut out and adhered to the front. I also used Studio G sentiments on each card. The little ghost is from Hero Arts.
Don't forget to stop by the official World Cardmaking Day website-the link is over on the right. Just click on the icon and it will bring you there. There are lots of card ideas and tips, plus a great card contest. What a great activity for this rainy day! Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!

Critter contest to share...

over at the Paper Crafts website. As you can probably tell from my cards, I really love little critter stamps. Paper Crafts is having a contest where all of the prizes are critter-themed. What's not to love?

I've shared a picture of the prizes above. HERE is the link to enter (this is a random drawing-so easy!) Good luck!

Have I mentioned that I love owls?

It's my latest obsession-owl anything. I even ordered checks that have owls on them. They are just the cutest things-makes bill paying more fun, ya know?

Here's my latest project-owl and all. This actually satisfies a couple of challenges and submissions in addition to being just plain cute. First, it is my take on the Be Inpsired #39 challenge over at Cuttlebug Challenge. Yes, it is a real twig-and yes, I might be crazy-but it went so well with the theme.

It is also part of my submission for the design team over at My Sketch World. My first time trying out for a design team-keep your fingers crossed for me. I really love sketches, so this would be perfect for me.

Finally, I decided to submit it to Papercrafts magazine. I loved it that much! And three's a charm, right? Somedays you just come up with something that you just can't stop looking at. This is one of those. I'll keep you posted...