Pile It On Flutter Birthday

Today's card was made for several challenges, including Pile It On's Challenge #6, which is a super fun sketch created by Dalis:


And here's my take on it:


For the sentiment, I followed this tutorial by Debbie Olson. I stamped the letters at different heights to mimic the look of those cute little letter stickers that everyone's using but I'm too cheap to buy! I colored Flutter Anya with Copics and glittered her wings with my usual Stardust/water brush method, then cut her out and popped her up on foam tape. She's got tiny heart rhinestones on her wings, and a little Prima flower with a homemade flocked brad in her hair. I also glittered the little flower.

Here's a closer shot of her:


And now for the challenges:

• Pile It On - Challenge #6 Sketch #1.
• 365 Cards - Challenge #132 Picture This. I was inspired to make a birthday card and I think the sentiment looks like candles on a cake.
• Belli Challenge - Challenge #69 Texture. I used a piece of velvet ric rac and I also flocked the brad in her hair.
• Stamp Simply - Challenge #95 Let the Sparks Fly. I glittered the flower and her wings.

Only 4 challenges today, but that's fine with me! I hope you like it and TFL!

Other materials used: white cardstock - Georgia Pacific; patterned paper - Basic Grey (Urban Prairie 6x6 paper pad); alphabet stamps - CTMH; Spring Moss ink - Papertrey Ink; velvet ric rac - May Arts; D'Vine Swirls embossing folder - Provo Craft; Petite Oval Nestabilities.

Penguin Cupcake

Today's card is based on the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #14 at the Hope Stamps Eternal blog. I went very literal again as I HAD to use the Imaginisce penguins that I'm sure the cupcakes were based on:


It's also for Paper Bloom's Shape Up Challenge, which is to make a shaped card.

In case you can't tell, the top of the cupcake is supposed to be a little island and the bottom is the ocean. Yes, that's real sand on the top! I cut the cupcake and the tree with my Cricut using the Doodlecharms cartridge.

I was going to use the penguin stamps, but they were a little too big for my cupcake so I cut these out of a sheet of patterned paper and they're just the right size! I added some Stardust sparkle to the "ocean" and little rhinestones for the coconuts and on the flower.

I hope you like it and TFL!

Other materials used: blue cardstock - Core'dinations; green and brown cardstock - Bazzill; twine and sentiment (Mixed Messages set) - Papertrey Ink; Brilliant Blue ink - Stampin' Up!; tag - Cuttlebug.

Two Tulips

This week I got to work with a gorgeous tulip image from Softpencil - Digital Stamps. I was a little intimidated when I first saw it because I'm not a great colorer. However once I actually sat down and tried, it was pretty easy to follow the stippling to know where to put the darker colors. I had so much fun with the first one that I had to do a second! For both cards, I really wanted the focus to be on the image, so I kept them pretty simple.

Here's my first one colored with Copics:


I can't remember exactly, but I believe I used about 4-5 yellow/orange tones, and 3-4 green tones. I'm working on my coloring techniques so this was a great image to practice on! After I colored the image, I cut it out and popped it up with foam tape, leaving just a little extra white space at the bottom without foam tape to fit under the ribbon. The bow is just a loop with a little extra bit taped around the middle and glued on to the piece of flat ribbon. The diamond pattern was created on the Scor-Pal.

I'm a little obsessed with charms right now so you'll be seeing more on my cards as I acquire them!

And then my second one colored with Peerless watercolors:


This week the DT was given a Decorative Element challenge which was to use a specific color theme - yellow/orange, so that's why I colored them both with the same colors.

My regular watercolor paper was too thick to go through my printer, so I ran a Fabriano notecard through and it went just fine. After I watercolored, I cut it out just like the first one, but I didn't use any foam tape this time. However I did leave parts free from glue so the image would still be dimensional.

Well, that's all for now. I hope I did ok with my coloring and that you like the cards. TFL!

Other materials used: Summer Sunrise cardstock and ink, Simple Little Things Limited Edition stamp set - Papertrey Ink; black cardstock, scallop border punch, and green ribbon - Stampin' Up!; patterned paper - Creative Imaginations; white ribbon - May Arts; Swiss Dots embossing folder; tiny rhinestones from ebay seller; charm from stash.

Sweet Hello

I'm so happy I *finally* made a card using the Whiff of Joy Summer Stamp Kit that I've had forever! I used the Willow with Strawberry Basket image:


Quick notes: She was colored with Copics, cut out and popped up with foam tape. For the panel she's on, since there is no exact matting size in that style of Nestie, I cut the white panel on the embossed line to make it just a smidge smaller and then matted it with the dotted panel cut with the same Nestie (hope that makes sense!).

For her hair I used E53, E33, E35 and E37 (I use E53 instead of E31 because I think it's a better match to the other colors).

Challenges:

• Pile It On - use three different embellishments (and of course combine with at least one other current challenge)


• Sketch Saturday - sketch


• Charisma Cardz - use buttons


• Copic Creations - brunette hair


• A Spoon Full of Sugar - hearts


• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - cut it out and pop it up


• Whiff of Joy - 3 patterned papers, 3 flowers and 1 ribbon

Whew! 7 challenges! I hope you like it and TFL!

Other materials used: Sweet Hello sentiment - Whiff of Joy; patterned paper - DCWV Nana's Nursery - Baby Girl; Berry Sorbet ink and Spring Moss buttons - Papertrey Ink; Prima flowers; May Arts ribbon; heart rhinestone - Queen & Co.; Nestabilities.

Finished size is 5.5" square.

More exciting news!

I got picked for the Pile It On Design Team!!

In case you're not familiar with PIO, here's what it's all about (from the blog):

Each Sunday we will give you a challenge. We would like you to incorporate our challenge with at least one other CURRENT challenge (at the time of posting) to "qualify" to be one of our Three Top Scoops or should there be a prize offered that week.

The PIO blog has tons of challenge sites listed so it's not hard at all to find challenges to combine with the PIO challenge! I think it's lots of fun and I hope to see you all playing along with us!

Butterfly Thanks

Today's card was made for the Hope Stamps Cupcake Inspiration Challenge #13. I was inspired by the colors and by the spotted butterflies:


The layout was CASE'd from a card in the latest Doodlebug ad with just a few minor changes. I hope you like it and TFL!

Materials used: patterned paper - Fancy Pants; butterfly and thanks diecuts - Quickutz; border punch - EK Success; circle and scalloped circle Nestabilities; brads - Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts.

More Michu

This week we had our choice of Softpencil images and even though I'm usually more of a dog person, I just can't resist Michu!! I chose this super cute image called Michu is Flying a Kite:


I colored Michu, the ground, and the kite tail with Copics, and paper pieced the main part of the kite, which was also popped up with foam tape.

I hope you like it and TFL!

Other materials used: patterned paper - Fancy Pants; border punches - Martha Stewart; rub on sentiment - Stampin' Up!; buttons - Making Memories; ribbon - May Arts.