Lollipop Crafts Spotlight: Just Some Lines

It's time to spotlight another wonderful sponsor over at Lollipop Crafts this week.  We are so excited to be sponsored by Just Some Lines and here is a little more about them:

Just Some Lines is a relatively new digital shop where lines bring characters to life. It has approximately 200 digital stamps which were drawn by Jehanne, the owner.  Jehanne is a self taught artist and a stay at home mum who enjoys drawing whimsical characters.

This week Jehanne has graciously offered a $15 gift certificate to the Just Some Lines store! Make sure you check out the challenge post to find out how you can win this great prize. 

As soon as I saw this cute image called "Emo Snowflake" I was in love and knew I wanted to use her on my card.  It's hard to see , but I added some sparkly fluff to pink on her hat and the snow.  The snowflakes has also been highlighted with my black Spica pen and then a little glitter!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Crimbo Crackers-make it sparkle
Moving Along With the Times-let it snow
Delightful Challenges- bingo (glitter, ribbon, add dimension-snowflake is popped up)

4 Crafty Chicks- Color Challenge

It's week 2 of my guest designer month at 4 Crafty Chicks and this week is a color challenge.  Our challenge colors are "Old Olive, Rose Road, Baja Breeze, and Early Espresso."  Well I don't have these colors from Stampin' Up, so I had to try to match my CTMH papers with a little help from a color comparison chart I found online.  I have used Olive, Cranberry, Crystal Blue, Chocolate, and Colonial White- when I first saw this combo I didn't think I could make it work, but love the final result! The patterned papers are from CTMH also except the green (blue is from Miracle and red is from Mistletoe).  I found this great sketch on Feline Playful site and the sentiment is a freebie I got at Sentimental Sundays. A few little pearls and ribbon to complete this card, oh and I layered up the inside too!

TSB Challenge #2

Did you all get in on the first challenge here at The Stamping Boutique?  Well if not get ready for round number 2 and with St. PAtrick's Day arounf the corner what would be more fitting than to

" Use the color green" in your project as well as sketch provided. 

For my card I decided to work with a new image in the store called 

Emo Princess Penelope and her frog by Kalie Malnofski, daughter of our fearless leader Tracey Manofski. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it? Kalie is one very talented lady and be sure to check out the store for more images from her line coming soon!

This image was so dun to work with, since I have boys I don't get work much with girl images but I couldn't resist working with Princess Penelope!  She is colored with Copics of course and then I added some glossy accents to her lil' companion's eyeballs. Don't you just love that green paper? It came from one of the Storyteller's Club kits I receive monthly.  The pink is yummy CTMH Exclusive paper and then I embossed with my Sizzix folder.  Ribbon & slide as well as sentiment are all courtesy of CTMH products, metal frame/buttons/brads/pins are all from my stash.

Now hurry on over to The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog to see what rest of team has created and join the challenge.  We would love to see your projects and remember if you create a scrapbook page you are entered twice in drawing for FREE images.  Also if yous use a TSB image, you can enter your project in the monthly contest also.

I am entering this in following challenges:

Fairytale Challenge-something for a child with a child's image

Pattie's Creations- use green

Shannon's Sentiments Preview Day #2

It's the 2nd day for the March "Shannon's Sentiments" release!!! . Today we're featuring "Vintage Tags" and "Colored Vintage Tags".

The full sets with a blog hop will be starting at 6am EST on Mar. 15th at the "Shannon's Sentiments" blog. We will also be hosting a chat at our CDAC group page at 8pm EST on the 15th as well.

There are unique giveaways this month that I promise you won't want to miss out on. We also have a guest designer challenge going on that you'll want to check out and participate in.

For my project, I decided to make something a little bit different and fun!  This is a money purse and I got the directions from CTMH Originals Card Confidence Book located on page 69.  I also grabbed this wonderful stamp set called "Key to My Heart" which is from Close to My Heart.  Patterned paper is from one of many kits I have received from Storyteller's Club, all other papers are from CTMH's Exclusive Paper Line.  I used CTMH Chocolate ink to ink edges of everything as well as stamp with. 

That fun tag is part of the new "Colored Vintage Tags" and I thought would be perfect to write the recipient's name and addres or maybe a special message on.  It's attached using brads.  For the inside I created this cute card once againg using the "Key to My Heart" stamp set.

More inspiration from our design team to get your creative juices flowing for this challenge.

Shannon Hawkins

Cindy Groh

Kapree Clark

Michelle Single

Christy Dillman - Guest Designer

We'll see you again tomorrow for the last set of previews.

Digi Day at PaperCraft Planet Challenge

If you missed it The Stamping Boutique held a Digi Day on Saturday.  Along with the chatting there were some fun challenges, with prizes up for grabs and you have until Monday, March 14th to get your projects entered here: Challenge #3.  This is an inspiration challenge....let the picture below inspire you...let it be the colors, the background, image itself, let it be how it makes you feel....doesn't matter to me...I just want to see how you took the image!!! (For copyright purposes, photo came from here.)

For my card I chose to work with She Who Paints the Forest from the Enchantment line.  My fave color is RED and when I look at this pic that is what I see, lots of pretty red flowers.  So I grabbed my Copics (E00/E31/E35/E37/RV000/R81/R29/R59/G14/G19) and then I added some sparkle to those wings!  Cardstock is Bazzill and the green polka dotted is from one of my monthly Storyteller's club kits.  I inked all the edges using CTMH New England Ivy ink. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Stamping Vacation- use glitter

Cooking It Up With Katie- Challenge #52

It's challenge day at Cooking It Up With Katie and today we want you to "Punch me something Sweet and Sassy!"  If you hadn't guessed today we are sponsored by:

  Sassy Studio Designs.

They are offering the winner of this challenge their choice of 4 images from the store!

Now on to this week's recipe:

Show us some Sweet, Add a little Sassy, Finish with a Punch!

Once again the design team was provided fun images to work with and I grabbed this image called Bubble Bath, in the I'm Every Woman Collection. I used the sketch from Hanna & Friends even though I didn't get entered into their challenge in time. Papers are once again from my scrap pile and inked with CTMH cocoa ink. I added some fun embossing using Cuttlebug embossing folder, I think it's called tiny bubbles. Computer generated sentiment and then punched with my Stampin' Up punches, scalloped circle is one of my Nesties.

Now make sure to head on over to the Cooking It Up With Katie blog to check out the rest of the team's Sassy creations and join the fun!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Fab 'n Funky-girly

Kaboodle Doodles #57- Go Green!

I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend and is ready to start this week off with another challenge from Kaboodle Doodles. We have another fantastic sponsor Card Mad Fairy and they have provided use each and image to work with.

This week your challenge is to:

"Go Green"- use the color green on your project.

I chose to work with this image called Spring tree, which I of course colored with Copics 
(YG03/BG93/RV000/E31/E35/E37) and then added some bling (which I picked up in $1 section at Micheal's).  I framed the image using my scalloped nesties and added some embossing using my fave Cuttlebug folder-Swiss Dots.  paper is from my scrap pile again and I inked the edges with CTMH Baby Pink ink.

I am entering this in the following challenges: 
Aly's Sunday Challenge- anything goes
The Crafty Pad- use a ribbon
Creative Inspirations Paint- gone green (use green, something recycled, or St. Patty's Day) 

Make sure to head on over to Kaboodle Doodles to check out rest of team!  Oh and make sure to check out our fearless leader, Chris' blog as she has the cutest FREEBIE up for grabs on her here.

Spring has Sprung!

Well at least that is what I wish for every day as I am so sick of winter!  Today was first day of high school baseball tryouts for my oldest son and I can't wait until end of March to be sitting in those bleachers-LOL!

I have actually been getting in some crafting time and am in love with the new spring images at The Stamping Boutique.  For this card I chose to work with Flower cart, makes me excited for day I see my tulips come popping up!

I colored this image with Copics and then outlines everything with my black Spica pen.  I added some Sparkly Fluff in cotton candy pink to my flowers and then a little bling for the centers using my CTMH Bitty Sparkles.  Papers are from my stash and inked with CTMH Baby Pink or Key Lime. I added some embossing with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder, sentiment is computer generated and then punched with my Stampin' Up punches.

I am entering this card in several challenges:

Bunny Zoe Crafts- spring and flowers everywhere
The Crazy Challenge- Here comes spring
Stamp Something- something with flowers
Southern Girls- brads. gems, or dew drops (I used brads on the umbrella and wheels of cart)
Stampin' B's- use a flower
Crafty Creations- in the garden (lots of flowers in my garden)
Creative Cottage-lots of flowers
Sisterhood of Crafters- ribbon & brads