Lollipop Crafts Spotlight: Meljen's Designs

Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly-lolly-lolly lollipop!!!  That's right it's spotlight day at Lollipop Crafts and it's for one of my favorite sponsors Meljen's Designs.

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Our winner this week will be lucky enough to win 4 images of their choice from Meljen's great collection! 

Our "T team" is showcasing images this week from our sponsor and you can check out their projects HERE.  For my project I wanted to work with this fun image called "candy land dreams" just in time for 

Valentine's Day!  I colored my image with Copics and then outlined everything with my black Spica pen to add a little glitz.   The poofy white cloud, I have covered in white sparkly fluff. I was inspired by the photo at There's Magic in the Air, my pp is from CTMH.

Don't forget to join our challenge this week HERE for your chance to win the AWESOME prize from Meljen's Designs.

Kaboodle Doodles #101-Fireworks + Sketch

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 Lollipop Crafts, or The Crazy Challenge please scroll down.

This is an exciting week for me as it was my turn to design a sketch for Sunday Sketch & Stamp, this is only the 2nd time I have created my own sketch. I hope you like it ans will come and play along with us and check out what the rest of the Sunday Sketch team has created HERE.

So I took this opportunity to kill 2 bids with one stone and combine my sketch with the challenge this week at Kaboodle Doodles. Our challenge this week is "Fireworks" and we have the wonderful Meljen's Designs as our sponsor this week. The prize this week is 4 images from Meljen's, so make sure to play along for a chance to win!  

I chose to use this adorable penguin image called "Party Penguin"- I love the sparklers in his hand and fun banner!  What a great image for a birthday or any occasion you are celebrating.  The papers are reversible and from TPC Studio "Party Hearty Candy Buttons" line. I have colored him using copics and then layered him up several times. I have framed him using my Nesties, then added a little bling and sentiment from CTMH.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Meljen's- stars (star on pennant, hope it counts)

Lollipop Crafts Spotlight : Meljen's Designs

It's spotlight time at Lollipop Crafts and this week we are sponsored by one of my faves, Meljen's Designs.  Our challenge this week is a color challenge- dark red, chocolate, and cream.  So I grabbed this adorable "Gruffy Little Gnome" for my project and colored him up with Copics.  I fussy cut him out and popped him up on this Santa list embossed using QuicKutz folder.  I inked the edges with a little Colorbox Chestnut Roan and then added my sentiment using some letter stamps from my stash.  Come over an join the 

challenge #60, we would love to see your projects!

Here is a little about Meljen's Designs:

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

A Piece of Pie

With Thanksgiving tomorrow I know many of you are counting your blessings and so am I.  There is something that has been near and dear to my heart for many years and that is our soldiers who are serving our country. When I saw this image from Meljen's called "pink ribbon teddy" the ideas started running through my head on how to use this cutie. I found this sentiment in my stamps and immediately knew I was pairing these to together, the sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Service & Sacrifice set.

Now the challenge this week at Cooking It Up With Katie is "a piece of the pie"- no we don't mean projects using pies so what is that you may ask?  Our recipe is as follows: "Use a punch, add some ink, and finish with some embossing." I used my Nesties for my punch to feature sentiment, inked all my edges, and used my Cuttlebug hearts embossing folder on my yellow paper.  Come one over and our challenge HERE for your chance to win the prize from our sponsor Meljen's Designs.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Meljen's- fall
Crafty Purple Frog- orange
Forever Friends-something old, something new (old embossing folder, new image)
Rainbow Lady's-Thanksgiving
Sassy Studios- thank you card
Shelly's Images- anything goes
Southern Girls- bingo (ribbon, gems, die cuts)

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree

Fall is here and Thanksgiving will be here before we know it, man this year is flying!!!  My Lil' man is enjoying these nice cool days and spent the entire day playing outside yesterday, while I got a little crafting  and cleaning done. 

Lollipop Crafts #56 has the perfect challenge this week, we want to see those "Fall/Thanksgiving" projects.  We are once again sponsored by Meljen's Designs and I have used this image called "Apple Beary Fairy."  I have done something a little different with my image, printing it on kraft paper and then coloring with copics.  I have to say I like the look!!! The sentiment is from Unity's "Apple Cheddar Soup" set.  Make sure to come on over to Lollipop Crafts and check out what rest of team has done and we are welcoming a new guest designer this week.  Ashley has created a wonderful project, check out her blog here.

Now that you have created your Fall/Thanksgiving project, head on over to Kaboodle Doodles and enter their challenge too! Kaboodle Doodles #92 is all about "Colors of Fall"- show use oranges, yellows, browns, and reds.  We are sponsored this week by Robyn's Fetish and the team has created gorgeous projects!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Meljen's- brads

Stamptacular Sunday- sketch
Catered Crop- recipe: I used following items from example- Fall theme & colors, Kraft paper, Copic Markers, Meljen's Stamp.  I have added brads/ribbon/SEI paper/Unity sentiment/Spica pen/Inked Edges to my card.
Creative Inspirations Paint-anything goes
Dream Valley Challenges- anything goes
OSAAT-use a digi
Sparkles Forum-Autumn
2 Sisters-ribbon
Catch the Bug-anything goes
Craft Your Days Away-Fall/Autumn
Mark's Finest Papers-Fall
Craft Your Passion- anything goes+brown
Creative Stamp Friends- orange & brown
Heart Song Inspirations- anything goes
Inspire Me Fridays-anything goes

Fall/Halloween Cards

Up for a fun sketch this week to get you started, well that is the challenge this week at

 The Crazy Challenge. Fall/Autumn colors are an optional twist. we are happy to be sponsored by Di's Digis once again and I chose to work with this adorable "mummy bear" image. We would love to have you play along with us, the DT has some great samples at inspiration posted here!

I am also entering this card in the Charisma Cardz "orange & black" challenge this week! Over at Forever Friends the challenge is to "use a sentiment with an animal image."

 It's all about "critters" this week at Lollipop Crafts and we are sponsored this week by

Little Miss Muffet Stamps.  I was really excited to work with this fun image called "monster love" as this was my first from this company. I grabbed these halloween scraps and inked the edges with CTMH bamboo ink.  I loved the sketch this week at The Crazy Challenge so I used it on this card as well. Come join us and check out the rest of design team's AWESOME projects here!  Linda is joining us as a guest designer this week and so make sure to check out here blog here and leave her some love!

I am also entering this in the Little Miss Muffet challenge to use "animals or monsters."

Fall is in the air and the leaves are starting to turn those lovely shades of reds, yelllows, oranges and browns which provides the perfect inspiration for this week's challenge at Kaboodle Doodles. That's right "Show Us The Leaves" is the theme of challenge and we are sponsored by the wonderful

Meljen's Designs. When I saw this image called "fall wreath" I knew I wanted to work with it! I have colored it with copics and then ditressed the edges of my image and layers using my Tonic tool. This fun fall paper is from Creative Memories.  Stop by here and check out the DT samples this week and play along with us this week for your chance to win 4 images from Meljen's store!

I am also entering this card in the "distressing" challenge at Digi Doodle Shop. Also the Moving Along With the Times challenge is to use "autumn leaves" and Paper Play would like to see "autumn colors."

Lollipop Spotlight: Meljen's Designs- Cute Lil' Vampire

It's time to spotlight our fabulous sponsor Meljen's Designs this week at Lollipop Crafts! I have created this fun Halloween card using the adorable "Lil Vampire" image, which I have colored with copics and paired with papers from Fancy Pants Designs Oct 31st stack and CTMH papers. This card is perfect for this week's challenge #51 at Lollipop Crafts, which is to create a Halloween project.  Up for grabs is a prize of 4 digis from their store. Come join us this week and share those spooky & spectacular projects!

Here's a little about Meljen's Designs:

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical digital images inspired by her kids and family. The Meljen's Designs store officially launched on April 1 and is steadily growing! Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Card recipe:

Image: Meljen's Designs Lil Vampire

Sketch: Sketch and Stash

Paper: Fancy Pants Designs Oct 31st & CTMH Mistletoe

Sentiment: Stampendous Costume Kids 

Medium: Copics

Challenges:

Sketch & Stash- sketch+ option of 3 pp or 3 embellies (did both- new/papers & image, neglected-buttons)
Meljen's Designs- halloween
Crafty Ribbons-halloween projects
Delightful Challenges- make it dimensional (sentiment is popped up)

Sweet Little One

"Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice, That's What Little Girls Are Made Of!"

Nothing is sweeter than an adorable new baby and I have lots of people I know are having new bundles of joy in next few months, so this card will be perfect for one of them.  This week at Cooking It Up With Katie we are sponsored by Meljen's Designs.  I used this adorable image called "baby bottle" which I have paired with the Claire's sketch this week at Sunday Sketch & Stamp. 

The challenge this week at Cooking It Up with Katie is:

"Use a sticker, some pink, and add a little bling!"

Come on over and check out what our new DT gals have created for the challenge!

Kaboodle Doodles-Primary Colors

School countdown is on and if you are like me you are doing all those last minute things to get the kiddos ready.  We start school on the 18th and this past weekend was "Tax Free" weekend, but I decided not to fight the masses and get in a little crafting.

This week at Kaboodle Doodles our challenge is all about "primary colors" and we have another wonderful sponsor.  Meljen's Designs has provided us with images to work with and the challenge winner will receive their choice of 4 images from their store.  I grabbed this adorable image called "artist mug", which I colred up with my copics.  I cut the contents of the mug out and layered them up on a second copy of image and then cut out entire image again.  These adorable papers are from the DCWV school stack and I used some new Nesties I got on clearance at Hobby Lobby for the red paper. For the finishing touch, I had my 6 yo Lucas write his teacher's name on mug (this is actually his Kindergarten teacher's name, but he wants to give her a card on the first day of school on his way to his new 1st grade class).

Come one over to Kaboodle Doodles and check out the rest of team's projects and share with us your projects using primary colors! 

Kaboodle Doodles #72

It's all about "food and drinks" with this week's Kaboodle Doodles challenge and we are excited to be sponsored by Meljen's Designs.  One lucky winner with get 4 images from Meljen's Designs! I colored my image using Paint.net and all other elements are from Pixel Scrapper. Come join the challenge here and check out rest of DT projects!

Challenges I am entering:

Outlawz- colors red/green/blue

Pals Paper Arts- sketch