Belli Challenge #48 - Celebration

Well, today is also Belli Challenge day! And here is my card finally. The word of the day here was CRAZZZZZZZZY kids, LOL.

ETA: Looking at the picture here, it looks like the card is an odd size, but it's not, it's standard A2 sized! Just thought I'd mention that. :)

This week's Belli is "New Year" or other "Celebration" card (i.e. birthday) in honor of New Year's Eve! Obviously, I went with birthday. This image is from Wish RAK over on Splitcoast, it's a Happy Hoppers - isn't he CA-UUUTE? I colored him with Copics, die cut with my SU die, used a CB folder on the Bashful Blue layer and then painted over the whole background with December Sky Shimmerz Blingz. You can see the shimmer in the angle shot I took - also Blingz'd the cake and blue dots on the hat. The colors here are Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava and Bashful Blue.

Whew! Another two-post day! But check out the blogs of the other Belli Girls if you haven't already {links in my left sidebar} and used keyword CBC48 when you upload!

Pink Papery Wednesday - Patterned Paper

Happy New Year's Eve! I don't know about where you are, but this past year sure flew by around here. And here we are at the beginning of another snowy Wednesday in Wisconsin - perfect bubble bath weather {if you don't have two little kids running around, LOL}.

For this week's Pink Papery Studios designer challenge, Shelly challenged us to Mix It Up! and use up our scraps. Each project needed to have at least two different patterned paper scraps on it. LOVE Shelly right now for this one, because patterned paper is one of my favorite things to put on cards! Or, on anything really, heehee, but cards are the most practical. I used some of my precious Soft Sky prints paper from last year's SU catalog, and some velvet/flocked paper I got at the LSS {can't remember who makes this}.

I reached for my stash of GORGEOUS new images from Pink Papery Studios and chose these from the Simply Bath set. I colored her in with my Copics {gotta get my money's worth out of that new "D" color set I got at Gina K last week!} and added December Sky Shimmerz Blingz to the bathwater and bubbles for extra glitz.

I used SC207 from Splitcoast for the sketch here, it's from a couple of weeks ago but I hadn't had a chance to play around with it yet and I thought this was a great image to try it with! I think I covered all the high points - I'll back a little later this morning with this week's Belli Challenge card!

MTTSC3 - Snow Bunny Girl

Happy Tuesday! Time for another Twinkling Tuesday sketch challenge from the fabulous Madelynn. This is MTTSC3 {use that keyword when uploading to SCS or PCP}. You NEED to participate in this week's sketch challenge too, because Jessica and Madelynn will be having a random drawing for some very cool blog candy!!! All you need to do is participate in the challenge by making a card using Madelynn's sketch, and leave a comment on Jessica's blog post with a link to your creation!

Anyway, back to my sample. I really enjoyed this sketch, it's very versatile! Here's my card:

These images from Pink Papery Studios are so much fun. I am really loving the digital aspecct of them because it's easy to manipulate them and size them exactly where I want them {they are available as stamps too}. This is the Snow Bunny Girl from the Walking in the Winter Wonderland set. I colored her with my Copics and then flocked the hood and cuffs of her coat with white flock {probably can't see that part in the photo}. I added a bunch of two-way glue around her boots and dumped on some Art Institute "Faux Snow" that I got back in the fall but hadn't opened! I love it though, I'll be using it again. I found the DP in my stash and I colored some white grosgrain purple {again using Copics} to match up with her snowsuit. Some Filigree designer brads from SU finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you visit the rest of the Twinkle Team {links on my left sidebar} for more inspiration and don't forget to GET STAMPING and link up your creation to Jessica's blog post {by leaving a comment} and you'll be entered to WIN her challenge candy! Jessica and Madelynn have put together an AMAZING prize package and you know you want it. Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Christmas is over, but...

The Christmas cards are still rolling in here, so I figured I've still got a few days to share the last of the various Christmas card designs I had made.

This one features that adorable stocking from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps that you've seen before. I really like this image, it's a great size, perfect for coloring, and of course SO cute. It also has the great sentiment that goes along with it. You can buy these stamps individually {mounted or unmounted}, or you can get the Fall & Holidays half sheet, which has these and many more {more is good!!}.

I used an old Sketch Challenge from Splitcoast for this one - SC142 - a real favorite of mine. The colors are Real Red, Certainly Celery and retired Christmas DP from Stampin' Up!, can't remember the name offhand. I colored the main image with SU markers and painted on some Shimmerz for extra bling.

Blog Candy Alerts!

Not mine this time, but a couple of great ones I wanted to link-up:

• Melissa's In Style blog candy. Have you seen those Divas? They're ROCKIN'!
• Melissa from Keepsakes by Melissa has some very cool New Year's candy!
• 500 hits candy from The Paper Freak.