Time for Tea Designs - Holiday Critter Inspiration

Good morning friends! Today I'm sharing my weekly inspiration project for Time For Tea Designs. Don't forget that you can (and should) play along in our monthly challenge, for your chance to win free digis! Everyone loves free digis, am I right? The theme for our challenge is Anything Goes. My favorite! It's so easy to enter - just make something using your Time For Tea Designs images and post them! Share with the hashtag #timeforteadesigns so we can find them, and you're entered to win! Challenges run monthly, and we will have a spotlight and a prize winner at the end of each challenge. Oh, and I have a discount code for you to use - T4TJENNIFER10 will save you 10% on your order from the Time For Tea shop! Yayyyy :)

I actually stepped away from the Pawsome Christmas pets that I've not been able to keep my hands off of! Pretty crazy, right? Well, I know we're past the big day, but I have still been in the Christmas creative mood the past week and after this one, I've got one more Christmas project to share. Phew! I guess I should send out the cards that are sitting on my stamp counter too, huh? I hereby extend Christmas through New Year's (for myself) - that extra week definitely helps!

This card features stamps from the Moovellous clear set (and matching dies), Say Anything clear set, and ok, I guess I lied...the Christmas hat is from the Pawsome Christmas pets (and matching dies).

I stamped the images onto Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored them with Copic Markers - I buy all of mine at Scrapbookpal.com for their fast shipping and awesome service. The ribbon is from Ribbons and Bows Oh My!, die is the inside of a Scalloped Oval Frame from Gina Marie Designs.

To create the tree background I used the awesome Treemendous Christmas stencil, along with our Beautiful Blender Brushes and Distress Oxide Ink in Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover. After I had the stenciled sections laid down, I oversprayed with Ranger Dyan Reaveley Dylusions ink spray to give it a little more character. 

I've drawn my inspiration from Bugaboo's Critter Chaos challenges, this one is a sketch - my favorite - which I'm entering it for (Day 2). 

I hope you enjoyed my project today. If you've got a moment, head over to join our FB community, follow us on Instagram, and don't forget to play along with our monthly challenges by tagging #timeforteadesigns - so easy! Thanks for stopping by!

Imagine That Digistamp - October Mid-Inspiration

Good morning my dear stamping friends! I'm here today to share some inspiration for Imagine That Digistamp's "First Thursday" Challenge. That's right, the challenge is now monthly, on the ITD blog, complete with prizes!! The challenges start the first Thursday of each month and end on the last Tuesday before the new challenge begins. The theme is always Anything Goes. Click here for all the details. 

On the first and third Thursdays of each month, there will be a new inspiration post on the Creative Playground blog featuring the Design Team's projects. This is great to get your fix of ITDBK DT project postings! ALSO, I have a discount code for you! Jennifer15 will get you 15% off your entire order. You can use it as many times as you like!

For my project today I used images, paper and sentiment from the Ellie's Pirate Costume digital stamp set. How PERFECT arrrrrh these coordinating papers? This is one of my Top 10 ITD sets I think, the elephant is so cute and of course I just love Halloween :)

My layout is based on the current Mojo Monday sketch, #525, which I flipped on it's side to accommodate the size I printed Ellie at.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Lemon Shortbread - #101: AG (3/3)
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #113: AG (3/3)
QKR Stampede - #361: AG (3/3)
Pammie's Inky Pinkies - #1935: AG (3/3)
Get Creative - #84: AG (3/3)
A Bit More Time to Craft - #99: AG (3/3)
a2z Scrapbooking - September AG (3/5)
Happy Craft Challenge - September AG (3/3)
DL.Art Linky Challenge - September 5 (once per day)
Creatalicious - #170: AG (3/3)
Crafts Galore Encore - #67: AG (3/3)
Love to Craft - September AG (3/5)
Morgan's Art World - #9: AG (3/3)
Scribbles Designs - #80: Sentiment (3/3)
Sheepski Designs - #30: Dies/Punches (3/3)
Sweet Stampers - #35: Dies/Punches (3/3)
The Creative Crafters - #19: AG (3/3)
World Wide Open DT Challenge - #8: AG (3/3)
Your Scrapbook Place - September AG (3/3)
Tinker - Dream - #80: Sentiment (unlimited?)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - September (unlimited)
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - #9/September: AG (unlimited)
A Perfect Time to Craft - #9/September: AG (unlimited)

That's it for me today! Be sure to check out the Creative Playground for more ITDBK inspiration.

PWC152 - A Delicious Sketch

Happy Wednesday! Are you ready for the Prettie Wednesday Challenge?! I bet you are!  If you play along with us you could WIN!   Check out the Paper Pretties Blog for all the details!

For this week's challenge (keyword: PWC152) it's another amazing sketch from our own Prettie Girl, Frances!  You know I love a good sketch.  To play along, just make a card using our awesome sketch, then link up on the Paper Pretties Blog to enter.  Here is my contribution using Everyday Picnic.  It is spring in my mind, even if not outside.  ;)  

And here is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by today!  Don't forget to head over to the Paper Pretties Blog for a full list of the day's eye candy and all the challenge (and PRIZE) details!  You link up THERE for your chance to win this week's prize!  Happy stamping everyone!