LPSC19 - {Sweet} Colors

Helloooooo Monday! Hope everyone had a good weekend! Today's card features {Sugar}, one of the newest releases from the {Little Paper Shop}. I am always up for a sweet treat, LOL so I had to pull this one out again for this week's COLOR challenge - keyword LPSC19. Here is my card:

As always, there is a prize for participating in LPS Monday!!! The random winner of this week's challenge will receive 2 free digi images of their choice. Worth the price of admission! You need to link your project to the post on the LPS blog to enter. Uploading keyword to all of our favorite forum sites is LPSC19 so we can find your project and leave some love! Be sure to visit the rest of the LPS designers today and see their creations {links on my left sidebar}, and I will see you back here tomorrow!

Photo Scavenger Hunt WINNER!!

Time to announce the winner of my contest for the Limelight Papercrafts First Anniversary celebration!! You may remember, but up for grabs is a Flashee Fuchsia Shimmerz and a Mudpie Shimmerz Spritz from Mandy. It's past 10 AM, I know. But this was tough!!

I had 12 entries between blog posts and e-mails. I want to thank EVERYONE for entering! Your pictures were all such fun to look at and I love all the creative ideas too! In the end I had to go with the name in the hat method because I could not choose a favorite from the group, you all made me smile -- kittens, puppies, babies, wow!! {The Packers, The Yankees, it's like you all KNOW me, LOL}.

The winner of Flashee Fuchsia Shimmerz and a Mudpie Shimmerz Spritz is CAMMY from Crafty Cammy's Corner! Send me your snail mail info and I'll have Mandy send your prize! Congratulations!

Last thing - remember to hop over to Limelight and enter ONEYEAR at the checkout and receive 20% off your entire order {effective through Sunday, June 7th}.

TIOT21 - Lily Goes To A Party

Welcome to another Try it out Tuesday from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design and the SCACD store blog!! This week DT leader Suzanne Dean challenged us to create a Summer Party Invitation.

I thought about this one for awhile and decided to reach for this fabulous Enchanted Lily set from Pink Cat Studio. To me she is just SCREAMING "Garden Party" from her backyard swing!

I stamped her in Memento Tuxedo Black, then colored with watercolor Copics. I added some touches with the with the white gel pen after she was all colored in. I stamped her again on a piece of scrap white cardstock and recolored her wings. I then painted them with Angel Wings Shimmerz, cut them out, and placed them over the top of the original image. I glued down the part that was closest to her body and used foamie dots to pop up the outside to give it more dimension. The camera didn't capture it very well but the wings are nice and sparkly!

My sketch comes from this week's layout at Taylored Expressions {TECC70}. It worked great for this image and I found a tiny little "It's a Party!" sentiment to compliment the card in one of my Inky Antics sets. Viola! I just love these happy summer colors. :-)

Be sure to visit the SCACD store blog today for more inspiration from the rest of the DT, and then swing over to the store to stock up on all the latest and greatest goodies!! In addition to all the great stamps and well-known favorite accessories, Susana has a great selection of the new Shimmerz Spritz in stock. This is GOOD STUFF!! No more painting Shimmerz onto flowers, a couple quick squirts and you are in business! Great coverage, no clumps, lumps, bleeding, dark spots, etc. It dries fast and gives so much sparkle. I love it! I can already tell from the few I have that I NEED all the colors. {Right now.}

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Thanks for stopping by today! See you tomorrow!

Limelight's Anniversary Celebration -- and PRIZES!!

**Scroll down one post for my LPS Monday card!!**

Hi everyone! Lots going on today!! Did you know that Limelight Papercrafts is officially ONE YEAR OLD? How fun is that?! I was a Seventh Six Chick {Guest Designer} for Mandy back in February and had a blast working with her and the team! She's such a sweetie and she's SO excited about this big day for her shop so she's going ALL OUT. Customers, friends, blog readers, stampers....you get the goodies.

Mandy's DT, along with some friends, are having bunches of games and prizes. Oh yes! There are 14 of us in all, and she says you can enter for ALL of the prizes! You can visit Mandy's blog post here for the full lineup of games and a listing of all the prizes up for grabs.

And now for MY game! I am having a PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNT. I chose this particular game because I actually won a prize from Mandy last fall during her WCMD contest for the photo scavenger hunt, and I had SUCH fun playing along! Up for grabs is a Flashee Fuchsia Shimmerz and a Mudpie Shimmerz Spritz. Woo hoo!! Have you tried the new Shimmerz Spritz? My BFF Heather is on their DT and she showed me -- swoon!! Good stuff, way better than the Glimmer Mist or similar products. You need some, trust me.

So, how do you play? I want to see the following THREE photos. You can post them on your blog if you'd like, and then leave a comment here on THIS POST with a link so we can all check them out. If you don't have a blog you can still play along, just e-mail me your photos with the subject line "Limelight Contest" {so I don't accidentally dump you into SPAM} and I'll include your entry. You must have all three photos to be entered. Easy peasy! Oh, and these don't have to be NEW photos, or even taken specifically for this contest. It just has to be *A PHOTO* of the specified item {and you are encouraged to use your imagination.}. Ok, are you ready? Let's see your best pictures of...

• A cat nap
• Something yummy
• Four

On Thursday, June 4th, at 10 AM the contest will close and we will choose our favorite entry to be the winner! Remember, there's a chance at a Flashee Fuchsia Shimmerz and a Mudpie Shimmerz Spritz in it for you. Enjoy!

LPSC18 - Sketch Time!

Happy Monday! Time for another {Little Paper Shop} weekly challenge!! Are you ready?! This week it's a sketch created by our very own Allison. How fun is that?? You can see the sketch, above, and here is my card - keyword LPSC18:

I used the new {Floral Frenzy} stamp set that was released just last week. The flower, flourishes and sentiments all come from this one very versatile set! The patterned paper is from Basic Grey - Wisteria - and the rest of the ink and cardstock colors are Almost Amethyst, River Rock and Always Artichoke. I stamped the sentiments in Rich Cocoa Memento ink. The Kaisercraft Pearls are a color called "Latte" - you know I love my pearls! I added the buff-colored highlighting around the base of the flower and flourishes using a Prismacolor pencil blended with gamsol.

Be sure to check out the LPS store blog as well as the blogs of the rest of the LPS design team {their links are in my left sidebar}. If you would like to play along with us this week we would love to have you -- and if you do you'll be entered into a random drawing to win two free digital images from the {Little Paper Shop}!! Just create a card using this sketch and link your project up on this week's post over on the LPS store blog. Easy peasy!