Crazy 4 Challenges #26

Its Saturday and that means it is a CRAZY day! A Crazy4Challenges day that is!

This is my final week to host the challenges at C4C. I hope you all enjoyed them!

This week, it is all about textures. I challenged the design team to create cards using at least 3 different textures. There are so many different things we use in our art that add texture, so this one should be easy :)

Our sponsor this week is Totally Stampalicous 

Joycelyn was kind enough to offer us some digital images and I am so grateful!!

Thanks so much for letting me play with the Road Hawg images. They are perfect for cards/gifts for my brother.

Here is the card I made for my brother:

 

I have such a hard time making masculine looking cards, but I think this one turned out okay. 

My textures are: textured paper, Cuttlebug embossed PP, Distress Stickles (headlight), Glossy Accents (fenders, gas tank, boots, sunglasses and the shield emblem) and finally the ribbon was a very textured white ribbon that I colored with my Copics.

I colored the images with Copics, antiqued them all with Distress Inks and cut out with Nesties and by hand. The sentiment was curled and adhered with glue to give a strong bond to hold up to the bending. It looks better in person because you can see that the sentiment strips actually alternate in their bending. In the picture, it just looks uneven. lol The 'brad' on the sentiment strips are actually punched circles from the textured cardstock. I curved them with a stylus and glued them to the card. I didn't have any appropriate brads, so I made faux ones.

Obviously, my brother is Randy and I added his name to the sheild before printing it out.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to check out what the other Crazy gals did this week.

Have a GREAT weekend!

The Pink Elephant #56

Happy Monday!

Its time for another fun challenge over at The Pink Elephant 

This week, we are having a sketch challenge:

 

Our sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps...they have some of the CUTEST digis ever!

I just love their designs!

 

I had so much fun coloring this image!! I colored her with Copics and added Spica pen to her dress for shimmer. I covered her sunglass lenses and boots with Glossy Accents and added fine glitter to her boots to make them super chic. I also added Stickles to her earrings to bling them up a bit. This image comes with a sentiment, "how can I be overdrawn? I still have checks left". But, I saw her as a shopping diva, so I paired her with some shopping bag pp that I had and stamped the sentiment using Just Rite Stampers Brayton font. The border is a MS punch and the ribbon is American Crafts.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to drop by TPE to see what the other designers did.

Have a creatively wonderful week!

Blog Candy Winner!

Bet ya all thought I forgot about announcing a winner for my TPE birthday blog candy, didn't you?

Well, I really didn't. I was sick for alot of the week and just didn't feel much like being on my computer. 

I am on one all day at work and when I come home, it is the last place I want to be....scary!!!

Anyways, I got together a little pack of goodies:

a set of clear stamps from Cosmo Cricket

flat back pearls in red, pink and white along with some large heart shaped pearls

a couple of small 2010 calendars 

Maya Road chipboard birdies

 Maya Road crocheted butterflies

a free digi from my collection at Squigglefly (your choice)

The winner of my TPE birthday blog candy is....

drum roll please.....

Jacki Randolph

Jacki, please contact me with your mailing details so I can get your goodies out to you!!

Thank you all for stopping by and saying such sweet things in the comments. They are truly appreciated!!

The Pink Elephant #54

Happy Monday!

It's time again for a super fun challenge at The Pink Elephant!

This week, the challenge is to use RIBBON somewhere on your creation. 

Our sponsor this week is CC Designs 

I just adore their stamps! I can't seem to stop buying them...they call to me when I see their sweet little faces.

This little Sweet Kiki La Rue is no exception!

One of my good friends at work fell last week during a bad snow storm and broke her foot. She is coming back to work tomorrow, but only because she has promised to ask for help and not leave her office unless absolutely necessary. I wanted to put a few little things on her desk when I go in Tuesday morning. I got her some lotion and then made these two things for her:

 

The one with Kiki is a box I made that holds two Reese cups. And the other is a water bottle tag holding a White Tea To Go. I actually completely forgot about the actual challenge as I was making these. I knew that I needed to use the CC Designs stamp, but forgot about ribbon. Luckily, I did use ribbon around the box and made the little loops out of ribbon. I sure hope it is enough to make it 'count'!!! Normally, I go overboard with ribbon and this time...used very little. UGH

I colored my image with Copics, used Just Rite Stampers for the circle sentiments and the paper is from Target's dollar spot (I got a TON of it for a buck! lol). The flowers were made by punching 3 daisies and layering them together with a dot of glue in the center. Then, when dry, I added a pearl and fanned up the petals to make them puffy. I apologize for the photo....my camera sucks!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a creatively wonderful week!

P.S.....I didn't forget about my blog candy. Still gathering stuff and will annouce the winner on Wednesday.

Happy Valentine's Day Cutie Pie!

This card uses the Cutie Pie plate from Artistic Outpost

I love the vintage Valentine feel of these images. They remind me of the Valentines I used to give out at school. We didn't do Spongebob, Hannah Montana, etc. We gave away sweet little cards with sweet little pictures on them! I miss that.....

I loosely colored the image Copics. I wanted to keep that vintage feel to it, so I tried not to overdo. I inked and stamped kraft cardstock for the base and also aged the white cardstocks with Distress Inks. To finish it off, I added some red pearls from Kaisercraft.Very simple card.

Crazy 4 Challenges #24

Woohoo!! It's Saturday, I have the whole weekend off AND it is C4C day!

Who could ask for more?!?!

This month, yours truly is hosting the challenges. I thought it would be fun to do cards/projects with lots of RED since tomorrow is Valentine's Day!

Our sponsor this week is

The dt got to play with Stephanie's images. Thank you so much!
I had soooooo much fun working with them!

 

This one is a super simple card. I just printed the words, circle, heart and arrow on white cards. I printed a second circle and heart. Cut them out. Slathered them with Stickles and layered them over the original circle with foam tape. The edges were embossed with a Sizzix folder. Easy peasy!

This one was so fun to make. I printed the 'flat' image and then printed a second heart, circle hearts and one of the sentiment on seperate paper. I went over the red circle and the sentiment with Marvy Puffy Velvet marker and heated it. Added stickles to the hearts on the cirlce and the dots on the heart. I attached the circle and heart to the card with foam tape. The sentiment is curved using layers of foam tape and glue to hold the ends. The border is a MS punch that I bought last week. Love it!

Be sure to stop by C4C to see what the other 'Crazies' did!!

Have a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!!

The Greeting Farm's CHA Relay day #4...a little late.....

Just was doing some post scheduling and realized that I never posted my final card for the CHA relay that The Greeting Farm hosted. OOPS!!! I guess it isn't a huge deal since the relay was cut short. But, I DID complete something and I needed to recognize that. lol

Here is the ATC I made using the image we received for the relay:

 

Isn't this Prince Ian the cutest?!?! I just love him!! I was instantly drawn to my old DCWV Once Upon a Time stack. I also had a set of chipboard embellishments to match the stack that I completely forgot about! I have too much stuff!! The Prince Charming tile was a perfect fit. I colored the clear Dew Drops with Copics to bring a bit more of the blue into the ATC.

I still really stink at hair. I am never going to get the blending right, I don't think! Maybe I should just quit coloring their hair? lol

Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to The Greeting Farm for the adorable digis!

Happy Birthday TPE!!!!!

Welcome to The Pink Elephant's first birthday blog hop!!

One year ago, Lori and I had the idea to start a fun, no pressure challenge blog. One that would bring fun, easy to follow challenges in a friendly, family atmosphere. We all held our breath with the first challenge. Hoping, praying....scared to death that nobody would play along with us. Imagine our surprise as week after week, more and more people came and played in our challenges. You all made it so worthwhile. Seeing your amazing interpretations of our challenges each week fills all of our creative hearts with joy! So, thank you from the bottom of my heart for making TPE what it is today!! We owe it all to you.

The dt is like one big happy family. We have sadly had to say goodbye to a few of the designers over the past year, but we have made such wonderful lasting friendships with everyone. We truly have a happy atmosphere behind the scenes as well and that's what makes us all work so well together. I personally want to thank all of the TPE designers for being such a wonderful group of girls!!! You make such awesome creations week after week and I thank you for being so inspiring to the participants!

A few weeks, ago, I made a very difficult decision to step down as co-owner of the blog. Not because there were any issues. Absolutely not. I just don't have the time to dedicate to the blog like an owner should. I went back to work last spring for the first time in 12 years. I have never had an outside job and juggled a family at the same time. I stopped working when my oldest was young (and I was much younger too! lol) and was always super mom. Now, I just don't have the extra time. I won't let my daughters suffer because I had to return to work. I want to make sure that they get the same mom they have always had. So, some things had to give. I am going to remain on the design team, though. You all can't get rid of me that easy!

Okay, enough of my rambling. You all came here for a blog hop, right???

If you didn't arrive here from Betty's blog, head back to TPE and start from the beginning. 

After you are done here, hop over to Kellie's blog to see one of our newest designer's creation!

I am not going to share a recreation of my favorite challenge....remember that time thing? lol Well, things have been worse than usual here, so I asked if I could share my all time favorite TPE challenge card:

 

This was for our 5th challenge. It was brown, pink and green. LOVE that color combo. This elephant still makes me smile everytime I look at it. I spent many an hour searching for this die because I fell in love with this elephant the second I saw it. It is a Sizzix die. 

While browsing through my challenges, I decided that I wanted to make a small collage of my 9 runner up choices. It showcases some of my favs and some of the sponsors from the past year:

If you have any questions about products used on any of these, please don't hesitate to ask away!

Now, I also want to offer a blog candy of some sort. I don't honestly know what goodies I am going to send the winner, but I promise they will be something nice. I wouldn't send anything out that I wouldn't want to receive. I have boxes and boxes of things that are brand new and need new homes. If you are interested in a surprise, secret blog candy, please leave a comment on this post. I will draw a winner on Thursday evening using random.org. Make sure I have a way to contact you if your number is chosen!!! Spread the word about The Pink Elephant, the blog hop and my blog candy!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy hopping!!

Crazy 4 Challenges #23

It's Saturday and that means it is time for another super fun C4C challenge!!

This month, the hostess is ME!! I hope you like the challenges that I came up with!!

This week's challenge is to make a Valentine themed card or project.

I just love Valentine's Day and wish it would come more than once a year!!

Here is my card:

 

I used one of my digis that is availabe at Squigglefly now. I had a request for owls and I thought this guy came out pretty cute!! Doesn't he look so faithful and loyal??

I colored him with Copics and added some accents with a white gel pen. Cut out with Nesties. I sandwiched the ribbon between the circles for something different. The punched border is MS and I added the pearls (white originally and colored with Copics to match) to each scallop. The sentiment is part of a rub on definition.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to C4C to see what the other crazy gals did this week!

The Pink Elephant #52

Happy Monday!!

This week, I am so very excited about The Pink Elephant Challenge!

The sponsor is Squigglefly and the girls are using my digis!!

The random winner of the challenge will receive two digis from my collection at Squigglefly!!

The theme this week is

All about PINK...in honor of Ella!

One year ago, we started this fun challenge blog hoping a few people would play along and look where we are now! Woah baby!!! Thank you to all of you who have participated at The Pink Elephant over the past year. We couldn't, and we wouldn't want to, do it without all of you!!!

Here are my projects for this challenge:

 

Super simple card. I have decided to do a week of Valentines for a suprise for my dh. This is one of the cards I am going to slip into his lunch box each day. I colored the image with Copics and added it to the card with foam tape. The band was done with a Threading Water punch and the red strip is embossed with a dot border folder...sadly it doesn't show in the picture. This the 'pinkest' card in my series this week. lol

 

Here is a treat that I am going to give him on the Friday before Valentine's day. I cut out the bug, sans the word border. I colored him with Copics and added Stickles to the wings and antennae. The words are glittery foam stickers that I got at Joanns for 10 cents. I embossed the base with tiny bubbles. There IS pink here, so I hope it counts. lol

Finally, this card was a pain in the booty to photograph. It just didn't want to cooperate. I think it is because I did a tiny card on a flat base and couldn't get the light to work with it. The red base is as bright as the ribbon...it just looks alot duller in the pic. I colored the image with Copics. Added it to a small embossed pink card. Added ribbons and a bow. Attached the card to a red base. The white stitching (that looked like bird prints to me) is a rub on. I stamped 'a lifetime of love' (a Studio G stamp) across the bottom. Finally, I added a tiny border of scallops under the pink card to bring more of the blue into it. Not alot of pink at all, but I think it qualifies.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Be sure to stop by TPE to see what the other girls did this week!

If you like my digis, they are available at Squigglefly now....click on the button on my sidebar to go to my page of digis.

Have a great week!!!