PCP Whimsie Doodle Challenge

Happy weekend! Whimsie Doodles has invited the Paper Craft Planet Super Novas to use some new release images. I invite you to head to the Paper Craft Planet blog to see the rest of the projects and do leave a comment their for a chance to win a prize from Whimsie Doodles. I've used Cookie Fairy, and made her a friend of Santa Claus.

Isn't she just so sweet? I wanted to use her on a Christmas card, and my thoughts went straight to a plate of cookies for Santa.

I coloured her hair with lots of little dots and for a little fairy fun, I gave her pink dots in her hair too. I love every opportunity to cute-ify whimsical images. In real life, I'm not enthusiastic about hair dye, especially candy colours that nature never intended for us, but on a sweet, little fairy it is perfect.

And in keeping with cute-ifying this little fairy, I used stardust stickles liberally in her hair, on her shoes and on her wings.

I highlighted the sentiment that comes with the Cookie Fairy image by cutting the sentiment using a spellbinders die from Labels Trio, leaving the paper in the die and using a copic marker to colour inside the die edges.

Snowflakes on a Christmas card are especially lovely. I used Create a Flake to cut and embossed these flakes. I also used a Martha Stewart punch so I would have snowflakes to layer.

Copics for this project; E40/41/42/51/55/57/59, R20/32/35/39, G0000/000/00/20/21, C0/2, colorless blender.

Good luck with the contest!

stamps; cookie fairy (whimsie doodles)
paper; holly jolly christmas (echo park from ihp), patch, white canvas (bazzill), x-press it blending cardstock(copic from ihp) 
accessories; create a flake 1, labels trio, doodle parts (spellbinders), white ribbon, clear chunky glitter (SU!), candy apple button, cardinal rhinestone (bazzill), snowflake punch (martha stewart)

Birthday Party for Susanna!!!

On October 22nd, we are celebrating Susanna's Boyd's birthday with a week-long challenge event that every member on the Planet can participate in!  

The Super Novas got together and each made a special birthday gift for Susanna's birthday.  In honor of this momentous occasion, we invite everyone to post a birthday project or card for a chance to win some fabulous prizes! Yes, there are several chances to win some awesome paper crafting goodies just by posting a birthday themed project!

Further details can be found by clicking on The Planet Blog.  Check out where the party is and join us for a week of celebrations!

My card for Susanna is cheeky, eh?!!! I love it and I bet she does too, if a little ruefully.

I didn't have to colour a thing! I pulled out my Steampunk Debutante paper from Graphic 45 and used one of their elegant images for the ever elegant Susanna! Easy peasy gorgeousness!

I combined 3 ribbons to create my d'vine bow and then I glued a brad from the Gabrielle collection by Bo Bunny on the top with some super strong fabric adhesive. I used wide brown satin from Offray for my large bow and the other ribbon and crochet trim are from the Sienne Collection by Making Memories.

This is another word art digi sentiment from Create with tlc. I think this quote is originally attributed to Bette Davis, but I could easily be wrong! I love it!

HB, SB!!! You keep getting better every year! Now go to the Paper Craft Planet blog and try to win one of the MANY prizes up for grabs!!!

Whimsie Doodles Challenge!

 On September 5th, Whimsie Doodles released several darling images, and Keely Yowler and I had the opportunity to use 3 of them (School Girl, Frankie's Girl, Steampunk Lizzie) for a Whimsie Doodle Challenge on the Paper Craft Planet blog! For your opportunity to win, head over to the PCP Blog and read through the Challenge details there.

First, I used the super sweet School Girl image.

I went with a simple layout and minimal accessories because I just love the plaid printed paper and her divine red hair.

There are tutorials for colouring pleats almost everywhere I turn on the web including on the Whimsie Doodles blog, but I forgot that while I coloured School Girl's little skirt, and so her skirt is a little more ruffled than pleated. Consider it to be a simple fashion variation!!!

copics used;

hair; E09/15/17/19
skin; E0000/000/01/11
bow/skirt; YG61/63/67
tights; YG61, T0/1, colourless blender
shirt; T0/1/3
shoes; T1/3/5
tie/waistband; R35/39
bodice; Y00/21/23
background; B0000/00/01


For my second project, I used Steampunk Lizzie;

I really love the look of the steampunk genre in all its earthy fabulousness. I am particularly drawn to all the little old fashioned details that create the steampunk look.

I've used little screw head brads and a Tim Holtz watch face combined with the Tim Holtz Gadget Gears cutting die by Sizzix.

I wanted this image to look like a pencil sketch, so I lightened the lines of the digital image using a freeware image editting program (Gimp) and coloured it monochromatically using only my warm grey copic markers. I really love this old fashioned photo/graphite pencil look.

Now, seriously, haul hiney to the PCP blog and get entered in the Whimsie Doodles Challenge for your chance to WIN!!! Good luck!

lollipop crafts - use brads 
simon says stamp and show - steampunk
stamps r us - friendship
digital tuesday - celebrate the season
the three muses - fall 
really reasonable ribbon - fall
bee crafty - beautiful borders/fantastic frames

 

PCP - Everything Old is New Again!

Good Morning, peeps! I did a project for Paper Craft Planet Fran*Tage Friday and I'd invite you to pop over to the Paper Craft Planet blog and leave a comment for a chance to win some Stampendous Stamps! I want to give you a little more info on my project here on my blog.

While my stamps are from Stampendous, the rest of my supplies are, for the most part, from i {heart} papers. Kate doesn't carry Periphery paper anymore, and don't even ask her to get it in! It's old, old and I doubt you can get it anywhere except for the Basic Grey website. My dragonfly image/sentiment is framed using Fleur De Lis Rectangles by Spellbinders and cut using the rectangle nestabilities die. I used a grey/blue sparkler medallion for my mulberry flower center. My bow was made from Olive Green edged satin ribbon using my Bow Easy (love, love) to create a perfect bow.

Very happy Saturday, papercrafters!!!

We have a special treat for you starting this week on the Paper Craft Planet Blog sponsored by Riddersholm Designs, a new to us Danish paper company. Their papers are darling, with a bit of an edginess to them. “The product itself is designed by Connie, produced in Denmark and marked with the Scandinavian environmental seal ‘Svanemaerket’ meaning it is produced to protect our environment.

I was sent the Happy Party line of paper to play with and I came up with this set;

Now, let me show you the pieces for this set a bit closer! It’s very sweet. First up, I made this cupcake box using a free petal box template I found when I did a Google search for a cupcake box template.

Here’s the box open;

And then the box closed on this bit of sugary heaven;

Next, I used the Riddersholm Designs paper Happy Party Enjoy – 2. They have cupcake wrappers printed on this paper and are super simple to cut out and assemble;

The lacy border was added by cutting out a white cardstock strip 9″ long using your favourite border punch. Here, I used the long border die from Parisian Accents by Spellbinders.

I made some of the cupcake wrappers using the cupcake image printed on the paper with the wrappers – an easy embellishment that I didn’t even have to colour!

I used 3 of the Happy Party papers to create this card. First, I cut a 1″ strip from the 3 papers. I cut each strip into 1″ squares and sponged the edges of the papers. Next, I scored lines evenly dividing my card stock base into quarters. These score lines helped me line up my squares so I didn’t go wonky as I assembles my patchwork card.

Finally, I cut out one more cupcake to embellish the sentiment I used for my card. I don’t think it gets any easier or cuter than that!!

Be sure to go to the Paper Craft Planet blog every Saturday for the next few weeks to see more projects by the rest of the Super Novas using more Riddersholm Designs Product.

Do leave a comment on the Paper Craft Planet blog post for your chance to win the line of papers produced by Riddersholm Designs that I have used here for my project! Good luck!!!

IHP PCP Sketch Challenge - sk040911

Good Morning! Today it's my turn for sketch challenge (sk040911) on Paper Craft Planet.

I really like this sketch! I'm not always happy with the sketches I come up with and this one is derived from a little layout sketch my youngest daughter did on some scrap on my stamping desk, so really, this is her sketch which is maybe why I like it so much! *giggle*

I did a masculine card for 'Take #1' of this sketch. When Kate started carrying Technique Tuesday stamps at i {heart} papers, I saw this little Love Makes the World Go Round set with the cool gears in the heart and it made it onto my must have list. It was perfect for my Tim Holtz Sprocket Gears that I just love to hoard and rarely use (my bad!!) I used the mustard colourway papers from my Hattie paper pad by Stella and Rose (MME) and some natural burlap twine to finish the masculine look of my card.

 I have many more ideas for this sweet little thang which I hope to get to this week! Buttons on the embellished band for a darling baby card. Little images or larger sentiments OR a die cut butterfly or heart on the image space. There are really not enough carfting hours in the day!!!

stamps; love makes the world go round (technique tuesday)
paper; hattie by stella and rose (MME), nougat, canvas white (bazzill)
ink; blue/brown cats eye set (colorbox)
accessories; natural burlap twine (may arts), sprocket gears (ranger)

By Lori Designs - Wagon of Gifts

Happy Thursday! The weekend is almost here and I, for one, am so thankful. Today, the By Lori Designs Challenge Team invites you to play along with Challenge 12 (BLDC12) and this colour combinations;

Isn't it a classic combination?!

My image is Wagon of Gifts by Mercy (Mercy is brilliant with the digital image editing and has merged images that Lori illustrated. Mercy is my hero!) and used this week's sketch challenge from Paper Craft Planet (sk040211) for my 5" square layout. You could win a subscription to CardMaker Magazine for playing along with the Paper Craft Planet sketch challenge this week! There are TWO ways to win –

• Way ONE: link up your take on this week’s sketch.
• Way TWO: leave a comment on our Planet Blog and let us know what technique you’d like to see demonstrated in an upcoming issue.

I coloured this darling image using copic markers which are listed below. Check out that little bit of shine on the hair bow, shoes and gift bow! Stardust Stickles are DIVINE! I never put them away because I keep them upside down ready to go on my stamping desk. {insert contented sigh}. Look more at the sparkle than the yellow background glow. I'm not so happy with they way the glow became more like a neon beacon flashing continuously all night long like a cheap hotel sign. Gee, ya think I'm not thrilled with it?!!! Oy! And I just couldn't figure out what to do to make it better short of cutting out the main image and mounting it on a new piece of paper which I really didn't have time for. However, this glow has worked on other cards I have done using this exact same yellow combination, and I really think it is the yellow pink combination which isn't working here. Shoulda gone with blue!

Here are the Copic Markers I used and where;

wagon & gift; R11, R12, R32, R35, R37, N2, N4, N6
bear; N0, N2, N4, N6, N7
shirt, shoes, hair bows; R81, R83, R85
overalls; W1, W3, W5, W7
hair; E11, E25, E27, E29
skin; E00, E01, E11
nasty glow; Y0000, Y11, Y21, Y23, Colourless blender

Now about that sentiment;

It's not a By Lori Designs sentiment and maybe I shouldn't have used it here, but it was too perfect for this image to be passed over! It's actually 2 stamps that I stamped one over the other. The lower sentence is the itty bittiest little font I think I've ever seen in an acrylic stamp (less than 1/8" high) and I gasped when I saw it. Remember I have a thing for miniature 'things' and this teeny sentiment totally fit that bill. It was a bit of a bugaboo getting it straight on the acrylic stamp block, but it was totally worth the fussing! Links for the supplies I used for this card are in the recipe listed below.

Check out the By Lori Designs challenge blog for the creations by the rest of the design team! And enjoy your weekend!

stamps; wagon of gifts by Mercy (by lori designs), simply you sentiments (technique tuesday)
paper; hazel by stella and rose (MME), elephant, canvas white (bazzill), x-press it (copic)
ink; black soot distress ink (ranger)
accessories; sm square nestabilities (spellbinders), screw brads (karen foster), white brads (paper studio), button (basic grey), pink ribbon (SU!), mini scallop border punch (ek success), stardust stickles (ranger)


paper craft planet sk040211 - sketch
by lori designs BLDC12 - colour combination
HSS #62 - in the pink
papertake weekly - anything goes
scrap-creations - ribbon, glitter, button
craft your passion - anything goes
daisy doodle #30 - digi challenge spring
bring back beauty - spring
really reasonable ribbon - die cuts/punches & ribbon

IHP - Inspired by so many challenges!

Wowza! There are so many terrific challenges out there! I've been trying to get to more of them, and I am surely making strides to that goal. Some of my favourite place for challenges are Paper Craft Planet (the Super Novas rock my world!!) and I appreciate SO MUCH the work my friend Deb Felts puts into her side blog, The Daily Dare. Deb daily posts a list of challenge from the papercrafting portion of the web and it is often a go to for me as I prepare my papercrafting projects to post because it is a real time saver for me.

For my post today, I used last week's sketch challenge from Paper Craft Planet;

I also took a little time to check out the Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast and saw the site Outer Banks Trading Group is the inspiration this week. I took a peek through the site and noticed all the marine theme product it has and I came up with this card;

I used my new Hattie paper pad by Stella and Rose from MME. I've had this pad for a few weeks and have been dying to dig into it. You will see more of it since I get goose bumps every time I flip through it - I love this paper!!! I combined it with 2 Unity stamp sets; the flourish from Imagine It and the sentiment from Create Today. I think I should have stamped the flourish on scrap paper first and stamped the secondary image on my nestabilities die cut square. It would have been easier to read the sentiment. *sigh* Sometimes, hindsight is such a pain in the hiney! I used a night blue pearl flourish for a little more nautical inspiration.

I worked with more challenges, and they are listed at the bottom of my post. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I truly trust you have a blessed weekend!

stamps; imagine it, create today (unity)
paper; hattie by stella & rose (MME), coconut swirl (bazzill), basic gray (SU!)
ink; black soot, weathered wood distress ink (ranger)
accessories; lg square nestabilities (spellbinders), night blue pearl flourish (zva)


Amber's crafts #3 - florals
charisma cards - bling
frosted designs - bling
gingerloft - die cuts
incy wincy #87 - sparkle and shine
make it monday #30 - anything goes
paper playtime #42 - anything goes
paper pretties #147 - bling
paper romance #44 - bling
tip top tuesday #27 - nature
tuesday throwdown #42 - florals

It's a sketch challenge!

It's my turn to post the sketch challenge for Paper Craft Planet today. I sometimes get overwhelmed by uploading other places than my comfy cozy little blog. Susanna stepped in for me and did my challenge upload and I appreciate it SO MUCH!!! She did a great job, and she even made a video for me so next month will go smoother, I hope.

Here's the sketch;

And my totally rocker girl birthday card;

I used 'Playful Alphabet' from Kitchen Sink Stamps for my letter and, since I don't have numbers that 'go' with that alphabet, I used 'Ashlyn's Alphabet' cartridge to cut out my black 2. This hot pink pattern paper is from Die Cuts with a View, Street Lace. Very cool paper!!!

I'm not sure if I'll hang on to this card or not for a certain sweet girl's Sweet 16 coming up or not. I can always do another one, or softer coloured, or lime green, or... It's anyone's guess!

If you can play along with this sketch challenge, use code sk031211 so we can find your work and leave a comment for you and we would love it if you would link it up on Paper Craft Planet so you can really show off your fabulous work!

Have a wonderful weekend!

stamps; playful alphabet (kitchen sink stamps), define your life (SU!)
paper; street lace (DCWV), canvas white, blackberry swirl (bazzill)
ink; black soot distress ink (ranger)
accessories; ashlyn's alphabet (provo), long classic rectangles lg, sm classic squares nestabilities (spellbinders), pin (T. Holtz idea-ology), jump ring, heart charm (blue moon beads), border punch (ek success), rhinestones (heidi swapp), silver painty pen (zig)

Sketch Challenge on Paper Craft Planet - My turn!!!

I suddenly realized that I forgot to blog in December that I am now a design team member for Paper Craft Planet called the SuperNovas!  *squeal*!!!!!!  This group of *uber* talented women have been wonderful to me.  Today is my first time hosting the sketch challenge.  It's a gooder if I do say so myself!  The part that really challenged me was posting it on Paper Craft Planet and on the PCP blog.  I am marginally computer literate, and I tried to get it up before the computer literate people in my family left the house this morning, and I had it mostly done before they left.  Then, sigh, they left and the wheels fell off.  I messed up in a couple of places, and thankfully, Susanna is so sweet and has promised to fix my mess. 

Here's my sample for this week's sketch challenge;

I went with warm and cozy sunshine thoughts for my card.  It's FREAKIN' COLD right now and while I know this weather is normal for mid-January it doesn't mean I have to like it!  I used cozy colours and gave a nod to my gorgeous garden poppies in full splendor to give winter the boot.

I used the following copic markers to colour this lovely poppy image;
Blossom; R21, R22, R27, R29, R59
Center; B34, B37, B39, 110 Special Black
Foliage; YG93, YG97, YG99

 If you can play along with us, add a link through the inlinkz on the blog or the sketch challenge page on PCP.  I'd love to see what you do with the sketch!!!

Have a wonderful weekend.

stamps; plant a little love (just rite)
paper; renaissance faire (graphic 45), java, hershey, walnut creme (bazzill)
ink; espresso adirondack, antique linen, tea dye, vintage photo distress inks (ranger)
accessories; cardinal rhinestones (bazzill), flourish punch (ek success), branch punch (martha stewart), buttons (basic grey), stick pins (making memories), cream satin ribbon (offray), sm & lg classic circle nestabilities (spellbinders), bow easy, hemp twin, stardust stickles (ranger)

IHP - Thank Heavens for Colour and Sketch Challenges

Well, my wrist isn't getting better yet.  It hurts and the anti inflammatory topical goop doesn't seem to be helping.  On the bright side, my family is wonderful and has been helping so much with the foster puppies so that my wrist has had a break.  Today though, everyone is back in their assigned places at work and at school and I'm fending for myself.  Good thing the puppies don't really care about how long it takes me to mop their space or that it really isn't as clean as it normally is.  They just like me picking them up, talking to them and scratching their tummies.  Not all litters like to be flipped on their backs (dominance issues), but the little guys we have now are very high on the awesome scale.

Since my wrist sucks and it takes so much longer to do puppies, I kept it simple on this card.  I used the Curtain Call Colour Challenge Act 63 for my colours.  I saw them and the first thing I thought was that I really didn't think I could do a thing with them - just not my style.  Then I decided to bite the bullet and stretch my self and stop wimping out when I see a colour challenge combo I don't like.  i guess I cheated a little though because I used ink to make my white card stock not quite so white.


 I also used the sketch challenge from Paper Craft Planet this week by Jessica Fick.  It's a gooder people!  If you are able to play along, use code sk010111 so we can find it and leave a comment for you!

Finally, I saw the technique challenge on Splitcoaststampers for this week to paint with stickles.  Be still my beating heart!  Why didn't I think of that?!!!  I think it's a brilliant technique and I don't think I did it quite the way Joan intended, but the challenge inspired me to work with stickles in a way different than I have used them before.  I just didn't crack my coloured stickles for this image.  I used clear-ish stickles over copic marker colouring which dives more depth than I could have achieved with stickles alone.  The stickles adhere well to the copics because they are alcohol ink based rather than water based which would bleed into the stickles.  I used crystal stickles on the leaves and rock candy stickles on the tree trunk.

For this project, I used one of my favourite Unity stamp sets, Moments in Bloom/Naturally You available from i {heart} papers.  I have used this set in so many ways, and it's one that I find I reach for out of habit.  The ledger lines and the sentiment are from one half of the set, and the tree is from the other half.  The halves used to be sold separately, but I just can't split the set.  One part whimsy + one part artistic = absolutely divine!

The copics and where I used them;

Tree glow; B0000, B000, B00, B41
Tree trunk; E71, E74, E77, E79
Leaves; YG91, YG93, YG97

I have additional links for products used in the recipe below.  I hope the rest of your week is wonderfully creative!

stamps; moments in bloom/naturally you (unity from i heart papers)
paper; pyrus (basic grey from i heart papers), haley, maltball (bazzill)
ink; espresso adirondack, pumice stone distress ink (ranger)
accessories; crystal, rock candy stickles (ranger), always artichoke ribbon (SU!), taupe pearls (zva from i heart papers), edger punch combo rings (martha stewart)