Nature!!

Good morning, my lovelies!  It's Thursday, which means it's time for another Digi Doodle Shop challenge.  Woot woot!  Bet you can't guess the theme....unless you read the title of the post, of course. LOL  It's..........nature!

I used the adorable Sliding Penguins, which can be found here.  I just love how joyful they look.  I colored the image with Copics and accented the snow with Stickles.  The paper is from DCWV, the snowflakes are from Martha Stewart (also accented with Stickles) and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  Gems in the center of the snowflakes are from my stash.

Now you've seen my card, hop on over to the Digi Doodle Shop's Best challenge blog to check out the amazing creations by the rest of the team.

Remember, you don't have to use a Digi Doodle Shop stamp, but if you do it will be entered twice.  Also, you can enter as many times as you want...as long as it's with a new card/project each time.  PLUS.....for the whole month of December.....EVERYTHING is 25% off!!  Woo hoo!!  If there's an image (or two or three) you've been eyeing...now's the time to get it!

I am also entering this card into a few challenges:

Bee Crafty: Christmas

Pollycraft: Christmas Fun

The Emerald Faerie Garden: Christmas - Nontraditional Colors

Dude Time Doodles: Holiday Spirit (I know glitter isn't SUPER manly, but...it's snow! Snow glitters! LOL If you don't agree that this could be a "dude" card, please feel free to remove.)  =D

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes + Glitter

The Pink Elephant #128: Snowflakes and Sparkle

Ladybug Crafts Ink: Snowflakes and Sparkle

Tuesday Throwdown: Celebrate the Season

Birthday Time

A coworker recently asked me to create a birthday card for her sister.  Her sister has pink hair, loves her puppy, and loves things to be bright and colorful.  With a little help from Sweet Sketch Wednesday's sketch # 114, 

I came up with this card:

The image is from Pollycraft, and it's Sonny Honeycloud's My Buddy.  It was colored with Copics, then I used the same Copics to color the flowers.  Papers are from Stampin' Up. Then I added bling.  Lots and lots of bling.  LOL =D

The Pollycraft challenge this week was Recycling. Well, you can't really see it unless you look closely, but there's pink lace around the middle of the card.  That lace used to be the lining on one of my tank tops. LOL!

I really hope she liked it!  I haven't made very many cards for non-family members...so those are always a little more nerve-wracking.  =D

Thanks so much for stopping by!  We'll see you soon.

Challenges:

Pollycraft - Recycle

The Cheerful Stamp Pad - Petals

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch # 114

Whoops!

Well, I created a tag for the the current scrappy side Simply Betty Challenges.  However, after I had finished, taken my pictures, and started getting the tabs ready for easy linking I realized....I only did HALF of the challenge!!  I created a Christmas tag....but I did NOT use the specific color combo!  Whoops!  Silly me for relying on my memory. Jeez. LOL  At least there are a few other Christmas in July challenges going on that I was going to enter, and I still have another week and a half to create another Simply Betty Tag.  (Plus, then I can use one of my new images from her latest release!  Yay!  Must always look on the bright side.)

Anyway, after that...involved...intro, here is my tag!

Those of you who know me know that I have two very different sides.  There's what I call the bubblegum side...that side LOVES pink, glitter, fluffy bunnies, kittens, puppies, fairies...you get the drift.  The other side, however, loves skulls, black lace, piercings, tattoos, gothic images...well, you know.  Guess which side came out for this challenge?  LOL

I realize the sentiment is a little hard to read in the photo.  It says "Merry Frickin' Christmas".  Hee!  When I printed this image as my little Christmas elf, she just didn't seem like the "holly, jolly Christmas" type, ya know?  =D  This tag is just perfect for a very good friend of mine.  I'll have to save it to use on her present this year.

So, here's a list of what I used to create this card.  DCWV's Christmas Combo stack.  Simply Betty Stamps image: Pipper, colored with Copics.  Presents, ribbon and flowers are from Michael's Craft Stores.  The holly tag is from Miss Cutiepie.  I had added my text, then printed it out on the computer.  Unfortunately...I'm running out of ink, so it printed light purple with streaks.  Another whoops!  Fortunately I was able to save it by coloring it with my Copics.  The white dotted line on the tree paper is part of the dp.  To match it, I drew a white dotted line around the cranberry paper using a white Souffle pen.

Ok, well...thanks for stopping by!  I promise my next Christmas tag will be a happier one. LOL We'll see you again soon!

Challenges:

Pollycraft: Christmas in July

Craft Your Passion: Christmas in July

Stamp Insanity: Going Goth