Friends are the Flowers of Life - Tiddly Inks Blog Hop

Hey y'all!  Tiddly Inks is doing something fun and new (or at least to me)...a blog hop where ANYONE can be part of the hop!  You can go here to see the details.

As soon as I heard about the challenge, I knew I wanted to participate.  Also, I already had an image printed that I felt really went with the Friendship/Flower theme.  So here it is!

Sorry the picture's a little dark.  It looked alright at 2 am when I was resizing it! LOL  I used the fabulous Flutterby, which is one of my favorite Tiddly Inks images and can be found here in the Tiddly Inks Basement.  I've always loved this image, but for some reason had never quite found the perfect card. I merged Flutterby with Daisy Days from Happileigh Scrappin'.  The image was colored with Copics, except for the flower petals, which were colored with Spica markers.  The papers are from DCWV, Stampin' Up, and the purple butterfly paper is from stash; unfortunately I've forgotten where I got it.  The little butterfly embellishments are from a punch a very nice woman loaned to me at my very first crop.  The larger butterfly embellishments are chipboard butterflies I won in an Archiver's gift bag.  They have been painted with Ranger Dobber ink and a permanent marker to make the body.  There is ribbon from Michael's under the chipboard butterflies. You can't see it in the picture, but because I bent up the wings of the butterflies for dimension you can see it in real life...I promise!  =D  Stickles have been added to the chipboard butterflies and the ones in the image, and the gems are from my stash.  I don't remember where the quote came from; I heard it once a long time ago and it has always stuck with me and I thought it was perfect for the image. It says "Friends are angels that give you wings when you forget how to fly".

As part of the creation of this card I used this week's fabulous sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Thank you so much for stopping by!!  If you are part of the Tiddly Ink Blog hop - enjoy the rest of the hop and good luck!

Challenges:

Tiddly Inks: Blog Hop

Sweet Sketch Wednesday: Sketch

A Very Tiddly Christmas

Hey y'all!  I've got a few new cards to share with you.  =D

This I created using the adorable BahHuggaBuggs from the Tiddly Inks basement. Image colored with Copics, papers from Stampin' Up, snowflake punch from Stampin' Up.

Challenges:

Tiddly Inks: Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps: Non-Traditional Christmas Colors

Fab 'n' Funky: Baby it's Cold Outside

Paper Shelter: Snowflakes

Crafty Catz: Snowflakes

Sweet Sketch Wednesday: #128

This next card is with a brand new stamp (to me anyway)....Irish Christmas Fae by Crafts and Me.  Oooh, I just love this image!

Isn't she just gorgeous?!?  You know how I love everything Irish.  =D Image colored with Copics, and a Spica marker for the wings.  The papers are from DCWV.  The snowflake border is a border punch by Martha Stewart.

Challenges:

Crafts and Me: Simples

Mami Doodles: Fairy Tales are Real

Priscilla Styles:  Midnight Madness Sketch 130

One last card for this post...not Christmas, though.  As some of you know, the newest installment of the Twilight Saga movies was released in the US a couple of days ago.  I do love the books and movies...but I always seem to be a fan of the bad guys.  What can I say?  Gotta love James and Victoria.  =D  Therefore, I chose to use Pixie Dust Studio's Victoria for their newest challenge: Twilight Inspired Red, Black and White/Silver....add Sparkle!

Victoria was colored with Copics and a silver marker.  Skin was covered with Stickles.  (Vampires glitter, you know.  LOL) The papers are from DCWV's Immortal Love paper collection.  Love Bites sticker is from Marah Johnson's Breathless collection, which was inspired by the Twilight movies.  Bats, ribbon and gems are from my stash.

Whew!  Hope you enjoyed my cards today!  I should have a couple more coming up shortly.  =D

Christmas Shaker

I'm baaaaack.....LOL  Told ya I'd see you soon.  =D  Yes, I've got ANOTHER card for the Progressive Challenge over at Crafters Digital Art Center (CDAC).  The theme is still Winter Wonders.

I made a shaker card...I just love these!  The image is from Daisy Doodles, colored with Copics, Spica markers, a silver Uniball gel pen and a red glaze pen.  The papers are from DCWV, except for the gold, which I got at We're Stampin' Mad.  The fun part is the shaker.  I got this large oval piece of plastic called the Shake It by Impression Obsession.  It's a self adhesive shaker pouch!  To cover the edges, I used a Shaker Overlay from The Paper Cut.  It started out as white, but I colored with a gold paint dabber by Ranger and then gold shimmer spritz by Tsukineko.  The snowflake is a punch from Stampin' Up.  I decorated it with Stickles....and hope that it counts as a 3D snow since I bent up the edges a bit. =D

Besides CDAC, I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Stamps: Red, Green and Gold

Sweet Sketch Wednesday # 127

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I'll get those winners posted ASAP.  =D

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