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Make sure you check out each day for more chances to win! Clearsnap: Holiday Blog Hop Time! with Imaginisce - Day 5 : Welcome to the Imaginisce and Clearsnap Holiday Blog Hop 2011! We've brought our designers together to share holiday scra...

Well scrappers, you know it's 'tis the season when Tim Holtz starts his 12 Tags of Christmas! Here it  is Season 5 or is it 6..anyway...today is day 1. So here is the tag that Tim came up with ... I didn't have a lot of what he did, but I was able to 'improvise' a lot and still come out with a great tag.  My only ugh is that I think I used a bit too much of the white paint/stickles on the greenery... My favorite part is the banner.  I didn't have any music stamps so I found some vintage music sheets on the 'net and printed it off onto some Kraft cardstock and then added some Vintage Photo DI to it.  A little distressing and voila!   Also didn't have the pinecone die so I used one of my flower dies instead and I think it worked alright :) Stay tuned tomorrow for the next one.  It goes live on Tim's blog in a couple of hours but I'll be asleep by then :)  Catch it in the morning...it's like opening up my advent calendar each day :)

It's a new challenge at the Poodles Parlour this week. It's all about the Animal Antics.    Bugaboo is our great sponsor this week and they gave us the cutest images to work with!  I made this adorable baby card for my DT inspiration this week.... After coloring the image with my copics, I inked around it while in the nestiblility.  The paper and little sentiment is from a Hot Off the Press baby 8x8 pack that I have had forever.  The buttons and the twine from my stash as was the bling.  I received the butterfly in a swap ages ago and am glad I was finally able to use it! A little bit of border punching and voila! I hope you like it.  Please stop by the Poodles Parlour blog to link up your own project for this week's challenge and for all the details on how you can win from our great sponsor Bugaboo! I've entered into the following challenges: Cute Card Thursday : A Pinch and a Punch (use at least 1 punch) Do you Stack Up?! : Friendly Critters Little Red

Good Monday morning!  It always comes so quick doesn't it??? Today we have a new challenge for you at Lollipop crafts.  The ever great Robyn's Fetish is this week's sponsor and she has 5 digis up for grabs! It's a recipe challenge this week: Green, brown, ivory, one DP and a handmade flower. Here's what I have for you this week The DP was in my stash of course.  I colored Happy Harry with my copics and gave him a bit of inking with some Tim Holtz distress ink.  The ribbons, button and flower are all from my stash.  The sentiment was sent to me as part of a rubber stamp swap on Swap-Bot.com and it was the first chance I had to use it.  I really like how this turned out.  I think it's a great any occasion card for male or female.   make sure you stop by the Lollipop Crafts blog this week and load up your project for a chance to win! I've entered into the following challenges Here Come the Boys : Critters One Stitch at a Time: Anything Goes Sparkles

As their guest DT for August!  I am very excited to be joining the Paper Crafting Journey team for a couple of challenges this month.  This week it is a photo inspiration challenge using this photo from the ceiling at the Bellagio (I have seen this..gorgeous).  All the details and a link to play can be found on their blog here The sponsor this week is Digital Delights by Louby Lou who is offering 3 images to the winner.  A great prize! Here is my card for this challenge I finally broke open my Echo Park Summer days  6x6 paper pack  for this I just love the patterns and colors.  They really do scream summer! I colored the image using my copics, added some ribbon from my stash and  buttons and baker's twine (from Whisker Graphics) .  The thickers were white but I just colored them with my ink pad to fit better for the card.  I hope you like it! I've entered into the following challenges... Craft Us Crazy : Anything Goes in August Dutch Dare Challenge: For the kid

Hi everyone! "It's time for a CELEBRATION!!!  Lollipop Crafts is celebrating their ONE YEAR BLOGAVERSARY and you are sweetly invited to join the fun! First of all, we are back from summer break with our weekly challenge.  The theme this week is CELEBRATION !   Create a card/project with a celebration theme (ex. birthday, anniversary, wedding, new baby, graduation, etc)  We all have something to celebrate right?  It is the first challenge of the month and that means we are sponsored this week by Meljen's Designs.  One lucky random challenge player this week will win a fantastic prize.  Be sure to link your creations with InLinkz on the LC blog for a chance.  Check out the challenge rules too! Secondly, it wouldn't be a celebration without some FUN!  Join in on our Anniversary blog hop!  You have until tomorrow (Tuesday at midnight PST) to visit and comment on each DT member's blog.  Make sure you visit each of us because their are hidden prizes (the DT doesn&

As you know, or maybe you don't ...I won a bunch of baker's twine from Whisker Graphics and well..they are giving away some more!  this stuff rocks! everyone should have some.  If you want to win, then head on over to their blog and find out how you can win!  Go NOW! Good Luck! Let me know if you win, wait.....I follow their blog and their FB page   (don't forget to follow their FB page so you don't miss out on any of the awesome fun & giveaways) so I'll probably find out that way and leave you some congrats!

So I'm creating a circle journal with some girls on FB.  7 of us actually.  We all have different themes and we each make one 8x8 page to correspond with each theme.  These are the ones that I have created. THEME: Sisterhood PaperPlay Challenges : Things with Wings Stampin B's: Use bling Paper Shelter: For the birds (birds or things with wings) Crazy Amigo : Fly away THEME: Celebrate Southern Girls Challenge: Happy Birthday Ruby's Rainbow: Happy Birthday Penny's Paper Crafty: Happy Birthday THEME: Motivational Words/Phrases (I deviated a bit and did a quote) My Time To Craft: Have a bird in your project Craft Room Challenge: Butterflies Shopping our Stash: Out with the old or in with the New (I've had the doily forever and the vintage diecuts are from a new pack I just opened for this project) THEME: Peace and Harmony THEME: Things I love THEME: Positive Word I hope you like these.  I'd love to hear what you thin

Well here it is, my last week as a guest DT for Craft Your Passion .  A big thank you to CYP for having me. It has been a great honor and I have enjoyed every minute of it.  This week, another great challenge for you.  We are SEEING RED!   We would love to see it with your projects as well, so make sure that somewhere on there, it can be in your DP, an embellishment, some coloring in an image, there is some RED! Make sure you stop by the blog for all the details and prize information! Here is my card for this week.  I loved this image from CocoDingo because I've had this Cinco De Mayo paper in my stash forever that I could finally use.  I added a little bit of jupe and a bit of ribbon and that's it for this one.  The stamped sentiment was from an old stamp I found in my stash.  The image was colored with my copics. I just wanted to keep it really simple! I have entered this card into the following challenges: Catered Crop : follow the recipe on the site (I used red, yello

It's a new challenge at Sarah Hurley this week.  Thanks to all of our participants for last week's summer challenge.  Great job to everyone and the winners are posted on the blog.  This week, Ria has given us the challenge of adding handmade flowers to our projects.  A great challenge to be sure. I have used the DP and image from Sarah's new Oz collection which can be found here .  This collection is adorable!  I printed out the clip art version of Glinda rather than doing my own coloring this time.   I cut her out and added some stickles to her wings for a bit of sparkle.  I made my flowers using ribbon rather than paper for this challenge.  I really liked how they turned out and I just added a little pearl to the centre of each one.  I used my new MS punch that I picked up yesterday to add a bit of border to my card.  The sentiment came as part of a swap.  Enjoy and I look forward to seeing your projects this week. I've entered into the following challenges:

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great weekend!  It's Monday so I have another challenge for you as the Guest Designer over at Craft Your Passion This week the theme is 'It's Magical'.  So we would like to see your creations of magical things, fairies, dragons, cupids, angels, anything that has a magical aspect to it!  All of the challenge details, including the link for your project and prize information can be found here . For my card, I was given an image from CocoDingo. The image is colored with Copics and I added a bit of stickles to the wings for some texture and sparkle.  the DP is from my stash and I added a bit of paper punching to it.  The rikrak is SavvynSassy .  The jute is from the $$ store and the button I received as part of a swap.  I finished the sentiment with some tiny type letters.  I hope you like this and don't forget to enter your own card/project into the CYP challenge. I've entered this into the following challenges: Catered Crop :

Look What just got posted on the Lollipop Crafts Blog! Everyone at Lollipop Crafts trusts that your summer is going well!!! Remember, the current challenge runs through the month of June. Be sure to play along for a chance to win or be featured as the top 3 creations. Now for some exciting news.... Lollipop Crafts is having a DT CALL!! Want to join in the fun each week by designing with us? Love to share your creativity with the world? If you answered YES to any of these, read on below... 1. DT Term 3 will begin in September and run through February 2012. That's a 6 month commitment we ask for. **We will break for a short period during the holiday season. 2. Be a team player. Help out your fellow DTMs when help is needed, correspond with the DTC and DT, etc. 3. You need to be able to participate in our weekly challenges, sponsor spotlights, events we might have. You are required to host atleast one week as well as post on your personal blogs on challenge days. 4. Our ch

I have been asked to be the guest designer for June at CRAFT YOUR PASSION!.  I want to thank them for this great opportunity and I am very excited to be joining them this month. So today is the first Monday of the month and that means that it is an anything goes challenge!   Who doesn't love those!  Create what you want and show it off.  All of the challenge details including prizes can be found here .   So for my first challenge with CYP, I am using a great image from Lauretta.  If you remember about a year or so back, I created a card with the saying 'a true friend tells you about the toilet paper stuck to your shoe'.  I really love this saying and I totally know that my BFF would not only tell me, she would probably try and pick it up herself..LOL  When I saw this image, that saying was the first thing that popped into my mind to put with it. I used some scraps of the Bo Bunny Gabrielle that I had left over from a layout that I did for Scrapbook Your Heart.  I i

ey everyone! This week on the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog we are lucky enough to be sponsored by GallimaufryUK digi kits. GallimaufryUK is the work of Penni Taylor, a fantastic scrapbook digi designer. She creates beautiful kits fthat are great for  digi and hybrid scrapping with papers, elements, alphabets, word art and so much more. Every kit is truly an inspiration. Please check out her blog and her store for lots of great products and inspiration! The Design Team was given her Bloomin' Lovely kit to work with and oh wow! The images on this are soooo pretty! Perfect for all your spring and summer layouts, whether you do digital projects or not~!  I don't make digital layouts but I had such fun printing off these elements to use for my cards and layouts. You need to stop by the SH blog to see all the great DT inspiration for you! Here is the card that I made for the summer themed challenge.  I know my card says Happy Spring, but believe me, here in Calgary Spring

It's challenge day at Lollipop Crafts. Sorry for the late post but I have a sick little boy.  :(  Our sponsor for this week's challenge is Digi's with Attitude! Oh they have such cute stuff! The theme Kris picked this week is to Bling it! You've got it and we want to see it. Anything that sparkles and shines, rhinestones, glitter, stickles, whatever! Any project will do, you don't have to just create a card, you can do an ATC, a 3D project, altered art ...it's limitless Here's my card for this week's challenge.  I have been working on some circle journals so I decided to use the scrap paper I had left over to create my challenges this week.  It was fun to see what I could come up with. The paper is an old Prima line that i have had forever.  I added some rhinestones and stickles from my stash to bling her up.  Colored of course with my copics! I've entered into the following challenges: Make it Monday: Anything goes Stamps R Us: Going

Hello! I hope that you moms out there had a lovely Mother's Day yesterday.  There is nothing I am more proud of than being a mom to my little Riley.  I can't believe he'll be 2 in July!  Time does fly. Today is a new challenge on the Lollipop Crafts blog. We are being sponsored by Soft Pencil this week and here is the link to their site and you can check out all the great digital images & all that Elizabeth has to offer.  Our challenge this week is a fancy folds one...so we'd like to see creations with more than one fold on them.  Here is mine for this week. The image is from SoftPencil's Tinytwinies which the DT got to play with.  So cute. This is the Charming Flowers image. How adorable is this!  I colored her using my Copics. I used some Sarah Hurley digital papers for this card. She has some great stuff so make sure you check the link! The main butterfly was cut using a scrap piece from the card and then the other accent butterflies I cut out usin

Romance..everyone loves it...So that is what I decided to do my card on this week for the Crazy Challenge. Our theme is actually ANYTHING GOES, (my favorite) so you can put together whatever you like! The sponsor this week is Digital Delights by Louby Lou Here is my card for this challenge I used the Bride and Groom image from Digital Delights, which I colored with copics and added a bit of stickles to her dress and veil.  The DP was just some pieces from my stash.  I added a seed bead flower that was sent to me in a swap as well as some felt hearts and a little metal tag.  The last bit was some silver cord into a bow behind the flower.  The actual sketch for this card came from the Scrapbook and Cards Today Cardmaps book. I hope you'll join our challenge this week and I look forward to seeing what you create! I've entered this card into the following challenges: Card Cupids : flowers Dream Valley: flowers Raise the Bar: flower power Stampin' Sisters in

Wow..only a few days left until Easter and if you can believe it, we still have snow here in Calgary.  **sigh** Seven months of winter is just too long. :(  We have a sketch challenge for you over at Lollipop Crafts for this week's challenge and our sponsor is Robyn's Fetish!  Make sure you check out all the deets here. This is my card this week and I really love how it turned out.  I colored my image with copics of course and then chalked it after cutting it out with my nestiblities.  The DP is just from my stash andso is the ribbon.  I made a little border with a new punch I got and the little bunny stickers is from the $$ store. The stamp set is from My Craft Lounge which I picked up recently.  I really like how this card turned out! Entered into the following challenges: Cards for Men: Easter (masculine) Craft your Passion: you've been spotted (use dots) Cupcake Craft Challenge : Lots of Layers Die Cut Dreams: Easter The Crafty Pad: Easter Creative In

Good Monday morning!  A couple of new challenges for you today! On the Lollipop Crafts challenge blog, our theme this week is All things Girl..this should be an easy one for you! I've seen lots of girly stuff all over blog land.  Our sponsor this week is Inky Impressions Make sure you stop by the challenge blog to get all the details on the challenge and this week's prize! Here's my DT card this week, using one of Inky Impression's great images.  (I see these all over blog land too, so you know they're popular!) So I finally used up one of these pre designed cards that I picked up at Michael's years aso.  I added a little DP from my stash.  The image was colored with copics.  I added a couple of different ribbons from Savvy & Sassy .  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment before attaching it to the card.  The brads are from my stash, as are all the flowers.  I hope you like it. Entered into the following challenges: Dream Valley Challenges

Hey there.  It's another new challenge on Lollipop Crafts this week and we are looking for your boxes or gifts. Okay..this is not something I normally make but I did have a good time doing it.  A big thank you to Angie Kennedy Juda aka Chicnsratch on Youtube for her tutorial as that's what I used for my project this week. You can check it out here ..very simple and easy to do! Thanks Angie!  Her blog is here You can check out the DT projects here as well as the details for this week's challenge. Our sponsor this week is Meljean's Designs .. Oh I love her stuff.  I just used some orange cardstock I had and stamped it with the stars of my Stampin Up basic backgrounds stamp.  The image was colored with copics and then chalked.  It was then put on a border cut from my spell binders and the die cut stars were from a swap I did on Club CK.  The stamped sentiment is from my Stampendous sentiments set.  I hope you enjoy this and look forward to seeing what you com

That's our theme this week for the Crazy Challenge!  Flowers are everywhere, DP, embellishments, brads, etc so this should be a really easy challenge.  Make sure you check out all the details as well as the Design Team inspiration pieces for you this week here . And here's my card for this week's challenge. I've had this image FOREVER so I finally decided to use it.  I just colored with my copics, added some DP from my stash and a border I cut out using one of my fun punches.  The big flower was from Walmart in the wedding section and I just spritzed it with a little glimmer mist.  The smaller ones just from my stash.  A few brads and a bit of bling and we are done! I hope you like it. Entered into the following Challenges: Corrosive Challenge: Pastel Colors Crafty Pad: Flowers I Did It Creations: Anything Goes Paper Sundaes : Spring Blossoms Allsorts: Blooming Blossoms Crafty Calendar Challenge : April Showers Bring May Flowers Frosted Designs:

So I joined a new site which I am just loving..  www.swapbot.com  This is a great site for doing different kinds of swaps and not just cards..there's everything on there.  So I've joined in on a few card ones so I've made some Easter/spring cards to show you..but first...some challenge blog updates Lollipop Crafts is featuring our sponsor Just Some Lines who's offering a $15 Gift Card for this week's anything but a square/rectangle challenge which is hosted by moi.  You can get all the deets here.. . Sarah Hurley has a new challenge this week and WOW! are the DT inspiration pieces ever gorgeous..the theme this week is MUM's the word...so projects for your mom (It's the UK mother's day this weekend).  You can find the details here AiFactory has a new challenge this week...it's Bright as Day so all your fun bright colored projects can be entered this week.  Check it out here Now on to my cards... the theme for the swap was to create a card wi

Good morning all..it's Monday so another new challenge over at Lollipop Crafts .  Our great sponsorthis week is Just Some Lines and they gave us some images to work with.  We're doing a non square/rectangle card/project this week...so if you have one that has a shape to it, make sure you enter it into our challenge on the blog. Here is mine this week I cut the shape out using my A Child's Year cartridge on my cricut.  That cart is great for cutting out shapes.  For something different, I had tried coloring the images using my chalks and my blender pen...It didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to, other than in the hair, so I went over the images with my glitter and stickles instead because the shine matched the bit of glitter in the DP I used.  To finish it off, I just used some buttons and flowers in my stash, a die cut butterfly that was white and inked green and then a few pearls.  The stamped sentiment is just from an old set I have and use quite often! I

It's a new challenge over at CCH and this week it's all about the shaped cards!  We would like to see some fun and unique shapes, anything that isn't your typical square/rectangle traditional.  Our sponsor this week is the Digi Doodle Shop and they have some fabulous images, some of which we got to play with.  Here's my card for this week The shape was cut out using one of my cricut cartridges ( A Child's Year I believe, very versatile).  I punched the butterflies using one of my cuttlebug dies and added a few bits of bling to liven them up.  The image was colored with my copics and the DP was just from my stash.  I have been introduced to flocking! I picked some up on sale at my LSS and love it, so the bunny's ears and her eggs are flock! Way cool!  I hope you like it and be sure to stop by the challenge blog and enter this week's challenge! Entered into the following challenges: The Crafty Pad: use a digi I Did It Creations: Welcome Spring Al

Wow..Thursdays are such a busy day for me!  Here is what's going on.  There is an embossing challenge going on right now on the Sarah Hurley Challenge blog .  Great sponsor Handy Hippo is providing some embossing folders as a prize..I'd love to win these.  So make sure you stop by! Over on the Lollipop Crafts challenge blog , it's our sponsor spotlight!  This week we are sponsored by DZ Doodles and the DT has some cute projects to share with you this week. Here's what my card looks like this week And last but not least..it's challenge day over at AIF and wow..the DT has some gorgeous projects this week for our Things with Wings challenge!  You don't want to miss out so make sure you check it out. My card was entered into the following challenges: charizma cards: die cuts digi doodle shop's best: anything goes southern girls challenge: flowers the paper shelter: spring fling scrapbook sisters: spring flowers by the cute and girly:

It's a new challenge at Sarah Hurley this week, and we are excited because we are lucky enough to be sponsored by Handy Hippo! Handy Hippo is a friendly online craft supplies shop with a great range of rubber stamps and other card making goodies - including plenty of embossing folders and dies for the Cuttlebug. Their website has lots of information on crafting techniques, plus a great selection of free card project ideas to suit crafters of all abilities so please pop over and visit them! They chose a theme of Embossing this week and have given us some embossing folders as a prize! There will be 3 for the winner and one each for 2nd and 3rd place. You can see them on their website here Here is my card for this week's challenge I used some of Sarah's digital papers for the balloons (which can be found in the store here . I embossed the balloons using the Houndstooth Cuttlebug folder and then raised a few of them with pop dots. I added some thick twine to use

So today on Lollipop Crafts, we are surprising our own package of Lollipop Sweetness KRIS with a birthday blog hop!  She has no idea we planned this, which makes it all the more fun.  If you arrived from the Lollipop Blog then you are on the right track....if not go here to get started. We  have warm birthday wishes for Kris as well as some projects that we want to share with you to help celebrate.  Of course it wouldn't be a birthday without gifts, so Lollipop Crafts is giving a surprise gift to one random winner from all the hoppers!  How can you win it??? 1. Visit each blog in the hop and leave a comment. 2.  Visit Kris'  blog and leave her some birthday wishes. 3. At the end of the hop, head back to the Lollipop blog and let us know what you thought and why not leave Kris some birthday wishes there too. It's that easy! Here is the card that I created for Kris' for this hop... It's a really simple card using some fabulous paper I found in my sta

Good morning everyone!  It's challenge day at Lollipop Crafts and this week it's all about the lace!  Such a pretty dainty thing and we'd like to see what you can do with it on your projects.  It can be actual lace, lace punches, lacy borders whatever you can come up with.  All of the deets can be found on our challenge blog so please stop by and enter.  I can't wait to see what you create and the design team as well as our two guest designers this month have created some gorgeous projects for you! So here is my dainty little piece. I have no idea why I decided to do a Christmas card.  I think it's because I had that embossed piece of cardstock and really wanted to use it up.  I had seen an all white card in a magazine I picked up recently and loved the look of it so I knew I wanted to try that as well.  So this is what I came up with.  The cardstock is embossed with a cuttlebug folder.  The lace is actually cut off from a big sheet of it that I found when

So today's marks my debut as part of the Sarah Hurley DT.  Our theme this week is Flowers... Without further adieu here is mine... (shout out to Lori Padberg .  It was one of her creations that inspired mine.  I loved the simple look of it) I used some digital paper & sentiment from Sarah's line which can be found here . The flower is from my stash and I just inked it up a bit with some red ink.  I did some die cutting as well for the flowers and used the spellbinders to showcase the flower.  And of course some embossing using the fleur de lis embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  A really simple card but I quite like it.  Make sure you stop by the Sarah Hurley challenge blog to get your own flower entries in!  We can't wait to see them! I've entered into the following challenges: Anything Goes Challenge Blog : diecuts Creative Craft Challenge: thank you Desert Island Crafters: use 3 items from the itinerary ( 2PP, distressing, inspired by nature) Ginge