Ribbon or Lace

Hi Everyone, Here's my card for the first one of the year for the Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge. We are Sponsored by Bugaboo, and I've used one of the A Kid's View stamps from them called Star Ornament. I thought he was adorable, and when I chose him of course I wasn't thinking about the challenge, but thought ok I can do this, so this is the result of using ribbon or lace on my card. I colored him with Promarkers and have added a few star brads to the card. and left the rest pretty simple.
Thanks for looking.
Cindy

Time for the Men at Holly Jolly

Hi All this week we have a new challenge for you at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge, it's Men's week. So make a card for your man. We are sponsored this week by Bugaboo and I'm using this great image of Gus with his sled, he's pimped it up with some fire and is ready to take off. I've used some retired paper, Basic Grey, Smokey Slate and Real Red card stock, used the Houndstooth embossing folder and some glimmer paper. Hope you come and play with us.
Thanks for looking
Cindy

Down by the Water/Sea

Hi Everyone this week we are sponsored by Bugaboo over at Come and Get It, and I have chosen the Turtle-Fishing Rod for my card, as the theme this week picked by Shell is Water or Sea Creatures.
I have used Promarkers to color the image, and Have used Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz and Marina Mist as my colors. The layout is a simple one and thought it worked great for a young boy's card. the paper in the background is from my stash and is embossed using the Square Lattice Embossing folder. Thanks for looking. Hope you have a great week.
Cindy
I will also enter into the following challenges
Little Claire's Monthly Challenge:  #38 Child's Birthday
Hiding in my Craft Room: Color it
Daring Card Makers: Digital (image)

Stars and Stripes for Baby's First Christmas

Hi Everyone, this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge, we have a stars and stripe theme. Yeah I know are we in July, no, but I thought it would be a fun theme for a Christmas card. We are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps this week and I have chosen to use the image called "Boo Peeker - Moon" for my card. It's a baby image, that I took and made into a Baby's First Christmas card. The paper behind is from a DCVW stack that I have had for a while now. the sentiment I made using the new free form tool in My Digital Studio and the star from the Nursery Necessities. The image was colored using my promarkers, the colors are Real Red, and Pretty in Pink for the card stock. Still love that color for baby cards. Anyway thanks for looking have a great week.
Cindy

If the Shoe Fits

This week at Come and Get It we have a great sketch to work with from Meighan. We are also Sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps, I am using the JJ Tequila and Shoes, If the Shoe Fits image, which is a great image of JJ in a new funky outfit, and of course Shoes. I have used Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, and Rich Razzleberry to make the card, I've used the closest colors I have in Promarkers to color her, and notice the rose colored glasses. I thought it worked perfectly with her.  Oh and to make the ribbon, mixed acohol with re inker and then spritzed 5/8 satin ribbon with it the color you want, in my case Melon Mambo.
Another fun card to do. Thanks Meighan for the sketch.
Thanks for looking
Cindy

Winter Sports

Hi Everyone, well it's Holly Jolly's newest challenge set by Judy this week, and she has asked us to do something with Winter Sports in mind, I thought of skiing or skating, but then came across this little fella from our Sponsor, Bugaboo Stamps, and just thought wouldn't he make a snow much fun card. So that's what I decided on. He is called  AKV- Winter Snowshoe. I have used my Promarkers to color him and the papers are from an old SEI pack called Winter Song, then the embellishments are the retired die from Stampin Up winter frost, and the color dots are the soft sky from Stampin up. I sponged the sky with this color too, and then used glitter for the snow, and used silver glitter paper for the snowflake. The greeting is from the Snow Much Fun set from Stampin Up as well. Now go on over to the blog and make a winter sports card and be in the running for some great stamps from Bugaboo.
Thanks for looking
Cindy

Winged Things

This week at Come and Get It, Julie is our hostess and she has chosen Winged things as our theme. We are sponsored by Bugaboo again this week. I am using  Summer Butterfly Bear-Watermelon for my project.
I have used the new paper from Stampin up called mosaic madness along with new color Strawberry Slush and paired it with Daffodil Delight, and Basic Black. The flowers were some that were in my stash given to me by a friend at Christmas. I colored them with a spritzer filled  rubbing alcohol and Daffodil ink. I then colored the pearls with my permanent black marker. The greeting is from the Petite Pairs set from Stampin Up. Thanks for looking
Cindy

Humorous Birthday

It is Humorous Birthday week at Come and Get It Challenges. Hope you will come and play. We are sponsored by Bugaboo, and I have used the JJ-Tequila-and-Shoes--Birthday for my card, I just thought it was so darn cute, and I love JJ. I have used mosaic madness designer paper along with retired paper stack Elegant Eggplant polka dots, the ribbon is from my stash colored with Strawberry Slush Ink. and the brads are from the regal pack retired.
Thanks for looking
Cindy
I will enter this into the following challenges
Bloggers Challenge: They say it is your Birthday
Crafty Ribbons: Anything with Ribbons
Inky Impressions: Birthdays
Craft your Passion: Birthday

Final day of Bugaboo Christmas in July Event- Recipe Challenge

For this card I'm using the Freebie Friday image, Isn't it cute. Love it, Thanks Bugaboo. My bear was colored with promarkers, I have used an old sketch from Mojo Monday for my inspiration The colors are Real Red, Chocolate Chip, and Very Vanilla, to go with the recipe the red is embossed using the chevron embossing folder, I've used retired paper from Stampin up, and the sentiment is from the Holiday Cheer Messages  from Hero arts. Used spellbinders dies to cut out scalloped square and square, and punches for the sentiment. For the bling I added rhinestones and ribbon
Thanks for looking
Cindy

I will enter this into the following challenges
Catch the Bug. Week of Christmas Event
Crimbo Crackers. Anything Goes Christmas
Milk and Coffee Challenge. Emboss it
Shelly's Images Challenge. Christmas in July

Day 6 of Christmas in July with Bugaboo- Tag it

For today's challenge at Catch the Bug  it is to use a tag on your project, well I decided to go with a 3d project. I made a box from the top note die from Stampin Up, and used ribbon for the handle, the front is decorated with little sparkle stamp from Sparkly and Bright set by Stampin Up, along with the Greeting, is from the Four the Seasons set, the Star is a chipboard piece that I painted with an  Adirondak sponge dauber in gold, then I added the rhinestones to the edge and in the center I used the image from Bugaboo called Elf Pocket, which was colored and cut out and popped onto the star with dimensionals, The tag has the same elf on it and is another image from Bugaboo called Christmas Tags- Elf. I thought this turned out rather cute having the elf and the tag matching Anyway thanks for looking.
Cindy

Day 5 Bugaboo Christmas in July - Make us Laugh

Make  Us Laugh Christmas Card/Project is the challenge at Bugaboo for today as part of there Christmas in July week. I have used Stella Calendar Month December for this card, she is quite the character. Anyway for my card I used paper from my stash, I have made it into a Center Step card, and added ribbon, snowflakes and some flat charms from my stash. The colors used are Rose Red, Elegant Eggplant, and Wisteria Wonder, the snowflakes are glittered then colored to match the colors.  Thanks for looking 
Cindy
 Challenges entered

Catch the Bug: Week long Christmas event Day 
LEJ Design challenge- Anything goes
Songbird challenges   Use Ribbon
Pink by Design Challenge. Christmas in July

Day 4 of Christmas in July at Bugaboo - Bingo

Day 3 of the Christmas in July week at Bugaboo calls for a bingo card, so I've made my card using Old World Santa 1, I've colored him with Promarkers, distressed the edges with my distressing tool, and sponged it with Old Olive Ink, I distressed all the paper, which is from my stash then used pearls and lace ribbon to finish off the vintage look. I stamped my greeting from the Winter Post set from Stampin Up onto the card, above the ribbon. So for the bingo I have the middle line of Distress, Red and Green, and Bugaboo Image, or I have the diagonal line of Pearls, Red and Green and Ribbon, or the bottom line of Ribbon, Bugaboo Image, and Sentiment. or the top line if you count the red border

 around the card, Distressing and Pearls. Thanks for looking.

Cindy

I will also enter this into the following challenges

Catch the Bug.  Christmas week day 4

Stamp and Create. Christmas in July

Always Something Creative- Christmas in JUly

Day 3 of Bugaboo Christmas in July - Color Challenge

For this challenge, I used the image from Bugaboo called Present Bear.  This is the first time I have tried paper piecing with a digital image, which I think turned out rather cute. I used paper from Stampin Up called Be of Good Cheer, from last year at Christmas which is a Raspberry Ripple and Vanilla Color, the bear was colored with Promarkers, the tag is from the set from Stampin Up called That's the Ticket. the card is made with Raspberry Ripple, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. The Raspberry Ripple is embossed with the Chevron Embossing folder. then I added very vanilla brads for accent.

Thanks for looking

Cindy

Christmas in July at Bugaboo Show us your Santa

The first challenge from Bugaboo for their week long challenge, is Show us your Santa, and to use the picture as inspiration.You can find out all the details here at Catch the Bug.  Last year Bugaboo released the Tropical Santa set, which I thought perfect for this challenge, my card uses the Tropical Santa- Suntan, which you can get if you click on the link, great image.  I have added the umbrella, and I did a sunburst behind him. So here is my card for this challenge. 

Thanks for looking

Cindy

I will also enter this into the following challenges

Chocolate Coffee and Cards Challenge- Life's a Beach

Digitally Sweet- Must use Digital and bright colors, Santa is a digital stamp

Polkadoodles: Summer Fun

Wags and Whiskers: Summer Fun

Simply Create Too: Christmas in July

Christmas Stampin All Year Long: Kraft with another color/pattern

Christmas Sweets

This week at Holly Jolly, we are sponsored by Bugaboo, and Paige is our hostess and she has asked us to create something with Christmas Sweets in mind. I chose the Bobblehead Gingerbread guy for my card, and decided to make him into a bobblehead, using card stock folded accordian style. with dimensionals at either end.  I used liquid applique for the icing, and just thought that turned out cute.  Now hop on over there and see what the other designers have done and lets see them sweets.
Thanks for looking
Cindy

Lots of Layers for Holly Jolly

Julie is the hostess at Holly Jolly this week and she's asked us to use lots of layers on our projects this week. I started off with Tempting Turquoise base, The next layer is actually two layers in one, using a technique called inlaid embossing. I cut the white to be 4.25 by 5.25, then added two triangles onto the card using Daffodil Delight, I then ran them through my big shot using a folder from Cuttlebug. I then added another layer of Turquoise and then the image, which is two images, Desiree Sitter, and Candy Cane, I combined them using Paint Shop Pro, printed them out and colored. Then after that was added, I embellished it with a ribbon, button, and twine. 

Thanks for looking. Now hop over to the blog, check out the other creations by the DT and join us won't you.

Cindy

I will enter into the following challenges

Christmas Stamping All Year Long: Anything goes.

Crimbo Crackers: must be cute

Boy on Ornament for Holly Jolly

Over at Holly Jolly this week, it's Meighan hosting the challenge and she's asked for 3 embellishments and we are sponsored by Bugaboo, so I've used Michael Sitter and Furbac Ornament from Bugaboo and combined them to make a sweet image. I've colored it using promarkers, I've used Elegant Eggplant, Daffodil Delight, and Rich Razzleberry . For my embellishments, you could count just the buttons, or the buttons as one, then the ribbon and glitter as the other two. The sentiment is from the That's the Ticket set from Stampin Up. I stamped it and punched it out, then cut around, then punched a second one and layered it.Thanks for looking.
Cindy

I will also enter it into the following challenges
Crafting When We Can: Punches and Dies
Here Come the Boys Challenge: Use Buttons
The Craft Place: Dies and Punches
Christmas Stamping All Year Long. Non Traditional Colors
QKR Challenge: One for the Boys

Two Bugaboos Times Two

Hi Everyone here is a card I made today using two Bugaboo Stamps, one is the curlyhaired boy and the other is the furbac ornament stamp. I've colored the image using promarkers and have added some crystal effects to the ornament to give it some definition, I've also added some nail heads under the sentiment for added bling. I've used the Stella Sketch this week as well as the Bingo Challenge at Bugaboo. I used Blue and Brown, die cut ovals, and a bugaboo image for the bingo.  

Thanks for looking

Cindy

I will enter this into the following challenges

Catch the Bug: Stella Sketch

Catch the Bug: Bugaboo Bingo

QKR stampede- cards for kids

Crafty Boots Challenge- Celebrations

Creative Creations Challenge: For a kid

Forever Friends Challenge For a Child

Anything but a Card for Crafting for All Seasons

For our challenge this week at Crafting for All Seasons, we are sponsored by Bugaboo, and the challenge is to make anything but a card, I've chosen my for my image to use from the sponsor as Bugaboo Brat Big Bow Topper, so I decided to make an Easter Treat Bag with her, Isn't she cute. The Happy Easter stamp is from the Easter Blossoms set from Stampin up. Thanks for looking
Cindy

Dies and Punches for Holly Jolly

Hi Everyone, at Holly Jolly this week it is Meighan's turn for the challenge and she is asking us to use at least 2 dies or punches on our creation, an easy challenge for sure, look forward to seeing everyone's work. We have a sponsor this week which is Bugaboo, the image I've used is called; Eggbert Snowballs. Isn't he cute. The colors I've used is Pool Party, Calypso Coral and Island Indigo, which is what I colored him with, adding the glitter for the snow of course, The sketch is from an old sketch I saved in my file. I have used square dies, scalloped edglit die, a scalloped circle die and a 1 inch circle punch and snowflake die for the sentiment, pretty easy huh. Well come and join us over at Holly Jolly, and thanks for looking
Cindy
I will also enter my card into the following challenges
Christmas Card Challenges- Scallops
Jingle Belles: Snow Sleet Rain...
Sparkles Christmas: Anything goes
Incy Wincy Designs: Add Texture