Let's Eat Cake at Ike's World Challenge Blog

It's time to get your sweet tooth on at Ike's World Challenge Blog. The optional theme is "Let's Eat Cake" and I found a fairy tale cake to inspire my card. The cake is real, made by CandyCakeWedding.com and found on Pinterest. It makes the perfect background for the Ike's Art image, Tinky,  to fly by with magical birthday wishes for a little girl I know. 

My card is 100% digital, using the following:

Image: Ike’s Art: Tinky digi image, photo credit CandyCakeWedding.com

Paper: Pixel Scrapper Brooke Gazarek’s Enchanted Papers Purple

Digital Elements: Pixel Scrapper Elif Sahin’s Design piece #5 Heart, It’s the Magic Fairy Tales Edition Crown& Magic Wand;  Melo Vrijhof’s Jane Elements Lace Border & Family Day Elements Pink Flower; Mandy’s Lovable Designs’Shabby Wedding Scatter.

Font: Chancera

Whether you create with the Cake theme or choose to create without it, don't forget to link your art up at Ike's world Challenge Blog for your chance to win some awesome digis from her store!!

P.S. 

IKE'S ART DESIGN TEAM CALL - NOVEMBER 2017

Click on the link and strut your stuff if you fancy a place on Ike's Design Team.

Hurry, tho', you only have until the end of the month!!

Scribbles Designs 4th Birthday Bonanza Blog Hop

Scribbles Designs is celebrating its 4th birthday this month 

and we're kicking off our celebration with a combined Challenge AND Blog Hop!

 If you are arriving here from Bernie's blog, then you are right on track!

If you are just starting, you can find a full list of all the stops at the bottom of this post.

So blow up some birthday balloons and hang some streamers,
it is time for the Birthday Bonanza to begin!!!

Throughout the hop you will see projects created by all the

Scribbles Designs Team Members AND our two current Guest Scribblers.
Comment at each stop along the hop for your chance to win 

one of the images used in that particular Scribbler's project.
You'll have until Sunday, January 22, 2017, at 11:59 p.m., to submit your comments.

Also, as this is our regular monthly challenge be sure to add your birthday cards to the

 Challenge #49-Birthday Bonanza link up on the Scribbles Designs Challenge blog.

Along with all of our regular prizes, we have some extra special ones in honour

of our birthday this month. Be sure to click HERE for all the info and details you need!

For my stop along the hop, I am excited to share

a project I created using the following images... 

 

#B11 Birthday Wishes Border

#F17 Birthday Cake Slice (Free)

Don't forget, one lucky person leaving a comment on my blog

will have the opportunity to win Birthday Wishes Border for free!!!

Check out what I made:

My celebration card above uses 2 digital images from Scribbles Designs. I am STILL creating 100% digital cards, but the clock is ticking down 'til my craft room is back in business. I can't wait! Here's what has gone into this card:

Images: Scribbles Designs Birthday Wishes & Birthday Cake Slice

Papers: Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Happy Celebrations Word Art patterned paper

Elements: Danish Designs' Pool Party Balloons 1,4&5; Pixel Scrapper M Lerin's Ribbon Template 4, Sahin Designs Sugar & Sweet Sweet Tag

Don't forget, one lucky person leaving a comment on my blog

will have the opportunity to win Birthday Wishes Border for free!!!

There is just one stop to go on our birthday train and
that is Lisa's blog. Click HERE to head on over!

If you miss any of the stops along the way, here is the complete list. You are definitely going to want to check out what my fellow team members have in store for you:

Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

Diane Louise

Nick

GDT Pippa

Suze

Sherry

AJ

GDT Bernie

Pat

Lisa

Looking Ahead on the Path of Positivity

Today my card features a digital image from Ike's Art called "Gene & Fred," after the famous dancers Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I write digital because my craft room is still barred from entrance. Once the contractors are finished, I can finally get into my room and do some hand-crafting, and mixed media canvases, some water colors and altered art - ooh, I can't wait! LOL

I love this image because it can men so many different things. Because we are embarking on a brand new year, I got to thinking about how I will go down my path in 2017. So many choices to make, some shortcuts, and some just looking like shortcuts but aren't. Some people seize each day, learning, laughing, loving. Then there are those who are, 

"Dancing through life

Skimming the surface,

Gliding where turf is smooth..."

(-from the song Dancing through Life, Wicked Broadway play)

Hubby's time with me is limited, mom is getting older, daughter is saving her well-earned money for her own place, and the grandkids are growing like beanstalks! I don't want to miss any of that. So I will grab life by the horns, live in each moment, and appreciate where I'm going and all the stops along the way. 

My card is my DT make for the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. 
The following went into creating this card:

Papers: Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Sunburst from A Taste of Summer Patterned papers, Burgundy paper from A Grungy Christmas Textured papers; Pixel Scrapper B White's Back to Nature Paper 6 and patterned paper 2.

Elements: Pixel Scrapper Sheila Reid's Outdoor Adventure Compass Rose Stamp & Yellow Polka-dot Grunge Paint, Marisa Lerin's Doodle Set Brush 4, E Minkus' Back to Nature Element 7

Font: Kismet  

This year every month is ANYTHING Positive or Affirming GOES, sometimes with an Optional theme. To start the New Year off, the first challenge has the OPTIONAL theme of "The Road Ahead."

There are two sponsors in January - Scribbles Designs

AND

Ike's Art

Prizes offered: 

In order to be considered eligible for this month's sponsor prizes, ALL creations must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. 

If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that we include you in the draw for the prize for Most Inspirational.

From Ike's Art, a $15 gift certificate from Ike's Art

From Scribbles Designs, a $10 gift certificate from Scribbles Designs

From Creative Bug Digital SnapShots, one digital image for each person chosen as a DT Delight.

I hope you'll choose the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog to create and link up a card or project this month. Anything positive or affirming is welcome!

Watch 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNA3RTvFH6E

The Luck o' the Irish Can Be Found at Scribbles Designs challenge blog

Hello, crafters! 'tis the lucky month of March and I created a digital card as one of the Guest Design Team members at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog. I feel so lucky to have been chosen to create for Sandy-her images are so fun!
Today I used Leprechaun's Hat with a freebie called Shamrock. I plucked my sentiment off of the Quote Garden.com website. Along with the Scribbles images, I used the following:

Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Gold textured paper from the Glitterati paper pack

Holliewood Dramatic Backgrounds Paper 2, Copyright ©2015 by Mischief Circus

Glitter Overlay element 09 & Butterfly element 33 by Krysty Scrap Designs from Mischief Circus

You can win images from Scribbles Designs when you create with the month's theme and link up your post HERE. Have fun and good luck!

Challenges I am Entering:

Crafting with an Attitude - Anything Goes

Digital Delights by Louby Loo - ANything Goes

Doodle Pantry - Anything Goes w/a digital image

Mod Squad challenges - It IS Easy Being Green

(Pin)spirational challenges - photo inspiration

ICE & SNOW Is the Theme at Ike's World Challenge Blog

Ike's World Challenge blog has reached the midpoint in its newest challenge of Ice & Snow. Here's my DT make using Ike's Art Christmas Pixie. This card is 100% digital, something that I am playing around with. I like to blend the art of digital card-making with good old-fashioned paper crafting to come up with a hybrid card, too.
Here are the ingredients I used to cook up this card of mine:

From Mischief Circus, Eena’s Creation, Winter Scenery Overlays, Element 5

Marta Van Eck Winter Scene papers, pp02

Pink Lotty Designs, Human Skeletons, #3 & 5

Do you play around with digital creations? Or are the only digital elements to your cards the images you can color with all the lovely markers out there? Whatever your choice, be sure to link up your project at Ike's World Challenge Blog for a chance to win a gift certificate to Ike's Art store.

Happy Halloween from the Farm, Y'all!

Well, here in Chicago, we got a late start to Autumn, but it has arrived! And my cards have changed their colors as well as the leaves ion the trees. The Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge blog has a new challenge: make a Halloween card or invitation.
I created this digital card using images from our guest sponsor this week, DeeDee's Digis. The more I play in Photoshop, the more I love it. I am still learning what I can do, but am loving it all.
What about you? Do use use Photoshop to create cards and layouts? I like a blend of the two, what is called hybrid crafting.
Whatever you do, have fun. And link up your project with the Outlawz Monday Greetings this week!!

Images and sentiment from:

DeeDee’s Digis Happy Jacks set, Open Window set, Goody Jars set

Papers from:

Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles Christmas Grunge Brown; Nancy Baumiller Hello Autumn Collection

Elements from:

Nancy Baumiller Crowabout Studio: Hello Autumn Element 10 (star); RUCOLA DESIGNS  Dead or Alive Collection: Ornament 6 (flourish), Crow; Megan Mullins:  Because of You Collection (leaf sprig); Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles: Button 05
Challenges I am Entering:
Dragonfly journeys - It's the Great Pumpkin!
The Craft Garden - Autumn Colors

Not Much Time Before Christmas

So, with Christmas closing in on us (especially at the stores), how is your pile of Christmas cards coming along? I just created this card and am well on my way to having all my cards ready to mail out before Thanksgiving (yay me).
The new theme at the Outlawz Greetings challenges will help you on your mission. The theme is to make a Christmas card. Our guest sponsor, Decosse's Dynamite Doodles, has a fantastic offering of digital papers, elements and sentiments. You don't have to create a digital card to use them--you can print them out and color, cut and paste, too.
I am learning how to create digital cards in Photoshop, so my card is 100% digital. I got to play with Decosse's lovely papers from the Familiar Refrains collection. I framed each panel with her textured cardstock from the Christmas Grunge paper pack.The bows came from her Mommie Dearest collection, and the green frame around my sentiment is called Holiday Hoopla Square Frame. I used a sentiment from Decosse's Holiday Hoopla Word Art collection.     .
Whether you create with paper and ink, or go the digital path, link up your card with us at the Outlawz Monday Greetings for your chance to win prizes. As an added bonus, Lisa Decosse co-owns the 12 Months of Christmas Link-Up blog, where sharing links to two Christmas cards a month nets you a free digital paper, and if you follow the optional theme, a chance to win sponsor prizes!
Enjoy a merry season of crafting!

The Living is Easy in Summer

Well, summer is almost over, and I can't say that I'll miss it much. I don't have younger children enjoying summer vacation, I don't have summer off, and the weather has been a little weird to totally enjoy the season. So, on to Fall, but I hope gradually, producing a glorious burst of colors and smells with a bountiful harvest to follow.
To celebrate all that summer was (and should have been), I created a card using the featured image at DeeDee's Digis. It's called Seasonal Baskets and includes 6 outline images (includes bonus "Empty Basket" image!), 5 pre-colored images, 5 white-filled layering images, and 3 sentiments, in JPG and PNG file formats. And crafters, this image set is half price right now, through the end of the month, for just $1.25!!
I received this image free, because DeeDee's Digis challenge blog hosts a progressive freebie challenge. When you use the featured image during the month and link up to the challenge blog, you receive the next month's free.
Back to my card - I used the pre-colored Summer Basket and popped it onto patterned paper. After framing it with both cardstock and a couple file tabs, I added another image from DeeDee's Digis, the black kitty. He's from the image set "Open Window." This is just one of the many things I love about digital images. You can pick and choose from several different sets if you wish.
Before I list the materials I used, why don't you check out the store at DeeDee's Digis. I hope you'll be interested enough by all that is offered there to start playing before the month is out, so you can start stacking up those free digis throughout the year. Have fun!
Materials used:
Images: Summer Basket from DeeDee's Digis Seasonal Baskets set; Black kitty from Open Window
Papers:  Patterned paper 1 from Misty Cato's Count the Days Freebie Pack, patterned paper freebie from Behance, Ruby textured paper from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles "Christmas Grunge" paper pack
Elements: Leaves, flowers & tab from Misty Cato Count the Days Pack, Bookplate from Sweetly Scrapped, Brads from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

Christmas is Coming - Are You Ready?

Well, it only took two days and a lot of sweat but my first 100% digital Christmas card is ready to print up. The 12 Months of Christmas Link-Up has a new challenge this month, and I created a card for the midway reminder. The theme is always Christmas, with an optional twist of VINTAGE.
The sponsor is Luna Girl and they have the most beautiful collages and images! The one I played with is called Blue Christmas Collage sheet and comes with 8 Christmas scenes.

I used Adobe Photoshop to work with my card, and when i say work, I mean it! I am still learning the software and make the simplest mistakes! I used digital papers from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles, as well as those sharp-looking icicles and flourishes. My sentiment is from within Photoshop. Don't you just love that little angel lighting the tree for the holiday?
The way the Link-Up works is this:
As long as you link up two handmade Christmas cards, you will receive a holiday-inspired digital paper each month. If you follow the monthly theme (which is Vintage this month), you will be in the running for prizes. Make sure you type in the letters FT after your name so it will be easy to place your name in the draw! And remember, the theme is optional!
Sponsor and Prize Info for this challenge:

• Guest Sponsor:  Lunagirl
• Prize being offered:  A $15.00 gift certificate for one random winner chosen from those who participate in the optional theme
• Additional Sponsor: Décosse's Dynamite Doodles
• Prize being offered: One free digital paper to everyone who links up a minimum of two cards to the challenge.  Cards can be anything goes for this prize, they only have to follow the theme if they want a chance at the sponsor's prize.  The mini set of six digital papers called A Grungy Christmas, will also be offered up as a prize to one random winner.

Other Challenges I am Entering:

Christmas Card challenges - ANything Goes
A Gem of a Challenge - Something Blue
CASE-ing Christmas - Inspiration card

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Christmas

ABC Christmas challenges - L s for Lyrics (Angels We Have Heard on High)

Progressive Freebie Challenge at DeeDee's Digis

DeeDee's Digis Challenge Blog offers a free stamp set to all crafters who create with this month's Featured set, "Diver Daniel."

If you don't have this set, it is on sale for $1.25 this month only. All you have to do is create something with Diver Daniel and post it on your blog, linking your post to their challenge blog. You'll receive next month's Digi Set for free!! Now, who doesn't like FREE?!

I went away over the weekend, to a place that time forgot (well, at least there was no wifi anywhere to be seen). So, I played with Diver Daniel in Photoshop, and created this digital card. In addition to DeeDee's Digis images, I used the following:

Decosse's Dynamite Doodles - Patterned paper #11, Frame #1

Rucola Designs - Seashells

The rest was accomplished in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12: grass and speech bubble stamps, sentiments and coloring/shading. I am learning more and more with each project I attempt, but have a lot more to learn! 

So, what about you? Do you have any crafting machine that you haven't used yet? I also have a Bind-It-All that is still in its bag, and I was REALLY excited to purchase it when I did, about six months ago?! I really need to retire so that I have more time to craft!!

Other Challenges I am Entering:

Cute Card Thursday - Beside the Seaside

Creative Moments challenges - A/G; Man inn Your Life; Father's Day

Crafty Gals Corner - the Great Outdoors

Crazy for Challenges - Masculine

Anything Goes at SBP Challenge Blog

Today is a new day, new month, new year AND a new challenge from Your Scrapbook Place Challenge Blog. The theme is my fave type: ANYTHING GOES. The sponsor is Sunflowerfield:

"Sunflowerfield is a small company located in Finland and we offer 'Cozy Home Products and Crafters' Essentials'. We have our own 'Sunflowerfield Designs' rubber and digi stamps designed by Vanja Stevanović and stamps from three fabulous companies: Wild Rose Studio, Whimsy Stamps and Crafty Sentiment Designs. In our webstore you will find quality ink pads, designer paper packs, different embellishments (brads, gems, pearls, charms...), wooden elements like hearts, stars, flowers... then satin flowers, paper roses, laces, ribbons, acrylic blocks and more."

For my card, I chose to create digitally. That's right, peeps, 100% digital! I have been playing in Photoshop Elements and have learned a trick or two (can you tell I'm very proud of myself? LOL) 

Besides coloring the Sunflowerfield image, I also managed to manipulate the frame, borders and snowflake brads by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles. The image itself, while Thanksgiving-themed, has been colored in a winter palette. I love using themed images in different ways, don't you?

The sentiment is mine, using Photoshop. Even the snowflakes are stamps from my software! (If you knew anything about me, you would know that learning as much as I have in Photoshop is a BIG thing) My goal for 2015 is to get even more adept at using Photoshop.

So, you have one whole month to create ANYTHING your little heart desires! Here are the guidelines for our challenges:
1. Your project must be new and fit the theme; any post containing your project must be published after the first day of the new challenge. No backlinking. 
2. Your post must name the SBP Challenge Bog and a link to the challenge post. 
3. You may enter as many other challenges as you wish.
4.  Closing time is midnite CDST on the last day of each month.
5.  You may enter up to three times for each new challenge.

Check out the SBP Challenge Blog for inspiration, then go play and create so you can enter for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor, Sunflowerfield!! Have fun!!
p.s. Lisa at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles has some freebies available for you, too!