It's Birthday Time Again at Scribbles Designs!

Did you know that birthday calories don't count?! I didn't but Carl here, a digi image from Scribbles Designs, swears that it's true. I don't really know if I can trust him though. I haven't kissed  many frogs looking for my prince, but those I have remained frogs. Very untrustworthy (and slimy).

This month Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog celebrates its birthday, so their challenge theme is to feature birthdays. While Carl normally feasts on flies and other flying insects, I guess he couldn't resist a little zero calorie birthday cupcakes. After all, he is one of the original crew of images that Scribbles Designs started with.

Big things are brewing at the birthday celebration at the main blog. Along with the regular prizes there will be two or three additional prizes. Plus, anyone who leaves a comment on MY personal blog will have a chance to win the image I used on my project. So make sure you link your cards or birthday projects (anything goes) and check out this months posts. You don't want to miss any birthday goodies!!

While you can buy Carl in the Scribbles Store, the individual cupcakes I colored and used on my card are offered as freebies! One  more reason to check out the blog...

Challenges I am Entering

Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper - Anything Goes w/patterned paper

Digi Doodle Studio - Happy ANything

Happy Craft - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Emboss It at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

Just a midway reminder that there's a challenge going on at Scribbles Designs challenge blog. The theme is Embossing. Do you think I overdid it with my card today? I have five embossed papers on it! Even the moon is part of a punched circle of embossed paper! All to give "Carl", a digi image from the Scribbles Store, the perfect setting for his greeting.
You've got two weeks left to enter the embossing challenge at Scribbles Designs challenge blog for our chance to win free digis from the Scribbles Store. Good luck and happy crafting!

Challenges I am Entering:

Craft Rocket Challenges - Something beginning with an "F" (frog)

Through the Purple Haze - Romantic

Big Wheels Keep on Rolling at Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

Hello, crafters! I've been busy lately NOT crafting, but I had to show you my DT piece for Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog. It's the 15th of the month, and Scribbles has a new challenge to offer you: Big Wheels Keep on Turning!
My craft supplies are still packed up, so I created a digital card for my brother-in-law. I have used several digi images from the Scribbles Store: Truck, Sun, Cat, Carl, Tattoo Flower 2 & Birthday Cake Slice.
The other elements of my digi card include papers from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles (Clouds 2 Patterned Paper and Pixel Scrapper KaleiDesigns (Back to Nature Paper 08 & Border 5). I used a font called Tall Marker for my sentiment.
I hope I have inspired you to create, whether digitally or hand-crafted, and to link your project to the Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog for your chance to win free digital images from the Scribbles Store!!
Happy Crafting!

Challenges I am Entering:

Digitally Made - Anything 100% digital Goes

Anything Goes w/OPTIONAL Theme of "The Road Ahead"

Welcome to a brand New Year. With this beginning come changes, like at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. 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

Today I created a digital card using Scribbles Designs images: #953 Pull Trailer, Carl & Sun (freebie). I colored the image and squeezed photos of my grandchildren into the windows (the car is free clipart). Then I popped the whole thing onto scenic paper. Scribbles image "Carl" is hitching a ride on the wheel bumper, and Scribbles image "Sun" gives the effect of both a cloudy day and a sunny one.

That's what life is full of, both cloudy days and sunny ones. How we spend those days will predict whether this new year is one filled with happy memories and fun adventures, or "just another trip around the sun." I hope your New Year is filled with happiness!!

Card created with:

Scribbles digital images: #953 Pull Trailer, Carl & Sun

Papers from: Pixel Scrapper Brooke Gazarek's Enchanted Green and Doll House Krysty's Scrap Designs Scenic Paper 8

Element: Pixel Scrapper Karry Dempsey's Dirty McFilthy Flower 3

Font: Draughtsman & LD Handwritten Greetings  

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

Prizes offered: 

In order to be considered eligible for this month's 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

BLOG HOP ALERT!!

"Scribbles Designs 3rd Birthday Bonanza Blog Hop"

It is time to break out the party hats and light up the candles on the birthday cake. Get ready to hang some streamers and blow up a few balloons too as Scribbles Designs has just turned three!!! In honour of this wonderful occasion, this challenge we are celebrating birthdays. Yours, mine, a family member's, a friend's, or even an acquaintance's. It doesn't matter whose birthday you are celebrating or how many candles are on the cake. Simply design a card commemorating someone's birthday. Let the birthday bonanza begin!

This month's prizes...

Top Scribbler receives $10 worth of digital images, winner's choice 
Top 3 and Gold Star receives $3 worth of digital images

Additionally, a special birthday themed prize package will be given away to to three lucky winners. The images in the pack will include:

#F 66 Cupcake 2
#F 61 Happy Birthday
#F 69 Cupcake Tier
#F 68 Layered Cake
#F 17 Birthday Cake Slice
#B 11 Birthday Wishes Border
#909 Birthday Cake & Hat
#204 Brrr-thday Chef
#013 Eat Cake Quote
#123 Carrie Birthday Diva 

Each participating DT members will be choosing one random person who comments on their blog to receive the main image they used on their card. So be sure to leave a comment on each stop along the way for your chance to win even more goodies (so the person who comments on Patacake's blog will be randomly chosen to receive "Birthday Wishes" (the digi image "Birthday Cake Slice" is a FREEBIE on the Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog).

Easy Easel Challenge Over at Your Scrapbook Place

 Today I made an easel card for Your Scrapbook Place Challenge blog. Their guest sponsor, Scribbles Designs, gave the DT images to play with and I fell in love with Carl's Pad. I have a couple of images from the Carl set and I think he is too funny.
After making the easy folds for my easel card, I added patterned paper leftover from a previous project.
I colored Carl with my trusty Copics, then fussy cut him out and added him to the lower half of my card front. That way I can fold the front in and let it stand as if it were on an easel, with some of the image un-adhered and freestanding.
The reason the card stands up is in the embellishments or sentiment used on the "inside" or bottom of the card. I used a row of jewels and the tip of a dragonfly's wing to accomplish this.

Don't you love this sentiment? It's one of several that you can purchase at Scribbles Designs. I think this one is perfect for a two-part card!
So now you have a basic understanding of an easel card if you had never made one before. And you can go play in Your Scrapbook Place challenge as their theme is Anything Goes as an Easel Card. One random winner will win their choice of free digis from Scribbles Designs. Hurry, the challenge only goes through May 14th!