Happiness is Making Cards

Happiness is a new challenge, and today I am brimming with happiness because the new Outlawz Greetings challenge starts! The theme is to create something that completes the phrase, "Happiness is..." I find happiness wherever I go, but mostly I find it at home. My family, my cozy bed, my craft room--I am surrounded by people and things that generate happiness.
So I made a card to reflect the good feels I get from being home. Of course, my recent family vacation to the beaches of Florida inspired my design, but who says you can't call a sand castle your home? LOL This cute digi image is from MelonHeadz Illustrations and is called Sand Castle.
I popped my image onto some dreamy background paper from the Summertime Collection by Rucola Designs, found over at Mischief Circus. I used Photoshop to type in the sentiment, then popped it into a frame from Sweetly Scrapped, adding a bow and flowers from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles.
Then I put in my crafty thumb and pulled out a plum of a background paper for my card face, from that pesky box of papers I re-discovered last month. A bit of ribbon and some pearls for a border, and a charm to give it some charm, and my card is complete.

Other Challenges I am Entering:

4 Crafty Chicks - Polka Dots

Cute Card Thursday - Beside the Seaside
Crafting Musketeers - Shades of Summer

Joining the Outlawz Groups is free, fun and inspirational. Each day of the week offers a different type of challenge, and there's even a Progressive Freebie monthly challenge. Besides the challenges, there are tutorials, free digital images and inspiration. Did I forget to mention the prizes?! Each challenge group has their own sponsors, and there is no limit to the number of challenge groups you can join. Each of your entries has a chance to win a weekly prize and a monthly prize.
Did you know that there's a group on the Outlawz with tons of FREEBIES for you to play with?! This week MelonHeadz AND the Outlawz Freebies group is sponsoring our challenge. Melonheadz prize will be as usual for the weekly winner and a Gina K Designs stamp set will be an instant prize (as in you don't have to wait for the monthly list) if you use an Outlawz freebie and follow the Happiness theme. This does NOT affect the weekly winner prize.  
So, my second project today uses a freebie from Mayzy Arts. Like I said, I can find happiness in so many things, and music is one of them. That's why I made this card. Can you believe this cute cute image is a FREEBIE?!

As pastel and clean as my first card is, my second card is bold bright colors and I threw on pretty much everything that was lying on my desk today, including a die-cut frame, some banners and wings, and a handful of jeweled flowers!

Challenges I am entering this card into:

Creative Knockouts - Use Your Stash

Crafter's Cafe - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination - Always Anything Goes

Wonderful Wednesday challenges - Anything Goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday challenges - Anything Goes w/a twist: Bling

CMD challenges - Inspired by Movie or TV Show 

(Ich war von dem Film inspiriert Katie Perry: Part of Me)

Knock knock-Who's there? Doctor. Doctor Who...

Oh my, I am having SO much fun with just this one Mayzy Arts digi image that I decided to make ANOTHER Dr. Who card with the same papers, but a different look!  Don't worry, I have a friend who loves Dr. Who and would love to get more handmade cards from me!  Here's the card:

The two cards together show what you can do with all those leftover pieces of patterned papers!  This time I cut them into strips and snipped the ends to make "ribbons".

I again colored the "Doo Weeeeeeee Doo" digi image with my trusty Copics, framed it with more black cardstock and used the same sentiment to again coordinate with the geometric design of the card.  I added a simple strip of same black cardstock down the left edge, and scattered some sequins along the right, adding shimmer this way and with Stickles on the Tardis light and his flashy pen thingy.

So this will be my second card in the challenge over at Mayzy Arts Challenge Blog.  For your chance to win a gift certificate to the Store, go play in the challenge. At the very least you'll have had some fun, seen some inspiration and stretched your creativity!

Happy crafting!!

The Doctor is In with a Mayzy Art digi!

I've just discovered yet another cooler-than-cool blog and dig store called Mayzy Arts.  There are some fantastic digi's to purchase there, but today I'm joining in their new challenge with one of their freebie digi's called "Doo Weeeeeeee Doo."

I used a Kaleidascope blocking design for my card base, and in keeping with their challenge theme of polka dots, robbed my stash of leftover papers for the design.

I colored Doo Weeeeeeee Doo with Copics and distressed the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in "Faded Jeans".  The sentiment was printed off my computer from my Pinterest Board entitled "Who??"

I distressed (Bundled Sage from T Holtz) and then faux-stitched the punched sentiment circle and popped it onto coordinating black cardstock, which I snipped at odd angles in keeping with the geometric design of my card.

I didn't want a lot of embellishments to distract from the image and design, so I cut strips of black paper and "framed" the image, and my card is finished!

I made a new year's resolution to join in more challenges throughout the year, and this is my third one this month!  It looks to be a fun challenge blog, (as you can see from just these two cards) so get out your polka-dotted papers and embellies and go play for your chance to win a prize.  And don't forget to check out the fun and whimsical digi's offered at Mayzy Arts store!!