Vintage- Angels and Harp

Another vintage card. This card turns out to be one of my favorites. I love the simplicity of it with just a little embellishing.




Card Recipe:
Vintage image printed twice, girls cut out for 3D layering, matted and stitched. Placed on top of 3 Nestibilities labels die cuts. Snowlflakes are from a border punch. Snowflake on box top is Cricut cut from Joys of the Seasons. Rows of stitching inside and outside of card, as well as on the box top.

Challenges:
Paper Cutz - Snowman or Snowflake
Crazy 4 Challenges - Snowman or Snowflake
Our Creative Corner - Holiday Theme
Saturday Spotlight - Favorite Music (Christmas)
The Pink Elephant - Winter or Christmas
Sophisticat - Christmas
Stamp Something - Winter
Practical Scrappers - Christmas
If the Shoe Fits - Snow
Stamptacular - Christmas, no red or green
The Secret Crafter - Sn0w
Die Cut R Us - Naughty or Nice (Nice)
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Digital Delights today.....

It's Tuesday and that means another terrific tutorial over at Digital Delights by Louby Loo...




Digital Delights is also sponsoring Everybody Art Challenge... be sure to enter to win some images.

Vintage Print, Birds and Holly

Card Recipe:
Vintage Image, printed and debossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder (extra print to cut birds out for 3D layering), matted and stitched. Background paper is embossed with Cuttlebug Holly folder and highlighted with gold ink. Holly branch is Cricut cut with Joys of the Season cartridge, buttons colored with Copics and inked with gold ink for berries. All cardstock layers are inked with gold ink and stitched. This card is a big 6" x 6".



ETA : This card was featured on the Card of the Week Shout out list. Thanks Susanna!!

Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot starts it's Twelve Days

You are in for a treat for the next twelve days over at Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot. Today we kick off our twelve days of Christmas .... twelve days of inspiration from the Design Team. Be sure to stop over there and see what we have for you.

Oh Shhh..

Sheep! Oh Sheep!

Hi everyone. Time again for a new release from Digital Delights by Louby Loo. Releases this month are Nursery Rhymes!! So cute! I made my sample working with Little Bo Peep. You know... the one who lost her sheep!


Images have been printed and colored with Copics, then cut out and placed on the card front. Ovals are cut with Nestibilities and the Oh Shhh.. and the ...eep are cut with Cricut. All the panels on the front are raised off the surface and have stitching.







With the new releases we also have launched a new sketch at Delightful Sketches, which I followed to create this card. Hope you find time to join us. We are being sponsored by My Favorite Things with a prize of a $15.00 store gift voucher!! How cool is that!? Be sure to stop over at Delightful Sketches and the other team member's blogs to see what they've done with the new Nursery Rhyme images and the new sketch.







Materials:
Images: Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Paper: Bazzill, K&Company, Costco
Inks/Color: Ranger Distress, Printer, Copics
Misc: Cricut, Sewing Machine, Nestibilities, Fun Flock

Challenges:
Caardvarks (digital)


Don't forget today is Digi Days... Join us over at SNR The Card Universe for another fun Digi Day event at 7 pm CST. This month our theme is Christmas Traditions and Ornaments. Come join us and tell us about your favorite Holiday tradition, memory, ornament... show us pictures.. we love pictures!!

Angel's Landing gets edgy.

This week Judi, illustrator of Angel's Landing's ridiculously cute designs, asked us (the design team) to create something where we 'finished' our edges. I went back to the Polar Bear collection released last month and created a card, where I 'serged' my edges. I used my serger sewing machine and gave the edges a yellow and green thread wrap to match the cardstock.








This card is also a gift card or money holder, too. I put pockets on the inside that can be used to place gift cards, money, notes, etc. Senders choice!


The image was printed on white cardstock that was first painted with Gesso so that I could heat emboss the image when it came out of the printer. I colored it then with Copics, though Copics don't act like Copics when you use this method.

Now be sure to stop over at the Angel's Landing blog for links and pics of the other Design Team member's fabulous, edgy creations!

Materials:
Images: Angel's Landing
Paper: Bazzill Dots
Ink/Color: Printer, Copics
Misc: Gesso, Sewing machine, Snowflake buttons

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges (Gift Card Holder) ETA: This card won at Crazy 4 Challenges!! Thanks so much!!!
Paper Cutz (digital)
Caardvarks (digital)



Thanks for stopping by. Would you do me a favor and hop over here to Michael's and rate this card I have entered into their contest? I'd sure appreciate it!

Soldier Snowman - Peace

Here's another winter card made with a digital image by Jim Harker. The image is printed on paper painted with white acrylic paint and then heat embossed. It's then colored with Copics, which is quite different from coloring with Copics directly on the paper. There's no real blending and the ink stays wet for a long time - it's more like painting.


Background paper is dry embossed with the new snowflake embossing folder from Provo Craft. The word peace, as well as the snowflakes, are cricut cut. Lots of white stitching to finish it off.

Thanks for visiting. Would love to hear what you think!

Materials:
Image: by Jim Harker in memory of Layton John Cleaver (information here ).
Paper: Bazzill, Becketts, DCWV
Ink/Color: Printer, Copics
Misc: Cricut, Cuttlebug, Sewing Machine, Acrylic paint


Challenges-
Everybody Art (stitching)
Caardvarks (digital image)
Paper Cutz (digital or stamped image)

ETA: Time is running out for this image.... click here to see the details.... buy by 12/12/09 - a charitable purchase!

Gift Tag/Gift Card holder - Digi Days event 12/10

It's almost time for Digital Delights by Louby Loo Digi Days again. Join us this Thursday over at SNR The Card Universe for another fun Digi Day event at 7 pm CST. This month our theme is Christmas Traditions and Ornaments. Come join us Thursday evening and tell us about your favorite Holiday tradition, memory, ornament... show us pictures.. we love pictures!!

Stop over there soon and download this adorable bear image available now and make a simple gift tag, ornament, etc., then come share it with us.

Join us and you will receive another super cute surprise Christmas image from Digital Delights by Louby Loo. Hope to see you there. Unfortunately, I may be fashionably late, so here's my gift tag.

I made this gift tag so you could either pull out a little note .............


...... or insert a gift card.



Hope to see you there!

Materials:
Paper: The Paper Company
Ink/Color: Printer, Copics, Chalk
Misc: Cricut, Fun Flock, ribbon

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges (Gift card Holder)
Creative Card Crew (Christmas)
The Pink Elephant (favorite coloring medium) Copics!
Paper Cutz (digital or stamped image)
Just Buggin' (layers)
Caardvarks (digi)

Vintage Santa

I love using vintage prints for cards and tend to get away from doing it. I think this is a great Santa image.

I printed the image on photo paper and matted it. The dry embossing is done on Core'dinations paper with Cuttlebug's new Snow Flurries embossing folder for the background and an older snowflakes one for the other panel. The holly branch is Cricut Cut from Joys of the Season cartridge. Berries are 'dew drops'. I stitched around all the various panels, inside and out.

Inside has stitching and dry embossing, as well as holly leaves.

I also made a matching box for it using the same papers and a holly sprig on top.

Thanks for stopping by. Would love to hear what you think.

Materials:
Image: vintage print
Paper: The Paper Company, Coredinations, Photo
Inks: Printer, Ranger Distress (paper edges)
Misc: Cricut machine, Cuttlebug Machine, Cuttlebug embossing folders, Cricut JOTS cartridge, Dew Drops, Sewing Machine

Challenges:
Everybody Art (Stitching)
Pollycraft (Christmas)
All That Scraps (Christmas)
Creative Card Crew (Christmas)
Stamp with Fun (Christmas)
Flourishes (Clean and Simple) it really is simple.
Paper Temptress (Christmas)
Cupcake Craft (Red and Green)


ETA: This card was featured on Card of the Week Shout Out, as well as SNR The Card Universe the week of 12/6/09! Thanks to both!!

Martha Stewart Branch punched Tree Card

Hello friends. I posted this card and brief instructions over at Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot, if you want to go take a look. I remember last year when everyone was clamoring for the Martha Stewart branch punch!! It is a great punch and can be used for a few branches or a whole bunch like this tree, or arranged in a circle for a wreath! It was definitely worth the money.

Background is Core'dinations Whitewash embossed with the Cuttlebug textile folder. Coredinations Whitewash paper is so nice!!

These branches are super fragile though, so I made a box instead of an envelobox. That way it doesn't have to be slid into anything.



(click on the tree pic above to enlarge it and see the sparkle from spraying branches with Glimmer Mist)

Don't forget... instructions to make your version of this card is here

Materials:
Paper: The Paper Company, Coredinations, Bazzill
Image: G clear stamp
Ink: Versafine, Gold Colorbox
Misc: Martha Stewart branch punch, brads, Cricut, Joy of the Season cartridge. Glimmer mist, rhinestones

Challenges:
Stamp with Fun (Christmas)
Pollycraft (Christmas)
Paper Temptress (Christmas)

50% off all Digital Images

Digital Delights by Louby Loo is having a sale from now until midnight Wednesday December 9th. During this sale you can get 50% off all images by using the code BT860J75 when you check out.

Check out the new 'Christmas Toppers' in regular image form or in color, ready to print and use.

Digital Delights Friday Freebie

It's that time again, paper crafters! Time to collect another Digital Delights by Louby Loo free image.

Please do go over to Papercraft Planet or SNR Card Universe and grab yours and create with it! We love to see what you create with Digital Delights by Louby Loo images.

Digital Delights Digi Day Challenge and more

It's almost time for another Digi Day with Digital Delights by Louby Loo at SNR The Card Universe We like to start our event a week early to give you plenty of time to join in on the Digi Day challenge. The challenge this time will be to create a simple Christmas ornament, gift tag or anything you like using the super cute free image that's over there waiting for you. Once you finish creating, you should upload your project to the gallery using the tag word digitaldelightschristmas. There will be a random drawing of all challenge entries on Saturday 12th December with a prize of the complete set of December releases, coming December 10th.

That's not all. There will also be a free surprise image for everyone who joins us on the evening of digi day, sharing your favorite Christmas Tradition or a picture of your favorite holiday ornament.


Now you should pop over to Digital Delights by Louby Loo and check out the Guest Designer post, Sarah Taylor, winning a Guest DT spot for her creation at Delightful Sketches. You still have time to enter the current challenge for a chance to win some images and/or a Guest spot.

Gift Giving @ Angel's Landing

This week's Design Team theme for Angel's Landing is Gift Giving and we were asked to create a bag, envelope, box, whatever, on the line of giving gifts. I made a box bottom bag with Core'dinations cardstock, dry embossed with one of this season's Cuttlebug embossing folder releases. I went back to the Penguin Chicks set from Angel's Landing for my image. I just love those penguin chicks!

I printed and colored my penguin choice twice with Copics and layered it to give some dimension. The snowflakes are Cricut cut and covered with Martha Stewart glitter.

The 'Let it snow' sentiment is from the same Angel's Landing set and I glittered the snow on top.

I couldn't resist a little fun flock on the penguins chest.

The handle is made by edging both sides of a strip of cardstock with the EK Success Scalloped Scallop Edger Punch, matching the top and bottom trim on the bag. It's fastened onto the bag with big brads. I then glued little Cricut cut snowflakes to the tissue paper as a finishing touch.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Your visits are appreciated! Be sure to stop by the other Design Team blogs, listed on my left sidebar or at the Angel's Landing blog, to see some fabulous gift giving ideas.


Materials:
Images: Angel's Landing
Paper: Coredinations, Bazzill, Becketts
Ink/Color: Printer, Copics
Misc: MS glitter, Fun Flock, Brads, Cuttlebug machine and Embossing folder, Cricut.

Challenges:
Kraftin Kimmies - Touchy/feely
Paper Cutz - anything goes
Stamp Scrap and Doodle - Christmas
Stamp with fun - Christmas
In the Cottage Studio - Digi
Bizzy Becs Creatalicious - Christmas glittery
Paper Make-up - Christmas
Crazy 4 Challenges - Punches
Just us Girls - template - used SCS box/bag ETA: This entry won at JUGS... I'm Chic of the Week!
Saturday Spotlight - Hat ETA: This entry won Top 3 at Saturday Spotlight!!
Digital Tuesday - sparkle
2 red bananas - Christmas/Winter

Mid week .........

It's Day Two over at Papercraft Planets 12 Days of Christmas campaign! For 12 days, the Super Novas will show you awesome and easy gift giving ideas, and you can play along and win prizes by participating in a scavenger hunt! Keep reading for a clue and chance to win!

Today's scavenger hunt is sponsored by Digital Delights You could win a GREAT prize if you can solve their clue...

"To win today, you must find
a friendly turtle, smiling and kind.
This turtle has a gift to mail,
He shares it with his friend, the snail.
If you find it, link it below
and we'll all yell, "WAY TO GO!"

Find a product on the Digital Delights website that fits the clue and you could be the winner! Leave a comment at Papercraft Planet with your answer. They will pick a random winner for all the CORRECT entries on December 3rd.

Do you want to know what you're playing for? Leave the correct entry and you could win a $25 gift certificate to the Digital Delights Shop!

Check the Paper Craft Planet main page every day through December 12th to play along! (You can visit the http://www.papercraftplanet.com/profiles/blog/list for past projects!)

Don't answer here -- play along by following the Day 2 link at Papercraft Planet!!

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Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot is continuing the Be Inspired challenge from last week.... you still have lots of time to get your entry in to win a great prize!! Birthday Palooza winners were posted there yesterday and the Copics Class winners of Copics will be announced tomorrow!

Stay tuned for Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot's twelve days of Christmas... it will be twelve days of fabulous, I promise!

Knock, knock!! Who's there?

I decided to push myself and my Cricut and figure out how to make a door to open to reveal the image. This is what I was able to come up with. The door and wreath on it are Cricut cuts from the Christmas Noel cartridge. There are a few layers of various colors of paper in areas to give the door dimension. The window layer is acetate. I used a brad through a small pony bead to give height to the door knob. The hinges are Cricut cuts, secured with brads. I evenly spaced horizontal scores on the background paper to give illusion of siding on a house. Other than the wreath on the door and the metallic stitching, I didn't want to embellish the card front too much and take away from the door.




Behind the door is the printed image of Nesbit of Digital Delights by Louby Loo, colored with Copics.



Materials:
Paper: Bazzill, Misc, acetate
Image: Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Ink/Color: Printer, Copics
Misc: Cricut, Christmas Noel cartridge, Fabulous Findings cartridge, brads, pony bead, sewing machine, gold metallic thread.

Digital Delights by Louby Loo is sponsoring Kaboodle Doodles this week. Enter your creation there for a chance to win some digital delight images.

Freebie Friday!

Wow, time flies! It's already time again for another Friday Freebie!
Please do go over to Papercraft Planet or SNR Card Universe and grab yours and create with it! We love to see what you create with Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

Happy Thanksgiving, A Thanksgiving Sale and a new sketch

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you that celebrate it!

Today is the launch of another great sketch over at Delightful Sketches. We hope you can join us. The winner by random drawing from entries in this sketch will receive 3 wood mounted Riley stamps of their choice!! Also, as usual, the design team will choose an entrant to be a Guest Designer at Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

Here's my sample for this sketch. Lots of texture and cute little dog in a basket - a Digital Delights image .


Hope you find time to create using this sketch! Everyone knows and loves Riley the Moose!! Riley used to live over at Hanna Stamps, but he recently moved! Be sure to check him out at Riley and Company (guess he kind of took over being that it's named after him).




And look what else is happening..... Digital Delights by Louby Loo is having a Thanksgiving Weekend Sale......

Sale thru Sunday at midnight.

Head over to Digital Delights by Louby Loo and use discount code 6368T4H5

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges:
Copic Creations (gold)
Sparkle Creations (Christmas)
Pollycraft (Christmas)
Whimsy (Christmas)
Everybody Art (Christmas)
Charisma Cardz (Christmas)
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday (Christmas)

Materials:
Image: Digital Delights
Paper: Bazzill, DCWV, Coredinations
Ink/Color: Printer, Copics
Misc: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Sewing Machine, Dog bone shaped paperclip

Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot - Be Inspired # 59

Hi everyone! It's time for another Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot, Be Inspired, but first I want to thank everyone for stopping by my blog during the Festival of Lights and for all your kind words about my lantern and candle holder! I can't begin to tell you how much it is appreciated and how it inspires me to keep creating!

This week's Be Inspired is showcasing some of the new Provocraft embossing folders. We are using some of the newest releases and some of the Design Team will be showcasing the Oh My Crafts exclusive holiday folders, so be sure to check out all the creations.

For my card this week I've done my last Thanksgiving Card for this year. No images... just texture. I used the fabulous Core'dinations paper for my embossing and used the new Cuttlebug Tartan embossing folder. I then punched and inked several different leaves in different colors, scattering them down a raised panel. I finished it off with some decorative stitching.

Don't forget to stop over at Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot to check out the other Design Team members creations and to see this weeks challenge. Enter this challenge for a chance to win one of the Oh My Crafts exclusive holiday folders.... there will be fifteen winners and you have two weeks to get your entry in.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Love to hear from you and appreciate your stopping for a second to leave a comment.

Materials:
Paper: The Paper Company, Coredinations, Bazzill, K&Company
Misc: Various Leaf punches, sewing machine, Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Embossing folder

Digital Delights happenings.....

Hi everyone! Digital Delights by Louby Loo is sponsoring Creative Card Crew this week and they have a super challenge.... "favorite things" ... go ahead and create something with or about your favorite things and enter it over there for a chance to win some digital delight! Here 's a sample of some of my favorite things... little notebooks to keep my lists, snowflakes, copics to color with and digital images!!





Don't forget it's Tutorial Tuesday... go see what Dawn is showing us today!



And look at this great new freebie Wendy is giving away becaue Paper Craft Planet followers has reached 200!! Go over to SNR or PCP and grab it... be sure to share your creations with us.