Peace, Love and Rock & Roll :)

Happy Hump Day!!  We're so close to the weekend I can taste it!!  

Dottie happens to be one of my favorite characters from Bugaboo Stamps...I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Gus, Stella, Deacon, Ava, the brats...umm, ok, I admit it - I love em all!!!!  But this image is fierce!  I  had so much fun coloring it up to match the most adorable paper and sentiment by TLC that I've been dying to use for quite some time.  I cranked my 60's collection on my playlist and totally imagined Dottie having the time of her life at Woodstock. 

Recipe:
Medium:  Copic Markers
Image:  Dottie Hippie by Bugaboo Stamps
Sentiment & Digi Paper:  TLC
Recollections Round Metal Brads
Yellow Stickles
Spiced Marmalade Distress Stickles
Crochet trim in stash

Challenges:

Bugaboo Stamps - Heavy Metal with brads or eyelets
Mojo Monday - Mojo Monday 201 Round or Sqaure
AUD Sentiments:  Enjoy your day
Fab n Funky - Clash of the Colours
Party Time Tuesday- Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Girlie
MMCS - Fab & Funky
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Mark Your Calendars!

That's right ladies! Get your hoppin' shoes on!  To welcome our new Design Team over at TLC, Paulette has put together a fabulous hop filled with loads of inspiration!  The hop will begin on this Friday, July 29th and will run through the weekend!

And!!!!  Not only will your creativity be sparked, each one of the DT members that you visit during the hop(including me!!!) will be giving away a freebie on their blog!!!  

So don't forget - mark your calendar for July 29th!! You definitely do NOT wanna miss out on my fabulous teamie's creations and your chance to pick up some gorgeous images along the way!  See you all there :)

Kindness Inspires

Happy Monday friends!!  Hopefully you all had an awesome weekend and stayed cool in the process.  We've had over a 100 degree days here in Jersey - with the humidity so thick you could cut it with a knife!  Thankfully, it seems like today will only reach about 85 and you can actually walk outside without hitting a brick wall!

Anyway, on to my card for today!  I've been a Tiddly Inks virgin, but not anymore ;)   I can't tell you how much fun I had making this - I just love these colors together, and managed to find scraps of one of my favorite papers that I've had forever that I've been refusing to part with ;) 

So here is Poppy - isn't she precious?!  She's part of the Goth line over at Tiddly Inks and the sentiment is from TLC.  I went a touch distress-happy with my Cranberry Colorbox Pigment Ink, and as you can see - I made a mess.  Remind me never to do THAT again!  I think it kinda adds a little sumthin', sumthin' to the card ;)

Hope you all have a fabulous start to your week and, as always, thanks for leaving me some love - it always brightens my day!

Recipe:

Medium:  Copic Markers (E00, YR61, E31, E41, R02, CO, T1, T3, R08, R24, R29, B95, B99)

Image:  Poppy by Tiddly Inks

Sentiment:  TLC

Papers, brad, felt flower and cs in stash

Colorbox Pigment Ink - Cranberry

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge Blog - All about kids

Bugaboo Stamps - Heavy Metal (Blue Brad in Flower Center)

CMC Color Challenge - Aqua, Red, Cream/White

The Sweet Stop - SSS118

Happy Birthday CDAC Group Contest!

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your good times, and your laughter too
We gonna celebrate your party with you

Did I hear someone say it's time to celebrate?!  Yup, you heard right!  A year ago this Sunday, Candy formed the TLC group on the CDAC for Paulette - I still can't believe a year has flown by?!  Where did the time go?! 

Every birthday requires a little par-tay and what better way to celebrate the momentus occasion then with a little contest?!  You game?  Well here's the scoop:  Paulette has graciously offered up two, very different images for you to choose from to use on your creation.  Here's the twist, YOU have to come up with the sentiment for whichever image you choose, and stick it on your creation.   

For my card today, I chose to use the vintage Learn to Walk image offered for the blog contest; and my sentiment reads, "Taking the first step is half the battle".



I just adore this image!  Oddly enough, after I made the decision to do pastels, I realized that I really didn't have a lot of embellies in those colors, so I decided to try making my own "faux primas".  If you'd like to give it a go yourself, check out this vid on youtube by clicking here - I found it super simple follow!   A little tricky at first, but not hard at all and the results are unbelievable!

To check out all the contest deets and grab one of the freebies for the contest, click here.  You have until Sunday to play along and there are some pretty fabulous prize packages for the winners (yup, there will be more than one winner!), which you definately do not want to miss out on!

Happy Birthday TLC!!!!

Recipe:
Medium:  Copic Markers
Image:  TLC
Bazzill Mauvelous cs, Creative Memories vellum
ThermoWeb Vellum Adhesive & Tombow Permanent Adhesive
Glossy Accents to make flowers
Close to My Heart self-adhesive pearls
Doily in stash

Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Free & Easy July
Totally Gorjuss - Punch or Die (2 different ones to make roses)
Clear it out Tuesday - Anything Goes
iCopic Weekly Challenge - Challenge #39 Pastels

Christmas in July

Bugaboo Stamps is hosting the Sketch Challenge over at the CDAC and they are also having a huge Christmas in July Blog Hop & Weekly Mini Challenge going on their blog.  For all the details on the fabulous blog hop loaded with mahoosive inspiration and fun challenges for your chance to win Jodie's amazing images, click on the Bugaboo pic!

I kept saying to myself that I was NOT going to start my Christmas cards this early, but when I saw this too-stinkin-cute freebie from Bugaboo offered for playing along in the CDAC challenge, the bug bit, and I was whipping out my Christmas paper stash from last year quicker than you can say Misletoe.

OMG, is she not ever adorable?!  I had so much fun coloring her with my Copics - and I picture her puffing up her skirt to say hello.  So what do I do?  Cut out the skirt 3 times, and mini glue dot the skirt to add dimension!!  Add some Diamond stickles, and voila, Merry Christmas!

Recipe:

Medium:  Copics (E00, E31, R02, R24, R29, CO, T3, YG63, Y11, Y06, Y17 & Colorless Blender)

Image:  Bugaboo Stamps

Papers:  Creative Memories Embossed cs & DCWV The Christmas Stack

WFR Red Lace Ribbon
Flowered bling in stash
Diamond Stickles on hat & ruffles

Challenges:
Papertake Weekly - Getting Cute
Creative Inspirations - XMas in July 
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes
Stamping Scrapping Challenge - Bring on the Bling
Paper Sundaes- Challenge #78 Christmas in July

CDAC - Sketch Challenge cdacsc28

Bugaboo Stamps - Christmas in July (Saturday Challenge)

DigiStamps4Joy - Christmas in July 
The Outlawz - Friday Copic/Promarker Christmas in July Challenge - CPC071511
 

I'm New Here

Well, not to blogland or crafting -  but its' the name of the new set in Paulette's store at TLC ;)

I'm New Here is a word art set containing the most adorable sentiments you'll find, and this one that I used for my card today is no exception!

I've taken the beaten path with this one - the sentiment is really geared toward a baby image, but when I first read it, my slightly warped sense of humor showed itself.

This gorgeous vintage image was offered as a freebie at TLC and when I first got it, I remember thinking of the song, "The Lady is a Tramp", by Frank Sinatra (one of my all-time faves!!).  If you haven't stopped by TLC in awhile, then you are seriously missing out on tons of amazing free images and sentiments.

Then, after getting and reading this word art, I thought of this very image.  And then kachow.....Magic....and that's the story of how my love connection for image and word art came to be.  I colored her in Copics.  The edges of the image and sentiment were distressed and then inked in Making Memories distress ink.  The swirly paper is actually digi paper from TLC, too, called Grandma's Attic:  a gorgeous set of papers with these fabulous swirls in all different shades -  you really have to check them all out!

Thanks for stopping by today and hoping you'll come back to visit me soon :)

Challenges:

Midnite Madness Sketch Challenge - MMSC #113

OSAAT - Flowers

 

A Penny!

Welcome to the weekend everyone!! 

Remember that old saying, A Penny For Your Thoughts?!  I do and have always loved it, although it's barely said anymore with my generation.  Everything is LOL, TFS and BFF, so I am pretty excited that A Penny For Your Thoughts is in a new set called, Simply Put, in Paulette's store at TLC!

I just got this new image from Some Odd Girl (yay!!!) called Tiny Tia Bow and I think she is just perfect with the sentiment. 

Isn't she just positively precious?!  And I think she looks absolutely fabulous in Salmon!!  Everything is colored in Copics and distressed in Making Memories Distress Ink.  The polka dots on her dress were dabbled in Glossy Accents (although not sure if you can tell!).  I added a brown crocheted trim that I've had since I first started card making (it's been sitting in my trim-scraps flower pot forever!!) and I can't remember who it's by (sorry!!).   The amazing crocheted flower is through blog candy I won from Dorcas....I wish I could take the credit for it, but her hands are what worked the magic.

The current challenge over at SOG is Lift Another Odd Girl, and for my card I chose the fabby creation by SOG DT Robin McKinley to lift, which you can view by clicking here!  Thank you Robin for the inspiration!! 

Today is absolutely GORJUSS here in Jersey and I hope that wherever you are you are having a bit of sunshine, too!

Recipe:
Medium:  Copics
Image:  Some Odd Girl
Sentiment:  TLC
Papers:   American Crafts cs, DCWV Adhesive MatStack Brights, K& Company Happy Trails
Glossy Accents
Crocheted flower:  Dorcas
Brads and Penny in Stash

Challenges:

SOG - Lift Another Odd Girl (Robin McKinley Oct. 2010)
Stamptacular Sunday - Sketch #119
Allsorts - Free & Easy July
Emerald Fairies - All Things Nice