inky impressions challenge - snow

hello everyone it's time for another inky impressions challenge, this weeks theme is - winter or snow! i really had a blast with this theme, here it is

for this card i printed my digital stamp Marisa's Sleigh Ride onto watercolor paper, ironed it to set my printers ink, and used my tim holtz markers to paint Marisa.   for the large snowflake that i mounted Marisa on is just cut out of craft paper and painted with acrylic paints, then mounted onto a piece of basic grey white and cream lace patterned paper and cut out to make the snowflake stand out.  i added some i am roses flowers in to corner, silver swirls from hobby lobby, snowflake lace from the tin tiara on etsy, and a "warm wishes" sentiment to the corner.

 here's a close up of Marisa's Sleigh Ride and you can really see the details of the hand painted snowflake background i sponged where she would be riding so she would look out of place and flicked with sliver paint after i finished with all it's painting for just a little christmas sparkle! :)

i hope you like this project and check out inky impressions!

i would like to enter this project into the following challenges:

http://artisticinspirationscrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ - anything goes
http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/anything-goes.html - anything goes
http://critterchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - anything goes christmas
http://eurekastamps.blogspot.com/ - winter wonderland
http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/ - christmas
http://lollipopcrafts.blogspot.com/ - happy holidays
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/ - holiday cheer
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://mygraficocrafts.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://squigglefly.blogspot.com/ - winter wonderland
 http://www.tammyscrapincorner.com/ -anything christmas
http://www.vostamps.blogspot.com/ - blue and white

inky challenge and DT call

hello everyone! it's that time of the week again! time for a new inky impressions challenge. 
 
in addition to this weeks challenge there is also a DT call for the upcoming term.  Inky Impressions really knows how to treat the dt members and are kind, generous, and helpful.  i really recommend that  you check out the dt call for the opportunity to work not only with there great images and stamps but all with the whole crew! :) 
 
the theme this week is Make it girly.  here's my creation :)

this card turned out so great! for this challenge i wanted to make a card, but also an ornament so i combined the two and made a card that looked like an ornament that you could hand on your tree.  :) the paper i used were from authinque. 

here's a close up of the little MarLeigha's Ornament Dance   i paper pieced her dress and bow with some papers from the Michele's dollar section.  

here's a close up of the top of the ornament/card.

i hope you enjoy this project, thanks!

i would like to enter this into the following challenges:

artistic inspirations-  anything goes

bunny zoe's crafts - winter

cards by lady ann - anything goes

crafty blog network - christmas anything goes

Fashionista challenge - blue christmas

hooked on crafts - no red and green 

forever friends challenge blog - use ribbon or twine  

make it monday - anything goes

inky impressions challenge- give thanks

hello everyone it's that time again, time for a new challenge from inky impressions.  the new challenge theme is give thanks, which is a very easy thing to do this time of year :).  here's my card for this week :

i tried to keep this card nice and sophisticated by using sepia tones and blacks.  i used the senitment "you're unforgettable" on this card, i love the size of the sentiment stamps they fit perfectly onto little labels or tags, like ive used here.

i used the stamp Lili playing in the leaves and colored her in sepia tones with my copic markers.  :)

i hope you enjoy this card and stop by the inky impressions challenge blog to join us :)

i would like to enter this into the following challenges:

papertake weekly - flower power
make it monday - anything goes
challengees for everybody - anything goes

inky impressions happy birthday challenge

hello everyone!  this week at the Inky Impressions Challenge Blog the new theme is "happy birthday!"  this works out great for me, because a lot of the people in my family have birthdays during the holiday season.  5 to be exact, sprinkled all through the 4 major holidays (halloween, thanksgiving, christmas and new years) and with 5 extra birthdays this is a VERY busy time of year.  so anytime i can kill two birds with one stone by making a birthday card and entering to win some challenges is very awesome! :)  the card that i made is for my little 3 y/o girl her birthday is in december.  :)

since the new tinkerbell movie came out i decided to use fairy Lili  which is a PERFECT match for the doll! i was so happy about that.  :)  and my little girl's favorite color is green so i tried to really green it up in this one :)

here's a little close up of fairy lili,

and a side angle of the card,  as if there isn't enough waste due to packing i decided to make my own packing lol.  but i really love the image and the doll side by side.  and my birthday girl is little so she doesn't exactly know what to do with cards yet.  so this works out perffect for her :)

i hope you enjoyed this project and try it out yourself!  thanks for visiting! :)  

i would like to enter this card in the following challenges

halloween/fall inky impressions challenge

yay! it's time for another Inky Impressions challenge! :) this week it is halloween or fall. i LOVE halloween so i chose that :) here's this weeks card

it turned out soo cute!  i really love the stamp "Nickie.. the sweet witch"  i used papers from hobby lobbys paper studio, and made a little pocket on the front that i watercolored with tim holtz distress markers, inside  the pocket is a halloween greetings cut out from 7 gypsy's and a trrain ticket for a corpse and a photo negative of a guy holding a  gun..... spooky! :) 

here's a close up of the pocket and some of the details.  the orange hearts were pink and i painted them orange with some gloss acrylic paint.  the witch was on sheet of paper that i fussy cut.  i really like the way the watercolor turned out :)

here's a close up of the stamped image, i paper pieced the dress with black and green papers from same papers as the background.

thanks for checking out my project! i would like to enter this into the following challenges :)

  

http://funtoolas.ning.com/forum/topics/halloween-card-challenge

http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/ -halloween

birthday card

in my family there are a lot of birthdays crammed into the next three months, not including all the other fall and winter activities that we normally do.  so ive made a birhtday card for my one of sister in laws. and here it is.

she has a little schnauzer, so i tried to color little wilma like that she's sooo cute! :)  i used a spellbinders labels die to cut the flourish edge on the bottom.

i would like to enter this card into the following challenges
lovely-haenglar-  - use ribbon or trim
magnolia mania - love is in the air
simon says stamp -  use a die
simply magnolia - doily charm
magnolia licious - red, yellow, and brown


 

for a child challenge

this week, the challenge at inky impressions is "for a child". i have two daughters and i love to use them for inspiration.  when i was picking out an image to make this card, i asked my 6 y/o daughter which one she liked the best, and she said "i like the fairy, mommy."  (awe!)  so of course i had to use it :)  here's what i came up with i hope you like it :)

 i used k & company paper  designed by brenda walton, as well as the little angel tag that i also k & company from an ephemera pack. 

 here's the stick pink that i made, i wanted to hand a little charm on it, these charms are available at inky impressions store, and the really are fun :) i love the way it looks on this little card.  the lace and seam binding i got from ribbon girl.com

 here's a close up of the little clothes pin fairy, i colored her useing my copic markers.

here's the other corner that i added some cherry blossom, from i am roses and a resin heart from ribbon girl.

i hope you enjoy this card, i will be entering it into the following challenges:
use it tuesday: anything goes
whoopsi daisy - make it girly
craft your passions - bingo card, i picked bling ribbon and distress

sympathy card

hey everyone! i had a great labor day, and three day weekend, and i know its been awhile since ive posted a new card. but life's just been busy :)  im finally starting my term with inky impressions, and the more i work with these stamps the more i love them!  the new challenge for the week is anything goes!  i love anything goes challenges :)  and this is what i created

it's a criss cross card with a cute little tag tag  to write your message on.  i made a little beaded heart frame, for little lili to sit in, and added coordinating iamroses flowers.  i tried to use plenty of colors to brighten up the sympathty card.  and a little banner with the sentiment in it.

 here's a close up of the colored image teary eyed lili, i used my copic to color her.

im entering this sympathy card into the following challenges

http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/ -bingo i picked glitter, yellow spots.
my craft spot - sympathy and encouragement
stamp andd create - anything goes
the pink elephant - use patterned paper


inky impressions is also being sponsored by kenny k cards  and we were given a few digi stamps to use,  jasmine reminded me of my daughter, ellie.  very fashionable, cute, and great hair :)

 this is a close up of the little cute jasmine, i colored her with my copics,  used a gold smoochie for her buttons, necklace, and sunglasses.  she was so cute, she didnt need much done to her.

hope you like it! this time around  thanks for stopping by :)

beautiful you, tilda's puppy

i haven't really made a card since i came back from vacation, and now school has started and ive got a bit of free time on my hands, and some new stamps :)  i got the elegant roses and the puppy wilma with a rose both from the raising the ceiling collection, they're my new two favorites! :) this is the card i created with those stamps.

i love this puppy!  i masked the puppy and added the roses behind him, i love the way it looks.  im probably going to have to do 90  million more! :) i used craft card to make the way pretty swirly heart that's holding the puppy image. 

here's a close up of little wilma. i wanted to add a tilda but she just wasnt proportional. any ideas to get around this?

these are the corner close ups.  i addedd some glitter hearts that i got at micheals after valentines, flatback coffee colored bling, pink flatback pearls, and a laser cut lace heart mrs gossman's sticker . 


i hope you enjoy this one :)

im entering this card into the following challenges

- midweek magnolia - a color challenge pink, brown, and white.
- totally tilda - use kraft card
- hangler and tangler - use favorite image
- magnolia down under - masking

shabby chic thank you card

hello! ive made a new card for the simply magnolia challenge blog their theme is gingham and stictching, the magnolia down under challenges card with a tag, and the tilda's town challenge blog- theme shabby chic

here's what i came up with ...

i love the texture and color of this card. pink and green are one of my fav color combos :)

i hope you enjoy this card! :)

country tilda

hello everyone! ive made a new tilda card for the just magnolia challenge the theme is country.  i really like this theme being from the midwest, i really love country style which is how i decided to interpret this theme.  im also entering it into the tilda's town challenge the them is choose your own technique i chose distressing.  im also in creative inspirations with a tremendously beautiful color scheme of peach and blues. 

so this is thee card i came up with i hope you like it! :)

i used a large scalloped circle that i crackeld, and inked the edges.  i added a doily over it.  the background blue lace paper is a antique table linen that i got at a thrift store, and made a photo copy of it with some plain blue fabric behind the lace to make the lace pattern stand out more.  the ribbon is some quilting fabric that i ripped, and lightly tea dyed, and added an antique button on top.  i made the wire hearts out of floral wire and painted them white.  

here's a close up of the pretty flowers these are from i am roses.  you can see the floral wire hearts better too.  i also added some tea colored crystal flat backs for shine.

here's tilda.  im getting use to thee tim holtz distress markers.  they're  a lot of fun to use :)

thanks for stopping by! i hope you like this tilda as much as i do! :)

christmas in july

hey everyone mo manning is still holding their new design team challenge this weeks theme is : in the dog house.  which means it need to have a dog or it needs to have something to do with being in trouble lol.  cute :)  this is what i came up with for this challenge....

he's such a cute little puppy! :)  im going to give this card to my parents, they had a little black lab just like this one.  green and red are my favorite christmas colors, and i love the vintage feel of this card.  i collect 1950's vintage stationary and i wanted this to seem like one of them :)

i got these cute chipboard elements from glitter dust studios off of etsy and i painted them white and dunked them into some glittering snow effects crystals that i got from hobby lobby.

i got this big giant metal flower at a flea market.  it was broken,  but it came with more metal flowers, in a big sack for a dollar lol.

here's the top swirl, there's more metal flowers, glass busttons, and a stick pin.

and here's a close up of that cute puppy!  i embossed his background with and embossing folder called candy cane, added some vintage trims behind him, and used puffy foams to mount him.

i hope you enjoy this card and that it puts you in the Christmas spirit! :)

i'm also entering this card in the following challenges:
it's all about the vintage challenge blog spot - theme is vintage anything goes

shelly's images- theme christmas in july
christmas challenges- sketch challenge which i rotated upside down
creative bellie blog- theme is christmas and using forgotten elements
stamp-n-doodle - theme christmas in july 
clear it out challenge- theme red and green christmas
flourishes stamps timeless tuesday- theme christmas
ladybug crafts - theme christmas
party time tuesday- theme christmas
tuesday alchemy- theme vintage
lexi's creations- theme christmas
lollipop crafts - theme christmas in july
crafty spot by kimberly- theme christmas in july
the cutie pie challenge blog- theme christmas in july
whoopsi daisy challenge blog- theme christmas in july
addicted to stamps challenge blog- theme christmas in july
crafter's companion monthly challenge- theme ho ho ho it's christmas

whimsy stamps and crafty ribbons challenge

today ive finsihed a card that i really like! ( i say that about every card though :)

im entering this one into two challenges
the whimsy stamps challenge - punches and edgers  and
the crafty ribbons challenge - the beach! :)

here's what i came up with

it's so cute! i love the big bow it give it kind of a cuties vintage pin-up feel! :)

 i got a giant spool of this really wide vintage trim in three different colors same style, that's what i used for the bow.  i used one of my edger punches under the bow to create a cue lace ripple effect that i thought kinda looked like water.

 i really like this idea.  the stamp had tons of bubbles in it, and i wanted to reflect more of an underwater look in the sentiment. 

and here's just a nice close up of the little mermaid lady.  she's so cute!!!!!

thanks for stopping by i hope that you enjoyed this carrd!!

just magnolia mania

hello everyone!  ive made a card for the magnolia mania challenge the theme is Prince and Princess  so cute! :) and in the just magnolia challenge 166- Let’s make a birthday card!
and the tilda's town anything goes challenge

i really love the fairy tale tilda collection and i haven't really got to use them very much, so i was really excited about getting to color some of these princess stamps :).

here's what i came up with...

 i love the way this came out.  i used papers that i got from michelles in the "impulse" section they had a bunch of blue and white mini paper packs for 50 cents each, so i got all of them.  lol.  i also used a wooden frame from there that i painted blue and crackled.

 here's a close up of the bunting.  it's some lace that i made into triangles and added buttons, and silk ribbon in the eyelets.

i made this little crown out of some multi size pearls that i had, and added crystals to the points to make it more princess-y.

here's the other corner that i added i am roses to. and some pearl swirls.

here's a close up of tilda and i added some vellum behind the horse to soften the frame and make thee image stand out more from the frame. 


i hope you ladies like this card! thanks for stopping by! :)