Raise the Bar - Guest Bar - Tender

   I was picked   one of the top three  at a recent 'Raise the Bar' challenge  for my 'Sounds of Spring'  card and won a guest  slot  for one of their upcoming challenges, which happens to be the one that starts  today!!. The theme is Mother's Day  (2nd Sunday in May) in honour of all  the Mother's out there.  As my dear Mom has been gone for some time now (oh how I still miss her) I try to make my Mother's Day cards  to represent mothers  past and present,young and old, depending upon my mood. This card  represent a young ,stylish one.   I urge you to go take a visit and join the fun and maybe even win a guest slot...

I used an image from Little Miss Muffet called 'Emily Rose Hatter' and she is a darling. I coloured her with Prismacolor Markers, framed her with two Spellbinders Nestabilities oval die cuts and created a sentiment  from Doodle Pantry's Fancy Shoe' digital stamp set. The embellishments are rose flowers from  Recollections  and the flourish is a Marianne Designs  die cut.  I used paper from  DCWV 'The Four Seasons Stack'. and added a few pearls.

Challenges I entered:
1. Crafty ribbons: #19 Flowers
2.DYSU Challenge Blog:#71  Use a flower
3.Little Miss Muffet Challenge: # 34 May flowers or if using a LMM stamp it is 'anything Goes'
4.Shelly's Images: TTTC : C'mon Be Happy: use something that makes you happy - red paper roses make me happy and so do flourishes:O)
5.Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog #79 I love you Mom
6.The Sisterhood of Crafters: May Flowers - must have at least one flower on project
7. Celebrate the Occasion#62 -  Mother's Day
8. Going Grey with Scrap Creations:  HappyMother's Day
9. Use it Tuesday: #31 All about Mom- hoarded stash - the Desginer paper, the small red roses and the pearls are all  from my stash and are at least 6months or more old
10: Tuesday Throwdown:#97 -Mothers Love

'tis the Season

Whimsy Stamps, Little Miss Muffet Stamps and Make it Crafty have joined together for a three company blog hop and challenge to celebrate their new releases this week. To catch all the fun go to the Three Company blog site.

Card recipe:
Make it Crafty:  Gift Way digital stamp
Little Miss Muffet: Saffron digital stamp
Whimsy Sentiment -ticket
I only had one Little Miss Muffet stamp and that was Saffron so I used her:O)

I merged the gift-way digital stamp with the Saffron stamp and obtained the above image of the girl (Saffron) standing in front of the presents and the way-signs. I stamped Warm and Wishes on the way sign and hand wrote 'winter' on the middle slat. Coloured the image with Prismacolor markers, added glitter glue to the snow on the sign and ground  and then to add interest to Saffron's hat and muff I used  white fuzzy flock . To finish the card off I added   flourishes from Marianne designs die cuts and a snowflake flower from Spellbinder die cuts. Punched out a few hearts to send some 'love' along the way.

Update: won at Digi Designs Challenge Blog
Update: won the grand prize at Three Company- Paris challenge - published in the Whimsy online magazine !!!

Challenges:
Three Company - Paris Challenge: Love
Little Miss Muffet Challenge:   Valentine's  or Love or anything goes if you have a Little Miss Muffet image
Winter Wonderland: A Christmas card- anything
Allsorts Challenge Blog: week 142 or anything goes
Digi Designs Challenge Blog: It's All About Snow!
My Sheri CRAFTS:#79 Warm Wishes- while  mine may not look warm it is wishing 'warm winter wishes',hope that counts!
The Stamp Man Challenge: Texture: I have an embossed background and lots of added details
Craft Us Crazy: #21 Favorite Colour /Favorite Embellishment   Green is my all time favourite colour and for embellishments I love anything that  is or resembles a flower. In this card i have made a snowflake flower:)
Shelly's Images-Terrifically Thrilling Thursday- Show us what You Got  (anything goes)