Strawberry Ants

Doodle Pantry 'Strawberry Ants' from Doodle Pantry's March 1st release!

Aren't they marvellous! The sentiment is hidden from the above view but resides next to the single strawberry   and is part of the digital stamp set. For more wonderful stamp images from the March 1st release go to the  Doodle Pantry site,  here! Also don't forget that the Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #21 is still on till March 24th with a chance to  win a Doodle Pantry Coupon.  Note: must use a digital image from Doodle Pantry and you get one free just for participating)

Card Recipe

Digital Stamps: Doodle Pantry 'Strawberry Ants' 

 Cardstock Stampin' Up 

                                                      Colour Medium: Prismacolor Markers                                   

                                                     Spellbinders  'Lacy Squares'  die cut

                                               Marianne Designs Forest Branch, Marianne Designs leaves

                                                              Sizzik Architectural Accents Set

                                                         

Challenges:
Update:  Won thePaper MakeUp Stamps Digi makeover challenge #27
                Top Three pick  at The Crazy Challenge


Craft Your Passion: challenge 101- easel card
Creative Mondays:  challenge 3 Anything Goes
Paper make Up Stamps: Digi MakeOver challenge 27 Critters
Hooked In Crafts challenges #18   more than one fold
Simon Says Stamp and Show- anything goes
The Crazy Challenge :CCH#110 - no designer paper
Crafting When We Can: challenge 13 -  animals
One Stitch at a Time: challenge 104 - use a digi
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog: challenge 109 -  show us some green

CDAC Progressive Challenge - Wassup-Spring is Coming

This card was created for the Crafters Digital Art Centers Progressive Challenge SERIES 3. #13 and the Lia Stampz  image was one of five freebies available to pick from. You have to make one or more projects from the available images in order to receive the next challenges freebie and you must be a member of CDAC to participate. The answer to my girls 'Wassup' is 'Spring is Coming' which is the theme  of CDAC#13 challenge. 

  Card details:

• stamp: digital by Lia Stampz
• colour medium: Prismacolor Markers
• Flourishes: die cut from Marianne Designs and Sizzix
• Flower: throw away salvaged by my Stamping Buddy - thanks Dawn
• Paper: yellow strip in background: digital paper by Doodle Pantry (left over from a previous card), Stampin'UP cardstock whisper white &  early expresso and the rest from a local craft store

Note: Card was featured on CDAC gallery March 11, 2012!

Challenge:

CDAC Progressive Challenge:#13 - free stamps

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #25 - Sketch

Just Some Lines: Spring Cleaning Time - use at least two thing more than 6 months old. My red card stock, the white flower and the oval die cuts are all well over 6 months old

Totally Paper Crafts: challenge #107 - My Favorite Things:   on this card they are red, chocolate' flourishes and flower(s) 

Divas by Design:   Favorite Things- I have flourishes and flowers

Fan n Funky: #111 - Yellow Mellow -make yellow main focus of card

The Paper Shelter: Time for a New Challenge

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Flight of the Butterflies

I have used another  great image from Outlaws CFC by Sandi Huggett  for the challenge over at 'Outlawz' called  Creative Freebie Challenge. The images to be used are from digital  images they have drawn. Entering the challenge enables you to receive the next set of images. Every two weeks they will send you two new images. For  this challenge  I chose the butterfly digital stamp and coloured it with Prismacolor markers and cut it out so I could make it dimensional..  For the center piece of  the card I brayed Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point  Stampin Up ink to some Whisper White paper.   I was trying to create a facsimile of a ski with butterflies flying in it. I added additional punched out butterflies  and a  'thinking of you ' sentiment.. The top layer of the card flips up and leaves room for a message to be written!


Challenges Entered:
Update: won the draw for the Pixie Cottage challenge


Paper Crafting Journey: PCJ Challenge4: Anything Goes
Crafts and me Challenges: Challenge #74 - Things with Wings
Divas by Design: Challenge 25 Favorite Things - I have two of my favouite things here - butterflies and a flourish 
The Paper Shelter: Time for a New challenge: - Anything Goes
The Pixie Cottage: #111 Things with Wings

Sweet Stamps Blog #56 Monochromatic

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes 100th  Challenge Celebration
Always Crafting: Creative Monday Challenge #3: Anything Goes
Love to Create Challenge #5 monochromatic

Red Birdie with Yellow hat

Doodle Pantry is a sponsor of the weekly challenge over at Digital Tuesday and the theme is a Sketch and a beautiful sketch it is.   

Hope this has caught your interest and  you  go visit the site . If you join in the fun you might win a Doodle Pantry prize !!!  Happy Crafting and good luck!
This cute Birdie is a new release image from Doodle Pantry's March 1st 2012 release. To see all the new march releases  go here.

Card Recipe

Digital Stamps: Doodle Pantry 'Easter Birdie' 

 Doodle Pantry digital paper

                                                      Colour Medium: Prismacolor Markers                                   

                                                     Spellbinders  'Lacy Squares'  die cut

                                               Stampin' Up  Sizzix Embosslits Sweetest Stem

                                                                 Button - Stampin'Up

Challenges

Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes

Critter Sketch Challenge Buttons (I only have one, hope it meets the criteria)

Cupcake Craft Challenge: yellow and red

Paper Creations Ink Challenge #20 Spring is in the air - 

Polylcraft Monday Challenge #130 Spring Has Sprung

Totally Stampalicious Spring is in the Air

Gingerloft GL35 Spring

Pan Pastel UK Challenge - use a stamp image digi or ink

Catch the Bug:  March Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge: 172 Button it (I only have one, hope it meets the criteria)

DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #60 Mother's Day

Lexi's Creations challenge #60  theme - 'Mother's Day'  March 5th thru March17th,2012

Sponsor  Fairy Dust Crafts

Head on over to Lexi's Creations for  the challenge details AND  take a peek at all the lovely work from the multi talented Design Team while there! 

I decided to use Fairy Dust Butterfly  from Fairy Dust Crafts for this fortnights challenge.  I love this butterfly, probably my favorite one out there in digi stamp land!   The butterfly can be found   here! 

Card Details:

Stamp: Fairy Dust Butterfly from Fairy Dust Crafts  

Colour Medium: Prismacolor markers

Dies Used: Spellbinders Nestabilities  'Labels Five', 'Beaded Circles';

Marianne Designs for the  flourishes  and the doily looking  circle in the background

Punch: Martha Stewart for the small additional butterflies

Technique:  dimensional

Flowers: Recollections  floral embellishments

Challenges Entered:

One Stitch at a Time: #103 Recycle, reuse  I recycled wallpaper to use for the die cut background embellishments

Paper Sundaes Challenge #110 Green or Good Luck

Stampin' Sisters in Christ #129 - Psalm 91:4a   Things With Wings

That Craft page Challenge - Anything Goes

HybridChick:Card Caravan Challenge#14: Lucky- Green

 A Gem of a Challenges#41: perfect pastels

Allsorts Challenge : Week 144 Spread Your Wings

Craft your Days Away: #40 Mother's day

Hiding in my Craft Room #36 Monochromatic green

Mark's Finest papers: Speedy Fox and friends #97 Recyled ( I used wallpaper for the die cuts background embellishments)

Give Your Teddy a Hug

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring the 'Send a Smile 4 Kids'  March 3rd, 2012 challenge this week and the theme is Clean and  Simple. So when I found out the theme I thought 'oh dear  what will I make'. I sometimes have a hard time with CAS cards, though that is not to say I don't  find  them beautiful.  I remembered seeing a tutorial on Stamp TV by Gina K  demonstrating how to use your  Scor-Buddy to design a scored background.  Here is  that tutorial and the above card is my version of it!

Card details:  Tent card 5 1/2 x 4 1/4

• Stamp: Doodle Pantry digital stamp Cuddly Bear Colored  which is  a colored version of an older stamp set.
• Sentiment: Doodle Pantry digital sentiment from the Cuddly Bear stamp set
• Die Cuts: Spellbinder Nestabilites
• Paper: Stampin'Up
• Other: Scor-Pal, brads. ribbon

Challenges:
1. Clearly Inspired Challenge #47 - Anything
2.Crafts 4 Eternity: Recipe #61- digital element required
3.Crafty Catz '122' Punches or Dies
4.Fuss and Fancy #57 - More than Words
5.Paper Play Challenges - week 9 - something old, something new -  My brads are about 2 years old  or more and the image is brand new to me as of March 1st. this year.
6. Party Time Tuesday  PTT #57 Anything Goes

English Bluebells

New release, New Challenge DPDC#21 (must use a digital image from Doodle Pantry and you get one free just for participating)

RELEASE DATE - March 1st ,2012

CHALLENGE  DATE: March 1st  1200 Noon EST-March  24th 9:00 PM

It is March  release  day over at Doodle Pantry   and Laurie has some wonderful new  digital stamp sets for sale  and  precoloured versions of some  older stamp sets. I used  one of  the  new stamp sets called  'English Bluebells'  for the above card. A little bit of something for everybody in the latest release with digital stamp sets based on  Easter, a quirky bunny & a quirky possum, a magnificent lion and lamb which can be  religious or not, a violin and some fabulous digital papers and more!! Just a wonderful release.
   
Here is the set I used: English Bluebells (March 1 -24th free with purchase)  This set will not be for sale until after the 24th, but if you place an order between March 1 and 24th you get it FREE. 



See Here for :

new release sets

Challenge  DPDC#21

 Challenges:
1. Crafting for all Seasons #21 - Shaped Cards
2.Flutter By Wednesday#192 - Open
3.Little Darlings Challenge #18 - Pearls
4. My Mum's Craft Shop #46 - Throw us some shapes
5. The paper Shelter Challenge #53 - Fancy Folds
6. Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
7.The Sisterhood of Crafters 'Getting Digi with it - use a digital stamp
8. Crafty Sentiments Designs: Shaped but not Square
9.Stamp n doodle's BLOG A DOODLE - lets see some embossing
10.Crafty Bloggers Network: Challenge #15 - Spring Time - bluebells bloom from April to May