DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge #52 Charming

New challenge over at  Lexi’s Creations   with the theme of  'Charming'; challenge will run from Oct 31rd -Nov.12, 2011. I choose to make a Christmas card with a silver candy cane charm as an embellishment. The little fellow  I used as the main image is from 'The Stamping Bazaar' . Isn't he just grand, cute as a button. I coloured him with Prismacolor markers and added some fuzzy flock to his hat. The poinsettia is a digital image from Fairy Dust Crafts  and I loved working with it. It comes in three different section and you just put it together - wonderful! 

Stamps:

Marvin with Candy Cane  from the Stamping Bazaar and Poinsettia from Fairy Dust Design

Flourish: Tim Hotlz "Elegant Flourishes'

Die Cuts: Spellbinders  'Lacy Squares

Design Paper from Stampin Up'

We have two sponsors this week:

Sponsor: FDC Fairy Dust Crafts 

 

Sponsor: The Stamping Bazaar

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

Challenges entered:

The Cutie Pie Challenge:  challenge#4 use a charm

Die Cut Dreams Challenge:  so charming

Forever Friends: bling.bling - must use animal

Pollycraft Monday Challenge: anything goes

Catered Crop Linking Party" recipe : I used stripes, Christmas theme, markers,, stripes,die cuts, flock on the hat trim colour green

Dream Valley Challenges: anything goes

One Stitch at a Time:  challenge #86 Christmas 

Snow Birdies with a Flourish

Doodle Pantry is the sponsor this  October for the Corrosive Challenge Blog and this week (Oct 30th, 2011) the theme is 'With a Flourish', just add some sort of flourish to your project. I need some Christmas cards so I decided to use Doodle Pantry's Birdie Snowman  for my project. I coloured with Prismacolor markers and  used  Stickles for the hat trims which I made dimensional.  The flourish is from  Sizzix and is called 'Scribbles Swirls'. The snowflake  flower was created using  a flower die cut from  Stampin' Up  die cut (for the large petals at  bottom on the flower) called  Birds&Blooms. The second layer is a die cut from Spellbinders "Create a Flake Two', the third layer is from a MS snowflake punch and all are held together with a white flower brad.

Hope you like the little snow birdies:)

Challenges entered:

Corrosive Challenge Blog: Flourishes - mine is DT entry only

A Gem of a Challenge: #33 Cold and Frosty ends Nov 11
Little Clairs Designs #14 Christmas - monthly ends Nov 11
Card Makin' Mamas #32 Die Cuts
Jingle Bells (JB44) not a CREATURE was Stirring Nov 2 - must use a creature
Crimbo Crackers: Challenge 1 - Anything Goes - must be Christmas
Meljen's Designs: Challenge #82 - Christmas

Cattails

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Stamps R Us this week (Oct 30th,2011) and the theme is Masculine!  Masculine can be hard sometimes but I figure cattails are a masculine thing as are dragonflies. Butterflies for women, dragonflies for men, anyhow that is what I determined for this card! I quite like this one, it is simple and  I hope gives a sense of calming. Be sure to take the time to visit their blog and hopefully join in the fun!

Stamp: Doodle Pantry digital stamp set  'Cattail Pond'  I actually merged two images together to get the above image. The sentiment is from the same set.
Background paper: the brown textured paper is digital paper  from Stamp TV ;the orange rust paper is Stampin' Up card stock stamped with a  SU rubber background stamp called ' weathered'

Challenges Entered:

 Stamps R Us the theme is Masculine and my entry is a DT entry only.

Come and Get it Challenge: anything goes
Dream Valley Challenges: anything goes
Creative Inspirations Paint: fall
Craft Your Days Away:  challenge 32 Autumn
Sweet Stampin Challenge: anything goes

Steampunk Vivian

PART4 of the Sassy Steampunk Progressive Relay challenge celebrating Sassy Studios having reached 500 members on their Paper Craft Planet site!  The challenge this time was 'anything goes' using the digital image 'Steampunk Vivian'.

Stamp: - Sassy Studio Designs

Paper:  Stampin' Up basic grey, cajun craze, basic black

Flourishes:   Marianne Designs

Flowers:  handmade using various punches,die cuts 

Thanks for the free images and a whole lot of fun.

Challenges entered:

Sassy Studios Designs: 500 Challenge  #4 - Progressive Relay

One Stop Craft Challenge: no designer paper

One stitch at a time:  #85 emboss it - the grey background paper is dry embossed

Paper Sundaes: #92  Sundae Bar - I used black,flowers and sparkly silver brads (toppings are black, flowers, sparkly and distressing)

Crafts 4 Eternity:  Embellishments Recipe:  use at least one metal embellishment I used silver metal brads (6 of them)

Charisma Cardz :#42 embossing  dry/wet - I used dry embossing on the grey background paper

Steampunk Victoria

PART 3 of the Sassy Steampunk Progressive Relay challenge celebrating having reached 500 members on their Paper Craft Planet site!  The challenge this time was to create a card in a vintage or Victorian style.

Stamp: - Sassy Studio Designs

Paper: free digi paper from the 'Paper Pad Challenge'

Flourishes: Large flourish - Tim Holtz Elegant Flourish; small flourishes from Marianne Designs

Flower:  from 'recollections'

Challenges Entered:Publish Post

Sassy Studios Designs: Progressive relay challenge

Moving along with the Times: vintage

Shelly's Images Terrifically Thrilling Thursday - Show Us what you Got

Steampunk Amelia

Time for part 2 of the Sassy Steampunk Progressive Relay challenge celebrating having reached 500 members on their Paper Craft Planet site! I participated in their first challenge by entering a card using a free image called Steampunk Josephine which they had supplied on their challenge blog. By doing so I received another free image called Steampunk Amelia. I created the above card using that free image and in return will receive another free image - yaaay!

 

The sentiment is from Doodle Pantries digital stamp set 'Parrot Play"
 The background paper is fron 'ThePaper Pad' Challenge (Free Digi Paper)

Challenge entries:

Sassy Studios Design: Celebrating 500 - Sassy Progressive Relay challenge #2

Crafty Cardmakers #54: Cute with a Dark twist - I think this little gal is plenty cute and my background is on the dark side of the colour spectrum! -ends Oct 30th 

Incy Wincy Designs: Recycle  - the silver gizmos on the sentiment and on the girl image portion of the card are from an old watch my stamping buddy had taken apart for the parts - thanks Dawn

The Outlawz - Greetings Challenge October 17 - Everything Goes
The Paper Pad Free Digi Paper challenge: #4 Steampunk - darn too late missed the deadline







UPDATE: Oct 28th,2011 - Top Three Pick from Incy Wincy Designs

Halloween Birdie Bat - Doodle Pantry Sponsors - Digital Tuesdays

 Doodle Pantry is a sponsor this week for - Digital Tuesday - with the theme of  HAPPY HALLOWEEN ! Another super fun challenge from the folks at Digital Tuesday. Hope mine is 'happy' enough  as I plan to send it to a great grandson  and I certainly don't want to scare him!  Oh well the birdie  is a pretty un-scary ( is there such a word?) bird so it should be OK.   This little bat birdie is from a Doodle Pantry digital stamp set called - you guessed it - Birdie Bat :0), I think he is quite adorable and I chose to colour him with the orange colour of autumn, handsome , handsome I say!   The sentiment is from the same set and the  flying bats are from  a Cuttlebug die set called Creepy. I used prismacolor markers for the birdie and the background pattern paper is from my stash .  This was a fun card to make and I hope the little guy receiving it will think it is a fun card.

Challenges:
Digital Tuesday, DT entry only

Crafty Boots -  Autumn or Halloween (ends 30th Oct)
Creative Stamp Friends -   Halloween (ends 30th Oct)
Hooked on Crafts - Something Spooky (ends 29th Oct)

Paper Creations Ink -  Halloween Theme (ends 31st Oct)

Paper Pretties -  - Halloween  (weekly ends Oct 23?)

The Crazy Challenge CCG #89  Halloween(weekly endsOct 23rd or 24)

There's Magic in the Air: Magical Monday - Halloween Color Challenge (Oct 23rd)