Birthday wishes & buttefly kisses

This past Friday, our Scrap Friendly group was challenged to create a window card. Here is what I came up with. It's a flower shaped card cut out using my Gypsy (and Cricut). Pretty much everything you can see was cut out on Cricut/Gypsy using various cartridges. I added a little pearl using my Pearl pen by Viva Decor. Sentiment is computer generated using Lucida Handwriting font.
I am going to submit this card to

• bythecuteandgirly challenge (cute and girly)
• simonsaysstampschallenge (anything goes)
• papercutzchallenge  (anything goes)
• stampchallenges  (something with wings)

Have a beary fun Birthday

Here is another birthday card from me. That cute little bear is one of Dustin's drawings. Isn't he just adorable? The background paper is from DCWV The Green Stack 70% recycled paper. We all have to do our part to be a little environmentally friendly ;)

Supplies used:
Image: Dustin Pike
Coloring: Copics (E33, E35, E43, E47, E49 and E57)
Paper: DCWV The GREEN STACK 70% RECYCLED PAPER
Additional: Tim Holtz Distress Ink - tea dye,  oval classic and scalloped nestabilities, brads from stash

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• Dustinpike-party-in-colors
• Forfunchallenges (green-not-the-color)
• Pollycraftchallengeblog (fun and games)
• Creativeinspirationschallenge (Digi Day)

I cannot believe I won ;))

A few days ago, Dustin Pike hosted a fun blog hop to celebrate his blog's 2nd anniversary. It was a super fun blog hop with many great inspirational projects shared along the way. I am very fond of Dustin's cute images so I really enjoyed visiting all his crew member's blogs. You can only imaging how happy I am now, knowing I am going to receive the 5x7 hand drawn, colored and signed original piece of artwork by Dustin. Happy, happy dance here :)

You are so... sweet

Mo Manning, the author of this sweet image is one of the favorites artists of my good friend. I really like her drawings myself so when my friend shared a word about current Mo's Challenge, I decided to join in the fun. I also kept in mind our current challenge on the Scrap Friendly Yahoo group while working on this card. It's a BINGO mini game where you are asked to use certain medium/techniques to score bingo. I was able to score 2 rows with this card: flowers/ribbon/punch or die and flowers/stamp/embossing.


Supplies used:
Image: Mo Manning
Coloring: Copics (V12, V15, E000, E33, E35, B0000, B000, R20, W1)
Paper: Background scalloped oval is the Pearls Cardmaker Series by core'dinations, rest from my stash
Sentiment: PENNY BLACK - BETSY BLUEBELL set
Additional: Cuttlebug embossing folder, flowers/brads, ribbon from my stash

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

• mosdigitalchallenge (Carnival)
• papersundaes  (texture)
• tsgclearstamps  (monochromatic)
• simonsaysstamps  (emboss it) 
• bythecuteandgirly  (cute and girly)

It's OK to light the candles now

Yesterday was Friday, so it was time for a new card challenge on our Scrap Friendly yahoo group. It was a little Bingo board and you were asked to pick a row to score BINGO. I created this little image using one of Dustin's images.
I am not sharing inside of my card here but it reads "I've already alerted the fire department."

Supplies used:
Image: Dustin Pike
Coloring: Copics (W3, W5, B00, R27, R29, Y17, C5, C7, YG06, YG07, YG09, Y35, Y38, G17
Additional: Little epoxy circular, glittery stickers, background paper is embossed using a cuttlebug folder, little swirls are from my stash (super old stuff)

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

• Aspoonfullofsugarchallenge (Let's celebrate)
• Deliciousdoodleschallenge  (anything goes)
• Digidoodleshopsbest  (Glitter & glitz) 
• delightfulsketches  (Paper piecing or paper piercing)

Make a wish

Last Saturday I got together with a good friend of mine who shares the passion for making cards. We usually don't get much accomplished while we are together, but we always have fun. So this time, I managed to color 2 images. I used the first one on this card. This cutie is from Pachela Studio.

Supplies used:
Image: Pachela Studio
Coloring: Copics: E33, E35, Y17, Y35, YR16, E49, B28,
Papers: Scraps from stash
Ribbon: From stash
Additional: Yellow pearls, Ranger's distress ink (frayed burlap)

I entered this card to:
Cupcake Crafts challenge (lots of layers),
Craft Your Passion  challenge (use dots)
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge (furry friends)
Art Impressions Stamps (anything goes)
Karen's doodles  challenge (lots of layers).

Happy Bee-Day

Every Friday, we host a new card challenge on our ScrapFriendly group. Today's challenge was to use Bargello Technique. It looked interesting to me and I liked the end result so I decided to give it a shot. I used 3 different pattern papers, cut 3/4" strips, glued them together, cut them up, glued once again and voila.
List of supplies:
Image: Dustin Pike
Paper: From stash
Coloring: Copics  (E33, E 35, E47, E57, B28, B39, E000, E00, R20, E11, C5, C7, Y35, Y38, R24, W5, R27, G14, B23, Y35, B0000, B000 )  
Additional:  Nestabilities - scalloped heart, Ribbon from stash, 4 green brads, diamond stickles

I am submitting this card for Dustin's "It's a party" challenge & 4 layers or more @
Catch The Bug 
and Simon Says Satmps (a card for a child), as well as AiFactory's  "Party Animal" challenge, plus Card Making Mamas (spring colors).

Egg-ceptional Easter

Here is a card I created for one of the challenges on the Yahoo ScrapFriendly group I belong to. We were provided a sketch to follow. There was additional requirement to create a tag to go with the card.
Image: Pollycraft
Paper: From stash
Coloring: Copics ( V15, V17, YG07, YG09, Y15, Y17, Y35, R27, R29, YR16 & RV14)   Additional: Computer generated sentiment and ribbon from stash Since I used pink, yellow, purple and green on my card, I can submit it for this week forfunchallenges as well as delightfulsketches  challenge for Easter theme. Also here: crafty our passion challenges.

Slow Birthday Wishes

Here is belated birthday card I made a friend of mine. It's one of the  Karen Doodle images.

Supplies list:
Image: Karen's Doodles
Paper: From stash
Coloring: Copics      
Additional:  Buttons from a set from Oriental Trading, ribbon from stash, Stickles, Scor-pal

I am entering this image card for the following challenge:

•  Karren's Happy Birthday challenge
• Totally Stampalicious Anything Goes Challenge 

Very first post

I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while but somehow couldn't find a good enough reason for it. However, recently, I started to participate in more and more different card challenges posted on various blogs online so I decided it would be handy to have a spot in they cyberspace to post all my cards and other craft projects. So here I am, with my very own blog, and my very first post.