A Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Hi everyone!! I have a card to share today that I created using the new card sketch over at Paper Popsicles. Amy creates great sketches every week! Take a moment to head over and check it out!! We'd love for you to join in!!
I used one of the Elizabeth images from Cheeky Radish Designs that are exclusive digital stamps at Paper Popsicles. I paired her with some Imaginisce paper (here) that reminded me of waves and you can find it in the store as well!

I don't know if I'll post again before Sunday or not --- there's a thousand cards I want to make --- but chores and laundry need to be done!! I'm going to my very first COLLEGE FOOTBALL game on Saturday! Hubby and his siblings are all Texas Tech grads and my FIL is a grad of University of North Dakota --- who just happens to be playing Tech this Saturday. So it's a Family Affair! I'm pretty excited about it! I hope I get to see my SIL and her hubby at the game too - he's a big Tech fan too and they go to all the games!

Cheeky Radish Friday Freebie

It's finally Friday and time for Freebie Friday at Paper Popsicles. All through the month of August, Cheeky Radish and Paper Popsicles are giving away a FREE digital stamp! It's only available TODAY though, so be sure to pop over there and grab yours!!

To get your free image you need to go to the store and order the image . It's in the digital stamp category (she's on pg 6 with lots of other adorable Elizabeth images!). It will be emailed back to you in .pdf format all ready to be printed and played with. You should receive your image within 24 hours of it being ordered (most likely it will be more like 2 hours).

After I printed Elizabeth out I colored her with Copics and my Prismacolors and baby oil. The whole time I was singing the bikini song and this paper from Cosmo Cricket was a perfect match for this image! I kept it simple, just embossing the patterned paper with my Divine Swirls folder and a few stacked buttons from Daisy D's.

You can find the paper and buttons in the Paper Popsicles store as well! You really should check out the message board too - it's a fun and welcoming place of scrappers and cardmakers! There are a few new contests just getting started for August that you won't want to miss out on!!

That's it for me now! Go grab Miss Elizabeth here and then let me know when you've created something with her --- I'd L.O.V.E. to see it! Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful Friday!!

Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge 43: On My Mind, In My Heart

This week at the Cuttlebug Challenge, blog owner Maggie provided the team with some digi stamps that she had created. A few weeks ago, Scor-It provided the team with a Scor-It to use and we were asked to showcase the possibilities of it as well.

I knew I wanted to use this image as soon as I saw it. I will be in Oklahoma in a few weeks on business and this card was made to send to my hubby while we are gone. Or maybe just leave on his pillow.

I started by embossing a piece of black Coredinations cardstock (from the Black Magic pack) with my hearts folder and then sanding to reveal the core. This is not my first time using this paper, but every time, the results still get a "wow" from me! I'm so grateful to Coredinations for providing us with tons of their paper to showcase each week in our challenges.

The sentiment was trimmed and mounted to a paper pleated rosette (is that what they are called?) The Scor-It made it easy to link up the spacing and get straight and crisp scores to fold on.

Even though this is for my hubby, I did add a bit of glitz to it. The glitter on the hearts was adhered by tracing the image with my Quickie Glue Pen.

Be sure to visit the Cuttlebug Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team came up with! You can see it all HERE!! And I'll have my FlutterBy post up later this afternoon!

Cuttlebug Be Inspired Challenge 2: Mom's Day

Good morning girls! I hope your Wednesday is off to a wonderful start. Today the Cuttlebug Challenge blog is sponsored by My Graphico and one of the participants will win a set of digital stamps from there.

We were provided Shopping Boutique to work with this week and the prompt of creating cards for Mother's Day with a coordinating envelope. I cropped out the flower from the shopping bag, enlarged it and then printed it on red and yellow. The red was trimmed and I used the back and then embossed it with Stylized Flowers. The Yellow was cut out, embossed with Swiss Dots and then popped up with dimensionals. I also added some red and clear gems to the flower centers. My envelope flap was also embossed.

I decorated the front of the envelope by die cutting 3 flowers and then trimming the blossoms to match the flowers in the center of my big flower.

I hope you enjoyed it - it was fun to work with such a large scale image! Be sure to visit the Cuttlebug Challenge blog to view all the other creations by the design team! And have a beautiful day!!

Twinking Tuesday 17: In with the Old

Hi everyone!! I have my Twinkling Tuesday card ready to post finally. But before I get to that, I would like to take a moment and share some little bits of info with you:

1. Monsters are on sale for 50% off today over at Paper Makeup. It's a Super Tuesday sale so if you've been eyeing them, today is a great day to pick them up.

2. Grab your calendar and mark down the next Cuttlebug Challenge event. You don't want to miss it. If you caught our "Luv Bug" event back in February, you know how great that one was. This one is going to top it!! See details below:


That's right - we are giving away over $1,000 in prizes.


Okay, back to Twinkling Tuesday!! This week we were given the challenge: "In with the Old" to use a stamp we had never used before. I would like to say that was a difficult assignment. But, it wasn't: the hard part was deciding which stamp to use!! Can you relate?

I have had this image from Little Paper Shop printed off for a few weeks and decided that she was going to be the lucky stamp to receive some love today. This line of digi stamps are adorable in my opinion. I love their cute little faces. I saw that there are some new ones available now that I am sure will be coming home to my laptop soon!

Last week on the Cuttlebug Challenge blog we paired up with Sheetload to launch their April issue. I loved working with the sketch last week and decided to use it again today. I colored my image with Prismascolors and baby oil. The patterned paper was a bit of scrap left over from a Ten Second Studio class I took on Saturday.

You should try out the sketch this month - there are great prizes at stake.

1. Link your card up by tonight at Cuttlebug Challenge for the chance to win clear and frosted card blanks from Shortcuts.

2. Link your card up at Sheetload for the chance to win one of two sets from The Greeting Farm. I'm going to win one set and it would be sooo cool if you won the second set! (I believe in positive thinking! *grin*)

We would love to see you participate in this week's Twinkling Tuesday challenge. If you do, please use keyword MTTSC17 when uploading at SCS or PCP so we can see them! Stop by the rest of the Twinklettes to see what neglected stamp they used this week!

Bonnie Sharp
Christi Thorsen
Danni Bindel
Darla
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jami Bova
Janna Hull
Jennifer Greco
Jessica Diedrich
Kim
Kimmie Doktor
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra McLean

ETA: Don't forget Heather - of The Best in Life - she is a new addition to our team! I'm so glad she's finally joined us as she is mega talented!!