Lovely Is in the Air at Top Tip Tuesday

Hi ladies!  I'm getting back into a groove finally!  After the Holiday, It took me a week or so to remember that my family needs dinner around 6:00! *oops*  lol  Anyway, today I followed a groovy sketch provided and added an adorable Karen's doodle image to make both the DP and the basic image!  I had some (basically white) paper that has red and blue flower petals in it! Yep! all natural paper, anyway, I decided to skatter the digital image into different sizes and different angels, add them into my software and printed them o the paper.  All I did then is use some nestabilities ovals and circles, made some of my own flowers from more scrap all natural paper and tada!  Cute huh?

This week our challenge is......

 Sketches

This week the Lovely Lisa is our Host and she has produced some awesome sketches for us to work from.

She has given us 2...

Layered or Clean and Simple - the Choice is yours.

Choose either, or do both!

Sketch 1: Layers

Sketch 2: Clean and Simple

 

You may rotate or flip the sketch, add a few extra embellishments or elements but please ensure the original sketch is clearly visible in your finished creation.

This weeks fabulous Sponsors are......

Stamp & Create

Top Tipper Prize of

 $25.00

and

Karens Doodles

Look for my Karen's fab image in my DT sample :)

and

Sew Sweet

The Lovely Emma from Sew Sweet is offering 1 lucky entrant
a £10.00 voucher to spend at her yummi shop.

Be sure to join us starting today for the challenge at Top Tip Tuesday with our fabulous sponsors and also stop by the other DT blogs and check out their terrific creations as well!

INGREDIENTS:

Hedge hog Love by Karen's doodles

Paper is handmade stash

NB Circles, eyelet circles, Ovals

Sentiment is Annette Allen Watkins

X-Acto corner punch

DP is creative papers online

MEDIUMS: 

Copics

Blick colored pencils

 EMBELLISHMENTS:

Handmade flowers

Stickles

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: 

                            
                              To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. 
                                                            Samuel Butler, Life and love

Stop by the Whimsy Stamps Store available today for my Shape EZ line of digital forms and shaped product lines like bags, boxes, flowers, and cards with tons of add on's that help you make the project just the way you like it. Over and Over again! The NEW Shape EZ Cut files available today!

Challenges entered:

Card Cupids ~ Valentines

Crafty Catz ~ Something New

Fairy Tale ~ Something New

There's Magic In the Air ~ From the heart

Stamptacular Sunday ~ Texture

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge ~ Anything Goes

 Thank you for visiting,

 

Loving those bulbs!

So I am going to try this again, can't believe I forgot to load the pictures of my bulb!  OOPS!  The teenager came over last night, got me all involved in making clay beads and I totally forgot my responsibility!  It was fun though, so no regrets!  Just have to come back and visit if you live on the other side I suppose! hehe  Today is Tuesday so you all know what that means! Yep, Top Tip Tuesday Challenge and our new theme for today is:

Bulbs are going to be a big seller this year at the rest of my craft sales so I want to show you this cutie pie image from Karens Doodles.  Also, if anyone thinks taking a photo of a bulb is easy, it's not!  So I took one of him prior to stuffing his cute little shell in too!

Challenge

1 for the kids

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NEWS FLASH 
New Sponsor

Sew Sweet 

The Lovely Emma from Sew Sweet is offering 1 lucky entrant
a £10.00 voucher to spend at her yummi shop.

Sew Sweet stock a huge selection of Wool felt, buttons, ribbon, divine twine, Handmade personalised gifts, findings and more.

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 Karen's doodles
are offering 1 lucky winner 3 digital stamps from Karen's doodles of their choice. 

Karen's Doodles has a fantastic selection of designs, Digital and Rubber stamps,

Such wonderful prizes

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Elaine's Kids Tear Off Bookmark card Tutorial.

Card with Detachable Book Mark from Elaine

Challenges entered :

Craft-room challenge ~ Anything Christmas and logo is also on side bar of challenge tab

Going Grey with Scrap Creations ~ Anything Goes
Jens digi stamps ~Anything but a card
Sweet Stamps ~ Anything Goes
The Cheerful Stmp ~ be transparent
Creative Creative Stamps Stamps Friends Friends ~ not a card
Karens Digi Doodles ~ Christmas

 INGREDIENTS: 

Hobby Lobby Craft acrylic bulb

Craft snow by Whirlwind

image by Karen's Doodles

Herbert's Christmas

 MEDIUMS: 

Copics

B00,B91,B0000,E33,E37,G12,

E35,55,04,53,C2,4,00

R32,35,37,G14,17,20

Martha Stewart micro beads

 EMBELLISHMENTS:

WOC flowers

Recollections Mulberry leaves

Ribbon and ornament jewel hanger from stash

Dress It Up Holiday button collection
Martha Stewart Micro Beads

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Nearly everything is better Late than Never

 Thank you for visiting,

Have a Fairy Happy Birthday

This has been a really wet and hot week in Michigan, major thunder storms, power outages and clost to 100 degrees.  Hopefully, the end of July will be more comfortable than the beginning!  I'm gearing up to see the Harry Potter finale on Friday (well really Thursday night) 12:05 a.m. with the teen and some friends!  Should be a real hoot!  I know, I know, I'm out of my mind, but that's the only thing he asked us to do this summer and I can't let him down.  He is autistic and he works so hard to fit in all year long and get the best grades he can so he deserves it!

Thanks for joining me again, always love Top Tip Tuesday's because it's the middle of the week!  It's Tipper week so be sure to leave us your best tip to win the great prize.   Also, we have two great sponsors today! Each with their own sketch, so stop over the TTT challenge blog and show me your creations!

On to the details of my newest piece of greeting art. But before I do, I wanted to leave some helpful tips as well:
1.  Try to limit your creations to 2 or 3 main colors, so that the project is coordinated.
2.  If your image is less than 1/2 the size of your entire card base, don't hesitate to make the sentiment almost the same size, Your card will be designed evenly and the embellishments won't take over the entire design.  This is the sketch I turned slightly and followed:

INGREDIENTS:

Image is "Birthday Fairy" from Karens Doodles 

Sentiment from Raindrop Echo Designs w/ Whimsy

Bazzill Stock

Basic Grey "Curio" DP

Kaiser Craft "Nan's favorite collection

Martha Stewart "Doily Lace" punch

 MEDIUMS: 

Copic Sketch: C00,C1,C2,C6, E50,E43,E44,E57,E00,E11,R20.R22,R24,

YR65,YR68,Y38,Y11,YG91,YG95,YG97

Signo White pen

American Crafts Gold Pen

Ranger Distress Ink : Vintage Photo

Challenges entered:
Flutter By Wednesday ~ Open
Inky Impressions ~ Distressing
Truly Scrumptious ~ Things with Wings
Aud Sentiments ~ more than one word in Sentiment
The Crop Stop ~ Sketch
Pile it on ~ favorite technique Distress w/ Ranger
Craft Your Passion ~ For anyone

EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Lace from stash / ultered w Distress ink

Prima Flowers "Symphony Blend"

WOC flowers

Tulip beads in a bottle

Stickles : Diamond, candy cane,fruit punch

Don't forget to hop over to for a challenge and some great inspiration with the lovely and talented DT.

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: 

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx

 Thank you for visiting,