Teddy Bea and Easter Pink!

I was in a very pink mood this week!  When I saw this new Bea graphic, I couldn't wait to color this up and make a terrific Easter gift for the flower shop.

I've also decided to make a special little flower to add to this project so I added the tulle under it and then squeezed in some sparkly pink garland inside the tulle.

I almost forgot, I couldn't  resist playing with my new Grand Calibur and die cuts that I got for a GREAT discount at Joann Fabrics.  The machine and dies are almost 1/2 off their regular price and I just couldn't resist!  Boy did it ever make it very simple to make this (perfectly fitting) scalloped easel card.  I used to hand cut them and TRY to get them right!

Hope you enjoy it and don't forget to stop by the Teddy Bo store and see what's new!

Have you seen the exciting news?!!?  Over the next couple of months TEDDYBO will be introducing lots of different products to their store.....and we're delighted to tell you that we are also taking pre-orders for Tim Holtz new Distress Markers...have you seen them yet?

They look absolutely fantastic - another MUST HAVE!!!

The price for the full set (37 pens) is £85 with free next day delivery in the UK

And what other products are we going to stock?

Well......a quick look below will tell you what's on it's way within the next couple of weeks for starters.

We want to offer you, our friends. a one-stop shop as time goes on, so if you have any requests for different products, please get in touch via the website.

Also, if you haven't already, stop by the Teddy Bo Challenge blog and link up a project for our "Love is in the Air" Challenge and use a heart or hearts until the 19th to win!

INGREDIENTS: 

Bazzill Stock

DP is Teddy Bo Co

Teddy Bea 187

Grand NB Scalloped Circles

2" circle punch

 MEDIUMS: 

Copics 

Ranger Distress Ink

Clear Star Gelly Roll

 EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Tulle for handmade flower

WOC flowers

Silk ribbon roses from stash

Wilton Paper Heart Doilies

Holiday Inspirations felt stickers

A Tree for me "Wispy beaded garland Girls

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

 The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible. 
Arthur C. Clarke

 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!

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Happy Birthday Celebration!

 1st Birthday party!!!!!

Yep!  Top Tip Tuesday is One Year Old!

Wow!  1 year old!

This week we want to see your

Easel card or easel topped box

I still can't believe how many sponsors and what great gifts they are sharing for this celebration!  Come and play, I can't wait to see all of your creations and leave you all some hugs!

Stamp and Create.com 

The Crafty Pad

 Prize - 2 Digi Images

Pink Gem Designs 

4 digi images of winners choice 

Fred She Said $20 voucher!

3 images of your choice from Limited Runs

Simon Says Stamp

Simon Says Stamp is offering a $20 gift voucher to spend in their store!!

Prize offered to 1 lucky winner is : 3 packs of die cuts.

Arty Farty
£70 Goody bag!

WSDesigns

Prize TBC

WOW!  Did I tell you or what?  So I've shown you all the great prizes and you have one week to show us your stuff!  Don't miss this one craftier s!  It's gonna be a winner!

My lovely card is a celebration triangle easel made just for this special occasion, usually when I create from the Rick St Dennis collection of show girls, I already have a specific person and occasion in mind!   I'm always happy to color one of these and show her off before she goes into the craft sale inventory!  They never last long they are such terrific images to color and they are so different from anything else out there!

 INGREDIENTS: 

Image is Fedora - Fashionplate by Rick St Dennis ETSY

Sentiment is Fiscars

Bazzill Stock

DP from stash

NB die Label 14

 MEDIUMS:

Copic Sketch: B24,26,93

RV13,17,34,29

BG05 eyes

C00,C2,C4, E00,E11,E43,E25,E19,R20 cheeks

Signo White pen

Gelly Roll - Clear Star

challenges entered:
A Spoon Full of Sugar ~ Party Time
Creative Card Crew ~ Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes/ shaped card

 EMBELLISHMENTS:

Wild Orchid Crafts flowers

Beads/corded pearls from Hobby Lobby stash

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

 No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

 Thank you for visiting,

 

Friends of Every Size!

First let me say . . . I LOVE ORANGE!  I have never done orange on a card that I didn't like!

The Dragons Lair ~ creator of today's digi image has been Published in the June/July edition ezine of Ready Set Create.  Congratulations and thank you for the opportunity to design with the Dragon!

This image is so marvelous!  He, Rupert that is, literally goes with any color!  Orange and Lime green even!  Dragon Designs images are so versatile and fun!  Ok well, I usually give you the low down on my day or week but did I mention . . . I LOVE ORANGE! lol  And, SORRY, but it is just taking precedence over my entire week!  So without further ADU ~ 

The challenge today is "Friends or Anything to do with Friendship", our sponsor is Dragon Designs and the prize is 4 digi images of your choice and I can't wait to have you join in!

This is a new card design for me and was inspired by   Kristen at High Hopes.  Thank you!
 

INGREDIENTS:
NB Classic Rectangles Large and Lattice Rectangle
Fiscars Cameo ovations sentiment
Bo Bunny "Vicki B" collection
Dragon Design Digi image "Resting Place"
Bazzill stock

MEDIUMS:
Copics on Dragon E50,E000,E47,R20,E42,E01,E0000,
Fairy:  YR65,YR12,YR14,YG05
Ranger Distress "Worn Lipstick, Crushed Olive
Signo pigment ink "white"

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Ribbon from stash

Buttons by the Paper Studio "Bright" bag 'o Buttons

stitched

Challenges entered into:

Paper Sundaes - Sentiments from the heart

Stampin Sisters in Christ - Try a new technique

Digistamps4Joy - Wings

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

Papertake - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Animals

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

CupCake Craft - Tails

Card Cupids ~ 3 layers

Ai Factory ~ Something new(new center layer card style)

Terrifically thrilling thursday ~ anything goes

Kaboodle Doodles ~ mystical creatures

Stamps R US ~ pets

Totally Stampalicious ~ 3 different ribbons (each button has a ribbon)

Digistamps4joy ~ wings

Flutter by Wednesday ~ fairy

The Pixie Cottage ~ special shaped card 

Catch the Bug Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Wee Memories ~  Anything Goes

House of Gilli ~ Buttons

Creative Card Crew ~ wings

flutterby Wednesday ~ pink orange and green

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Large or Small, Orange or Green . . . embrace the true friend in you!

Thank you for visiting,

It's a Slam Dunk!

Yo! What's Up? 
No, sorry, it's just me!  I can't pull that off, can I!

I hope this card can give you some inspiration on easels!  They don't all have to be the same after all!  Good day to all my friends and family. . .As I am in Arizona (I think a bit warmer than MI) I hope this post finds you all well!  My Neice graduated from High school yesterday and it was a wonderful ceremony!  Brings back alot of memories . .

On to my newest piece of greeting art.  This is BBall Barry from our challenge sponsor " DudeTime Doodles."    So DRIBBLE over to Dragon Designs Challenge Blog for inspiration.  I would love to see your ideas.  Let's see some of your takes on different easel cards!

       Challenges entered into:

Ooh La La Creations ~ special folds
Digi stamps 4 joy ~ for boys
Digi Doodle ~ Anything Goes
Crafting For All Seasons - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wednesday's - Clean and Simple
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

2 Sisters - Anything Goes

 Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew -Anything Goes

INGREDIENTS:
Bazzill Stock
Me and My Big Ideas "Sport Champs" DP
Spellbinder's Nestabilities Standard Circles
Whimsy Sentiment

MEDIUMS:

Copic colors:  E11,E13,E25,R20 skin
C01,C00,C02,C05,B41, shorts and shoes
E37,E47,E50

This is the court on the inside of the card

EMBELLISHMENTS:
Star Buttons by Dress It Up

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

History teaches us . . . to not forget!

Thank you for visiting,

Circles, Circles and more Circles!

Well. . . ,  Today has been crazy!  So blogger lost 6 of my pre-scheduled posts, as everyone using Blogger knows.  I'm sure the challenges are going to be late going up as well!  Off to rewriting! 

Great weather we're having this Friday in Michigan! It's about time. I had my craft sale on Mothers day weekend and the cards just flew out the door! I need to rebuild my inventory for my sale in June with cards just like the great circle easel card I made today.

Wow, we had such a huge response to the die cuts challenge last time and I would love to have you stop on over to the Wags n' Whiskers Challenge Blog for inspiration and our new Circles challenge sponsored by Darlene, I can't wait to see all of your lovely creations.


So the new challenge over at Wags n' Whiskers is Circles, on the paper, ribbon, die cuts or dots.  You get the idea and the winner will receive some great images from the Wags n' Whiskers store. 

Also, I'm so excited to share the news with you that they are going to have a new Princess Release?

Wags 'n Whiskers is having a new digital release NEXT Friday,

May 20th!!

 The sneak peeks begin on Wednesday, May 18th... then continue Thursday, May 19th. This all ends on May 20th with a blog hop, so don't forget to visit us on Friday, May 20th!

You won't want to miss the opportunity to win the entire collection, so be sure to stop over and enter the contest!

On to my card for the challenge:

Entered into the following Challenges:

Belli Challenge ~ S (scallops)
Cooking it up with Katie ~ brads,stamped image, letters(see dp paper)
Crafty Creations ~ Anything goes
Creative Craft World ~ Anything but square
Creative Inspirations ~ Decorate inside
The Sisterhood ~ glitter
Crop Stop ~ Shading w copic (sky and ground)
Delightful Sketches ~ flowers
Pixie dust studio ~ make it shiny
The Crazy Challenge ~ Anything goes
Squigglefly ~ shapes
The Stamping Boutique ~ Circles
Scrap Creations ~ Circles
Totally Gorjuss ~ Anything but square

INGREDIENTS:

Spellbinders Nestabilities Eyelet Circles

and Standard Circles Large

"Nichola" digi stamp by Wags n' Whiskers

Bazzill stock

Reminisce DP ~ "Christmas Angel Flourish"
The Paper Studio ~ "Girly Graffiti"

MEDIUMS:

Copic markers: E00,E11,E50,E42,E41, B32,B21,B41,R20,RV13,YG03,YG05,YG07, YG91

White Signo pigment ink pen for dots on wings

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Flower Ribbon brads by Spare parts

dotted ribbon from stash

smooch pearlized accent ink "pumpkin, hot pink, nautical navy"

Dove charm from stash because this fairy could fly with the Doves she's so lovely!

Flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts and Prima

Stickles "Diamond"

copic colored pearls from stash

Brides pink flower collection by Gartner

The inside is finished as such

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Patients is understanding!

Thank you for visiting
,

Snow On Every Hill

Good Friday!   Literally, I hope you have a good one!   All week I've been spending time with my kids and "spare" kids, (niece and nephew).  We decorated Easter eggs on Tuesday with sponges and oil ink then topped them off with stickers!  Yep . . . stickers!  I remember when the newspapers came out, covered the kitchen table ~ you bend those pretend spoons into ladles and add vinegar to water and color in 6 different coffee cups and mom let you at it!  Not anymore, now you gotta strip the kids down and hold their hands for fear they may get toxic poisoning . . . or worse!  A rash!  lol   Does anyone even read newspapers anymore?  I miss the old days!

Better get to business before I really get going.  On to a really fun shaker card designed around an adorable image by Stamping Dragon Designs called Snowhill .  I thought it would've been a little out of season but as there was snow here this week, I think it's safe to still be making these winter cards! This too will be available in my Etsy store right after my next craft sale!

Don't forget to hop over to Dragon Designs Challenge Blog for inspiration and a challenge where our sponsor is Kenny K downloads with loads of great prizes! I can't wait to see all of your lovely creations!

INGREDIENTS:


Design Paper is Butterfly Kisses, Basic Grey maple walnut bar and hazelnut dacq. and Bazzill Stock
Stampabilities Nestabilities used are Eyelet Circles & Standard circles
Creative memories circle and Whimsy Sentiment
clear overhead sheet for shaker circle

MEDIUMS:

Copic Sketch B000,B00,E000,E00, E41,E42,E0000, YG91,YG95,YG97, C00,C2,C4,R20, B93,B95,B97
Ranger Distress Ink - Sapphire

Entered into challenge: Crafty Creations ~ 123
Bearly Mine ~ Inside out
Lady Bugs Crafts Inks ~ Anything goes

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts, Pearls from stash, Diamond dust & Frosty snow, Paper Studio pearls ,Bow-tique crystals, Merry Minis charm, slim line button

The envelope and packaging was finished off like this:

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

It's not really Spring, afterall, . . .  until we get the step ladder and windex out!

Thank you for visiting,

Magnolia-licious Challenge Entry

MAGNOLIA-LICIOUS CHALLENGE

Well, I'm new here and my stamps are limited ... so no couch or sofa, but the inspirational picture gave me a luxurious and elegant creme colored feel and the card I made for this challenge is creamy, pearly, and loaded with satin.  I hope you enjoy her, she is very comfortable just like anyone would be in the living space from the inspirational picture.

Thank you for visiting,