New Challenge at Delicious Doodles!

The challenge at Delicious Doodles is

"Gems and Bling"

We would love to see your creations, there is still time to enter the challenge.
Here is my inspiration piece, using Blanch:

Image was colored with Prisma coloring pencils.

For more inspiration hop over to Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog! You have to see what Team A created for this challenge. We can't wait to see your wonderful creations!!!

I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:

• Make It Monday 159: Anything Goes
• Five Simple Things: Inspire Me Fridays 121

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Challenge 31 at ATC's and Cards With Attitude! - Part 2

Today begins a new challenge at ATC's and Cards With Attitude and the theme is your favorite and mine:

Add a Tag or Sentiment/Anything Goes!

I made an ATC using an image from our generous sponsor, Robyn's Fetish.

Here it is:

Image: Primitive Birdhouse

For more inspiration hop over to ATC's and Cards With Attitude!! You have to see what the Design Team created for this challenge. We can't wait to see your wonderful creations!!!

I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:

• Make it Monday 122: Anything Goes
• Simply Create: Linky Party #17
• Inspire Me Fridays 91: Anything Goes
• Cards Galore: Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey: Anything Goes

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Butterfly Friend Fairy!

It's time for a new challenge at The Stamping Boutique: 

Pink, Pink and ... Pink!

Your creation must include some pink.

The image is from The Stamping Boutique and is called Butterfly Friend Fairy.

Here is my inspiration piece for the challenge:

We can't wait to see your wonderful creations!!!
I would like to enter this project in the following challenges:

• Make it Monday 109: Anything Goes
• Inspire Me Fridays #78: Anything Goes
• Link Up For Pink: Second Annual Link Up Party
• The Cutie Pie Challenges: Use a Digi
• Totally Paper Crafts: Pretty Pastels
• Dream Valley Challenges: Go Pink
• Lexi's Creations: Pink 

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Just Relax!

Priscilla started a new Progressive Freebie Challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Center (CDAC).
You can request your free Tiffany Doodles image here.

I just loved the image! I had to do some paper piecing, and had so much fun putting it together.

Here is my card:

Image: Tiffany Doodles

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Make it Monday 104: Anything Goes
• My Mum's Craft Shop Challenges: All The Three's
• Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT: Paper Piecing
• Jackson's Digital Expressions: Anything Goes
• Card Mania: In the Beach
• Hooked On Crafts: Cards For Men!
• Truly Madly Crafty Challenges: Summer Fun
• The Hybrid Chick: Paper Piecing

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Exciting News!

I have exciting news to share, I've been asked to join  the Design Team of a wonderful group:

Delicious Doodles

I've wanted to join this group for so long.   I am so honored and very excited to be a part of this wonderful and creative team.
Teri, the owner and designer has the most wonderful collection of images, you have to visit the Store and see for yourself.
I used Fairy Fae for my first creation as DT:

Colored Fairy Fae with Copics, I just had so much fun coloring her.
To finish my card I added ribbon and a bow, flowers and bling.
Hope you like it!
I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Make It Monday - Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion: Power of 3
• Lollipop Crafts: Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp and Show: No Rules
• The Crazy Challenge: Anything Goes
• Jackson's Digital Expressions: Strut Your Stuff (Anything Goes - Inks and Such Challenge )
• Sparkles Monthly Challenges: Nature
• Tuesday Throwdown: Hip To Be Square
• Divas By Design: Anything Goes
• The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes
• Flutter By Wendsday: Friendship
• Ruby's Rainbow: Butterflies
• Bearly Mine: Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments: Flowers
• Creative Belli: Winged Things
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: Fairies
• Dutch Dare Card: Bling It On
• QKR Stampede: Anything Goes
• Eureka Stamps: Anything Goes

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Embellies With A Twist: Circles!

Hi everybody and welcome to Monday Challenge at The Crafter's Cafe!

We have created this special daily challenge to encourage you to reach outside your "box" and try something new!

Our Monday challenge is

Embellies With A Twist

We all love using embellishments on our creations, but for this challenge we will add a little twist, a little something to make it interesting.

The twist this week:

Circles!

We would LOVE to see all types of creations (ex. cards, scrap layouts, fat book pages, artist trading cards, tags, boxes, bags, 3D ~ Altered Art or any other crafting projects that have  some form of paper  on them).

This challenge will run until Sunday July 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Atlantic Time Zone.

Here are my inspiration pieces for this challenge:

Image: The Stamping Boutique

We can't wait to see what you create!
I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• The Corrosive Challenge: Summertime Girls
• ATC's and Cards with Attitudes: Anything Goes
• Fat Pages and Cards with Attitudes: Anything Goes
• Card mad Fairy's Digi Days: Girly Challenge
• Shelley's Image: Anything Goes
• Delightful Challenges: Anything Goes
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: Color Challenge

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

Beauty All Around...

Hi Everyone!
Chick Challenges with {ippity} is a blog dedicated to presenting sketch challenges to use with your {ippity} stamps.
For this card I used one of my favorite Ippity stamp sets, Be Brave...Branch Out.
Used my Cricut for the die cuts and added some bling and twine to finish it up.
Here is my card:

This is the sketch:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• Chick Challenge # 32
• Ippity} Opportunity: Ippity Linky Party 
• Kaboodle Doodle: Anything Goes
• Ooh La La Creations: Make It Girly
• Crafty Sentiments Sentiments: Anything Goes
• Celebrate The Occasion: Anything Goes
• Party Time Tuesday's: Anything Goes
• Digi Designs: Show Us That Bling!

Thanks!

Love

Julia

Thanks!

Bingo at The Stamping Boutique!

The Stamping Boutique has a new challenge:

Bingo...

This is my inspiration piece for the challenge:

Image: The Fairy Curiosity, The Stamping Boutique

I did: Image & Sentiment, Bling and Flowers. 

For more inspiration hop over to The Stamping Boutique!
Come and join the fun!!!!

Thanks!

Love,
Julia

Bling!!!

The Stamping Boutique has a new challenge:

Bling...

any way you want...bling, bling, bling,..., yes, lots of bling!

This is my inspiration piece for the challenge:

Image: The Stamping Boutique

I added some silver decorator foil, that I cut some down to card size and then embossed it in my Cuttlebug to add some texture, then used black acrylic paint to distress the aluminum and age it.

Of course added some bling to finish my card!

For more inspiration hop over to The Stamping Boutique!
Come and join the fun!!!!

Thanks!

Love,
Julia

News and a Challenge at Paper Creations Ink

Hi everyone!

Sorry I've been MIA, but I was sick and things got a little complicated.

I have some sad news to share today, this will be the last challenge at Paper Creations Ink (PCI). Here is the note that was posted yesterday, May 6, 2012 at PCI:

Hello Everyone! It is will deep sadness for us to let you know that this will be the LAST challenge at Paper Creations Ink. It was a very difficult decision for us to make, as Michael and I are having some Personal Issues and just don't have enough time to keep up with everything. I hope that all of you understand. We have enjoyed seeing ALL of your creations and getting to know all of you a bit better. We truly wish you the best creative journey's! I am sure that we will be bumping into you in the future out in Blogland! If you have any questions, feel free to email me anytime! 

Lets make this our best challenge ever! Have a wonderful couple of weeks!

Thanks Sara and Michael for letting me be part of the PCI family and to my dear friends: Karen, Marjo, Lynn, Kristy, Pat and Miranda, I will miss creating with you at PCI.
We have a new challenge at Paper Creations Ink and the theme is "In The Garden".
I loved working with the images created by Miranda Van Den Bosch, for this challenge. Miranda is one of our DT members and she is the sponsor for this challenge.
For my card, I used  the image: Fairy with a Hat.

Miranda has drawn 3 wonderful fairy images for Paper Creations Ink! These beautiful images that the Design Team has created with are going to be given away as our prize for this challenge. Please visit Paper Creations Ink to see the wonderful images.

I can't wait to see your creations.
I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge Blog: G for Garden
• Crafts 4 Eternity: Maypole Ribbons
• Crafty Catz Challenge: April Showers Bring Fourth May Flowers
• The Poodles Parlor: Anything Goes
• So Artful Challenges: Butterflies and Fairies
• Stamp, Scrap and Doodle: Ribbons and Bows
• 2 Sisters Challenge: Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge: Things with Wings
• Crazy 4 Challenges: Gardening
• Digi Designs Challenge: Spring
• Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps: 3 of something

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

New Design Team and First Challenge!!!

Hi everyone!

I have some wonderful news, I've been invited to join Crafting By Designs as a DT and of course said: Yes!

Crafting By Designs is a a fun place to share your creativity, chat with your friends, join a challenge or two and try new techniques.

The theme of the challenge I am hosting during this month is:

Valentines

Create a valentine for that special someone, mom, dad, daughter, son, sister, brother, etc.

for my first one I created metal accents by embossing a piece of tooling aluminum (Maid-ó-Metal) and then covered two chipboard heart die cuts (Sizzix, Tipsy Hearts). Used some pattina paint (Metallic Art - Gem Crafts) to age the hearts and some bling. Distressed the border of the DP with Ranger Distress Ink (Fired Brick).

Designer Paper by My Minds Eye

I'm entering this card in the following challenges: CFC34 - Create a Clean And Simple project using chipboard at Cas-ual Fridays and Bling it up at Some Odd Girls.

My second valentine is a simple card. Used my Cricut and Plantin SchoolBook cartridge to cut the circles and heart shapes. Added some glitter to the heart for bling and made a tag using the ippity stamp set: Your Friendship, My Cup of Tea.


Designer Paper: My Minds Eye, Colorbok

I'm entering this card in the following challenges: RCC34- Anything Goes with Unity Stamps!! at The Ribbon Carousel and Challenge #4 - "Layers, Layers, and More Layers" at Simply Create Too.

Visit Crafting By Designs for information on the prizes and sponsors.

I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Thanks!

Love

Julia

New Challenge at Paper Creations Ink!!!

We have a new challenge at Paper Creations Ink and the theme is "Bling it on".
I loved working with the images created by Miranda Van Den Bosch, for this challenge. Miranda is one of our DT members and she is the sponsor for this challenge.
For my card, I used  the image: Present Fairy and colored it with non traditional christmas colors, well almost, I did color the shoes and the ribbon red and the gift box is green, ... I love red shoes.

Miranda has drawn 3 wonderful fairy images for Paper Creations Ink! These beautiful images that the Design Team has created with are going to be given away as our prize for this challenge. Please visit Paper Creations Ink to see the wonderful images.

Our MONTHLY sponsor is Crop Stop! We are so excited to share with you the wonderful prize that Crop Stop has offered to ONE lucky winner, a $30.00 gift certificate to their online store! How cool is that? In order to be eligible for this wonderful prize, you must enter BOTH December Challenges to win! (We wanted to extend a HUGE "THANK YOU" to Haylie-Jo owner of Crop Stop!)

I can't wait to see your creations.

Thanks!

Love,

Julia

A new challenge at Paper Creations Ink!

Hi everyone!

Paper Creations Ink has a new challenge:

Challnge 13 - Christmas

and our fantastic sponsor is Sassy Studio Designs! Your prize is 4 digi's of your choice. Check out the challenge rules and then join in the fun at Paper Creations Ink.

My card features Santa's Helper, a poinsettia and a big jewel in the center for some bling.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge #47 ~ Use A Digi Stamp To Create A Christmas Project
• Make My Monday Challenge #25 ~ Flowers, Foliage, Or Snowflakes
• Pollycraft Monday Challenge #120 ~ Christmas Fun
• Stamps R Us Paper Crafting Challenge ~ Bling It On
• Whoopsi Daisy Challenge ~ Anything Goes At Christmas

Thanks!

Love

Julia