Altered Art!!!

The challenge was  to alter a home decor item!!!
I had a very inexpensive picture portrait and decided to convert it into a tray for my jewelry.

Tray

 Some details:

Added some Patterened Paper

Used Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge for Cricut to cut the flowers.

The flower ready for distressing with ink.

Inking the edges.

Curled the petals for some dimension

Glued the flowers

Added a little black bow

Closeup of the flower

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

• Paper A La Mode Challenge June 25 - July 1 at The Outlawz

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Julia

Flowers...

Made another card, this time with a great digital image from Designed2Delight. The color conmbo is red, white and blue.

Designed2Delight Digital Stamp

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
“Red, White, + Blue And/Or Christmas, Too!” at Designed2Delight

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Julia

Smile!

Made this bright card using a digistamp from Bugaboo. This little clown is having so much fun that he makes you smile! The color combo is orange, pink, white and little black.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #110 (MMSC110) at Priscillastyles
• Paper Cutz Challenge #97

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Julia

 

 

Sweet Grad!

Graduations are a celebration of the past and the future. Found this gorgeous image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and couldn't help but to make this fun card.

Image: Bugaboo

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #110 (MMSC110) at Priscillastyle
• CAS Challenge June 19th at The Outlawz 

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Julia

Read, Read, Read...

So many book, reading is such an important activity.  Found this gorgeous image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and couldn't help but to make this fun card.

Image: Bugaboo

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Red, White and Blue with Ribbon Challenge! at Catch the Bug Challenge Blog
• POM Challenge -- June 30 -- Anything Goes! at The Outlawz

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Julia

Fun Card!

This card was just Fun, Fun, Fun!!!
Found this gorgeous image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and couldn't help but to make this fun card.

Image : Bugaboo

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Red, White and Blue with Ribbon Challenge! at Catch the Bug Challenge Blog
• Bugaboo Stamps Wacky Wednesday Challenge #8 at Paper Craft Planet
• Wednesday's Sketch Challenge June 22 at The Outlawz

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Julia

I'm Sorry Card!

Found this gorgeous image from Bugaboo Digi Stamps and couldn't help but to make this sweet card.



Image: Bugaboo

 I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Red, White and Blue with Ribbon Challenge! at Catch the Bug Challenge Blog

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Love
Julia

New challenge at Stampin' Dymonz

There is a wonderful new challenge at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space. The rules are:

Your challenge this week is to create a card using the Drop Shadow Stamping technique and at least one other stamping technique of your choice. Your card must have ribbon, 3 flowers, "gems" (of any type -- I used Pebbles in the flower centers) and at least 2 distinctly different papers/cardstocks. The theme for the card is "Sympathy" (i.e., my "thinking of you" stamp).

I decided to use the Drop Shadow Stamping Technique to create my background over white cardstock and inked the edges of some of the embellishments.
Here is the card:
 

Card Recipe:
DCWV cardstoock and PP
Martha Stewart Stamps
Color Box Pigments: Prussian Blue and Silver
Doodlebug Mini Jewels
Kaisercraft Rhinestones
Mother's Day Bouquet Cricut Cartridge
Plantin SchoolBook Cricut Cartridge
Easter 2010 Cricut Casrtridge
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Stylized Flowers
Ribbons: http://www.ribbonshouse.com/

 I would love to share some details:

I am entering this card in:

• Challenge #6: Drop Shadow Stamping at Stampin Dymonz Creative Space

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Julia

Red, White and Blue!

Made this beautiful and patriotic card following the great sketch provided by Operation Write Home: Stars and Stamps Sketch :

Here is my card:

Card Recipe:
DCWV cardstock
We R Memory Keepers: Yankee Doodles PP
Martha Stewart ink
Ribbon

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Operation Write Home: Stars and Stamps Sketch : Challenge #75
Greetings Challenge June 27 at The Outlawz

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Julia

Flowers and Butterfly!

There is a wonderful challenge at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge:

EMBOSSING

This can be dry or heat or even both.

I love embossing, really love it!!!!

This is the card I made:

Stylized Flowers folder from Provo Craft
Martha Stewart Butterfly Stamp

Did dry embossing for the yellow squares and heat embossing for the butterfly.

The lollipop flower is handmade.

This card was entered in the following challenges:

• Challenge #140 at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge
•  Greetings Challenge June 20 at The Outlawz: Squares

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Julia

Puppy Love!

Just a quick post to showcase this fun card.
Used Cricut die cut machine and Paper Pups cartridge.  Love everything about it, specially the die cut hearts. That puppy is really in love!!!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• POM's Friday Die Cut Challenge - DCC10: Hearts

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Julia

Something Blue

June Challenge - Something Blue
Submit a card with Digi Darla stamp that has at least a fair amount of blue in the design.
Here is the card:

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Something Blue at Digi Darla

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Julia

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space
This has been so much fun. The final chapter of this series of challenges is here and boy was it a challenge.
Here are the rules:

Take the background you created over the last two weeks and make a Father's Day layout. Your layout can be made to insert into an album, as a wall hanging, or inside of a shadow box. Your layout must include the following elements:

• Handmade flowers -- at least 3.
• A hand colored digital image -- at least 1.
• A photograph -- at least 1.
• Butterflies -- at least 3.

For the past two weeks I have been learning two mixed media techniques: Credit Card Painting and Serendipity. Part of the instructions were to leave the project created untouched so that we could use it for the following week's challenge.

From the beginning I knew who I wanted to honor through this LO: my dear husband and of course a great dad!

There was just a tiny little problem: Didn't have a clue as of what I was going to do!!!

As days passed, inspiration came to me and a sketch was born.

I had to have at least three butterflies and since I couldn’t make up my mind on the patterned paper, decided to paint some more paper, heat embossed it with gold embossing powder and die cut them.
The flowers are simple handmade lollipop flowers.
The background paper created in Challenge 3 and 4 are the accent pieces on my LO and bring everything together.
Here it is:

Recipe:
DCWV and COLORBOK cardstock
Me & My Big Ideas Patterned Paper
Image: Lost in Paper Scraps
Tim  Holtz Ranger Distress Ink: Peeled Paint and Broken China
Versamark
Stamp: Unity Stamp Ser: Now and Always
Embossing Powder
Acrylic Paints: Deep Teal, Holly Berry, Caramel, and Pure Gold
Adhesive
Cricut Expression
Sentimentals Cartridge
Heat Gun
Buttons

 Some details:

Please follow this link to see the other entries!

Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia

Sisters Card!!!

This card has a beautiful image by A day for Daisies (store). Lately I have been experimenting with different coloring techniques and decided to try watercolors.

Have to admit, that the idea of using water on paper is kind of scary for me, but luckily, no accidents happened and the end result is just gorgeous; then using circular die cuts created some contrast and layers. A bow and a handmade lollipop flower complement the card and add some dimension.

 

Image: A day for Daisies (store)

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Challenge #20 - "It's a New Tecnique" at A Day for Daisies 
• Challenge #57 Punch it! at Sew Many Cards

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Julia

Blog Candy From Create with TLC!!!

My friends at Create with TLC are having a great giveaway: FOLLOW THIS LINK!!!

"DIGI BLOG CANDY Give Away~!
Become a follower of my blog (if you aren't already).
Post the TLC Logo below on your blog with a link back to the TLC blog ... telling about the give away...
Come back and enter your name and blog to the linklist below.
Random Winners will be selected on Sunday afternoon for three SETS of their choice.
Added Bonus....We will start out with one winner.....for every TEN people that play along I will add another winner......so if 100 people sign up ... there will be TEN WINNERS~!...so get the word out there...the more that sign up the more chances of winning...MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW ALLLL DIRECTIONS...Make sure you are letting people know about the blog candy...the more that sign up the better your odds of winning.

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Julia

Another fun card, just for Dad!

This is a fun card. The image is from The Stamping Boutique.

The background is fun and playfull.
If you look at the tag you'll see it is a gift for Dad.
Here is the card:

I am entering this card in the following challenges: 

• Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #108 (MMSC108) at Priscillastyles
• The Stamping Boutique CHALLENGE #8 For Men ONLY!!!
• The Stamping Boutique Current Monthly Contest
• Monday's THEME Challenge: MTC9: Father's Day / Masculine at Pieces of Ali n' Me 
  
  
   Thanks!

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Julia



New Card!

This is a fun card. The image and sentiments are from Fresh Brewed Designs.
The background was created using the Serendipity technique (Mixed Media Arts)
Here is the card:

Image and sentiment: Fresh Brewed Design

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Through the Craftroom Door - Paper Piecing
• Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #108 (MMSC108) at Priscillastyles
• Freshly Brewed Challenge 49
• CAS-ual Fridays Challenge CFC7
  

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Love
Julia 

Just wanted to share…

Woohoo!!!
Recently I’ve been participating in challenges and have won some of them!!!
Yeap I am really happy!
Here they are:

Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

Tellen’s Place Design

Simply Scrapping Crafts

April CAS Challenge:

 Cricut Corner Challenge:  

The Stamping Boutique's ~ Challenge #2 ~ "Wedding-ish Theme

HWI Challenge #2 - Flowers, Flowers, and more Flowers

Thanks for your time!

Love

Julia

June Challenge at Copic Musketeers!!!

Add a little Sparkle...
This month’s challenge is to create a card that celebrates friendship. Friendships are such an important part of our lives, and they add a certain sparkle to our days. Please create a project this month to celebrate our relationships with each other and add a little sparkle to it. This can be glitter, shimmer, whatever you fancy. You can keep it simple, or you can glitz it out! Whatever you do, it’s up to you… just make sure it shines!

Our sponsor this month is Tellen’s Place Designs. She is offering a $10 coupon to the Tellen’s Place Designs store. If you’d like to take a look at the fun images, please do!
I used Mary & Bev image from Tellen's Place Designs and the sentiment is from Create with TLC.
The background paper was hand painted using the credit card painting technique and I added golden sparkle by heat embossing. The stamps I used are from the Now and Always stamp set by Unity.

Here is my card:

 Some details:

Follow this link for the other entries!

Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia