Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #63

Good morning!  Monday has arrived, and Holy Week Monday, at that.  Goodness, where has this year gone?!!  With each new Monday, brings a new challenge at the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog, and this week, very timely, we're celebrating Easter creations.  Our sponsor for this week's challenge is Some Odd Girl.  I took this cute little flower flanked lady and with the addition of some glittery Easter eggs in the grass, an Easter creation was born.

I  layered three strips of grass, punched with my Martha Stewart punch, and popped the layers up with foam dots.  That allowed me enough room to place the eggs within the layers of the grass to give them a more three dimensional look.  The patterned paper is from Imaginisce, and the adorable digital image from Some Odd Girl was colored with Copic markers.

I hope you can join us for the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge this week!  It's always so much fun to see all your wonderful creations!!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a blessed day and happy stamping!!!!

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #62

Good morning!  Monday has rolled around once again, and with it brings a new Kaboodle Doodles Challenge.  This week, we're challenged to use cute and cuddly animals in our creations.  Our gracious sponsor, Digital Delights provided us with some adorable images to work with.

I used this adorable giraffe image and colored it with my Copics.  I had some fabulous flocked giraffe print paper from The Paper Studio, which I used as a background for my card.  A little soft suede polka dotted ribbon and some buttons covered the embellishments for this cute card.  The sentiment comes from Peachy Keen Stamps, PK-225  Happy Flowers and Cheerful Phrases stamp set. 

I sure hope you have a cute and cuddle creation to share, because if you enter the challenge at Kaboodle Doodles, you could win a great prize, offered by Digital Delights.  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Have a blessed and beautiful day and happy stamping! 

Let's Get Girly!

 Good afternoon, my crafty friends!  I hope you had a teriffic weekend!!  It's Monday, which means it's time for another Kaboodle Doodles Challenge, and this week the Challenge is Let's Get Girly.  Our sponsor is Whoopsi Daisy Designs.

Isn't this a great image?  I used some of my new paper from Kaiser Craft, and some of my new rhinestones from Pizzazz A Plenty for embellishment.  Sure hope you can play along with our challenge this week!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day and happy stamping! 

Spring Has Sprung

Good morning! Well, Spring has indeed sprung! Well, it's sprung over at the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog, at least. It's bright and beautiful here in mid Missouri, but it's a cold 33 degrees, and it's even supposed to snow this afternoon. :-( One sure sign of Spring for me is when the stores start putting plants out, and yes, I've seen plants, AND strawberry plants at that! Oh how I love those strawberries, so that's where my card took me for today's challenge. Our gracious sponsor at The Crafty Pad Designs gave the Kaboodle Doodles team some wonderful images to work with, and I loved coloring these strawberries!

Of course, I colored them with my Copic markers, and the paper actually comes from a Stampin' Up! Halloween pack.  The green stripes looked so pretty with the strawberries, so Halloween or not, I used it.  I'm doing my best to use up all those scraps I have.  I kept this pretty simple and only used some old olive grosgrain ribbon for embellishment.  The sentiment comes from the Butterfly Wishes stamp set from The Greeting Farm.

I hope you can play along with the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge this week.  Once lucky winner will receive two free digital stamps from The Crafty Pad Designs Store, just for playing along!  Thanks for stopping by!!  Have a blessed day and happy stamping!

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #59

Good morning and happy Monday!  The Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog has a new challenge posted, and this week, we're having fun with color! 

Pull out the yellow, blue, pink and green and get to creating, because there's a fabulous prize of a $15.00 store credit up for grabs from our sponsor this week, *Wink* Wink* Ink.  My card was made with the Rainy Day digital image from Wink Wink Ink.  It was colored with my Copics, with added polka dot accents using a white gel pen.  The DP is from my scrap tub, and the polka dotted grosgrain ribbon is from Stampin' Up!, as are the flower buttons.  I added some Rain Dot rain drops for texture and dimension, and they look so cool IRL.  They're shinny, and look so real!

I hope you can find time to join us over at the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Blog this week.  It's always so inspirational to see your creations!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Make it a beautiful day and do some happy stamping!

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #58 - Happy Birthday!!!

 Good morning, and happy Monday!!  I hope you enjoyed a wonderful weekend!  Now a new week has begun and along with that comes the newest Kaboodle Doodles Challenge.  This week why not take the birthday challenge?  If you play along with us, you could win a fabulous prize from Paper Pretties, who happens to be our sponsor this week.  Just upload your birthday themed creation using the link provided to the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog.  I can't wait to see all the wonderful birthday themed goodness that there's sure to be in store for us!!

My card today was made with the Fan-tastic digital stamp from the Paper Pretties store.  I printed the image at 3x5 inches and colored her with my Copics.  I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the leaf panel, and filled in around the leaves with my Versamarker to darken the background and make the leaves pop.  The patterned paper is from a stack that I got at my LSS on Saturday, and comes from Jenni Bowlin's Family Tree collection.  I LOVE the vintage look of this paper pad, and while paper is one of the LAST things I need, I couldn't pass up the great sale they were having at my LSS.  I was teaching a Copic class, and was worried everything would be gone by the time I was ready to shop., because they  were celebrating their Spring Open House and had 40% off of ALL their scrapbooking supplies!  Is that awesome, or what?  Now you know why I couldn't pass it up, and thankfully there was plenty left for me.    ;-) 

I added some pearl pins to the stitched grosgrain ribbon to mimic the look of the hair accessories on the image and hand cut the computer generated sentiment.   I hope you like it!!  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you have a blessed day filled with happy stamping!

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #57 - Go Green

 Good morning!  Happy Monday and welcome to the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #57!!  Today, we're all going green by using the color green in our creations.   Our sponsor this week is Cardmadfairy Creations, and they have graciously provided our talented designers some wonderful images to work with.  Be sure to check out the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog to take in all the amazing creations from our designers.  One lucky winner who plays along with our challenge this week will win 3 images from Cardmadfairy Creations, so won't you please join us?  We're all looking forward  to see how you'll "Go Green"!!!

Here's my card, using the Molly Mermaid digital stamp. I colored Miss Molly with my Copic markers.  The designer paper is from my scrap box, and all I used for embellishment was this pretty moss colored taffeta ribbon and pearls.  

Thanks for your visit today!  Have a blessed day, and happy stamping!!!!  

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #56

Hello everyone!  Well it's Monday, and that means it's time for another Kaboodle Doodles Challenge, and for challenge #56, we've got a recipe.  It's a 3-2-1 recipe.  That means for your card or project, you'll need to use 3 patterned papers, 2 solids, and 1 embellishment.  Oops!  I think I didn't follow the directions very well, because technically I have more than one embellishment, although, since I seldome make a card without ribbon, I'm not officially counting the lace ribbon as an embellishment.  Now with the rhinestones, there ARE three, but I'm counting those as one embellishment unto themselves.  LOL!!!  With that reasoning, my card works out just fine for this challenge, right?  See there...  I KNEW I could make it work!!  Heeheehee!!  Oh well, I had fun with this challenge, anyway!

The sponsor for this week's challenge is Gingerloft, and this cute  Pitcher of Flowers image came from their digi store.  I did my best to color the pitcher to look like one of those old granite pitchers that I've seen in antique shops.  I always think they look so cool with fresh flowers in them, and that's what this image reminded me of.   I hope you like what I've done with this one, EVEN if I didn't quite follow the rules like I should have.  Ahhhhh, the best of intentions!!   I sure hope you have a minute or two to do some crafting and play along with our challenge this week.  I'd love to see how much better YOU can follow directions than I!  LOL!!  Have a blessed day, and thanks so much for stopping by!  Wishing you LOTS of happy stamping!

Kaboodle Doodle Challenge #54

Good morning!!!  I'm thrilled this morning to be sharing a card I've made for my first ever DT assignment with the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Blog.  I was both surprised and thrilled when I was asked to be a member of their design team, and look forward to getting to know all the talented designers that I'm blessed to be working with, and sharing more of KD challenges with you every week.  Please tune in each Monday for a new challenge and all the wonderful inspiration that our designers will have to share with you!  The challenges are fabulous and fun, and each week there's an opportunity for someone to win an amazing prize from our generous sponsors!

So, the challenge for today is hearts and flowers in celebration of Valentine's Day!!  Happy Valentine's Day to you, BTW!!!!!  Our sponsor for this challenge is Pink Cat Studios, who graciously gave us images to work with.  I chose to use this cute Frog in Love image for my card, and I played along with The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge for this layout.  I used Stampin' Up! card stock in Pink Pirouette, and Silver, and the white card stock is from Paper Trey Ink.  I chose to hand cut around the little frog, and balloons, and I added silver cord to them for the strings.  The sentiment was computer generated, and I used grosgrain ribbon, paper flowers, and rhinestones to embellish.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I wish you a glorious Valentine's Day filled with lots of love and happy stamping!