Some More Cards...

Below are some other cards I made with some of my other images that you can find and purchase at Paper Cupcakes, my new digital stamp store. These images are exclusive only to Paper Cupcakes.

This first Image is called "Praise Him" and I must say this is one of my personal favorites. I actually made this image because I have a friend that plays the guitar and so I drew it so I could make her this birthday card. I colored this image with my Bic Mark-its. I loved how the blue and yellow turned out on her dress. I also took my white uni-ball pen and added some white lines on the bottom part of her dress to make it a little more dramatic with lines. I had the black ink lines, but wanted them to be a bit more apparent at first glance and truly loved how her dress turned out. I did color her guitar with colored pencils though, I wanted the look that the colored pencil gave me for her guitar, plus I feel like I have more control over the blending with my pencils and wanted a smooth overall blend with a softness. I was pleased with the overall card and must say this one is one of my favorites I have made.




This image is called "Small Orchid" and I colored it with my colored pencils. Colored pencils will always be one of my favorite mediums to color things with and I have yet to add any of the blending oils. Although I must say I have purchased some to try them out, but I just have never found myself reaching for them. I truly enjoy the blending aspect within the pencil lead itself.



The following are some more Christmas cards I made with more of my images that were not freebies and can also be found at Paper Cupcakes. I colored all of the below with my Bic-mark its as well, except the polar bear which I used a light blue colored pencil for the softness.

Image name: Polar bear Ride


Image Name: Snow girl


Image name: Gigi Christmas Shopping


Image name: Holly & Mitten Line


Image name: Christmas Spray Cupcake


Well, just wanted to post these and hope to have some more cards up soon with some other images from the store so you can see them colored up and used and hopefully get you excited about them as well as sell a little! :O)

So, thanks for stopping by and please leave me some lovins it always makes my day to read them, as I am sure it does the same for you when you get feedback as well! Have a cupcake kind of day!

Free Digital Image - Painted Pony

This card if for the color challenge over at TMITA w/PCC. The FREE image is called "Painted Pony" and if you missed out on the freebie you can find it in my new store Paper Cupcakes. If you haven't been by my store, make sure you check it out. It holds a lot of new digital images that you cannot get anywhere else. They are my originals.

I loved this color challenge that Patti Nelson brought us this week. I love it when the challenges include colors and/or sketches, mainly because it takes a lot of my thinking and decision making out of it. I decided to do another easel card. Although, instead of doing it square I decided to do a 5x7 that would fit into one of my envelopes. It doesn't quite stand the same, but none-the-less turned out cute and I was satisfied with it.

I colored my images with my colored pencils. The tree is a stamp by Stampabilities called "Heart Tree". The stamp is actually only about 2 inches high, but I really wanted a bigger tree and didn't have one (I know I should have just drew one) but I really love this stamp, so unlike digi's where you can just enlarge them (which is one of the things I LOVE about digital stamps) I decided to stamp this and just enlarge it on my copier (is that legal?). The enlarged tree is about 4 1/2 inches and then cut it out after coloring it. I decided to cut grass to hold up my easel and actually did 2 layers one on the base and one on the front behind the pony. I got some fancy smancy scissors from my neighbor/friend Bea/Carl for Christmas that has five blades on both sides and was perfect for cutting my grass and I was excited to actually use them on a project verses just cut things up playing! Thanks Bea! I really loved all the design detail on this pony and had a lot of fun coloring it. I added glossy accents to parts of the designs on the pony and also added it to the red heart on the tree. I placed my painted pony on pop-up dots to make him stand out just a bit as well. I drew the sun in the top corner and added some color to that as well with my pencils and then added some glossy accents to that. Added a little butterfly and thought it looked like a perfect day for a pony out in a field. I really loved how this turned out, but I think my easel part could stand up a little higher and straighter, so I will be working on a way to perfect this size of card in making it into an easel card for easy mailing!

This is what the front of the card looks like prior to folding it out into an easel card:


A more close-up shot with both layers of grass:

The full easel card:


My black is actually blacker, but I think the light washed it out! Thanks for stopping by and taking a look and I hope you can find some time to play along with us as well over at There's Magic In The Air!

Magical Monday at TMITA

This week over at TMITA the challenge was to use any of the previous free images or the one posted which was a past free image or one from my new store Paper Cupcakes. All of the designers got to pick whichever image they wanted to work with from the store. I went with the image "Beary Nice Dance" . I made this image while on vacation in Tenn. and thought it would be fun for this challenge. Since we were suppose to incorporate something found in a New Years celebration or something that sparkled, I chose to place fireworks going off in the background. I used glue on a stamp with glitter. I have never really done that before and not sure if I like it more them embossing it... but it worked and looks great behind the dancing bears, but I truly love heat embossing. I chose to place the fireworks on black so it seemed more like evening and so they would pop. I colored my bears with my Bic Mark-its and cut them out and placed them on pop-up dots. I punched my little flowers and added some rhinestones to the middle. I also added a lovely green ribbon with a sparkle and gold trim. The sentiment is computer generated. I really liked how this turned out. I think this card has a happy feel to it and I can just imagine these two bears dancing at midnight in the deep dark forest under the fireworks having a delightful dance of romance!



So, have a "beary" nice day and have a safe and Happy New Year!

Free Digital Image - Merry Moose-mas

This is the card I made for TMITA's challenge this week as well as using the freebie digital image "Merry Moose-mas". I followed the sketch by Danielle, and colored my image with my Bic-Mark-its. I punched my red hearts and added the red white an black layers to them to make them pop and then I also set them on pop-up dots. I used my glaze pen to add the white dots on his antlers, hooves and scarf. I really liked this sketch and I really love this image, it was a fun card overall! Make sure you check out my new store "Paper Cupcakes", I would love for you to visit!


May the gift you hold dearest be the simple gift of Love. Merry Christmas to all of you!

Free Digital Image - Christmas Arrangement

This is the card I made for TMITA's challenge this week as well as using the freebie digital image Christmas Arrangement. I'm running a little behind this week with things so I am posting this now. The challenge was to Glitz it up; to use glitter or stickles. I used DCWV glitter stack for the yellow mat around the image and yellow stickles on the bulbs and I must say I LOVE yellow stickles, it is one of my favs! I colored my image with my Bic Mark-its, except the lily which I did with my prismacolor pencils which I just love. I chose too do my lily in white so I needed my pencils to keep it as soft and as white as I had envisioned it. I set the colors off with the dash of purple and the fiber is so pretty in real life because it matched the colored bow in the image so well. I really liked how this turned out as well.



I did a little Christmas shopping today, my first trip out, it was nice I must admit to get away from the computer today. I have been so busy with getting things tweaked and finished up on my site. So, if you haven't been to my new Digital Store, please stop by and take a look around. We are still under some construction, but it gets better with each passing day. You can find Paper Cupcakes here.

OK.. signing off and going to bed before 1:00AM tonight!!

Thanks for stopping by and looking and sorry if there are typos or things wrong, but tonight I am just going to hit publish post! :O)

TMITA "Recipe Challenge" Last blog of the hop

I hope you have enjoyed this hop!! If you arrived from Leigh Anne's blog and have visited all 9 other blogs; you have now arrived on the last blog of the hop. If you did not arrive from Nilla's you will want to start at the beginning of the hop which is here; as not to miss anything!

The image that I bring you is called "Afternoon Tea" I truly love this image and think it is very versatile. I made this card for a very dear friend of mine for her birthday. This is actually a set of 3 images and I have only used 2, the other is a single flower. I cut the cup and set it up on pop dots and set it somewhat in front of the pitcher as to give it more dimension. The sentiment is computer generated. I colored it with my Bic Mark-its.


AND NOW FOR THE.....

"RECIPE CHALLENGE"

To be eligible for the give-a-ways and the chance of a being a Guest Designer for February. You must have:

1. Started here and left a comment on all 10 blogs including this one.
2. Completed the “secret sentence” challenge by Dec. 13th
3. Participate in this “Recipe Challenge” with your project linked back here by Dec. 13th. 10:00 PM EST.

The "Recipe Challenge" consists of using this free image (C) "Fancy Surprise" and...

("Fancy Surprise" is no longer available for free... if by chance you missed this freebie during this challenge, you can now find this image in my store Paper Cupcakes)

THIS CHALLENGE IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED.

... you MUST follow this "Recipe" to make a card:

Use 1 tag
Add 2 textures
Mix in 3 pattern papers
fold in 4 pieces of ribbon
and sprinkle with 5 brads or 5 buttons

You may also use one color card stock outside the color of the base of your card if you like, but only one.

example of a tag:

You have until Sunday, Dec. 13th to link your card back here to Mr. Linky and to fulfill the requirements. If you are not sure about the requirements for all the give-a-ways you can find them here.

All winners will be posted on TMITA’s blog on Saturday, December 19th. Good Luck and mostly just have fun!!

Recipe Challenge "Fancy Surprise" Participants

1. Justa 2. Jessie F 3. Lynda =) 4. Pattie G 5. Diana 6. Deanna Collins 7. Marsha Drain 8. Roberta Smith 9. Julye

10. Gloria Westerman 11. Sue Walsh 12. Nikki C 13. Dwita 14. farida 15. craftykitten 16. Linda Payne 17. Katarina 18. Christi Hicks

19. Sally McD 20. Pat P 21. Denise S. 22. Carol 23. Stacie 24. Toni 25. Pat Mayne

Learn more about Recipe Challenge "Fancy Surprise" here.
Get The Code

Powered by... Mister Linky's Magical Widgets.

Here is my yummy recipe, hope you will give it a try. I did this like a digi stamp so all you have to do is left click, then right click "save as" the larger image and you now have this yummy recipe saved ready to print off, the bake! ENJOY!




Also, we have a "Magical Monday" going on this week as well. It is our normal weekly challenge with a free image. I afraid with the business of the hop it might get lost in the shuffle. The image is super cute of Kim's dog Malie, so you won't want to miss out on that as well as the great creations from the designers. You can find that here! So, make sure you check out that challenge as well, it too had a small give-a-way. Thanks again for joining us today! ((( And make sure you leave me a message rather you do the challenge or not, because that will make you eligible for some of the give-a-ways!))) Have a "SWEET" day!

Prize Categories for the "RECIPE BLOG HOP" starting Dec 9th-Dec. 13th

Good Morning World!! Today I want to make a quick post to direct you to the "Recipe Blog Hop" Give-a-ways that is posted above!! So make sure you stop by and check them out and better yet... join us in the hop starting tomorrow Dec. 9th through Dec. 13th!

Free Digi - Sweet Trouble

This weeks challenge over at TMITA was to create a "Clean and Simple card with limitations on what you can use (e.g., "NO" brads, bows, or anything that would make it challenging to mail) and a color requirement PINK, of course, must appear on your card somewhere."

Soooo, since I have been wanting to do a easel card I chose to do that and then I kept my surface pretty flat. I added a fairly flat trim and then punched some snowflakes to match. I really love this style of card and I will be makikng many more of these and they are really simple as well, but I have to say it was hard to keep things flat and easy for mailing! I also used the embossing folder on one side and carried my pp up into my card that was on the base where my sentiment is. I drew a circle on my snowflakes and added some pink stickles. I also added some diamond stickles on her hat fluff. I also drew little circle on my container holding the candy canes to jaze it up a little to match the pp somewhat. I thought this image turned out really cute all colored up and I don't think she looks like much trouble either!! but then again, I don't own her! hehe




ok.. it is now 1:30AM and I am dead tired so that is it for me for this day!! Have a sweet day!

FREE digi - Snowy Flight

This weeks challenge over at There's Magic In The Air is to make anything BUT a card. I chose to alter this little tin I got out of the dollar bin at Target. It was like a little lunch box that had Boston Baked Beans Candy in it and I bought a few when I bought it. These measure about 4 x 2 3/4 inches, so they are not really very big. I thought I would use this to place a gift card in with some small candies.

The color of the tin was mostly a chocolate brown. So I left the brown on the small edges and then painted the tin inside the edges a lagoon color with Making Memories paint. I wanted to keep it fairly simple and so I went with the glitter stack paper from DCWV . I used my Bic Mark-its to color the image and used a light blue color pencil to add some shadowing on my snowman on the white. I placed him on pop dots too. I then added ribbons to match and I also had these big jingle bells so I thought a red one would be super cute so I added that to one side of the handle with all the ribbons and added the little element that said joy and called it complete. My only regret is that I only bought 3 of these little tins for a $1.00!! I wish I would have bought about 10 now!



There's a really pretty shear ribbon that is the color of the sky background in the glitter paper, but because it is shear it did not photograph the color very well at all, but in real life you can really see the ice blue in the ribbon line and the ribbons are also soo much prettier in real life as well.



I just noticed I didn't make his little cheek rosie! Oh Well, I will be fixing that now! :O) Have a great week and and thanks for stopping by and leave me a message I love reading them, plus they really makes all this posting seem worth it! Make sure you join us for the Blog hop and also if you would be so kind, place the blog hop icon on your blog and help me spread the word!

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Let's Celebrate with a BLOG HOP!

YES! My other blog There's Magic In The Air is having a blog hop. Why you ask? To celebrate my new venture and I have to tell you I am SUPER excited to announce along with this hop my line of never seen original digital stamps! I am also introducing my top secret stamp and store name that I have kept mum since last year! Man, was that hard or what!?! So, I hope all of you; the participants and the lurkers, will join us as we celebrate my new venture through this hop! Also, when you arrive here on Dec. 9th and things don't look the same, let me assure you, you are in the right place! :O) No, you didn't eat too many rum cookies the night before. :O)



Each blog will be showcasing a new image that can be found in my store "Paper Cupcakes"(TM) that will also be making it's debut that same day! How exciting is that? There will be a yummy recipe on every blog for you to copy down and keep. Just in time for the Holidays! I mean who doesn't like a good recipe? There will be many prizes, you can only win once, but you won't want to miss out. There will be a special "Recipe" Challenge with a special image at the end of the hop where you can win a prize and also be the Guest Designer for the Month of February. All the details will be listed the day of the hop Wednesday, December 9th. So, mark your calenders!

Also, we will still be having our regular scheduled "Magical Monday" that week!

So, grab this icon below and plaster it on your blog's side bar, make a post if you like to share it with your readers (please, please, please)encourage them to do the same and help us spread the love!



You won't want to miss out so make sure you stop by TMITA here.

Whenever you are feeling sorry for yourself...

...watch this, it really puts things in perspective. How wonderful to hold such gifts and yet still find a way to use them in ways that others would never expect to see them used. Just beautiful!



Have a blessed day!

Free Digi - Cozy and Bright

Here is my card for the TMITA challenge blog. Which was to use something fuzzy or soft. My fiber is fuzzy and soft and it is one of my favorite fibers to use as well. My brads are also covered with corduroy and I thought they matched my moose nicely.

Well, it is a little after 1:00 AM and I am too tired to finish writing this post tonight! Sooooo.... I think I will join these three in the image!



Good Night...

FREE Digital Image: Skating By

This is my card I did for this weeks challenge for TMITA. This cute little penguin is FREE so make sure you skate by and get it, because it will only be for free this week only!

The challenge was to use some reflective material of some kind on your card. When I first heard the challenge I knew I wanted to send some aluminum foil through a cuttlebug embossing folder! I must say it worked so wonderfully and I used a cheaper thinner kind so if you buy the really good stuff I imagine it works really well! So, all the shiny foil you see is just your everyday, cover you dish kind of foil from your kitchen. After I sent it through the embossing folder I used the spellbinder to cut my shape and then I also cut a piece to mat the large piece of pp and then also my sentiment which is heat embossed.

The wonderful thing about digital stamps, next to sizing them any size you want, is that you can flip the image; wa-la so now it's now going the other direction, which is what I did with mine.

I also wanted to use non-traditional winter paper and when I eyed these dots in my stash I knew I wanted to use it. There were green dots as well on the paper, which you can barely see now, but that is why I chose the green dotted ribbon and made her hat green as well. I used icicle stickles for the ice under her feet and pink for her hat. Then added my snowflakes...



So, if by chance you came by here first make sure you skate by TMITA and snag this fun wintry image!

FREE Digital Image: Elegant Pumpkins

This is the card I made for the There's Magic In The Air's
monochromatic challenge this week. This is also my first ever monochromatic anything I have ever made. So, this time I actually picked my pp and colors first prior to coloring my image (there's a concept!). I knew I wanted a terra cotta color so I started there and found this rusty terra cotta color. I love the old world stack and there is where I found my pp. Then I went to my card stock stack that was already in a monochromatic way and I picked my card stock. I also thought instead of going with a white or cream to print my image on I would go with the lightest color of my monochromatic color and printed it off on that. So when I colored my image I would let that color come through, thus making my image also matching my monochromatic color. Since I have not felt good all week I just made this tonight and found it really hard to photograph this color. My colors are a lot richer and this is a little off in the color. My mom gave me this ribbon which I think is up-teen years old, I usually use it for when I make bread for church, but found it was perfect for this card. I kept my card simple with lots of matting with the black and variations of the card stocks, but it is kind of hard to see the variations, there are 3, but they are slight, except the lightest which I printed the image off on. Then I placed those three little black stickers above the image and thought it looked elegant and so I left it at this. I colored this with my colored pencils. I really loved how this turned out. I will have to do more monochromatic things!



If you stopped by to look, thanks a lot and if you left me some luvins in a post, I just adore you! Have a Magical Monday!

Cards for Jaimie

I happened across this blog hop for a cause for Jaimie while blurfing (blog surfing). It certainly touched my heart so I wanted to join in the cause. I have been sick for over a week and have not felt up to card making, but this evening I felt half way decent and decided I would pump out a simple card for her. I know her fav colors are bright pink and black, but I also wanted to add some other bright colors to make it cheery as well to go with what I wanted to do with the image. So, I still kept with some bright pink with some bling from the DCWV pp (drawing blank on the stack name) and added some black, which always seems to be my go to neutral color which just makes things pop. The digi image is my own "Jessie" and she will soon be available in my upcoming site so keep your eyes open for upcoming details. I used my Bic Mark-its to color the image to match the pp and layered the flower to match as well. Used this pretty green ribbon and I had this orange tile that was a perfect match in color and it was perfect what I wanted the card to convey to her; to have hope for her tomorrows.

Here is some information about what happened:

"On October 4th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings."


I am certain this little girl and her father will be overwhelmed with the grace and love that is coming through all these cards. I know I certainly am. Even though the blog hop ends tomorrow you can always still make and send Jaimie a card. Grace like this doesn't have a time frame. May we always find our blessings in everyday.

FREE Digital Image: Cornucopia

This is the card I made for the challenge over at There's Magic In The Air. So, for more details of the challenge hop on over there to check it out and to also snag the free image.

For this card I wanted to to do some paper tearing so I chose to do the right side with the paper tearing and I wanted to use very few colors in my overall card. I chose to go with this Green Basic Grey paper from Urban Prairie. I loved the green and I had the perfect ribbon to go with it. I paired my pp with a brown card stock which I thought went nicely. I placed hemp through my button and added it to the top right corner of my image. I placed the sentiment on pop-up dots and called it complete. I truly loved how it turned out. I colored my image with my Bic Mark-its and the table, a little of the background and the glass jar with my color pencils. I also added the other sentiment on the inside of the card.



Took this pic inside and that is a shadow on the sentiment. :O)


This is the inside of the card, just simple.


Thanks for stopping by and extra thanks if you let me a message! :O)

Part 2 of my interview.

Thank you to all who have taken the time to leave me a message in regards to my interview with Dana over at TMITA. Those posts truly mean a lot to me. Don't ever underestimate a small gesture of kindness, it really does feel good to the receiver and kindness really does ripple. :O) Now if you would like to read part 2 of the interview you may find it here.

My First Interview!

Just a real quick post.. Dana Glass of the Examiner.com National did an interview with me at the end of last week regarding my digital stamps and the TMITA blog and wrote an article. It will be a 2 part article, one showcasing today and I believe the other tomorrow ((I think mainly because I am soo windy)) :O) but anyway... here is it is ((squeeling with delight)) THANKS SO MUCH Dana!! Please check it out it if you want some interesting facts about me, my images and how I think (lol well you might want to bypass the how I think thing!) You can find the article here!