It's a Celebration Blog Hop & Weekly Challenge | Red White & Blue!!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Digital Delights It's a Celebration Blog Hop 30June-1July 2011. This is a 2 day hop to help you get through all 26 of our talented designers, collect your letters and enter to win the grand prize!

If you came here from Larelyn's blog then you are in the right spot! If you have just come across this posting while browsing around in blog land then start at the top so you don't miss all of the amazing projects!

The theme of this hop is CELEBRATIONS!! At Digital Delights by Louby Loo, we are celebrating the new store! Wendy (aka Louby Loo) just completed the move to a new and improved store! In honor of this, each stop along the way will have a Digital Delights stamp from their project to be given away. There are amazing sponsors for the grand prize at the end worth over  $130!!

This is a hop with a different twist as along the hop there are letters to find in the postings - not all blogs have the letters but if you gather all the letters then at the end of the hop on day 2 assemble them to create a Digital Delights related word. You then return to the Digital Delights blog and enter your name in the inlinks at the bottom of the post (do not reveal the secret word yet). After the hop you will be contacted if you are selected at random--at which point you will be asked to reveal the correct word/phrase.

Now on to my project.

 

For this card, you guessed it, I used GIMP to put Lara into the Postage Stamp!  I also used Wendy's new stripes and spots papers and the wonderful sentiment! A friend of mine on the Festive Friday Blog Hop inspired this card design--I changed it and made it my own but Laura's card is where I got the inspiration!

DDStamps: Stars & Stripes Lara, Postage Stamps, Postcard and Sentiments Set,

Stars & Stripes forever sentiment

 Cardstock and Papers: Bazzill Basics and Stripes and Spots Digital Paper Pack

Markers : BIC Mark-Its

Accessories : Prisma Glitter, Quickie Glue Pen, foam dots, ribbon

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you liked my project.

For this week's challenge we want to see


RED WHITE & BLUE 

You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries. Just add your card twice to inlinkz to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delights image 1st entry use your card link, 2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name.

This weeks challenge is sponsored by:

It's the beautiful collection of yummy ribbon!!

I will be giving away the following Digital Delights by Louby Loo image which I used to complete my project:

In order to be eligible to receive this digital stamp, please leave a comment below, become a follower if you fancy. In your comment please provide an email address so that you can be contacted when I draw the prize.

Now back to the hop - I can now reveal that I do NOT have a hidden letter. Remember to collect all the letters from the hop and assemble to form a Digital Delights related word then return to the Digital Delights blog to enter.

The next stop on the hop is the wonderful Senior Design Team coordinator Lisa F!!

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Gill's Fairy Day Blog Hop Day 2 | Fairy Party Wings

Good Morning and welcome to Gill's Fairy Day Blog hop Day 2. This is a 2 day hop for 24th and 25th of June where the line up on both days is different--I am participating on both days so come back for more tomorrow! If you wish to see my project from Day 1, return to posts from yesterday here.
If you arrived here from Vickie's blog then you are in the right spot! If you joined in randomly, you may start at the top of the hop here!
The theme of this hop is FAIRY Day so what we are doing on this hop is bringing together a select few people from all over the world to take part and for them to create a project with a fairy or fairies on it.
This is a differnt kind of hop as along the hop there are letters to find in the postings - not all blogs have the letters but if you gather all the letters then at the end of the hop on day 2 assemble them to create a fairy related word. If you then return to my blog and enter the Mr Linky at the bottom of the post (do not reveal the secret word yet). After the hop i will contact someone at random and ask them to email me with the word - if correct they win some lovely candy from Gill.
For my post today, I wanted to share ideas and a project that was made for my daughter's 3rd birthday--The Fairy Party!! The back yard was transformed into Fairyland for the birthday party--luckily we have wild spiderwort that grows in the back yard and makes a beautiful Fairyland backdrop. As we have never witness a true fairy circle at our own house, we created one with mushrooms bought at the stores and toothpicks to stick them into the ground. Fairy puppets constructed of wooden puppets with felt, yarn and pipecleaner wings were througout the yard near fairy areas. The cake was a two layer round strawber iced with buttercream. The birthday girl wanted fresh flowers on the cake for the deoration and hotpink icing with kelly green trim. Guests were transformed upon arrival into fairies with painted faces and transparent wings.

To construct the wings you need 4 transparency sheets, alchohol inks, paint, tissue paper and gel medium or modpodge, felt, hotglue, 2 yards of ribbon cut in half, stapler and glitter. Trace a butterfly wing pattern onto the transparency with a marker. Working on the opposite side of the traced line, begin with alchohol inks, layering and blending until the desired patterning and spotting is achieved. Each of these can be VERY different from set to set. The older kids enjoy making them as well.
Next layer on paint and or tissue paper--work so the wings still have some transparency. Feel free to work over the drawn line as the line will be for cutting and you want your layers to be all the way to the cut line.
When the wings are dry, add squiggles or brushstrokes of white glue and sprinkle with glitter! This can be on either side.

To assemble the wings, pleat the flat edge of the wing and hold in place by stapling the edge of the pleat. do this for EACH quadrant of wing. Place the wing pairs--bottoms together and then tops together-- and secure with a few staples i the pleated parts. With clear hot glue, run a bead of glue down the edge of the wing that is not pleated and attach to the top quadrant--repeat for other side. With hotglue attach the ribbons to the wings first leaving tails for tying. In the final step, glue a strip of felt around the stapled wings and ribbons to secure in place and disguise the assembly of the wings. Fairies wings are attached by tying a bow with the ribbons around the arms.

Above are examples of fairy houses found around fairyland. The rooms in the cinderblock were several toghether to form an appartment complex for the fairies. Another house was a side-turned clay pot and the final house was constructed out of sticks in the shape of a teepee. Acryllic sheeps wool made a native fairy looking habitat. Since fairies collect treasure around the home and take their people's things, the homes were furnished with items made by the fairies or altered from people items...thimbles, footstools, tiny chairs. Beads, keys, jewelry and glitter of course were all fair game for the fairy. One brave little winged creature even swiped a phone!

We had a great deal of fun transforming the kids and the yard into Fairyland. This article is one in a line of articles that I write for event/birthday party planning. There is one more article to be written about other decorations in the yard and fairy crafts that the participants created while attending the party. That article will be coming in the next month or two.
I really appreciate you stopping by! I would appreciate it if you would leave a comment or follow me if you enjoyed what you see!
Now back to the hop -Gill has hidden a number of letters throughtout the hop over both days. I personally do not have a letter on my stop but there are some hidden nearby! Remember to collect all the letters from the hop (they will appear over the 2 days) and assemble to form a fairy related word then return to Gill's blog at the end of the 2 day hop and enter the Mr linky (not revealing the word) for your chance to win candy.
The next stop on the hop is my crafty friend  Haidee! Hop on over to see her wonderful creations!

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Festive Friday #12| Snow Friends

If you are looking for Gill's Fairy Day Blog Hop go here.

It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from many talented card crafters as we get our Christmas cards ready early this year.

If you reached this stop from Fab's blog Fab's Big Christmas Card Challenge , then you are in the right spot! If you would like to start from the beginning, you can return to Terri's blog.

 

This Christmas Card is in honor of my friend Sigrid--we were chatting about Christmas cards the other day and I asked her input of what type of card I should do this time--she piped up SNOWMEN!!! I love snowmen and immediately thought this would be fun to celebrate Christmas and friendship!

It's very simple to make, I tore a 3½" strip in a "hill" and swiped it with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I punched out the circles in white and punched out an orange heart and cut it in half to make carrot noses. With pen work I made the faces and buttons down the front of their bellies. I stamped in Tumbled Glass little snowflakes and attached this perfect snowflake ribbon that I got from Mommie!

I hope you enjoyed my card! Thank you for stopping by!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my card.

The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog.

Make sure you make it to each stop!

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Gill's Fairy Day Blog Hop Day 1 | Fairy Card

If you are looking for Festive Friday Blog hop, look here.


Good Morning and welcome to Gill's Fairy Day Blog hop Day 1. This is a 2 day hop for 24th and 25th of June where the line up on both days is different--I am participating on both days so come back for more tomorrow!

If you arrived here from Anita's blog then you are in the right spot! If you joined in randomly, you may start at the top of the hop here!

The theme of this hop is FAIRY Day so what we are doing on this hop is bringing together a select few people from all over the world to take part and for them to create a project with a fairy or fairies on it.

This is a differnt kind of hop as along the hop there are letters to find in the postings - not all blogs have the letters but if you gather all the letters then at the end of the hop on day 2 assemble them to create a fairy related word. If you then return to my blog and enter the Mr Linky at the bottom of the post (do not reveal the secret word yet). After the hop i will contact someone at random and ask them to email me with the word - if correct they win some lovely candy from Gill.

For my first project I did a punch-art fairy! I LOVE fairies and I love love love doing punch art!!

I love doing paper piecings with punchies!

For this card I used Bazzill Basics and DCWV Pocket Full of Posies Stack, ribbon, and EK Success [hearts, circles, word window] and Marvy [scalloped circle] Punches, and chalk and Millenium Pens.

I hope you enjoy my fairy card! I really appreciate you stopping by! I would appreciate it if you would leave a comment or follow me if you enjoyed what you see!

Now back to the hop -Gill has hidden a number of letters throughtout the hop over both days. I personally do not have a letter on my stop but there are some hidden nearby! Remember to collect all the letters from the hop (they will appear over the 2 days) and assemble to form a fairy related word then return to Gill's blog at the end of the 2 day hop and enter the Mr linky (not revealing the word) for your chance to win candy.

The next stop on the hop is : Jackie! Hop on over to see her wonderful creations!

Here is a sneak peek of what is to come tomorrow!! Can't wait to share these ideas!

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Weekly Challenge | Fun in the Sun!

Thank you all for joining us.

This week's challenge at Delightful Challenges is FUN IN THE SUN!!! In case you didn't know, I live in a state with LOADS of sunshine: TEXAS! It is always hot in the summer here and this summer started with a vengeance!  When I saw these precious digi stamps, it immediately made me think of my son and daughter getting ready to go to the pool! Of course, since I'm a GIMP addict, I had to gimp the 2 images together to form my scene! [Hello, I'm leslierahye, and I'm a GIMP addict].
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy my card! Read below for some exciting news!!

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Scrubbie Ted, Scrubbie Sue and floatie, Have Fun in the Sun Sentiment

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics

MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its

ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Diamon Glaze, Ribbon

SPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): GIMP



You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries.

Just add your card twice to inlinkz

to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delights image

1st entry use your card link,

2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name

We have a wonderful sponsor this week! our very own Digital Delights store!!!

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Join us next week for the opportunity to win the stamps that I use to make my card!! Digital Delights is having a Co-Design Team Blog Hop to celebrate the new store front! It will be awesome!! There will be nearly 30 stops, loads of prizes and some amazing grand prizes!! Come back next week--same challenge place, same challenge time! See you then!

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Design Team Announcement | Happy Birthday USA Card

It is my extreme honor to announce my role on the AJs Digi Shoppe Design Team! My friend Amanda Marks has designed a wonderful set of digital stamps and I am so proud to join her team on its maiden voyage! Congrats Manda! I'm excited for you!


Today I'm using one of my favorite sets: Patriotic Ducks! This set includes the 3 duck images you see on my card and the fireworks bursts. The Happy Birthday Sentiment is one of several free images Amanda has available here.

DIGITAL STAMPS USED : Happy Birthday USA Sentiment and Patriotic Ducks Set

CARDSTOCK : Bazzill Basics

MARKERS: Stampin' Up Stampin Write Markers & Blending pens

ACCESSORIES: Crystal Bling and popdots

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy my card!

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Weekly Challenge | Anything Goes!!!

Thank you all for joining us.

For this week's challenge we want to see Anything Goes!!! anything?!?! yes, ANYTHING!!! This is probably my favorite challenge because it allowed me to explore some of my favorite standbys and play with my new toys from convention as well!! I chose to use the Under the Sea Set at Digital Delights by Louby Loo--I love this set as it has so many elements [see the watermarked example below]

the complete Under the Sea Digital Stamp Set

detail showing the Muddpuddles in Malibu Beach Sand and Sea Glass

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Under the Sea Set

CS AND PAPERS: Stampin UpINK: Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass)MARKERS (if any): Stampin Up Stampin' WriteACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: MuddPuddles, Recollections Bling, Homemade Glimmer MistSPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): GIMP background

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card!

You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries.

Just add your card twice to inlinkz

to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delights image

1st entry use your card link,

2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name

We have a wonderful sponsor this week

Cut N Paste Memories

is offering a $20 gift certificate

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leslierahye's crafty gig | the 1st show!! Camp Cards

Wow! What a fun first show and what a surprise!! I had just the day before solved some technical issues with my Ustream feed and so I did not do a large push to get folks to my Ustream and yet nearly 20 tuned in to share with my my inaugural show! I hope you all enjoyed it--I know I had fun sharing with you some cute cards. Below you will see the two cards I made with you and the video from the playback. This first video is a little rough on the edges, the next one will be better, but it's fun and informative and I hope you enjoy it!

Stamps: Campfire by Impression Obsession

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Ink: Memories, Stampin' Up

Coloring Medium: Chalk

Accessories: Tim Holtz fasteners, Quickie Glue Pen and Prismaglitter, Grundgeboard Alpha

 

Stamps: House Mouse, Full of Hot Air and My Wish for you

Cardstock: Bazzill

Ink: Memories

Markers: Stampin Up Stampin' Write

Coloring Medium: Chalk

Accessories: Ribbon, Word Window Punch

As a special thank you from my Mommie, everyone can use this special code for 15% off any purchase at cutnpastememories.com : craftygig!! This code is good until 30 June 2012!! Thank you!!

I hope you enjoyed my show! The next leslierahye's crafty gig can be seen LIVE 24 June 2010 at 8pm CST here. You can join my facebook group to be reminded of upcoming streams here.
Thank you for stopping by!

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Weekly Challenge | Father's Day!!

For this week's challenge at Delightful Challenges, we are celebrating Fathers wth a Father's Day Theme!!!

Now, before I get texts and calls, NO this is not a card I plan on sending to my husband! HA! We are NOT expecting!! I just thought when I learned of the theme that we needed some Expectant Father cards. So I choose the Stork with Baby Dumplin and combined two sentiments to come up with the perfect "You're gonna be a daddy" card! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy my card!

Congratulations!! You're Gonna Be A Daddy!!

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Stork and Baby Dumplin, Wedding Sentiments and Circle Sentiment Set

CS AND PAPERS: Baby Girl Digital Paper and Bazzill Basics 

INK: Distressed Ink Walnut Staina
MARKERS USED : BIC Mark Its

You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries. Just add your card twice to inlinkz to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delights image 1st entry use your card link, 2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name.

We have a wonderful sponsor this week--my most favorite scrapbook shop ever!!! This week,

cutnpastememories.com

is offering a $20 store voucher to the lucky winner.

Please Note:  Digital Delights is in the process of upgrading the store and as a result will have moments of being off-line. You can still swing by the challenge blog and the main blog to enjoy some beautiful creations and be inspired..we appreciate you patience during this time of change!

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Weekly Challenge and New Release | Jungle Buddies

For this week's challenge at Delightful Challenges, we are celebrating the release of these super cute Jungle Buddies stamps and paper so we want to see  JUNGLE THEME projects!!!

For my card I chose to use Safari Dylan and Gemma Giraffe with the Palm Tree and Vine and the Jungle Buddies Sentiments and Papers! These digis are super cute and so much fun to play with!! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card!

Jungle Buddies with Digital Delights by Louby Loo Digi Stamps and Papers

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Safari Dylan, Gemma the Giraffe, Vine, Palm Tree, Jungle Buddies SentimentCS AND PAPERS: Hanging Around paper and Jungle Fun Paper
INK: Distressed Ink Walnut Stain and Broken China
MARKERS USED : BIC Mark Its

You do not have to use a Digital Delights image to play but if you do you will receive two entries. Just add your card twice to inlinkz to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delights image 1st entry use your card link, 2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name.

We have a wonderful sponsor this week,

Simon Says Stamp

 

is offering a $20 store voucher to the lucky winner

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