Weekly Challenge | Favorite Things

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Favorite Things! This card is loaded with my favorite things! Sweet Ollie Owl from Digital Delights, glitter, string, metal, Cheery Lynn Dies and KRAFT CARD STOCK! [yes I'm living dangerously with the Kraft card stock...none of us want the repeat intervention from a few years back! Ollie is perfect for ushering in the holiday season! I wish you and your families a Happy Chanukah and a Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking!

Digital Delights Stamps : Ollie owl (colored)

Card stock : Bazzill, Coredinations

Accessories : Foam Tape, glue, Distress Glitter, Tim Holtz trinkets

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies : Circle - Scalloped LG Stackers Nesting Dies - XL-5
Circle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-4

Now for our fun new challenge.

This week's theme :

Favorite Things

(use your favorite embellishment(s) or technique)

We are being sponsored by the wonderful

About us - Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none.
Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel? Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft. Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all! Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths.
Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects on our blog,or visit our Inspiration blog,or maybe join in with us at our Challenge blog. Go on, have a look... It's worth it !
Tony & Ali

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Prize:  

Now it's Your Turn!

You are not required to use a Digital Delights 

Image to join in the fun 

but if you do, you can enter THAT project TWICE.

To enter twice when using a Digital Delight image,

for your 1st entry use your card link.

For your 2nd entry use your blog address

 and add "2nd entry" after your name

Otherwise, only ONE entry person

**Please be sure to follow the challenge theme and rules or it will be removed.

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Tuesday Tutorial with Digital Delights | Creating a Countdown Spinner!

Hi everyone! Today on the Digital Delights blog I am sharing the Tuesday Tutorial introducing you to the brand new How Many Days to Christmas set!! In this tutorial I share with you how to add in your favorite character and create a fun count down spinner for your Holiday! 

For this project

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Have a Cool Yule with Cheery Lynn Designs

Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am sharing with you a festive Yule card created with several yummy dies from the October New release! I love the snowflake mesh and the fringe dies along with the Horizon Boutique Circle die! This card is folded off-center so as to accommodate the large 4¾" Horizon Boutique die. The snowflake mesh is actually on the "inside" of the card on the right side so as to "peek" out around the circle edge of the face of the card! The tips of the fringe were hand colored as well as the green leaves and vines.

Thank you for stopping by! 

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Snowflakes - C146

Flourish Leaf Strip - B178

Mini Fanciful Flourish Right - B291

Circle - Scalloped LG Stackers Nesting Dies - XL-5

Circle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-4

Horizon Circle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL272
Felicity Tiny Doily - DL243

Small Heart Lollipop Fringe Cutie - B391

Small Lollipop Fringe Cutie - B390

Snowflake Mesh Border - B372

Tiny Flower Kit (Set of 3) - B376

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #108 is non-traditional Christmas colors. There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

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The Key to My Heart

 Good afternoon everyone! I wanted to share with you some fun new products that I've been experimenting with this weekend! This is chipboard and embossing powders and glazes from Globecraft and Piccolo! I'm very excited about these embossing powders! They are blended with a variety of sizes so that you get spurts of color and chunkyness in your project depending on how much you heat them.
For the chipboard hearts, I layered three coats of powder on each side and then added a glaze of glastique to the top to add shine and smoothness. For the keys I applied 2 coats of powder on  both sides...the smoothness of the copper did not require an additional coat of glaze. I created 1" and ½" paper beads and then coated them all with the copper emboss enamel. On the ½" beads I sprinkled a coat of cranberry wine on for the last layer and heated the bead one more time. Layered on top of the copper, the cranberry powder gave a smoother finish!

Products Used

Glastique Gloss Finishing Glaze

Key to My Heart Charm Set

Keys to My Heart Accents

Cranberry Wine Embossing Enamel

Vintage Copper Embossing Enamel

Piccolo Enamel/Embossing Powder Adhesive

The necklace was put together with a variety of chains and jump rings. A bit of sari silk was threaded through the eyes above the beads for added comfort in wear. I hope you enjoyed my project featuring chipboard and emboss enamel and glastique glaze from Globecraft and Piccolo! Thank you for stopping by!!

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You are my Best Friend!

Hi everyone! I'm sharing a fun fat book page on the AlteredPages.com Art-Sociates Blog today featuring some new items in the store! I hope you enjoy!

Materials :

G45 Steampunk Spells

Glitz Rhinestones

Glitz Stickers

Ephemera Treasures

AP Rubber Stamps : Time on Your Side Set

Dylusions Stencils

AP Silly Sticks

Mix'd Media Inx Truffles and Black

Adhesive Cork Sheets

Liquitex Modeling Paste

Ranger Distress Glitter Clear Rock Candy

Foam Tape

Burlap String

markers

Begin by adhering some pattern paper to a 4×4 cardboard square. With Modeling Paste stencil 2 sides of the square with a Dylusions stencil. I then poured microbeads from my Ephemera Treasureson the wet paste. The microbeads stay in place with the paste. Once dry edge the sides with Mix'd Media Inx Truffles.

Stamp a new Altered Pages rubber stamp with Mix's Media Inx Black onto cork paper. Color with Sharpie Metallic and Brown Markers. Add glue to "sand" of the hour glass and dust Distress Glitter. Sand the edges of the Glitz card stock stickers and ink. Layer on the fat book with foam tape.

Giant Rhinestone and bling as well as a burlap string wrapping finish the fat book!

Thank you for stopping by!

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Weekly Challenge | Tag You're It at Cheery Lynn

Happy Tuesday everyone! On the Cheery Lynn Blog today I am sharing with you a watercolored fall tag! I cut out all the elements of this tag on watercolor paper. I used both crayons and mica infused cake watercolors to create these fall leaves and back ground. Distress Ink rubbed onto the edges helped complete the leaves once they were formed with an emboss tool. The Thank and You were also painted with the mica cake watercolors and rubbed gently with the Distress Ink.  I really love how the Dimensional Leaves look with the embossed veins--so real looking!

Thank you for stopping by! 

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Thank (Set of 2) - B230
You (Set of 2) - B235
Dimensional Large Leaves #1 - D135
Shoji Mesh Border - B371

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #107 is Tag You're It!. There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

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Festive Upcycled Card with Cheery Lynn Designs

Happy Tuesday everyone! Over on the Cherry Lynn Designs blog I am sharing with you a festive card using project left overs. I like to create with white die cuts...many times misting, painting, or coloring with markers to to complete the look of my projects. The pieces I've chosen for this card include items for Halloween, a mixed media canvas project, an altered bottle project and some winter cards. Even if it is a partial piece, I keep the leftovers, they work well for a little sneak peek under a ripped paper.

The peek-a-boo showing under the ripped piece is cut to fit the spot. It is glitter for a hint of glitz. The flowers on the doily are all white and given a glisten using the clear Wink of Stella pen 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy my festive card  made with left overs!

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Horizon Circle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL272

Miniature Rose - B152

Snowflakes - C146

Embellishment #2 - B188

Black Eyed Susan Strip - B338

Flourish Leaf Strip - B178

Large Rose - B155

Ankara Lace Border - B332

Felicity Tiny Doily - DL243

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #106 is Autumn Colors. There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

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leslierahye's Thankful for those who have Served 2♥13

Good morning! Happy Veteran's Day! This is a day to remember our service men and woman--to thank them for the freedoms we have because of the service THEY gave. Thank you.

Recently for a project at school my son was asked who in his family were veterans. I asked my mom's help in creating a list because I knew the two men pictured here were, and my uncle [most recently]. But there were many in our family that we were leaving out. A few hours later, we had a list--over 20 in our families have served from World War I to present day. OVER 20! It's incredible to me that so many of our family fought hard for this country...almost every branch of service is represented. 

Today I am sharing with you my grandfathers. Without these men, I would not have had my parents and I would not be here. I love and appreciate them very much and miss them every day. For the hop today I created Altered Trading Cards with vintage photos of them in their uniforms--they were very handsome!

William Q Snow

World War II

Marion D Harris

World War II

Thank you for taking the time to stop by. I would love to hear about your own veterans in the comments! Land of the Free, Because of the Brave! Be sure to check out the stories and projects on the rest of the hop!

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Weekly Post | All That Glitters and New Release

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is All That Glitters! What a fun challenge--I made the Team post today and as I was putting in everyone's card I thought aw, how pretty! So, Be sure you get to the blog to see the beautiful creations! I got to work with this fun new release image Christmas Joy Molly. She is perfect for blinging up and glittering! I love non-traditional colors for Christmas and I think she looks so cute in pink and green!  I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking!

Digital Delights Stamps : Christmas Joy Molly

Card stock : Bazzill, Neenah, Coredinations

Markers : Spectrum Noir [CG3, CG2, CR3, IB1, PP1, TN2,TN3,CR6, IG3, TN5]

Accessories : Foam Tape, glue, Distress Glitter

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies : Snowflakes - C146, Winter Neighborhood Border - B323

Here's our New Release

Now for our fun new challenge.

This week's theme :

All That Glitters

We are being sponsored by the fabulous

Prize:  $15 store gift card

Now it's Your Turn!

You are not required to use a Digital Delights 

Image to join in the fun 

but if you do, you can enter THAT project TWICE.

To enter twice when using a Digital Delight image,

for your 1st entry use your card link.

For your 2nd entry use your blog address

 and add "2nd entry" after your name

Otherwise, only ONE entry person

**Please be sure to follow the challenge theme and rules or it will be removed.

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I Survived the 31 Days of Halloween 2013

SO something possessed me to take part in the Smeared and Smudged's Annual 31 Days of Halloween Hop 2013...Actually I L O V E D it and part of me IS sad to see Halloween projects going away for now as I can't seem to get anyone else to be on board with Cob Webs and Bats for all my cards! { I just LOVE those Cheery Lynn Designs Dies!!!}

I will not lie...I'm EXHAUSTED and spent the next week sputtering like Goldie Hawn in Overboard! But if given the chance, I'd probably do it again! I do love stamping and I do love Halloween! I'll start earlier this year! YAY!

So if you missed all of the Hallowed projects on my blog this past month--plus the design team ones I did--here is a recap! I hope you enjoy!

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Celebrate with Cheery Lynn Designs and A Crafty Moment

Happy Tuesday everyone! leslierahye here to share with you a fun celebration card! These happy little dancing mice are celebrating the Scottish New Year. They are of course another creation of by buddy Vince! The beautiful Doily Stacker Circle sets off this dancing duo. A couple white and teal flowers echo the colors of the mice and their clothes to complete the look. A Classic Circle is tucked between the Horizon Circle Boutique Stacker and the Doily Stacker bring it all together!

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

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Horizon Circle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL272

Circle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-4
Doily Stacker Circles 1, 2, 3 - DL164
Embellishment #2 - B188
Black Eyed Susan Strip - B338

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #105 is Give Thanks. There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

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