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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Festive Friday Blog Hop #10 | The Magic of Christmas

It's time for the Festive Friday Blog Hop hosted by Terri Sproul again. This bi-monthly blog hop features Holiday cards from 13 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.

For this easel card I used an older Close to My Heart set called Christmas Magic. I stamped my image on Kraft cardstock with Frayed Burlap Distress ink from Ranger. I then used my blender with the distress ink to color the images. I swiped around the edges of the cardstock and it's layers with the distress ink. I highlighted areas of the stamped images with Diamond Glaze and then sprayed the entire Kraft and Green cardstock with homemade mister made from Perfect Pearls, Reinker, and water. The images is then mounted with Bazzill Matte Brads. The punched accent is an EK Success border punch.

detail of Santa's Workshop sign

detail of rocking horse

detail of inside sentiment

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

The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog. If you get lost on the way, the entire list is on the right hand side of the blog under Festive Friday Blog Hop!

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Making Halloween Cards Challenge #1 | 3D Popup Card & AJ's Digi Shoppe Opens!

This week I'm joining my friend Fab at Making Halloween Cards Blog in his first challenge: 3D Popup Card! This is a great bi-weekly challenge that will focus on one of my favorite holidays- HALLOWEEN!! For this card since it was the 1st of a challenge, I attempted a new popup card type and used my friend Amanda's new monster and celebration digitals from her brand new AJ's Digi Shoppe.

For this card I combined elements from her monsters set and from her celebrations set to make a Monster Bash invitation. I followed Vince and Fab's directions on how to make their version of the easel card~thanks guys! I love these little monsters and I hope you enjoy my card!

Halloween Easle Card up

Halloween Easle card closed

Images were colored with Staedtler watercolors and the Stampin Up Blending pen, Cardstock is Bazzill Basics and Stampin Up. Offray Ribbon, Cuttlebug diecuts, Diamond Glaze and Zots glue dots added embellishment to the card! The details of an event could be included on the inside of the card and concealed by the easel stand.

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Weekly Challenge | Masking and New Release!

This week at Digital Delights we have a super new release Grillin' and Chillin! The images and their accessories are perfect for creating scenes, making awesome Father's Day and summer cards, and creating unique invites for the backyard barbecue--super cute sets with matching paper!!

This week's challenge at Delightful Challenges was to do the masking technique with an image manipulation program to create a scene using the new release sets!

Grillin George Father's Day Card

To make my card, I chose to create a background scene with GIMP a free image manipulation program available here. As a novice to image manipulation with the computer, I found this program extremely easy to work with. My friend Amanda from Who You Calling Crafty wrote up a great review of how GIMP compares to a top-notch program like Photoshop--you can read her review here.

I've added the images and image sets that I used to create my card. For the background I used the sun, trees and fence from the Barbecue Accessories Set and merged them together with GIMP. I printed out the background on my all-in-one HP inkjet printer and then watercolored the background using Staedtler watercolor pencils and crayons.

For the foreground of the scene, I created a file with George, Barbecue dog and the grill and accessories on the Barbecue Cooking Set. This image was printed out and colored with BIC Mark-Its! I highlighted the shiny of the grill and the eyes of the images with Diamond Glaze. I then fussy-cut around the image and added it to my scene with pop-dots.

I completed my card by mounting my scene on Bazzill Basics Kraft and mounted that on a red piece of Bazzill Basics edged with the picnic cloth paper image in the digi paper pack!

I love these summertime images and hope you find them as fun to work with as I have! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my card!



This week's challenge is sponsored by Crafty Emma's Store! It is a  £10 Store Gift Certificate!

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Guest Designer Craft Us Crazy Week #8|Favorite Embellishment and/or Something New

If you are looking for my Weekly Challenge for Digital Delights by Louby Loo, look here.

It is my EXTREME pleasure to be a Guest Designer for the biweekly challenge over at Craft Us Crazy. They offer challenges for all sorts of crafting~not just cards! You're welcome to use any and all company brands and products. They love to see all walks of crafts ...decoupage, stamping (Rubber or Digital), altered, 3D, LOs, Die cut projects, anything as long as its made by your talented hands and it follows the Challenge theme!!! How great is that!

This weeks challenge is sponsored by Digital Delights by Louby Loo and is to use your FAVORITE EMBELLISHMENT and/or SOMETHING NEW!! Anyone who knows me knows my FAVORITE embellishment is GLITTER!!! A close second on embellishments is punchies and bling!

New Car by DigitalDelightsbyLoubyLoo

For this card:
ALL DDSTAMPS USED: New Car
CS AND PAPERS: SU cardstock and Bazzill Basics Cardstock
MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Glitter, basic grey Bling, flocking, SU flower punches, Diamond Glaze, Extreme Glitter Paint

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

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Weekly Challenge | Must Use Flowers

If you are looking for my Guest Designer spot with Craft Us Crazy, look here.

This week on Delightful Challenges, the challenge is to use FLOWERS! Our sponsor sent cutting files for the design team to use in making their creations as well. As I do not *chirp* [I do not own a cricut], I was delighted to see that The Cutting Cafe includes PDFs of their files! This little flower opening bag was so easy to cut and fold from the pattern that I simply printed on the backside of my cardstock! I refashioned Lara's antennae with some wire for her spot on the bag! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you join us on this fun challenge!

Lara Ladybug Flower Bag

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Lara Ladybug
CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics
MARKERS (if any):BIC Mark-Its
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: wire, SU punch, prisma glitter, Diamond Glaze, foam dots, ribbon, 6×3 Bag from Cutting Cafe

We have a Wonderful Sponsor this week

THE CUTTING CAFE

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Nicolette's Mom's Day Blog Hop | Day 2

Welcome to DAY 2 of Nicolette's 2-day Mom's Day Blog Hop! I am thrilled to be a part of this wonderful blog hop with nearly 30 talented crafters!! If you arrived here from Martha's blog you are in the right place! If you just happened to my blog in mid-hop and want to start from the top, Nicolette's blog is the starting point and can be found here.

a keepsake bracelet for the box!

 For the present in the box, I chose to make a keepsake bracelet with photos of my children and flowers from this spring, Tim Holtz's Fragment Charms, sterling silver 22 gauge wire and some fun crackle beads that my daughter and I picked out at WalMart.

I began by selecting the photos I would use to fit the fragments charms for this bracelet. I used the 1" and 5/8" square charms for this project. I sized my photos on a publisher document. Then I also created a pattern to print on the back of the photos [inspired by Tim Holtz's paper stacks, they are two sided so when using the fragments you have a decorative size showing opposite the chosen side.]

To create the pattern, I made a rectangle and used the color selector tool to pick out a shade of pick in the rose image that I was using. Then I made a series of stripes to make a plaid-like pattern. I again used the color selector tool to choose a color to color them, this time a darker shade in the rose.

This was printed on one side of my cardstock and the images were printed on the otherside. I used Diamond Glaze on the fragments and placed them on the photo images and placed that to the side to dry. Afterwards I cut out the charms close to the plastic of the fragment.


I created links with the beads and wire. Making one small trinket with a nail head so that it could dangle from the bracelet. I created joining jumprings by wrapping twisted wire around a dowel and cutting with jewelry snips. A lobster-claw clasp was added to make the bracelet easy to get on and off.

What a fun suprise for my Mommie to have the Zentangled wooded, cheetah plush lined box to open to find another fun present inside!

Stay tuned to my blog, in the future will be videos on making your own jumprings and on making the links that made up the bracelet--they are currently going through the editing process. 
If you missed my project yesterday, you can see it here. I hope everyone takes a moment on Mother's Day to celebrate the special woman/women in their lives.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed your stop! I have a $15 gift certificate that I am giving away in honor of Nicolette's Mom's Day Blog Hop! It is to my FAVORITE papercraft store that just happens to be owned by my Mommie!!! Cutnpastememories.com carries the glue and Tim Holtz Fragments that I used in this project as well as the tools and glue I used yesterday. They carry all of your papercrafting supplies and if there is something you need that you don't see in the store, the awesome news is that they will special order things in for you too!!!

To be in the random drawing for the gift certificate, become a follower and add your comment to this post or to yesterday's post and you will be in the drawing!!! It's that simple! I hope you decide to play!


The next stop on the hop is Kathryn's blog.

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I Hear You're Dragon | Get Well Soon

I learned this weekend that one of my Design Team sisters over at Digital Delights by Louby Loo is under the weather and I thought this cute dragon card with Augustus the Dragon might cheer her up!
I love all things dragon and love the pun "I Hear You're Dragon" as the sentiment, which was easy to make with the blank circular sentiments digi stamp.
I hope Lisa loves the card and that the sentiment helps her heal! Get well soon! Thank you for looking, I hope you enjoyed the card!

ALL DDSTAMPS USED:  Augustus the Dragon, Circular Sentiments blank

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics

INK:  Walnut Stain Distress Ink, SU Rich Razzleberry

MARKERS: BIC Mark-Its

ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Bias Tape, glitter glue, Circle Punch and Heart Punch, Glossy Accents

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Eggstra Special Thanks!

Eggstra Special Thanks!

 I have had the great fortune of meeting some really sweet people over these last few months in the online community. Several of them have become good friends to me and they continually offer support for my crafty efforts. One good friend is often sending me the cutest cards and this week surprised me and my daughter with a care package filled with another super cute card and all kinds of handmade and papercrafty goodies! I was overwhelmed by her generosity and spirit--it really made my day super special! Thank you Sigrid!

To show my thanks, I have made her this darling bunny card using Digital Delights Digi Stamp from the Snuffles and Sookie Easter Set and my favorite Easter sentiment You're Eggstra Special. I colored Snuffles with BIC Mark-Its and accented the stamp with glossy accents, gelly roll glitter pen, wiggle eyes, and bling. I made hotpink "flocking" by trimming down a hotpink pompom and adding crystal lacquer to the nose and piling on the "flocking." I gently swept away the excess. The Bazzill Buttons are some of my favorite but these light tan buttons really did not match the tan of my bunny...so I colored them with the same marker I used on my bunny which easily stuck to the non-porous surface since BIC Mark-It's are alcohol based. Finally I added a little strip of layered cardstock wtih some bling to the interiour of the card to give it a little extra something.

I hope you enjoyed my card! I really hope Sigrid loves it! Thank you again! You are truly a special friend!

special details

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Weekly Challenge | Easter

Barnaby Bunny Topper Card

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Barnaby Bunny Topper, Happy Easter Sentiment                

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics, Easter Kids Digi Paper Pack
INK:  SU Classic Pirouette Pink
MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-It's
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Ribbon, Bling, pompom, Diamond Glaze, Foam Tape
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): GIMP software to add sentiment to topper, 3D layering with foam tape

Since Easter is just around the corner, Delightful Challenges just had to make this week's theme all about ....

EASTER

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 at the Delightful Challenges Blog

to enter twice you need to when you use a Digital Delight 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,

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In Honor of my Dad Blog Hop | Day 1

Welcome to Jennifer Anderson's In Honor of my Dad Blog Hop! This celebration of dads runs from 9-10 April! There are over 20 crafters with lots of cards to look at! Some will be showing more than one project during the hop, including me, so be sure to check back for new inspiration!

If you came to this hop from Shannon's blog then you're in the right spot! If you wish to start from the beginning hop over to here.

One of the items I made for this hop was a handsome little treasure box for Dad to keep anything small in--change, medicine, or a key. This altered tin was made from a BB ammo box. I layered paper on the box with mod podge. I added painted texture with Gold Gleams paint and bubble wrap plastic. I gave the box a darker tone with Distressed inks in Walnut Stain. Buttons Galore buttons and a Jeni Bowlin chipboard button were layered on the lid and adhered with Diamond Glaze. I hope you in joy this little treasure box! Thank you for looking! 

Be sure to check below if you get lost on the hop. Alina's blog is next on the list! Hop on over there to see her wonderful birthday creations!

Please become a follower if you like what you see!

 Roll Call

Jen ~ http://creativearmywife.blogspot.com/
Paula ~ http://www.owlbescrappin.com/
Haidee ~ http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/
Tanya ~ www.ScrappyScavenger.blogspot.com
Erin ~ http://www.spantastikreations.blogspot.com/
Pam ~ http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/
Jessica ~ http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/
Karel ~ http://www.kareljcreations.com/
Liz ~ www.tryin2craft.blogspot.com
Shannon ~ www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
Leslie ~ http://leslierahye.blogspot.com/
alina ~ http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
faith ~ http://faithfulecreations.wordpress.com/
jessica ~ http://thatzuneek.blogspot.com/
jill ~ http://thescrapoholic.blogspot.com/
martha ~ http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
debbie ~ http://scrapbydebbie.blogspot.com/
becky ~ https://beckscricards.blogspot.com/

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