Weekly Challenge | 1, 2, Punch!

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is 1, 2, Punch! This gave me the opportunity to dust off one of my favorite punches and add a little border to the bottom of my musical mat! We've been living marching band this month so it was only natural for me to outfit Tommy in a blue and gold uniform! Fun! ~I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by!

Tommy Trumpeter

Card stock : Neenah, Bazzill

Accessories : Art Glitter Glue, CLD dies & 

Markers : Spectrum Noir

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Our Theme for this week is:

1, 2, Punch

(create an element to add using a paper punch)

Be sure to read the challenge rules below

We are being sponsored by the fabulous

Prize

$15 Store Certificate

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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Upright Z-Fold Card with Digital Delights

Happy Tuesday Tutorial! I'm sharing a twist on a card folding favorite of mine over on the Digital Delights blog today. It's called the Upright Z-Fold Card.
I hope you enjoy my tutorial! Thank you for looking~

For this project

Check out the how-to video on our Tutorial Blog or here

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Tuesday Tutorial | Create a banner with Digital Delights by Louby Loo

Happy Tuesday Tutorial! Leslie-Rahye here to share a fun Festive Bunting Tutorial. I created this bunting using the Bunting Banner Set, the Rainbow Digital Paper Pack and the Festive Flamingo! Creating a bunting decoration for your party and holiday  is super easy with these digis from Digital Delights by Louby Loo.
I hope you enjoy my tutorial! Thank you for looking~

For this project

Festive Flamingo

Bunting set

Rainbow Digital Paper Pack

Check out the how-to video on our Tutorial Blog or here

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Weekly Challenge | Punches & Dies

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Punches & Die Cuts I wanted to take this opportunity to use Buttons the Clown and the Celebrate Ticket Sentiment to convey the month I've been having!! It's been such a fantastic month so far I just want to celebrate!! Thank you for looking!

Digital Stamps : Buttons and circus tent

Card Stock : Bazzil Basics

Markers: BIC Mark-Its

Accessories : punches, foam tape and Crystal Lacquer

Punches & Die Cuts

You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image to join in on the fun

but if you do you can enter TWICE. 

To enter twice when using a Digital Delight image your 

1st entry use your card link

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

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

We have a wonderful Sponsor this week

 

http://www.cutnpastememories.com

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Easy Cone Basket with Tissue Paper Flowers!!

Today on the Sakura Hobby Crafts Blog I share several techniques using Terri Sproul's Mixers to make this fun Spring cone basket with tissue paper flowers! Hop on over and check out a fun and easy way to use these grear mica powders! Thank you for stopping by!

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Weekly Challenge| New Release and Punchies/Dies

Welcome to another Delightful Challenges weekly challenge...this week we're creating projects with Wendy's new stamp release!!! These stamps are just precious!! I could not stop creating! 

For my Design Team Challenge I created with Luvvy Bear with his Balloons! Such a sweet stamp. I also used the new Sweetheart Paper pack to paperpiece his ears, feet and belly and the balloons. For a final embellishment to meet the demands of the challenge, I punched some sweet little flowers out of the dotty paper in the Sweetheart Paper Pack and stamped with my eraser the centers of the flowers. Love this little bear! These new stamps and papers can be found at Digital Delights by Louby Loo! I hope you enjoy my cards

For this card:
Digital Stamps: Luvvy Bear with his Balloons
Digital Papers: Sweetheart Digital Paper Pack
Markers: BIC Mark-Its

Accessories: Sakura 3d Crystal Lacquer and SU boho flowers punch, foam tape.

For this card I used Cuddle Bunny from the new release and printed it out on the digital papers [using the PNG format of the stamp]. I paper pieced the image together making the various shapes the different patterns of paper. I accented my bunny with a punched flower in her ear.  Thank you for looking!

For this card:

Digital Stamps: Cuddle Bunny
Digital Papers: Sweetheart Digital Paper Pack
Accessories : Foam Tape, Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, SU Boho Flower Punch

This weeks challenge we would love to see

Punches and Dies

Are you ready for a terrific new release?!?!!!!

You are not required to use a Digital Delights Image to join in on the fun but if you do you can enter TWICE
To enter twice you when using a Digital Delight image your 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

Cutting Cafe is offering 3 sets from there store

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Rock Star Accessories!

UPDATED: These projects are currently in a blog link-up contest with Fave Crafts. Please go vote for my projects here. I would really appreciate the support. I could win a $50 gift card that would help me continue to share with you fun crafts!

This week is Red Ribbon Week at my children's school. If you are unfamiliar with Red Ribbon Week, you can read more about its history and presence in the school systems across America here. This year the kids in addition to wearing Wednesday's traditional RED, get to wear pajamas, come as their favorite super here [a special post to come on this too], come dressed in their favorite team jersey, and for my daughter's school, come to school as a ROCK STAR! 

My little Rock Star did not wish to have her photo made in her Rocker Attire so you simply get the photos of the items I crafted to go with her flashy jeans--they have stars stitched into them as well as a few appliques of stars on them-- and rock star shirt. 

Upcycled 3D Movie Glasses with bling and Pink punchies

Pinked up Homecoming Bow with added mulberry flowers

Upcycled water bottle bracelets with ribbon and eyelash/pom fibers 

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

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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 | TAGS!! & Announcements

This weeks challenge at Delightful Challenges is TAGS!!! I love tags and making tags! I knew for this challenge I would need some cute little bee tags--the mascot for my children's schools are bees/yellow jackets. Honey Pot Larry would make the perfect little favor to add to end of the school projects for the kids classes! I hope you enjoy my Honey Pot Larry Tag!

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: HoneyPot Larry, Blank Circle Sentiment from Circle Sentiments Set

CS AND PAPERS: Busy Bees Digital Paper
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: yarn and fiber
COLORING MEDIUM (if any): Staedtler Watercolor pencils, SU Blending pen
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): Diamond Glaze and gellyroll glaze pen, foam tape, Marvy Scallop Punch and EK Success Circle Punch

So for this weeks challenge we want to see your tags!!! 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 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,

Our very own

Digital Delights

is offering a $10 Certificate

...and now for an ANNOUNCEMENT....

Delightful Challenges--the challenge blog for Digital Delights by Louby Loo--has a few openings for new designers!!!I joined this team in February and it has been a BLAST!! I love Wendy's digital designs [stamps, papers, cutfiles]. She has such cute ideas and they really inspire me! If you've enjoyed seeing the many projects I've created with her digis and love to work with digis, read

here for more information on how to submit your work to the call. Decisions will be made next month and I would love to have some new DT friends join me!

...and for my 2nd ANNOUNCEMENT!!!Wendy has asked me if I would like to step up into the Senior Designer position on the Challenges DT and I of course said YES!!! I am thrilled that she sees my love for her product and would like to give me more resposibility in her company!!! So my previous designer badge is being retired for this new shiney SENIOR DESIGNER BADGE!!!! Thank you Wendy and Lisa F and Lisa V!!!

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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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Invitations for the Crafty Birthday Girl | Sam's 5th Birthday

This weekend is my daughter's 5th birthday party and she decided she needed a Crafty Party. There will be lots of crafts for her friends to do. Her daddy is making her a special crafting table and some of her favorite crafts have been collected for her birthday celebration! She had creative control of how her birthday card came together and she was quite pleased with the final result. I will be adding a scribd document here next week with complete instructions on making the cuts and folds on this card and possibly a video that will show how it can be modified for other shapes.

Front of Birthday invite closed

The card features Bazzill Basics and DieCuts With a View Cardstock and Miss Elizabeth pattern Paper. The paper doll is a Sizzix die as are the accessories [clothes, shoes, hair] The heart punch is Stampin up and the Swiss Dots texture is from a Provocraft emboss folder. The font for the card is called US and is free on DaFont.com. At her request, I wrote in hand "i love crafts" all the way around the cover of the card. The face was hand-drawn using the same Micron Pen and accented with brown marker and pink ink on an eraser for cheeks!


Birthday card opened and lying flat



Card upright to see the special fold out

Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoy! Check back for links to video tutorial and scribd download!

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Operation Write Home's Bunny Hop Blog Hop

Welcome to the Operation Write Home's Bunny Hop Blog Hop! I am so honored to be part of this organization's wonderful hop! There are 135 stops in hop--if you came here from Kelly's You and your Big Dreams, you are in the right place. If you would like to start from the beginning, go here.

Operation Write Home is an amazing organization and helps connect soldiers with home in many ways. One of my favorite ways to connect is by using the printables for young people to color and to write letters and notes to the soldiers abroad. Here you can download and print off writing color pages that children [or adults] can write letters of appreciation to their soldier heroes. I use these mainly with the cubscouts in our Pack. The boys love coloring the images and writing letters to their heroes.

Below I have made 2 spring themed cards! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed making them!

Bloom & Grow Spring Card

 Bloom & Grow Spring Card:
Paper:  Basic Grey Cardstock and Green at Heart Kit and Paper Pad.
Tools: Big Shot Express and Cuttlebug Texure Folder, Stampin Up Owl Punch
Embellishments: Flower petals, brads, 3D Glue Dots

Think Spring Card

  

Think Spring Card:
Paper:  Basic Grey Cardstock and Green at Heart Kit and Paper Pad.
Tools: EK Success Circle Punches, House Mouse Stamp, Circle Sentiments Digi Stamp by Digital Delights by LoubyLoo.
Embellishments: Basic Grey Bling, 3D Glue Dots
Coloring Technique: Chalk


To continue on your blog-hop-way, hop on over to Sharon's Desert Rose Stamper!

Blog Candy!!

Today I am offering a $10 Gift Certificate to cutnpastememories.com online store! They offer all of the amazing products that I used today and are a great store for all your needs!

How to enter for the drawing:
1. Leave a comment below with your email address.
2. Become a fan if you are not already by following me!

I will draw on Monday using Random.org and post and email the winner! Thank you so much for looking and commenting! It really makes my day!

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Delightful Challenges | Use Your Scraps

For this week's challenge we want to see you

USE YOUR SCRAPS



We know you have them so get those scraps out and use them!!!

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 Delight image1st entry use your card link,

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

**Please be sure the card you link follows the challenge and the rules or it will be removed**We have a wonderful sponsor this week,

is offering a

$5 gift certificate

to there store!



Dilly Duck and Ladybug Friend Card with DigitalDelights by LoubyLoo



I LOVE this challenge! I collect a lot of scraps...I try not to keep anything I can't send back through my printer...so that usually limits me to no smaller than 3×5". That size is good for card making. I will also keep pieces that are a few inches across and LONG [like 12"]. I scrapbook in an 8½×11" size and since most paper on the market now is only in 12×12" I get a lot of scraps! I love the long skinny 1" piece for running through my BigShot and making into quill strips or using for punchie art. and the pieces cut making the paper 8½" wide are great for cards.

I store my scraps in a little basket and when the basket starts to get full, I usually sit down and punch out some fun shapes or die cut them and craft with my kids, make some cards or some tags.

I hope you enjoy this cute card that I made for you!

closeups!



ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Dilly Duck and Ladybug, Ticket Sentiments

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics

MARKERS (if any): BIC Mark-Its

ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Embossed paper with ProvoCraft Emboss Folders, punchies, and wire antennae with silver beading wired.

SPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): used scraps in printer for ticket and for punchies and for background "grass".l

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Delightful Digitals Challenges | Let's Get Punchy & Digi Day at SNR

Happy Thursday to you!!

It's time for another Delightful Challenge and this week is....

 

LETS GET PUNCHY

(Use your punches and Die Cuts)



Shaker Card with Happy Birthday Pippin and Ticket Sentiments Set by Digital Delights by Louby Loo





ALL DD STAMPS USED: Birthday Pippin, Ticket Sentiments Set

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill and Diecuts with a View
MARKERS: BIC Mark-It
ACCES. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Offray ribbon, Stampin Up Hardware, acrylic sheet (Bazzill), mini star confetti/glitter, foam tape, EK Success Punches (star and flower), Marvy Punch (Scalloped Circle)
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES: shaker box created by punching window out of top layer of cardstock and backing with an acrylic sheet of paper. Added 2 layers of foam tape to form a shadowbox. Added punchies and glitter for the “shakings” and placed the colored digi stamp over the back so that it could be seen through the window.

Now of coarse we have a Fabulous Sponsor for our Delightful Challenge as always and this week we are sponsored by

BABY BUD DESIGNS

One lucky player will win Two Stamps from Baby Bud Designs.

Aren't they just adorable!!!

We also have our Digital Delights Digi Day Challenge going on Today over at SNR Card Universe.

Our Challenge image is Peeking Heart Larry.

The Challenge: To come up with Original Sentiments to put in Larry's Banner.

You can find all the details HERE.



Valentine Card with Peeking Heart Larry by Digital Delights by Louby Loo

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Heart Peeking Larry
CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics and Bazzill Bling, paper scraps
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Martha Stewart ultrafine glitter (yellow gold), Quickie Glue Pen, Foam Tape, Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, paper stumps.
COLORING MEDIUM (if any): Gamsol
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES (if any): color blending with Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol and paper stumps. Glittering with Quickie Pen and ultrafine glitter. Three-Dimensional paper piecing using Foam Tape.



Our Digi Day Challengers will have a chance to win 3 Digi Images of their choice from Digital Delights by Louby Loo :0)

I hope you take the opportunity to participate in BOTH of our challenges at Digital Delights!

Thank you for looking! 

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