Weekly Challenges | Primary Colors and a New Release

 It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Primary Colors! I LOVE this new release from Digital Delights!! I see lots of scrapbooking pages coming from this paper and digital collection! It is SUPER cute!I hope you enjoy my  card.  Thank you for looking!

for this card you need:

Digital Stamps : School Boy and sentiment

Card Stock : Bazzil Card Stock
Markers : BIC Mark-Its

Accessories : ribbon

We have a fun new release to go along with this challenge!!!! 

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, our very own Digital Delights!!!

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Weekly Challenge | St. Patrick's Day Projects

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges we are making St. Patrick's Day Projects --one of my favorite crafty holidays!! For this challenge I chose to combine two images using GIMP. I printed my completed image out on watercolor paper and painted the image with Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul's Mixers (more on that in another post). I chose some of the yummy new Spring has Sprung Paper Pack for my background papers which match awesomely with last Spring's release of St. Patrick's Day Paper Pack. I hope you enjoy my card!

Happy St. Patrick's Day with Larry!

for this card you will need:

Digital Stamps: St. Patricks Circular Sentiment, St Patricks Day Larry Topper

Digital Paper: St. Patrick's Day Digital Paper, & Spring has Sprung Paper Pack

Card Stock: Bazzill Basics

Ink: SU River Rock

Accessories: Ribbon, silk flowers & premade butterfly, Watercolor Paper, Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer and Terri Sproul's Mixers (Gold Shimmer, Gold Dust, Citrine Pearl, Tanzanite Pearl, Shimmer Red, Bronze) and Enhancer. 

Closeup: The Images were combined in GIMP and then
colored completely with  Mixers and Lacquer...Some mixers
were combined to make certain colors. Come back to my blog
next week for a tutorial on color theory with the Mixers!

Color swatch for my project notebook--whenever I experiment
with mixing colors of things, I always make a few notes so that
I can at a future date replicate a color or texture or such...

 This weeks challenge we would love to see you

St. Patrick's Day Projects

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 NEW Sponsor this week

Scrapyland is offering a $20 Store Certificate

Thank you for stopping by!

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Love Cast in Clay Blog Hop | Molded Love Notes Notepads

Thanks for joining this amazing group of blogs.  This is two Design teams using both Amazing Mold Putty and Creative Paperclay® to create amazing project for you

I began by punching the holes of my love notes cover
with my Bind-it-all. The finished cover will not fit into
Bind-it-All that I have so the holes will mold and
allow me to cut them with a craft knife later.
I then wrote "love notes" on the cover .

To make the yarn easier to manipulate, I applied glue
to the enter length of yarn and on the letters. I then
lined up the yarn starting with the "l". When I got to the
end of the "e", I brought the yard around the perimeter
of the 4×2½" cover, making the heart by looping
the yarn.

I completed the word "notes"  and added glue to
areas of the cover that appeared to be lifting. I
set the cover aside to dry completely before
attempting to mold it.

 

I conditioned equal parts of Amazing Mold Putty part A and
part B. I worked quickly to cover the note pad cover and used
my brayer to smooth the back of the mold so if I later wanted
to cast the cover with Amazing Clear Cast or Amazing Casting
Resin it would make for an even pour.  I sat the mold aside to cure.

Once cured I removed the original to inspect my mold. I loved it.

Experiments led me to use the Creative Paperclay Delight. The
Delight is super light and makes an incredible impression in the
mold. it dries super quick--a process which can be sped up in
a warm oven. I made sure to brayer my Delight in the mold to
have a smooth back for my cover.

I un-molded my Delight cover in white. Pleased with the results
I next added a touch of pink pant to the delight and molded a
pink cover as well. Once the molded pieced dried, I trimmed off
the edges of the cover and used a craft knife to cut the holes to
bind my cover to the base of the book.

When painting the Delight, I used Sakura 3D Crystal lacquer
mixed with Alumilite Gold Metallic Powder--which melts so pretty
in the lacquer, and Terri Sproul's Mixers in Red Satin to high-
light the yarn words. I lightly brushed the gold in a transparent
layer on the face of the cover and in a more opaque manner
around the edges.

Once dry I stacked the cover, the punched inner pages, and the
backing board in the order as it should look once bound.

I then flipped the back board over on the front of the cover
and threaded the wires into the cover so that the "u" rested
inside the back cover. I crimped my coil in my Bind-it-All
to create my Love Notes Notebook. I added Crafty Ribbons
Ribbon from the Ladybug bargain bag to the coils.

I hope you enjoyed my Molded Love Notes tutorial! Thank you for looking!
Enjoy the rest of the hop! Be sure to leave a comment and
become a follower if you are not already.  The blog roll below will keep you on track!

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Weekly Post | Add Snowflakes

It's time again for the next Delightful Challenges Weekly Challenge! This week we are adding SNOWFLAKES to our projects!! With the October Release of Christmas Accessories Set, Wendy has made it possible to add snowflakes to ANY scene! I hope you enjoy my card!

Digital Stamps :  Christmas Accessories Set, Just Chillin Set, Circular Merry Christmas Sentiment

Card Stock : Bazzill Basics

Markers : BIC Mark-Its

Accessories : Quickie Glue Pen, PrismaGlitter, and Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer

Thank you for looking!
You do not require 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 you;

1st entry use your card link, 2nd entry use your blog address and add 2nd entry after your name
This week we have a wonderful Sponsor this week

Cutting Cafe

They are offering 3 free sets this week.

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Digital Delights SPECIAL RELEASE!! | on the 3rd day of Christmas...

..my true love gave to me 3 French hens ♪♫

Digital Stamp :  12 Days of Christmas Set

Card Stock : Bazzill Basics

Markers : BIC Mark-its

Accessories : Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, Crafty Ribbons Grosgrain Ribbon

Isn't this the cutest little French hen you ever saw?!? I used Wendy's darling digi to create a fun ornament for my tree. Each day for the first 12 days of November, Digital Delights by Louby Lou is releasing a new special Twelve Days of Christmas Digi Stamp. Stay tuned for more amazing holiday digis!

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Weekly Challenge | New Release & A Very Sparkly Christmas

It's time again for the next Delightful Challenges Weekly Challenge! It's also time at Digital Delights by Louby Loo for a NEW RELEASE!! What terrific stamps these are too! For my project I used all new stamps and created a fun trifold card with a window on the front panel that allows you to see through to the next panel--see the details below. 

note: paperclip is used to hold the card closed to photograph it only.
It's not part of the design.

Digital Stamps : Santa and Poppet Fairy, Background Window set, Candy Cane Accessories Set, and Touch of Christmas Sentiments

Digital Paper : Candy Cane Lane Paper
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics, Coredinations Distressed Pad, Bazzill Bling

Markers: BIC Mark-its
Accessories: Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer, Quickie Glue Pen and PrismaGlitter

Join us on our challenge

A VERY Sparkly Christmas

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 week our sponsor is the wonderful SimonSaysStamp.com !!!

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

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Festive Friday #20 | A Gift for You

Welcome to Festive Friday #20!!! ONLY 2 MORE after today! WOW...November already?!? This has been an amazing year and I'm so honored to be in this bi-monthly hop with these amazing crafters!
The Festive Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Terri Sproul. 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 Becky's blog BC Designs , 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 quick and easy card all you need is some festive card stock, ribbon and a simple tag! I have tons of cards I like to send out and I always pick a design that is time-consuming and end up not finishing as many cards as i would like. I always have "in-town" cards that I create and this would make an amazing in-town card that could be hand-delivered so as not to squish the bow.
I folded my ½ sheet of card stock cut longways at 2¾" from both sides folding the card in to the center--a gate fold. I matted a piece of white card stock for the interior stamped sentiment [you could print out sentiments on your computer or pen one yourself. I placed a hand-tied bow around the card like a present. It's able to be slipped off so it does not have to be untied.

Thank you so much for stopping by!! I hope you enjoyed my card! Now back to our regularly scheduled hop! The next stop on the hop is Laura Fisher's blog. If you get lost on the way, the entire list is below!

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