Tuesday Tutorial | Chalk on Dark Card Stock

Hi everyone it is time for another Tuesday Tutorial.

I'm sharing with you a simple coloring technique using dark colored card stock and chalk with digital stamps by  Digital Delights

I hope you enjoy my tutorial!

Check out my tutorial on the Digital Delights Blog~

Thank you for joining me!

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Weekly Challenge | Distressing and New Release

 It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges we are distressing our projects! Wendy's new Wild West set is so much fun and perfect for the distresses theme! Being a Texas girl I am particularly fond of the sayings! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking!

for this card you need:

Digital Stamps: Lil Dixie & Wild West Sentiment

Digital Paper: Wild West Digital Paper Pack

Accessories: foam tape, Craf-T Chalk, brads and star concho, glitter pen, Hem Tape 

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

Scrappyland is offering a $20 store gift card

Also Digital Delights has a fun new Cowboy release today

  

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Festive Friday #2 2♥12 | from my winnings...

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 Terri's Blog Terri Sproul , then you are in the right spot--she is also the beginning of the blog!

For this card you will need: 

Stamps: Viva Las VegaStamps!

Card stock: Bazzill Basics and Basic Grey

Accessories: Terri Sproul's Mixers, chalk, Prismacolors, 

Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal Lacquer, 

bling, twill and Ranger Archival Ink.

For this card I chose stamps from plate 1363 from Viva Las VegaStamps! The B E S T part about these stamps is.... I WON THEM!!! OH YEAH! This plate of holiday stamps was my favorite all holiday season and I love them!!! Santa checking his list is super easy to color and looks stunning in Terri Sproul's Mixers!!! I stamped the image on a piece of red and colored the parts that would not be red with mixers and prismacolor pencils  and accented the edge of him with brown chalk to make him pop off the red!  I love it! I hope you enjoy him too!

 The next stop on the hop is Chris! She always has great designs at Stinky Dog Designs!

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International Talk Like a Pirate Blog Hop hosted by Captain Gill

Ahoy mates! Welcome t' Gill's International Talk Like a Pirate Day Blog Hop! This be one o' me favorite holidays. I be so happy t' be a part o' this celebration. If you came upon this hop in t' middle then return t' Gill's blog t' start at t' top. If you hopped over from Haidee's blog then you be in t' starboard spot. It was by chance that me daughter's snack day landed on Talk Like a Pirate Day. She and I were both excited. I decided for me post t' share with you t' pirate themed snacks that I brought up t' t' school today. I hope you enjoy me project!

For me project I chose these wonderful pirate digital stamps by Digital Delights by Louby Loo. I used both t' colored digis and t' non-colored [map] for this project. T' colored digis made creatin' 20 sets o' snacks much easier!  

I colored t' maps with chalks and I trimmed out t' pirate lasss and lads and maps t' adhere t' t' fore o' t' lunch sack. I printed out "labels" for t' doubloons and ale. Inside t' sack little pirates will find "coins" [carrots], goldfish, and "ale" [water].

T' digis were highlighted with Perfect Pearls and Sakura 3D Colored and Crystal Lacquer.

Thank you for stoppin' by! T' next stop on t' hop be Jackie!

Fun Links to help you Talk Like a Pirate too!
The beginning of International Talk Like a Pirate Day
English -to- Pirate Translator
Get your Pirate Name

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Weekly Challenge | Girly Girl

It's time again for Delightful Challenges weekly challenge and this time it's GIRLY GIRL!!! As I live with a girly girl, I knew the perfect accessories would be metallic lacquer and glitter and flowers and pearls! I hope you enjoy my card!

 Digital Stamps: Sugar plum Fairy

Cardstock: DCWV, Bazzill Basics

Markers: BIC Mark-Its

Accessories: Sakura Hobby Crafts 3D Crystal and Metallic Lacquer, Foam Tape, chalk, flowers, pearls and penwork

Join us on our challenge

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

Crafty Emma's Store

£10.00 excludes P&P

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Weekly Challenge | Stitching & New Release!

It's time again for a wonderful new release at Digital Delights by Louby Loo. These super cute images have been introduced to help bring in Fall! I love them all and am especially pleased to see SUNFLOWERS!!! You all know I'm a big fan of the sunflower!  I hope you enjoy these cuties as much as I am!

This weeks challenge is for you to show us your STITCHING!!! You can either do pen-stitching like I did here or REAL stitching!! I can't wait to see your challenge--you can get the full details of the challenge here.

Digital Delights Stamps:  Fall Kids Set, Fall Accessories Set

cardstock: Bazzill Basics

technique: chalk and paper punchies, pen-stitching

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

Prize - $20 GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR THEIR STORE

thank you for looking! 

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Weekly Challenge | Christmas in July

Seeing that it is HOT HOT HOT outside this week's challenge to cool us off we want to see

Christmas is July

As I stated earlier this week I am all excited to start celebrating Christmas in July!!! I am getting geared up to make my gifts for this holiday season and am counting down the weeks to Christmas week! Come back later this week to see more Christmas projects from me but for now enjoy this 6×6 card using Digital Delights by Louby Loo! 

stamps: Merry ChristMOOSE sentiment, sitting reindeer
cardstock: Bazzill Basics
accessories: chalks, dimensional lacquer

To enter the challenge, go to the Delightful Challenges blog. 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

Crafty Emma's Store

is offering  £10 voucher

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Weekly Challenge | Must Use Flowers!

Good Morning! What a wonderful spring day and for this week's Delightful Challenges, your creation must use flowers!!
For my 6×6" card I did a masking technique in the freeware program GIMP to place the bride and groom inside the oval frame. I accented the frame and the bride's veil with ultrafine glitters. The flowers are punched from Stampin' Up punches and burnished with a large ball embossing tool. They are adhered to the card with 3D Zots and blinged out with crystal bling and flower brads.
Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoy!

True Love Bride and Groom Card with Digital Images by Digital Delights by Louby Loo

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Wedding & Anniversary Sentiment, #Wedding03 Bride and Groom, Scalloped Frames Set

CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics and Spring Weave Digital Paper Pack

MARKERS: BIC Mark-its
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Chalk, Glitter, SU Punch, bling, brads
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES:  Masking with GIMP

Join us at Delightful Challenges because you could possibly win and be able to purchase your own adorable stamps and papers at Digital Delights by Louby Loo as this weeks challenge is sponsored by:

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Weekly Challenge | Pastels & Ribbon

Today there is a new challenge at Delightful Challenges. 

For this week's challenge we want to see you use

PASTELS

&

RIBBON

Happy Easter Peyton!

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Easter Egg Peyton, Happy Easter Sentiment [inside]CS AND PAPERS: Bazzill Basics Cardstock, Easter Kids Digital Paper Pack, Easter Fun Paper Set
INK: Stampin Up Soft Sky

MARKERS : BIC Mark-Its
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Ribbon, Chalk, Diamond Glaze, Queen & Co. Brads

Happy Easter Peyton Card opened

This week's challenge as our Fabulous Sponsor for this week is none other than.....

One lucky player will win a $10.00 Gift Certificate to the Really Reasonable Ribbon store.

Now you don't have to use a Digital Delights image to play along with our challenge but if you do you get to an extra entry.

Right now we have our March Madness Sale going on, so lots of great images at a Fabulous price.
Don't forget to visit the Delightful Challenge and Digital Delights blogs to see some AMAZING creations and more inspiration using Digital Delights images.

Thank you for looking! I hope you enjoyed!

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Weekly Challenge | Pastels/Butterflies & Digi Day at SNR

Today is a wonderful day at Digital Delights by Louby Loo! Not only do we have a FABULOUS new challenge at Delightful Challenges, but it is also DIGI DAY at Scrapbook News and Review!! So, for you I have 2 cards today!! I hope you enjoy what you see!


For this weeks challenge at Delightful Challenges, you are to use Pastels and Butterflies! I chose to use the adorable Fairy and created a mushrooms with Stampin' Up's owl punch! The Butterflies are diecut from the Embossing Sizzlet from Stampin up. The beautiful Plaid Paper is from Digital Delights~~Easter Fun Paper Pack!

Weekly Challenge: Delightful Challenges~~Fairy Flutterby Wishes Card

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Fairy, Circle Sentiments Set

CS AND PAPERS: Easter Fun Paper Pack, Bazzill Basics Cardstock, Coredinations Whitewash Stack
MARKERS (if any): Sharpie
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Sizzix Embossed Butterflies and Grass Dies, Provocraft Emboss Folder, Stampin Up owl Punch [mushroom], Glitter Pen, Quickie Glue and Ultrafine Glitter, Foam Tape, ZipDry Glue
COLORING MEDIUM (if any): Chalks

Check out the wonderful designs from the DT.

This weeks challenge over at Delightful Challenges is sponsored by The Cutting Cafe and you could win a wonderful prize

For Digi Day, Wendy has created this CUTE Shamrock Bongo Digi for you to use FREE. You can create a card or scrapbook page with Bongo and post your creation for inspiration in the SNR Group! Head on over and join our group so you can be ready to join in the fun and games.  We would love to see you there

Digi Delights Shamrock Bongo St. Patrick's Day Card

ALL DDSTAMPS USED: Shamrock Bongo Digi Day
CS AND PAPERS: DCWV, Bazzill Basics
MARKERS (if any): Stampin'up [grey]
ACCESS. AND EMBELLISHMENTS: Bazzill Basics Brads, Quickie Pen, Prisma Glitter, Perfect Pearls, Buttons Galore Buttons, Hemp string, silkflower, 3D Glue Dots, SU Tab Punch.
COLORING MEDIUM (if any): Prismacolors & Gamsol

Thank you for looking!! I hope you enjoyed my cards!

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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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ANNOUNCEMENT!

Digital Stamps by Digital Delights by Louby Loo

It is my extreme honor to announce to you that I have been named as a new designer for Delightful Challenges at Digital Delights by Louby Lou. Wendy [AKA Louby Loo] designs the cutest digi stamps and I love working with them. You've seen them on a previous card [You Had me at M♥♥!] and now I get the pleasure of working with them every week as a designer! I'm very excited and I hope you enjoy all the cards and papercrafts that I bring you with Digital Delights stamps!

This card uses Darby the Duck and the blank ticket in the Ticket Sentiment Set. I printed out 2 copies of Darby each in yellow and orange and 1 copy of my sentiment in pale blue. I trimmed out an extra head and wing out of the yellow and an extra hair and beak which I used as a template to make a 3-d beak by folding some orange in half and trimming around the beak on the fold. I used chalks to highlight the edge of the cardstock and used a zig pen to penstitch around each element of the body. I highlighted the eyes with a white opaque pen and diamond glaze for the dots in her eye. I layered the pieces and added dimension with foam tape.

I brought the ticket blank into my Publisher program and added a text window inside the ticket. I sized the font to fill the space for the word "Hi!" [font is Clink--a free font found at dafont.com]. The layered background was embossed using a Tim Holtz Texture Fadz. Buttons Galore buttons were stacked and tied with a piece of silver jewelry wire.

Thank you for looking!

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