Delightful Dancin'

Wow, Christmas is only a week away! I think I have all our gifts and cards together ... but I always find myself making a few extra things at the last minute.

I couldn't resist making a penny-rocker with Rosa, one of my favorite images from Mo's Digital Pencil.

I'm entering this into the current "D is for..." challenge at Mo's Digital Pencil Too. My Ds are Dots, Dancer, and Doily.

Thank you for visiting,

Do Sheeple dream of electric Peeps?

I can't get enough of green this week! Here's a card I made inspired by this adorable (and free!) digi stamp from Squigglefly. It's named Counting Sheeple and just its presence in the world makes me happy!

I took the opportunity to try my hand at this week's Squigglefly Challenge: Make your card WOBBLE! I don't own any Action Wobbles (yet), so I tried making my own. Despite the great directions from the Paper-Junkie, I didn't have the right wire so I wasn't getting much of a wobble. So I just made a simple Penny Rocker (the tag rocks).

The little word bubbles on the bottom right are also from a Squigglefly freebie, and the sentiment ticket is a freebie from When the Scrap Hits the Fun. Thank you!

The "Sheep Ribbon" is tissue paper backed with double-sided tape. I stamped it with a polka-dot background stamp and heat-embossed it in white. I added little heads & legs with my black Copic.

Mojo Monday 231

Inspiration/Challenges:

Mojo Monday 231: Sketch Contest (right)

Paper Sundaes Challenge #110: Green or Good Luck

Squigglefly Challenge #9: Make your card WOBBLE!

There She Goes Challenge #146: Tag It

Sporty Slider Boxes

I've promised several of my friends penny-slider boxes, so the Slider/Shaker challenge at Here Come the Boys was just the incentive I needed to make a couple.

Both use paper & embellishments from Smirk for Men. The front of the Soccer box was created from the pre-colored digis from Crafty Ann's lovely Safe Pair of Hands set. That box is a penny-slider and a penny-rocker. The fisherperson on the fron of the second box is a stamp that I colored & cut out.

Hope everyone's having a great day.

Update 9/19/11: Wow! This project was chosen as one of the top 4 for this challenge. Thank you!

Dancin' and Twirlin''

I'm not sure exactly what it is I've been accomplishing, but I've been fairly busy this week. Between things, I've worked on this festive card. I really wanted to try the Scrapmaster's Paradise Combo of Perfect Plum, River Rock and Melon Mambo, or whatever version I could make with my stash paper & copics! I actually spent a fair amount of time working on flowers for this week's theme at Delightful Challenges, but I just wasn't feeling it I guess, so I ended up making very simple "bursts" with tulle. I'm not sure how much they resemble flowers, but I did make this card with that challenge in mind so I'm gonna enter it anyway.

I've wanted to make a Center Step card ever since seeing Jeannie's beautiful version, so I finally took some time and followed her link to the super instructions at Creative Moments with Sandy.

I've had lots of fun of making Penny Slider (or Spinner) cards, so I was really excited to see instructions for the even easier Penny Rocker (or Tilting) card in Quick Cards Issue #82. I found some instructions on Splitcoaststampers (of course), and you should really check out their hula skirt idea! It's not like this card needed one more thing, but this adorable digi stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil just had to move!

The red corn-husk calla lilies in the background are from Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, and I hope someday to get some for crafting.

Inspiration:
SPCC #93: Perfect Plum, River Rock, Melon Mambo
Delightful Challenges: Flowers

Digi stamp: Rosa by Mo Manning

Supplies: Brazzill and Core'dinations cardstocks, XpressPress Copic paper, Martha Stewart border punch and detailing scissors, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Concord), ZipDry glue, tulle, pop-dots, and, of course, two cents
Copics: E17, E52, E31, E33, RV21, E51, E000, E11, E50, BV00, V06, BV04, RV04, RV29