Dude Time Doodles January FREEBIE Challenge

Woot woot it's time for another Freebie Challenge at Dude Time Doodles! This week we have Count Vladimir to play with.

Hint hint, the current challenge at Pile It On is Manly Cards, sponsored by none other than Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs! So why not join both challenges, and maybe a few more?

I gave him black jeans, because he's a romeo! Remember that song by Michael Penn? "What if I were Romeo in black jeans? What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth..." My husband put that on a mixed tape for me when we were dating in High School ... love him so much!

This silly sentiment (Happy Valentine's from one bleeding heart to another) just popped into my head, so I heat-embossed it in red using the Bleeding Freaks font by Thomas W.Otto. For the frames, I used one from a the Frame It Fab set by Create with TLC. This heat-embossed from the printer so well!

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop January Challenge #6: Be my Valentine
Anything Goes Challenge 58: Anything Goes

Stamps: Count Vladimir from Bonibleaux Designs/Dude Time Doodles, Frame It Fab set by Create with TLC, Bleeding Freaks font by Thomas W.Otto

Paper: Hammermill, Recollections, patterned velvet paper
Tools: Fiskars papercutter, Marvy heat tool, HP printer & ink, Adobe InDesign, Martha Stewart detail scissors, ZipDry glue, ZIG glue pens
Supplies: Our Craft Lounge sparkly fluff, Copic markers, Recollections embossing powder & adhesives gems, silk ribbon

Green Hydrangeas

I wanted to do a little stamping, so I used the lovely Hydrangea Bouquet set from Raisin Boat.

The image is made of 4 stamps (3 from the set & a Hero Arts sentiment), but I did it 5 steps. The flower bunch and leaf is one piece, so I stamped & embossed in the leaf, cleaned the stamp, and embossed the bunch in a lighter green. The stems are in the same Stampendous Glitter Jade as the leaf, and the vase & sentiment are in a pretty Recollections red.

I was inspired by the sketch at CardPatterns and the red, cream and sage green color color at Colour Create. I sewed on the buttons onto a stack of lace, some leftover Christmas present ribbon, & a pattern ribbon.

I drew on the border with an Elmer's gel pen, and used a flower stamp from the Raisin Boat set to decorate the inside.

Inspiration:

Colour Create Challenge 87: Red, cream and sage green

CardPatterns #147: Sketch

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #38: Birthday Cards

Sweet Stampin': Spots & Dots

Happy Day everyone!

Christmas Thank-You

We spent Christmas at my parents', so when we arrived home we had a big box of presents from my mother-in-law. We physically got home at 2 in the morning, but we were so happy to see our sweet dogs after a week away that we stayed up and had a second Christmas! Several days later, I was organizing the recycling pile and decided to grab out the pretty wrapping she used to make her a thank-you card (I kept the beautiful tags & ribbon she used for next year!)

I was intrigued by the Recycling themes at Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenges and Squiggle Stamps, so I made the backing and little presents by wrapping pieces of cardboard (actually from the packaging for my new Fiskars papercutter!)

Both the cute dog stamp & the holly border are from sets my Mom got free with her Quick Cards magazines.

Inspiration:

Card Positioning Systems #250: Sketch

CRAFT Challenge 136: Thank You

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge: Recycle Something

Squiggle Stamps: Recycle/Uprecycle

Crafts & Me Christmas Bumper Challenge #66: Anything Goes

I added dotted borders to the front and inside with a Sakura gel pen.

Stamps: Dulcie Jackson and Adam Pescott for Quick Cards, Hero Arts

Dude Time Doodles Piles It On!

This week's challenge at Pile It On is sponsored by Dude Time Doodles, so we have the theme "Manly Cards," whatever that means to you! It can be for a man or boy, or something that a man or boy would give. Hope you'll join us.

I used the Ernie Carpenter set from Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs.

I heat-embossed the Builder3 sentiment onto blue metallic paper. I had lots of fun with Ernie: I colored him Copics, and then used Flowersoft on his hammer & cuffs, and flocking on his hat and hair (love the Sparkly Black flocking from Our Craft Lounge!)

I cut strips of Echo Park DP for the background, and covered the edges with dark blue-and-white baker's twine. I strung up the "loose wires" (actually silver elastic) with my favorite brads.

For the inside backing paper, I used a piece of silver-embossed white, handmade paper I found in my stash. I colored this Carpenter Box digi from Tiddly Inks, added silver FlowerSoft on the pliers, and stamped the "Happy Birthday" Hero Arts sentiment & heat-embossed it in silver.

Challenges:

Pile It On - Manly Cards

Skipping Stones Designs - Sketch Challenge

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - Brads (or eyelets)

Crafty Creations - Heat Embossing

Little Red Wagon - Felt or flocking

Fussy and Fancy - Happy Birthday (or use animal print)

Kathy’s Lily Pad Palette - Color Combo (with Our Craft Lounge)

Our Craft Lounge - Color Combo + photo inspiration (with Lily Pad)

Hello Little One

My sister-in-law's best friend just had her second child, and being as she's practically family I wanted to send along a card.

This week's Lili of the Valley Challenge is New Beginnings and I just happen to have a new Baby stamp from LOTV! I used the lovely color combo #118 at ColourQ and the fab sketch #33 from Deconstructing Jen.

The Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge recently changed management, and I'm so glad that it's still up & running as Lili's Little Fairies!