Music of Bells

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by!

I meant to post this card very early this morning, but I spent several hours at the dance studio with my daughter yesterday, and when we finally got home I completely forgot. 

I made this card for our midmonth inspiration post over at Penny Black and More. If you haven't played yet this month it's still lots of time, and don't forget you can enter up to three times.

 Our theme is pretty easy, "any die will do". And no need to use a Penny Black stamp, you can use any make rubber or clear stamp.  There are lots of prizes up for grabs.

Here is what I made, using the stamp "Music of Bells " from Penny Black.

I heat embossed the image with silver detail embossing powder directly on the night of navy card stock (which appears black in my photo). The bell was heat embossed on white card stock, and then cut out.

For my dies I used a crocheted lace border die from MFT, I think that's what it's called. I also used a couple of notables dies from Whimsy Stamps (Snowflake Notables 2 die, and Notables 2 die). All diecuts are cut from brushed silver card stock.

And that's all for today, thanks again for visiting!

Hope you have a great week!

B is for Butterfly and some exciting news!

Aahhhh I am so excited to finally be able so share this news with you all. I have been invited to join the amazing ABC challenges design team!



 With it being a twice a month challenge -on the 1st and the 15th, it's just perfect for me and my schedule. I just had to apply and I feel so lucky to have been asked to join!  And I love the whole ABC idea for challenges. I know I am going to have so much fun!

 If you haven't played along yet at ABC I hope you'll start marking your calendars, we are having some amazing sponsors lined up and some really fun challenges too.


For this challenge there is an amazing prize up for grabs from Bunny Zoe Crafts, and they have so many different stamp companies to choose from! Go check them out, you won't be disappointed!

We are at letter B (the team had just recently finished the whole alphabet) and our challenge is

B is for Butterfly

I thought this adorable stamp from Whimsy Stamps, available here at Bunny Zoe Crafts would be perfect to use for this challenge, as I only had a chance to use it once before.

 I colored the cuties with my Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils and blended with baby oil. Their faces were colored with copics.

The papers are from Prima Marketing.

I really love this sketch, it was inspired by a recent sketch from the sweet stop sketch challenge blog.

The design is actually really simple, as you can see, I embellished with only a couple of butterflies (MS punch), and some twine. Of course I had to add glitter, and since I fixed my sewing machine I did some sewing too.

The sentiment is from the set  "A touch of elegant furniture" by Whimsy's Raindrop Echo designs, and it is also available here at Bunny Zoe Crafts for those of you in Europe.

I would like to combine my card with the following challenges:

• Color throwdown - color challenge 
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   Sweet Stampin - Anything Goes
• Hotshot Crafts - Butterflies
• Stampin' For The Weekend -  Week 1, Stitching
• Creative Stamp Friends -  Your Favorite Colors
• Pretty Little Ribbon - Die Cuts/Punches
• The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge - Punches/Dies

  Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope I inspired you to get out your butterfly themed stamps or punches, or papers, and that you'll play along at ABC with us. Can't wait to see your creation!

 Have a wonderful day and

happy stamping!

Sunkissed's Christmas Tree

Happy Wednesday!
It's Review Day at the Whimsy Stamps inspirations blog, showing some more of the gorgeous October stamps released last month.

For my review piece I used the gorgeous stamp " Sunkissed's Christmas Tree   " from the Elisabeth Bell collection.

She's been colored using my Faber Castell polychromos pencils, skin tones were done with copics.

I used some gorgeous papers from Whimsy's Michele Roos Designs from the Winter Blues collection. Added some seam binding, and a little button with some twine as my embellishments. The sentiment is from last year's set "Holiday postage sentiments, I thought it would be perfect to use here. 

The sky and edges of the image were done with an ink applicator, and I added some glitter along the edge.

Playing along in a few challenges too:

• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge  3-2-1 3 embellishments, 2 patterned papers 1 image (my embellishments are button, twine and seam binding, 2 papers from Michelle Roos designs, one image by Whimsy Stamps
• Loves Rubber Stamps #25 Anything Goes
• Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Spots & Stripes my spots are the snowflakes in the image, stripes on Designer Paper -  my "oldies" are the postage sentiment, button and seam binding + twine
• Papertake Weekly -  Anything Goes
• Sweet Stamps - Christmas

• Pretty Little Ribbon -  Die Cuts/Punches I used a circle punch, and a corner rounder punch

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• The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge -  Use your Favorite Coloring medium - mine is Polychromos pencils by faber castell

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to visit the Whimsy Inspirations blog to see what the other DT members have to show you!

Have a wonderful day!

Penny Black and More - November Challenge

Good morning and thanks so much for stopping by! 

I hope you are enjoying your day. It's gotten pretty chilly over here, but that's to be expected since we are only 3 weeks away from December.

Since today is the first Sunday of the Month, it's time for our November Challenge at Penny Black and More. This month our theme is 

"Any die will do".

I surely hope you'll join us, lots of prizes up for grabs again, by Penny Black, Stampalot, Classy Crafts, and Flonz Crafts.

Here is what I made for today's challenge. 

I used the super adorable stamp "Skiing Snowman" by Penny Black of course. For my die I decided to use the double scallop square doily by Whimsy Stamps. I used it to make my card front with it.

For a change I got out my copics and colored this cutie using them. I found this image fairly easy to color with the markers, as there really wasn't too much to color, I usually just get frustrated when using them.

My sentiment is from the set "----" by Whimsy stamps. I used part of the stamp " Baroque Corners"  from Flonz stamps behind the sentiment to add a little interest. The sentiment banner on the top is also from Whimsy stamps "Holiday Circle Banners".

The sky was done using an ink applicator  and I added lots of sparkles to the "snow" part of the image. It's a very clean and simple card, I simply embellished with a little clear heart shaped button and some white twine. I did some paper piercing, and I used the same double doily die for my template as there are these small holes along the die.

I would love to enter my card to the following challenges

• Card Makin' Mamas -, Anything goes
• Christmas Stampin' All Year Long -  Anything goes
• Crafty Ann's -  Christmas
• Crafty Ribbons - Christmas
• Fab 'n' Funky - diecuts/punches

 Thanks again for visiting. I hope you liked my card! If you'd like to play along, simply click the logo below.

   

Oh, and we are continuing our monthly guest designer search, so if you'd like to join the team for a month as a guest, simply add GD behind your name when entering. Don't forget, you don't need to use a PB stamp, any make rubber or clear stamp will do.