Crafting Lifes Pieces March Challenge

Crafting Lifes Pieces March Challenge

Yes it's another month and time for a new challenge.

It's getting closer to spring and I can't wait.

Our sponsor this month is Praire Fairy Designs and when I saw Lewis I just had to color him up.

He is just so cute and seeing how St. Patricks day is this month I had to go green. Lewis was colored with Copics and I added Diamond Glaze to his glasses. All my mats were cut out with Spellbinders. My paper is from some old stock from Best Creation. I added some gree Dew Drops and some Rhinestones and Sticker from Recollections. My leaves are cut out with Sizzix Branch w/Leaves.

Here is the sketch you have to follow this month:

You can enter our challenge ---HERE---

Make sure you stop over to our sponsor

Praire Fairy Designs

and see what they have for you.

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~



CLP New February Challenge

It's the first of the month and it's time for a new challenge from

CLP Challenges

Now I got this card done in the nick of time. If anyone is in the Connecticut area you all know what I have been doing for days. We have had a record setting amount of snow, for January we ended up with 56.9" of snow YES that's just this month. We average 47" for the whole season. I have snow piles in my yard taller than me. We have spent the whole weekend getting all this snow off my roof, there has been a lot of roofs collapsing in our state and I wanted to make sure my roof was safe and after calling all over I finally found a roof rake Saturday morning and the fun began, NOT! But I quickly got my card done for our new challenge and I have to say for not crafting in 4 days I had plenty of mojo to make my card.

I used the very cute Magnolia Indian Tilda and colored her with Copics. All my papers are from Graphic 45. I used some pretty pink ribbon that was a very kind gift from Chelsea. I cut my mat out with Spellbinders and all my papers have been Inked with Distress Ink Vintage Photo. I added some Crystal Stickles to the outside of my mat. I add some pretty Mulberry Flowers and two hat pins.

Look a first for me I actually for once remembered to save my colors and take a picture. All these Copics were used on my Magnolia Indian Tilda.

Now here is the beautiful sketch you have to follow.

Now lets see what you can do following our sketch and enter you card ---HERE---

Here is a peek at all my snow:

This picture show you just how high it is next to my van and all the piles are this way.

You can barely see over the piles to see my van.

You can see it is as high as my deck railings.

This is on the back side over my deck on my garage just to show you how deep the snow was on my house. This is why we had to get all this snow down before the roof gave way. Mother Nature is not done with us yet we are going to be getting another huge snow storm starting Tuesday morning and not stoping till late Wednesday.

Thanks for looking.
~Patricia~

CLP January's Sketch Challenge

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Did you miss us last month? Well now that the holidays are over we are refreshed and ready to play. Chelsea is also going to be our sponsor this month with her Gurlee Girl Store and I used Praying Lexi for my card, she is just the sweetest little girl. I loved coloring her up. I wanted to keep my card kinda simple this time because I wanted the focus to be on Lexi. I have also been learning how to color hair different and I like how her's came out. Sorry I didn't remember to write down the Copic colors I used and wish I did because I want to use them again.

Here is the sketch you have to follow this month.

Now you have till Jan 31st to enter your card ---HERE-- on the CLP Challenge blog.

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

CLP November Sketch Challenge #31

Every month when I make my CLP Sketch Challenge post I just can't believe another month has gone by. Where does the time go?

This month Chelsea has another pretty sketch for us.

Our sponsor this month is

Lili of the Valley

I used the cute James Bear Pile of Presents from Lili of The Valley I colored this little cutie with Copics. I added glitter to his hat and presents. I also cut out my mat with Spellbinders and inked and stickled the edges. I added some Christmas lights and snowflake brads. My paper is from a holiday paper pad from last year and the cover is torn off so sorry I can't tell you who made it.

Here is the cute sketch you have to follow this month:

 

Now lets see what you can make this month, head on over to the

CLP Challenge Blog

and enter your card.

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

CLP Challenge # 30

It's October 1 and you know what that means a new challenge from

CLP Challenge Blog

I can't believe another month has gone by again. We got some very pretty cards entered into our September challenge and lets see what you can come up with for October.

Here is my card:

My card recipe:

I cute the very stunning Jasper from Spesch Designer Stamps, he was colored with Copics and his tie was stickled. He was so much fun to color. My background paper is from Memory Box Blackbird-Perched. My stickers are from Jolee's and Handmade Stickers from Walmart. Hand Stitching.

Here is the sketch we had to follow this week:

I hope to see you join us this month for our

CLP Challenge Blog

Our sponsor this month is Spesh Stamps and the winner gets 4 Free Digis

"Spesch Stamps was started in March 2010. I wanted to have my 'own' stamps designed for me. I wanted to tell someone what I wanted and they did it for me - so Spesch Designer Stamps was born. We specialize in digital stamps but have branched out in to Clear Polymer stamps and soon to have Rubber which everyone has been wanting. Our style is more Manga/Chibi style but we have a new designer aboard - Sylvia - who has the most amazingly cute Fantasy designs that I just love. We are based in Austraila We have one retailer outside of Australia and that is Paper Jewels in Canada but hoping to have more soon. "

Check out all the cute Digi Stamps in there store --- HERE

I have entered this card into the following challengs:

Stamptacular Sunday-Challenge #78 Season's Change

Thanks for looking.

~Patricia~

It's Sketch Week at The Beary Scrap

How many people are happy it's Friday!

ME!! It's been a very busy week and I'm so glad it's over.

Our new Beary Sweet Challenge for you at The Beary Scrap is a sketch.

Now blogland seems to have a lot of Halloween cards and I'm right there with them. I love Halloween. Kimm has got some really cute new Halloween goodies by Echo Park Paper Co in the store and your going to want to jump on them before they are all gone. I know I will be placing and order for some.

Now I didn't use the Echo Park Paper but I used some Halloween paper by Little Yellow Bicycle-Halloween Haunt.

My card recipe:

Gurlee Girl Stamp Cat Girl

Copics--Still on sale for a great price

Stickles

Little Yellow Bicycle

Martha Stewart Punches-Branch, Gate

Sugar Coated Card Stock

Lace

Brads

Prima Chatres Lace Flowers

Petaloo Flowers

Spellbinders

Card Stock

There is also some new Tear Critters for September in the store and they are so cute.

Check out the Store for all the details on these cuties.

Thanks so much for looking.

~Patricia~

CLP - September Challenge

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Can you beleive it's September already. I think I must have blinked and the summer is gone. It's only a matter of time before the leaves change. I have to say I can't wait for the pretty colors of fall. I know I maybe a little early for halloween but it's poping up all over blogland and I love it. So I had to color up one of these little cuties.

I couldn't decied witch (hehe) picture to use. I love how the sun made all the Stickles Sparkle but I also love how the darker picture came out.

So Im showing off both pictures.

My card receipe:

I used the very cute Witch Girl from the Gurlee Girl Store

Copics

Stickles

 Mulberry Flowers

Black ribbon and lace

Martha Stewart bat punch

Pearls

Colorbox Ink

BoBunny Boo Crew Masquerade

Pearlescent Card Stock

Our sketch to follow this month is

 

Now your going to want to see all the awesome cards that the rest of the team made they are so pretty. So head on over to the

CLP Challenge Blog

and check them out and load up your card there.

Thanks so much for looking.

~Patricia~

CLP August Challenge #28

Can you believe that it's already August where has the summer gone! After this heat spell we have been having here in Connecticut I can say that I'm looking forward to fall. We set a new recorded for the most days over 90 in July. But speaking of hot sunny days I choose to use a sunflower color theme on my card this month. I can say that I really love using Brown and Yellow on my cards. It could be because sunflowers are my favorite flower.

Chelsea has another very pretty sketch to work with this month.

Here is my card:

I used Blossom Fairy Lexi from Chelsea's new Gurlee Girls now in her Store. I think Chelsea has some of the cutest Girls for stamps. She has 3 new Girls in the Gurlee Girl Collection. For Blossom I colored her with Copics and glittered her dress. I also used Sparkley Fluff in the centers of her hair bows. I added some 3D Diamond Glaze to the flower she is hiding behind her back. I have hand stitching using one of my soon to be sold patterns, watch for my blog post soon. I have a video showing how it works. Just check out the tab at the top of this post.

The flowers are decorated using one of Bonnie of Sassy Scrapper's flower tutorials. She makes her flowers come alive on her cards and I thank her for sharing her secretes. Check out her blog she has many there.

I used Colorbox Inks and some Peals. I have lots of Stickles all over the card.

I hope you can join us this month. Here is the sketch you have to follow. You can win yourself a $20.00 gift certificate this month to the Gurlee Girl Shop.

Thanks so much for looking at my card this month. Check out all the other very pretty cards the rest of the girls made this month at the CLP Challenge Blog they out did them selves this month.

~Patricia~

It's sketch week at The Beary Scrap

This week at The Beary Scrap we are playing with a sketch that Kimm made for us to play with. This is such a fun sketch it's one for the keep file.

Here is my card for this week.

After seeing Elisa's great tutorial I had to give it a try.

I used the Martha Stewart Butterfly Border Punch. It worked really easy to wrap around my Spellbinder mat. For the stamp I used a new stamp from CLP Blossom Fairy Cammy. She is just so cute. I colored her with Copics and added glitter to her wings.  I also added Stickles the the butterflies on the Martha Stewart Border Punch. I used some Mulbery Flowers and also added Stickles to them.

My background paper is from Basic Grey Cappella Line. I added some miscellaneous gem brads from my stash, and hand stitching.

Now I have been blog hoping all over the net and I have seen quite a few of these really cool boxes and really wanted to try one. The Scor Pal makes it real easy to make your folds.

There is 4 small draws around the box and my easel card sits right on top. This was really fun to make.

I hope you can join us this week for our Beary Sweet Challenge. We had so many wonderful cards entered and I would love to see even more cards for this challenge. Thanks so much for looking.

I found a great blog with lots of great tutorials on this box and many more, Check out Kirstens Blog.

~Patricia~

CLP Challenge #27

Please scroll down for the Lil Lolita Boutique Challenge #4

You all know what time it is!!

First of the month and it's a new sketch Challenge from CLP

Thank you to all those who entered our challenge you can see the winner on our blog -----HERE ------we had lots of very pretty cards.

Our sponsor this month is Sassy Studio Designs

For this challenge I used Sassy Fashionista's Crissy's Prom I actually received this digi image playing in Sassy Studio Design Relay a month ago.

I couldn't wait to color her.

Crissy is already to head out and celebrate the 4th of July.

I used Martha Stewart butterfly and star punches, Prima vines, Mulberry flowers, Stickles, some miscellaneous stickers and bling.

Here is a closer look at her, I colored her with Copics and then I also highlighted her dress with two different blue colors of glitter.

Here is the challenge you have to play along with.

Now hop on over to the CLP Challenge Blog and play along with us this month.

~Patricia~

PS: Please come back on July 4th for a very special personal post.

CLP June's Sketch

Can you beleive that another month has gone by! I don't know where the time go's but it's that time for another sketch challenge by the CLP Design Team.

Our sketch challenge for the month is

The Sponsor for the month is

You can win your self a $10.00 gift voucher. For this month they allowed any of us that wanted to play with one of there images and when I saw this one it was so cute I really wanted to play with it.

The were such a fun digi to play with. Thank you Digi Doodle.

Want to get in on the fun head on over to the CLP Blog and get all the detail.

I made it!

The big anouncement has been made!

I made it!

 Im so excited and I just want to send a Very big Hug to Chelsea for choosing me to be one of her Designers.

Want to know who else made it check out the

CLP Challenge Blog
There is a lot of very tallented ladies on the team.

CLP Sketch Challenge #8

This weeks CLP Challenge #8

This sketch out of 5,6,7,& 8 is my favorite so far.

This was a very fun and pretty sketch challenge.

The stamp is one of Chelsea's "Winter Girl" from her Gurlee Girl Collection.

She was colored with Copics and there is lots of extras on her. I added as much as I think I could to her, she has been 3D glazed over all of her, she has stickles, flowersoft & glitter.

I have flowers and button snow flakes and lots of bling on her.

For a change I didn't do to much to the inside of the card I though the paper inside was so pretty I didn't want to take away from it, it is from Bobunny.

Want to know more about Chelsea's CLP Challenges or her stamps you can check them out HERE