My First Design Team Post and Candy

Hello everyone. Today is the 3rd day of school missed this week, which means I have had extra time to run around and play. Sadly, Archiver's is going out of business:( Boo Hoo! I decided yesterday to make the 2 hour trip to see what was left. I found lots of goodies that I hope to be using soon. I wish all the Archiver employees luck as they search for new jobs. Those are so hard to find.

Today marks the first posting of what I hope to be a long run with the Love to Scrap challenge blog and Design Team. To celebrate this big step in my life and also my second Blogiversary, I will be giving away some candy at the end of this post. Make sure you read all the way to the end if you want to enter my giveaway.

February 3rd is the beginning of a new challenge at Love To Scrap. The theme is "Who Loves Ya, Baby!" You must use the word Love somewhere on your project. Our sponsors for this challenge are  A Day For Daisies and QKR Stampede. I used a digi image from A Day for Daisies called "Family Ties. Here is what I came up with:

I put the pin in to dress the card up a little, but then decided that I would give it to my 3-year-old granddaughter for Valentines Day. The pin will have to come out.

I wanted to do something a little different with this image. I printed this image 3 times-twice in black and once in brown. The first black image I used as my base layer. I then cut the branches out of the 2nd black image. I traced around them on brown cardstock and pieced them over the base layer. Then I colored the brown owls, cut them out and pieced them onto the base layer. I added Petaloo flowers and punched leaves to cover up the imperfections. For glitz I used stardust stickles on the words, butterflies, and flowers and orange peel stickles to the beaks and feet. The area around the image is colored with Copic BG10 and BG15. The ribbon is inked with RV66.

Here is a picture of the original image:

 

Here is the recipe:

 

Cardstock

Image: Family Ties by A Day For Daisies

Copics: Background BG10 & BG15; Owls: RV63, RV66, RV00, BG15; YR000, YR00, YR12, YR16; Y11, Y13, Y19; E23, E25, E21, E00; V25, V28, BV000; BG10, BG15; YG03, YG25, YG01 All eyes BG15 and dotted with a black glaze pen, All Beaks & Feet YR18

Flowers: Petaloo Flora Doodles

Punches: Martha Stewart Frond

Stamps: Butterfly from Inkadoo, Hero Arts Typewriter Letters

Stickles: Stardust and Orange Peel

Pin: Corsage Pin, and clear beads. (Rondels are colored with Copic BG15)

Ribbon inked with RV66 (It was originally gray ribbon that I had on hand)

 

I am entering the following challenges:

http://www.theribbongirlchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk// Anything Goes

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.nl/ Anything Goes

http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/search/label/challenges Valentine with Ribbon

http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Bling It Up

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ No Designer Paper

http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/01/pile-it-on-4-animals.html Animals

http://createdwithlovechallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes

http://rheddandrosies.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Challenge Love is in the Air

 

AND NOW FOR CANDY!!!!!

 

Here's what I'm giving away:

 

 

Turquoise and Silver glitter tulle, Expecting Emily by Sparkle Creations (Rubber and unmounted)
20 yard spool of 1/4" brown ribbon, Adirondack Alcohol ink "Meadow" Copics W1 & W3, pkg of rhinestones from the Beadery, EK Success pearl strands, 3 small & 2 large Red Rosettes (one with button top), 2 diecut swirls. The last things are from my horde. I needed to find a home for them since I never used them.

How to Win: Leave me a comment with an email to contact you. I would love it if you would follow my blog, but this time it is not a requirement. Mr Random will choose the winner. I will leave this open through the end of February and will ship anywhere.

Help me celebrate my blogiversary and Design Team Spot!! We would love to have you enter the challenge at Love To Scrap. Just click the picture in my sidebar:)