Find the Hidden Treasure Blog Hop

The Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog design team is excited to bring you our "Find The Hidden Treasure" Blog Hop! We're being sponsored by Pink Gem Designs! Come hop with us for a chance to win 2 single Pink Gem Designs images!

There are three gems hidden somewhere on our blogs. As you hop, look on each design team member's blog to find a hidden gem and be sure to leave some love while you're there! Once you have found all three gems, email the locations where you found the gems (blog names and blog links) to ltscb@mail.com. All the correct guesses will be entered into the drawing for the Pink Gems Designs images!

The LTSCB designers are using gemstones on our inspiration projects. Everyone participating in the blog hop is invited to link up a project using gemstones for an EXTRA entry into the drawing! **Be sure to use the same email address to email your guesses that you use to link up your project so we can make sure you're given two entries into the drawing!**

For my creations I am using a really cute image called Dandelion Wishes. When you purchase this image you get both a black and white image and a colored image. I really like colored images. They are perfect for when you are in a hurry and don't have time to color. I actually made two cards to show versatility: a birthday card and a retirement card. I have been pressed for time this summer, so I used the colored image for both. There are clear gemstones on the dandelion and the small daisies along the bottom as well as the colored gemstones. I think that this image is so cute and you can use it for so many occasions. I printed the second image as a mirror image so that the dandelion is being blown in the other direction. I found a great stamp set on 123stitch.com for the retirement verse. I ordered them especially for my 2nd card because I didn't have anything for this kind of occasion. The "wishes for" came from a word set that I have had for a really long time. I lost the package so have no idea who made them. The DP is from My Minds Eye. I colored the small inside flowers of the 2nd card with a copic marker to match. I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the first card and my Magnolia Doohickey Tilda Lace Die on the inside of the second. Vintage Phote and Abandoned Coral Distress inks were used to ink around the different papers and to stamp the sentiments. I popped different parts of the cards with foam tape for dimension.

Here is the birthday card:

 

Here is the retirement card-I made an easel card:

 

Here are your blog hop stops:

Ann

Annette (me)

Aunty Sue

Cristina

Heather

Leslie

Tammy

Tina

We hope you are enjoying the hop and if you get lost along the way - or if you landed here in the middle of the hop and want to join in the fun - head over to the Love To Scrap!Challenge Blog to read all the details and start from the beginning!

Happy Hopping!

Its another Anything Goes challenge at LTSCB

Welcome-welcome! It's the middle of August which means back to work for me. I work at a school, so when it starts so do I LOL! I am pleased that I am able to share with you this great project for our "Anything Goes" challenge which runs from Aug. 17th to the 30th. As always you must include stamping since we are a stamping blog. We have another 3 great sponsors giving away some fantastic prizes.

 Pattie's Creations

 Prize: 3 images to winner

Kith & Kin Stamp C

 Prize: 3 images to winner

 

SLS Lines

  Prize: $10 gift certificate

For this challenge I am working with the SLS Lines image Little boy and snowman with Christmas Tree. I thought this was a really cute little scene and couldn't wait to play with it. As usual, since it is anything goes I am trying to stay away from the traditional cardmaking. I decided do a gift bag with tag instead. I started with a plain kraft gift bag and added color using Copics R27 and YG63. I sprayed the color onto the bag using a hand-held air spritzer that you squeeze. It makes my hand hurt but gives a nice covering. I then sprayed the bag with Mr. Huey Shine spritz for the white spots and overall glimmer.

Here is what the finished product looks like:

 The tag:

 

To make the double-sided tag I printed one image regular and then printed it again as a mirror image. It is the same image I just cut around the boy and snowman because I wanted it to look different than the bag.
I made the red ribbon by coloring white sheer organza ribbon with my R27 copic. I made the bows using my Bow It All v2 by Zutter. The image sheet on the bag is popped with foam squares. I cut a second image of just the boy and snowman with some of the snow and popped them as well.

Supplies:
Kraft gift bag
Paper: DCWV The Christmas Stack
Copics: R22, R24, R 27, E000, E00, E11, YG61, YG63, YG67, E71, E74, E77, G21, G29
Stamps: Digi image Little Boy and Snowman with Tree, To and From (Close to My Heart Its a Party set)
Stickles: Red and Patina for boy and Snowman, Purple, Gold, Yellow, Red for tree
Inks: Distress Tumbled Glass and Close To My Heart (can't remember the shade of green)
Misc: Martha Stewart Around the Page punch, Paper Blossom Pine Branch punch, white Flower Soft, Organza Ribbon, jute bakers twine, foam tape    

This was a fun bag. I have never taken on this kind of task before and I did enjoy it. The coloring was the most time consuming thing but I was very pleased with how everything turned out.

Please pop over to the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog and enter for a chance to win some great prizes. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT blogs and leave us all some love. We love hearing from you.

 I am entering the following:
 http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/08/august-challenge-08m.html Anything Goes
 http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes No Cards
 http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes
 

Its "White on White" over at the Love To Scrap Challenge Blog

Welcome to my creation for the White on White challenge at Love to Scrap. For this challenge you can use and color any image but your base and all embellishments must be white. I don't know if I have ever attempted this before but as they say: There's a first time for everything. Here are our fabulous sponsors:

TEAM A:

Fred, She Said Designs

Prize: $10 gift certificate to winner

LemonShortbread Digi Stamps & Pages

Prize: 3 images to winner

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

Prize: 3 images of choice to winner

 I am pleased to have received the lovely Foxglove Enchantress from Lacy Sunshine to work with. She is so lovely. Here is the card that I made:

The inside:

 I used a Memory Box butterfly border die and cut it out 3 times. I separated the butterflies from two of them and used them as embellishments. I have never used this type of die before and honestly I am not really sure how to use it properly. I cut one out and then sandwiched it between the base and the DP that I used for the background. I applied Scrappy Cat clear glitter glue to all of the butterflies to dress them up so they weren't just plain white. I also used my Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen to the outside edge of the floral oval die. I wish you could see the sparkle but it is too subtle. You can however see the glitter glue. I colored my Enchantress with copics and then added stickles for some dazzle. I used a Magnolia heart swirl die behind the flowers and added pearls to the inside of the flowers. There is a Magnolia Vintage tag behind the image, but I forgot to take a picture of it. I will have to add it later. It is a scripture quote that says "Blessed are those who persevere". I am giving this to a lady who is going through chemo treatments. She lost her husband last year and is now battling cancer. I stamped the sentiment and saying with grape Memento ink. The flowers were bought at Michaels in the floral section. I pulled them off the stems and hot glued them to the card. The image is popped with foam tape.

We hope you will join us for our "White on White" challenge. Head on over to the LTSCB for more great inspiration from our lovely DT.

Maggie Masculine Birthday Card

Today is my son's birthday. He is 23. He is in the US Navy and is at Virginia Beach, so I made this card for him:

There is a challenge called Anchors Away at the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog. I thought it was the perfect challenge for my card, but I had a problem. I had no anchors. I went to Hobby Lobby and they had a die set with an anchor-perfect. Another problem: I have no sailor Edwin or summer beach things. I found this image in some that I had received as RAKs. I don't know what it is called but it works. I made a copy of it at 95% since it is a big stamp. I made another copy of the oar onto the brown cardstock and cut it out. I cut off Edwin's hand and glued the brown oar onto the other one. I then replaced the hand. I die cut some paper from my Tim Holtz Crowded Attic pack and stamped it with a Stampendous Cling called Steamboat Ride. I added some Tumbled Glass Distress ink. I made a dock out of scrap paper. Edwin is colored using the colors of the Navy-blue and gold. I hand drew and cut out the sailor hat. The anchor and wheel are from the same set from Momenta. The inside sentiment is stamped on vellum. Clean and Simple for my son-who wants nothing flowery or girly or glittery. Hope you enjoy it.

Here's another link to the challenge:
http://magnolia-liciouschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/tuesday-challenge-anchors-aweigh.html

LTSCB Challenge 58: It "Anything Goes" (with some stamping)

Hi everyone! After a week of vacation spent at the wonderful Smoky Mountains it was great to get back to crafting. I feel like it has been forever since I did any because my last card was done before we left in June. I hope all you Americans had a great 4th of July holiday. I felt like it was a holiday every day in Pigeon Forge. We had a perfect view of the fireworks show at Dollywood and watched them almost every night.

This is the perfect time for an Anything Goes challenge at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog. I am still celebrating America's birthday with a great image from Lost Coast Creations. First though-a shout out to our great sponsors this time around:

Sami Stamps
Prize: $12 gift certificate

Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet

Prize: $10 gift certificate

Lost Coast Designs

Prize: $10 gift certificate

 

Now, on to my design. The image I chose to work with is called Americana Collage and it is from  Lost Coast Creations. I choose to make a table decoration/party favor that I feel has multiple uses. It is made from a toilet paper holder so its hollow. You could fill it with goodies or leave it empty. You could swap out the Celebration tag and replace it with a name to use as seating arrangement signs. You could even stick a skewer through the bottom and nestle it into a floral arrangement. Here is what I came up with:

My image:

I couldn't decide whether to wrap the image around the tube or leave it sticking out in front. I decided to wrap it. I printed it on vellum because I wanted the DP to show through and colored Mt. Rushmore and the lady with copics. When I put it against the dp, the stars were too dark and you couldn't see the image very well. I had the above piece of spritzed cardstock that I made a while back so I die cut a piece out of it and then adhered the image to it. Everything has a blue hue but it looks a lot better. The top of the roll is done using curling ribbon and a piece of a stem that was reduced at Hobby Lobby. The stem had three of these great pieces on it so I just cut one of them off.



The Celbration tag was printed on my computer on white cardstock which I then inked with Fired Brick and Chipped Saphire Distrss Ink. I added glitter glue around the edge and used my Wink of Stella clear glitter brush on the inside. I traced the word with a black glaze pen to brighten it up. After it dried I stuck it in a Tim Holtz memo pin and stuck it down into the ribbon. I used double-sided tape to do the glitter stripes. The fireworks and glitter stars are Dress it Up button embellishment. I cut the shanks off the stars and attached them all with glue dots.


This was a fun and fairly easy project to do and I hope you enjoy seeing it. Hopefully it will inspire you to hop on over to the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog and join in our "Anything Goes" Challenge. Click the link in the sidebar to enter and see the rest of the DT's inspiring projects.



Here are the challenges I am entering:
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.tw/2015/07/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-236.html  Anything Goes
http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.tw/2015/07/challenge-116-anything-goes.html Anything Goes

LTSCB Challenge 57 "Triple Play"

 For this challenge we want to see 3 of something. This can be anything: brads, decorative papers, buttons, flowers, etc. Here are our sponsors:

Karleigh Sue Designs

Prize: 4 images to winner

 

 

 

Pickled Potpourri

 

Prize: $7 gift certificate to winner

Bugaboo Digi Stamps

1 image per DT member

Prize: 7 images to winner

I used a great image from Bugaboo called Snowglobe Butterflies. I printed a mirror image onto the back of a transparency and colored the butterflies with Copics. I then applied Glossy Accents to the bubble and stickles to the sparkles. I let them dry completely. I brushed a layer of glue over everything (on the back side) and applied microfine glitter from Sparkle and Sprinkle. The idea was to make it look like a snowglobe that had been shaken and had the snow swirling around. I cut pieces out of a shiny coppery colored DP and pieced them over the base of the globe. The bottom piece is popped with foam tape. For my triple play I printed the image two more times-once as mirrored and one regular. I colored and cut the butterflies and applied glitter to them. The bow was made with my bow-it-all. The sentiment is a Tim Holtz one. The inside saying is from Our Daily Bread Designs. It was stamped onto White Glitter paper and cut using the Antique Labels and Border Die set also from ODBD. The globe is popped with foam tape. My big butterfly was attached over the one on the globe to add some dimension.

 

I hope that you will join us for this easy challenge. Click the link in my sidebar to go the blog and enter. You have until the 19th to enter. Happy Crafting!

The No Rulz Blog Hop Sponsored by the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog

It's summer and it's hot, so let's break it up a bit! The Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog Design Team is happy to bring you our "No Rulz!" Blog Hop! We're being sponsored by River City Rubber Works! Come hop with us for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate!

As you hop, leave comments! The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win!

All of the LTSCB designers are creating Anything Goes inspiration projects for our blog hop. Everyone participating in the blog hop is invited to link up a 'No Rulz' project for extra entry/entries into the drawing! No rules for this challenge!

Here is the line-up:

Ann
Annette (You are here)
Aunty Sue
Brenda
Cristina
Frezja
Heather
Julie
Leslie
Tammy
Tina

We hope you are enjoying the hop and if you get lost along the way - or if you landed here in the middle of the hop and want to join in the fun - head over to the Love To Scrap!Challenge Blog to read all the details and start from the beginning!

Happy Hopping!

This is my first blog hop and I am excited to be sharing the following card with you. It is made with a great River City image set called Pine and Holly Set. This set includes colored and black and white images. I used colored images on this card.

The background image needed some dressing up, so I applied green Stickles to the pine tree on the right and the branches on the left. I hand cut the holly pieces and brushed them with Wink of Stella. I also applied some green stickles to the leaves. I covered the inside embossed snowflakes with Wink of Stella also.

Recipe:

5X7 red card base

DP from old Christmas pack that I've had for years

White cardstock: both inside and out were embossed with a Darice snowflake folder. On the inside piece I used a Tim Holtz embossing diffuser to leave a blank space for stamping the saying.

Red cardstock for matting image

Images from Pine and Holly set

Silver glittered tulle and silver ribbon

Green Stickles and Wink of Stella Clear Glitter brush pen

Remember: There's no Rules but to enter for the prize you need to leave a comment. 

Next you will head over to Aunty Sue. Have fun. We hope to see creations from you!