Digital Tuesday Challenge: All Things Girly

This week on the Digital Tuesday Challenge, the challenge was to make a Girly card! Our sponsor this week is Digi Sparkle, please be sure to stop by and see what cute designs they have!

Now I have to admit, that Girly usually is right up my alley, but my mojo seemed to take a hiatus this challenge around...I think too many long hours at work are the cause, so I went simple with my card here. I colored my shoe in with Copics and added dimensional glaze and printed off the sentiment...the inside reads "BUY IT!". Thanks for looking today, I can't wait to see what you've come up with!

Recipe:

• Digital Image: Whimsie Doodles


• Dies/Punches: Nestabilities Circle, EK Success Border Punch Threading Water, pearls, Copics, Dimensional Glaze

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Sweet Treat

Happy Valentine's Day! This week on the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge our challenge was to make a card or a project that included a sweet treat! Our sponsor this week is again, our very own DT Member LINE who is giving away this adorable Hanglar stamp shown below!
I decided I was going to go a little "green" for this challenge and recycled a tomato sauce can. I lined the inside of the can with crepe paper, used a pipe cleaner for a handle and add this sweet heart paper for the outside and made a tag, with some glitter on my hearts with some pearls! I'm so glad you could join me today and I hope your Valentine's is a sweet as Chocolate!


Recipe:

• Stamps: SU, Studio G
• Paper: Paper Studio
• Punches: Martha Stewart Heart Border, Imagination Heart, Marvy Tag
• Other: Tomato Sauce can, ribbon, glitter, pearls, crepe paper, pipe cleaner

Digital Tuesday Challenge: It's All About Animals

Not too long ago I reached a heart breaking decision, I needed to sell my beloved horse, Boo (short for Boots and Saddles). It had been at least a year since he had been shown, as my life became nothing but lessons, training other horses, showing others horses and horse show judging. So, there sat Boo...doing, well the equivalant of being a couch potato. A young horse, with so much potential and my schedule just unable to squeeze him in. As many of you know, the cobblers kids have no shoes and the trainers horse just doesn't get ridden, it just happens. So we put him up for sale, had a couple of close calls but no one just seemed to adore him the way I (we) did. He's quirky, full of personality, if you stand next to him and have a zipper coat on he'll zip and unzip you...you know, he's quirky!
So, it was decided we'd take him to the largest, single breed horse show of the year ( and this is the largest horse show in the country)...to the All American Quarter Horse Congress and try to get him sold there. It was really tough hanging all his sale flyers and I didn't do it w/o much gusto and really only put about 1/4 of the up...my heart wasn't in it...
AND wouldn't you know it the very next morning the phone rang, a very nice woman has a daughter who's show horse has tons of feet problems and they were looking for a replacement, can we come see him? Sure, now I've been through the sale "song and dance" before, lots of lookee loo's and not much buyers and since the economy wasn't in the best shape, this is what I expected, they'd come look, and leave...that's just the way the horse business is... So I rode Boo a couple of times around a super crowded ring for them, hoping they got a couple of glimpses of him as I rode him around, and then asked if the daughter wanted to try...they said yes, and she seemed to get along with him pretty good and better yet, he got along with her pretty good and she rode and rode and rode and she smiled and smiled and smiled. FINALLY we got her off the horse and walked back to the stall, chatting about Boo and his quirkiness. Her mother said, we'll see....they walked away from the stalls...and I took a quick peek around the corner to see if they were "really" interested and I could read their body language...they were excited! Not long after, he was purchased by them and now resides in Canada (I joke and say Boo's now "international"). I get regular updates from them and we're facebook friends, I still miss my Boo, but he went to the absolutely best home I could hope for! So if you made it through this... this IS the reason I made this weeks card, it's a picture of Boo and his new owner...oh, the picture below is Boo and underneath HIM is the card...so thanks for bearing with me through this and I hope you enjoy the card!
Our sponsor to the Digital Tuesday Challenge this week is Digital Stamp Oasis. Our challenge was to make an animal card, below is Boo and his new owner...in image and ink.

Recipe:

• Digital Image: Shire by Mo Manning
• Stamps: Happy Valentines Day by Studio G, Circle by Autumn Leaves
• Punches: EK Success; Apron Lace Border Punch, Circle. Stampin Up; Scallop. Posh Impressions; Hearts
• Other: Copics, Ribbon, Glitter, Pop Dots

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Love is in the Air & a DT CALL!

DT CALL (Scroll further down to see this weeks Challenge Entry)


We will be celebrating our FIRST YEAR Anniversary at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge soon...So, what does that mean? It means...it's time for a DT call!


Below are some requirements that each DT MUST fulfill in order to be a member of our team. If these are things you feel you are able to commit to, please follow the submission instructions so you can apply for a position on our team!


Want to be a part of the Stamptacular Design Team? As a DT member you will be required to:* Submit a completed project weekly, via e-mail, following the challenge requirements, no later than midnight (EST) the THURSDAY before the challenge is posted to the blog!

You will get ALL of the challenges in plenty of time to allow you to complete them before the due date!

* Take excellent quality photos of your completed projects.

* Post positive comments on ALL participants' blogs sometime during the week of the particular challenge they participate in. NO EXCEPTIONS! Comments MUST be specific to each entry! MUST be done before midnight (EST) Saturday before a new challenge is revealed on our challenge blog!*

SCHEDULE/POST your weekly challenge creations on your blog each week at 6:00AM Eastern Standard Time!

* Be an active DT member of our Sunday Challenge Blog, share with me any and all challenge ideas you may have and want to see as one of our blog challenges, and HOST challenges, if needed.

* Help to find sponsors willing to donate prizes for our challenges (this can be friends, companies or yourself)* Be open and honest with me when you feel there's a problem or something needs to be addressed or anytime you just want to chit chat.

* ENJOY participating and being part of the Stamptacular DT!ALL ACCEPTED DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS MUST AGREE TO AND FULFILL A SIX (6) MONTH COMMITMENT! (April 2010 through September 2010)

If the above sounds like something you would like to be a part of and you're interested in becoming a Design Team member for our Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog, PLEASE e-mail misscill@yahoo.com by midnight 3-5 samples of your BEST work...at least ONE of your submissions MUST be something other than a greeting card and ALL submissions MUST contain stamping! No scrapbook layouts, please!


Please e-mail your submissions to misscill@yahoo.com by midnight (EST) February 25th, 2010 to qualify. Accepted Design Team members will be notified no later than Sunday February 28th, 2010.NOTE: be sure to put STAMPTACULAR DT CALL in the subject heading of your e-mail to be sure it doesn't get overlooked!

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Today, at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge our challenge is to make a card for someone you love and if you do it without hearts you can be entered into our prize drawing 2X! This week our prize is an actual HANGLAR Stamp donated by our very own LINE!



Now, onto my card, this week I used this love flowers set by Martha Stewart and after making my own DP with it, I thought the flower would look fab done up 3-D...so I cut out the flower 3X and then pop dotted it back together. I added my border and my leaves and a sentiment and was done...it was easy peasy! I'm so glad you could join me today, I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Recipe:

• Stamps: Martha Stewart (flowers), Sentiment by CTMH (retired)
• Ink: Martha Stewart
• Punch: Martha Stewart
• Other: Pearls Martha Stewart...hmmm...must be a trend this week...LOL..it just all went together naturally!
  

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Challenge

This is my entry into Papertrey Inks 3rd Anniversary Challenge. The Happy Birthday sentiment is on of the FREE digi images they have on their blog hunt (see post below for the deets). Thanks for looking!

Recipe:

• Digital Image: Papertrey Ink
• Paper: Basic Grey
• Other: CM lined paper, Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, Fiskars apron lace border punch, Hero Arts rhinestones, misc. buttons
  

FREE ** Digi's from Paper Trey Ink ** FREE

If you want to see my project for the Digital Tuesday Challenge please keep scrolling...

This is for the rest looking to add to their Digital Image collection. Paper Trey Ink is have an anniversary celebration and have put out 9 digital images for FREE... some colored, some not... anyway, here's a great chance to add to your collection! Just go to Nichole Heady's blog and scroll down a bit to visit their designers blogs to collect the digital images...easy peasy and all for FREE! I am not a member of the PTI design team...just of fan of their stamps!

Digital Tuesday Challenge: Try a Different Fold

This week on the Digital Tuesday Challenge our challenge was a multi-fold card. I thought Cami's Tri-Fold Card from Split Coast Stampers looked interesting, so I decided to give it a whirl. It was simple to put together, although you don't want to use very thick cardstock so you can get your die/punch through it. I love how you open this card, as it seems to keep going and going and going...fun for the recipient!

Our sponsor this week is Bee Crafty, and what adorable images there are there...be sure to check out the DT's creations with them!

I thought this sleeping kitty was sooo cute and I thought the dp reminded me of wallpaper...I wanted a home sweet home feel to this card... in fact this would make a nice home warming card also... Thanks for looking, I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Recipe:

• Digi Image by Whimsie Doodles
• Paper by DCWV and Basic Grey
• Dies by Nestabilities
• Other: Buttons unknown, flowers unknown, copics, string