Let's Get Tickled Pink

Good morning and welcome to another fabulous Sunday with Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!!!  This week the challenge is circles - you could do a circle card, use circle papers, circle mats or just circle embellishments.  I've chosen circle patterns on my paper and circles on my lace trim.

The image I am using is Fashionette Lil Lolita - 20's Evie from Tickled Pink Stamps:

I love these new papers from the new Miss Caroline collection from My Mind's Eye.

Evie is coloured with copic markers.

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your circles at Paper Sundaes!

Birthday Cake Anyone?

Another fabulous Sunday!  And with that comes another fun challenge from Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog - Birthdays!

Last night I managed to sneak off to Christine's house for some much needed crafting.  I actually managed to put together five cards while I was there!  Between work, school, and the kids, I have been neglecting myself.  We've been focusing a lot of our family attention on my eight year old son who really has been struggling.  He is such an amazing child with a very unique view of our world which sets him apart from other kids his age.  Sadly, these difference have caused him anxiety and troubles that no child should have to experience.  Fingers crossed, but it looks like in another ten months we should have the answers we've been seeking - gotta love the Alberta health care system and their wait lists.  As I wait, I might as well enjoy myself and relieve some of my stress by colouring!

This gorgeous image is from Lili of the Valley across the sea.  Her name is 'Rosie with Cake' and she is such a doll to colour:

I have followed the sketch over at A Gem of a Challenge.  The papers are from one of my many 6 x 6 paper packs from My Mind's Eye - Vanity Fair.

I tried a different technique of colouring with my copics on Rosie's clothes.  I think I like it.  I'll have to try it again soon.

 

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to see your 'Birthday' creations at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!

Celebrating Christmas with Ribbon Tilda

Good Morning and Happy Sunday!  Today is just a little brighter in my world thanks to the book "The Explosive Child".  Why?  For those of you out there who share my frustration with having "challenging" little darlings, you can imagine how wonderful it feels to read a book which seems to understand the volatility around our home.  It is nice to hear a view point which suggests my five and eight year olds need to learn skills to control their emotional outbursts - and for once I feel hopeful that I can help my strong willed children can embrace peace.  My angels are a far cry from this serene and angelic Ribbon Tilda:

This week on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we have opened up the Sundae Bar with four new toppings: Black, Distressing, Flowers and Sparkle.  You only need to select two to play along!  I've chosen flowers and sparkles for my toppings. 

The layout is from Sketch Saturday and I've added extra sparkle with Stampin' Up! Dazzling Diamonds on Tilda's trim and around the image.

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing which toppings you choose from the Sundae Bar at Paper Sundaes!

Witching You a Happy Halloween!

Happy Sunday!  Is anyone out there as excited as I am?  Halloween is almost here!  To celebrate, this week's challenge at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is 'Halloween or Fall'.  I've coloured up this adorable Witchy Wendy from Paper Makeup Stamps:

These fabulous papers are from the Mischievous collection by My Mind's Eye and the layout is from Sketch Saturday.

Wendy will be entered into the following challenges:
Through The Classroom Door - Happy Halloween with the colour orange
Sketch Saturday - layout
Everybody Art Challenge - Halloween
Craft Your Days Away - Halloween Colours
Cupcake Craft - Halloween
The Pink Elephant - Photo Inspiration
Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your 'Halloween or Fall' creations on Paper Sundaes!

Tilda in Green

Happy Sunday!  Today's challenge on Paper Sundaes is your favorite colour combination.  For Christmas, I'm more of a traditional girl, favoring the red/green/cream combo - and lots of sparkle!

Tilda is coloured in one of my favorite yellow-green combinations:

Isn't she gorgeous?  Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your favorite colour combination at Paper Sundaes!

Consumed

Happy Sunday!  It's been a while since I've participated in a challenge with Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog.  For those of you curious, I think I'll share a bit.  For those of you who prefer the usual lack of personal details in my post, feel free to skip this part. 

In the past year and a half that I've been roaming blogland, I've come to realize that most of us have our trials and some of us like to know that we're not alone as we experience them.  Since May 2010 I've come to discover that I have a hereditary illness that most won't speak of, my five year old daughter has celiac disease, and my son, well, the amount of free community support we receive is indicative of something as of yet unnamed.  For the past three months our household focus has been my son as we continue to struggle to get structure, routine, and organization into a typically chaotic existence.  If you've seen HGTV's new show 'Consumed', then you can safely picture what fourteen years of living in one house with two individuals who prefer to repurpose something rather than toss it has done to my home.  It is actually quite funny as I'm learning to let go and donate items and my hubby is saying "but, but...we could...".  Cardmaking has been extremely therapeutic - although my craftroom could use de-cluttering and totally stresses me out as I purge the rest of the house!

This week's challenge at Paper Sundaes is a favorite one - 'Anything Goes'!  So I've decided to use my copic markers and try to colour on kraft cardstock.

I wanted to focus attention on the stitching so the rest of the card simply lacks embellishment.  I continued the stitching on the inside of the card.

Thank you for looking and all your support!  I look forward to seeing your 'Anything Goes' creation!  

You Are My World

Happy Sunday!  Today I am super excited to share my card with you!  As a paper hoarder I love the loads of paper that arrive at scrapbook stores after CHA.  Friday I managed to pick up one of the new Six by Six (Vanity Fair) by My Mind's Eye and actually put it to use immediately for today's card.

Isn't that paper gorgeous?!  And of course that little gem of a girl, Being Cute Is What I Do:

 
This week's challenge at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is our amazing Sundae Bar where you get to pick your favorite toppings!  You just need to use at least two of: green, buttons, banners, and/or twine.  I've used buttons and twine on my card.  The layout is this week's sketch for My Favorite Things and the card is for my darling husband who tolerates all my crafting as best as can be expected!

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your favorite toppings from our Sundae Bar on Paper Sundaes!

Simply Bronto

Happy Thursday!  I'm joining in on the fun at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog late this week.  Darling hubby and I took the two little monsters camping up by Lac La Biche, Alberta.  Wow is the campground amazing!  I managed to colour this gorgeous little dinosaur, Bronto, from Paper Makeup Stamps:

The challenge this week at Paper Sundaes is "Just saying hi".  Keeping it simple, I used chipboard letters for my sentiment and popped them up with foam squares I cut smaller to fit more discretely behind the letters.

The papers are from my stash - a fantastic line from Little Yellow Bicycle for the boys in your life, Generation Z.

Thank you for looking!

 

Dreaming of Summer Days

Some of us in St. Albert are wondering whether our summer has officially come and gone in the blink of the eye.  This year we've had two extremes for summer - mosquitos and monsoon!  When picking this challenge, Christine and I imagined that we'd be enjoying hot summer days - not simply dreaming of a typical dry Alberta summer.  I have paired up this adorable cutie from CC Designs with an extremely appropriate sentiment from Lili of the Valley:

The sketch is from a new sketch challenge blog, Pink {Ink} Sketch.  The inside is fairly simple, using different strips of paper from these gorgeous Echo Park papers:

Dreaming of Summer Days will be entered into the following challenges:
Charisma Cardz - Sunshine Colors
Dutch Dare - Color Combo
Fussy and Fancy - Summer
Craft Your Days Away - Summertime

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your "Just Beachy / Summertime" creations on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!

Cool Edwin Christmas Tag

Happy Tuesday!  This week on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we want to see your Christmas creations!  I finally took some time to ink up and colour my new, and perhaps one of my favorite Edwins, Cool Edwin:

Since the Intermediate Copic Class in Calgary, I've been playing with my skin colours.  I'm partial to E000/E00/E11 but I'm inspired by my friend Christine so I've actually been adding E21 to that combination.

Zoe  from Make It Colourful has an amazing video on pleats which I watched prior to attempting the folds on Edwin's pants.  I need more practice, but at least they are not as flat as I normally colour pants.  The edges of the front and the back of the tag were inked with VersaInk and embossed with Stampin' Up! Winter White powder.  On the back of the tag I have left plenty of room to write a special message to my son:

This Christmas tag will be entered into the following challenges:
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Create A Tag
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations - Christmas in July

Thank you for looking!  And I look forward to seeing your Christmas creations on Paper Sundaes!

Wanna Cupcake?

Happy Sunday!  This week's challenge on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is one of my favorites - paper piecing!  The clean and simple lines of the Pure Innocence girls by Heather Ellis are perfect for this technique.  I have chosen to use her little girl with a cupcake (Pure Innocence 030):

I have followed this week's card layout on The Pixie Cottage and I have paper pieced her dress and the cupcake wrapper.

This card is actually for my Auntie who always loved to tell me that I could not have my cake and eat it too (my Mom and Aunt both love proverbs and sayings so I grew up hearing quite a few of them which were passed down from my Grandma Laura).  So the sentiment on the inside of the card is actually a cheeky private joke for my Aunt:

A close up on the copic colouring and paper piecing:

Entered into the following challenges:

Wags 'n Whiskers - Birthday

Stampalot Challenge - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenges #57 - Birthday

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your paper pieced creations on Paper Sundaes!

I Need Some Face Time

Oh Happy Sunday! I say this with my tongue in cheek as I have a house full of kids just waking up from a sleep over! Breakfast with my two and their three cousins can be a bit stressful as they each eat a different type of cereal and two of them have celiac disease which means no gluten for them. After breakfast the fun will begin as we head out to the garden for a couple hours before walking thee cousins back home - I figure their mom and dad will enjoy sleeping in.

My card today is actally for my sister-in-law. As soon as I saw the latest release at My FavoriteThings, I knew I had to have it for my sister-in-law who is glued to her iPhone.  I was lucky that Kathy at my local scrapbook store, Scrap and Bean, was just placing an MFT order and was able to add 'a la mode - I Need Some Face Time':

Isn't she gorgeous?  Gloria's favourite colour is blue according to my nieces so I have paired the image with the fabulous new papers from My Mind's Eye - Lime Twist.  This week's challenge at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is 'Girly Girl' so I have added a touch of pink cardstock, pale cream and pink cherry blossoms, lace and a burgundy bow.  The little green curls were actually made by taking the stems off twoof the Wild Orchid flowers and wrapping them around a thin paint brush handle before gently pulling them off.  I have followed this week's sketch from the MFT blog.

I have treated the screen on the iPhone to Stampin' Up! Crystal Effects and coloured this lovely lady with copics.  This time next week I will be buzzed from the Intermediate Copic Certification in Calgary with Sherrie Siemens!  Woo hoo!

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your 'Girly Girl' creation on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!

Sentimental about My Son

This week on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we would love to see you get sentimental. I have chosen to gush about my fabulous seven year old son (who insists that I own way too many girl stamps and no where near enough boy stamps!).  This handsome gentleman is Oakley with Scooter from Whiff of Joy: 

I have used papers from my stash from the Paper Loft.  The brown cardstock layer was embossed with the Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder.

Oakley is coloured with copic markers.

Oakley will be entered into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp - Father's Day/For a Male

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to getting sentimental about your creations!

Let's Get Shabby - Tickled Pink Style!

Happy Wednesday!  Today I'd love to share with you my project for this week's shabby chic/vintage challenge at Paper Sundaes.  Sadly, I finished this little sketch book project Saturday but just felt it was missing something so I wanted to add something.  Not sure what might be missing, but from a practical standpoint, if I want my fourteen year old niece to use it, I have to make it functional - so no poofy ribbons or gems or pearls.  Hopefully she'll like it! 

I cropped the 12 x 12 paper so that the frame spotlighted Lil Victorian Steampunk Lolita Evie.  I love this era of fashion.  My family moved to Edmonton in 1984 and for over twenty years I thoroughly enjoyed dressing up in Klondike/Gold Rush day fashion for the annual Klondike Days.

I am so happy with the shading on her dress!  I love all the folds.  I used the words on the paper to add a message to my niece on the front and on the inside cover.

I decorated the back inside cover but kept it fairly blank so that she can write her name or whatever on the back.  The sketch book is from Ecojot.

My niece's sketch book will be entered into the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew - For a Diva (what 14 year old girl isn't?)

All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes (you can buy this stamp here at ATS)

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your take on our shabby chic/vintage challenge!

If Smiles Were Flowers

Happy Mother's Day!  Sorry for the lateness of this post.  Last night I had a housefull with my two nieces and nephew joining us for a sleepover.  Today, being Mother's Day, was our traditional Mom and Kids trip to the movies.  We saw Rio which was fun for all!

This week on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we would like to see your magical, mythical and fairytale characters.  I decided to make a sweet card for a little girl using Bunny Fairy: 

Once again I've followed the gorgeous layout from Sketch Saturday, however I've turned it sideways.  The papers are some of my favorite from my stash - a collection of papers from Three Bugs in A Rug from over a year ago.

I love the clean and simple lines of the Pink Cat Studio images so I kept the lines of the card and embellishments simple and clean.  Copic Creations challenge this week is colouring sky/clouds and actually have three different tutorials linked up.  I attempted to follow the tutorial by Dana Christiansen but my result needs work.

  Copic Details

Bunny fur: C00/C0/C1/C2

Flowers: RV11/RV21/RV34 and R30/R32

Wand: G40/G82 B000/RV10

Wings: B000

Sky: BG10/B000/B0000

The inside features word art from Paper Makeup Stamps:

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with optional round

Creative Inspirations - Embossing (white background on front is embossed with dots)

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your magical, mythical, and/or fairytale characters at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog for your chance to win with Pink Cat Studio!



Puppy Joy!

Happy Sunday!  Today on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we would love to see your favorite hair colour combination.  Whatever your preferred medium, we would like you to tell us what you used.  For my card I used copic markers and began with a base of E50, which I later darkened to E53.  I then layered E55, E57, and E59 to make a brunette baby boy.  This week's sponsor is Karen's Doodles and I used Christmas Puppy to make a baby card for a friend's upcoming birth:

I followed this week's layout at Sketch Saturday and used paper from My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy collection.

I really like how the card came together!  Hopefully my friend will too!

Copic Details

Skin: E0000/E000/E00 Cheeks: chalk

Hair: E50/E53/E55/E57/E59

Jumper: BG10/BG11/BG34 

Trim on jumper: E42/E43/E44 

Bottom of feet: E40/E41/E43/E44

Puppy: E50/Y21/Y26/Y28/E31/E33/E35

Bow: YR12/YR14/YR16

Thank you for looking!  Please check out the details of Paper Sundaes Design Team call here!  And I look forward to being inspired by your favorite hair colour combinations on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!

Happy Easter Glamor Girl

Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate today!  And Happy Sunday! 

This week I thought I would check out one of the lines of stamps from Stamp and Create that I do not normally play with - Kenny K!  While I was checking out Lacey's store I was amazed by the variety of stamps she carries - CC Designs, Belles n' Whistles, High Hopes, Tickled Pink and Whiff of Joy - just to name a few!  I decided to create a card for my 14 year old, ipod obsessed, niece featuring Download Diva:

This week Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog has re-opened the Sundae Bar and are featuring the following four toppings: Sparkle, Pearls, Die Cuts, and the colour Yellow.  I chose to use die cuts and pearls:

 The layout is thanks to this week's sketch at The Sweet Stop.  As I mentioned on yesterday's post, I used the same gorgeous papers from Kaiser Kraft on both creations.

My niece's room is lime green and black so I used these two colours on the inside of the card and kept the rest clean and simple.

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your Sundae creation featuring two, three, or even all four of the toppings from this week's Sundae Bar!

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Everybody Art Challenge - Pearls

Craft Your Days Away - Easter

Crazy 4 Challenges - Easter

Stamptacular Sunday - Pile It On - 5 plus layers