Happy Birthday Fi!

Oh, I am so in love!  My first ever international stamp order was with Sugar Nellie...and here I am back at it again!  I love these Simply Sassy girls and seriously would love to snap up the whole collection.  Well, my pocket book doesn't allow for such whims, so I'm going to try to win them!  Here is my entry for the Sugar Bowl:

I didn't want to cover up Rupunzel's beautiful hair, so I moved the flowers to the opposite side of the image - sorry!

Rupunzel was coloured with copics and additional highlights added with Koh-I-Noor and Lyra coloured pencils.

Copic Details

Skin: E0000/E000/E00 (cheeks with pencils)

Hair: E50/Y21/Y26/Y28

Dress: R11/R12/R14

Bow/Leggings: R000/R01/R11

Boots: E40/E41/E42/E43/E44/E47

This card is headed overseas, for the birthday of fellow Sundae Girl and Simply Sassy-lover, Fiona!  Fiona even has her own birthday candy give-away until May 31st if you want to check it out!

The inside is word art from Paper Makeup Stamps and a typed birthday sentiment.

Rupunzel will be entered into the following challenges:

Sugar Bowl - sketch

Papertake Weekly - Pale, pretty pastels

Thank you for looking!!

A Simply Sassy Mother's Day

Happy Monday!  This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to play with a little sugar, some Simply Sassy sugar! 

I had so much fun with the layout at Sketch Saturday, that I decided to use it again.

Thanks to colouring tips from Wendy, I've been trying a different strategy when applying colour.

I've done this card for my mother which makes two Mother's Day cards - hmmm, pretty good considering most years I forget to send them!

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

Basic Grey - Be Charming (used Basic Grey bling)

Sketch Saturday - sketch

Dutch Dare - For Mom

Stamptacular Sunday - Mums the Word!

Thank you for looking!

A Little Sugar for Valentine's

Over seven years ago I began making cards using stamps.  My first online purchase however was just two years ago - and it was from a wonderful little stamp company from Scotland - Sugar Nellie.  Over the years I have fallen in love with numerous lines - Elisabeth Bell, Gorjuss Girls, Home Grown Manga, Maggie & Hamish, Simply Sassy...and now these digital images from their Home Grown Line.  This gorgeous girl is Joy and she is a joy to colour!

I have used this week's sketch from the Sugar Bowl.

Thank You for Looking!

Sugar for Daddy

Happy Tuesday!  Today I'd love to share with you the Sugar Nellie card I made for my hubby from the kids.  Our little darlings are both red haired so I coloured Mistletoe from the Home Grown Manga collection to match my son and daughter.

I have followed the current sketch at The Sugar Bowl and added the optional snowflakes in the corner of the image.  My husband's birthday is the 25th of December so this card is for both Christmas and his birthday. 

Once again I've used these gorgeous Christmas papers from Little Yellow Bicycle.

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Christmas Cards

Papertake Weekly - Christmas Birthdays

Craft Your Days Away - Punch It Out

Thank you for looking!

Another Gorjuss Sunday

Happy Gorjuss Sunday!  Today I am excited to announce that the sponsor of this week's Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is Sugar Nellie from Scotland!!!  My very first internet stamp order I ever placed was with Sugar Nellie over a year and a half ago!  I was amazed by their image selection and their extremely low shipping rate.  Turns out my stamps arrived less than a week later too - and I live in Canada!  Since that time I have purchased from many amazing companies, but the most orders I have placed with one company has been Sugar Nellie.  I own all their Gorjuss girls by Suzanne Woolcott including this one Bumble Bee:

This week's challenge at Paper Sundaes is Lots of Layers!  In addition to the layers, I used 3-D glue dots and foam squares to pop up Bumble Bee and the sentiment.

I added Stickles to her wings, hearts on her dress, stripes on her stockings, and around the edge of the sentiment.

Bumble Bee will be entered into the following challenges:

Friday Sketchers - sketch

Stampavie and More - sparkling

Dutch Dare - flowers inspiration (colour)

Totally Papercrafts - pearls & swirls

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your 'Lots of Layers' entry on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog!

Details

Stamps: Sugar Nellie Bumble Bee, Stamping Bella sentiment

Ink: Memento, Stampin' Up!

Paper: My Mind's Eye, Bazzill cardstock

Embellishments: copic markers, Spellbinders Nestabilities, e pearls, unknown ribbon, Martha Stewart border punch, Stickles

Paper Sundaes Blog Hop!

Happy Sunday and welcome to our Paper Sundaes blog hop!  If you have arrived here from my dear friend Christine's blog, then you are on the right track.  If you have stumbled here accidentally then check out all the excitement at Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog.

A couple months ago, Christine wanted to cheer me up and suggested we start a challenge blog.  I don't think she ever imagined that I would be so enthusiastic or eager... or sad to say, such a relentless task master as we tackled the task.  But today we celebrate the launch with a design team blog hop.

In my excitement I have created not one, not two, but THREE cards to show you!

First up is a card for the Sugar Bowl with the adorable image Demure.

The inside is just a simplified version of the sketch.

Next up, is one of my favorite Magnolia images - Kitchen Tilda which I ordered from Diana at Magnolia-licious.

The paper used was from December's card kit at Paperworks Co.  I used the same paper on the inside:

Tilda will be entered into the challenges at Just Magnolia (paper pleating), Cute Card Thursday (new), Diedrich Dare (colour challenge), and Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge (sketch).

Lastly, my entry for this week's Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps challenge.

 

And inside:

Antionette will be entered into the challenges at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps (heavy metal), The Pink Elephant (2 DP, 3 buttons, snowflakes), Crazy for Challenges (birthdays), Cute Card Thursday (new - stamp), Pollycraft Monday Challenge (winter birthday) and Sketch Saturday (sketch).

Note to my husband: Stop reading here! 

The January release at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps is available today.  I have already visited their store and ordered the complete line of Steampunk images including sentiments, as well as two of the fairies, and the fairy sentiments.

So, did you like the first card?  Here's a hint - it was Demure from Sugar Nellie.  Well, an uninked version of that stamp is what I am offering for my blog candy along with a couple other goodies.  If you'd like a chance at winning my fixings, become a follower of my blog and leave a comment.  I will draw the winner and post it on the Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog Sunday, January 17th when we post the first sketch challenge.

Next on our blog hop is Alica.  If you get lost, check out the list of participants here.

Thank you for looking!

Another Sugar Bowl

Today I got the chance to play with my new distress inks.  They might take a bit of time to get used to but I am determined!  The Sugar Bowl is having their last challenge of the year and I'm excited to enter Demure.  She is perfect for the soft effect of the distress inks.

Thank you for looking!  I will post the details later.

Shana

A Christmas Fairy

This image has been coloured for a couple weeks now but has been just waiting.  Tonight I made a mad dash to complete her in time for the Friday Sketchers challenge to no avail.  However, she will be entered into the challenges at Everybody Art Challenge (red & green), Charisma Cardz (red/green & white), Stampavie and More (red & green), Die Cuts R Us (holiday feel), Creatalicious Challenges (Christmas/sparkle/glitter), Simon Says Challenge (let it snow), and Danni's wonderful Flutter By Wednesday.

Details
Stamps: Sugar Nellie
Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle, Lynx cardstock
Ink: Memento, Stampin' Up!
Embellishments: stickles, SU! dazzling diamonds, Cuttlebug die, SU circle punch, sewing machine, copics, nestabilities

Thank you for looking!

A Sugar Fairy for the Bowl

Today I worked on my entry for tomorrow's Sugar Bowl using Manga Fairy.  She has been coloured with Lyra pencils and then given some sparkle with US Artquest Mica paints and Stampin' Up! dazzling diamonds.  After embossing the background cardstock, I coloured the raised images with the mica paints.  The stars and decorations on the trees have been glittered with dazzling diamonds.

I love this paper by My Mind's Eye however if it did have any zig zag patterns, I obviously didn't pick it up.  So, I created my own!  It was interesting matching up the stripes but I was pleased with the final results.  The inside was kept fairly simple with dry embossing across the top edge of the writing space and ric rac and paper which matched the front.

Details
Stamps: Sugar Nellie Manga Fairy
Ink: Staz-On
Paper: My Mind's Eye, Lynx and Stampin' Up! cardstock
Embellishments: SU dazzling diamonds and ric rac, Martha Stewart rhinestones, Cuttlebug embossing folder, US Artquest mica paints, Lyra pencils

Thank you for looking!

Sugar for my Son

While there appears to be an abundance of cute girl stamps on the market, the selection for boys is rather limited.  So when Sugar Nellie launched their Manga images which includes a couple boys, I was thrilled!  The challenge this week at the Sugar Bowl is a thank you card and as a Mom, I am extremely proud and grateful for having an amazing six-year old boy.  This card is for him:

And it will be entered in this week's Sugar Bowl.

Details:

Paper: Bazzill

Stamps: Sugar Nellie, Close to My Heart

Ink: Memento

Embellishments: Stampin' Up! ribbon, copics, Karen Foster mini screw brads

Thank you for looking!

Challenges and Applications!

Today was a busy day after a late night Monday night. For those of you who follow Paper Makeup Stamps, you already know that they had an amazing blog hop yesterday followed by a superb launch party. I spent a little over an hour on Monday at a friend's house blog hopping while she watched - sorry Christine! However the end result was worth it - I won a $25US gift certificate to spend on PMS. Then I had to order almost $60 in stamps to get free shipping and use my GC. In the end I spent $23 Canadian out of pocket and now I am anxiously stalking our postman! The release included amazing new fairies (Marissa and Fairy Friends found their way into my cart), coffee sentiments/word art (also jumped into my cart) and a brand new artist - Cynthia Liu. Cynthia Liu's Moody creations are different and perfect for more sophisticated card tastes. My cart felt empty until Moody for Art, Moody for Music, and Moody for Coffee found their way into it. Those stamps are just what I need to create cards for my newly turned teenage niece.

This afternoon I decided to complete the first Paper Makeup Challenge sooner rather than later - although PMS does have an amazing word art which fits me to a "t" usually, today I was on the ball. I cased Lisa McKinney off SCS and found the end result fantastic.

I decided to step outside my comfort zone and doodle on the inside too.

This evening I decided to try to complete PMS's second challenge - and surprised myself when the kids and Chris cooperated enough that I was able to create this...

I love this retired designer series paper and colours (Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouette) by Stamping Up. Glimmer mist from Tattered Angels on the flower, buttons from SU, stickles (wings) and nesties were all dragged out for this beauty. Oh, and for the first time ever my sewing machine came out to play with paper!


Then I probably pushed my luck a little too far but did actually end up completing a Sugar challenge. I used the same buttons and DSP as the card prior.

Here is a link to the Sugar Challenge - check out all the beautiful cards others have made with their sugar.

http://www.sugarbowlblog.blogspot.com/

At this point I might have to take a few days rest - my family has had enough of card making!

Thanks for looking!