Happy Apple Harvest!

Happy Sunday!  This week on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog we want you to dig into your stash!  And for that torture, one lucky winner will win their choice of three digital images from Karen's Doodles.  Having the past honour of being a member of Karen's Doodles US Challenge Blog DT, I can honestly say I LOVE her images!  So with a vast collection already, I still had to peek at her latest creations, and fell in love with this beauty, Apple Harvest:

For this challenge, I pulled out three items from my stash - these gorgeous papers from last year, a border punch from my ex-sister-in-law (so that's gotta be six or seven years ago), and a leaf punch that dates back to the start of my scrapbooking days - over twelve years ago!

Apple Harvest will be entered into the following challenges:
Simon Says Challenge - It's Autumn
Color Throw Down - Riding Hood Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Spots and Stripes
Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing what you dig out for your stash!

A Fairy for My Beautiful Princess

Happy Sunday!  Sorry for the disappearing act the past couple weeks.  It's been a whirlwind of doctor's appointments and blood tests for my just turned four year old darling daughter.  In the morning we hit the finish line with a biopsy to determine if she has celiac disease like her five year old cousin. 

For that reason, and her love of butterflies and fairies - this week's challenge All Things Winged on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is perfectly timed.  I've used the beautiful Wags n' Whiskers fairy Angelica to create a special card for her on the eve of her hospital visit.

At four years of age, Taryn adores her name and anything with her name on it.  So I used glitter letters and the charming new papers from Cosmo Cricket - Pixilicious.

The flower from Maya Road was a special purchase just for my little flower-loving princess.  The colour matched the patterned papers perfectly.  I applied Stampin' Up! dazzling diamonds liberally!

Currently Taryn's favorite colour is "rainbow" so I used my copics to pull out as many of the different colours from the patterned papers as possible.

The card was a hit!  She decided that it needed to sit on her nightstand where she could look at it as she fell asleep tonight.  Hopefully Angelica will watch over her tomorrow.

Angelica will be entered into the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch by Leann

Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

Crazy4Challenges - Bling (glitter, glitter, and more glitter!!!)

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

Another Belle on Sundae

Happy Sundae!  This week's challenge on Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog is the perfect time to break out your embellishments!  The challenge is to use a minimum of three different types of embellishments on your creations.  I actually used four - ribbon, pearls, flowers, and a gem brad.  The challenge gave me the perfect excuse to ink up one of my favorite Belles n' Whistles stamps, Tania Baking:

I still managed to keep the card fairly simple thanks to the sketch at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and the colour combo at Belles n' Whistles Blog.

Tania will be entered into the following challenges:

Totally Papercrafts - Let's Go Dotty

Thanks for looking!  I look forward to seeing your creation on Paper Sundaes!

Mixing Mediums with Tilda On The Go

Happy Monday!  I'm taking a break from sitting in ICU at the hospital with my aunt to post a card for Paper Sundaes Challenge Blog.  This week's challenge is one of my absolute favorites - mixed medium! 

When I took my colouring class at My Creative Classroom, my instructor Colleen Schaan taught us how to add shadows on images coloured with copics by using coloured pencils.  Also how to add grass and grounding on the image by using coloured pencils.  Chalks are great for adding some interest to the background or adding blush to cheeks.  Mixed medium is the result any time you use more than one colouring medium on an image - copics, coloured pencils, watercolour paints, distress ink, chalks, etc. 

This week I am using one of my brand new Bon Voyage Magnolias from Diana at Magnolia-licious.

Tilda was first coloured with copic markers.  Then I added some depth to the shadows and added grounding with my Lyra coloured pencils.  I used chalk to mute the white background and add blush to Tilda's cheeks.

I followed the sketch at Sketch Saturday - thanks Jeanette for another gorgeous sketch!  Tilda On the Go will also be entered into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp! - pearls and lace

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - fall colours (muted brown roses, golden shirt, muted blue dress)

Just Magnolia - anything goes

Stamp and Create - pearls and gems (flower spacers and pearls both from Stamp and Create)

Bunny Zoe's - vintage

Stampin' for the Weekend - vintage

All That Scraps - lace

Thank you for looking!  I look forward to seeing your mixed medium creation on Paper Sundaes!