At the Beach

At the Beach - It is Friday and that means it is time for a new challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity!! Our challenge this week is "Oh, I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside!" It is a fun challenge and we do so hope that you will join us!

My Designer papers are Carta Bella, Ahoy There.

My image is Michelle Perkett Studio's Olive. I love to color Olive. I really love her belly. It is so much like a toddlers.

I colored Olive with Copics and then used a poster paint pen to add the highlights. I used Stickles on the Starfish and some fine glitter on the white ruffles on her swimsuit and on the headband.

I had a friend who colored this image and thought that the hat was hair. I thought it looked cute that way too, but she was embarrassed.

The little anchor was cut from the pad of paper and I added some Rock Candy Stickles to it.

I completed my card with some tiny pearls. 

Sketchy Colors #221 Sketch
Open-Minded Crafting Fun #17 Last Days of Summer
Our Creative Corner 6 Summertime
Pile It On Challenge #33 By the Sea
Everybody-Art-Challenge #289 Favorite Stamp
Clear it Out Challenge Anything Goes
Divas by Design Challenge Pearls

Apples for Teach

Apples for Teach - It is time for another challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity and Alphabet Challenge Blog. Our challenge at Crafts 4 Eternity is Back to School and at Alphabet Challenge Blog is one work sentiments.

My Designer Paper is MME Ruby. 

My image is Mary Margaret by Michelle Perkett. I love Michelle's warm, whimsical style. I colored Mary Margaret with Copics, then fussy cut her. I matted her useing SB Labels 4 and Gold Labels 4. I accented the cut with some tiny black gemstones.

My sentiment is SU; as is the punch that cut it out.  I used a small piece of ribbon. The small flowers are Recollections and the larger one, I picked up at the convention.

Sketch and Stash Challenge #120 Sketch
Fairies Challenges #11 Back to School
The Pink Elephant Challenge #214 Back to School
Love to Create Challenge #80 Back to School
Cutie Pic Challenge #51 Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday #108 Initials - MH - M is  for Mary Margaret and H is for Hello
Craft-Room Challenge Something New. My Gold Labels 4 die is new. I bought it on Saturday at the convention in Tulsa. I just had to try it out!
Lori Boyd 2 #54 Back to School

Emerald Fairy

Emerald Fairy - Hello dear friends. I have my DT project for 2 teams.

The first is for Crafts 4 Eternity. Our challenge is Wonderful Wings and we are sponsored by Stamping All Day. The prize is 3 downloads.

My second team is Alphabet Challenge Blog. The challenge there is E for Emerald.

My DP is a digi download from Crafts and Me. It is Forest Fairy 25. These papers are just so enchanting. I bought them a while back, but had not used them until now. I think I just didn't want to cover them up. They are so beautiful.

The yellow circle DP is Heidi Swappe.

My image is Michelle Perkett. I love her images. I designed for her for a year before she closed her challenge team. I really miss coloring her images. You can still get her beautiful images here.

This image is Ashley the Autumn Sprite. I colored Ashley with Copics and added Stickles to the leaves and wings.

I have just recently found a combination for ethnic skin that I can do. It is E 37, 35, 33 and RV 13 for the cheeks. I can't tell you how many times I watched a tutorial using the high E 20's and could not get it to look decent. I am very happy with this color combo.

Cathy Waffle Sketch April Sketch
Color-Me-Classroom #65 Hair
Cupcake Inspirations #205 Cupcake Inspiration
The Pink Elephant Challenge #194 Spring Colors
Stamp With Fun #206 Birthday
The Paper Shelter #107 Spring
Fab N Funky Challenges #166 Spring Colors
Flutterby Wednesdays #234 Open with butterfly or fairy

Flowery Cupcake

 

Flowery Cupcake -  It is time for another sketch challenge at Sunday Sketch and Stamp, sponsored by Crimson Cloud.

 

 Here is the lovely sketch.

 

My image is by Michelle Perkett Studio. I love Michelle's girly images. I used a lot of V Copic markers to color it. I cut the image with a SB and inked with Seeded Preserves distress ink. I added gemstones to the flower centers to add some blink.

I gave my ribbon flowers some Seeded Preserves to give it a hint of the purple. My finishing touch on the card was to add 3 lilac pearls made with my Viva Decor pearl pen.

Digital Tuesday Challenge #179 Flowers
The Paper Shelter #82 Anything goes
Simon Says Stamps Challenge  anything goes
Fab N Funk Challenges #140 Starts with F - fabulous flowers, flame,
Paper Play Challenges #39 Flowers and Lace
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #152 lace and ribbon
Totally Paper Crafts #136 pretty pastels
Totally Gorjuss #151 Punch and Die

Floating Along

 Floating Along - There is nothing more relaxing then floating along on the water. I am somewhat afraid of water or rather what is in it, so I do most of my floating in a pool; but I must admit it is so pleasant on a river or a large body of water with the waves.

When my son was in Boy Scouts, his troop did a family river canoe trip each year and it was a blast! Even when the boys dumped me out into the river. My son thought it would be a hoot to play at tipping my canoe and another boy carried it out. I was badly bruised where the canoe hit my leg. My revenge was to "Mom him" the rest of the trip. I decided that he must need extra attention, so I threatened to give him tons of hugs. Nothing is worse for a teen age boy, who wants to be cool in front of the the other boys, than to be hugged by a Mom in public. He didn't come near me the rest of the trip. LOL

For my card, I used some new toys that I had not played with before. My yellow designer paper is Afternoon Muse by Glitz. I sprayed Turquise Perfect Pearls Mist on my mat, then dipped a dotted stamp by Stampers Anonymous in it and stamped the yellow designer paper. I really like how it came out.

But I wasn't done yet. I then sprayed Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls Mist and using the same stamp, stamped my turquoise card stock with it. If you look carefully, you can see the sheen on the paper. All papers were inked with blue Jean distress ink.

My image is Penelope by Michelle Perkett. Michelle makes the most lovely images. You can check out her digi images here and if you like rubber, you can now get some of her amazing images in rubber at Sparkle n Sprinkles here.

Penelope is a freebie that Michelle gave out eons ago, but she has a different freebie available every Tuesday here at her blog.

Michelle is our sponsor for this challenge at Creative Card Crew. One lucky winner will win a $10 gift voucher to her Etsy shop.

Our challenge is On the Beach/Under the Sea. I perfect challenge for Michelle Perkett's gorgeous mermaids.

My flower's are Prima. I sprayed the gold one with Sunflower Glimmer Mist and added some Stickles to it. The blue one was sprayed with the Perfect Pearls Turquoise Mist, then inked with Blue Jeans distress inks. I then used a gemstone to add more sparkle.

My swirls are a Quik Cuts die.

I did the same with the smaller flower, but reversed the color. The center is a blue Dew Drop.

My sentiment is Hot Off the Press.

Here is a close-up of the dotts. Aren't they pretty?

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting For All Seasons #32 Splash Me

Do You Stack Up #82 For a Friend

The Play Date Cafe #141 blue, gold and pink

Simply Create Too #18 Use Something Twice - flowers

One Stop Craft Challenge #193 Friends

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #196 Bright and Cheerful

Crazy 4 Challenges #147 Hot Summer

ABC-Challenge T for Two - flowers

Purple Fantasy

Purple Fantasy - Michelle Perkett is sponsoring us at Creative Card Crew and it gave me a chance to color one of her images again. I had forgotten how lovey and fun to color they are. Michelle is giving one lucky winner her Lily image. Lily was the top pick of my team. I have to admit that Lily is a joy to color.
My DP is from my scrap drawer. The card stock was embossed with a Quik Cuts folder and I made the pin. I have really gotten into pins lately. They are so easy to create and I love how light plays on them. The stick pin itself, I bought from our last fortnight challenge sponsor Pizzazz Aplenty. She has the best prices around. The corner scrolls were cut with CB corner die and glittered with a fine glitter.
The pansy I found flying loose around a craft store parking lot. It had been pulled loose and was just being whipped every which-way in the wind. I pulled the center our and replaces it with a sparkly brad and added the leaves and scrolled wire.
My image is Ashely by Michelle Perkett and she is colored with Copics. I added some fine glitter to her wings.
I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Divas By Design Challenge #19 Sketch
Stampin Sisters in Christ #124 My true style Mine is girly with glitter.
4 Crafty Chicks #74 Pins
Do You Stack Up #56 ribbons
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge #117 Things with wings
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #170 ribbons

Vintage Chrissy

Vintage Chrissy - I have used Michelle Perketts "Chrissy" image to make my Christmas card with.

This week's challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is Vintage. It is really fun to distress (I used Ranger's tea dye) and use ivory lace. My DP is Holiday Wonder by Paper Studio. I used some brads that I picked up at the convention in June. I love the Cameo one. My sentiment is Inkadinkado.

I colored Chrissy with Copics. I added some platinum Stickles to the center of the poinsettias on her dress. The berries are tiny gemstones and I used some ivory Flower Soft on her fur. The snowflakes got Stickled with icicle Stickles.

I love Michelle's fairies. All of Michelle's images are so pretty and fun to color. I hope that all of you will join in our vintage challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio, but remember you must use on of Michelle's images to play. She has started posting a freebie on the challenge blog that you can use on the challenge. I can't wait to see this weeks freebie.

Sketch Saturday #168 sketch
Phindys Place Challenge #68 Vintage
Simply Create Challenges #50 Distress
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #147 Christmas is Coming

Fun in the Sun

Fun in the Sun - Introducing Molly by Michelle Perkett. The challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is "Let's go to the Beach." That is why I gave her a beach scene to play in.

My DP is Berry Sweet by K & Company. My ribbon was from the Seasonal shop at Hobby Lobby a summer or two ago. I added a pink gemstone to the ribbon.

One of my punches is MS and the other EK Success. My image was with a Spell Binders.

Molly was colored with Copics and I added some Stickles to the flowers on her swimsuit and on her towel.

Deconstructing Jen Sketch
Dutchdare card challenges #122 Neon pink, green, orange and yellow
Totally Gorjuss #90 punch or die
Corrosive Challenges by Janet #126 Kids
Paper Sundaes #79 Beachy
Paper Playtime #51 summer
Top Tip Tuesday #Make it Girly

High Flying Birthday

High Flying Birthday - The challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio is to make something song inspired. The song I chose was "Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon."

My card is a Joy card that is really 2 cards put together, one smaller than the other. My DP is kaleidoscope by MME. The tag is a punch out sheet that goes with the DP.
I used a balloon punch for the balloons and I used some embroidery floss for the strings on my balloons.
I used my Bow Easy to tie the bow on the tag and I put a tiny flower shaped gemstone in the bow's center.

My image is Flying Birthday Girl by Michelle Perkett. I colored it with Copics and used some Stickeds on her hem, ribbon sash and on the frosting. The flame is Studio G glitter.



Unscripted Sketches #115 Sketch
Southern Girls Challenge #23 Happy Birthday
Crafty Catz Weekly #91 Tag
Totally Paper Crafts #75 girly girl
Crazy 4 Challenges #96 Joy Fold Card
All Sorts Challenge #112 Free and Easy July
Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Use words/phrase inspired "High Flying"
A Spoonfull Of Sugar #161 tag

Books are Friends too!

Books are friends too! - Today starts the new challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio. What are we doing this week? Buttons! Buttons are a fun embellishment. I have been know to look through clothes that were being taken to Goodwill for buttons. Sometimes you can find really interesting ones. However today I made my own buttons. I punched them out of cardstock and coated them with Matte Accents. My baker's twine was also homemade. It is nice to make them this way I can use the same Copic that I colored the image with.

My DP is Al Fresco Tapestry by CR Gibson and was a gift from my daughter for Mother's day. Don't I have a great daughter? I used a MS punch.

The image is Stella by Michelle Perkett. I love this image. I love how studious Stella looks and how all the flowers and even the bee and butterfly have come to hear the story. What book do you think she is reading?

Stella was Colored with Copics and I used some fine glitter by the Rubber Cafe.

Alphabet Challenge Blog J= Just one word Friends

Sketch Saturday #163 sketch
Totally Gorjuss #88 Summertime
Crazy 4 Challenges #95 Summer Themed
Just Us Girls Challenge #92 Make Your Own Buttons
Paper Playtime #50 Summer

Believe in Mermaids

Believe in Mermaids - The challenge this week at Michelle Perkett Studio is "Under the Sea." This challenge is perfect for Michelle's mermaid images. This "Tiffany" image is the newest in Michelle's line of super cute mermaids. The buzz on this one is that it reminds many on the team of one of the characters from Sex in the City.

My DP is from my DDIL's stash and I could not find who it is by. Thanks Amanda! I cut the leave vines with my Cricut using the Cindy Loo cartridge. My ribbon is MS and I pulled some strings to get it to ruffle. My flowers are Recollections and the small purple flowers, I cut from a stem.

My image is the fabulous Tiffany by Michelle Perkett. Tiffany is colored with Copic's. The pearls are made with a Viva Decor pen.

Create 4 Fun sketch
Corrosive Challenges By Janet #122 get wet
Stamp with Fun #117 lilac and cream
The Shabby Tea Room #68 My favorite things - flowers and pearls
Digital Tuesday Challenge #117 Flower Power
Top Tip Tuesday #40 T is for Tiffany (name of image)

Vanessa

Vanessa - This was the final card for the fun activities week that we had at Michelle Perkett's group on Paper Craft Planet. This challenge was the one hour challenge using any MP image with a quote. Being the event coordinator, I did have more than one hour to make my card. And boy did I need more than an hour. LOL I am exhausted after our fun, full week.

This image is Vanessa, by the fabulous Michelle Perkett. She made this one as a gift to me. If you look at the bottom right hand corner, you will see my name. Michelle added my name to the image. How cool is that!

I used Copics to color the image and the sparkly heart in her dress was colored using a pink Spica pen. I used my Sakura pen to trace around the flowers on her dress, and using a technique that I learned during a make and take at the convention, I smudged it with my finger.


My Dp is from my scrap drawer. I don't remember who made it. I used some heart lace and weaved a thin strip of the gemstone paper through it. The big pink flower is Recollections. The other two flowers are Prima's. I airbrushed the brown, then stacked another Prima on it. I quilled a punched swirl for the center of the flowers. The little buds on the ends of my flower spray are buds that I cut off a bush.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday # 106 Sketch
Cute Card Thursday #169 Birthstones Mine is opal often pink
Southern Girls Challenge #21 anything goes

Father's Day With Michelle Perkett

Father's Day With Michelle Perkett - We were all stumped by this challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio this week. The challenge is Father's day with blue and brown. Michelle's images are so pretty and girly; but I must admit that the team rocked this challenge. You have to go and see what everyone did. They are amazing!
I used the image is Thomas and Thomas is a Freebie! You can get him at Michelle Perkett's group at Paper Craft Planet. You do have to join to be able to get him, but it is free and they ladies have a nice chat going on also. We share tips as will as what is going on in our lives. Paper Craft Planet has lots of groups and stuff going in all the time.

I tried making one of those ribbon/flower thingies. It was fun and so easy to do. My punch is MS. I glittered up the F on the DP, but it didn't make it stand out as much as I wanted it to do. My image was colored with Copics.

Beachy Fun

Beachy Fun - I have a Michelle Perkett side easel card for you today. The challenge this week at Michelle Perkett Studio is to make a bingo. You only need 3 in a row from the grid. I went down on the last row. Glitter, flowers and 2 backing/Designer Paper.



I colored my image (it is one of Michelle's freebies that you can get for joining her group at Paper Craft Paper) with Copic's. I used a new glue that I found at the great scrap booking convention, then added a fine glitter. It is called Scrap Happy Sheer Glue, by The Rubber Cafe. I can rub my finger across the glitter and I can not rub it off. The creator of the glue was demoing it at the convention. She even thought out the bottle very carefully. It is soft, so that it is easy to squeeze and has a fine tip.
She how her swimsuit sparkles?
My DP is K and Company's Berry Sweet. The flower was on a stem. I found it blowing around in a parking lot. My lace is Offray and the ribbon is Creation Station. The swirl is I want 2 Scrap, another buy that I picked up at the convention.

Sketch Saturday #158 sketch
Top Tip Tuesday #113 ribbon
A Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge #154 flower power
For Fun Challenges Vacation
Crafty Creations Challenges #121 pink and orange
Truly Scrumptious Challenges #58 Summer Sparkle
Do You Stack Up #22 Orange
Cute Card Thursday #167 Embellishment
Meljens Design Team #61 Coastal Fun
Paper Cutz Challenge #95 beach
Alphabet Challenge Blog E=Easel