How about a cold one?

If you haven't been to Faith's site lately ~ Designed 2 Delight ~ then you really must stop by. She has a wonderful new set geared towards the man/men in your life. It's called Birthday Brew. What man doesn't love a cold beer on a warm day? I knew exactly what I wanted to do to this image once I seen it!! I had to get out the Liquid Applique and make a 'foam' on top of the beer! I just filled in the area I wanted 'foamy' and used the heat embossing tool to make the applique bubble as it dried. I very CAS card for one of the male birthdays I have coming up soon. I colored the image with my ProMarkers, ran the chocolate brown cardstock thru the Cuttlebug (Swiss Dots) and there you have it : ) Hope you like it and CHEERS!! Michelle

Ladybug Kaela

I decided to make a card with one of Faith's newer images - Ladybug Kaela. This sweet set comes with many variations of Ladybug Kaela--with a background, without; with wings, without; with a hat, without; and just a plain sitting Kaela with no wings or hat--each image with a smile and without. An individual flower is also included.

I had such a great time making this one - kind of reminded me of my granddaughter for some reason. Such a sweet image!! You really should stop on over to the digi shop and pick her up. Designed 2 Delight ~ http://designed2delight.com/prestashop/

Michelle

Spotty Dotty

Hi everyone! So glad you could all join me in my 1st 'official' post as a member of the D2D team!! Faith's image this week is "Spotty Dotty Watering Can". Not sure about you - but I can't wait for all the wonderful flowers spring & summer have in store for us. I am always wanting to try new things and I am learning ALOT from these amazing girls I am working with on this team. For instance - my card this week is called a Zig-Zag card. I found this tutorial on fellow DT member Kristine's blog http://inksomething2.blogspot.com/search/label/TUTORIALS. I just had to try it out! It was actually super easy to do and quite fun. In sticking with the flower theme, my BG paper is done in flowers, and I added some flower embellishments as well. I ran a piece of color core paper thru my Cuttlebug and then sanded it to make the texture pop. It may be hard to tell, but I painted the edge border w/some CI paints to make it shimmer. I colored in the image w/my ProMarkers and made my 'own' blue BG paper behind the image by sponging 2 shades of blue together. And finished it off with a nice sentiment. I hope you will check out Kris' blog and try this Zig Zag card sometime. See you for the next challenge!

Michelle

CHALLENGES:

D2D - Spotty Dotty image http://designed2delight.blogspot.com/

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/

Delightful Challenges - Flowers http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/

Basic Grey Challenges - More Than One Fold http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/

Bugaboo-Catch the Bug Challenge - Anything Goes http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-time-for-aprils-anything-goes.html

Great News...............

I have been selected to be a part of the Designed 2 Delight design team!!!!

I am super excited and can't wait to work with Faith and her talented team she has assembled. If you are new to digi stamps ~ then you must really check her out blog @ http://designed2delight.blogspot.com/. I have been using digi's for a almost a year now and absolutely LOVE them!!! Plus, they also have a Card Ideas Blog where the design team members display their cards/paper-crafting ideas using Faith's images.

You can hop on her blog the first Friday of the month and 'try' a digi for free. She will provide a free digital stamp. Those artists that grab it will then make a project with it and post it on their blog or in their gallery (no blog required to play) linking back to Designed2Delight Digi Shop. You will have one week to do this. Then you post your link using InLinkz. You will then receive the next week image free as long as you keep 'playing'.

**By grabbing the freebie, you agree to follow her Angel Policy. This can be found on the left sidebar in her Digi Shop. IMPORTANT! Please respect her art and do not share these images even though they are free. Please refer your friends so that they can grab their own. SO.....check us out and see what wonderful creations we come up with. I am sure it's going to be a fun time! Michelle

Going Buggy....for ProMarkers that is

ProMarkers up for grabs........ Here's your chance to win all three of the new ProMarker blending sets - that's a total of thirty six markers to add to your collection, or to start you off, and it's super-easy to enter. All you have to do is go to http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/2011/03/promarkers-up-for-grabs.html and leave your answer to this question: HOW MANY PROMARKER COLORS ARE THERE? The competition runs until April 5th Good luck

Ladybug Bloom

It's that time again....the weekly challenge from Faith @ D2D. If you need any inspiration, head on over to the Cards Ideas blog @ http://card-ideas.blogspot.com/ and check out the design teams card. They are AWESOME!! I really wanted to PP this design and make things pop up on the card. I actually printed it numerous times on different colored cardstocks. I inked my white background for a sky look and 'twisted' my flower to gave it a more full look. I also wanted to make it appear as if the lady bug was getting ready to fly off the page.

I tried to go with more spring like colors in general on my card. Just last week we got dumped on again w/a foot of snow!! I so want spring to get here already!! The pic below shows how many thing I actually ended up popping up on the card. I was also trying to find a sentiment. I remembered I had these cute ticket stub ones from MudMaven @ http://www.mudmaven.blogspot.com/ I just thought would be so cute. Well, I hope you like it and can join us for next weeks challenge. And as always - all comments are appreciated & welcomed : )

Michelle

Challenges:

D2D - Ladybug Blooms

http://designed2delight.blogspot.com/

Lexi's Creations - Ribons-BUT no bows or knots

http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/

Mel Jens - Punches

http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.com/search/label/challenges

Stamp Something - Spring

http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/

Paper: White, green and yellow cardstocks, Scrap DP, Sage, Baby Blue and Rose textured cardstock

Image/Sentiment: D2D~Ladybug Bloom, MudMaven~Ticket Sentiments

Inks: Distress Ink Tumbled Glass and Old Paper

Markers: ProMarkers Hot Pink, Cool Grey 1, 2 & 5, Amber, Yellow

Misc: Prima Flowers, The Ribbon Boutique Organza ribbon, Pink gem from dollar bin @ Michael's, Gelly Roll Clear Star pen

Did you.....Catch a Bug?

This week's new image @ Designed 2 Delight is "Caught a Bug", and it is a digital stamp set that includes a corked jar with a ladybug, two accessory bugs and two sentiments to play with. Another wonderfully cute image from Faith!!

I just can't believe how early I am posting my card this week. I am usually getting it in under the wire, but for some reason I was 'clicking' on all cylinders today. We got so much done today, and my bedroom is FINALLY back together after our little 'freshening up'. New paint, carpet, closet build out and it looks 200% better!!

Well.....back to the real reason for being here. Again I kind of opted for a CAS card w/just a few colors. Seems how there was a ladybug~I tried to keep the theme as black and red as I could. I just splashed in a little green to make a few things pop a little bit.

Hopefully this card doesn't find you with a bug : ) And if you are feeling under the weather, I sure hope is cheers you up.

Til next time....
Michelle

Challenges:

Designed 2 Delight~Caught a Bug
http://designed2delight.blogspot.com/

CardMadFairy's Digi Days Challenge~Back to Nature
http://doitwithdigischallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/challenge-4-back-to-nature.html

DYSU-Do You Stack Up~Add a Bow
http://doyoustackup.blogspot.com/


Image/Sentiment: Designed 2 Delight
Paper: Black & white card stock, Brick Red textured cardstock
Embossing: Cuttlebug folder~Floral Fantasy
Markers: ProMarkers~Blender
Greens: Apple, Forest, Leaf, Meadow
Shale, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Hot Pink, Cool Grey 4 & 5, Pastel Blue
Misc: Prima Flower's, Hero Arts Bling Pearl, Sakura Gelly Roll Pen Clear Star, Black ribbon