Queenie and Princess

It's time for this week's challenge over at 2 Sisters.  Our theme this week is to create a card using the following sketch.

Here is my card using papers from this week's sponsor Paper Temptress.....

The image I used is Queenie and Princess from Saturated Canary. The image and other pieces are backed in violet vellum. I also punched the butterflies out of the violet vellum.  I colored 2 of the white paper flowers using Spectrum Noir's LV1 and LV2 pens.  I added star dust stickles to the image.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenge: Things With Wings  (butterflies)

Sweet Stamps: 3 Of Any Item (butterflies)

Bearly Mine Challenge: Digi Days

Penny's Paper Crafty: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Saturated Canary: All Things Bright and Beautiful

Stampin For The Weekend: Die Cuts and/or Punches (butterfly punch)

Crafty Catz: Purple

Wags N Whiskers: May Flowers

Card Ingredients 

IMAGE: Saturated Canary Queenie and Princess Digital Stamp

PAPER: White Card Stock, The Paper Temptress Grapesicle Pop Tones 100#, The Paper Temptress Laser Silver Luster, The Paper Temptress Violet Vellum

EMBELLISHMENTS: Prima White Paper Flowers, Queen & Co Snowflake Pearls, Star Dust Stickles, American Crafts Lavender Dot Ribbon

TOOLS: Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ PP1, PP3, FS2, IG1, LV1, LV2, LV3, GB8, EB5

Tilda With Bike

I created this birthday card using Tilda With Bike from Magnolia Stamps. I started with a light gray card base. I cut a piece of spring breeze card stock slightly smaller and punched one edge using an eyelet lace border punch.  I added a piece of light blue cardstock and a piece of white embossed card stock.  I added a piece of green ribbon to the bottom. I colored a white paper flower using Spectrum Noir's TB1 pen and added a snowflake pearl to the center.  I also added 2 branches, cut out of light gray card stock, to the flower.  I colored the image using Spectrum Noir pens and backed it in spring breeze card stock.  I punched 3 butterflies. 1 out of light blue, 1 out of light gray and 1 out of spring breeze.  I added snowflake pearls to the center of each butterfly.  I cut a heart out of spring breeze card stock and backed it in light gray and cut it out again.  I stamped the sentiment "Happy Birthday" to the center of the heart.  I added star dust stickles to the butterflies and to the branches.  I added white opal liquid pearls to the center of the butterfly on the sentiment.

I am entering this card into the following challenges.....

Spectrum Noir: Spring

Little Tangles: Embossing

Catch The Bug: Bingo (down) {ribbon/pearls/glitter}

Totally Gorjuss: Embossing

Kaboodle Doodles: Spring

Dream Valley Challenge: Things With Wings (butterflies)

Send A Smile 4 Kids: Birthday

Love To Create: Bingo (down) {sentiment/ribbon/gems or bling}

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Color

Aud Sentiments: Birthday Sentiments

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Creative Belli Blog: Spring

Totally Paper Crafts: Flower and Lace

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Magnolia Tilda With Bike Rubber Stamp

SENTIMENT: Cardmaking and Paper Crafts Special Occasion Rubber Stamp Set

PAPER: White Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Spring Breeze Card Stock, Nicole Crafts Pastel Blue Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Light Gray Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: American Crafts Green Ribbon, Star Dust Stickles, Ranger White Opal Pearls, Prima White Paper Flower

TOOLS: Scallop Scissors, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Martha Stewart Branch Punch, Martha Stewart Eyelet Lace Border Punch, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Dots

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ PP1, FS2, EB1, EB2, DG2, CT2, TB1, IG1, GB8, GB10

Mermaid With Sea Horse

This week's challenge at 2 Sisters is to create a card/project using the colors blue and/or green.  Our sponsor this week is Paper Nest Dolls.  The image I used is Mermaid With Sea Horse.

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Paper Nest Dolls Mermaid With Sea Horse Digital Stamp

PAPER: White Card Stock, DCWV The Blossom Song Card Stock Stack ~ Plaid, DCWV The Blossom Song Card Stock Stack ~ Bright Green, Bazzill Basics Vibrant Blue Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: Crystal Stickles, Prima White Paper Flower (colored with CG1 and TB1 Spectrum Noir Pens), Queen & Co Snowflake Pearls,

TOOLS: Fiskars Circle Template, Scallop Scissors

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ TB1, TB2, FS2, PP1, EB1, CG2, GB8, GB10

Kitchen Knight

I created this birthday card for a friend at church who is celebrating his birthday today. This image reminded me so much of him. For as long as I can remember, every Halloween he dresses up as a knight. So I just knew that I needed to create his birthday card using it. The image is Kitchen Knight from Mo's Digital Pencil.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Here Come The Boys: Sketch

Dream Valley Challenges: Happy Birthday

The Squirrel and The Fox: Inspired by a Song/Movie (A Knight's Tale)

Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments: For A Guy

Mo's Digital Challenge: Things With Wings (wings on dragon)

City Crafter: Birthday

Love To Create: For the Guys

Eureka Stamps: For the Boys

Corrosive Challenge: Life's Special Occasions

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Mo's Digital Pencil Kitchen Knight Digital Stamp

SENTIMENT: Fiskars All Year Greetings Rubber Stamp Set

PAPER: White Card Stock, Nicole Crafts Dark Gray Card Stock, Nicole Crafts Light Gray Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Spring Breeze Card Stock, Cloud 9 Designs Trvl Stripe Patterned Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: Queen & Co Grass Green Pearls

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ DR3, IG1, IG2, TB1, PP1, FS2, BGR1, DG2, EB1, EB2, GB8

Red Hat Bear

This week's challenge at 2 Sisters is to create a card/project using an image with a hat. Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish. The image I used is called Red Hat Bear.

I started with a blue card base and added a piece of white embossed card stock.  I added a smaller piece of blue card stock and added a blue dotted ribbon across the middle of it.  I colored the image using Spectrum Noir pens. I backed the image in blue card stock and then again in white. I layered a blue paper flower onto a white paper flower and added a snowflake pearl to the center. I also added 3 snowflake pearls to the upper corner of the image.  I added white opal liquid pearls to the necklace on the image.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Pile It On: Embossing

Incy Wincy: Fur or Feathers

Di's Digi Design Challenge: All About Bears

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Robyn's Fetish Red Hat Bear Digital Stamp

PAPER: White Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Vibrant Blue Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: American Crafts Blue Dotted Ribbon, Prima White Paper Flower, Studio G Blue Paper Flower, Queen & Co Snowflake, Pearls, Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls

TOOLS: Darice large Petal Embossing Folder

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ TB1, TB2, EB1, EB2, PP1

Tilda with Bike

I created this birthday card using Magnolia's Tild With Bike. 

I started with a square kraft card base.  I added a piece of pink card stock cut slightly smaller than the base.  I embossed a piece of white card stock using a dot embossing folder, backed it in kraft card stock and added it to the right side.  I cut a strip of pink and green striped patterned paper and backed it in kraft card stock.  I punched one edge of the kraft using an eyelet lace border punch. I added a green ribbon and added it to the left side.  I colored the image using Spectrum Noir pens. I backed both the image and the sentiment in pink and then in kraft card stock. I colored 3 white paper flowers using Spectrum Noir PP1 and PP3 pens. I layered them and added a snowflake pearl to the center.  I punched 3 butterflies. 1 pink, 1 kraft and 1 white.  I added grass green rhinestones to the white and pink butterflies and pretty in pink rhinestones to the kraft butterfly. I added the white butterfly onto the flowers and the pink and kraft butterflies in the upper corner of the image.  I added star dust stickles to the buttefly wings.  I added 3 grass green rhinestones to the bottom corner and 3 pretty in pink rhinestones to the top of the ribbon. I also added star dust stickles to the center of the butterfly on the sentiment.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Creative Stamp Friends: Punches

Di's Digi Challenge: Flower Friendzy

Mayzy Art: Sparkle

The Corrosive Challenge: Spring Fling

7 Kids College Fund: Things With Wings

Spectrum Noir: Spring

Scrappy Frogs: Think Spring

Little Tangles: Get Krafty

Top Tip Tuesday: Girls and Boys Come Out To Play

Simon Says Stamp: Happy Birthday

Moving Along With The Times: Kraft

ABC Challenge: K is for Kraft

Totally Paper Crafts: Birthday Girl In Pink

Tilda's Town: Fussy & Fancy or Understated & Elegant

Magnolia Down Under: Bingo (pink/sentiment/embossing)

Dream Valley Challenge: Happy Birthday

Totally Gorjuss: Anything Goes With Sparkle

One Stop Craft: Birthdays

Stamp With Fun: Birthday

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Fly

Forever Friends: Die Cuts or Punches

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Magnolia Down Under Tilda With Bike Rubber Stamp

SENTIMENT: Cardmaking and Papercrafts Special Occasion Rubber Stamp Set

PAPER: White Card Stock, Nicole Crafts Kraft Card Stock, Nicole Crafts Pink Card Stock, Cloud 9 Baby Girl Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: Queen & Co Grass Green Rhinestones, Queen & Co Pretty In Pink Rhinestones, Queen & Co Snowflake Pearls, Prima White Paper Flowers, Star Dust Stickles

TOOLS: Martha Stewart Eyelet Lace Border Punch, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Dots

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ PP1, PP3, PP5, DG2, FS2, FS3, EB1, EB2, GB8, GB10

Toby Tumble Tea Time

I created this birthday card using Toby Tumble Tea Time from Pachela Studios at Cuddly Buddly.

The sketch I used is from this week's challenge at Sketch n Stash. I started with a blue surf square card base and added a piece of white card stock cut just slightly smaller than the base.  I cut 2 squares out of light blue dotted patterned paper and 2 squares of vibrant blue card stock. I colored the image using Spectrum Noir pens. I backed both the image and the sentiment in blue surf card stock and then again in white card stock. I layered 3 white paper flowers.  I colored one of them using a Spectrum Noir TB2 pen and added an out to sea rhinestone to the center.  I added swirls coming out from under the flower and in the opposite top corner around the image using white liquid pearls.  I also added 3 "pearls" at the bottom using white liquid pearls.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Eureka Stamps: Tea For Two

Whoopsi Daisy: Swirls

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Loves Rubber Stamps: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp: Happy Birthday

Dutch Dare: Birthday Fun

Cupcake Inspiration: Polka Dots

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Pachela Studios at Cuddly Buddly Toby Tumble Tea Time Digital Stamp

SENTIMENT: Cardmaking and Papercrafts Special Occasion Rubber Stamp Set

PAPER: White Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Vibrant Blue Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Blue Surf Card Stock, Frances Meyer Light Blue Dot Patterned Paper

EMBELLISHMENTS: Prima White Paper Flowers, Ranger White Liquid Pearls, Queen & Co Out To Sea Rhinestones

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ CT1, PP1, PP3, DG2, TB1, TB2, EB1, EB2, IG1, EB5, DR1, GB10

Darling Dasies

This week's challenge at 2 Sisters is anything goes. There are 2 sponsors this week... Doodle Dragon Studios and Floppy Latte Designs.  The image I used on my card is called Darling Dasies and is from Floopy Latte Designs.

I started with an aqua card base. I embossed a piece of white card stock just slightly smaller than the base. I added a piece of aqua striped paper to the bottom and added a ribbon to the top of it. I embossed a second piece of white card stock and backed it in aqua. I colored the image using Spectrum Noir pens and added it to the smaller embossed piece.  I colored 3 white pearls using a Spectrum Noir BT5 pen and added them to the bottom corner of the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time: Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge: Spring Fling

Spectrum Noir: Spring

Natalie & Amy's Challenge: Monochromatic

Scrappy Frogs: Think Spring

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Loves Rubber Stamps: Anything Goes

Crafty Creations: Flowers or Fairies

Dilly Beans: Spring

Sweet Stamps Challenge: Spring Pastels

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Floppy Latte Darling Dasies Digital Stamp

PAPER: White Card Stock, Colorbok Aqua Stripe Patterned Paper, DCWV Aqua Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: American Crafts Aqua Ribbon, Queen & Co Snowflake Pearls

TOOLS: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Dots

COLORING TOOLS: BT1, BT2, BT4, BT5, CT1, DG2

Izzy's Flower Wagon

I created this spring birthday card using Izzy's Flower Wagon from Di's Digi Downloads.  I started with a white card base and inked all the edges using a pastel pink chalk ink pad. I cut and embossed two pieces of white card stock using a dot embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  I inked the edges of both using the pastel pink chalk ink pad and backed them in pink card stock.  I added a pink ribbon to the smaller piece.  I colored the image using Spectrum Noir pens.  I inked the edges of both the image and the sentiment with the pastel pink chalk ink pad and backed them both in pink card stock.  I added two pink glitter buttons below the image and a bow made from the ribbon to the top of the ribbon. I punched two butterflies out of white card stock and added pink rhinestones and crystal stickles and then added them to the bottom of the ribbon. I also added a line of crystal stickles to the center of the butterfly on the sentiment.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Stampavie & More: Pretty In Pink

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes

Sweet N Sassy Digi Challenge: Spring

Spectrum Noir: Spring

Bunny Zoe Craft: Girly

One Stitch At A Time: Spring

Natalie & Amy's Challenge: Monochromatic

Scrappy Frogs: Think Spring

Stamp With Fun: Spring

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes

Creative Stamp Friends: Punches

Sweet Stampin: Girly

A Gem Of A Challenge: Make It Cute

Catch The Bug: Anything Goes with Card Stock and Bling

Whoopsi Daisy: Bling

Mayzy Art: Sparkle

Really Reasonable Ribbon Ramblings: Buttons & Bows

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Di's Digi Downloads Izzy's Flower Wagon Digital Stamp

SENTIMENT: Cardmaking and Papercrafts Special Occasion Rubber Stamp Set

PAPER: White Card Stock, Nicole Crafts Pink Card Stock

EMBELLISHMENTS: Queen & Co Pretty In Pink Rhinestones, Pink Ribbon, Crystal Stickles, Doodlebug Designs Pink Glitter Buttons

TOOLS: Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Dots, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ CT1, TB1, TB2, BT1, DG2, PP1, PP3, FS2, GB8, GB10, DR7, EB1, EB2

Sparkle & Shine

This week at 2 Sisters we are being sponsored by Kenny K Downloads and the challenge theme is SPARKLE & SHINE.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Playdate Cafe: Lavender, Buttercream and Vanilla

Charisma Cardz: Birthday

Card Ingredients

IMAGE: Kenny K Downloads Jasmine Digital Stamp

SENTIMENT: Cardmaking and Papercrafts Special Occasion Rubber Stamp Set

PAPER: White Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Cream Card Stock, Bazzill Basics Tapioca Card Stock, Bazzil Basics Wild Pansy Card Stock, Nicole Crafts lavender Rose Patterned Paper

EMBELLISHMENTS: Martha Stewart Purple Sapphire Glitter Glue, Queen & Co mini Purple Rhinestones

COLORING TOOLS: Spectrum Noir Pens ~ LV1, LV2, EB2, IG1, PP1, PP3, FS2, FS3, CT2, IG10, TN7, GB8, GB10