Crafty Sentiments #35 – Color Theme

This week over at Crafty Sentiments Designs the challenge is a color theme of blue, grey and yellow.

I really decided to challenge myself by using a snowman digital image. Used copics to color them, added stickles to their buttons, Flower Soft for snow and white Sparkly Fluff by Our Craft Lounge to their hats.  Used Martha Stewart snowflake border punch. Added some yellow twill and on the twill I used the punched out snowflakes with some Liquid Pearls in the middle. Also added Liquid Pearls to the scallop circle. Used Spellbinders Snowflake Impressabilities on the grey background.

I call this card “Michigan Snowmen” cause of the blue/yellow! LOL

            
            Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

Crafty Sentiments #34 – Digital image

This week at Crafty Sentiments we were challenged to use a Digital Image on our project.

I used this cute Christmas stocking filled with goodies. Used prismacolor pencils blended with odorless mineral spirits. On the heel I used  atyouSpica glitter Garnet pen. For the cuff of the stocking, I used a new color of Our Craft Lounge Sparkly Fluff. Distressed the edges a little and layered it over top of a piece of DCWV The Christmas matstack. Sentiment is a SU stamp. Bow was made with the bow easy.

          
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                       Amber

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - 33 Summer Inspiration

I have some exciting news to share with you. Some changes are being made over at Crafty Sentiments.... the Stamp Team and the Digi Team are joining together to became one team over at Crafty Sentiments Challenge Blog!

Please pop by Crafty Sentiments challenge blog today and join us for this weeks "Summer inspiration" challenge....

I used an Amy digi from Crafty Sentiments for my Summer card.  Colored her with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Martha Stewart border punch and some ribbon with the bow easy finished off the card.

           Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

Crafty Sentiments challenge #8 – 2 brads and a ribbon

Crafty Sentiments challenge this week is 2 brads and a ribbon. I used a newly released Christmas digital image. Colored it with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits, added “snow” with my white gel pen to the birdhouse. Used Christmas Sleigh from g*c*d Studios for my background paper and cuttlebug’d the red and Martha Stewart snowflake border punch. Added two snowflake brads and a Christmas ribbon towards the bottom.


 
         
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                   Amber

Crafty Sentiments Challenge #7 – Mono + 1 color

2nd post for today, Please scroll down for Our Craft Lounge Sneak Peek post.

This week’s challenge at Crafty Sentiments Digi is Mono + 1 color. I was one of the lucky ones to be working with one of the sponsor’s images. Our sponsor this week is Meljens Digi and I am using Fru Fru fairy Flora.

I decided to go with Pink as my mono color. And let me tell you,  I went PINK!! I used pink prismacolor pencils, pink copics, pink stickles, pink shimmerz, pink flower soft, pink brads, pink primas, pink ribbon and even pink cardstock and pattern paper! For my one color I went with soft suede and only used it for the cardstock and little strip of pattern paper.

 
Can’t wait to see your mono + 1 color cards. Don’t forget to check out Crafty Sentiments Digital Designs blog for all the details.

           Thanks for stopping by!

                    Amber

Crafty Sentiments Challenge #6 – Distress

This week’s challenge at Crafty Sentiments Digi Design is to Distress.

I used copics and prismacolor pencils to color my image. Lots of distress ink on all cardstock, pattern paper and image! I even tried the Distressed Glue tutorial over at SCS for my little strip under the ribbon. Stamped weathered over top of it as well as distressing it. Added faux stitching to the card with black multiliner pen. I love my distressing tool and I think it shows in this card.

This is also entered in the following challenges:

2 Sisters Challenge Blog – Challenge 4 Stitching
Paper Sundaes Challenge 30 – Metal
Stars and Stamps – Use DP
Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes

        Thanks for stopping by!

                  Amber

Crafty Sentiments Challenge #5 – Tag

Welcome to another Crafty Sentiment challenge. This week we challenge you to make a Tag. Check out the rules here at the Crafty Sentiment blog.

I covered a tag with design paper, sanded the sides to make it blend. Used prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits on Flopsy. Cut her out completely and added her to a blue background. Added some primas and a rub-on in the corner.

  What a perfect little tag to add to a birthday present!

       
         Thanks for stopping by!

                    Amber

Crafty Sentiments Challenge #4 – 2 Embellishments

Welcome to another Crafty Sentiment challenge. This time we are challenged to use 2 embellishments.

I used Pat sitting by the Water and colored her with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. The fence, water and skin were colored with copics. Added some crystal effects to the water for texture. For my 2 embellishments, I went with ribbon and buttons, buttons are attached with Helmar Gemstone Glue. Design paper is from DCWV the Cafe Mediterranean.

 

The layout comes from one of those many blog challenges out there but for the life of me, I can’t remember which one. If you happen to know, please let me know! lol

This is also entered in

Crafty Creations – Challenge #78 Summer Lovin’
The Creative Cottage – Challenge #19 Touchy Feely
Digi Doodle – Challenge #18 Punch or Cut Me

Don’t  forget to check out what the rest of the Design Team did. You can find the links on my side there.

        Thanks for stopping by!

                   Amber

Crafty Sentiment Blog Hop!

Hello. You should have just come from Tammylee’s blog, if not then I’ll wait right here while you start at the beginning which is at Crafty Sentiment Blog. There is a  prize of the full set of Pat & Boo Bear, BUT you have to comment on all our blogs (main blog included), follow and mention it on your blog. (details are all on the Crafty Sentiment blog.)

For the hop, we were to make something other then a regular card. I went with “french fry” box by MyGrafico from their Box Bonanza set. I cut it out by hand but it also has SVG files to cut with your Cricut!. I ran the box through the cuttlebug first before assembling it.

Boo Bear was colored with copics, sparkly fluff is on his belly and his head tilts.
He was cut out completely and is up on Helmar ZapDots so his head can tilt and rick rack is attached with Helmar Premium Craft Glue.

I filled the box with suckers but you can fill it with anything.
  
Here is  top view of it without the suckers.
 

Now hop on over to Jac’s to see what wonderful project she has in store for you.

        Thank you for stopping by!

                    Amber

Crafty Sentiments challenge …

It’s Thursday! The week is almost over which means my life will slow down some! Cake has been iced and will get decorated later today and of course I’ll have pictures of it up tomorrow.

Crafty Sentiments challenge for today is to use 3 pattern papers. I used paper from DCWV the Cafe Mediterranean matstack. For the image I used Flopsy in the Rain and colored him with copics. Went back over him with the blender pen to give him a faux fluffy look. Added crystal effects to the rain drops and puddle. The umbrella also has crystal effects on it and is on glue dots to give some dimension.



Border punch and sparkly coated brads finish off the card.

So come join in the fun and have a chance at winning this week a choice of one of Crafty Sentiments July Digis. Also there is a little Christmas Freebie up for grabs too, so head over to the Crafty Sentiment Challenge blog right away!

And coming on Saturday: Hope to see you then!!

         Thanks for stopping by,

                  Amber

Crafty Sentiments Digi RELEASES!

Crafty Sentiments is releasing some super cute digis today. Go take a peek. Make sure you go comment on Crafty Sentiments Digital Design blog, become a follower there, mention their new releases on your blog & link back to their blog and you’ll have a chance at winning “Toby in basket”! Also some lucky bloggers who comment on the Crafty Sentiment blog will get a freebie too. So head over to the Crafty Sentiment blog to see what image you could win just for commenting there and to see what the rest of the DT has done.

I used Flopsy with a flower for my card. Paper pieced him with DCWV Linen Closet paper and used paper from the pack for the rest of my card. Cut the flower out of the oval and colored it with copics. Added some sparkly fluff to his nose and the middle of the flower.

I saw this layout somewhere but now for the life of me can’t remember who to give credit to!

         
            Thanks for stopping by!
                    
                   Amber

Crafty Sentiments challenge #2 – Color theme

This week’s Crafty Sentiment Digital Design challenge is a color theme: green, yellow & brown. We were asked to play with certain digital images and I was given Toby in Basket to use.

I colored Toby’s basket with copics in brown and yellow. Used some green thread to do a little stitching which was very easy as I just went over top of the “x” that was on the image.
 

Toby was colored with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Had to add a little diamond stickles to the butterfly and crystal effects on the flower. Some flower soft for the grass. Used a mixture of design paper from My Mind’s Eye and some ribbon that was pregathered.

Don’t forget to hop over to Crafty Sentiments Digital Design blog to see what the rest of the team has been up to.

         Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

Crafty Sentiments Digital Blog 1st Challenge!

I’m excited to announce I’ve been asked to be on the Crafty Sentiment Digital Design team!  And with that out of the way, Welcome to Crafty Sentiments Digital Blog First Challenge!!!!!!

Our first challenge starts today Thursday 8th July at 10 a.m. UK time and will finish on Wednesday 14th July at 11.59 p.m. Our challenge is a color theme inspiration as show below. I hope you will join us and play along. All information is on the Crafty Sentiment Digital Blog.

 

I used Sammy Snail and did a little paper piecing on the shell.  The design paper is from DCWV Nursery Baby Girl.

The layout is from Sketch Saturday.

Supplies used:

Digi Sammy Snail

Paper: pink, green, DCWV Nursery Baby Girl

Acces: copics, glue dots, scallop square nestie, ribbon, square punch

         Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber