Bring on the Bling!

Hi all!

I'm here today to share the card I made for this week's Lily Pad Cards blog challenge. I'm sad to say that this will be my last challenge with Lily Pad Cards. I've had lots of fun playing along with Deborah, Vicky and the rest of the wonderful design team. Thanks for everything ladies! I just felt it was time for me to hop off the pad since I'm homeschooling all 4 of our kids this year and wanted to keep other commitments to a minimum until I knew everything was running smoothly (which it is). :) Anyways, this week it's all about the bling! :) Our sponsor is none other than the wonderful Simon Says Stamp!

Here's my card:

I punched/ die cut the butterflies from black cardstock, adhered the bling and went around it all with Glossy Accents. For my background, I heat embossed the grid image in black, rubbed over it with Pumice Stone distress ink and spritzed with pearlized water. If you have any questions about the card feel free to send me an email. :)

Now please head over to the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the designers have come up with and to get all the challenge details.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Lily Pad Cards/ Hero Arts sketch challenge

Hi everyone,

I'm here today with another Lily Pad Cards blog challenge. This week's challenge is a sketch challenge and is sponsored by the one and only Hero Arts! Yay! :) Hero Arts was so generous with the design team. They sent not one, not two, but THREE sets for each designer to work with! Because of that I couldn't help but make two cards for this week's challenge. ;)

Here's the sketch:

Here's my first card:

Hero Arts: Greatest Gift, Artistic Circles, Joyful Christmas Season

 ...and my second, in which I flipped the sketch on it's side and didn't include the sentiment:

Hero Arts: Greatest Gift, Artistic Circles

I LOVE the Greatest Gift set SO much! I've been wanting a faith-based set for a long time and Hero Arts has totally delivered with this one. :)

I can't wait to see what the other designers have come up with! Head over to the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what they've created and to get all the contest details.

Lily Pad Cards: A Day for Daisies

Hi everyone,

I'm back to share a card for this week's Lily Pad Cards challenge which happens to be a colour challenge. Yay! I love colour challenges since they take away some of the decision making. ;)

This week's challenge is sponsored by A Day for Daisies a great digital stamp company.

Here are this month's colours:

 

I used this adorable little dress from A Day for Daisies along with some Basic Grey patterned paper (Out of Print), a Hero Arts sentiment (from the Adorable Baby Girl set), and a touch of Glossy Accents (on the dots).

Go check out the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the other designers have created and to get all the challenge details.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lily Pad/ Greeting Farm Sketch challenge

Hi everyone!

I'm here today to post a card I made for the Lily Pad Cards sketch challenge this month. Our Sponsor is The Greeting Farm and they make the most adorable images. :)

Here's this month's sketch:

Here's my card:

 

I took the sketch and stretched it side ways and didn't include the sentiment. I like the flexibility of sketches and how you can adjust them to fit your needs. :)

 For more details on what I used to make this card (and to see what the other designers came up with) head over to the Lily Pad Cards blog. There you'll find all the challenge (and prize) details.

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Lily Pad Cards meet Frog's Whiskers Ink

Hi All,

Hope you're all having a great week. I'm back today to share a card for this week's Lily Pad Cards challenge. This week's challenge is to use felt and/or fabric on your card and is sponsored by Frog's Whiskers Ink. The good folks over at Frog's Whiskers Ink sent the design team members a couple of stamps to work with. I used Sunflower Single Solid (F807) and Single Sunflower (D635) for my card.

Here it is:

I stamped the Single Sunflower stamp on white Sticky Back Canvas to create my background. I stamped the Sunflower Single Solid stamp on some pink paper for a tone-on-tone effect, embellishing it with a felt flower button and some twine.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Now, head on over to the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what fabulous projects the other designers have come up with and to get all the challenge (and prize) details.

Lily Pad/ Whimsie Doodles Colour Challenge

Hi everyone,

I'm back with this month's Lily Pad Colour Challenge.

Here are the colours we're working with:

 Our sponsor this week is Whimsie Doodles. They sent the design team a bunch of adorable images to choose from for this week's challenge.

This week I decided to rebel and not make a card. ;)  When I saw the cute worm around the notebook I knew I wanted to use it to label the containers I'll be keeping my kids' individual workbooks, etc in for our homeschool.

The nice thing about digital images is that you can alter them. In my photo editing program I removed the 'notes' and replaced it with my kids' names. Here are a number of pics...

I used the Lily Pad colour combo for Jaden's label and did the other kids' in their requested colours. I used Prismacolor pencil crayons for all my colouring.

Thanks so much for dropping in. Please head over to the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the other designers came up with and get the challenge details.

Lily Pad Card Inspiration Challenge

Hi everyone,

Popping in to post a card I made for this month's Inspiration Challenge over at Lily Pad Cards. I looked through submissions in the Lily Pad flickr group and was drawn to this fabulous card made by Kimberley. I loved her bold colors and the ribbon treatment at the right lower corner. However, the deal sealer for me was the tone on tone white at the top with the use of foam dots for dimension. Beautiful!

Here's my card:

Papers: Basic Grey Oxford collection; Buttons: Basic Grey; Sentiment: Birthday Buddies by Paper Smooches;

Thanks for stopping by! Take a look at what the other designers at Lily Pad Cards came up with this week by visiting the blog.

Lily Pad Cards: Lucy's Lovely Lines (July) challenge

Hi everyone,

I'm back today to share a card I made for Lily Pad Cards: Lucy's Lovely Lines (July) challenge. Our sponsor this month is The Craft's Meow. They generously sent the design team members each a stamp set to work with and this is the one I received in the mail:

How fun are those banners?!?! LOVE the font too! :)

Here's Lucy's sketch for this month's challenge:

and here's my card:

I had planned on using the banners as, well, banners... but when I had the banners upside-down I thought they looked like a row of houses and decided to make a 'New Home' card. After that the card came together very quickly. I decided to go with a clean and simple look. I stamped the first banners image, being sure to have the 3rd banner centered on my card. I then re-inked one banner and the accompanying line in order to stamp the 5th banner on my card. With this being a clear set that was SO easy to do. I then used Memento markers to color the patterns from the second banner in the set and stamped it on a scrap of white cardstock. I used a small circle punch to punch out circles from these banners and adhered them inside the empty circles on the card. I punched out a small heart from cardstock and adhered it in the 4th 'house' using foam dots. Finally, I added a sentiment from Hero Arts.

Please check out what the other designers made for the challenge at Lily Pad Cards where you'll also find out the details for the challenge. I hope you'll play along with us!

Lil Pad Cards July Color Challenge

Hi everyone,

I'm here today to share my card for this month's Color Challenge over at Lily Pad Cards. This month's challenge is hosted by Tickled Pink Stamps.Tickled Pink Stamps specializes in both rubber and digital stamps.

Here are this month's colors:

and here is my card:

Supplies - CS: PTI, clear stamps: Hero Arts, pencil crayons: Prsimacolor, digi stamp: Tickled Pink Stamps

Hope you'll join us and participate in this month's Color Challenge. Head over to Lily Pad Cards to see what the rest of the design team has come up with and to get all the challenge details.

Lily Pad Cards Digital Die Cuts Challenge featuring Hero Arts!

 

Hi everyone,

Welcome to another Lily Pad Cards Digital Die Cuts Challenge! This month's challenge is sponsored by my favorite stamp company, Hero Arts. :)

 Not only does Hero Arts makes the best quality rubber & clear stamps, they also make fabulous digital die cut images (through Silhouette) and digital stamps (sold through 2 Peas in a Bucket) based on their stamps. You can also purchase Hero Arts die cuts and printables through their online store. Hero Arts was SO generous with their digital images that it was hard to decide which ones to use. :)

To go along with the Hero Arts images, our own Vicky Papaioannou once again came up with an amazing digital die cut set for us to use for this month's challenge.

Here's my card:

Polaroid: Vicky's 'film set'; pre-coloured butterflies: Hero Arts digi-kit; stamps: Hero Arts; patterned paper: Basic Grey;

I hope you'll play along with us this month! You have until Friday June 24th to get your entries in. :) Please go and check out the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the rest of the design team has come up with and to download Vicky's Film Set die cut kit for FREE.

As always, thanks for popping by.

Lily Pad Cards 1st Digital Die Cuts Challenge

Hi everyone!

First off I want to wish everyone a a very Happy Easter! I'm rejoicing in the life-giving miracle that took place almost 2000 years ago. :)

Today is also Lily Pad Cards FIRST Digital Die Cuts Challenge!

Lily Pad's Digital Die Cuts Challenge will be posted the last Sunday of each month. You have until the last Friday of the following month to enter. (So the first challenge ends Friday May 27th). This month's challenge is sponsored by the fabulous Jen Martakis. Jennifer's digital kits can be found here at 2 Peas in a Bucket and her personal blog can be found here. For this month's challenge the designers are using this wonderful digital kit by Jennifer called April (which can be found here at 2peas:

 ...along with this fabulous Gardening Set die cut kit put together by the one and only Vicky Papaioannou:

Here's my card:

The fence and shovel were both cut from my Silhouette using Vicky's Gardening Set kit. The floral, grid, and blue patterned papers are all from Jennifer's digital kit. I stamped the blue paper with Hero Arts Clouds stamp and created my sentiment with Hero Arts Simple & Basic Alphabet set. Twine is from The Twinery.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I do hope you play along with us! Stop by the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the other designers came up with and to download Vicky's wonderful kit for FREE!!!

Lily Pad Cards Blog Hop!!!

 Hi everyone,
 
Welcome to stop #7 of the Lily Pad Cards blog hop (and your final stop for today)! You should be arriving here from the fabulous Kathy Racoosin's blog. If your arrival here did not involve hopping from lily pad to lily pad you'll want to start your hop at Lily Pad Cards blog. The blog hop starts today (Monday March 28th) and will feature seven blogs per day up until Friday, April 1, when the grand opening of Lily Pad Cards will take place! Lily Pad Cards is a new challenge blog that will feature interviews, articles, videos, challenges, great prizes, and more!

Although Lily Pad doesn’t officially bloom until April 1, 2011, you’ll be able to see a new sneak peek every day until then. You’ll definitely want to drop by because there are three HUGE prize packages! Go here for specific prize details and contest rules. 

The hop’s theme is "Welcome" because not only are we welcoming Lily Pad Cards to the neighborhood, but we’re also welcoming all of you to come in and join in all the fun.

As one of Lily Pad Cards' digital die cut DT members, I wanted to use one of Vicky's die cut images for the blog hop. The ladybug image I used can be found here. Here’s my card.

The next stop on the hop will be sweet Sherri Thompson's blog tomorrow morning at 9 AM EST. If you hit a bad link, you can always go to Lily Pad Cards and click on the next link in the hop. Please report any bad links to webmaster@inlinkz.com.

Edited to add: In celebration of the beginning of Lily Pad Cards (and also reaching my 100th follower) I'm going to add a little giveaway. Leave a comment here before midnight Friday April 1st and you'll be in the running (or hopping as the case may be) to win this colourful collection:

Hero Arts Sea, Foliage, & Sunshine Print Flowers; Floral Ribbon; Red Blossom gems; Clear Design: Fancy Friendship

As always, thanks for stopping by. :)