Last Day for Bugaboo Birthday Challenge

I think Bugaboo digital images would make anyone smile and especially on their birthday.  That's what Die Cut Divas' challenge is all about this month.  You only have until 9:00 p.m. Pacific time to enter the challenge at Die Cut Divas.

The theme is BIRTHDAYS

Winner will receive a $12 gift code to shop the store.

It may not be your birthday, but it's someone's birthday, so it's time to make the Die Cut Divas' (DCD) challenge of the month "Birthdays".  What is a birthday without ice cream?  If nothing else, this says summer and fun.  The colors shout it.

I had some pieces of checkered white and yellow paper that couldn't have been better to layer the ice cream shop upon.  Having a great premade card as the base made this an easy card to make.  

Supplies:

Bugaboo Ice Cream Shop

Copic markers

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles

Elizabeth Craft Designs Happy Birthday (one of the many)

Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss Caribbean Ocean and Midnight Blue

Wink of Stella on parts of the building

Vagabond die cut machine

June With Bugaboo

It may not be your birthday, but it's someone's birthday, so it's time to make the Die Cut Divas' (DCD) theme of the month "Birthdays".  

Since Bugaboo is the DCD sponsor this month and I love the "Sunbonnet" images from Bugaboo, so I went with the Sunbonnet Birthday Cake in red tones.  Red is one of my favorite colors and I decided to go monotone for the most part - I guess I could have had red flames, but, no, they are Nuvo Ripened Pumpkin, so still in the reddish tones.  However, if you didn't notice, my cake frosting is a creamy gooey mass of Nuvo Simply White drops. 

When you want to coordinate a matt with the image colors, just use your Copic color to edge the paper enough so that it is well covered, but you don't waste your Copics.  I used a white square, colored with Copic R29, to create a scallop pattern when viewed from the outside in.

See the gooey frosting below

Supplies:

Bugaboo Stamps Sunbonnet Birthday Cake

Elizabeth Craft Designs Postage Stamp Square dies

Kat Scrappiness Never Ending Square dies

Copic markers

Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss - Ripened Pumpkin and Simply White

Vagabond die cut machine

I am joining these challenges:

Mix it Up - "Anything Goes" (not doing the optional twist of stamping)

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes Week 22

Crafty Sentiments - "Anything Goes"

A Bit More Time to Craft - "Anything Goes" #141

A Perfect Time to Craft - "Anything Goes"  #6-2021

Halloween is a Fun Time For Me

It's Autumn with Bugaboo Stamps and time to inspire you to join the Die Cut Divas' Autumn Challenge.  Make it Autumnal or Halloweenish and join us at Die Cut Divas.

I have always loved Halloween because it was always fun to dress up and give out little Halloween cards at grade school as I was growing up.  Now I love greeting Halloweeners at my door to see the fun costumes and give some candy out.  I made a spooky card for this last day of October, fun and a bit spooky.

Close-up below.

Supplies:

Bugaboo Halloween Kitty

QuicKutz Nested Squares

Memory Box Loopy Rings

Copic markers

Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss - Ebony Black

Vagabond die cut machine

Bugaboo Happy Halloween Cat

I made a very simple card for you and I, myself, am surprised how much I really love it.

                    

The prize is a $12 gift code to The Bugaboo Digi Stamps store for your digital stamps.

Supplies:

Bugaboo Happy Halloween Cat

QuicKutz Nestic Oval dies

Copic markers YG01, a little YG05, RV63

Vagabond

It's Autumn with Bugaboo Stamps

It's Autumn with Bugaboo Stamps and time to inspire you to join the Die Cut Divas' Autumn Challenge.  Make it Autumnal or Halloweenish and join us at Die Cut Divas.

Thoughts of rain enter our heads come October and this bear just appealed to me because he's cute and holding a patched umbrella.   We have a long summer with no rain (as always) and now it's time to fill up our dams and get wet! 

 How much cuteness can you deal with in the rain?  I looked up a quote about Autumn and found a very thoughtful and wonderful quote that I think fits October musings very well.  The quote reads "Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons" by Jim Bishop.

I zig-zagged my way across the sky surface with a BG0000 or BG000 marker to add a bit of interest.

Supplies:
Bugaboo Umbrella Teddy

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangle dies

Copic markers

Vagabond die cut machine

Still Time To Play at Die Cut Divas' Summertime Fun

It's a Summertime Fun Challenge this Month at Die Cut Divas and there is still time to have some Summer Fun!

You have until 9:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time to enter the here.

The prize is a $12 gift code to The Bugaboo Digi Stamps store for your digital stamps.

Arlene went for ice cream, just because. I think the image is cute and fun and perfect for the summer. I picked up this hearts paper quite awhile ago and doubt it is in stock any more, but it certainly made this a card from the heart.

Supplies:

Bugaboo Kidz - ice cream image

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 28

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles

Bo-Bunny (A Gift of Love) paper

Red paper in stash

Hero Arts sentiment (10 years old) clear stamp

Copic markers: E00, E01, E11, E13, E15, E19, C11, C1, C6, G21, G24, R22, R24, R29, R32, R81, R83 & R85

White Gel pen

Vagabond die cut machine

You're a Dog, In The Nicest Sense of The Word

It's a Summertime Fun Challenge this Month at Die Cut Divas.

So let's have some Summer Fun!  Join in the challenge here.

The prize is a $12 gift code to The Bugaboo Digi Stamps store for your digital stamps.

This guy is layered and layered and layered. I didn't know when to stop, I guess. This little dog was fast and easy to color (image is in black & white and pre-colored). I just took Copic marker B000 and make diagonal lines across the panel after I was finished, found a sentiment I liked (Hero Arts) and started layering in white and blues.

Close-up

Supplies:

Bugaboo BugPupSummer Pup Summer

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles and Garden Notes Stitched Rectangles

Copic markers B000, B12, B14, B16, E13, E15, E19, E29, YR09 & 100

Elizabeth Craft Designs paper (6"X6") ModaScrap Thinking about Rio De Janeiro

Vagabond die cut machine

I'm entering the following challenges:
Di's Digi Challenge - Summer Fun challenge
Simon Says Stamp "Summer Fun"
Cutie Pie Challenge # 148 "Layer it Up"

It's Summertime Fun at Die Cut Divas

It's a Summertime Fun Challenge this Month at Die Cut Divas.

So let's have some Summer Fun!  Join in the challenge here.

The prize is a $12 gift code to The Bugaboo Digi Stamps store for your digital stamps.

To say the least, I had FUN with this image. Poor chicken is getting sunburned all over and not very evenly either. I thought this sentiment fit the fun and playful image. I hope you are enjoying your summer and taking it easy.

Close-up

Have fun with your coloring and remember not to let time fry, err fly.

Supplies:

Bugaboo Fried Chicken Digi Stamp

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 28

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles

Sunny Studios Fast Food Fun (sentiment)

Copic markers B0000, B000, B00, BG13, BG72, BV00, BV08, E55, G14, G21, Y02, Y08, Y19 & YR07

Purple pearls

Vagabond die cut machine

Bugaboo and Turkey?

Last day of the November challenge at Die Cut Divas and good luck to you.

I am in the mood for Autumn and turkey.  I found a bag of  silk Autumn leaves in my garage and had to scatter them with my card to take a picture.  See that strip of gold glitter tape on the left side - I had to cover a mistake.  I ran a 1/2 inch wide double sided tape up that side and then realized it wasn't the back side of the die-cut, but the front.  I grabbed the gold glitter tape and ran it on top of the double-sided tape.

You can save almost anything.  I hope you like this little gal because I think they are so much fun.

Closeup below

Supplies:
Bugaboo Sunbonnet Turkey
Hero Arts Flower Garden Fancy Die
Hero Arts sentiment "Merci!"
Stitched Rectangle STAX
Stitched Tags
Copic markers
Vagabond die cut machine

It's a Bugaboo Thanksgiving or Thank You

Check out Die Cut Divas for the November challenge of Thanks or Thanksgiving.  The Sponsor for November is fantastic Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

NOVEMBER:2019 (THEME - THANKSGIVING OR THANK YOU) SPONSOR - Bugaboo offer a $12.00 gift code which is approx. 4 images.

Close-up below

2019 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Theme: Anything goes as long as it is caffeinated

Friday, November 1 (6 am Pacific) - Friday, November 8,
To enter this hop, click here.

Supplies:
Bugaboo Christmas Mouse - Cocoa
Elizabeth Craft Design "Thank You" Stand Up Helper
Memory Box Maple Leaves
Border dies - unknown dies
Copic markers
Uniball Signo broad - white
Vagabond die cut machine

I'm entering:
the Fall & Winter Coffee Lovers' Bloghop

Flowers for May and Mothers

I did make a Mother's Day Card and wanted to show it off after I gave it away.  It was quite sunny when I took the photo so it's a bit, well, a lot of yellow and sunshine yellow to deal with in the photo.  In real life, it's NOT as  bright as it looks here.

This first photo shows the finished card and the second photo shows how I worked from oranges and yellows to black, oranges and yellows.

This second card shows the actual shade of yellows so you can see how the addition of the edging made this card fell more complete.

Supplies:
Bugaboo Make it Snappy - Floral Moms Day

Spellbinders edges (no idea of the name)

Copic markers

Washi tape

Vagabond die cut machine

Bugaboo's Spring Window

There is still time to join in the Die Cut Divas' challenge to use flowers in your project.  May has 31 days, so you still have days to create and enter.  Die Cut Divas has a great challenge every month!

I created a black and white brick background to set this window in.  I can't even make a straight line or anything looking like brick, but I think with the sassy cat in the window, it sort of works.  It was fun to say the least. 

The reason I wanted to add brick was because I had first colored the inside of the house with the cat looking back out the window as an outside view with floating clouds.  Then I realized that the cat was indoors and the flowers were outdoors, so coloring clouds on the inside was NOT ideal.  I am hoping the inside represents wall paper now.  Oh well.

Close-up below

Supplies:

Bugaboo Spring Window

Elizabeth Craft Designs Garden Notes Stitched Rectangles

Copic markers

Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss - Red Berry & Ebony Black

Vagabond die cut machine

Bugaboo Floral Trio Times 3

Check out Die Cut Divas to enter the Flower Challenge this month.  I printed this trio three times and colored one of each flower while leaving the others black and white.  I thought a scallop edge would work with the squares.  I used the same Copic colors on the sentiments that I used on the flowers and added Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Close-up below

Supplies:

Bugaboo Floral Trio Frame 1
QuicKutz Scalloped Squares Nested dies
Die-Namics Blueprints 11 (smile & TODAY)
Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss Red Berry and Nuvo Crystal Drops Violet Galaxy
Vagabond die cut machine

Bugaboo Flower Shelf

I've been practicing coloring to show light shining on different shaped surfaces and I had a lot of fun with this particular image with lots of shapes to practice coloring.  First I made the card without a sentiment, but felt it was missing something and it was.  This would work for a Mother's Day card for a friend. 

First card without sentiment

Card with sentiment below

Supplies:

Bugaboo Flower Shelf

Art Impressions Live Laugh Love (sentiment)

Copic markers

Elizabeth Craft Designs Garden Notes Stitched Rectangles

QuicKutz Nesting Rectangles

Vagabond die cut machine

Paper in my stash

A Bugaboo Flower Challenge at Die Cut Divas

It's all Flowers for the May Challenge at Die Cut Divas this month, so please visit Die Cut Divas to enter the challenge right here.

I've used a digital stamp from Bugaboo Digi Stamps for my card.  I just love the hats on these Sunbonnet images and have such fun selecting colors.

Supplies:

Bugaboo Digi Stamp Sunbonnet Flowers

Kaisercraft Best Friends sentiment stamp

Die-namic Stitched square dies

Copic markers

Vagabond die cut machine

It's Been A Cup Cake with Bugaboo

This is Die Cut Diva's last day to enter the January Challenge of "Something New"  Here's my contribution to the inspiration post.  I have had this image, but never used it, so a new effort for me.  I think the striped paper gives a carnival feel to the card.  Isn't left over scrap paper wonderful?

Be sure to enter this last day.

Supplies:

Bugaboo CupCake Mistletoe - not available, but there plenty of cupcake images available to you

Copic Markers

Spellbinders Scallop Nesting dies

Elizabeth Craft Designs die set - Words 3 - Happy Holidays

Vagabond die cut machine

From Graveyard to Globe

I just had too much fun with the MOOD BOARD and Bugaboo Stamps that I kept making cards.  I am going to have to watch that.

I think the color combo worked so well for the creepy zombie scene.  It was so much fun, really, just making fun changes from color to color.

Using the same color combo, this globe card turned out so very pretty.

Close-up 

I cut the butterflies from the globe (I cropped the butterflies so I didn't waste paper) and colored them as well as parts of the inside of the globe in light blue-green. (BG0000 Some Nuvo Crystal Drops complete the scene

Visit me at Die Cut Divas to see this post.and to join the challenge, please visit The Die Cut Divas and click on the icon on the right side of the posts.

Supplies for Zombie scene:

Bugaboo Digital stamps - Scene it - Mummy Scene

Elizabeth Craft Designs Dies

Nuvo Crystal Drops -Ripened Pumpkin and Ebony Black

Copic markers

Vagabond Die Cut machine

Supplies for Globe

Bugaboo Digital stamps - Butterfly Globe

Spellbinders dies

Copic markers

Nuvo Crystal Drops - Crushed Grape and Ebony Black

Autumn Owl to Winder Fairy

Be sure to play with the Die Cut Divas for the October MOOD challenge.  It should be fun and get you in the mood for Autumn. Our sponsor is Bugaboo Digi Stamps and they have some darling images.





MOOD BOARD


My cards for October 7th were fun to color and this owl scene was quite an easy scene to create. That little owl just makes me smile.

It was so much fun to add Nuvo Crystal drops to this little owl's eyes and the nails on the fence.  I love how Nuvo makes that pumpkin glisten.

I hope you like this little scene and the closeup.

I couldn't help myself. I had to see how a Winter fairy would look in Autumn colors, using the mood board above.  I think she turned out fantastic.  I actually love the leggings.  I hope you are inspired to go Autumn.

Supplies for Owl Scene
Bugaboo Fall Fence
Nuvo Crystal drops Ebony Black and Ripened Pumpkin
Copic markers  Fence E30 & E31, Flowers Y04 & Y19, Pumpkin Y12 & YR16, leaves, YR12, Y19 & E30, Owl Y04 & E30, Sky V20
Spellbinders die
Distress Inks - Wilted Violet & Carved Pumpkin
Assorted gems colored with Copic markers

Supplies for Winter Fairy
Bugaboo Winter Fairy
Spellbinders die
Nuvo Crystal Drops Ripened Pumpkin
Spellbinders dies
Copic markers are much the same colors as the owl scene

Have fun coloring.