Snow Bunny

Hello! It's a snowy morning here in Ohio so I thought this would be an appropriate card to post.  I printed the Snow Bunny digi from my stash of Meljens images on white CS and colored the cute image with Copics and a bit of snow with a Snow Marker for texture. Added some stickles to her fuzzy hat and metallic silver to her buttons.  Trimmed the image with a rectangle die and attached to mat of pink CS, layer of striped pattern paper(old SU), and card base of the GKD pink CS. Finished with heat embossed sentiment (old Creative  Clear Stamp) using Silver EP.  I chose this image because of her long scarf. 

Challenges:

Artsystamper Digitals Challenge: #7 Baby It's Cold Outside

Winter Wonderland: Theme is Little Friends

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge #615 Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper

Creative with Stamps: Challenge #46 Scarf

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Jingle All the Way

Hello!  I am playing today with a Christmas card made with bells, plaid, and jingles.  I cut the bells on the Cameo from Gold Metallic CS and added some plaid paper from my stash.  I printed the digital sentiment from Meljens Designs on white CS and attached that to a layer of the Plaid Pattern.  I attached the Bells with pop up foam and added a Gold Organza bow to complete the card for the following challenges:
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: #187 Make a card with Plaid on it.
Happy Little Stampers: January Christmas Challenge Jingle
ABC Christmas Challenge: A is for Anything Goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #264 Cute or Anything Goes
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: Anything goes for Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Anything goes with Pattern Paper
The Glory of Christmas: Gold or Silver or Anything Goes






Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Pot of Gold for St. Pat's

 

Here we are on the second day of March, already!  May spring  be around the corner soon and the luck that it brings  for St. Pat's Day!  I hope to send some Irish Luck and Blessings with this card later this month.  I used digital image and sentiment  from Meljen's  Designs that I colored with some Copics and a Pilot Gold Metallic marker. I used Gold Metallic CS for the base and added some gold foiled accent paper corners and strip from scraps.  

 

Challenges:

Meljen's Designs: Challenge #249 seeing spots---my spots are gold.

City Crafter Challenge Blog: Use it up........used scraps of spotted pattern.

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon Says anything goes.

Digitally "Sweet" Challenge:  Anything Goes
Simon Monday Challenge: Just a hint of Clover

Just Us Girls Challenge: Week #282- Inspired by the greens, browns, touch of gold, and gold spots in the Photo.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Love Is Sweet

I am back with a second card.  This project uses the layout from Sketch Saturday shown on the right and a digital Image from Meljens,  Love Is Sweet, a freebie that I have had a long time.  I colored him with Copics, fussy cut the image and attached to my card and added some red hearts found already punched in my stash. The card base is a Textured White CS with a layer of MME pattern stripe. I used some of the stripe paper to create pennants stamped with LOVE with Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink.

Challenges:
Sketch Saturday: Week #347
Meljens Design Team Challenge:  #247 Theme is Loving You
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says All Creatures Great and Small
Allsorts Challenge: #297 Love is all around.
Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Add a Heart

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Serving up Pumpkin Pie

 

I am back with a second post today.  I made a Fall Thank you card using a couple of Meljens Digis with fall colors from her design team challenge.  I printed the Pumpkin Pie Slice and Happy Fall verse on white CS and Colored with Copics and Silver Pen.  I cut these with Nesties square dies and matted on Orange CS then a pattern Background from GKD pad and a Orange Card Base.  Finished with 3 Brown Brads and Cameo cut "Thanks" in brown.  Topped the pie slice with Liquid Pearls "whipping cream".

Challenges:
Meljens Design Team: Challenge Theme is August Brights.
 See graphic for colors on right.
Tuesday Morning Sketches: Sketch #275 with a twist to use Pumpkins and Leaves.  See sketch on right.
Digi Sketch Challenge: Theme is Food.  I only used the theme not the sketch for my card. Used Pumpkin pie digi.
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge: Theme is Thankful.




I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Sick Little Bear

Hello? How was your weekend.  I hope it was better than the Bear on my card who is not feeling well.  He's a Meljens Digital image called Sick Little Bear printed with one of her sentiments.    I colored him with Copics and added some Glossy Accents and glitter with Wink of Stella.  I sponged DI Antique Linen around the image to darken the White CS.  I used Ivory CS as the base and Panels of Patterns from Crate Paper DIY Collection. I have used this little fella often for Get Well Cards.

Challenge:
Digi Sketch Challenge: Get well theme with sketch shown on right
Meljens Design  Challenge: Karaoke-use song as your inspiration.    I chose The Fever by Bruce Springsteen.
To listen to The Fever click on the arrow:

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Sending Love and Birthday Wishes

Welcome!  Glad that you stopped by.  Enjoying the sunny days in Florida.  Trying to post our daily happenings at  Captiva Days with Al and Theresa but a few days behind. Today I have a card made with Meljens digi  Bunny Love.  I intended to make an Easter card but ended making a birthday card. I printed the image on white cs and colored with copics.  I added some pink metal heart brads and lot of mini pearls including the bunny's added necklace .  I cut the image and also a pink mat with Spellbinders Label 4 dies. Layered these and added  to a mat of embossed (Darice Flowers EF)  green Pattern Paper from Webster's Pages Park Drive pad and a white card base.  Finished with a scrap of fancy pink ribbon and a clear epoxy sentiment sticker from Cloud 9. The photo does not show ribbon as it really is.....it is actually nice and straight on the card. Distorted in photo and I'm too lazy to redo..
Challenges:
Meljens Design Team Challenge: Bling it Up....did that with pearls.
Crafty Ribbons: Anything Goes and ribbon

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

A Holly Good Snowman

Happy Monday! It has been awhile since I entered a challenge at Meljens Designs... this week the challenge is Bullseye.... to center everything on your card.   I decided the use of a circle seemed appropriate for this challenge.  I found this image Frosty Face in my files that I had printed sometime ago.  I colored him with Copics N 2,4,7, B0000, G 19,82,85, R46,Y38, Y28 and a Clear Star Pen for sparkle. Using a GKD Green cardstock as the base, I layered with a Pebbles Pattern Paper and attached the image cut with a Nesties circle die and matted on a red circle.  Finished with a sentiment from Creative Clear Stamp Holiday Sentiments embossed with white EP and embellished with red rhinestones.
Challenges:
Meljens Designs: Theme is Bullseye
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: Winter Weather....snowmen are certainly part of our winter weather.
ABC Christmas Challenge: A is for Anything Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Extra: Anything goes as long as it is Christmas
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: Christmas
Digitally Sweet Challenge: DSC #70 Anything Goes

The making of this card supports my goal for 2014 to use up scraps and supplies that I have neglected. Used scraps, bling and preprinted digis just laying around for months.

  I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Christmas with Santa

Merry Christmas from Santa!  This jolly old soul is from Meljens Designs and I have used the pre-colored digi with a Meljens Sentiment also.  After printing both digis together, I trimmed and matted them to an embossed blue cs and and a card base of black cs. I added some accents with Glaze pens and Stickles.
Challenges:
Meljens Designs: Theme is Black Out- Use Black CS as Base
Charisma Cardz Challenge: Christmas
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #152 For a Child

Other supplies:
Meljens Digis: Santa's Jolly Smile and Merry Christmas Word Art
Glaze Pens: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green
Papers: Ivory, Blue. and Black CS from stash
Cuttlebug EF Divine Swirls
EK Success Corner punch
Stickles

 I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Fight with Hope

Today I am using a Meljen's Digital image Hope Ribbon and a Pink Camo digital paper to create a card for Lee's challenge to show our strength in Pink Camo.  This is for this month's Splitcoaststampers Hope You Can Cling To campaign to support Breast Cancer Awareness.

Read more here. 

All of the cards made during this month for these challenges are to be mailed to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX

Supplies:
Digi: Meljen's Hope Ribbon
Papers: Kraft and Pink Cardstock, Camo Digi Paper from Granny Enchanted
Copics: R20,81,85
Pink stickles, Pink Glaze Pen, Pink Heart Brad

Other challenge:
Meljen's Designs: Feeling Krafty. Used Kraft as card base and kraft coloris in pattern paper.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Love Is Sweet

Welcome to my studio! Today I am sharing a card made for Meljens Designs Challenge ...the theme is "you have been framed".  I have chosen one of her Freebie images " Love is Sweet" to be framed using Spellbinder Dies to create a frame of red and white.  After printing the image on white cardstock,  I colored with Copics R 20, 24, 29, E 00, 15, 17, 30.  My frame is red and white Pattern Paper from stash that I embossed with Cuttlebug EF Wicker Weave. I cut out a window and added a red mat before inserting the bear image. I finished with a card base of white cardstock, white satin bow, and red brad heart.

 

Challenge Links:
Meljens Designs: You have been framed.

Shopping Our Stash: Use oldest hardware... not sure how old the brad is but it is OLD!

 

  I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Patriotic Bear

 

I love the Patriotic Bear from Meljens. He is a favorite of mine to use on My Hero Cards made for Operation Write home.  This one I made to enter in the Patriotism challenge at Meljens Designs. After printing the image on white cardstock, I colored it with  Copics B 21, 24, 29,  E 30, 31, 35, 36, Y 28, R 20, 24 and a Gold Glitter Jelli-ink pen. I added some shine with Clear Star Pen. I used SU Brilliant Blue CS for the base and mats and Doodle Pantry Stripe digi paper for the background which is embossed with Cuttlebug EF Divine  Swirls.  The sentiment from Verve  was stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Gold EP.

Also entering into Simon Says Patriotic challenge which ends very soon....but why not!

  I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Thank You with Heart

I cannot believe today is the first of May! I made this shaped card using a digi from Meljens Designs which was a freebie that I have had in my files for a long time and love using for thank you cards. I have used the sketch from Meljens challenge this week.  I used Nesties scallop circles and circles to cut the layers from Pink Cardstock (Stash) and MME pattern paper. The image was printed on white cardstock and colored with Copics-too many to list.  I inserted a strip of pink ribbon with white stitches from stash as I assembled the layers.  The pink heart brads were then added to finish the card.

Challenges:
Meljens Design Challenge: Sketch Challenge Shown
The House That Stamps Built: Challenge DCC424...Shaped Cards
Crafty Ribbons Challenge: Anything Goes with Ribbon
Fab n Funky: Lots of Pink
Crafts and Me: Foral Frenzy

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Celebrate a Birthday

I am back again today with a third post....it has been raining and I have been carding.  It is too wet to be outside so I am staying in after 3 days of yard work.
This card is for Meljen's Design Challenge who is celebrating her 3rd Anniversary this month.  I used her Digis Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake and Happy Birthday sentiment. The card is pretty CAS letting the glittery stripe paper and the digis do all the work.  I colored the digis with Copics and Memento Markers and added more shine and glitter with Sakura Clear Glaze Pen and Clearstar Glitter  Pen. Did some distressing on the edge with Distress Inks.  I hope you can see all the shine.  The paper is some I have had for a while ...just waiting for the right use.
Challenge:
Meljens Designs: Theme is  Happy Birthday
Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge: Not Your Normal Paper-used striped glitter paper

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Notecard for Meljens

 

This week's theme for Meljens Challenge it to make a itty bitty teeny weeny notecard  sized 3"x3"...I decided to make this notecard with a Meljen digi image that was too small for my original use so I was glad to find it to use along with some small scraps along with copics, a glaze pen, and some dew drops and made this cute Easter notecard.

 

Challenge:

Meljens: Itty Bitty teeny Weeney Card

 

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Second post today. This card is for Meljen's Sketch challenge shown on the left. I love this group of Caroling Snowmen and it is so fun to color...this time I did it in red and green to go with the papers I  had laying on my work table.  Added some snowflakes with embossing and liquid pearls. Cut out the Meljen's sentiment to finish.
Challenges:
Meljen's Designs: Challenge 138
Crazy 4 Challenges: Create a Card That features a snowman
Cute Card Thursday: Theme is snowflakes-used embossed snowflakes and added liquid pearl snowflakes.
Paper Players: Theme is Snowmen
Supplies:
Stamps: Meljen's Designs
Copics: R00,24, G19, B000, G19, YG09, C00
Aytou Spica Gold, Black Glaze Pen, Clearstar Pen
Paper: Green CS and Red CS from stash,  Annabelle Digi Papers Stripes and Dots
Red Brads
Liquid Pearls
Nesties Circle and Scallop Circle Dies
Cuttlebug EF Snowflakes

 I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Happy Fall with Digis

 

It has been awhile since I did a Meljens Design Challenge and I do love to create with her images.  This card is for a sketch challenge shown on the left. I used 3 of her images-Happy Fall (for my DP that I created), Happy Fall Badge, and Two Leaves. I colored with Copics and Markers. I cut the badge with a Nesties circle die and matted with a larger circle. I embossed the 2 images that I matted with Cuttlebug EF Victoria and Divine Swirls. Finished with some scoring and grosgrain ribbon in a fall color.

Other Challenges:
Critter Sketch Challenges: Happy Fall
Our Creative Corner: Fall in Circle- make circle card or use circle die on card
Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Autumn Leaves
Kaboodle Doodles: Anything Fall

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Shaped Card in Red

This card was made with a sketch from Tuesday Morning but I missed the deadline to enter....always forget they close entries on Sunday not Monday. But I think I can enter for Meljen Design Challenge ...use red or blue.  The Meljens image is "Little Apple Worm" that I printed and colored with Copics and Distress Ink.

Challenges:
Meljens Design Team Challenge: Red or Blue
Do You Stack Up: Use RED as dominant color.
Party Time Tuesdays: Let's get punchy
Scrap Creations: Use something bought in the last 2 months...purchased pattern papers recently

Supplies:
Digi: Meljens "Little Apple Worm"
Ink: Memento Rhubarb Stalk
Papers: White CS and Red Patterns from SU Pack
Dies: Nesties Square, Scallop Square, Scallop Circles
Ribbon from Stash

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Proud to be an American

With July 4th approaching, there are a lot of challenges to make patriotic or red,white,and blue cards.  Also The Outlawz is celebrating having 2000 members with special challenges to make cards to show our country and colors.  On this card I have featured a Meljens Design that I recently won "USA Granny Bear".  I dressed her up in Red, White and Blue using Copics.  I followed a Sketch Design from Sweet Sunday with Patterns Papers in the same colors. Added some ribbons, a star brad, and felt flower.  The Meljens Sentiment says it all "Proud to be an American".

Challenges:
The Outlawz : Copic/Promarkers Party Challenge "Where in the World"... create a project that represents where you live now or where you are from.
Sweet Sunday: Sketch 161
Paper Pretties Wednesday: Red, White, and Blue
Anything Goes Challenge: Polka Dots with a Birthday Theme...may be stretching this but it is a birthday card for our nation on the 4th.
Scrap Creations: Challenge is 4th of July
Sweet Stamps: Challenge-Patriotic or Summer
Cute Card Thursday: Challenge is Patriotic.

Supplies:
Digis: Meljens Designs
Copics: B0000,24,26,29, C00, B00,30,31,33,R20, RV 29, N4,N7, Y28
Atyou Spica Gold
Papers: Patterns and Colors from SU, White CS from stash
Ribbons, Flower, Star Brad from Collection

Hope you join in some at the fun at The Outlawz". The Celebration has been extended to July 5.
 I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Grilling for Summer

I took the sketch from Meljen's challenge and turned upside down to make this card.  I used 4 digi images from Meljens - Smoking Hot, Kiss the Cook, Clouds, and BBQ Fixings. Colored with Copics E0000,00, 31,33,34,44. B000,01,24,26,93, Y02,17,  Memento Lady Bug and Bamboo Leaves, and metallic gold and silver pens.  Papers used were Blue and White CS and scrap of gingham paper. Finished with red button and scrap of green ribbon.

Challenges:

Meljens: Use sketch shown above.

Cute Card Thursday: Use summer theme.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa