Penny's Tie One On Challenge

This week at Penny's Paper Challenge, we had these super cute images from Stretch N' Bubbles to use for our Tie One On projects! I just love this little bird and ornaments, they're so cute! I used Copic markers to shade the tree and colored pencils for everything else. I used glossy accents on the leaves to make them stand out and then some stickles at different places for some sparkle. I found this great font at Lettering Delights - it's so versatile for lots of different projects! I made this 5x7 card for the project, but I liked it so well I think I'm going to keep it for myself :) I am going to put it in an 8x10 frame and make it into Christmas decor!


Make sure you go and visit the Penny's Paper Challenge blog and see all the wonderful design team talent and enter your project for a chance to win some great digital images from our sponsor this week!


Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

CTO Thanksgiving Challenge

We're ready to celebrate Thanksgiving at Celebrate the Occasion! For this week's challenge, make sure you use buttons for your Thanksgiving project and have fun with it! I used a great digital image and colored it with my pencils, stamped my sentiment, then added some fun papers, ribbon and buttons :)

Make sure you come join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, November 27th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Guest Designer spot on Birthday Sundaes!!

This week, I have the awesome privilege of being the guest designer on Birthday Sundaes!! I'm so excited! The challenge for the week was to make a birthday card with a tree on it...so I decided to create my own tree! I used the die cuts sheet on Crate paper's Sweet Branch collection and made my tree out of the various size circles and the branch from a swirl. Then just for some sparkle, I added a gem to the center of each circle. I used a rub on for the happy birthday sentiment and finished it off with a bow and some brads.

Make sure you stop by the Birthday Sundaes blog to check out the cards from the fabulous design team and enter your card into their fun challenge!

Have an awesome day!

Thankful Thursday Fall Challenge

This week at Crazy About Cricut, we were challenged to make a project that Falls open. I chose to make a gate card, but you could also make a Jacob's ladder type book or an accordion book or something like that. Just use your imagination! I found this this adorable little turtle at www.whimsiedoodles.com/freebies.html and I made a birthday card for my sister in law who loves turtles.
I dry embossed the two panels on the front of the card and then inked them to match the turtle shell. Loved those fun dots! Then I used my pencils to color in the turtle and added some red stickles to the flower for some sparkle.

I added some button accents and a flower on the front of the card to keep it closed and it was a fun, easy card to make.

Now you'll want to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Have an awesome day!

Penny's Give Thanks Challenge

This week at Penny's Paper Challenge, the challenge was to make a Give Thanks project. I made a card using this adorable pilgrim dragon from Stamping Dragon Designs. I colored him with my pencils and added some cute paper that had the perfect sentiments on it, I love it when that works out so well :)

Now head over and visit the Penny's Paper Challenge blog and see all the wonderful design team talent and enter your project for a chance to win some great digital images from our sponsor this week!

Have a great week!

CTO Veteran's Day Challenge

Welcome to our Celebrate the Occasion challenge this week! We are making Veteran's day projects and I chose to do this card with the wonderful Rockets Red Glare paper by GCD Studios. It's a great time to remember our Veterans and the proud men & women that are fighting for our freedoms right now.

Don't forget to come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, November 13th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a wonderful day!