For Fun Challenges - No Goodbyes

Happy Wednesday and welcome to my farewell posting with For Fun Challenges. As you may know, things have been a bit chaotic for me, so I have made the decision to step down from the design team of For Fun Challenges.  I will truly miss the lovely ladies on the team and wish them all the best.

Today's challenge is sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads.  The design team received some WONDERFUL digital stamps with which to work. Please stop on over and check them out.  This week's winner will receive five digital images of their choosing. You must use two different ribbons.  So, please join us for the challenge.  We want to see what you're working with.

I chose to work with the artist bear.  My daughter who battles autism, loves to draw. Her birthday was in June and I wanted to make a special card for her.  This digital stamp matched perfectly.  It's a simple card with unique accents which may it just perfect for her.  I hope you enjoy my creation. 

Here's one of my all time favorite songs for your viewing pleasure. Until next time, happy scrappin'.  I love you and there ain't nothing you can do about it!

For Fun Challenges DT Project - flowers or Mother's Day

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another edition of Christel makes a card.  LOL!!! I'm in a silly mood this morning.  Hopefully it overshadows the gloomy mood that has been trying to get me down.

So, this week's challenge is to create a project using flowers or something for Mother's Day.  Our sponsor is the wonderful Paper Shelter.   I'll post a link when I return home. 

Here is my card made with one of their very cute images.  It's a simple gatefold card that follows the sketch with a twist posted for this week's challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps.  I hope you will stop in over at For Fun Challenges and enter our weekly challenge and see what my wonderful DT sisters created for your viewing pleasure.

Many scrappy hugs to you. 


P.S. Please don't think I have forgotten about my prizes for this past weekend's blog hops.  I had death in the family and it threw me all off schedule.  I will post the winners just as soon as I can sort through everything.  Thank you for understanding.

Easter - DT Project

Happy Wednesday.  As we celebrate the Passion Week  and celebrate Resurrection Sunday, I created one project for two DT assignments that fell on the same day.  This project is for For Fun Challenges and for my last project at Cooking With Cricut.  Yes that's right.  I'm no longer on the Cooking With Cricut team. BUT...Melin couldn't get rid of me that easy.  I'm now on her Design Team at PaperCraftingWorld.com so be on the lookout for plenty of projects coming in the next few months.

So for today, I wanted to create a card that celebrated Easter or as I call it...Resurrection Sunday!  Here is my card that is created with simple flourish stamps, a dove stamp, and cuts from the Wedding Cricut cartridge.  I hope you like this card.  Please know that as we celebrate Easter we are able to do so because he didn't stay dead!   Why do you look for the living among the dead? He's alive!!! Hallelujah!  That's the best news I've heard all week.

Be sure to head on over to For Fun Challenges and Cooking with Cricut to see what my DT sistas have cooked up for this week!  Scrappy hugs~

For Fun Challenges DT projects

Happy Wednesday! Today's challenge over at For Fun Challenges is to create something that includes a bunny and using a stamp from Whimsie Doodles.  I picked the sentiment digi I love the play on words. And again, I tried my hand at quilling.  I can't want to get a quilling board.  My designs will be better.  The directions came from Alli at Quilled Creations.  This woman is BAD ya'll.  Check her out if you have any interest in quilling.  It really didn't take that long.  It's easy if you have a board though.  Has to be!  Well, I hope I've inspired you.  I'm entering my card in the challenge at A Gem Of a Challenge, The Corrosive Challenge Blog, and Creative Cowgirls.  Have a wonderfully blessed day!

For Fun DT Project

Happy Wednesday! Today's challenge over at For Fun Challenges is to create something that is monochromatic green or for St. Patrick's Day. We were given wonderful images from Meljan that included a St. Patrick's Day theme. I picked the sentiment digi. I really like the meaning behind the sentiment. It's says, "May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow."

I colored the shamrock on the digi using Bic Mark-It markers. I trimmed it with the Gelly Clear Star pen.  After these dried, I used glossy accents to ad dimension. 

I am developing a liking for quilling.  I fashioned a shamrock using my new quilling kit. I know it looks like a flower but I promise it's a shamrock.  Work with me people! I know I have a long way to go but I'll keep practicing. I used Glossy Accents to add a glassy/glossy appearance.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

For Fun Challenges - DT Project & Challenge Entry

Happy Wednesday! Today's challenge over at For Fun Challenges is a color challenge. In honor of Mardi Gras, we are to use the colors purple, gold, and green.  I participated in a hop this past weekend with Paper Tree House and the scripture that was the secret phrase for the hop was the inspiration for my card.  It says, "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all they ways acknowledge Him and He shall make your paths straight."  That's Proverbs 3:5-6 and it's one of the scriptures that keeps me sane! 

Now, during Linda's birthday (http://www.myquillingnest.com/) celebration last month, I won my first quilling kit.  So...I decided to try my hand at quilling.  How did I do?  Well...I kinda racked up last month because I also won a paper stack from Nicole (http://www.creativedelightsbynicole.blogspot.com/) of which you see a sheet of cardstock featured on this card.  I really like the green paisley paper.  The stack is by DCWV. 

The sentiment was created on my computer.  I really love the braided cord which I found at my Joann's which is moving next month.  The fibers were buried deep in a box somewhere in all our moving stuff! 

I do hope you like my card and my first attempt at quilling.  Please head on over to the blog and check out my DT Sister's inspiration. I've seen it and once again, there's a lot of eye candy. What are you waiting on? Go ahead. I promise you'll love it. Enjoy!!!

Challenge Entries:

Gill McCall's Mardi Gras

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - For Fun Challenge DT

Happy Wednesday and...Happy birthday to you!  Happy birthday to you!  Happy birthday For Fun Challengesssssssss.....Happy birthday to you!  So as you can see, we are celebrating the first birthday of For Fun Challenges.  We are so excited and have a WHOLE LOTTA inspiration for you this week.  

SPONSOR:  Michelle Perkett is an artist who believes the world can always us more kindness, innocence, inspiration and color. She lives in beautiful Southern California, and has an incredibly unique, and positively happy style in her art. She has a magical store filled with angels, fairies, mermaids, and wonderful images, bound to delight you!



Michelle’s first love is her art. She has run her art business for over 6 years and is spreading worlwide with Etsy and devoted crafters. She tries to live the way she creates her art; with love, happiness, peace, harmony, joy, friendship, kindness and inspiration and hopes that she inspires other people to do the same.


You can visit the MPS shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/michelleperkett or Michelle’s blogs: http://michelleperkettstudio.blogspot.com/ and http://michelleperkett.blogspot.com.



This week's challenge over at For Fun Challenges is to create something special for our birthday. We were given wonderful images by Michelle have a lot of inspiration for you from the DT.


I chose the mermaid for my inspiration this week.  I colored the digi using my handy dandy (ding) Bic Mark-it markers. That was a shout out to Blues Clues.  LOL!!!  I really love those things.  I tried to up my game and experiment with adding dimension with the markers.  Let me know what you think. The materials are listed under the picture.

Materials:

5.5" x 7.5" card base

MPS digi

ribbon from stash

sentiment by Inkadinkado

Frosted Stickles

embossed paper by Core'dinations

iridescent embossing powder

Corner Chomper (ticket stub)This weeks winners (yes, two) will gifts.  One from DT prize closet and the other from Michelle. You don't want to miss out!  Be sure to stop by Michelle blog and show her some love. 


Please head on over to the blog and check out my DT Sister's inspiration. I've seen it and there's a lot of eye candy again this week. What are you waiting on? Go ahead. I promise you'll love it. Enjoy!!!

Groundhog's Day - For Fun Challenges DT

Happy Wednesday! Today's challenge over at For Fun Challenges is  to create something for Groundhog's Day.  We were given two wonderful images from Little Scraps of Heaven that included a groundhog.  I picked the groundhog celebrating Spring.  Spring happens to be my most favoritest season.  I love the flowers and the temperature seems to be just right.


My card today is could be used as a thinking of you or just because card.  I colored the digi using Bic Mark-It.  I love those things.  I added Stickles to make it pop.  The image was cut out and layered on coordinating cardstock from my Recollections collection.  The final card measures 5.5" x 5.5".  If you have any question, please feel free to email me. 

This weeks winner will win a $25 gift coupon to the Little Scraps of Heaven.  You don't want to miss out!

Please head on over to the blog and check out my DT Sister's inspiration. I've seen it and there's a lot of eye candy. What are you waiting on?  Go ahead.  I promise you'll love it. Enjoy!!!

Anything That Glitters - FFC

Happy Wednesday!  Today's challenge over at For Fun Challenges is "Anything that Glitters".  Make it sparkle with gems, glitter, or anything that sparkles. 


My card today is a simple birthday card.  I used my Cricut and added little touch of glitter. Next came a wonderful Prickly Pear face that I won last year for a challenge at 365 Cards and Voila!  Please head on over to the blog and check out my DT Sister's inspiration.  I've seen it and there's a lot of eye candy.  Enjoy!!!

Recipe:

A2 card base

4" x 5" yellow cardstock 

cupcake from Cricut's Sweet Treats cartridge

Prickly Pear face (Love THEM!)

clear Stickles

Christmas Red Stickles

Christmas Gold Stickles

Martha Stewart loopy punch around the page

blue ribbon (stash)

blue gel pen

white gel pen

happy birthday stamp

My debut as a For Fun Challenges DT member

I'm honored to announce that I was asked to join the lovely ladies at For Fun Challenges.  There are weekly challenges that are posted on Wednesdays. 

Today is the reveal of my very first project.  Our challenge this week is to create a project that follows the recipe.  The recipe is to use 3 different papers, 2 buttons or brads, and 1 image.  I choose to make a simple card with a cute Bugaboo image.

I wanted to keep this card simple. I used my new Ultra-fine Bic Mark-It markers to color the image.  I loved how it turned out. I them cut several mats for the picture and sentiment out of scraps.  Using my white Signo gel pen, I added some doodling around the picture and sentiment. The sentiment says Happy Birthday. I know you can't see it BUT her dress and purse are all blinged out.  Well...I hope you can see where I incorporated the recipe.  The only one that might be difficult is the button or brad.  Can you find it? 

Well...that's all I have for today.  I hope that you will have a wonderful week.  Hop on over to For Fun Challenges and show us what you workin' wit!  Until Friday when I'll reveal a project for Family Fun Fridays, be blessed!  Happy scrappin'!