Bugaboo and Card Crafters Circle

Today Bugaboo is sponsoring the Challenge over at Card Crafters Circle. These guys have some fun Challenges so you should go and check out their site and add it to your list of Challenges for the week.
Today's Challenge is to Make Something Colorful.
For my cared today I used one of Jodie's Little Monster Images; Birthday Monsters Trio. I colored the image with my Copics in really bright colors to go with the Basic grey papers that I used.The trim down the center of the card is felt ribbon that I picked up for a dollar at Mitchael's once.

 I added some glossy glaze and Sickles here and there to give it some shine.

I hope you all have a great weekend and do stop by The Crafters Circle.

Challenge Time At Dilly Beans

Today over at Dilly Beans Designer and Challenge Blog we have a new Challenge up for you all.
Thanks to everyone that played along last week for the Shades of Black, White and Red Challenge. Great Entries.
Okay, for this week we would like to see what you do with the theme Winter Wonderland. If you head over to the Challenge Blog you can check out all the goodness created by the Design Team this week. Great inspiration. For my card I used the # 189 Megan Girlie's Love Candy  and #191 Cupcake Girlie and #282 Candy Border Images.
I colored my image with Copics and added a bit of Glossy Glaze here and there to make it shinny.

The background of the girls is made using a painted on layer of Goosebumps and then a layer of watercolor painted on after the first has dried.  The trees are SVG cuts from Design House Digital.

I will enter this card in the following Challenges:

Charisma Cardz Challenge Blog: Over the Rainbow.

Belli Challenge Blog: Snowflakes

Little Darlings Challenge: Cold

I hope you all will join us this week for our Winter Wonderland Challenge. Have a great weekend.

Friday Freebie At Bugaboo.

Here it is Friday again. Where did the week go? I hope you all have some fun things planned for the weekend. I'm not sure what I'm doing but it might have something to do with Christmas decorations and a tree that needs to go away. So sad. But for today I have an adorable and handy New Release to show you from Bugaboo. The Design Team has come up with a lot of ways to use this image so you should run over there and check them out. after that go to the Bugaboo Store and pick up today's Friday Freebie  for yourself.
For my card today I used some Basic Grey papers, that seemed perfect for this little guy.

 I bought a stack of Chalkboard paper last week while I was out shopping and it worked out perfect for this. I also used some chalk ink to stamp the sentiment and used a Zig Writer-chalk collection to make the letters a little darker.

Jodie has some other really cute sign kids in the new collection today. This one is going to my 4 year old grandson in Mobile.
I hope you all have a great weekend.

Background Tutorial for Bugaboo

It is Tutorial Wednesday over at Bugaboo and today it is my turn to share with you. I sat down with my 13 year old Granddaughter last week and we pulled out the watercolors and different papers, some salt and rubbing alcohol and had some fun. When all was said and done I had some cool background papers and thought I could share the technique with you. Here are the finished cards. I used Jodie's Image Beautiful Blocks-Thoughts and Prayers.

The first thing I did was print off the two images. The top one I colored with Copics and then put a coat of goosebumps over the image only. For the second one I sprayed the piece with goosebumps very unevenly.

 If you can get ahold of some of this you will love it. The piece under the bottle is sprayed with Goosebumps and then Colorwash and Tattered Angels.

 I flicked the alcohol  on the wet paint while it was still wet.

The goosebumps creates a resist and the alcohol pushes the paint around. It is magic. And fun, just to play.

When this was completely dry I colored the image with my Copics.

This is a piece of watercolor paper that I sprayed first with water then added watercolors and spattered on alcohol and then some salt here and there.

 Here is a close up of the paper painted and alcohol splattered first and then salt added.

 After it dries use your fingers to rub off the salt.

 Look at that wonderful pattern that it makes.

For the second piece I had to work faster so that the piece did not dry in between adding all the colors. I worked on the larger left side first.

You can see where the alcohol makes the spatters and pushes the paint away. We did discover that it works best on darker colors with a lot of pigment in them.

 The goosebumps on the image works as a resist so you don't have to be overly careful when applying paint.

 When everything was dry and finished I sprayed a layer of Perfect Pearls Mist on these two pieces.

 Here are the 4 pieces when they are dry and ready to go into the finished product.

I hope you give this a try and share with me. Just leave a comment here with a link to your blog or gallery. I would love to know how your project turns out. Remember to play and experiment and have fun. You will have a lot of fun I hope.

New Release Day at Bugaboo

Time for the first New Release of the New Year over at Bugaboo. Woo Hoo! I really think you're going to love these. I do. If you run over to the Bugaboo Challenge Blog you can see all the great projects the Design Team has to share today and then you can run over to the Bugaboo Store and pick up some of your own.
For my card today I used some fun papers that I picked up at Hobby Lobby and some fun ones that I made. This image is perfect for all kinds of thing and I used Goosebumps and Perfect Pearl Mist and Copics for the image and the piece behind the image is made using my smooch and lift technique with Distress ink and perfect pearls.

 For the image, first I sprayed the surface with Goosebumps, let that dry and then colored the flower centers with Copies and added a thick layer of goosebumps to those, let dry and then sprayed on some Perfect Pearls Mist, The border I colored with Copics when everything was dry.  

I think you can see the details better here.

I hope you come back tomorrow for a Tutorial using Goosebumps, watercolors and rubbing alcohol. Sound interesting? Come and see and in the meantime Have A Great Day.

A New Year and New Design Team Members at PIO

Well it is a New Year and Today Over at Pile It On we have a bunch of New Design Team Members for you to get to know. You will love all the new inspiration I'm sure. So run on over to the Pile It On Blog and Check Out the New Team.
For todays challenge we have Anything Goes and the sponsor is Simon Says Stamp. How great is that? Can't wait to see what you all create.
For my card today I decided to use a great image by Megan over at Dilly Beans Digi Stamps and dress her up for Valentines.I colored the image with Copics, used Glossy Accents to give it some shine and used papers from a Prima Stack Pad that I got for Christmas. The sentiment is from the Cutting Cafe. It comes with a bunch of different Valentine Long Phrases.

I will be entering the following Challenges this week:
The Sketchy Challenges: Sketch
4 Crafty Chicks: Something New
Little Miss Muffet Challenge: Anything Goes
Cooking It Up With Katie: Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon: Something New(new paper pad)
My Mums Craft Shop: Anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays:Anything Goes
Stampavie And More: Hearts
Simon Says Stamps: Anything Goes
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenges: Charms

Stella Says Sketch

Today is the first day of a New Year and Our First Stella Says Sketch Challenge over at Bugaboo. How exciting is that? I hope everyone had a Great time for New Years Eve and you are all looking forward to another Great Year. I Am.

Here is the Sketch for today. You have two weeks to enter and you can find all the details on the Bugaboo Challenge Blog today.

For my card today I used 3 great images by Jodie and gave things a little Valentine theme.

 Giraffe Block: Two Love, Top Right and Upside Down. The papers I used are My Minds Eye and the sentiment is from The Cutting Cafe.

 A close up for you.

I hope You all will join us for the fun new Stella Says Sketch Challenge and I wish you all a Very Happy New Year.