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Where does the time go? It's been longer between my posts lately as the days just seem to be flying by! For my card today I used this sweet image from

Lily of the Valley.   

This pretty paper is from a 6x6 Glitter Paper Pad called A walk in the Garden. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and from my stash. I scrunched up some tuling and glued it behind. The leaves are punched from my most used Martha Stewart punch, then scored and inked. I finished her up with some butterflies and pearls.

I'm entering her into the following challenges

Fussy and Fancy Friday-Fairies

Totally Paper Crafts-Favorite things-Butterflies, of coarse!

Paper Crafting Journey-Anything goes

Crafts and Me-Things with wings

Crafty Creations-Stripes

Let's Ink It Up-Show us your flowers

Sentimental Sundays-Words of encouragement

Crafty Boots-Glitter

Stamptacular Sunday-Text me

Thanks for visiting. Have a great weekend!

Jo xx

                                                                          Copics

E0000, E000, E00, R30

Y000, Y11, Y13, Y15

RV00, R81, R83, R85

E50, E51, E53, E55, E57

YG00, YG01, YG03, YG06

C00, C3, C5

BG000

Cute Rubber Boots

Looking for the perfect image to practice your pleats? Well, this Tilda is the one. I don't know about you, but I find pleats to be very challenging. I had fun with her though.

I can't remember the name of this paper, as I only had a bit of it left. Punches? Fiskars, Marvey, Martha Stewart and Creative Memories. The lace and pearls are from my stash and I used Stickles on my butterflies. Once again, the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thanks for visiting me and leaving your comments. Life is so busy for me at the moment and your kind words just make my day!

Jo xx

Challenges

Crafts and Me-Pretty in lace

Simon Says-Anything goes

Sew Many Cards-Punch it out
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central-Say it with Flowers.

The Crazy Challenge-Anything goes

Sentimental Sundays-Lace and Pearls

Copics

Skin E0000, E000, E00, R20

Hair E50, E55, E57

Clothes R81, R83, R85, R89

Hat BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18

Cutie Pie Guest Designer

I'm so happy to have been invited to be a Guest Designer for the Cutie Pie Challenge Blog.

The challenge is Flower Power 

Make sure you pop over and see what the Cutie Pie Team has created to inspire you and play along with the challenge while you're there!   

       I've used this sweet image from Stamping Bella and colored her with Copics.

The butterfly is cut from the designer paper I used, which was  KAISERCRAFT. The roses and the blue heart pin are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the ribbon and pearls came from my stash. The circle punch is Creative Memories. I added some stitching and Glitter Ritz to finish her up.

I know we've all come across so many gorgeous Copic color combinations and it's hard to remember them all, so I've decided the easiest way to reference them would be a  Copic Journal. This is my first page with some hair colors I love to use. I'm sure I'll be adding many pages of hair along the way.

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Challenges

Always Crafting-Anything goes

2 Sisters-Stitching real or faux

Secret Crafter Saturday-Bingo-glitter, pearls, leaves

Totally Papercrafts-Ribbons and or bows

Cute Card Thursday-Flower power

Do You Stack Up?-Layers

Paper Crafting Journey-Make it cute

Sparkles Forum-Things with wings

Divas by Design-Wings and things

Flutterby Wednesday-Anything with wings

Copics used on card

Skin E0000, E000, E00, R30
Hair E50, E53, E55, E57
Dress R81, R83, R85
Wings and flowers BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15
Leaves G20, G21, G24, B28

Stamps R Us Final Challenge

 It is with sadness that I pass along the news, this is to be the last challenge for

Stamps R Us.

I can't tell you how much I am going to miss working with Jan and this talented group of ladies.

We're going to make it easy for you and ask you to join us for Anything Goes.

Our fabulous sponsor for this challenge is

Digital Delights by Louby Loo.

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For my card I used Marcy Mermaid from LaLa Land. I can't remember what the paper line is. I've colored her with Copics. The flowers were white and I colored them with R22 so they would match her clothes. I cut the swirls on my Big Shot with a Sizzlit and backed the image with cheese cloth.

Make sure you pop over to the Stamps R Us Blog and check out the inspiration from the other ladies and leave them some love. As for me, I have cut back on my Design Teams since our 3 year old Granddaughter came to live with my husband and I. So now I will just continue to play along, but without deadlines!

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Challenges
iCopic-Use your BG colors
La-La Land Crafts Customer Gallery
Simon Says Stamp and Show-Anything goes
Southern Girls-Magic and mystery

Copics
Skin E0000, E000, E00, R20
Hair YR30, Y21, Y26, E35, E37
Tail BG000, BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18
Clothes R20, R21, R22

Canary Love

My card today is done with a new image from Saturated Canary. Can you believe Krista Smith is offering her as a free download? Yep! And you can get her  here. After I downloaded her I went shopping and now have eight more of these little sweeties to color up!

The paper is from a 6x6 pad of My Minds Eye called Lost and Found. Pretty much all of the embellies were in my stash. I used punches from Martha Stewart and Creative Memories. The scalloped oval is cut with a Spellbinders and my Big Shot. I glittered her with a two way glue pen and some Glitter Ritz.  It was a challenge figuring out how to color all those beautiful layers of clothing, but I can't wait to color up another of these images. I hope you have a great weekend. Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Challenges

All Sorts-One or more hearts

Corrosive Challenge-I heart you

Catered Crop-Use print

The Crazy Challenge-Flowers

Tuesday Throwdown-Use hearts

Truely Scrumptious-Love and hearts

Divas by Design-Anything goes

Moving along with the times-At least one heart

Copics

Skin E0000, E000, E00, R20, R30

Hair E34, E57, E47

Dress and Shoes Y11, Y15, Y21, Y26, Y28,   

BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18,   

E42, E44, 47

Stamps R Us

It's time for a new challenge at Stamps R Us and we would love for you to join us with your Valentine's Day cards.
Our generous sponsor this time is
Robyn's Fetish
For my card I've used Lucy Valentine's Girl and colored her up with my Copics.

She works perfectly with this paper I picked up this week from echo park paper co. I used punches from Martha Stewart, Marvy and Creative Memories and these beautiful flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Some lace, some stickles, a little bling and done!
Make sure you pop by the Stamps R Us blog to see what beautiful creations the rest of the team have come up with to inspire you.
Thanks for visiting!
Jo xx

Challenges
Robyn's Fetish-Make it sparkle
Paper Sundaes-Valentine's
Stamptacular Sunday-Diamonds or pearls
The Crafty Pad-Show some Valentine/Anniversary love
All Sorts-One or more hearts
Crazy 4 Challenges-Layer it on

Copics
Skin E0000, E000, E00, R20
Hair C3, C5, C7, C9, Black
Pinks R81, R83, R85, R89
Blues B91, B93, B95, B97
Reds R22, R24, R27, R29, R89
Greens G20, G21, G24, G28

Just Kidding Around

It's time for a new challenge at Stamps R Us and it's going to be a fun one.

 Our theme is Just Kidding Around, so would love to see your creations featuring Kids.
For my card I used Deacon Baseball from our sponsor for this challenge
Bugaboo Digi Stamps

This gorgeous paper is from My Minds Eye and it's from the "fine and dandy" line. The sentiment is from the C.C. Designs stamp set, "It's your Birthday" I cut the arrows with a Sizzlit die and the circle punches are from Creative Memories. I kept wanting to add more to this card, but decided I liked him as he is!

Challenges

Seems a little sketchy-Sketch

Catch the Bug-Birthday challenge

One Stop Craft challenge-On the spot and Ribbon

Alphabet Challenge-Y is for you can choose

Totally Paper Crafts-Spot and stripes

Dutch Dare-For the boys

Moving along with the times-Spots and/or stripes

Simon Says-Spots and/or stripes

Thanks for visiting!

Jo xx

Copics

Skin E0000, E000, E00, R20

Hair E11, E13, E15, E17, E29

Hat and pants  BG72, BG75, BG78

Shirt YR12, YR14, YR16, YR18

Shoes and bat E256, E27, E29

Ball C1, C3, R27