Demand a RECOUNT!!

 Getting old really sucks. I demand a recount also! I'm much too immature to be old already. 

 This image is another fun digi stamp  from Bugaboo Stamps.  It comes with sentiment included. Which is always a plus in my book. 

 

It was colored using copic markers. The card was embellished using designer paper , drywall tape with ink stained cardboard corner to corner, as well as flag die cuts.

CHALLENGES
Catch the Bug- Stella Says sketch challenge 
Catch the Bug- Anything Goes  
Southern Girls Challenge- Anything Goes

Butterfly Kiss

The digi used on this card is actually one of the frames out of the FLORAL TRIO  Frame image from Bugaboo Stamps. Unfortunately I had a wee incident after coloring the flowers and trying to add dimension to them by adding layers of glossy accent.  It seemed like a good idea at the time but  I need to use a little more patience next time.  Need I say more? 

Anyway this was the only survivor but I think any one of these images could stand alone and look great .

Embelished with sizzix butterfly die cut. Image was colored using copics.

The pop up butterfly is one of many free SVG files generously given from Jennifer Maker.
Close To My Heart as well as Printworks sentiments .

CHALLENGES:
Catch the Bug- April Anything Goes
Southern Girls Challenge- Frame It 
Pile it On #153- Lots of Layers

I Love to Cook!

 

 I couldn't resist this fab digi stamp and sentiment from Bugaboo Stamps.   J.J. is so naughty in everything she does. She is the kind of friend everybody should have at least one of.  LOL!

 Designer paper is from First Edition paper Wild Flower pack. Love the colors. Birthday Sentiment is an Inkadinkado stamp.Image colored using copics and glasses ,wine glass and pot enhanced using glossy accents (Ranger)

CHALLENGES:
Catch the Bug- January Color Challenge
Crafting with Friends- #78 Anything Goes

A little birthday

Thought I'd join in the latest  bingo Challenge at Bugaboo using this adorable Birthday Skelekinz image.  

Image was colored using copics
Birthday sentiments are double embossed using the Birthday Cuttlebug folder as well as Judikins black sparkle embossing powder. I added an interactive spinner pinwheel for fun  and finished it off with diecut lace.

Inner sentiment is from TLC creations
CHALLENGES
November Bugaboo Bingo - Sentiment, Embossing and sparkle
Pile it On # 136 -  Large Sentiment
Crafting With Attitude#33  
Pennys Paper #355 - Anything Goes 
FFC#215- Anything Goes

Another Year

 Gus is the best!!,  and he doesen't mix words. This cheeky character and sentiment from Bugaboo Stamps is perfect for my OLDER brothers birthday. We have an ongoing rivalry between each other on our  birthdays, all in good fun of course.

Inside sentiment from Stampin Up Stamps.

Bugaboo Challenge- Show Us Your Food
Through The Craftroom Door- Anything Goes 
Little Miss Muffet Challenge #98- Anything Goes 
Scrappers Delights Challenge#35- Anything Goes 

Merry Christmas Skelekinz!

WOW! It's been a while since I posted anything here.  Life just seems to get in the way of my 

cardmaking, 

Anyway my first few entries in the blogging world were  of cards made using Bugaboo stamps so I thought it would be fitting to use Bugaboo stamp to start up again. Actually the first digital stamps I owned were from Bugaboo and I was hooked immediately.

This cute Christmas image is from the Skelekenz collection. I love the fact that even though it is a Christmas digi it also kind of fits  Halloween as well. I colored it using copics and embellished with  drywall tape that I heat embossed in silver. I then added some corrogated cardboard, ribbon and black brads to finish it off.

 

Sentiment is from Stampin 

Up. 

 Thank you for the visit!

Challenges

 Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge October

Treasured Times- Challenge # 26

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge- Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiment Designs- Anything Goes

Love & Happiness

I have used this digital stamp by Bugaboo a number of times to make wedding cards.

 I just think it makes a very cute card.  I personalized it by putting the couples name in the little rectangle under the digi. (Sorry I had to block that out )   The stamp was colored using copics. 

  

The cardstock I used is pearl shimmer paper that I embossed  on my cuttlebug. The double hearts were cut on my Silhouette Cameo. 

 

To embellish I used Viva pearl pen on necklace,

 Inksential glossy accent on tux collar and pockets and  a  gelly roll glitter pen to the dress trim. The center of the cut out hearts were filled with glossy accents with two added gems for extra bling. Tulle ribbon  was tied around the card and tied in a  bow to finish it off.

Inside sentiment is from Stampin Up!

CHALLENGES:
Catch the Bug Feb theme challenge- Love
Cut It Up  #38- Valentines Day
Digi Heaven- Love /Cherish/Adore
Southern Girls - Bling It

Santa Gus

Oh Santa is that where your  belly comes from??

Gus is one of my favorite character images by Bugaboo. I just love the outrageous sentiments that go along with his images as well. I colored the image using copics and added liquid glass to the bottles and liquid applique to the fur trim. The designer paper is from the  DCWV Tis the Season Paper pack. I added i-rock brads to the corners to finish the card off.

 
Inside sentiment is an old Michaels dollar stamp.

Challenges
Bugaboo Christmas in July
Chrismas cards All Year Long- All about Santa 
Cardz TV- Chriatmas in July

SPEEDY RECOVERY

Sassy Nurse from Bugaboo is the perfect image to make the medicine go down for the males in your life. The image was colored using copics. The sentiment is from Cornish Heritage Farms. I used Penny Duncan shaplies svg. for the frames and then pierced around the edge. I embossed white cardstock using a cuttlebug folder  and added some old left over ribbon from my stash.


Challenges
PTT #55- GET WELL WISHES
CREATIVE CARD CREW #4- MASCULINE  
MOVING ALONG WITH THE TIMES- GET WELL SOON 
DIGIDOODLES SHOP#95-ANYTHING GOES 
Pennys paper crafty Challenge Blog #73 Anything Goes 
DYSU #59- Layers 

All I Need is Love

My first entry into the Crafters Digital Art Centre Progressive Challenge # 10.  These challenges have become a big part of my inspiration to make cards, of course it doesn't hurt to have fabulous free digi images provided as well. This is another wonderful image from one of my favorite stamp sites, Bugaboo Stamps. The inside sentiment is from Bethany at Elegant Word Art 2. I found her site by accident and fell in love with her amazing work. Happy Valentines is just a dollar stamp from Michaels. I used pink  designer paper from DCWV  and brown designer paper from K & C Company because I love this color combination pink & brown. The button & ribbon embellishments are Close To My Heart products. The image was colored in copics with a touch of liquid glass for her eyeglasses.

Challenges Entered
CDAC Progressive Challenge # 10
Catch the Bug- Stella Says Sketch # 102
My Moms Craft Shop- favorite color combo
Penny's Paper crafty challenge- ribbons & buttons
Do You Stack Up- pattern paper
Craft Us Crazy- Full of Love

birthday fishes

I just  love the Make it Snappy digi stamps at Bugaboo they seem to have something  for every occasion and  November is a very busy Birthday month for me. The image was colored with copics and mounted using dimensionals. I doodled with  glitter pens on the green cardstock. The doodling might have looked a little better had I centered the image as planned, but  of course I changed my mind last minute. Red cardstock was embossed using Happy Birthday cuttlebug folder. I finished the card off with 4 i-rock sparkle studs and a little Close to My Heart ribbon.

CHALLENGE

DIGITAL TUESDAY, ANYTHING GOES

CARD CUPIDS #44, WITH BLING 

CATCH THE BUG, NOVEMBER ANYTHING GOES 

FOR FUN, VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY 

Ballerina Birthday

Such a sweet little ballerina from Bugaboo Stamps. This card was made using the sketch as well as the colors pink, green & black from the latest Catch the Bug Challenge. I used Nestabilities and Martha Stewart eyelet punch to cut around image. Once again I used K & Company designer paper pink pearls and I colored the image with copics

Challenges

Catch the Bug, sketch/pink green black

JUST BECAUSE

Most often we make cards for special occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas etc. In the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge this week we were to make a card"Just Because"and I thought"What a fantastic idea!!" I made my card with the very sweet bugaboo stamp Big Bow Sitter, colored with copics. The top & bottom layers of designer paper is from the Que Serra Serra collection  K&Company. I added a black layer behind the heart and then added the Bow Sitter with black layer behind it as well. Dimensionals were added behind the heart along with a ribbon and bow. The Just because sentiment is from Close To My Heart.

Challenges

Bugaboo WW #19 PCP

Bugaboo WW#19 CDAC

Cardmadfairy's DigiDays Challenge 

Whimsical Wednesday # 23 

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Sweet little Deacan on a candycane from Bugaboo Stamps. Bulb shaped card made with Cricut cartridge"Joys of the Season"  Cardstock is Recollections Glitter.  "Happy Holidays" is a plastic embellishment from the dollar store I bought  a few years back. It's one of those things you buy and then you wonder why you did once you get it home. It worked out well for this card. The pointsettias are cut from an Penny Duncan cutting file.

 

Challenges

Tip Top Tuesday 

Crafty Creations- Anything but a square 

Creativecard Crew- Anything goes 

SUMMERTIME

 

Where I live in Canada there is only a little over a month left of summer if we are lucky.  I made this step card using the Bugaboo sunduck digi stamp. The sun cutting file is from Stinkin Cute Paper piecings and the sentiments stamp Summertime is from Close To My Heart . I used a little glitter on the sun as well as liquid glass on the glasses. The back border is actually a pocket  that holds the summertime tag(reverse of tag has Birthday sentiment)

Challenges
Bugaboo- Summertime for the Bird or the Bees
Hooked On Craft- Things With Wings
Paper Crafting Journey- Anything Goes
The Poodle Parlour- Anything Goes

Water

This card was made for the Bugaboo Make a Splash challenge.

I made the base of this card out of acetate. I added liquid glass to the water as well as the sunglasses. The cute little Bugaboo stamp was raised slightly with 3-D dots.