Black Cat Lynx Giveaway

Black Cat Lynx Giveaway - Day 1

One of my favorite places in the SVG and blog world is giving away a BLACK CAT cutter, what do you have to do? Not much, just stop on over at SVGcuts adn tell them how awesome they are and what you will do with this fabulous new cutter and you will be entered. While there make sure to check out Mary's fabulous sets ... she is the BEST!

CR84FUN Color Challenge

This week I was looking around for a challenge to inspire me and I stumbled upon a great challenge blog called CR84FN where they have weekly challenges and lots of wonderful inspiration. This week challenge is a color challenge based on the following pallette:

This combination is so nice and bright I just had to play along. And since I just got SVGcuts wonderful set Kate's Silhouettes I just had to try it out. This is what I came up with:

It's a simple yet elegant and bright card that can be used for any occasion. I like to leave them blank so that when I need a card I can pull from my stash and personalize it. Thanks for stopping by and hope you liked my take on the challenge.

Patriotic ATC

Here is my latest ATC, I used Treasure Box Designs liberty bear which is such a CUTIE!! If you like cute stuff, TBD has some really cute designs.  I didn't have to use too many embellishments here since the bear itself is such a cute little center piece. I did accent cover it with stickles... everything looks better with glitter!

Hope my group likes them.... have a great week!

Dia de los Muertos ATC Swap

Here is my set of Dia de los Muerto ATCs. This was another swap-bot swap that I joined. For this one I have 2 different partners so I figured I make 2 different ATCs. I printed images from the internet and then "colored" them with my stickles to give them a shiny glittery look and just added accents with some very yummy Twine from The Twinery... so festive for skulls! 

BEE-u-tiful ATC

I am getting addicted to making and receiving ATCs. I can't get enough of these little cutties.  I used the printout freebie from Mouse, paper, lovely but instead of making the card, I used all the elements for my cute little ATC. The Bee is from create a critter - I don't remember the size I used, but I think it was 2". I used black sticles on the antenea, wings and stinger to make it pop.And used pop dots on the bee.

The stamp is from My Pink Stamper's punnylicious set.  This one was headed to Modesto for swap I was in on the Swapbot website. I just started using this site and I think I like it. I mostly swap ATCs but its an easy way to find swappers and you only sign up for the ones that interest you.

Here are some adorable ATCs that I received as part of the SVGcuts ATC swap, they are soo cute. now I only need to get something were I can display all my little pieces of art.

I also made some ATC with a DIA DE MUERTOS theme, I already finished them and shipped them, but I make extras, so I need to take pics to post, they also came out very cute. My next swap themes are: Silhoutte and Patriotic. I will be working on those this weekend so I should have some more ATCs postings coming up.

Glitter Explosion Blog Hop

Welcome to the Glitter Explosion Blog hop
and Shades of Green Challenge Entry

Thank you to Yolie for inviting me to participate in today's blog hop. I am joined by a whole line up of wonderful crafty people that will amaze you with their creations. Today is a special day for me because its MY BIRTHDAY!!! So I was even more exciting to do this hop.

What better to celebrate than a fun birthday card. Here is what I came up with:

I literally created a GLITTER EXPLOSION for the bacground of this fabulous stamp. I am not very good at coloring images, so for a while I stayed away from stamps, I tried and tried but my coloring looked like it was done by a 5 year old. My friend CELY (who is just AMAZING with copics) pointed me to Dustin Pike's blog who has beautifully colored digital stamps. Now I can make fabulous looking cards that look like I colored them, but in reality is all the great work of Dustin. Since it's also mostly green I am also entering it in his current challenge SHADES OF GREEN check it out on his blog.

Card Details: I used Bazzil texture cardstock for the background, this is a very shinny and sparkly paper that is a little hard to appreciate on the photo, but it's totally SHINY!. It was embossed using the happy bday folder. The above stamp is a past freebie from Dustin's site, I printed it twice and cut only the dragon and raised it using pop dots, love those little dots!! It's is also hard to tell but I just glitter the heck out of that cute little dragon, there is glitter on his belly, his horns, his paws, the cake and all over the ballons and presents.  The background looked a little too simple so I used my markers and just dotted it and then dotted it again with stickles.... then I just dabbed each of the stickle dots to create the EXPLOSION effect neat ha!!  I did more stickle dots on the top and bottom and stickled the word birthday (can you tell I really like stickles!!)  I then topped it off with some cute little buttons.

Now time for you to hop on over to another wonderful and glittery creation. Your next stop is:

A N G I E

If you came directly here and you wan to start this hop from the beginning or just wanna do it again, because it was sooo much fun :-) here is the line up:

Yolie – http://www.justyolie.com/

Gaby – http://www.gabycreates.com/

Lenea - http://sugargemscrafts.blogspot.com/

Xochitl - http://cricutcritter.blogspot.com/   <-------- You are HERE

Angie - http://angie-scrappinmemories.blogspot.com/

Ann - http://annlenth.blogspot.com/

Mari - http://mariaschulz.blogspot.com/

Debbi - http://www.scrappingmamma.net/

Sherry - http://patternsbysher.blogspot.com/

Tammy - http://tammyjennings.blogspot.com/

Melin - http://papercraftingworld.blogspot.com/

Celeste - http://www.touchedbyabutterfly.blogspot.com/
John - http://meyer-imports.typepad.com/

Hope you have a wonderful day!

ATC Swap #3: Friendship

I have been Making ATC for the swaps over at the SVGcuts Forum and they are so much fun, I love making them and receiving them. For this months swap the theme was flowers. I made mine using Cherry Blossoms Mini SVG Collection and I think they came out VERY sweet. I made the SVG for the FRIENSHIP symbol and used some cherry  blossom ribbon I had and used pop dots for the flowers and symbol. Can't wait to see what they other ladies made.