Birthday Elegance For New Release

Are you ready for another mini challenge, to celebrate Bugaboo Stamps' 2nd birthday?! We have a new one for you, today!

Today's mini challenge is to use the new Release image and make a birthday project with a bow. Another simple one! Come over to Catch The Bug and play along with us, in the newest mini challenge?!


My project, today, features today's new release, bride3,from Bugaboo Stamps. I've colored her with Promarkers. This is my first attempt at a joy fold card, and I love how it turned out. This is such a fun fold to work with! I used three different papers. One embossed with a swirly pattern, one with a slight gold sheen, and one embossed with silver swirls. The combination turned out to be quite elegant, I think. The papers are all new. The black and white polka dotted ribbon is from my stash.


I am entering this card in the following Challenges:


Birthdays at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #56 Anything Goes at Lexi's Creations
Anything Goes at Bizzy Bec's
Challenge #58 Celebratory at Bee Crafty
Challenge #21 Happy Birthday at Whimsy Inspirations
GL31 Anything Goes at Gingerloft
Challenge #140 Ring In The New (image, embossed paper) Year at Corrosive
Challenge #137 Celebrations (Birthday) at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #45 Use Your Scraps (With Sentiment) at Aud Sentiments
Bling Me at Some Odd Girl
Challenge #74 A, B, or C (Birthday, Black) at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #187 The Many Faces of Women at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #107 Let's Celebrate at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #90 Embossing at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #1 Frames at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #147 Texture Please (Two different textured embossed papers + ribbon) at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #140 Ring In The New (silver and white embossed paper) Year at Corrosive
Challenge #90 Use A Border Punch at Speedy The Fox's Friends
Challenge #85 Ribbon at Sentimental Sundays
Inspired By: Birthdays at Creative Inspirations Paint
TPE131 Favorite Colors (Black and white) at The Pink Elephant
Anything Goes at The Crafty Purple Frog
Birthdays at Stamp-n-Doodle
Challenge #81 Neutral Colors at Tuesday Throwdown
PTT#51 Happy Birthday at Party Time Tuesdays
Challenge #46 Polka Dots at Celebrate The Occasion
Challenge #52 Bows at Ladybug Crafts Ink
Challenge #24 Die Cuts at The Stamping Boutique

Snow Beary Cute

Hey everyone! How's the weather there?! If you're like me, you're still in the middle of winter! Yucky! I hate winter! The only good thing about it, is getting to use these fun winter time digi images! LOL (That's the only kind of snow and snowflakes that I like, I'll tell ya!)

We have a new challenge, and a new featured image for you, today, at
Shelly's Images! The theme this week is something new for us and a really fun one! It was Shelly's idea, and is so cool! The theme is Roll 'Em -On the Shelly's Images Blog, there's a list of elements, each assigned a number. The idea is to roll the dice (Or use the random number generator on the sidebar) to choose three numbers, then challenge yourself to use those 3 elements on your project! I wasn't sure about it, myself, at first, but it really was a blast, once I got started! I feally hope we do more of these! It was great fun!

Oh, and then, there's today's featured image, Snow Beary, available today only for a special price, in the
Shelly's Images store. Get him at the discounted price while you can! He's a real cutie!

And now, here is my project, featuring Snow Beary. I used the following numbers on our "Roll 'Em" list:

#0 - Doodling
#3 - Use 3 Layers
#8 - Buttons, Brads or Bling (I chose Bling)



My card layout uses the sketch at Inspirational Card Sketches. The image, Snow Beary, by Shelly's Images, is colored with Promarkers. I used a 0.1 fine point black Promarker, to do the doodling on the frame of the image. The blue snowflake paper is a scrap from my stash. The gold papers are from a new paper stack by Recollections, that I got for Christmas. The circles were punched with circle punches of various sizes. I added a white gliterry snowflake and a silver adhesive pearl, to add bling. My card has three layers. The image and the smallest circle are attached with foam mounting tape, for dimension.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #56 Anything Goes at Lexi's Creations
FF98 Use Your Stash (Papers) at If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #32 Something New (gold papers) at Fairy Tale Challenge
Challenge #1 Frames at Stamping With The Dragon
Winter at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle
Challenge #67 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #140 Ring In The New (gold papers) Year at Corrosive
Challenge #2 Manly at Pile It On
GL31 Anything Goes at Gingerloft
Anything But A Christmas Card at Sparkles Forum Challenges
Challenge #84 Snow,(Snowflakes) Blue and/or Glitter
Inspired By: Something Old (Snowflake Embellishment, Pearl) at Creative Inspirations Paint
Challenge #174 Something New (gold papers) at Cupcake Craft Challenges
Challenge #24 Anything Goes at House of Gilli
Challenge #1 Snow Day at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #80 Baby It's Cold Outside at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #74 A, B, or C (Bear, blue) at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #146 Sketch at Inspirational Card Sketches