Pile It On and Punches

Good Sunday Morning Everyone!

Hope you are having a fabulous weekend. We took the kids apple picking yesterday. It was a perfect Fall day, crisp and cool, but still really sunny. And the apples are delicious! Hope you're doing something fun too!

I have a card to share today that I made for this week's Pile It On! Challenge! We want to see you use your punches on your creations as well as other current challenges as you pile on the challenges for your card or project!

I went with this sweet Mo Manning image and colored her with Copics. I highlighted with a gel pen and also a Spica glitter pen. The papers are retired SU! with SU! cardstock in greens and turquoise. I've used the sketch from Friday Sketchers and I used the recipe challenge of 1 image, 2 papers, and 3 embellishments from Simon Says Stamp.

I've embellished with Prima flowers, a button, a piece of a cut out from Crazed paper (Crazed is the sponsor of the PIO challenge this week), and some ribbons. I've done some faux stitching to fit the challenge at Papertake Weekly of faking it. This card also fits the flower power challenge at Charisma Cardz. My sentiment has been done with the word window punch and small oval punch from SU!. The sentiment is also from SU!.

Thanks for dropping by today, enjoy the rest of your weekend. If you're in the mood to pile on the challenges, head on over to Pile It On! Happy stamping!

Birthdays with Pile It On

Happy Sunday All!

Hope you are having a great weekend. Today being Sunday, means another new challenge at Pile It On! Challenges. This week we want to see your pile on the challenges with our theme of Birthdays. Shouldn't be too tough for you! The design team has used images from our sponsor, who is Timbo Hunter/Hambo Stamps. There's a fun prize for one lucky winner and a chance at this week's Top 3 Scoops!

I started with this cute turtle pyramid image, to fit the Birthday theme at Pile It On. I've colored them with Copics and highlighted with a gold glitter pen, but it's hard to see in the photo. The layout is from this week's Simon Says Challenge, which was a sketch to honor Heidi's birthday. I did switch the oval to a circle for my card, hope that's OK. I also fit this to the challenge at The Pink Elephant of 1 ribbon, 2 squares and something that sparkles. I added more gold glitter to the sentiment.

I've embossed the olive layer of cardstock with my CB and bubbles embossing folder. This fits the challenge at Paper Maniac Challenges. I also used this fun sentiment, created by Raindrop Echo Designs, it's available for download at Paper Maniac. I added some Prima flowers and buttons. The papers are BasicGrey Off Beat and some different pinks and greens for the cardstock. These colors are some of my favorites to combine, which also fits the challenge at Copic Creations.

So, I think that's it, all my challenges piled on up! If you're up for a challenge head on over to Pile It On! and join in the fun!

Enjoy what's left of this holiday weekend! Happy Stamping! :)

Pile It On with the Doodle Palace

Happy Sunday All!

Hope you are having a great weekend. This is just a quick post to share my Pile It On DT card for the challenge this week. This week along with piling on the challenges we want to see you use 3 of something. The theme is "Good Things Come in Threes" so get those thinking caps on and be creative with your threes!

I went with a masculine theme and used this super cute dragon from the Doodle Palace. Doodle Palace is the sponsor for the PIO challenge this week. They have some super cute digital images! I colored this one with Copics and highlighted with a white gel pen and gold Spica glitter pen. I have a couple areas where the ink smudged. I'm still struggling with heat setting the ink on my digis! I don't know what it is with my ink, but it just won't dry completely or something! URG!

For my good things in 3's, I did three layers on this card using the sketch from Fresh Batch. Each layer has 3 layers of paper and have been popped up with foam tape. I also used three buttons which fits the B is for Button challenge at ABC Challenge. The sentiment is also 3 layers of paper. The sentiment itself is a sneak peek at a new Whimsy Sentiment Set to be release next month! It's a birthday sentiment to fit the Stamp Something challenge of birthday somethings. And lastly, this is a pretty cute dragon eating a pretty sweet cake so this image fits Cupcake Craft's challenge of sweet things.

Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to head over to Pile It On and join in our with our good things in threes fun! Happy stamping! :)

Piled on Magnolia

Hi All,

Hope you are having a great Sunday! I didn't think I would be posting a card today, but I was able to squeeze in some stamping time last night and wanted to share. I made a card for a couple challenges and some DT work.

First, this card fits the Just Magnolia Monthly Challenge which is to use the 3D tutorial to create to 3 dimensional image with your Magnolia stamps. Since I'm going to be on the Just Magnolia Design Team for a couple months, I wanted to join in with this fun monthly challenge too. There is a great prize from Simon Says Stamp on offer for a random participant. Head on over and check out the beautiful DT samples and the tutorial!

This card is also for the Pile It On! challenge which this week is to create a boy themed card and of course to also pile on the challenges. Please remember when piling on challenges to use current challenges to be eligible to win.

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers for the layout of my card. The papers are SU! Bashful Blue and Pumpkin Pie along with BasicGrey Off Beat designer paper. I embellished with some grosgrain ribbons and some BasicGrey buttons. I added a couple silver brads, a metal clip and a bee charm with hemp twine. The charm fits the "So Charming" challenge over at Lili of the Valley.

Thanks for dropping on by today. I hope you have a great afternoon. We are having a party at our house to celebrate our big boy turning 6!

Happy stamping! :)

Pile It On - No Patterned Paper

Happy Sunday!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. It's been sunny here so we can't complain!

Today is a new challenge over on Pile It On! Challenges! And this week we want to see you create a project without using any patterned paper, that's right NO patterned paper. This was very hard, or should I say challenging for me! I didn't even use the Cuttlebug! I didn't even want to create my own patterned paper with dry embossing. I really wanted to challenge myself to make a card without ANY kind of patterned paper.

This week PIO is being sponsored by Digi Stamp Characters so the design team has incorporated these cute images into their samples this week.

This is my card using a cute little mouse with flowers image. I colored her with Copics and highlighted with white gel pen and a Spica glitter pen. I left my card very simple since I couldn't use patterned paper. I framed the image with rectangle Nesties and added some aqua/teal ribbon and a butterfly charm tied with black and white gingham ribbon. And there you have it, a black and white card with a little splash of color and no designer paper! LOL!

This card aslo meets the challenges for:
Cute Card Thursday: Tealy Good, use teal and red
Everybody Art Challenge: butterflies
Stamp Something: Charmed Somethings
Kaboodle Doodles: use a digital image

I hope you'll be up for a challenge and join in this week's Pile It On! challenge. Remember at Pile It On, you must use the current PIO challenge along with at least one other current challenge.

Have a great Sunday everyone! See you back here tomorrow with an all new Whimsy Challenge. Happy stamping! :)

Pile It On! - Watercolors

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Hello All,

Hope you are having a great weekend! Today is Sunday and that means a new challenge over at Pile It On! and this week we want to see you combine some challenges and add some watercolor to your creation. The PIO challenge this week is "water coloring." Please remember that your combined challenges must be current, not past challenges.

I made a card that uses Copics and Twinkling H2Os to fill the watercolor challenge. I also mixed in some other challenges from the week to complete the Pile It On challenge!

This is my new Sarah Kay image. I first colored with Copics, then went over the image with various Twinkling H2O paints and then when everything was dry, I highlighted here and there with a glitter pen in clear. Here's a close up on the image....


The layout is from this week's Stamps and Smiles challenge. Stamps and Smiles is also this week's PIO sponsor. The papers are SU! cardstock in Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, and Certainly Celery and the DP is BasicGrey Two Scoops. I chose this color combo to work with "Your Own Colors" from the challenge at Papertake Weekly. I love blues and greens, but very rarely use them together on a card.

The accents are eyelets to fit "eye eye" for the challenge at Cute Card Thursday. I also added some ribbons and bows and a Prima flower with a button center and charm. The buttons and bows fit the challenge at Kaboodle Doodles. The final element on this card is the sentiment tag, which fits with the "Tag It" challenge at Charisma Cardz!.

Thanks for stopping on by, hope you have a great Sunday! Happy stamping! :)

Pile It On! challenge 6 - a sketch

Morning all,

Hope you're having a great weekend. The sun is shining here, so no complaints! As today is Sunday, there is a new challenge posted at Pile It On! and this week we want you to use our sketch along with other current challenges as you pile it on! Remember piled on challenges need to be current to count.

This is the card I made using the sketch.

At first I wasn't sure what I wanted to make, a card or a scrapbook page. This sketch would be great for either, but I settled on a card. I'm much better at cards than I am at scrapbook pages. So, I'll stick with what I know! :)

This card also fits the challenges at Papertake Weekly of "my favorite things" of which I used my favorite color combo of purple and green with my new favorite paper, BasicGrey Wisteria! Love this paper! The card stock is SU! Elegant Eggplant and Mellow Moss. I used my Rainy Day Emma stamp from Whimsy Stamps and paper pieced her dress, boots, and umbrella to fit the challenge at Simon Says Stamp which was to paper piece on your project. The rest of the image was colored with Copics.

The small rectangle areas are a green piece of Wisteria paper with embossed vellum over. V is for vellum was the challenge over at ABC Challenges. And my sentiment, from SU! Short and Sweet is thank you to fit the "thank you miss" theme at Cute Card Thursday. My final accents to finish off this card are some Prima flowers, dew drop beads, grosgrain ribbon, gingham ribbon, and linen thread with a butterfly charm.

Thanks for dropping by this Sunday. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and if you're in the mood to challenge yourself, join us in piling it on! Happy stamping. :)

Exciting News and a Card

Happy Sunday All,

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I don't typically post on Sundays, but that is going to change. I have some fun and exciting news to share, I have been asked to join the design team at Pile It On! challenges! Of course, I said YES! I love challenges and I'm honored to work with this talented bunch of crafters!If you don't know about Pile It On!, head on over there now and check it out. They are a fun weekly challenge site which posts new challenges each Sunday. What makes Pile It On! unique though, is that not only do you need to use the PIO! challenge, but you also need to incorporate other blog challenges into your entry. Basically, challenge yourself to see how many challenges you can add to one project! Fun right! The only stipulation is that the combined challenges need to be current challenges for them to count in the Pile It On! challenge.

This is my first Pile It On! design team card. I used the Pile It On! challenge this week, which is to use at least 3 different embellishments. Then I added the challenges at Whiff of Joy, which is 3 papers, 3 flowers, and 1 ribbon, the color challenge of Guava, Chocolate, and Sky at Color Throwdown, the sketch from Sketch and Stash, and the challenge of a Stitch in Time from Cute Card Thursday.

I used this Willow with Umbrella image and paper pieced her pants and top with some Soft Sky designer paper and colored the other areas of the image with Copics. The umbrella has been paper pieced with chocolate and guava designer paper. The card stock is Groovy Guava and Chocolate Chip from SU! with other retired designer prints. I embellished with felt flowers, flower buttons, a flower charm, stitched ribbon, grosgrain ribbon, and some faux stitching with a white gel pen.

Thanks for stopping by, now what are you waiting for, get piling those challenges together! Then head over to Pile It On! challenges and check out the fabulous DT samples and play along with us! Happy Stamping!