Fun Monday challenges!!

  Today, am I am excited to be here to share two brand new challenges with you and this week I'm starting with the weekly 'Birthday Card' challenge over at 'The Outlawz'.  This week were have a fun new idea and our theme is for your to create a fun Birthday card and we want to see 'Hearts & Ribbons' on your cards.  Please be sure to also include a Birthday Sentiment on your card and to submit it to the Gallery too.  All the details an be found in the challenge thread - Here!

  I started by picking out a digi I knew that would work out perfect and this one is from 'A Day for Daisies' and is named Angel Love.  I colored her the image with Copics and then added a layer of Sparkling Ice Glitter to her wings and halo.  To give her hearts more sparkle and dimension, I topped them off with some Pink Stickles and hen finished out my card with matching 'heart' themed ribbon and a sweet little 'Made with Love' charm.   I chose all my papers and ribbon first and then colored this sweet image to match the colors in the paper and ribbon.  It turned out to be a very sweet Birthday Card and will be for someone very near and dear to me!!

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I am also very happy to invite you come on over to the StampFairy Challenge Blog and take part in our weekly challenge, which also starts every Monday.  

    The theme for StampFairy's Challenge this week is - 'Handmade Flowers' and we want to see wonderful projects, that showcase your very own 'handmade flowers', along with any of the fantastic StampFairy Images.  For my card, I chose Linda Ballet and did some coloring with Copics and also paper-pieced her sweet little Tutu, hair bow and ballet slippers.   I used my Cricut Expression and a brand new Cartridge - Mother's Day Bouquet, to cut out a variety of flower shaped die cuts in matching cardstock.  Once I had all the shapes cute, I spritzed some with Smooch and then glued a variety of the shapes together to form my flowers.  I topped them off with some pink pearls and placed them on the card. 

  The Design Team has put together some wonderful inspiration and you'll find all their fabulous projects over at the Challenge Blog!   You may also feel free to use any theme for this week, as long as you include Homemade Flowers - you can even make a wonderful birthday card, with one of the adorable StampFairy images and submit it to both challenges!!  WOOHOO!

  I welcome everyone to come on over and play along!  You can find all the details on the challenge blog HERE and you can shop for these sweet little images at the StampFairy store via the link below!!

Click HERE to SHOP!!

     I also wanted to tell you all about a brand new release that Gerda is launching in the store today.    I am very excited to let you all know that she will now be offering 'Digital Paper Packs', which you can find HERE!   

    They are currently on sale at an introductory price of only $2.50 per pack and each pack contains ten sheets!!    I love them and have started to use digi papers more and more with my images.  I found the I really love the 'paper piecing' technique and having matching papers is such a wonderful way to start any project.    I'm very happy to have picked up my first few sets and one of my favorites is Valentine 1 - which I know will be perfect for Valentine cards!   Yippee!!

 
     Update:   I am back to share a card that was created with one of the new Digi Paper Packs, for this card I chose this pack,  Bright Dots and this is my sweet 'Bear Hugs' card.  I used a combo of digi and designer papers on this card!   Please be sure to hope on over of StampFairy World, where you can see a wonderful variety of creations the girls have put together with the new Digi Papers!!

  Have fun, and as always -- Happy Crafting!