Wags 'n Whiskers - Photo Inspiration

This challenge we would love to see your cards or paper projects with the theme of:

Photo Inspiration

Yes, the WnW Logo!

You can use the colors, the papers (dots, stripes, flowers, etc)

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One lucky participant will win a free Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber stamp!

You don't have to use a Wags 'n Whiskers image on your card, but if you do, you will be entered into a 2nd drawing for a free Wags 'n Whiskers Digi.

AND...now the sad news - THIS will be my last post with Wags 'n Whiskers as my design commitment has come to an end. :( I have really enjoyed their images, you will see several of them used again and again because they are so perfect for any occasion.

Image is Summer Treats and I colored her in bright, cheery summer colors to match the super fun designer paper; added a faux stitched border to all panels. Pretty simple and straightforward.

TFL; have a GREAT, GREAT weekend. And thank you to my design buddies and the crew at Wags 'n Whiskers!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Summer Treat

Papers: PTI Hibiscus Burst, Lemon Tart and True Black, Copic Xpress It

Ink: NONE

Accessories:  Copics, Copic Multiliner pen, nesties, MFT pierced circle, 

Challenges:

Wags 'n Whiskers - BINGO

Hi there, happy Friday!!

This week at Wags 'n Whiskers, we are playing bingo - hope you will join the fun!! Just for playing along, one person will win a FREE Wags 'n Whiskers stamp! Here's our bingo layout:

I did pretty good; I ultimately hit 6 of the 9 boxes, not bad! :D I was actually going diagonal and using "pink, heart, and red."

I used Ellie and Squeak...but omitted Squeak (on purpose, don't tell anyone...mmm...kkkk???)! I covered Ellie's party hate with some heart balloons - LOVE - I'm really in to heart balloons, can you tell?

I covered the balloons with 2 coats of clear Wink of Stella and a thick layer of glossy accents....uh yeah, I NEVER let the glossy accents dry before I take pictures! (insert smacking head) Too impatient I guess! The glitter will look awesome once the glossy accents does dry!

I cut the image out using MFT's square pierced die and layered onto some fun Carta Bella paper; added some ribbon with 2 bows, some scrumptious twine and a sticker. I sewed around the DP with my Janome Sew Mini and that's it, pretty quick, easy but oh so cute I think.

Peak at the inside

Close up - Ellie even has sparkly toes (what girl doesn't want pretty toes - right?"

Thanks for popping in; hope you have a GREAT weekend and if you get the chance, join us over at Wags 'n Whiskers, you know we love seeing your creations!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Ellie and Squak

Papers: DP by Carta Bella, PTI Smokey Shadow and Hibiscus Burst

Ink: NONE!

Accessories: MFT pierced square die, Copics, Janome Sew Mini, clear Wink of Stella, glossy accents, black dimensional enamel, twine, seam binding

Challenges:
  Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Sharing the Love
 Creative Knockouts - Be Mine
 Paper Pretties - Valentine/Love
 Delicious Doodles - Love
 Crafty Catz - Love is in the Air
 Sassy Cheryl's - All About Love
 Sweet Pea Stampers - Valentine/Love
 Fuzzy and Fancy - Be My Valentine
 Just for Fun - Love is in the Air
 Pumpkin Spice - Hearts
 Sunflower Field - Valentine's Day/Hearts

Sketch + Valentine's Doggy + CAS

Hi friends - welcome to 2014!!! Ready for a new year? I will be...as soon as I get rid of this PNEUMONIA; it's kicking my little hiney...STILL. Second round of antibiotics, still doing breathing treatments and an inhaler, insomnia has been my latest enemy and certainly isn't helping me heal...but hopefully soon I'll turn the corner and quit trying to hack up my lungs, intestines and toes. LOL

This week I combined Crafts 4 Eternity's fabby sketch with Wags 'n Whiskers Anything Goes Challenge - seriously, how easy is that!

Here's the sketch:

Crafts 4 Eternity is offering up the chance to win 3 free images just for playing along; super easy sketch too!

Wags 'n Whiskers is offering one free rubber stamp, so come on, join the fun!!

I made a super CAS card using Wags 'n Whiskers Buddy's Balloon image...but I changed the 'regular' balloon into 3 heart balloons and colored them to match the various washi tape I used. Sprinkled on some Mister Huey Opaque White Mist, layered it all on to some MFT Whip Cream and that's it. Oh...I did emboss a sentiment from Verve Visual "Love You {lots}" - perfect for a child's card I think, or a dog lover! :D

Thanks for popping in; truly hope you'll join the fun at Wags 'n Whiskers and Crafts 4 Eternity!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Buddy's Balloon, Verve Visual No Matter What

Papers: PTI Pure Poppy, MFT Whip Cream, Copic Xpress It

Ink: SU! Craft Black

Accessories: clear embossing powder, Mister Huey's Mist, Copics



Challenges:

Christmas, Christmas Chaos, Repurpose

How's that for a title? That middle one, 3rd word over - that is SO. MY. LIFE. RIGHT. NOW.!!! I cannot wait for things to slow down a bit!! But we're creating away this week celebrating Christmas!

I'm combining challenges for Wags 'n Whiskers and Crafts 4 Eternity. At Wags 'n Whiskers, we are celebrating Christmas and this will be our last challenge till 2014, so I really hope you'll join the fun!

At Crafts 4 Eternity, we are celebrating Christmas Chaos - again, just insert 'Greenwood' for Christmas - HA HA!! You have the chance to win 4 images from Sassy Studio Designs, check them out HERE!

I am truly not a fairy girl - not my favorite type of images, but I must confess sweet Hannah has stolen my heart. For our last challenge at Wags 'n Whiskers, I did her in mega pink (HERE) and this week she's back in Christmas colors!

And let's talk 'repurpose'; isn't this gift box and ribbon delightful? I received a fantabulous gift inside and I love that you can just slip the bow off; so I fancied it up a bit with a little Hannah tag and tied her on with some red/cream twine. The best part? I have a co-worker with a young daughter; I will give my co-worker a gift card inside the box, not write on the tag and then SHE can use the same box for a gift for her daughter! Talk about repurpose eh? :D

Thanks for popping in; hope you have a GREAT weekend - see you again soon!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Hannah Fairy

Papers: Copic Xpress It, PTI Pure Poppy

Ink: NONE - digital image

Accessories: Copics, nesties, twine, Wink of Stella clear glitter, Copic Opaque White



Challenges:
  Cute Card Thursday - Christmas Catch Up
  Delightful Challenges - red and green
  Stamp 'n' Doodle - For the Holiday Spirt

Wags 'n Whiskers - Things With Wings

Hi friends, how are you? Oh goodness, I LOVED coloring this image - this is sweet little Hannah, seriously, is she not just adorable? Hope you will play along with us at Wags 'n Whiskers and show us your creations with wings, you also have the chance to win a free rubber stamp from Wags 'n Whiskers!

I made her into a little birthday tag you can tie onto a package, I added LOTS of embellishments! :D The more the merrier, right? HA!

The image image was cut with a nestie, colored and outlined with a soft pink copic. The tag is by Memory Box distressed die and matching stamp (not that you can see the distressed stamping at all - HA, the results of all those embellishments).

I stamped the distressed tag image in MFT's pink lemonade, layered on some polka dot washi tape, a white partial doily, some Doodlebug sprinkles in pink and white, a double-bow of twine, pink button and finished it off with 2 colors of pink twine for tying onto a gift sack.

The image was colored with Copics and of course, I used the clear Wink of Stella on her wings. TFL; hope you'll join the fun at Wags 'n Whiskers!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Hannah Fairy, PTI Signature Greetings (back of tag says "Celebrate Your Day")

Papers: PTI Kraft, DP by MME

Ink: MFT Berrylicious

Accessories: Copics, twine, Memory Box Distressed Tag and Matching Stamp, Clear Wink of Stella, Doodlebug Sprinkles, PTI button

Challenges:

Kids and Tic Tac Toe

In the past, its possible I've been known to NOT play tic tac toe very well, sometimes I kind of pick and choose but this time, I thought I better play correctly! :)~

Here's the tic tac toe board for Crafts 4 Eternity:

You can play tic tac toe also and have a chance to win 3 free digital images from Crafty Sentiments Designs!!

And while I was at it, I combined tic tac toe and made a card...well technically a tag...for a kid (Wags 'n Whiskers), another fantastic challenge!! Play along with Wags 'n Whiskers for your chance to win one free rubber stamp...AND use a Wags 'n Whiskers image and you will be entered in the drawing TWICE!!

Won't this tag be just perfect to tie onto a gift sack? You can write your message right there on the back of the tag! Love!!

I used Toby's Big Day - truly love this image for kiddo's - and went with a diagonal tic tac toe of red (balloon, party hat, accents), tearing (star strip down the side) and stripes (patterned paper, party hat and can we count the ribbon on the package - ha)! I used the distressed tag from Memory Box dies cut from patterned paper and a piece of white cardstock; then stamped both with the matching stamp and Memento London fog ink. Lines and everything so its easy to write your message.

Love how the balloon hangs off the edge!

front and back

front of tag

back of tag

TFL; hope you'll join us at Crafts 4 Eternity and Wags 'n Whiskers!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Toby's Big Day, Memory Box Distress Tag Stamp

Papers: PTI Pure Poppy, GKD White, DP by MME

Ink: Memento London fog, Fired Brick distress ink

Accessories: Copics, twine, glossy accents, Memory Box Distressed Tag and Matching Stamp, black enamel accets

Challenges:

Wags 'n Whiskers & Crafts 4 Eternity

Hi friends - hope you are all well!

I hit a little speed bump and am delayed in getting my post up. :(

I paired up our great sketch at Crafts 4 Eternity and our challenge of Fall Colors at Wags 'n Whiskers to make this delightfully fun card! Wouldn't this be a great young boy's bday card? I think so!

This weeks prize over at Crafts 4 Eternity is kindly donated by Stamping all Day

One randomly selected winner will receive a choice of 3 downloads.

Instead of the sentiment across the bottom, I embossed lots of birthday sentiments on the chevron paper, sponged with Spiced Marmalade and then tied on some twine. That's a fun little cuttlebug embossing edger that I used on the top and bottom of the card. Tough to see in the picture, but I added some funky stitching to the top and bottom of the embossed chevron panel.

Toby was colored with Copics, clear Wink of Stella was used on the ribbon of the package, party hat, and the balloon. I also sponged Old Paper onto the xPress It Copic paper so it wasn't such a stark white.

Thanks for stopping by; hope you have a great weekend!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Toby's Big Day

Papers: PTI Terracotta Tile, , Dark Chocolate, DP by MME

Ink: Spiced Marmalade and Old Paper distress inks

Accessories: nesties, Copics, twine, clear wink of stella glitter, , Janome Sew Mini, Cuttlebug

Challenges:
 C.R.A.F.T - for the boys
 Card Crafter's Circle - cute cards
 The Crazy Challenge - B is for (bow, balloon, boy, birthday)
 Natalie and Amy's Challenge - for the boys
 Cupcake Inspirations - used the colors

Wags 'n Whiskers - Paper Piecing

If you are looking for my Crafts 4 Eternity post, please scroll down or click HERE.

Oh yes - I LOVE TO PAPER PIECE; so I was in heaven with this challenge at Wags 'n Whiskers!! And isn't this image just adorable? It's Ellie and Squeak - I'm in love (please note, this is the ONLY time I will ever love a mouse) . LOL

I paper pieced every single piece of the image! :D Ellie and Squeak are in the same polka dot paper, then I paper pieced the gift 2 more times - the verbiage 'wrapping paper' and then the ribbon is an additional layer. I colored the ribbon with a clear Wink of Stella pen and also added glossy accents for more fun dimension. I also paper pieced Ellie's party hat which also received some clear Wink of Stella accents - love all the sparkle and shimmer...oh, and did you notice Ellie's gorgeous toenails and tail? Yes, they have black Wink of Stella on them too - HA!

I doodled around the edge of the image, added some fun heart ribbon and a 4-looped bow then tied on a little heart charm from PTI's Tiny Tags set. Super fun - quick and simple too. I hope you'll join along in our paper piecing challenge! Have a great weekend and thanks for popping in - I so love when you visit!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Ellie and Squak

Papers: DP by Echo Park, MFT Steel Grey, PTI Hibiscus Burst

Ink: PTI Hibiscus Burst, MFT Hot Fudge

Accessories: nesties, Copics, black enamel accents, clear and black Wink of Stella, twine, PTI Tiny Tags Die

Challenges:
  Crafty Ribbons Challenge

SURPRISE!!

If you are looking for my Crafts 4 Eternity post, please scroll down or click HERE!

I feel so blessed today as I'm one of the newest members over at Wags 'n Whiskers - you'll be seeing me around the blogosphere touting some super cute Wags 'n Whiskers images through February 2014!! GULP - 2014, how did we get so close to next year? Thank goodness I do NOT age along with the calendar! LOL

Stop by the challenge blog and check out all the new designers and give them a nice warm welcome - we all love love! :D And then take a few minutes to play along with our challenge - PINK - Breast Cancer Awareness. October is the month for Breast Cancer Awareness and girls, if you haven't, please take  time to get your girls smooshed...that's a word right - it may save your life!

I wanted to use an image to brighten someone's day - not just focus on the battle they may be fighting, but just a cheery, happy card. So I used Buddy's Balloons and incorporated lots of pink! The inside says "You Make Me Smile", perfect for Splitcoaststampers Challenge "Hope You Have a Great Day" which is part of their Hope You Can Cling To Challenge Forum for MD Anderson.

Layout is Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #194 (SSSC194); I thought Buddy was getting lost amongst all the pink, stripes, dots, etc. so I tried the Bokeh technique...um yeah...not sure I like how it turned out! :( The image is cut with just a portion of the balloon outside the nestie, then I colored a 2nd balloon, cut it out and mounted with dimensionals. I added glossy accents to the balloon and to Buddy's nose, I also added some white gel dots to the party hat.

 Thanks for stopping by, hope you'll take time to join us in celebrating PINK - Breast Cancer Awareness!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE?

Stamps: Wags 'n Whiskers Buddy's Balloons

Papers: Copic XPress It, PTI Raspberry Fizz, MFT Steel Grey

Ink: PTI Raspberry Fizz, Soft Blush, Pure Poppy

Accessories: nesties, Copics, white gel pen, glossy accents, PTI small scallop border

Challenges:

  SSSC194