Rainbow Bouquet

What a pretty coincidence! 

The two challenge posts that are due from me today (Cupcake Inspirations and Pile It On) go together so beautifully. So, I am combining this post to use this one card for both challenges. :) 

I do love to pile it on. Ha!! 

It's time for another challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations!! 

I hope you'll come over and join us. 

We are sponsored this week by Craft Classes Online!

Craft Classes Online (CCO) brings multiple Creative Arts Instructors together on one site to provide students with the best choice in online craft workshops. Our instructors offer online workshops that are engaging, affordable, and time-saving. Students from across the globe can learn any number of techniques and creative projects from the comfort of their home and on their schedule.

CCO has a brand new blog in 2015, Everyday Moodlings.  Come join us for the theme of the week and be challenged to use all of your craft supplies during the coming year. We  offer ideas, tips, tutorials, and crafty inspiration.

We are excited to be sponsoring Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog. You can view our class list on our website at www.CraftClassesOnline.com. We continuously update our website with new workshops, so check back often. Become a subscriber to our newsletter and gain access to our FREE class, “Ink Essentials”! Come visit us on our Facebook page, too. One lucky winner will receive a free seat to an online workshop valued at $25 or less.  Good Luck!

Craft Classes Online is generously providing a prize of 'a seat to any online workshop valued at $25 or less' to our randomly chosen winner.

Thanks so much for sponsoring our challenge, Craft Classes Online!

Each challenge, we give you an inspiration cupcake and you make a card or other craft project that is inspired by the cupcake.  

Here is this week's cupcake.

LoveLane Bouquet

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Pile It On has another challenge for you, so come over and join us.

This week, we are sponsored by Paper Sweeties.

Thank you so much for sponsoring this challenge, Paper Sweeties!

This week would like you to USE A BOW.

I used a WPlus9 Design Studio stamp set called Fresh Cut Florals. I was planning on using the companion die set but the card just didn't go that way. I am looking forward to playing with this one a bit more in the near future. 

I used Memento Dew Drops in a rainbow (literally) of colors. I really like the way the ink looks watercolored. Didn't know I was going for that but I love it. :) I also used Stampin' Up's Whisper White Craft ink for the inside of some of the flowers. 

The card stock is Bazzil's Marshmallow and Neenah's Desert Storm. The ribbon is from my stash. Just a plain black grosgrain that looks prefect with these fresh cut flowers.

I made this card for my cousin's, Sammie, birthday this Monday. Happy birthday, sweet girl! I love you. 

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Happy Little Stampers : February - Sketch
Stampavie and More #230 - Lots of Flowers
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes
PolkaDoodle - Flower Power
A Gem of a Challenge #137 - Lots of Layers
CAS on Sunday #51 - Flowers
D.L. Art : February - Anything Goes
Imagination Crafts Challenge : February - Anything Goes
Card and Scrap #90 - Flowers
Digi Sketch - For the Girls and/or ANY Sketch
Crafter's Cafe Blog Challenge #102 - Birthday Card
Word Art Wednesday #169 - Anything Goes
Fab N Funky #245 - Hearts and/or Flowers
Ruby's Rainbow #97 - 'Soon to be Spring'
Simon Says Stamp : Wednesday #302 - All Things Bright and Beautiful
Creative Moments #61 - Anything Goes
Craft for the Craic : February - Birthday/Anniversary 

It's Time to Clown Around!

It's time for another challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations!! 

I hope you'll come over and join us. 

We are sponsored this week by Paper Pretties !

Paper Pretties is generously providing a prize of SIX digi stamps to our randomly chosen winner.

Thanks so much for sponsoring our challenge, Paper Pretties!

Each challenge, we give you an inspiration cupcake and you make a card or other craft project that is inspired by the cupcake.  

Here is this week's cupcake.

Ruby Slipper Cupcakes by The Alison Show

I used the Cirque image and sentiments on this happy birthday card. And isn't it happy?!?!

I colored the image up using my Prismacolor pencils and added Glossy Accents to the first balloon, nose, shoes, and glittery parts. The glitter is from Turquoise Stickles. The rhinestones are from the Target dollar section.

The papers are from the Birthday Wishes stack by DCWV. I matted my image and card with Tempting Turquoise Stampin' Up card stock.  

On the inside, I added another sentiment and some scraps from the same paper collection. 

Thank you for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafts Galore #10 - Anything Goes in Disguise
D.L. Art : October - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Pattern Paper Challenge : October
Crafts for the Craic #9 - Suitable for a Child
Stamping w/ Dragon : October - Anything Goes
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments #117 - Anything Goes
MilkCoffee - Lots of Layers
Scribble and Scrap #29 - Anything Goes
Melonheadz - Lots of Layers
Crafting From the Heart #40 - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays #185 - Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks #216 - Happy Birthday

Spring and Complete Brain Lapse...(CIC250)

The title will be explained at the end of the post. It's a pretty funny thing I did, though at the time I just felt like a fool. :) For some reason, I had a lot harder time with this challenge than I was expecting. I have a tendency to get a plan in my head and it's very hard for me to think about changing it or doing away with it all together. I can do it but, as Husband would tell you, I'm not good with change. So there's a card at the end that is my "brain lapse" and the idea that was drilled into my brain. The card below came later and I do like the end result but need to learn to better manage my OCD tendencies when it comes to change. Maybe if I had followed the color challenge the first time...

Our sponsor this week is Paper Pretties! 

Paper Pretties is generously offering SIX images as our fabulous prize to our randomly drawn winner! 

Thank you for sponsoring this challenge!

Here is this week's inspiration cupcake.
Our color challenge is to use pistachio, white, and rose.  

Rose Cupcakes by Whisk Kid 

Here's my take...

I love this image (I know that I start most my descriptions like that but I do!!) from Paper Pretties. It's not even the one that I thought I would be using, and I'm glad I changed my mind and went with it. I colored my little guy up with my Prismacolor pencils and Glossy-Accented the raindrops. I matted my pieces on Pretty in Pink card stock and my larger mat is Green Galore run through my Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. I love that it looks like rain. :)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Pumpkin Spice #61 - Use Green
Friday Mashup #149 - Monochromatic and/or Flowers
Creative Corner - Green
MilkCoffee - Emboss It

So, I was super excited about this image because I knew exactly how I wanted to color it and what papers I wanted to use. So, I finished coloring my little guy up with my Prismacolor pencils (that I diligently matched to my paper collection, Echo Park's On The Record) and started putting together my card. As soon as I finished it, I thought something's not right...yeah, doofus, it's in the wrong colors! I liked the card though so I'm sure it will find a special home with someone I love. :)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Creative Fingers #25 - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz #220 - Anything Goes
Mod Squad - Spring-themed Card

Thanks for looking! I hope this finds you happy and healthy.