Sparkles & Sunshine Birthday Card!

This sparkly creation is the end result of two challenges smooshed together! The first was a sketch at Pixie Cottage and the second was to make something "SHINE!" at Crafty Creations. I wish the pictures came out better, but there is "shine" from the Diamond Dust glitter on the Fairy's dress, Chunky White Glitter on the roses, Stickles on the fairy's wings & hair flower and various rhinestones.

Sorry for the blurry picture! The sentiment reads "May your day be filled with sparkles and sunshine! Happy Birthday".This is what it looks like with the flash to show off the SHINE-factor!

--This project is entered in the following challenges--

Pixie Cottage - Sketch and Inside too!

Crafty Creations - SHINE!

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~

Get Well Soon Card!

Good evening all! I created this "Get Well Soon" Card yesterday and had great fun doing so! The image is from Dustin Pike that I've been hanging on to for quite some time. I absolutely loved it the moment I saw it but didn't have a chance to use it...until now!! I colored two copies of the image with pencils. The cloud is doodled in by me...I think I have a new job waiting for me...LOL! Anyway, after I colored the images I paper pieced them together so that the bear's head and feet are popped up and so is the dog's head. I added Glossy Accents to the grass, "drool" (lol), dog's spots, cloud, bear's tongue and nose. I LOVE Glossy Accents!! The brown paper is from Bazzill, the "Rose Stripe" paper is from Colorbok and the "Chocolate Mousse" paper (background for the image) is Studio 8.

I used Martha's Scalloped edge punch on the top of the brown paper and bottom of the Rose Stripe paper.

I added bright silver brads to the corners of the image and then topped them of with crystals! I also added a single pink flower to the top left corner using the brad to secure it. I stickled the edges for more bling! The pink w/brown flower ribbon behind the image is from the $ bin at Target (smile) and I added a couple crystals to the middle of two of the flowers on one side and one flower on the left side. The satin pink ribbon is from my stash and is tied with a purple button, gold flower charm (w/ a crystal in the middle!) and thin white twine. I added diamond crystals to the top scallop and copper metallic pearls to the bottom scallop. Three Luster Baubles in "Ice" were the finishing touch and VIOLA! OH!! I forgot my favorite part!! So see where the doggy ripped the bear's arm??!! Well, since the bear is supposed to be stuffed...I ripped up a cotton ball and adhered the "stuffing" to both the bear's arm socket (in the dog's mouth!) and to the bear's body (where the arm was ripped from!). Just thought it added a fun effect, rather than leaving it as a plain white space. :)

Challenges this card is entered in:
DoodleDragon Studios Challenge -- "Recipe"
Penny's Paper-Crafty -- "Anything Goes"

Quixotic Challenge -- "Heavy Metal"

Totally Gorjuss -- "Charming"

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~

Polka Doodles Week #13, Simon Says Stamp and Self Challenge #29 of 30!

Howdy all! This is a quick post for me as I've had quite a long day and really need to put my aching body to bed! I'm entering the following project in both the Polka Doodles Week #13 Challenge and also the Simon Says Stamp Challenge. Polka Doodles required us to create a birthday card and the Simon Says Stamp Challenge asked us to create a card for a child. Put both together and this is what I came up with using a Dustin Pike image. His images are totally kid friendly and I adore them! :) If you haven't been to any of the blogs I've listed you should! You don't know what you're missing!

I used my Sizzix Texture Boutique on the Green (Swirl), Yellow (Flower) and Blue (Swiss Dots) papers. Once i finished coloring Dudley, I added Glossy Accents to the cake, the balloon and a few spots on Dudley himself! A little glitter added to the gloss on the balloon, some bling and doodling around the edges finished this fun card up! The inside is stamped with "Birthday Wishes" in blue ink accented with red bling.

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment so I know you were here!
~Hugs, JennRo~

"Egg Hunt" Happy Easter Card -- Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge #6 Entry!

Hello all! I hope you're having a great weekend! It is nice and sunny here in Connecticut so that is automatically makes it a great weekend on my end! :) Project # 27 of 30 of my Spring Creation Self Challenge is a cute Easter card using a Dustin Pike image. Have you seen Dustin's blogs? He creates the cutest images and sometimes even gives them away FREE!! Check his blogs out...Dustin Pike and Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge Blog . I used his Easter Bunny freebie image to create my entry over on the Doodle Dragon Studios Challenge Blog. The requirements for entry were to create an Easter project using one of Dustin's images. Almost too good to be true! I had SOOO much fun with my entry, so without further delay...This is what I whipped up!

Isn't Dustin Pike's Bunny Digi Stamp SOOO cute???!!! He looked like a bunny on a mission so I paired him up with the "egg hunt" stamp. I decided to make my bunny a "chocolate bunny" (my favorite!! lol) Once my bunny was colored I added pale pink glitter dust to his ears, nose and belly. I added diamond stickles to his eyes and his eggs and pink stickles to the outside of the white circle. When the stickles finished drying I added Glossy Accents to the eggs and grass for more detail. (You can see the glitter and gloss better in the next picture.) I also flocked his tail with Beary Brown Stampin' Up Flock. I wish you could see it better in these pictures, but my camera isn't great at close up shots. :(

After all my Bunny pieces were dry, I assembled my pieces using adhesive and Pop dots for dimension. You know I loooove my pop dots! ;) I found this FAB "Hoppy Easter" paper in my stash and better yet it was two sided with this cute pink/white egg paper, so I decided it was meant to be and put the two together. I used the MS scallop border punch on both the card base and the pink/egg paper and used my white opaque pen to draw the white dots on the scallops. I tied my little dark pink satin bow, lilac button and a dark pink smaller button, all together with some thin white twine.

I assembled my entire card and added medium sized pastel green pearls to the bottom of the "bounce" lines for added detail. Can you see all my lovely dimension in the picture above?? LOVE it! I doubled and tripled up on my pop dots! Actually, I ran out of pop dots while assembling and since I had a "one day only" coupon for today at M's I decided I'd run down to restock and get a few other things of course! ;)

I like to finish the inside of my cards too so that they are ready to go when I need them (like, tomorrow for this one! lol) I stamped the frilly frame and then the sentiment. "Happy Easter" is from that cute little "Pure Innocence" stamp set I've used a lot lately. I added some tiny crystals to the swirly points in the frame and 3 pale blue pearls to the middle of the sentiment. A close up pic is below...

I hope you liked this creation as it was really fun to create! I love working with Dustin's images and I can't help but have fun when I'm using his images!

*Hugs, JennRo*