Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenges. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

LMM - Fancy or Lacey

Good Morning and welcome to another Little Miss Muffet Challenge - #29. Today we are making Fancy or Lacey projects.

I nearly choked on my Cheerieo's last week when I popped over to Inspiration post to grab the link and saw that Juliana Herrmann had used the very same images that I had already prepared for this week's challenge. I chalk it up to us both be very clever ;D Not one to waste, I still had to use it, after all it was already coloured up and begging to be made into a card.

MIC - Ivy Window Wall
DCWV - stack pack
button, dollar store flower brads & lace
SU sentiment - Fifth Avenue Floral
Quickutz - Flourish
Now head on over to the Challenge Blog and check out the fab projects my Teamies made.

Submitted for the following challenges:
Crafts and Me - #72 Shades of Spring
Inky Impressions - Bright Colours
The Sisterhood of Crafter's - Getting Digi With It (both images are digi's)
Totally Gorjuss - #119 Lace
at Thursday, February 23, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 7 comments Labels: , , ,

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Watcha Doin Wryn - New Release

Argh, I am having such camera issues. I am taking photo's and they look fin, all is well, but I upload them and they look dramatically different. Being that I am soooo under the weather, I gave up and my hubby took the photo for me, hence the tall building view angel ;D

Any way, onto a new Wryn release by Tiddy Inks, this is Watcha Doin'? merged with Make It Crafty's - Open Window digi. Check out the Tiddly Inks blog for more awesome samples from the DT's. BTW the Open Window also is available as a rubber stamp.

Tiddly Inks image - Watcha Doin? Wryn
MIC - Open Window (which is now available as a rubber stamp)
DP - scraps (plowing through them - hurray!)
both yellow DP I THINK are from Echo Park, SU cardstock - Not Quite Navy and Kraft
SU Sentiment - Time Well Spent
Submitted for the following Challenges:
Lollipop Crafts - #68 Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - #101 Use a Digi or Don't
Make it Monday - #77 Linking Party
Papertake Weekly - Getting Krafty
Celebrate the Occasion - #51 Thinking of You
at Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 21 comments Labels: , , ,

Friday, February 17, 2012

Quaint Cottage Inspiration Friday

Quick note, this card was chosen as one of the "FAVORITES for the week ending February 19, 2012. on SplitCoaststampers!

You MUST MUST MUST check out the new "Paris" release collaboration by Little Miss Muffet Stamps, Make It Colourful and Whimsy Stamps. All perfectly coordinated, you can buy: rubber stamps, digital stamps, backgrounds, background elements, sentiments, sentiment borders, and laser cut chipboard elements! How can you pass this up.

LMM - Sophia
MIC - Quaint Cottage
DP - Stampin Up
Now that I ranted, here is my Little Miss Muffet inspiration card of the week, and don't forget to check the DT over at the LMM Challenge Blog.
haha, I have to laugh! Barbara of LMM always does a coloured version of each image for her store site. I just popped over to get the linky of Sophia for this post and we coloured our Sophia's in the same outfit colours, even the shoe's. I HONESTLY had not peeked at her colouring before hand. I try not to, so that the colour can be completely unique to me. Same as the MIC cottage, I did not look at Zoe's coloured version first so as not to be influenced before hand.

Apparently I'm on a roll. I just popped over to the Challenge blog and Juliana Herrmann used the exact two images that I merged together for my next challenge, hehe and I have already coloured it too. So much for being original ;D

Submitted for the following challenges:
Make It Colourful - Spring Colours
iCopic Lover - #68 BG Family (BG72, BG13 & BG10: these were a Valentine gift from my hubby, so glad I could use them)
Mad for Markers - R's & RV's (R27, R22, R20 and R00)
The Crafty Pad - #157 B is for (bows, brown and bling charm)
DYSU Challenge Blog - #59 Layers
Crafts and Me Challenges - #71 Distressed
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Feb 16, Distressing
Paper Crafting Journey - PCJ #3 Make It Cute
The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop Challenge - #7 Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - #73 Anything Goes
at Friday, February 17, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 14 comments Labels: , , ,

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Keep Calm and Have a Cup of Tea!

Happy Tuesday and welcome to another Tiddly Inks Challenge. Get out your bling, glimmer, stones or Stickles and gems, we are having a "Sparkle" Challenge!

TI Image - Cup of Kitty
Splitcoaststampers 3" x 3" Note Card Box Tutorial
DP - Paper Scraps (hurray, I am plowing through them this year)
This project was inspired by an English Tea package I found. I thought it would make a fun gift. To my chagrin, the "Keep Calm and Have a Cup of Tea" isn't on the individual tea packets *sigh* Cute any way!

Submitted for the following Challenges:
The Cutie Pie Challenge - #11 Anything But a Card
Creative Craft Challenges - Bingo (Ribbon, Pink and Gems)
at Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 8 comments Labels: , , ,

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Agent Bubble Gum Cuteness

Are you ready for some more inspiration from the Little Miss Muffet Team? Hope so. Hop on over to the challenge blog and check out my very talented teamies. As well there is still one more week to join our Valentine & Love Challenge #28.

Colour Scheme - Colour Throwdow #178
DP - Scraps to match above challenge
DCWV - Cute & Bird Chipboard
I apologize for the photo. My husband changed all the settings on our camera, and no matter how much I try to correct them in photo shop, the colours seem off and WAY too vibrant. Sorry!

Submitted for the following challenges:
Colour Throwdown - #179 Colour Throwndown
Sassy Studio Designs - #111 Birthday Card
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Lets Get Girly
at Thursday, February 09, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 16 comments Labels: , ,

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Cowboy Wryn & Other Wryn Release

Hey great news! There are some more ever so popular NEW Wryn images available this week at the Tiddly Inks store - Cowboy Wryn and Wryn with hearts.

TI Image - Cowby Wyn
Deconstructing Jen - The Deconstructed Sketch #37
Skirt is NOT paper pieced - I made my own plaid with Copics
DP - Echo Park & miscellaneous scraps
In homage to Jen, I tried doing the doodle borders, very nerve racking stuff! I tried my hand at making my own plaid using just Copics, not bad, but on close inspection, a tad messy. Almost messed up the hat too, a lot of Zero was used to save the day, thank goodness too, I had already finished colouring everything else.

One major flaw, I think I should have printed Wryn larger. Oh well!

Submitted for the following Challenges:
Deconstructing Jen - The Deconstructed Sketch #37
Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Diecut Challenge - Die cut stars
at Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 10 comments Labels: , ,

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Anything Goes for Kids - Guest Spot

Psst... guess what? I am fortunate enough to be a guest designer for today's challenge over at the Send a Smile for Kids Challenge Blog. It's a bi-weekly challenge so you have plenty of time to scrap along.

Our images and prizes for this fun Anything Goes for Kids Challenge were sponsored by: Karen Doodles (3 digis of winners choice), SCACD (set of stamps called Adventures of Loli), Saturated Canary (2 digis of winners choice) and Crop Stop ($15 gift certificate.) Wow, that's a lot of prizes!

The challenge runs from Feb 4th - Feb 17th at noon.

Karen Doodles - Skater Dude
Random scraps - sorry, I couldn't find paper names
Dollar Store Sticker - sentiment


Submitted for the following challenges:
Digistamps 4 Joy - #35 One For the Boys
Joyful Stamper - #44 Anything Goes Inspire Me Fridays - #16 PolkaDots
Little Darling Challenge - #16 PolkaDots
at Saturday, February 04, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 4 comments Labels: , , ,

Thursday, February 2, 2012

LMM Valentines Challenge #28

Are you done with all of your Valentine cards yet? I hope not because Little Miss Muffet is hosting a Valentines & Love Challenge #28.

This was a technique challenge for me as well. I wanted to give a go at adding textured in the fur using my Copics. There a some mistake, but overall I am pleased.

My TOP TIP: I used an exacto knife to trace the mouth of this gorgeous pooch in order to place my heart die cuts. You can make any image fit the occasion with this trick.

Entered in the following challenges:
Digi Doodle Shops Best - #93 Love Is In the Air
Truly Scrumptious - #73 Love and Hearts
Use it on Tuesday - #24 All About Love
Top Tip Tuesday - #69 Valentine's and Tipper Week

at Thursday, February 02, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 21 comments Labels: , , ,

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

TI Valentines #79


Happy Tuesday folks! Get ready for another super fun and EASY Tiddly Inks Challenge #79. This week make a Valentines Day project.

Sorry, no close up. Blogger is being crazy and won't show my closeup and I am on a computer that

Don't forget to check out my Teamies:
at Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 11 comments Labels: , , ,

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Tiddly Alien Cuteness!

Argh! Every have one of those crafting days when everything seems to go awry? My Cricut seems to be on the fritz and decided to stop for no apparent reason. My Blue Copics are all running OUT, not low, OUT. And my printer ink smudged all over while colouring this project. I'm not sure which items to replace first, I seem to be running low on EVERYTHING, even my Glossy Accents, for shame! Argh!

Admittedly I think this little guys is much cuter in green skin tones, but I didn't choose a DT with green in it, my bad. As well, he is much darker then I intended, it was my light Copics that kicked the bucket. I did my best to work through all my colouring dilemma's, but something was terribly off today. I am not positive, but I think the scrap of Copic Paper I used may not have been Copic paper, hence all my issues.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your crafting is going smoother then mine ;D

Entered into the Following Challenges:
Card Patterns - Sketch #149
Craft Your Passion - #94 Colour Bingo - Blue, Red Grey
One Stitch at a Time Challenge - #97 Round & Round
at Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 15 comments Labels: , , , ,

Thursday, January 19, 2012

LMM - Blue and Cream #27 Play Along

Today's challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Challenge blog is to use Blues and Creams. Easy enough.
I used LMM image Paprika. I didn't do her justice however, and got a way too carried away with the blue, much darker then I had planned. The paper is from SU, a paper pack I won waaaaaaay back, not even sure what the colour is called, it's not "Not Quite Navy" Oh well. Enjoy and please grab a Little Miss Muffet image and join along with us this week.

Don't forget to come back next Thursday for the Little Miss Muffet New Releases! They are a don't miss!

Entered in the Following Challenges: (I think this is everyone! If I have missed anyone, my apologies)
Creative Craft Challenges - The Colour Blue
Get Funky Challenge Blog - January Blues
Truly Scrumptious Challenge - #72 Something Forgotten (my SU DP)
Celebrate the Occasion - #46 Anything Goes, But Must Use Polka Dots (Paprika's rain gear)

Don't forget to check out the Design Team.
AJ - Fist Full Of Glitter
Arabella - Chickie Chirps
Barbara (Owner LMM Stamps) - Forgotten Scraps
Cleota - What's Inking?
Frea - CreaFrea
Leah Ann - The Hoosier Stamper
Mette - My Little Corner of Heaven
Peggy (Honorary) - Grandma's Pearl
Sarah - Lazy Daisy
Shelby - Color of Happy
Shirley - Shirl's Cards
Stephanie (that's me) - Savory Stamping
Trina - Trina Makes Stuff
Vicky - Sticky with Icky
and our Guest Designer Danni - Danni's Dreams
at Thursday, January 19, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 14 comments Labels: , ,

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

TI - Colour Challenge #78

Sorry this is late. The weekend was busier then I anticipated. The lucky winner of the Belinda image is #36 Anita of Just A Pigment of My Imagination!

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Tiddly Tuesday - Color Challenge - green, yellow, orange and blue


Welcome back to another Tiddly Inks Challenge - #78. This week we have a Colour Challenge for you. Lets see how these colours inspire you!

Color Challenge - green, yellow, orange and blue

As you can see, I didn't EXACTLY adhere to the same shades as the colour image, but we have included the words too, they are where I chose my inspiration.

When I saw the challenge colour palette image, I instantly thought of this SU Delicate Dots DP collection. I happened across a wonderful tutorial for making paper chevrons by Jennifer McGuire Ink, which bloomed these creations. They look incredibly complicated, but are easy to make and use very little DP.


All of my supplies seem to be running out at once. So some of my colouring is off due to low Copic ink. I've found that my Copics stop blending easily once the colour starts to dry out. My greens, blues and skin tones are all acting up! blah!

TI - Baby Girl
I had to reprint her head and adhere with dimensional tape due to Copic ink failure ;(
Don't forget to check out my Teamies:
at Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 18 comments Labels: , , ,

Friday, January 13, 2012

Friends are the Flowers of Life - Tiddly Inks Blog Hop

Welcome to Tiddly Inks' first blog hop of the year!

We are celebrating the many friends that make our world a more lovely place and are so glad you are here as one of them. :)

We are trying to keep this simple, so the blog hop is based on the Challenge Blog home page. Instead of directing you to the next page, we suggest you keep the Challenge Blog open and create a new window for the hopping around (click Control when you click on each link and it will open the link in a new window).

After you visit with me today, just click HERE to return you to the main list (and that is where the prizes are listed...hint!)

Have fun playing along with everyone!

Tiddly Inks - Wryn or my boo ;D
Did you know that Tiddly Inks - Wryn is loosely based on Chrisy's daughter? Our kids must look alike because this is a complete caricature of my Boo, straggly hair falling out of the pony tales and all. The only thing missing is her busily doodling away with crayons.

I used a sheet of chipboard that shipped with an online order and cut it with my SU Top Note die run through my Cuddle Bug Machine.
My project today is a chipboard mini album using my SU - Top Note die and Wryn of course. You know how I love the bright colours, so I dipped into my Echo Park - Splash collection again - it has served me so well.

Inspired by Julie Johnson of Paisley and Polkadots, I tried to make a bundled mini album that was busting with accents without looking messy. Check out her blog, her mini albums are so stinkin' creative.

These photos are varying ages of Princess-ness!

Lots of chipboard layers.
Also, some great news! As a special thank-you for stopping by today, Christy has donated Belinda (seen below) to one lucky commenter of this post. So please leave a comment on this post, include your email address for your chance to win. There are more single image prizes to be won, so check out ALL the DT members blogs or you'll miss out.

at Friday, January 13, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 61 comments Labels: , ,

Thursday, January 12, 2012

LMM - Anything for Inspiration

Normally this would be a New Release week for Little Miss Muffet Stamps, but Barbara is still very much under the weather. So we at Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog have "inspirational" samples to share with you instead.

LMM image - Adela & Dida
Paper - Bo Bunny Vicki B. Collection
Layout - SFYTT January 2011
Scallop Border read: Barefoot and Fancy Free

Submitted for the following Challenges:
i{heart}2stamp - SFYTT January 2012
Little Darling Challenges - #15 Favorite Colour
Flutter By Wednesday's - #185 Use Bright Colours with your Butterfly, Fairy or Angel
Craft Your Passion Challenges - #92 Mythical Creatures
at Thursday, January 12, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 14 comments Labels: , ,

Thursday, January 5, 2012

LMM #26 Something New

I used E11, E33 and R23 for the skin tones on the middle Sugar N Spice doll. What colour Copics do you use for darker skin? As you can see, I started at her feet using E31 too, but it turned it all a bit green so didn't end up using it elsewhere.

Hey all, time for our first Little Miss Muffet Stamps Challenge of the new year and it's a super easy one - Use Something New! We also have two new DT Members joining us this week, so please welcome AJ and Shelby.

I have used these Little Miss Muffet's image - Cinnamon, Rosemary & Peppermint in this configuration for a previous challenge. They are from the Sugar N' Spice Doll Collection at LMM. Anyway, I had an extra copy printed just in case I messed up with my Copics. I've been meaning to use the extra, so today was as good a day as any. Cinnamon, Rosemary & Peppermint are so adorable together, they look like they are ready for a party, hence the Let's Get Together sentiment from Studio G Clear Stamps.

My something new is the "Parisian" border punch from Michael's which was left in my stocking. Thanks Santa ;D All combined with old various Echo Park - Summer Days DP.

Okay so now that you have seen my card and hopefully checked out the other LMM DT's, grab yourself something new and play along.

Submitted for the following challenges:
The Crazy Challenge - CCH #100 Party
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - New Something (new border punch)
Scrap-Creations Challenge - Something Old, Something New (new punch, old paper scraps)
Sassy Studio Designs - Something New #106 (new border punch)

Please don't forget to leave some love for my Little Miss Muffet Teamies:
AJ - Fist Full Of Glitter
Arabella - Chickie Chirps
Barbara (Owner LMM Stamps) - Forgotten Scraps
Cleota - What's Inking?
Leah Ann - The Hoosier Stamper
Peggy (Honorary) - Grandma's Pearl
Shelby - Color of Happy
Shirley - Shirl's Cards
Stephanie (that's me) - Savory Stamping
Trina - Trina Makes Stuff
at Thursday, January 05, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 14 comments Labels: , ,

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Tiddly Inks Celebration #77

You must must must see the adorable new release "Wryn" at the Tiddly Store. TOO cute! What a way to start off the New Year - FABULOUS!

Welcome back and Happy New Year to everyone! Just a note: our regular challenges are changing to last two weeks, so you now have plenty of time to participate. As well our DT will blog Inky inspirations for you each week, so please stop by and give us all some love. Now on to our current challenge: The Tiddly Inks Design Team is back and ready to start the year off with a "Celebration!" Any celebration, and don't forget a Tiddly!

Oh my gosh, I think I am in a Holiday coma. When I finally dragged myself to my craft table, which had been confiscated for the Christmas dinner table, I had a lot of searching to do. I couldn't find half my stuff. So scraps it was, along with some new Christmas goodies.

This card is to celebrate my hubby and I's 19th wedding Anniversary which is January 30th. He saw me colouring the image and ran off to grab some googly eyes. He very desperately wanted me to use them on the girl so she would looked shocked.

Tiddly Inks image - Vamp Me
Sweet Sunday Sketch - Challenge #149
October Afternoon DP - Fly a Kite
Sentiments - SU: Treat Yourself, Studio G: always and forever
I used my NEW EK success Journal page punch and Tim Holtz game spinners. I didn't realize the dials had turned down until I uploaded the photo, oh well.

My little darling 6 year old daughter played along with me this week too. She has some fun cards she made to send to her extended family. How cute. With Christy's permission, I also made up a Inkspot watermark just for her.

Tiddly Ink image - Annie's Art
SU sentiment -
I smudged out her handwritten name on the tag and under the circle stamp.
Jillybean - Watermelon and Gazpacho Soup DP
Boo hand wrote "having" over the Fun In the Sun on the tag.
She wanted everyone to know that the yellow is the glow off the Angel's wings.
So glad you stopped by. Please don't forget to check out my Tiddly peeps at the challenge blog, they work so hard and design so well.
Don't forget to check out the Teamies! Wowzer - you won't be disappointed.



Entered in the following Challenges:
Sweet Sunday Sketch - Challenge #149
One Stitch at a Time - Use a Digi Challenge #94
Paper Sundaes - Something Old & Something New Challenge #101 (paper scraps on my scrap table and new border punch, plus new game spinners.
at Tuesday, January 03, 2012 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 16 comments Labels: , , , ,

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Saffron


Hello everyone. I hope your holiday break is going wonderfully! We are having a special "free image" challenge at the Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog. Download your free image of Saffron and join along.

I printed Saffron onto beige cardstock and coloured her with Prismacolour pencils. I picked up a few more colours to try an ethnic skin tone. I used the same beige cardstock and chocolate chip with Jillybean Soup - Dutch Mustard DP. I added snow effect on the muff and a Tim Holtz pin on the ribbon.

Here is a list of the prismacolours I used on the skin tone, from darkest to lightest:
PC 946 - Dark Brown
PC 945 Sienna Brown
PC 943 Burnt Ochre
PC 942 Yellow Ochre and peach to tone down the yellow (not positive if I used PC 939 Peach or PC 927 Light Peach)

I just kept blending until the skin tones looked correct.

Check out the Little Miss Muffet DT - they rock!
at Thursday, December 29, 2011 Posted by Stephanie aka Nerdette 6 comments Labels: , ,
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