Mo's dp2 challenge dt

Another late posting from me today unfortunately, sorry.  I am still hosting the challenges for Mo's dp 2 challenges and my challenge for this week is "Bright white"

For my card i used the "bride and groom" available from Mo's store and i think its perfect for this kind of challenge as white on white is so elegant.  My flowers i made a while ago, and thought that they would be perfect for this card, i also like to use a lot of inking of my edges when using white on white as then you see the layers better.  I colored my images with copics, i embossed through my cuttlebug, the sentimetn on the tag is a Heidi Swap sentiment and the tag is a sizzix.

Something else which i so seldom do is decorate the inside of my cards, so for this wedding card i added a tag with a sentiment reading: "Love does not consist of gazing inot each others eyes, but rather in looking together in the same direction"

The dt have really done a fabulous job with this challenge so head over to the challenge blog  for some more inspiration.
smiles
Paola

A spoonfull of sugar dt

I honestly have no excuses for this card, other than to say i know i made it, but how or what i was thiking at the time, your geuss is as good as mine.

This week on ASFOS THEY'RE FALLING INTO FALL, well i think i may have just fallen.  I coolored up my image to match my papers that were way down in my stash, and the truth is i love this stamp and have had it for over a year, and its never seen ink, i thought i was loving it till i finished my card and sat back to take a proper look at it, :(

The girls on the dt have done a sterling job on their cards, so i ma sure they will inspire you to come and play with us at A spoonfull of sugar challenge blog this week.

Enjoy the week stampers
will be back soon as i am working on a few things for friends
smiles
Paola

Tilda for two challenges

Another card for today, yes this has gotta be a record for me, three posts in a day.
When i have time to play, its always my Magnolias that i seem to turn to, perhaps its because i have so many that have never even seen ink.  I cried for an age to get this darling couple and then never found the time to use them, so i decided for the challenge on Totally tilda who want to see hand made flowers, i would use this stamp, i am also gonna be using the sketch from  MDUC and enter this card there.  The sketch ahs lots of layers which i love and of course i have a weakness for sketches when i am playing as i dont really need to think too much.

i have used paper from 7 Gypsies that i have had forever, and all the rest of the paper is cardstock that i have run through the bug and embossed, used one of my ek success punches for around the couple, i know it looks rather uneven, but i kinda think it works for this style of card, used a large luggage tag for one of my layers, i hand made and paper moulded all my flowers using various punches and added lots of pearl garlands and flat backed pearls, after inking all the edges.  The lace was from my stash.  I gave the brides a tad of stardust to give it a bit of a shimmer not sure you can see it in the pictures.

thats me off to talk to the sand man
See you later in the week
smiles
Paola

Just Magnolia challenge

I know what y"all gonna be thinking that i have been really busy, but the truth is that i am suffering a bit of overkill from being with my family ONLY for the last three days and not been able to do any crating so my dh gave me a break to spend the day in my studio, how sweet.  Should think so after he dissapeared a whole lot of my goodies of my pc last week.

So the first card i am sharing this evening before i trot off to the land of nod, is for the challenge on Just Magnolia, i used Tilda with peony which i havent used yet and has been in my stash for way too long.  I have used my normal coloring medium of copics, sorry no list of colors.  The dp i also forgot to take note of, but i did use my new Marianne creatable for my flourish, and added lots of pearls and roses, aswell as a few pearl stamens, i also decided to pull out my sewing machine and stitch around each of my layers.

Have a great week, will be back with another card later
smiles
Paola

Kenny K's weekly challenge dt

Hi stampers, this week has been a totally mad week for me as we celebrated our Jewish new year, "Rosh Hashana", and i had geusts all week and then we went straight into Sabbath and if that wasnt enough we are now fasting today.

I did manage to get a card made for the challenge this week for Kenny K's Krafty Girlz even although i didnt think i would manage to get it done in time.  This week the challenge is for dry or heat embossing, now dont ask about the Orange, as i have no explanation for it, orange is not even a color i would normally use, but when i was looking at my paper with the image i had decided to use, thats what i came up with.  I'm using "Devilish Donna" available from Kenny's store, colored with copics, sorry forgot to note my colors, glitzed her wings, layered her onto a piece of card that was embossed with one of my cuttlebug embossing folders.  The sentiment is also a bug folder and the label is one of the cuttlebug cut and emboss folders that i inked up with a clear top boss pad before removing it from the folder and then added some embossing powder to and heat embossed.  The butterflies were punched and then run through the bug with random folders to have some dry embossing opn them too.  i decided at the last minute to add the ribbon and slider.

Have a great week
smiles
Paola

Mo's dp2 challenge dt

Its my third week hosting the challenges on Mo's digital pencil and i am just loving everybodies interpretations of the challenges, there is such a diverse group oof crafters out there.
This week i wanted to see how many different folds all you stampers in blog land could come up with, so the challenge for this week is "Folds and flowers" You can use whatever fold you want, be that a gate fold or a joy fold, anything but your normal folded in half card, he he

For my card i have used a double display fold and since this little darling "Christmas fairy mint" is one of the newer images from Mo's store, it goes without saying that i just had to use her.  I colored her with my copics and gave her a lavish going over with stickles and also gave her candy cane some dimensional glaze, i drew the two little pieces of candy for the one side of my dbl display, added lots of glittah to a few flowers that i punched and also added rhinestones to their centres.  The Xmas sentiment came with a magazine that also had a few images.

I hope my card inspires you to try one of the new folds out there and join in the challenge this week while i am trying to celebrate Rosh Hashana with my family, this is a scheduled post, but i will be back on track for a few days next week.
smiles
Paola

A spoonfull of sugar dt

Before i tell you about todays challenge on ASFOS i have a question, "whose husband is smarter than a fifth grader?" I dont see any hands, so let me tell you i could tear my hair right out by the roots today.  Firstly i am just about to go right over the edge as it is our Jewish new year tomorrow evening which means in my husbands book invite a million people for dinner, then he decides to change the carpets upstairs in all the bedrooms, aswell as bring me a new lounge suit, now i see you all thinking that you would just love that to happen. RIGHT! wrong, not the day before New year celebrations.  To top it all off, he has a terrible flue running temperatures in the 40"s and i am sure that he has done all of the above with good intentions, but how do you disconnect a computer without shutting down first so that all your settings get saved?  i ask you with tears in my eyes. I came home today to find all the cupboards unpacked beds disassembeld, computers unplugged, boxes everywhere and four strange black men working in my house.  Ok so after a day from hell i have now restored SOME of the damage, but i have lost my skype and various other goodies.  I just feel like going to bed and never getting up EVER!!

Now that all of that is out of the way i shall try to up my mood a little by telling you about my card for the dt challenge on A spoonfull of sugar.  We are being sponsored by Bunny Zoe who have some amazing new stock in their inventory so this may be the challenge you dont wanna miss out on.  Our challenge today is "Animal crackers" anything with an animal on it.  For my card i am using one of my new Kanban images that i have had for a few weeks and not seen ink yet.

Colored with my copics, used a bit of lace from my stash, flowers from the same place and so are the pearls.
Unfortunately i didnt take note of my copics or the name of this particular Kanban, but they are all adorable.  I was actually wondering if it is the same artist who does the lotv stamps as they are very similar, so if you know please let me know.

thats me for now while i go bury myself
chat later in the week when things are looking a little rosier.

Ladybug Tilda

Whenever i have time to play, i love to play with my Magnolia's, so inked up this darling little ladybug and colored her with my copics, and gave her lots of star dust stickles, layered her onto a nestie, following the sketch on sketch Saturday.

Its been such a long time since i won any of the challenges so i dont hold out much hope, but for me it was more about getting to play and being able to share my love of my little Maggies.
copics used:  R85, R83, R81, RV00
                       E31, E50
skin: E00, E21, R20
Hair: E25, E55, E53  
Have a great week
smiles
Paola

Kenny K's weekly challenge

No card from me today for Kenny K's Krafty girlz challenge as i am on team A, but i would like to thanks eveybody that did the hop with us last week and hope that you will come back to playe in our challenges.
This week the krafty girlz are challenging you to use "pearls and swirls"
Go check out what team B came up with to inpsire you.
have a great week
smiles
Paola

Mo's dp2 challenge dt

I know i am a terrible hostess :(, you gonna have to forgive me, but my day did not start off well.  I awoke this morning with a migraine of note and it did not get any better as the progressed, by 2 this afternoon i wanted to throw up, thank G"d it has now dissipated somewhat and i am finally able to post this.
To make matters worse we are having major internet problems and i have been trying now for three and a half hours just to load my pictures, AAAAARRRRGGG!!!!

I have set the challenges for this month on Mo's dp2 challenges, and my first challenge for this month is "shades of age"  I want to see all those shades that make an item look "old": it can be distressed, it could be the colors, however you interpret aging.  I look forward to seeing everybodies different interpretations of the challenges that i have set this month, almost like a mother looks forward to watching her children try something new.  It give me such pleasure to see what comes flowing from the creative juices.

For my card i have used "Buds" again, i just love this image, available from Mo's digital pencil, colored with my copics,  i distressed all the edges and then stitched them and inked them, used very few klayers as i wanted a cleaner uncluttered card, and since we cant very well add flowers to boys cards i added leaves that i punched out with two different sized leaf punches.  I stamped my sentiment, a Su stampin brushed corduroy.

Have a fun weekend
smiles
Paola