Butterfly Girl

I made a card using the sketch at ICS (Inspiration Card Sketches) this week.  The sketch really grabbed me and I thought it would be fun to play with!

Here's how my card turned out, I like it!

What'd I Use?

Image: Karen's Doodles

Markers: Copics

Sentiment: Unity Stamp Co, KOTM

Nestie: Dahlia

Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Ribbon: from my stash

Hawaiian Wedding

Hubby has a coworker who just "ran" off to Hawaii to get married and will be having a reception for those of us who weren't special enough to join them... ... at the end of the month.  I can't complain, we did the same thing to all of our friends!  Although, we didn't run off to Hawaii, we just had a very small wedding in Seattle with only family in attendance and a reception a few months later for all of our friends.

Anyway... I had quite a few wedding cards already made up, but he didn't like ANY of them!  He wanted something specifically Hawaii-ish for them.  I also had quite a few wedding images to choose from, and he liked this one best.  Kudos to Karen Doodle's - you've pleased a darn picky guy!

This image was a joy to color, although I struggled with the dress... how exactly DO you color a white dress on white paper without white markers?  It needed something, so I added a little pink and green, even though that's not a "traditional" wedding gown.  So, add some Hawaii stickers and fun, funky, tropical paper and viola!  You have a cute, fun Hawaiian Wedding card!

I hope you like it, and I hope the Bride & Groom like it as well!

Can't pass up a challenge, now can I?

Little Red Wagon: Pink & Green

Pollycraft: Here Comes the Sun (it's sunny in Hawaii, right??)

Oh, Alice: Little People (those are kids dancing in the image, aren't they cute?)

What'd I Use?

Image: Karen's Doodles "Wedding Dance"

Markers: Copics & Sakura Glitter Pen

Stickers: Jolee's

Paper: K & Company

Pearls: Martha Stewart

Karen's Doodles Blog Hop Winner!

So sorry for the delay in this post!

Please forgive me! :o)

I've visited random.org and entered in my 60 wonderful comments - Thank You ALL so much for such amazing comments!!  I loved each and every one of them and I'm glad that you all enjoy my blog!  I've certainly enjoyed tweaking it and adding this and that and making it as cool as I can, and I'm glad to know that all the work I've put into it is appreciated and enjoyed by my visitors!

So.... Mr.Random took those 60 comments and gave me...

#3

 and the #3 commenter was:

Bonnie Brown said...

Lovin it!! Great card!

Bonnie - Congrats to you!  Email me using the blinking on my sidebar and I will have the Love At First Sight image sent off to you!

Thanks everyone for joining us on our hop and I hope to see you participate in our challenges again soon!

Karen's Doodles Blog HopS!!

To celebrate Karen's Doodles more than 1000 Blog Followers, we are having Easter Blog Hops.  Yes, I said Hops!  There are 4 separate Hops going on....

Netherlands Challenge Blog

Scandinavian Challenge Blog

United Kingdom Challenge Blog

United States Challenge Blog 

For each individual hop, visit all the participating members blogs and you will find an Easter Egg with a number on it.  Collect the numbers and add up the total.  Be sure to leave a comment while you are visiting, as each Design Team member will be choosing one person from their comments to win the Karen's Doodles image they have used.  There will be 4 Grand Prize winners, one for each blog Hop, chosen from the visitors who send in the correct total of the eggs for that particular Hop.
My Egg For You:

The winner will get their choice of 4 Karen's Doodles images. 

For this hop, please send your answer to Easter Blog Hop 

If you are HERE - you are hopping in the United States Blog Hop!  Here's the lineup for the Red, White and Blue!

Sandy Hulsart

Callie Zenner

Cindy Royal

Dee Morris (li'l 'ol Me!)

Zoe McGrath

Erin Bailey

Kelly Schelske

Gini Cagle

Tracy Jackson

Lori Aragon

Shana Dahl

Lori Ng

Here's my card for your hopping pleasure!  Remember, I will be selecting a RANDOM winner from my comments to receive THIS image as a prize!  You want it?  You gotta comment!  Come on - leave some love!!   ♥MWAH♥ 

 What'd I Use?
Image: Karen's Doodles "Love at First Bite"
Markers: Copics
Liquid Pearls
Nesties: Labels Two

Wait, there is more, anyone visiting all the blogs for all 4 Hops can enter to win a

Super Grand Prize of 4 Karen's Doodles images plus an autographed

Karen's Doodles original piece of art!!

Just visit all 4 Country's blog hops, collect the numbers from the eggs and send the grand total to Karen's Doodles Grand Prize  The Hops will close on Saturday, April 3 at midnight EST.  Winners will be announced on each Challenge blog before their weekly challenge.

From here you want to head over to ZOE's blog and see what she has to share with you - don't forget to collect your EGG numbers and leave LOTS of comments!! The more comments you leave, the better chance you have to WIN!
Have FUN!

Karen's Doodles Kids Challenge #2

WoW!!

What an AWESOME turn-out we had for our first challenge! 

Thank you so much for joining us!  Emily and I LOVED visiting all of your blogs and thought that your cards were all just fabulous!

Congrats to the winners, I hope you all enjoy your prizes!

My sweet daughter Emily has drawn up a sketch for you to use this time!  The only other requirement is to use a Karen's Doodles image, of course - so have fun with it!  You've got 2 weeks to play, so take your time!  This challenge will end on April 9th.

You can see Emily's card on her blog!

And here is my take on her sketch,
which also fits the challenge at Sew Many Challenges - Tools "Let's Punch It"

What'd I Use?

Image: Karen's Doodles (of course!)

Markers: Copics, Sakura Gel pens

Cardstock: Bazzil Bling

Patterned Paper: K & Company

Border & Corner punches: Martha Stewart

Rhinestone brads, pearls and ribbon: from my stash

I Love Digi #3

 

Is it time for #3 already?  Wow!  Time sure flies when you're having fun!

Before I share our challenge and my card with you, I would like to welcome a few new members to the I ♥ Digi! Team:

Jane C

Dawn

Ali

Jennifer

We are very excited to have these talented ladies join us!

Please give their blogs a visit and leave them a warm welcome on their first DT project with our team!  And don't forget to see what the rest of the team has to share with you as well:
Elaine, Callie, Karin, Paul, Bev,  Poppy, and Jane

Ok, Our challenge at I Love Digi for you is:

EASTER

You can make an Easter card or gift, or Both!  Any colors, any style, just remember to use a DIGI image and/or papers!

Our Sponsor this week is:
WINK, WINK, INK

And here's my card:

I've been wanting to do a Tent-Topper card for a while now, but I just never had an image "jump" out at me that I thought was worthy!  Now, I have one and I just received some awesome ribbon in the mail and couldn't wait to use it!

What'd I Use?

Image: Karen's Doodles (Digi) "A Present For Mom"
Markers: Copics
Nesties: Circle, Scallop Circle
Patterned paper: DCWV
Ribbon: Stamp Simply
Rhinestones: Target

There's quite a few Spring-y challenges going on right now - so let's enter this card into:

The Pink Elephant: Spring

Fab N' Funky Challenges: It's All NEW - my new ribbon!

Little Red Wagon: Copics

A Spoon Full of Sugar: Easter


The Secret Crafter: Anything Goes

Bee Crafty: Spring

Sew Many Challenges: Easter

Paper Cuts: Anything Goes

That should do it :o)

Movie Night!

Second Post for the day - scroll down to see my cute bumblebee card!

I've been having some fun playing with my Karen's Doodles!  And, there are new Karen's Doodles challenges blogs up now!  There's one for the US, the UK, Scandinavia and the Netherlands!  So, why not play along, right?  You are allowed to enter any country challenge no matter where you live!  So this card fits into the UK challenge - where the theme is ANYTHING GOES!  Although I'm not entering it into the challenge - you'll see why in just a few days!  Just wanted to share it with you!

By the way - the cute little fastenator staple says "FUN" - but you can't read it in the photo :)

This card also fits into the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant: Party Invitations

The Corrosive Challenge: Sketch

Digital Tuesday: Piercing 

Cute Card Thursday: Celebrations (what's a celebration without an invite?)

What'd I Use?

Image: Karen's Doodles (digi)

Markers: Copics

Nesties: Ovals, Scallop Ovals

Embellies: Brads, Eyelets & Fastenator

Patterned paper & Ribbon, from my stash

Tuesday Challenges

Just 2 for you today :o)

Challenges:

Copic Creations (Feather Blending)

The Pink Elephant (All About Pink)

Tuesday Morning Sketches (Sketch)

I decided to try out the Copic Creations this week.  They have amazing tutorial links on coloring with Copics - if you are new to Copics, like Me, this is a perfect challenge site!!  This week's tutorial is Feather Blending.. I don't think it turned out quite like it was supposed to, but I still kinda like the effect!

What'd I Use?

Image: AIFactory

Markers: Copics

Nesties: Peony

Embossing: Divine Swirls

Ribbon: scrap

Challenge:

Inspirational Card Sketches (sketch)

In honor of my wonderful friend, Callie earning a Design Team position on ICS, I just HAD to participate in this week's challenge!  Congrats, Sweet Callie!

What'd I Use?

Image: Karen's Doodles

Markers: Copics & White Gel Pen

Cardstock: Bazzill

Papers: DCWV Animal Crackers Stack

Embossing: Mesh

Heart Punches: Creative Memories

Ribbon from my stash

Thursday Challenges

Good afternoon!

I was pretty bummed out about the Greeting Farm relay challenge ending abruptly (although, with good reason), so I didn't get any stamping done yesterday.  I did receive my free relay image yesterday, though, and I knew that, even if the challenge was cancelled, I would want to create a card with Prince Ian, anyway.  Especially since I have my very own Prince Iain! :)  I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers.  I had to do faux stitching on this one, because my little guy was sleeping in my craft room and I really didn't want to wake him up with my sewing machine!

All 3 of today's cards fit in with the challenge this week at KL Stampin N Scrappin - which is Nesties, Punches and Dies, OH MY!

What'd I Use?

Image: The Greeting Farm

Markers: Copics

Nesties: Petite Oval, Petite Scallop Oval

Punches: Word Window, Scallop Edge

Papers & Cardstock: leftovers from a kit from my LSS

Buttons & Fibers: from my stash

Cute Card Thursday want to see Blooming Gorgeous creations... well, I don't know about Gorgeous, but I think I got the Blooming covered!

What'd I Use?

Image: Great Impressions

Markers: Copics

Sizzix: Top Note Die

Ribbon, Paper, button & Flowers: from my stash

Here's one for Sweet Sunday Sketch #53

and Spoon Full of Sugar (Freestyle) 

This one was fun!  Nutsy is soooo fun to play with!  Isn't he just the cutest?  He's got a surprise for YOU!

 

What'd I Use?

Image: Nutsy from Karen's Doodles

Markers: Copics

Nesties: Circle & Scallop Circle

Embossing: Swiss Dots by Cuttlebug

Ribbon, dots & Papers: from my stash

**By the way - what do you think of my new watermark?  My wonderful, sweet, amazing, awesome friend, Callie made it for me!  Isn't it cool!  She's just the bestest!!  Stay tuned, because you may be able to get one from her soon, too!  :)**

I had a Digi Day today!

I was in a Digi mood today, so I made a bunch of cards using Digi images.  It was quite fun, especially as I haven't used many digi images before.  I'm very glad to learn that whatever ink is in my printer is "Copic Friendly"!!  Yay!!  :)

I am also entering all of these cards (except for the Lauren In Love card, as that's not digi) into the I Love Digi Design Team call - wish me luck!!

So, strap on your seatbelts, here we go!

This one is made for the Pollycraft Monday challenge:

What'd I use?

Free Digi Image: Pollycraft

Markers: Copics

Embossing folder: Conversations

Patterned paper: Daisy Bucket

Ribbon, Baubles, Charm: from my stash

This one is for the sketch at The Pink Elephant:

I flipped the sketch to accommodate the image.

What'd I use?

Digi Image: Karen's Doodles

Markers: Copics

Eyelet Border punch

Gold Paper: PaperZone

Nesties: Petite Ovals & Petite Scallop Ovals

This one is for Cute Card Thursday - which is to use a FAIRY and for the sketch at Cupcake Craft Challenges:

What'd I Use?

Image: Lauren In Love by Paper Makeup Stamps

Markers: Bic and Sakura glitter

Patterned paper: DCWV

Embossing Folder: Emily's Bouquet

Ribbon, rhinestone brads: from my stash

This one is for Heather's sketch, for her Fresh Brewed Designs blog hop.  I'm late, I missed the deadline, but I still liked her sketch so much that I wanted to do it anyway.  And, I love this image!

What'd I Use?

Image: Fresh Brewed Designs

Markers: Copic & White gel pen

Patterned paper: Daisy Bucket

Felt Flower, brad, spacer, baubles: from my stash

I didn't notice until after this card was completely finished that the words on the patterned paper aren't exactly "Valentiney"..... maybe I should read my paper first?  :)

I hope you likey!  I had fun today!