365 Cards - Day 38 - Acrostic Poem

So on to another wonderful CHALLENGE Wednesday at 365 Cards (maybe we should call them all "Wacky Wednesdays!"...hehe...lately we've all been joking about Pam and her "special coffee" that she drinks when coming up with some of these challenges and for the longest time I didn't get it, but whoa boy, I'm feeling the afterburn of that coffee lately!)

This week Pam asked for an acrostic poem...gotta admit...did not know what this was but after a little research I remembered doing them in school and had no idea that's what they were called (or at least I didn't remember that's what they were!). So after some thought about what I could write about and considering another Mother's Day card to make my mom cry, I decided to create one based on my puppy. (I think this will be my mom's "grandmother's day" card, afterall this is her "grandpuppy" And yes, I'm one of THOSE kind of dog people!). It was totally easy for me to write, although I did have to put some thought into the "I" word. Of course, moments after I finished this the other night, my wonderful puppy peed on my bed!!! AAARG!!! I wasn't experiencing "much happiness" towards her then and I almost trashed the card then, but we "talked" it out and all was forgiven so here it is.

Here's the other challenges for this one:

1. BasicGrey Challenges - sketch + sugar rush paper

2. Cooking it up with Katie - Use something New (those chipboard letters are new), Use something Old (I've had that "princess" charm for years), Use something Sweet (I think this picture of Malie is so sweet it makes my teeth ache!)

3. Incy Wincy Designs - Fancy Folds: easel card

4. No Time to Stamp - Chipboard: the glitter letters are chipboard

5. pile it on - Easel card

6. Pollycraft Monday Challenge - anything goes

7. Scrap Creations - Sew cute: I think this whole thing is pretty cute, but especially the puppy pic! + sugar rush paper

8. SophistiCat Challenge Blog - Raining cats and dogs

9. The Townscrapper - charms

10. Totally Stampalicious - easel card

So whatcha gonna do for this one? It doesn't have to be complicated and here's one that I found that even explains what it is!

Acrostics

are playful

contrivances of prose or verse

rendered so that each line

opens or closes with words in

sequence to read from

top to bottom, their

initial or final letters

constituting a word or phrase.

(Ned Halley, Dictionary of Modern English Grammar. Wordsworth, 2005)

I wish you all good luck in meeting this challenge and can't wait ot see what you come up with!

Aloha,

Magical Monday - Spring

A huge ALOOOOOOHAAAAAA for today's Magical Monday at There's Magic in the Air with Paper Cupcakes! I'm particularly excited for today's challenge as I got to use the fabulous NEW image from Nina's store appropriately named "Aloha"!!! And then add in Selma's "Spring Challenge" where we're to celebrate Spring with cards that have 3-D flowers and leaves, what a PERFECT way to honor my adopted home state!!!  So here's some deets:

~ The lei of plumeria-looking flowers were made using the SU! 5 petal flower punch - I was inspired here, which lead me here to find out how to make them. I modified mine a bit as I used pretty in pink paper as my base. I tried pinching the petals like she did, but my paper was too stiff and just wrinkled. So I curled mine around a paint brush to get a slight curl. I sponged the center of the flowers with crushed curry and brushed the sides/tips with melon mambo.

~ Hard to tell but there's a leaf ribbon under the flowers. The sheer ribbon on the side is similar to what you you would find on a real lei. A bow is tied where the ends are joined.

~ Wondering about my funny looking duck? Well, to go even further with my Hawaiian theme, I colored with Prismacolor pencils this bird to look similar to a Nene ("nay-nay") goose, which is the Hawaiian state bird.

Here's the inside:

So here's some other challenges for this one:
1. Bee Crafty - Birthday + a DIGI
2. Charisma Cardz Challenges - Animal Magic
3. Crafty Creations Challenges - create anything you want
4. Cupcake Craft Challenges -  MAKE YOUR OWN FLOWERS
5. Digi Doodle Shop’s Best - Easter/Springtime
6. Everybody-Art-Challenge - Spring
7. Fab ‘n’ Funky - Spring is in the Air
8. Frosted Designs - colors (black, lime green, pink)
9. Little Red Wagon - Spring creations
10. Magical Crafts Fortnightly - 'ANIMAL ANTICS'
11. Mojo Monday - sketch (although it's hard to see with all my embellies!)
12. Papertake Weekly Challenge - Open theme
13. S2G challenges - Anything goes
14. Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturdays - use anything with wings
15. Stamp Something - Pink Somethings
16. Totally Paper Crafts - Let's go Digital
17. digital tuesday challenge - Scrap it: all of my paper was scraps except for the card base
 
Okay, that about covers it for now. Thanks for stopping by and can't wait to see what you come up with for this week's TMITA/PCC challenge! Look what you could win!

Aloha,

365 Cards - Day 31 - All Mixed Up!

Aloha again everyone and welcome to another fantastic Wednesday challenge at 365 Cards! Gotta admit that after last week's 10 patterned paper challenge, I was a little anxious of what Pam would give us today, but I breathed a bit of a sigh of relief! Whew, we can do this! (Of course, you all rocked the 10 patterned paper challenge last week which totally freaked me out, so maybe I'm the only one worried about all of this!). So I got to work with the super adorable Halen sleeping in a teacup from Sew Many Cards! All of the patterned papers are Basic Grey Nook & Pantry. The quote on the front makes a bit more sense when you see the inside, so here's that:

This was my first hinge card and gotta say I liked it! I'd probably give a little more room for the top section, but with a goal of finishing the insides of cards this year, it's a lot easier when there isn't much to do on the inside (or underneath as this one is!).

Here are some other challenges I was inspired by for this one:

1. CardPatterns - sketch: I was inspired by the sketch but I think my final product strays a bit from it...

2. Crafty Ann - make something for someone special: who's more SPECIAL than my mom?!? 

3. Cute Card Thursday - Dimensions: it's kinda hard to tell but I did pop up the tea cup, and so is the sentiment and the image circle

4. Hand Full of Stamps - anything that deals with sweetness: I think this image and sentiment are so sweet!

5. Lots To Do - Vintage: I thought this paper was vintage-y looking

6. Pixie Challenge - Mom's the Word

7. Simple Doodles - Add some Layers

8. The Pixie Cottage - use circles

Well, I hope this inspires you to get "all mixed up" and play along with us this week!

Aloha,

Magical Monday - Eggs-traordinary Find Baskets!

Aloha and E Komo Mai to another Magical Monday at There's Magic in the Air with Paper Cupcakes (check out the store...Nina just release 19 new images!!)!

Today we have another adorable image from Nina called "Eggs-traordinary Find" and Sue gives us the fun challenge of using the image on a paper or altered Easter Basket! Splitcoast Stampers is a great resource for different baskets/bags that you could use for this challenge. I found a toot for mine on Whimsie Doodles: Tuesday Tutorials - super easy and SUPER CUTE!! I paper pieced the image using some SU! DSP (Tea Party) and Liquid Applique on the tail. I colored the flowers and stripes on the egg with a white gel pen. 

As usual, here's some other challenges for this one:
1. Challenge up your Life - Easter - everything but a card
2. Crafty Angels - Paper Piecing
3. Creative Inspirations Challenge - Anything but a card
4. KL Stampin N Scrappin Blog - Make a box or basket
5. The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Paper piecing

So why don't you play along with us this week?!? It's egg-citing and eggs-hilarating (sorry, I had to!)!!! Look what you could win!

Okay, that's it for today! Can't wait to see what you all come up with!
Aloha,

Happy Easter My Peeps!

Aloha all! Well, I haven't been quite as productive this weekend as I was hoping, but I did get one fun card done! When I saw this image from Mo's Digital Pencil, I smiled. Then I got the metal tag (i.e., that says "My Peeps") and I knew I had to put them together! And of course, I couldn't just do one challenge so here's the list for this one (divided up by categories):

CHALLENGES WITH AN EASTER THEME:

1. C.R.A.F.T

2. Dare you to digi stamp Friday

3. Daring Cardmakers - How Egg-citing: although technically not Easter...eggs are very much associated with Easter...I used an oval shape for the image to get an "egg shape" on the card and those "peeps" had to come from somewhere didn't they?!?

4. Easy Craft Projects

5. Everybody-Art-Challenge

6. Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge

7. Incy Wincy Designs (this could also be Spring)

8. Jacksonbelle embellishments (this could also be Spring)

9. Lexi’s Creations

10. Magical Crafts Fortnightly

11. No Time to Stamp

12. Other Lovlies - animal related to Easter

13. PaperPlay Challenges

14. Res-Q Challenge - Eggs, Eggs, Eggs: ditto above

CHALLENGES WITH A SPRING THEME:

1. Charisma Cardz Challenges

2. digital tuesday challenge

3. Sassy Designs By Susie

4. Scrap Creations - must also use Basic Grey paper: That's BG Sugar Rush paper! 

OTHER CHALLENGES:

1. Alota Rubber Stamps - humorous cards: okay others might not find this as funny as I do, but that "My peeps" embellie with the image just cracks me up!

2. Colour Create Challenge Blog - Your choice of pastels (optional extra = Easter/Spring)

3. Crafty Creations Challenges - Babies: I'm counting the chicks for the babies on this one

4. Fab ‘n’ Funky - "It's all in the technique" (share your favourite technique) - one of my favorite techniques is sponging ink...that's what I did for the sky and grass

5. Fairy Fun Fridays Challenge blog -  Easel card

6. Mo’s challenge blog - sketch + Mo's image

7. Stamp Something - Doodle!: I got doodley looking paper, the pink ribbon is kinda doodley-looking, and I doodled some hearts on that pink flower 

8. The Color Dare - Pretty in Pink, Green Galore, Basic Black: I kinda stretched this one and used Certainly Celery for the Green Galore...went better with by BG paper

9. Totally Paper Crafts - Pink and Green: my two favorite!

Well, I think I have a couple more Easter projects up my sleeves, well, at least one on Monday! :) Thanks for stopping by and your comments are much appreciated!

Aloha,

365 Cards - Day 24 - Terrific Ten!

Well, I must admit that when I got the notice for today's challenge for 365 Cards I was a bit flabbergasted! 10 patterned papers?!? I think I finally got my first personal experience on the DT of Pam and her "special coffee". And here I thought it was just a myth! Wow!

Oh well, fortunately I have a great sounding board in my wonderful mother so I was saved from jumping off a cliff! [here's a sample of the conversation... ME:"uhm, mom, what would you do to get 10 patterned papers on a card?" MOM: "you know I just saw something that you could probably use...check out this link" ME: "OMG, mom, you're such a lifesaver! The absolute bestest mom in the whole wide world, the bestest cooker, the bestest cleaner, the bestest [fill in the blank...on and on] (sorry you gotta know my mom and mine relationship to get the last part!))

Anyway, I was already thinking of a quilt which I'd done last year, but I liked the one on SCS as it's on an angle and included embossing which gives it even more texture! So while I would love to take the credit for this one...I can't! I spiced up the layout a bit, but overall it's fairly simple. I did keep it monochromatic to keep it even more simple! Here's the inside:

I think I should've worked on the scallops a bit on the inside as they look off, but they really are evenly spaced (well pretty closely at least!). Here's another challenge for this one Die-cut Dreams Challenge Blog - New Beginnings.

Okay, so that's your challenge for today and I can't WAIT to see what you guys come up with!! I'm sure there's some GREAT ideas floating around out there so get cracking!

Lastly, tonight was the deadline and drawing for my blog candy. Well, only 9 people followed the directions to be entered and the winner is....SUE W!!! YAY Sue!! Please email me your snail mail and I'll get that out to you. Thank you to all of you that entered! While I can't give you all the full prize I would love to send those that did enter a little something, so please send me your snail mails too and I'll get something to you!

Aloha and Mahalo everyone,

Magical Monday - 1, 2, 3 ~ Create!

Before I get to today's post, I wanted to remind/let you know that I have a blog candy drawing open until Tuesday night (March 23rd). See the bottom of this post (click on the link to take you there) to find out what you need to do to enter.

Welcome to another edition of Magical Monday at There's Magic in the Air with Paper Cupcakes! This week your able to use any image available in the Paper Cupcakes store or the free image available at the TMITA blog. This week's challenge is by Olga Jewell and she wants "1,2,3 ~ Create." That is to use 1 Paper Cupcake image (your choice), 2 ribbons, and 3 buttons. I used the image "Sammie Shamrock" and yes, I know, St. Patrick's Day was last week, but he's just so darn cute and I didn't want him to get lost in all the other green creations! So some deets: he's colored with my trusty Prismacolor markers, I made a mask for him and then sponged the crushed curry around him to give him a "glow," and I also sponged the grass with wild wasabi. I found the quote on-line (sorry don't remember where). Here's the inside:

And here's some other challenges for this one:

1. Bee Crafty - Spring + a digi

2. Crazy 4 Challenges - Spring

3. digital tuesday challenge - make a St Patricks Day OR a card with lots and lots of green + a digi

4. OCC Weekly Sketch - sketch

5. PaperPlay Challenges - Good Luck/Thank You

6. Rosie D’s - Green, Yellow and White

7. Simon Says - Show us your greens!!

Well, I hope this inspires you to play along with us at TMITA/PCC this week and just to entice you even more, here's what you could win!

Beautiful and in my favorite color too! Thanks for stopping by and can't wait to see your magical creations!

Aloha,