Sugar Creek Hollow 3-2-1 Challenge

Happy Saturday my online friends! What a week with Blogger going haywire and my travel with work. I'm just now trying to recover (actually redo) my posts - and I thought I was so very clever and working ahead! Well you all had the same issues so I won't belabor that. Instead let's go to the new challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow starting today!

This week's challenge is to create a vintage/primitive card using 3 designer papers, 2 die cuts and 1 charm.  We're calling it the 3-2-1 challenge and would love for you to play along with us.

As we've indicated, the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge blog has changed up a bit - now with a strengthened focus on the creation of vintage, shabby chic and/or primitive card styles using a variety of stamp companies.  Well this week, we're focusing on the wonderful images provided by Shelly's Images who is sponsoring our challenge this week.  The winner of the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this week will receive 3 free digi images of their choice from Shelly's Images. Now that's a wonderful prize and hopefully will entice you to join our weekly challenge!

We were so lucky to get Shelly's Images to play with for our inspiration cards this week. For my card, I've used "Pansies" - a beautiful digi stamp that won 2nd place in the first CDAC digi drawing challenge.  I love this stamp and it was such fun to create a vintage card using it. I colored the image with Copics to achieve this look. My three designer papers are from K&Company's Julianne collection. They include the background floral, the green panel behind the image and the blue diecut behind the focal panel. The 2 diecuts include a doily die from MFTStamps "Die-namics" and the "decorative window scene" die, an exclusive from Heartfelt Creations. I thought the charm was perfect for this card because it says "Bloom where you are planted".

I encourage you to visit the Sugar Creek Hollow blog to see more of Shelly's Images used this week in some pretty incredible cards created by our design team.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Cutie Patootie!

Isn't she a cutie patootie?!  This is Baby Dotty with her blankie and it's from StampFairy. Today kicks off another challenge at StampFairy and this week it's all about the girls!

Yep - create a girlie card, whether that's with a girl image or the colors or embellishments you use... and you have to include a sentiment this time. This ought to be pretty easy for most of us - I know it's easier for me to create a female card vs. a guy card!  Please use StampFairy images when creating your card.

Baby Dotty is one of my favorites at StampFairy - how can you resist this adorable image that's so perfect to welcome a friend's new baby home or for scrapbook pages, etc. I colored Baby Dotty with Copics and sponged around her on the main focal panel. Her blanket is paper pieced - all the DP is from Shery K Designs digtal papers "Spring" paper pack. The frame that encircles the image is from Heartfelt Creations and I used my new Spellbinders Ribbon Banners for the sentiment.

Now, since you have to use a StampFairy image for the StampFairy Challenges, what better news than to tell you that everything is 50% off right now in the StampFairy Shop!  Now's the time to stock up on all your favorite digi stamps, including Baby Dotty that I used on my card today.

I sure hope you play along with us in the challenge this week. In the meantime, stop over to the StampFairy challenge blog and see all the design team inspiration. You might just find an image we've used that you just got to have!

Thanks for stopping by!