Pumpkin Teddy Bear

Happy Wednesday friends! Here's the last of my Halloween cards this years featuring this adorable teddy bear dressed up like pumpkin. The image is from StampFairy, the sponsor this week of the new challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Here the sketch to follow for the challenge this week. I love the look of this and it goes together quickly. This is quite versatile - can look very vintage with a lacy diecut or more contemporary depending how you mat the oval panel. The same with the strips running horizontally - lace, ribbon or paper (as I used) changes the look of the layout - so many different effects to create with this one sketch! Great job with it Sally!

We're thrilled to have StampFairy again as our sponsor this week. Gerda does such a fantastic job with the adorable images she creates - they are all irresistibly cute, whimsical and loved by all of us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday! 

The grand prize winner of the sketch challenge this week will receive a $10 gift certificate to the StampFairy shop.  Thanks for your generous sponsorship Gerda!

I chose this "Barry Halloween" image to create my card. Barry is my favorite teddy bear at StampFairy and he is so darn cute in his pumpkin costume for Halloween. He was brought to life with copic markers and the papers are from Cosmo Cricket. I found this sketch to be perfect for the larger print DP since it shows a great deal of it. The frilly edge of the orange oval panel (as in the sketch) was created with a larger oval diecut and snipping it all the way around the oval image.

Now pop on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday and take a look at the darling cards the design team created with StampFairy images. You will love them!

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Beachtime Fun

Well we're in the height of the summer now and what a perfect way to send summer happiness than this darling card for the start of the new sketch challenge at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. We're featuring images from StampFairy this week and they are so darn cute!

This is such a fun sketch this week drawn up by our talented Sally. I love all the fun paper combinations you can use - they really draw attention to the focal panel.

We're so happy to welcome back StampFairy as our weekly sponsor. Gerda illustrates the most adorable teddies, kids, bunnies and other sweet characters to create with. You'll always find something cute at StampFairy!

The grand prize winner of our challenge this week will receive a $10 gift certificate at the StampFairy shop - a super generous prize package. Thanks Gerda for your wonderful sponsorship this week!

I chose this sweet StampFairy girl from the Patsy Beachtime collection to create some inspiration for you this week.  She was brought to life with Copic markers and the papers are appropriately called Summer Splash from My Mind's Eye. The pinwheel embellishment was created with a die from Stampin' Up.

So there you have it - a fun summer card for those August birthdays or to celebrate the start of a beachtime vacation.  Be sure to stop by Sweet Sketch Wednesday and gaze at our design team cards using a selection of StampFairy images, including some terrific ones from the StampFairy design team too.  You'll be inspired by everyone's creativity.

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Ahoy Matey!

Ahoy there Matey! It's Wednesday and that means a new challenge at our mother ship Sweet Sketch Wednesday! We have a terrific sketch this week and StampFairy as our sponsor so let's get started.

This sketch is fun and fast to go together and highlights your tall images just perfectly. It was created by our own Sally Dube and I know you'll enjoy working with it.

We all love the adorable images that Gerda creates for StampFairy and are so lucky to have her sponsor the challenge this week. For me it was fantastic to create with StampFairy images again - it's been a while since I was on the team there.

One lucky Grand Prize winner of the challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to the StampFairy shop for playing along at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  Thanks for your generous sponsorship Gerda!

To create my card this week I chose this cute Lenny Pirate image.  Lenny is one of my favorite teddy bears from StampFairy. He was brought to life with Copic markers, a glitter pen on the earring, sword and treasure box as well as crystal lacquer on his nose. I found these perfect papers at Hobby Lobby during our trip last week.  StampFairy images are so fun to color - stop on over to the StampFairy store and try it out for yourself!

Now to see more of these incredible StampFairy digi stamps with our sketch, visit us at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.  The design team pulled out all the stops this week to show off the variety of StampFairy images and you'll be so inspired by what they created.

Thanks for stopping by!

Molly Throughout the Year

Happy Wednesday friends! For those of you in the U.S. I hope you weren't up too late watching the election coverage last night. Try as I might, I succumbed to sleep early on - just can't do the late nights anymore! So we have a new term for the President today and a new sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday! And we welcome StampFairy back as our sponsor this week.

This sketch is one of our monthly blast from the past sketches - a favorite of the team brought back from week 109 back in July 2011. Quick and easy to go together but with wonderful results.

Just for fun, here's my card when we originally debuted this sketch to give you a little added inspiration!

Our wonderful sponsor this week is StampFairy and we all love the sweet, whimsical characters that Gerda creates there. The Grand Prize Winner of the Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge this week will receive a $10 gift certificate to the StampFairy online store. A very generous prize and our thanks to Gerda for supporting us.

I chose this sweet Molly Throughout the Year image from StampFairy to create my card. The collection includes images of Molly for each month and this one is for November. The tree stump is one of the accessories in the collection. First colored with Copics, I cut out Molly and popped her up on the stump for some dimension on the main panel. The papers are from my stash - Bella Blvd's Family Tree.

I created my own embellishment punched out from the background paper in several layers so it would combine beautifully with the card. I love the tree background paper and the colors they bring together.

So there you have it - a fun autumn card to kick off November here at Sweet Sketch Wednesday. Take a stroll over to the blog and see the other wonderful creations from the design Divas using StampFairy images. You'll love what you see there!

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I'll Owl-ways Love StampFairy!

Hi friends and Happy Friday!  Today I'm showing my last card as a designer for StampFairy and a little sad about it too.  I've been on dear, sweet Gerda's team for almost two years and loved every minute creating with the adorable images that she creates. I'll "owl"ways love StampFairy!

Which brings me to this fabulous new release today at StampFairy called Funny Owls!

http://www.stampfairy.com/digistamps_critters_funnyowls.htm

Are these just the cutest images?  I can think of a million ways to use these adorable owls! The owl script is today's freebie and it too is so clever.

I couldn't help but think that these owls would look so fun paper-pieced in plaid and polka-dots. I took the main image and sized it down for the smaller owl and printed two of the larger one and popped it up along with his beak. Half-round pearls were perfect for their eyes. The cloud background and all the other papers used here are digital papers from Raspberry Road. The vine, sprigs and leaves are all MS punches and the flowers were made with MFT rolled rose dies.

I was inspired by this terrific sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches for the layout of my card - what a perfect sketch for this image!  I'm playing along in their challenge this week with this creation.

These fabulous owls have inspired some amazing creations by the StampFairies this week. Hop on over to StampFairy World and take a peek.  I will miss my StampFairy team mates and all their incredible talent and creativity - thanks gals!  And a special thank you to Gerda for the privilege of bringing her amazing characters to life.

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Barry in Circles

Today we have the cutest release of images at StampFairy featuring Barry, our sweet, dear teddy bear peeking out to greet you.  He's the most adorable bear in StampFairy land and I know you'll want to grab these images from the store!

http://www.stampfairy.com/digistamps_misc_barrycircles.htm

Here's the full collection released today called Barry Circles and the star image is today's freebie.

This little cutie was brought to life with Copic markers along with a little crystal lacquer to shine up his nose and a little sparkle on the stars to help them twinkle a bit.  The papers are Simple Stories' Harvest Lane.

http://fridaysketchchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/10/sketch-29-by-shirley.html

I was inspired by this sketch drawn by Shirley over at Friday Sketch Challenge.  Love those sketches there and this one was perfect for this new StampFairy image.  I'm entering my card in their challenge.

So there you have it for this Friday - another fab release at StampFairy.  Take a minute to pop on over to StampFairy World to see the terrific cards that my fellow StampFairies made for your inspiration this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Winter Mimi

Happy Friday friends! It's such a nice end to a very busy week and a good start to a packed full weekend. It is homecoming at the high school this weekend and both my kids will be engaged in all the festivities that this event brings - parade, floats, football, dinner, dance and lots of fun.  I should also mention it brings a day full of prep for my daughter - hair, nails, dress, flowers, etc.  I am exhausted thinking about it now that I have itemized everything here!  So let's divert our attention to the card and the release today of this darling Mimi Winter2 collection at StampFairy...

http://www.stampfairy.com/digistamps_children_mimiwinter2.htm

Here's the full collection - it's the second collection featuring our sweet Mimi in winter scenes.  The sentiment circle is today's freebie.

Isn't she sweet in her digitally paper-pieced dress, hat and scarf?  The fun, colorful papers are called Mod Xmas from Clementine Digitals through the MyGrafico online arts and crafts store.  The snowflake embellishments are made with a MS Cornflower punch with a snowflake button on top, sewn together with little french knots in pink thread. Some sparkly stickles on the image, pearls on the Spellbinders die and some MFT flourish diecuts finish it off.

My layout was inspired by this sketch that Carole created over at the Friday Sketch Challenge. I thought it was a perfect fit with this image and the paper I chose. This card is being entered in their challenge this week.  A couple weeks ago a card I created was selected as one of the design team's top three picks - thanks ladies!

So that's it for today's StampFairy release.  To see more creations from the team of StampFairies using this new image, head on over to StampFairy World.

Thanks for stopping by today!