The Circus is Coming to Town!

Hip Hip Hooray! The circus is on the way to the Pixie Dust Studio web store on Friday! Don't miss it, there are tons of cute images in this new release!

I used Peanut the Elephant for my Sneak Peek card today. Since he's a circus elephant I thought he would look cute in Aqua. hehe. I pulled out this fun old Sassafras Lass paper with such a cute circus look to it :) Here's a closeup of him:

Be sure to head to the Pixie Dust Studio Blog for more sneak peeks and also to the blogs of the rest of our fabulous Design Team! And tomorrow I will be back with another peek for this weeks new Pixie Challenge!

Erin

Cat

Cyndi

Danni

Gudrun

Joyce-Challenge Blog Coordinator

Karen

Margie- DT Coordinator

Shelly

Tasha

Taylor

Challenge List:

Pile It On: Come out to Play (circus)

Stamp Something: Anything Goes

Spoonful of Sugar: Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments: Buttons

Karen's Doodles: Bold and Bright

Hope you have a Happy Hump Day! Thanks for swinging by my blog :)

-Cyndi

Missing Post

As most of you know, Blogger had some major hiccups that last couple of days. They are supposed to put the missing posts and comments back up. Until then here is my card for this weeks Pixie Dust Studio Challenge. If you have any questions until the post goes back up, feel free to email me :)

Card uses Japanese Princess available at the Pixie Dust Studio Store.

We would love for you to play along with us in this weeks Make it Shiny Challenge!

-Cyndi

Dino-Mite Release Day!

Its a Dino-mite Day at Pixie Dust Studio! The Dino-mite Collection has got to be one of the cutest ones Kathy has ever drawn! (Do I say say that every time??) I have a card for you today using 2 of the new images, meet Paris the Cave Girl and Princess Dino.

I colored them with some nice warm earthy tones and pulled out this fun Sassafras Lass paper to work with. The little sentiment is by CC Designs and I stamped it vertically over in the corner :) Paris comes with the cute little pet Dino (hehe)

Here's a closeup of her face. I didn't glitter her at all, I figured they probably didn't have any bling and sparkles in the Pre Historic Days. I did however just HAVE to paint her toenails!! (AND her pet Dino's too)

Here's a closeup of Princess Dino. I am just in love with these images and the colors with them, aaackk!!

So here is the rest of the collection (Scroll down for a card from yesterday with the Dino-Mite Wink called "Your Love is Dinomite). Head over to Pixie Dust Studio to pick up your collection NOW! Run and beat the stampede!!

Challenge List:

Fab n Funky: Lets Get Warm & Toasty

Pile It On: All about the Cute Children

Digi Stamp 4 Joy: Button Up!

One Stop Craft Challenge: Card for a Child

AI Factory: Anything Goes

• Supplies:
• Stamps:Paris the Cavegirl & Princess Dino digis (Pixie Dust Studio); sentiment (CC Designs)
• Paper: Sassafras Lass pp; Bo Bunny Blueberry Dot cs; Bazzill; Neenah
• InK: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: buttons (Basic Grey, SU!); ribbon (May Arts); stickers (Sassafras Lass); Copic markers

What's in the Toybox?

Game on, duuuuuude. This is Gamer-a-saurus. He is my absolute fav of the new Toybox images from Pixie Dust Studios!! And, the good news is , the toybox is now open! Head over to the Pixie Dust store to pick your up!!

I love dinos, and we are definitely a gaming family... I think we have just about every model of every make out there from the 360 back to the original Nintendo 64! But hey, thats 4 kids in the house, plus mom is a tech geek big kid too :)

Gamer is just one of the adorable images that are in the new Toybox Collection from Pixie Dust Studio. Below you can see all the rest of the fun toys!

Here's the list of supplies plus my copics :)

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Gamer-a-saurus digi (Pixie Dust Studio); alphabet (Stampendous)
• Paper: Bungle in the Jungle pp (Sassafras Lass); Bazzill cs; Neenah white cs
• Ink: Lipstick Red Tim Holtz distress ink (Ranger)
• Accessories: Octogon Nestabilties (Spellbinders); ribbon (Michael's); star sticker (Sassafras Lass); copic markers; stapler

Friends Forever

Good morning Wednesday! (said in a voice mimicking of Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam) Bwaaa. You know, none of my kids have ever even heard of that movie. Not to mention The World According to Garp, or Dead Poets Society. A whole other side to the comedian they fell in love with as the Genie. Hmm...time for intervention.

OK, off my sidetrack of the day. I have a card I started eons ago for you today. I colored this Pixie Dust Studio image for some challenge or another a long time back and just pulled it out to finish it into a card yesterday.

I had a fight with my DD about if this was a raccoon or a cat. I knew it was supposed to be a raccoon, but I first tried to color it to look like a cat. She just rolled her eyes. So, I fixed it but didn't tell her.

The main image is "July Pixie" from Pixie Dust Studio, and I added the bird from "Gnome Playtime" to the top of her hat. Now the nice thing about digis is that you can manipulate all this in Adobe before you ever print it. But I am just lazy. I print them both, cut them out, then adhere one over the other.

OK, so here's the list of challenges for this baby! I don't usually do so many, but as I was looking for sketches and stuff more kept popping up that kept changing how this card finally turned out!

Pixie Dust Studio: Fur or Feathers

The Pink Elephant Challenge: Recipe

Fab 'n' Funky: Photo Vibe

Papertake Weekly: Animal Magic

Cute Card Thursday: Tweet & a Flutter

Our Creative Corner: sketch

Thanks for popping in today! Lots more in store for you this week: Pixie Dust Studio new challenge tomorrow, InStyle Stamps new Chloe Sneak peek tomorrow, InStyle Stamps blog hop on Friday, last call for my Blog Candy on Friday, and new Stampendous sketch challenge this Saturday!!

-Cyndi

Pile it on Challenge...

I was in the mood to make some cards for fun this week, it never happens, you know?? This is one image I have been dying to color for a while, this is Dancin' Kaylee from Some Odd Girl. I paired her with some fun Sassafras paper from the Anthem collection.

She kind of turned into a tent card, since I just couldn't contain her all on the A2 card base, but I like her hanging off the top! The inside is also a bit decorated, firstly because the "You rock" was a bit big, but also by changing the outside sentiment to "Hey Chick" it becomes a play on words!

Above is the inside of the card. Below are the supplies that I used, and here's the list of challenges that I entered this card in...

Pile It On Challenge #35...pile on the Layers

Cute Card Thursday... Play on words

Fab -n- Funky Challenge...whateva

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Dancin' Kaylee (Some Odd Girl); sentiments (Unity)
• Paper: Anthem pp (Sassafras Lass); cs Bo Bunny & Bazzill
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: Large Circle Nesties & Blossom Nesties (Spellbinders); button (Basic Grey); ribbon (Bazzill); chipboard arrow (Technique Tuesday); copics (Imagination International)

Thanks for surfing by today! -Cyndi

Zoo Memories

I was doing a bit of moving and reorganizing in my scrap room this weekend and was trying to find some more layouts to post. Here's one I made a couple of years back and don't know if I ever blogged it back then??

This is Rachael and a bunch of her friends at a zoo trip with the Middle School in 6th grade I think. The papers are from Sassafras Lass and October Afternoon, stamps are all from Unity.

I love the way this owl and mushrooms match the paper almost perfectly! The title and the quote at the bottom were embossed. Flowers are by Prima, dewdrops from Robin's Nest.

One last closeup for you...heres the hidden tag under the photo with all the girls' names on it.

Alrighty, thats it for now. I will have my InStyle Stamps color challenge for you tomorrow and my Pixie Dust Studio challenge card for you Thursday.

Also today I have a NEW layout over at my store blog, The Scrappy Chick Boutique blog. It was made using some of the papers that will be on m first kit coming soon!!

Have a great week and thanks for visiting!!

-Cyndi

Spring Flower

Hey all! Sharing a card tonight I made a few days ago with an image that I won from Spesch Designer Stamps! Spesch sponsored Oh, Alice! a couple of weeks back when I won the challenge that week and I got a gift certificate! I picked out a bunch of really cute images by Star. This is the first one I colored.

She is so stinking adorable and I love the way she turned out colored to go with some funky Sassafras Lass paper in my stash. Also cut a couple of Butterflies and airbrushed them to match :) Here's the closeup of her.

That's it tonight! Check in tomorrow for the InSTyle Stamps July Blog Hop! Thanks for popping by!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Spring Flower digi (Spesch Designer Stamps); Thank you (Lizzie Anne Designs)
• Paper: Serendipity pp (Sassafras Lass); brown cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah); pink cs (Core'inations)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Labels 5 & Flying Beauties (Spellbinders); Copics & ABS 1 (Imagination International); ribbon (SU!); white gel pen(Signo); brown pen (American Crafts); Glitter pen (Sakura)

Nothing is as it Seems...

Tuesday was June 1st, and do you know what day that was? The release on DVD of Alice on Wonderland. Of course I bought it first thing at Target, while still at a cheap price. So we had family night last night. Daddy starting snoring just a bit in. No surprise he didn't like it.

So, anywho I as all in the mood for a bit of something curiouser and curiouser. Time for the "Oh Alice" Challenge! I used this darling white rabbit from Pixie Dust Studio. So of course I just had to do the Pixie Challenge too. They actually coordinate well together, as the Alice challenge is to incorporate swirls and the Pixie challenge is to use something round.

I picked my papers accordingly too...using this fun Whale line from Sassafras Lass. Picked up the paper pad at Michael's last year. There are swirls on the pattern (which also goes round) and then I got to use my brand new Clockworks Cuttlebug embossing folder on the grey panel...lots of round clocks and gears on that!

Also picked up some old "stuff" from a basket in my stash...buttons, brads and flowers from a scrapbook kit from ages ago...no idea the make of any of that! The pom poms (also round) are from Bazzill, and the black ribbon is I think Creative Impressions. Sentiment was downloaded from Sassy Studio Designs in a set.

OK, off to work this morning! Thanks for stopping in, gimme a hollar!

-Cyndi

Oh Alice! I'm Mad about you!

OK, so its down to 2 days and counting til we get to go see this movie! I simply can't wait! Can't be late! Have you stumbled upon the new Alice in Wonderland Challenge blog yet? How exciting that there are other fanatics out there :0 And all the lovely companies are inspiring with all the new releases of Alice & friends images!

This weeks challenge is "Running in a sketchy Circle"...and you can see the sketch HERE. I ordered up a few digis just for the occasion and the first one I couldn't wait to color was this jolly mad hatter called "A touch of Depp" from Pixie Dust Studio. Mwaahh! Love him, and what better name could he have I ask?

I colored hi with my copics to match this fun and quirky Sassafras Lass paper called Monstrosity. It just seemed to work! I added a touch of ribbon and buttons and of course a Ribbon Tag Trio sentiment. The sentiment is from a digi set called "Sassyland Sentiments" from Sassy Studio Designs. Warning! I got a couple of digi Sassy Alices while there I will use soon!

OK, I am outta here! Gotta long day at work tomorrow (Thursday) so you'll make my day if you say hi! I can read comments on my Blackberry while trudging through the day! Thanks for stopping in!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: A touch of Depp digi (Pixie Dust Studio); Sassyland Sentiments digi (Sassy Studio designs)
• Paper: Monstosity pp (Sassafras Lass); white cs (Neenah), other cs (Bazzill)
• Ink: none
• Accessories: Large and Small Circle Nestabilites & Ribbon Tag Trio (Spellbinders); buttons (Bo Bunny); ribbon (stash); Copic markers: E0000, C3, C7, C9, 0, Y15, Y19, YG13, YG17, R27, YR68, BG10, BG15, BG45, BG18

SC268: Shopping Diva

Good morning! Its a beautiful Sunday here in NC! Starting to feel like I actually live in the South. So, I had a bit of stamping time last night while Michael played on the Xbox. The day was spent driving kids to and from so a break was nice!

But, on the kids note I did get a call that Rachael's Math Counts team placed 2nd in the Regional competition yesterday! WooHoo! State Competition here we come!

Did you notice I added a few blinkies? I was having problems rearranging my gadgets and I thought it was Blogger. No. It was using Chrome as my browser. Firefox is better. Go figure.

OK, but enough of kids and tech talk. Back to the stamping, right? Well, one of the blinkies I added is a "Pixie Dust Challenge Star". I won the challenge last week at The Pixie Dust Challenge blog with my pink/black/red/white card which you can see HERE! Cool!

So, I won a free image and I chose "Shopping Diva" from Pixie Dust Studio. She even comes with her own little "Princess Pup" bonus image! Here she is a bit more close up:
I think I should have left well enough alone when I added the Glimmer Mist at the end, it made her a bit fuzzy for the photo. She was supposed to appear glitzy...which she does IRL, but the photos don't take well of Glimmer Mist and leave the crispness of the image in tack. Oh, well. Next time I will snap the photo, and THEN glimmer the card!

I used the sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers as the layout for the card. The sentiment is from an adorable set by Unity that has been very lonely for a long time. The rest of the supplies are listed below for those interested. The copics I used are also pictured below.
Well, thats it for now, but I am scheduling a post for you tomorrow since I won't have time to get one up then. As always thanks for stopping by and thanks for all the lovely comments!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Shopping Diva & Princess Pup digis (Pixie Dust Studio); Shopaholic (Unity)
• Paper: Mocha Divine (Bazzill); white (Neenah); Serendipity Robotics pp (Sassafras Lass)
• Ink: Palette Burnt Umber (Stewart Superior); Celedon, Paprika, Bark Versacolor (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: Labels 4 Nestabilties (Spellbinders); Patina Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels); buttons (My Minds Eye); flowers (Prima); Copic markers BG000, BG10, BG32, BG49, E000, E00, E11, E59, E57, E55, E41, E44, R39, C0 & ABS1 (Imagination International)

SC266: Gothic Roxy

Here's the card I made for this weeks sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. I used a digi image from The Greeting Farm that I bought and colored a few weeks ago but never got around to finishing.

Gothic Roxy is colored to match the fun paper that I bought by Sassafras Lass which has been calling my name. I also used my new Animal Print Sizzix folder on the green panel, but its hard to see in the photo.

(ETA) Oh! And I forgot, I am also entering this card for Cute Card Thursday's "Spots & Dots" challenge.

Another post is right behind this one, so look out! Thanks for visiting! -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Gothic Roxy digi (The Greeting Farm); Birthday wishes (A Muse)
• Paper: Turquoise, pink, green cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah); pp (Sassafras Lass)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Accessories: brads (Bazzill); flower (Prima); Zebra print embossing folder (Sizzix); punches (SU!); Copic markers