Lexi's Creations #16- Something Old

Good morning Everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! It's Monday, and time for another challenge at Lexi's Creations! The week we want you to use something old. The sponsor this week is Joanna Sheen and she has donated 10 voucher for her store.

I have used one of Lexi's new images this week...she is called Chin Lan, and you can get her here. My something old is my paper...had this pack for ages and when I saw this image I new it would be perfect for this paper.

This card follows a sketch at Create 4 Fun. I wanted her to have very light skin, so I used E50 &51 for her skin and her dress was colored with C1. You can't see it in the pic, but I also glimmered her dress and the background. The flowers and ribbon are from my stash and the pearls are Basic Gray.

Well, that's it for me for now. Hope you all have a great day and I'll be back tomorrow! Don't forget to stop by the rest of the DT to see their fab creations!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

Create 4 Fun: Sketch

Cute Card Thursday: Anything But a Square

Allsorts: Lace/Buttons

Barely Mine Digi Paper Release

Barely Mine is having a new digi paper release tomorrow, the 12th. Two cute new sets, and she's giving each away to one random winner! Stop by to check out these awesome papers and see how you can win!

Elf Tilda

Today I finally have another Maggie for you! I gonna try to make these more often and will start coloring them up today, so be prepared. Anyway, I started this in hope that it would be done on time to get into the Just Magnolia challenge, but I ran out of time. Never fear, I can enter other challenges! So, on with it then!

I made this an easel card and used one of my new maggies so it can go into the Manolia-licious Birthday Bash challenge. This first bit of this went pretty easily, but after I got the corners and the circle for her background done it was a little slow going. Using these little flowers is brand new to me and I'm trying to get a feel for using more embellishments, so that took me a while. Just to note, the whole front face of this card is on tiny 1/16" pop-up dots...it's actually pretty neat looking!

Here is a close-up of Tilda. Those pretty flowers you see are from Wild Orchid...Love them! If you've been wondering about them but were sure about shipping and such, do order them, they are so reasonably priced and the shipping in probably less than what you'd spend having it whipped from the states...I actually could've doubled my order for and had no change in shipping...but I'm tryng out this new thing, not using credit cards, so I couldn't...but, I will be saving up for next time!

Here is the inside. I kept it pretty simple and haven't written anything as I don't know what this will be used for. However, I've thought of tons of little things I could write to go along with the 'A Little Sparkle' that's on the front. Well, that's about it, I hope you've enjoyed my little Tilda and are having a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

xxAutumn

Recipe:

DP is MME

MS punch

Ribbons from stash(from Hobby Lobby)

Wild Orchid flowers

Glimmer Mist(my own mixture)

Stickles

Basic Gray pearls

Sentiment was cut with Tinker Bell cartridge

Challenges:

Magnolia Down Under-Polka Dots

MBB- New stamp and easel

Simon Says- Recipe-1 image, 2DP, 3 types of embellies

SMC #17 - Christmas ABC

It's Friday, and that means time for a new challenge at Sew Many Challenges! This week we want to see a Christmas themed anything but a card! Our sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe` and the winner will receive three sets from them.

Miki Angel from Sew Many Cards

I decided to make a little tag. I think this image is so adorable, and who doesn't need tags at Christmas! I created the tag using my software and shrinking Miki down a bit. For the one with the snowflake background I printed the tag on that paper then printed out the white on , colored Miki, then cut him out and put him on the snowflake paper tag...took me about 10min. Thought I should show you one not paper-pieced as well so that's what the other one is. Don't you just love what you can do with digi's! I really like how this turned out and I think I will be using him to make some name and address labels as well. Well, that's it for me, make sure to stop by and see what the rest of the DT has for you!

xxAutumn

Explosion Box with Miki

Well, I've been working hard this week, and I hope it shows. I feel like my craftiness has been a bit lacking lately and I thinks it's because I've been so rushed to get things done that I can't think straight. Anyway, life has finally calmed down a bit and I decided that it was ok for me to go out, ALONE, and color for a bit on the weekends...I think this will help me loads! Okay, enough about that and on to the project!

I have a lot of pic's so I'll try to keep this short. This is the box closed...A view from the top and the side. I've made and octagon exploding box...in case this is looking a little weird to you.

I first saw this box here and the lovely lady who made it posted the link the instructions which can be found here. This was tons of fun to make!

Take the top off and poof....look what happens! I have arranged the boxes unevenly so that it looks a bit like a flower when it opens...I think this is really cool! I couldn't get this under my Ott Lite, so the lighting here is not great, but at least you get the concept.

Last but not least, here is a close-up of the adorable 'Miki with Love Blocks' from Sew Many Cards that I put on the inside. Well, I have to say that surprisingly this came out just as I had envisioned...better even! I actually did set aside all the colors I used for this, but forgot to photograph them....I will try to do it later.

I had originally thought this could be something I could give to my husband, but the more I got into it the more girly it became, lol! I like to give just because gifts so I think I will save it and give ti to a close girl friend of family member...my husband would not appreciate this at all! All the papers I used are from the BoBunny persuasion line. I hand made the flower on top...it's been sitting around for while. The sentiment on the tag is handwritten and the pink lace is from MME Laundry Line.

I think that about does it for all the info. Hope you've enjoyed my project! If I can get the time, I'll have a Maggie for you tomorrow and Friday it's time for another SMC challenge, so stay tuned! Have a great day!

xxAutumn

Challenges:
Project Tuesday: Explosion Box

Lexi's Doodles

Hi all! Just wanted to pop in and let you know that Lexi of Lexi's creations challenge and Lexi's Doodles is having a sale right now! Buy One Get One Free! Her images are so reasonably priced already you can't afford to miss this! Plus, Lexi has a bunch of new images(samples shown above), so go here and pick some up!

Beach Baby

Today, I am showcasing an adorable image from SMC's sponsor this week: The Stamping Boutique. They have tons to choose from over there so be sure to check them out and enter the SMC challenge for your chance to win!

Beach Baby With Hat

from The Stamping Boutique

Image Close-Up


When I got this image I was both excited and terrified! I love it, but I have never colored in something so detailed and I wasn't sure I was gonna be able to do this justice. I don't think it turned out too bad, although I'm still not certain about the sun. This took me quite some time to color...I'm a bit of a slow colorer, lol...but I quite enjoyed it!

After I completed the front of this card I decided it would make a cool easel card, so I decided to turn it into one. I have to say, I'm really lovin the pink, black, and white together; so I think I'm gonna have to make a card with those colors soon!

Here is the inside of the card using my first computer generated sentiment, yay! As usual I cut the paper the size I wanted before thinking of doing this, but I found a solution...one everyone already knows about, I'm sure. I printed this off on test paper then aligned my small paper up with where i wanted it printed and taped the two together and printed...so easy, why did I not think of that before???

Here are the colors I used. Well, most of them, I cannot seem to find one of my blues B32, but other than that they should all be there. Well, that's it for me today, I will also be entering this into some challenges...one of which is a new challenge they have at The Stamping Boutique...It's a month long challenge and all you have to do is use a TSB image and the random will will receive 5 free images. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have enjoyed my card and don't forget you still have a couple more days to enter at SMC for a chance to win some of these beauties!

Have a great day!
xxAutumn

Challenges:
Whimsical Wednesdays: Photo Inspiration
Cupcake Craft: Dazzle Us-use some sparkle
Pollycraft: Ribbon and Bling
PaperPlay: Flowers and sparkle