Z is for Zoo

A big thanks goes out to all of you who participated in our Birthday Blog Hop at ABC Challenges!  The winner of the Robyn's Fetish prize featured on my blog is......

Gram's Treasures

Congratulations!!!  Make sure you check out the ABC Blog for the full list of winners and who to contact for your prize!

Now on to this weeks challenge.  The letter is Z, and Z is for Zoo.  We'd like to see you use zoo animals on your creation!  We are sponsored this week again by Robyn's Fetish:

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and 

is owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,                                                                                                      

designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

So here I have colored one of the lovely images the design team received.  When I saw how much fun this elephant was having, I just thought balloons!  

I kept it simple by stamping, coloring, and cutting out the elephant and balloons, and sponged a background with blues and browns.  Strings were then wrapped around the elephants trunk and attached to the balloons!  Hope this card makes you smile!

Surprises at Dream Valley!

Hello and happy Sunday!  I'm a scheduling this post as nine year old is playing one of possibly two baseball tournament games today.  Go Barrington! 

It has been baseball, baseball, baseball around here, but I managed to make this card for Dream Valley in between times!  This fortnight we would like to see a surprise on your creation.  It could be a surprise fold, pop up etc.  Our sponsor is Digi's With Attitude.  

I have made a napkin fold card.  You can find the tutorial for it here.  Here is a picture of the first layer:

here it is all decorated:

and here is the finished product all folded together:

I got all of the prep work done, looked at it and then decided not to decorate it anymore!  I liked it the way it was.  The only problem with that is that there's no stamping!  Eek!  Oh well, I like it anyway! lol Just a tip:  If you are making the napkin fold card, use a colored base paper instead of white, then you don't need as much patterned paper to cover it all.  Saves more dp for later!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Tip Top Tuesday - Shaped card

Totally Gorjuss #90 - Punch or Die Cut

Blog Hop Extended

Hello blogging friends!  No card today, just a little note to let you know that our Birthday Blog Hop at ABC Challenges has been extended for another week!  Make sure you comment on everyones blog for a chance to win cool prizes!  You can find my post here!   Have a great day!

Dream Valley Challenge #11 - Summer Theme

This Sunday at Dream Valley we are thinking Summer!  It's warming up to be a hot one, so lets see all of those wonderful summer projects!  We are sponsored this fortnight by One Stop Card Crafts.  They have kindly donated this:

For my project I have used Tilda Surfing.  

This is the first time I have colored my image and then used clear embossing powder to do emboss resist on the whole image.  I like how it was easier to make the background, but I'm not sure I like the embossing pen that I have used.  It seems to have made Tilda's face green.  Maybe the wave twisted and turned her a bit and she's feeling ill! lol

These are the copics I have used:

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Under the Sea/Water Theme

2 Sister Challenge - Summertime Fun

Crazy 4 Challenges - Summer Theme

One Stop Craft Challenge - Summer Time

Totally Papercrafts - The Beach

Have a great week and don't forget to show us some summer at Dream Valley!

ABC Challenges is Turning 2!!! Let's have a hop!

Yup it's blog hop time here at ABC!  We are officially turning 2!  Two years of challenges, what an accomplishment!  We have a great hop planned for you, so if you are just stumbling in, make sure you check out the challenge site for all the info.  The one requirement that is very important is that you comment on ALL the hop participants to be eligible for all the awesome prizes.  Also don't forget to play in our challenge!  This time it is Y is for Yesterday.  Use your favorite older stamp!  This hop will last for two weeks, so there is plenty of time for crafting and perusing!

If you have arrived here from Jackie's Blog then you are on the right track.  If you are out of order don't forget to stop at the ABC Challenge Blog to make sure you see everyone!

The lovely company that I am showcasing is Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and 

is owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers,                                                                                                      

designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More will award either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and one paper pack of the winner's choice!

I am using a stamp from Robyn's Fetish called Hog Wild Over You, that you can find here.  

Stamp:  Robyn's Fetish:  Hog Wild Over You digi, sentiment added via word processing.

Copics:  Y000, Y13, C5, BV01, V17, B91, B95, B97, R46, R81, R83, R85

Paper:  pink patterned from Stampin' Up, gray from my scrap box

Silver Ribbon from my stash

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

Creatalicious Challenges - sketch

Sentimental Sunday's - Sentiment+Anything goes

Stamp Something - use a digi

The next stop on the hop is Angelique!  Have a great day!