Have A Tweet Christmas

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I put everything but the kitchen sink of this card as one thing let to another. This ensemble was created for the Lollipop Challenge which is to create a card or project using ribbons and buttons.


Challenge: Lollipop Crafts – Challenge #4
Challenge: Bee Crafty – Challenge #36
Main Stamp: Have A Tweet Christmas (Freshly Brewed)
Patterned Paper: Linen Closet (DCWV)
Cricut Cartridge: Winter Wonderland
Copic Colors: R22, R24, R27, R29, W4, E57, E59, BG0000, BG10, BG11, BG13, YR12, YR14

Did you know? Maize is the most widely grown crop in the Americas with 332 million metric tons grown annually in the United States alone. It is a grass domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The Aztecs and Mayans cultivated it in numerous varieties throughout central and southern Mexico, to cook or grind in a process called nixtamalization. Later the crop spread through much of the Americas. Between 1250 and 1700, nearly the whole continent had gained access to the crop.
[Maize, Wikipedia.org]

Goth Dragon

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Here’s another Dustin Pike dragon – with his teddy in hand, he looks ready for the first day of school. Must be Preschool. The challenge was to create a card or project based on the sketch provided and an anything goes challenge.


Challenge: Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch – Challenge #85
Challenge: Stampin’ for the Weekend – Challenge #45
Main Stamp: Goth Dragon (DPD)
Patterned Paper: Grade School (DCWV)
Spellbinders: Nestabilities Large & Small Octagons
Copic Colors:
-dragon: R22, R24, R27, R29, YR21, YR12, YR14
-bear: G20, G21, G24, Y32, Y35
-clothes: W02, W04, W06, W08, BV01, BV02, BV04
-other: E50, E51, BV01, BV02, BV04, Y32, Y35

Did you know? “Invictus” is a 2009 biographical drama film based on events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid and directed by Clint Eastwood.
[Invictus, Wikipedia.org]

Princess Charlotte

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I created this chart to hang on our fridge and it helps keeps track of whose in charge of family night from week to week. Now all we have to do is see whom the Princess Charlotte has bestowed the coveted privileges to!

Check out the Whiff of Joy Tutorials & Inspirations Blog for details on how to make this project! The challenge entered was anything but a card.


Theme: Whiff of Joy Tutorials & Inspirations Blog
Challenge: I Did It Creations – Challenge #18
Main Stamp: Princess Charlotte (WoJ)
Patterned Paper: Pink Armadillo (DCWV)
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R20
-hair: E43, E44, E47, E49
-clothes: Y000, YR20, YR21, YR12, YR14

Did you know? Alba is the name of a character in the book “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger. Alba can be a girl or boy name and means white, brightness, or dawn.
[The Time Traveler’s Wife, Wikipedia.org]

Fly A Kite

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This digital stamp is actually a freebie created by Dustin Pike. Just passing along a great find – he has loads of fun images at Doodle Dragon Studios – and at a great price too! (Especially the “left over” 2009 images which are $30 for 233 images!) The challenge entered is to use a favorite stamp and summer theme.


Challenge: Sweet Stampin – Challenge #39
Challenge: Paper Pretties Wednesday – Challenge #18
Main Stamp: Fly A Kite (DPD)
Patterned Paper: Animal Crackers (DCWV)
Spellbinders: Nestabilities Labels Eleven
Copic Colors:
-dragon: YR20, YR21, YR12, YR14, 0
-kite: B93, B95, B97, G20, G21, G24
-sky: B0000, B000

Did you know? The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built from 1788 to 1791. Shortly after the Thirty Years’ war and a century before the gate was constructed, Berlin was a small walled city within a star fort. Relative peace, a policy of religious tolerance, and status as capital of the Kingdom of Prussia facilitated the growth of the city. Today, the Brandenburge Gate is considered one of Europe’s most famous landmarks.
[Brandenburg Gate, Wikipedia.org]

Linc

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I made this card using the digital stamp Linc from InStyle Stamps, which is due to be released tomorrow! For this card, after I colored and cut around Linc, I then embossed it to give it texture.

Main Stamp: Linc (ISS)
Patterned Paper: Nana’s Nursery – Baby Girl (DCWV)
Dry Embossing: Cuttlebug Embossing Folders Tiny Bubbles
Copic Colors:
-lion: R11, R12, R14

Did you know? In 1911, Thomas William Burgess, on his sixteenth attempt, became the second man to swim across the English Channel. He later trained Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926, became the first woman to swim across.
[Thomas William Burgess, Wikipedia.org]

Bedtime Stories

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The challenge is to create a card or project using n element of three, which I used the three blue buttons.


Challenge: Wags ‘n Whiskers – Challenge #29
Main Stamp: Bedtime Story (WnW)
Patterned Paper: Mod-Retro (DCWV)
Spellbinders: Nestabilities Large Octagon & Large Octagon Scallops
Copic Colors:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R20
-hair: E17, E19, E18
-clothes: E50, E5, E53, E44, E47, B91, B93, B95
-other: YR20, YR21, YR23, YR24, W1, E44, E47

Did you know? Centralia is ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 7 in 2010 as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962. All properties in the borough were claimed under eminent domain by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1992, and Centralia’s ZIP code was revoked by the Post Office in 2002.
[Centralia, Pennsylvania, Wikipedia.org]