I am the DIva Weekly Challenge #58

If you are here for the World Card Making Blog Hop please scroll down.

For my regular readers this post is a bit different. Recently, I have been exploring other areas of art, including art journaling, drawing and Zentangle. Zentangle, ia a way of creating beautiful images using repetitive patterns that is both fun and relaxing. You can learn more about it here: http://www.zentangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=99.

This week I am participating in a Zentangle Challenge on the I am the Diva Blog, http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2012/02/weekly-challenge-58.html, in honor of the Four Diamonds Fund for cancer patients at Penn State Hershey's Childrens Hospital.

Have a blessed day,

Carol

Basic Grey Use Up Your Scraps Challenge

If you are here for the World Card Making Day Blog Hop, scroll down.

Basic Grey's weekly challenge is to use up your scraps. I just got the new Piccadilly collection and did not really have any scraps yet. So I decided to use a piece of the packaging as my scrap. On the cover of the packaging there are small pictures of each of the patten papers in the pack. I cut a piece of this to make my card front. Now that really is getting my money's worth out of the entire collection pack.


Thanks for stopping by,
Carol

World Card Making Day Winners Blog Hop

Welcome to ScrapHappy Studio and the World Card Making Day Winners Blog Hop! I am glad that you are visiting today. There will be prizes along the way, so, be sure to leave comments for all the participants to increase your chance of winning some goodies!

You should have arrived from the lovely Becky Olsen's Blog.

First off, I would like to thank Paper Crafts and the many sponsors of the contest for such a fabulous honor and wonderful prize package! Believe me, it was just like Christmas when I opened my prize boxes! So fun!

I want to share my WCMD winning entry, in case you have not yet seen it in the March/April 2012 Issue of Paper Crafts Magazine. My card, Hello Foxy, was one of four winners in the Hello/Thinking of You category. I have never won anything like this contest before and was so thrilled when I was informed.

I have been making cards for awhile and began to submit my work for publication about two years ago. I have had one other project published by Paper Crafts Magazine in the 2011 Special Issue, Holiday Cards & More Vol. 6. Here's a picture of that project, a Christmas Stocking garland.


I have also had some projects published in other publications and I thought I would share a few of those with you today as well. I love my Cricut Expression (oh, and the Zing Die Cutting machine I won too!) and I make a lot of cards with the adorable images available. Here's some that were published last year:

If you love this craft as much as I do, I encourage you to submit your projects to magazines and contests. I do not paper craft to win contests or be published but it sure is exciting when it happens, so give it a try.

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I've been up to in my studio. I do have a surprise box of crafting goodies for one lucky commenter and a copy of the March/April Issue of Paper Crafts Magazine for another, where you can see all the winning entries and some other fab projects as well.

Here's what you need to do to have a chance to win:

1. Become a Follower of my blog.

2. Leave a comment on today's post, let me know you are a Follower.

3. Comments close on Monday, February 20th at 11:59 PM PST.

4. Sorry, but due to shipping costs, only US addresses are eligible to win my prize box. Anyone is eligible to receive the complimentary copy of Paper Crafts Magazine.
5. The winners will be posted on my blog on Wednesday, February 22. Winners will need to contact me so that I can get the prizes shipped.

Thanks for stopping by, have a blessed day,
Carol

Now onto your next stop, the fabulous Julie Day

Here's the fulll blog hop order in case you get lost along the way.

Paper CraftsAlyssa ScritchfieldAmber DaigreBecky OlsenCarol BloombergJulie DayKelley EubanksKelly RasmussenLaurie WillisonLisa PetrellaPatricia FolchertSavannah O'GwynnSharon DunnStephanie WashburnTerri DavenportTifany DeGoughTrinh ArrietaVanessa MenhornVeronica Zalis
Wendy Frederick

OR

Paper Crafts - http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/Alyssa Scritchfield - http://critterlyss.blogspot.comAmber Daigre - damasklove.blogspot.comBecky Olsen - http://lifeasathreeleggeddog.blogspot.com/Carol Bloomberg - http://scraphappystudio.blogspot.comJulie Day - www.daydesigns.blogspot.comKelley Eubanks - http://www.myfrontporch-kelley.blogspot.comKelly Rasmussen - http://krcreations.blogspot.com/Laurie Willison - www.soapboxcreations.blogspot.comLisa Petrella - http://bellalistona.blogspot.comPatricia Folchert - www.patriciasperspectives.blogspot.comSavannah O'Gwynn - http://savannahland2.blogspot.com/ {Including Linda Dreiling’s project and giveaway}Sharon Dunn - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharon_d_from_canada/Stephanie Washburn - http://sweetstephcardcreations.blogspot.com/Terri Davenport - http://terridavenport.blogspot.comTifany DeGough - http://inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/Trinh Arrieta - www.cardediem.comVanessa Menhorn - http://wingsofabutterfly-vanessa.blogspot.com/Veronica Zalis - http://lk2thestarz.blogspot.comWendy Frederick - http://happystampingdesigns.blogspot.com/

Die Cutting Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

Here's my entry for the Die Cutting Challenge on the Moxie Fab Blog, http://www.moxiefabworld.com/search?updated-max=2012-01-10T06:00:00-05:00&max-results=10.

I used my Cricut Expression and the Accents Essentials cartridge to cut the elements on this card. I did a negative die cut image of the floral flourish and backed it with a piece of green striped pattern paper using pop dots to give a shadow box effect. I then added die cut flowers that I cut in two colors, dry embossed and then layered with a brad as the flower center. I finished it off with a simple birthday sentiment banner. I really like how the shadow box effect turned out, so I think I'll be using that again.


Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Have a blessed day,
Carol

Unity Kit of the Month January Sketch Challenge

This month's Kit of the Month Sketch Challenge is:

Here's my take on the sketch using bits and pieces from three different Kits of the Month, KOM August 2009, January 2011 and April 2011. It is fun to mix and match and come up with new combinations.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Carol

Unity Stamp Company Challenge

This month's Unity Challenge is all about gift giving. So, I made a cute birthday gift tag using the Unity/Jillibean Soup co-branded set Spotted Owl Soup. I have not used this set much and it was fun to get it out and ink it up. I used my Copics to color the image and made my own background paper using one of the smaller stamps in the set. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.



Have a blessed day,
Carol

Stampendous January 2012 Challenge

This month's Stampendous Challenge is to use lots of bling on a project. I made this card using Stampendous Clear sets SSC113 and SSC134. After stamping the vine and leaf images, I colored them using Prismacolor pencils and added Stampendous Silver Blossom Sparklers Class A Peel Stickers. I used some blue gemstones for the flower centers. It needed a bit more bling so I used a beaded flower embellishment as the main focal point. I really enjoyed combining the stickers and flower with the stamped elements.



Thanks for taking a look, please leave a much appreciated comment.

Have a great day,
Carol

Our Craft Lounge Challenge 99

Our Craft Lounge is having a Color Challenge. Look at this fabulous color combination below.


Here's what I came up with for the challenge:

Thanks for visiting today,

Carol

Stampendous Saturday Challenge

Here's my entry for the Stampendous Color Challenge. We had to use Pink, Brown, Cream and/or gold.

My flowers are stamped using the Ruffled Blooms stamp set by Stampendous with Versamark ink. I then colored the flowers with pink chalk and the background with gold chalk. I added brown to the flower centers using a colored pencil and then sprayed gold alcohol ink mist around the edges of the card stock. I stamped the sentiment, added ribbon and adhered it to the card stock using pop dots.



Thanks for stopping by today,
Carol

Lawn Fawn CHA Winter 2012 Challenge

Lawn Fawn CHA Winter 2012 Challenge

Here's my entries for the Lawn Fawn Stamps CHA Challenge. They are looking for cards that can be displayed in their catalog and at the Winter CHA Show.

Thanks for visiting,

Carol

Zentangle Give Away

I Am the Diva is having a fabulous give away to celebrate her achievment of 200,000 hits on the blog! Whoa! She is generously giving away some fab Zentangle goodies so go check it out at
http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2011/11/passing-celebration-on-to-you.html?showComment=1321726659199#c1940620033499906425

Have a happy day,
Carol

World Card Making Day Winner!!!

I am so thrilled to announce that one of my cards has been chosen as a winner in the 2011 World Card Making Day Contest sponsored by Paper Crafts Magazine and a boatload of wonderful, generous companies in the Paper Crafting industry. I submitted 11 cards to the contest and though I know the card chosen is in the Hello/Thinking of You Category, I do not yet know which card it is because I submitted several in that category. The winning cards will be published in the March/April 2012 Issue of Paper Crafts Magazine, so be on the lookout for that issue!

Congrats to all the other winners in the contest and thanks to Paper Crafts Magazine, the judges, and the sponsors for all they do to enhance this fabulous craft! See the official post and list of winners here:

http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/blog/2011/10/drum-roll-please-world-card-making-day-2011-winners/

Have a blessed day,
Carol

World Card Making Day!

Happy World Card Making Day! Here's some Hello/Thinking of You cards I made today:

Happy World Card Making Day! Here's some Hello/Thinking of You cards I made today:

World Card Making Day

Happy Worl Card Making Day! Here's some of my birhtday card entries:

My Pink Stamper: Christmas Card Challenge

Happy World Card Making Day!

Here's one card I made for My Pink Stampers Christmas Card Challenge:

Bella Blvd's Newest Releases

Have you seen Bella Blvd's new collections introduced at CHA Summer??? They are the cutest thing eva!! There are four collections: Christmas Wishes, Making The Team, Finally Fall and Too Cute To Spook. I honestly can't tell you which one I love the most, they are all so great in their own way. I have already created some cards to submit to Bella Blvd. for their Design Team Call. I will share those here on my blog when I am able. In the meanwhile, check out the collections below or visit the Bella Blvd Blog (www.bellablvd.typepad.com) and take a look at all the great projects posted there. While you're at it you can view their latest catalog, which will give you a more close up view of all the elements in each collection. If you're like me, you'll fall in love with all 4 collections and order them all, I got mine at www.twopeasinabucket.com. ;)

Thanks for stopping by, have a blessed day!

Carol

Have You Heard???

Have you heard that Doodlebug Design Inc. has a brand new blog?? Their products are so adorable and so easy to use and now we have a blog to visit for some fabulous Doodlebug inspiration! Right now they are having a give away of their yummy Baker's Twine through, the winner will be chosen on September 1, 2011. So hurry over to the NEW Doodlebug Design Blog and check it out! http://www.doodlebugblog.com/
Thanks so much for visiting today!

Carol

The Twinery Anniversary Celebration Continues

Don't forget to check out The Twinery's Anniversary Celebration and enter to win some fabulous goodies here:

http://www.thetwineryblog.com/2011/08/anniversary-celebration-day-5-bakers.html?showComment=1313784401701#c5532117198415012219


Have a great day!
Carol

Blog Candy Alert!

Head over and check out this Blog Candy give away which includes a set of Copic Markers, yeah!!

http://crafterscafe.blogspot.com/2011/08/crafters-cafe-best-blogning-candy-evah.html

Have a great day,
Carol