Pixie Dust

Hi, today's it's my turn to post a card on Craft-Dee BowZ since each member of our team gets a 'Tuesday" and guess what...this is my week! I love the images from Lili of the Valley and got this stamp a while back and just now getting a chance to color her.

I colored this sweet fairy with Copics and added my favorite glitter, Warm Glitter Ritz, to her wings. I took some white 3-D paint and made some dots and sprinkled glitter over them, too, since she's sprinkling her fairy dust around!

This is two double looped bows with the smaller one slid inside the know of the larger one. It came out superb and on the first try, too!  My bow tool is one of my most precious card making tools and it guarantees me perfect bows every time. This beautiful sheer ribbon tied perfectly...thank you, Donna, for the beautiful ribbon each month!

Since my card is posted on the last Tuesday of the month and it's April 24, you have just a few more days to add your card to the Craft-Dee BowZ challenge this month!  Our challenge is ANYTHING GOES AND ADD A HANDMADE BOW.  Have you seen my teammates' cards/projects on the previous Tuesdays?  Take a look here and please leave a comment if you have a moment.


                                                                     Thanks for stopping by!
                                                        Gail

I love snowflakes!

Just when so many of you are wishing for all the snow to melt, along comes Christmas at Sweet Stampin' with their February challenge of SNOWFLAKES. Awww, quit your moaning...winter isn't over yet, no matter how much you wish for spring, and your winter stamps are probably still within arm's reach!  We want to see SNOWFLAKES for this month's challenge!!

I've used this image from Lili of the Valley for my card and colored him with Copics.

My papers are by Doodlebug...my most favorite brand of cute and adorable papers. The snowflakes up the sides are by Memory Box and I added some white 3-D paint in the middle of each snowflake and then sprinkled glitter on the wet paint. My sentiment is from Lili of the Valley. I colored my entire snowman with Susie Sparkle Snowfall Glitter using my Sakura Glue Pen. Oh, and a dash of Glossy accents to the bird feeder so it looks like glass in person. To make the snow on the ground 3-D, I first put down some white 3-D paint and then sprinkled the glitter on top. I like doing that when I'm wanting more than a flat sparkle surface. The red rhinestones are from my collection of supplies.

So, who is our sponsor for this challenge?  ME! Our small, and talented, team at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' is happy to jump in whenever we can to always have a prize for our drawing and so this month I offered to be the sponsor!!  You don't have to leave a comment on each design team member's blog (we're a small team of 6) to win the prize, but it would be appreciated.  Everyone can use a little encouragement and a kind word or two, so please leave a little note if you like what we've made.

The Team at Christmas at Sweet Stampin' makes outstanding Christmas cards since that's what we love to do. I hope you'll join us for our challenge of SNOWFLAKES!

                                                                                      Hugs,

                                                           Gail

Forever and ever...

Well, today is the Craft-Dee BowZ bi-monthly blog hop. The Design Team had a theme of "wedding" and we used the colors white, cream, gold and/or silver.

I used this beautiful rubber stamp by Lili of the Valley that I've had for a couple of years and have never inked up! Well, I haven't been to any weddings in a long time, either, and haven't needed a wedding card!

The background is paper by Coordinations and I ran it through this pretty Darice embossing folder and sanded the paper. Sanding it didn't give me enough color difference so I took some Colorbox silver ink on my finger and went over the embossed areas. It's much more silver-y in person rather than gray, but we all know photos aren't as nice as the real thing. I layered it with silver mirror paper and also some solid black. The lace was self-adhesive and I attached it to the mirror paper on the side. The sentiment is by Lili of the Valley and I used my Stampin' Up punch on it and layered it on black and added the 3 little pearls. Pearls, glitter, rhinestones, ribbon, flowers, lace...this card represents everything I love! If I had to pick one embellishment I can't live without...I think it would be flowers. I love pretty paper flowers on my cards!

Here's a close-up of this lovely image. I love pastels for spring and summer and to represent a June wedding, I used shades of pink and lavender and colored my image with Copics.  I used a combination of pink, clear and lavender jewels for extra sparkle...there can never be enough sparkle on a wedding card! I used Bridal white glitter from Sprinkle n Sparkle on her wedding dress and Cool Glitter Ritz on her veil and her cuffs (and collar) were done with white paint and then I sprinkled Darice clear glitter on them. I used my nesting set of circles by QuikCutz on the black, silver and image. Let me add here: I had glitter everywhere and it was 2 days later when my husband smiled at me and I said, "WHAT?" and he said: you have one speck of glitter on your right cheek under your eye. OMG...how long was it there for?

I love these pretty roses and those purple, pink and white 'berries'. I don't know what you'd call them...I got all of these from Wild Orchid Crafts a couple of years ago.

Here's THE bow. Yep, this is a double bow...I made two bows, open the knot on the bottom one, slid the top on inside the loop then tightened the loop. I love this bow and I used my handy little Craft-Dee BowZ tool to make it.  The bottom ribbon is white with silver sparkly wisps and the top ribbon is silver. I used a brad with the legs cut off and glued it in the middle of the bow.  Thank you, Donna, for the pretty laces, ribbon an embossing folder!

 



So, since this is a blog hop, you will want to leave comments at each of the stops. We've got a small team here at Craft-Dee BowZ so doing our hop is pretty easy. Here are the links to follow:



 

Craft-Dee BowZ (Start here)

Vicki (The Artful Validation of Vicki)

Tracey (My Creative Place)
Gail (this is me!)
Barbara (Art and Soul Creations)

 



It's always fun to participate in a blog hop with a prize, and the prize here is a 25' spool of ribbon. You need to leave a comment on each of the stops above, though.  On Monday, June 15, a name will be drawn, so please check back to the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to see if you've won!

 

I'll stop talking now and let you get to your next stop, or if you're starting here because you follow my blog, please go up to the top of the list and start your hop!  Get ready, set, and GO!

 

                                                                       Hugs,

                                                                       Gail

 

I couldn't resist entering this pretty card in these challenges:

Scrap and Card, Aurora Wings, CCC Digi Creations, Blessings Inc/Amusing Challenges, Sweet Stamps, FanTastic Tuesday, Penny's Challenges, Craft Your Passion, Aud Sentiments (Bingo: Ribbon/Flowers/Markers), Scribbles Designs (B is for Bride, Bow, Brad, Bling), Addicted to Stamps, Retro Rubber, Paradise of Stamps, Artistic Inspirations, Crafty Creations, Copic Marker Europe, TimbroScrapMania, Wonderful Wednesday, Emerald Faeries, One Crazy Stamper, The Sisters of Craft, Digi Stamps 4 Joy, Sparkle n Sprinkle, Paper Creators Crafts, Crafts Galore Encore, Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper, Craft for the Craic, Let's Create Challenge, Paper Nest Dolls, My Besties UK, Not Just Cards, Time Out Challenge