Scrappy Sweet Creations: Little Miss Muffet

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Happy Thursday!
I really wish that today was Friday...this week has been going by a bit slow for me, and I'm just ready for the weekend :)

I had a load of fun coming up with my card for this weeks inspiration at Little Miss Muffet. I'm super sad though that this is my last week as their guest designer! It's been so amazing to share this month with the incredibly talented team there and I'm so thankful for the opportunity!!

I decided to make a card using my very first image ever purchased from LMM, which also happens to be my favorite :)

A couple weeks ago I won an amazing prize from Hero Arts/Jennifer Mcguire for 2 sets of the Spectrum Noir colored pencils, and they arrived in the mail the other day!! Just in time to make up this sweet card! I need a lot of practice with them still, but my first impression is that I love them :)

To start my card, I clear embossed some stars from the Lawn Fawn Starry B ackdrops set onto watercolor paper and them used a few Stampin Up ink pads to color in the background. I did the whole smoosh them on the craft mat, spray them with water and drop your paper on technique :)

I did a few layers to get it sort of how I wanted, and then went around the edges with a blender to give just a little more definition. I think it turned out super awesome! That was my first time doing a background that way! Then I used the Stitched Journaling die and made my focal panel. I blended together a light purple, pink, and yellow for the background. I die cut out the clouds and layered them up all dreamy like on my focal panel.

Once my Boon & Jitters image was colored, I cut them out and then adhered them with dimensional tape to the clouds. The sentiment is heat embossed in white, and I stamped a few random little stars in the sky, along with adding a few sparkly die cut stars for extra pop.

I really love to whole fantasy/fairytale feel to this card. It was so fun, and something completely different for me to make!

Thanks again to LMM for letting me tag along with month! You can still join in the current Anything Goes challenge on their blog, so run!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Crafty Catz #232-Embossing
    Inky Impressions #161-Anything Goes
    Nutcrafters #69-Animals/Insects
    Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes
    Sweet n Sassy #13-Make it Colorful

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Hi All!
Hope your day has started off with a bang! It's a little chilly here in Montreal, but I'm okay with that since we've been bouncing all over the place with our weather lately.

It's time to start a new challenge today at Little Miss Muffet! I've loved being their guest designer so much this month! Hard to believe that it's almost over...
Our challenge for you is Anything Goes! Nice and easy :)

I had this fun idea in my head to make sort of a Polaroid frame for Fiona to peek through, but as I was assembling the card, it just didn't work out right. So I went with a circle frame instead. Fiona is colored in with my pencils, and I added a little bit of glossy accents to her glasses...just for fun :)

The flowers were stamped and "watercolored"...I used a few distress markers but because I only have about 5 of those, there isn't much shading or depth to the flowers. But they were still cute enough to put on the card :) The stamp set I used for the flowers was Lawn Fawns Flutter By set.

I wrapped some twine around the bottom and then did my favorite double loop bow behind a button. I've been doing that a lot lately...for some reason it just seems to always be the perfect finishing touch on a card. Then I stamped a few Lili of the Valley sentiment tags, masking the inside of one off so I could stamp the Hello from Winnie & Walter. A few touches of glitter pen and some liquid pearls, and it was all done!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Charisma Cardz #11-May Flowers
    Chocolate, Coffee, Cards #65-Use a Tag
    Send A Smile 4 Kids-Anything Goes
    Sentimental Sundays #207-Funky Flowers
Sweet Sunday Sketch #220

Stop by Little Miss Muffet, check out the rest of the DT's creation, and then join in the fun!!!
Thanks for visiting! <3

Happy Thursday!
I hope your day has been just fabulous so far! We've decided here in Montreal to skip spring and jump right to sticky summer...fun fun!

Continuing with my guest designing at Little Miss Muffet, it's inspiration day for us! You still have time to enter in the Buttons challenge, so be sure to swing by the challenge blog and join in!

To be honest...I had a bit of "crafter's block" lately...just had a lot of stuff on my mind and it seems all the crafty goodness is stuck somewhere else up there..So I needed to find a little inspiration myself so I could pass it along to you :)

Fortunately there are some amazing designers on the Little Miss Muffet team, so I spent some time browsing around their creations to see if I could pull something together..enjoy! :)

I've used the super sweet Jr. Hatter Kathrina on my card. I couldn't resist her sweet little kitty hat! It hasn't really been a secret around here...I'm obsessed with watercolor and all things related...and I tried something a little different for this background. I bought this awesome stamp from Michael's a few weeks ago and really love it!

But it's a little difficult to smoosh large ink pads onto a stamp and make it look nice...but I still wanted a fun rainbow background. As I was looking around my room, I found my old Crayola markers and an idea popped into my head. Pulled out the rainbow colors, swiped them across the stamp, misted it a few times with water and set my paper down all while crossing my fingers that I didn't just create a giant mess.

When I pulled the paper up it was like the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen on paper! And all with the use of some cheap markers I've had for years :) Needless to say, I've done this background a few times now because it's just that much fun. But for the sake of this card, I wanted that rainbow but not quite as bright. So I used my sewing machine to sew on a piece of vellum over the background.

The rest was simple. A few rows of die cut hearts from Lawn Fawn backed with some glitter covered black paper to go under my image. Scallop cut out my colored image and stuck her on my card base. Finally, a button to stick with the challenge theme and a suitable sentiment :)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Artistic Inspirations #91-No Designer Paper
    Simon Says Stamp-Die Crazy
    The Sketchy Challenge #73

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Thursday!
I know it's been a bit quiet around here this week...I was so busy last week that I didn't have any time to make up my normal DT creations for both Paper Makeup and Tuesday Throwdown...but I fortunately have very understanding teams that let my poor time management slide :)

But I'm here today with a new post for the Little Miss Muffet challenge!! I'm so happy to be a guest designer there this month, and just love using their images!

The challenge for the next 2 weeks is Buttons! I love buttons. My collection is very small, but I work with what I have, and love the fact that I can always color them to make them fit perfectly with my card. I didn't have to do that with this card though :)

I used the awesome image Dudley Balloon for my card and colored him in with my ShinHan markers. I was a bit nervous, won't lie...all that open space on his body was tough for me to color and shade just right. I'm still not a pro with the markers and I'm missing a few colors in the middle to get nice even shades...but I think in the end it turned out pretty cute :)

I added a few coordinating buttons along the side and a little glitter to the balloon. I can't ever get enough glitter...somehow I always end up reaching for my wink of stella pens :)

Be sure to stop by Little Miss Muffet and join in the fun challenge!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Color Me Creative-Birthdays
The Crazy Challenge #170-All About Stripes
Penny's Paper Crafty #176-2 or More Patterned Papers

Thanks for visiting!!! <3

Happy Thursday!!
Today is a very exciting day for me! It's the first day of a very busy month, but a month that will be filled with so much fun! I'm going to be guest designing with Little Miss Muffet!!

I adore their images...I often turn to them first when I am working on a card, so I was thrilled when Faye asked me to guest design this month!

Today is an inspiration day on their Facebook page since LMM current challenge is still running for another week. The theme for that challenge is anything goes...couldn't be easier! So go check them out and join in the fun!

Here is my inspiration for you today:

These cuties just screamed at me to use them! I love the swings and slides images. This one is Wagon...who remembers riding around in their little wagons during the summer? It was always easier with a friend around :)

I used a lot of bright papers on this card. Seems I've been in a bright color mood lately, but I thought they would work well on this cheery card. Overall it's pretty simple with just a few layers. I die cut out some hanging stars and painted the stars with some 3D paint, they have a little bit of sparkle to them from that paint. A sweet sentiment wraps up the whole thing!

Thanks for stopping by! <3