A special surprise ....

Happy Birthday, Calypso!

 

Calypso is having a birthday today!  We are so excited to share with you a Surprise Birthday Blog Hop!!!  Every stop along the hop has a surprise birthday card or project for Calypso created by members of two Design Teams... 

Sentimental Sundays and Scribbles Designs.

Calypso keeps all of us so organized; is such an inspiration to all of us and also is right there with unfailing support and compassion for any of the team members. Her talents abound and we adore her!

Please join us in the (surprise) Birthday Hop for Calypso 

and stop by her blog at the end to wish her Happiest of Birthdays! 

Happy Birthday, Calypso!

Here is my card:

Now head on over to Karolina's blog for the next project!

Be sure to comment on the Birthday Hop post on one or both blogs 

Sentimental Sundays and Scribbles Designs.... 

one person will be randomly chosen (on October 8th) from all comments collected from both blogs to receive a prize in the mail. The prize will be sent to you and we welcome you from anywhere in the world you reside in!   

Here's the lineup in case you get lost 

(Make sure your last stop is CALYPSO so you can wish her a Happy Birthday!)

We'll start with Angi of Sentimental Sundays

Doreen of Sentimental Sundays

Vicky of Scribbles Designs

Jennifer of Scribbles Designs

Archana of Sentimental Sundays & Scribbles Designs

Deanna of Scribbles Designs

Sharla  of Scribbles Designs

Julie of Sentimental Sundays

Karolina of Sentimental Sundays

Lisa of Scribbles Designs

Cely of Scribbles Designs

Sam of Scribbles Designs

Tracey of Sentimental Sundays

Nick of Scribbles Designs

Sandy of Sentimental Sundays & Scribbles Designs

 

(Your last stop is CALYPSO so you can wish her a Happy Birthday!)

 

Calypso 

I have to show you this picture of my cheeky cat, Jess, who wouldn't get out of the way while I was taking the picture of my card - she kept jumping on the chair and sniffing the card, thus knocking it over.  So here she is looking evil and about to strike!!

 

Recipe:

Paper: Glitz "Afternoon Muse"

Stamp: Kraftin' Kimmie "Francesca"

Colouring Medium: Distress Inks

Punch: EK Success "Binding Edge"

Other: Glossy Accents, Dymo label maker

 

I used the sketch from last week's Deconstructed Sketch and I'm also entering this into the following challenges: Kraftin Kimmie ("It's your birthday"), Daring Cardmakers (colour challenge), Moving along with the Times ("Anything Goes"), Cute Card Thursday ("Signs of Distress") and Simon Says Stamp ("Going Dotty").

 

Thanks for looking - and enjoy hopping!!

 

Hooray - a card ....

.... at last. And it's actually the second of the year. The first can't be shown until Thursday, as it's my PaperPlay DT sample for next week's challenge.

I've just re-taken and posted the photo - the light was terrible last night. Not too much better today - but the colours are reasonably true!!

This one covers three challenges:- Firstly, Basic Grey Challenges - it's a colour combo of cream, pink and blue. I've used Eskimo Kisses and Bittersweet papers from BG.

Next, Quixotic Challenges - the challenge is to use lace. I've used my Martha Stewart "Valentine Lace" punch to make "lace" for this card.

And finally, Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Challenge - paper piercing. I've done a lot of that on this card, and also used one of Kimmie's Moonlight Whispers stamps, "Francesca".

Recipe

Papers: BG Eskimo Kisses and Bittersweet

Stamp: Kraftin Kimmie Moonlight Whispers "Francesca"

Colouring Media: Prismas and Pro-markers

Other: Hero Arts flowers, Ranger Glossy Accents, MS punch

Layout: A sketch of Sandie's that was a PaperPlay challenge in Nov. Great sketch, Sandie!

Here's a little close-up of the image and cupcake flowers:

.

Thanks for looking!

Naughty Girl ....

.... not me, I hasten to add!! Look at my new stamp, it's from a Canadian company called Kraftin Kimmie Stamps. I just love this girl, she looks like she is up to no good!!

Kimmie has a new challenge blog, Kraftin KimmieStamp Challenge Blog, and this week's challenge is called "Merry Christmas, Happy Winter", so I'm entering my card in that.

I've used this week's lovely sketch on Friday Sketchers. I'm also entering it into this fortnight's challenge on Basic Grey Challenges - which is called "Glitz and Bling". I've used BG Periphery, and I've stickled the edges of the image and the snowflake and popped some gems on too.

Sorry the photo is so dark, the weather is so bad here at the moment that skies are always grey. Bad time of year for good photos.

Thanks for looking!