A Batty Bildy Card

Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central is hosting a Halloween challenge right now. I decided to use Tosse dressed up like a bat from the Fall Bildmalarna stamp kit for my project. I cut the haunted house out on my cricut with the mini monsters cartridge and added some stickles and spica pen for a little bit of bling. Then I colored Bat Tosse to match. I gave him a little bling by adding some copic spica pen along the shadows of his bat cape. I pop dotted a few bats and added them up in the corners for a spooky look. I hope you have enjoyed my Batty Bildy card and I can't wait to see what the rest of the design team comes up with.

Fun New Challenge Blog!!!!

Hello everyone, I am pleased to be posting my first project for the exciting new challenge blog- Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central! One reason I am so excited about this new challenge blog is that it allows you to use a variety of stamps and other products, it's not product specific like some challenges (which I love too, don't get me wrong I'm a big fan of all kinds of challenges). The first challenge is to create a wedding project. I decided to mix and match all kinds of stamps in this project. The more the merrier, right?

The background of this stamp is Romantic Sunset from the new Magnolia wedding collection. I did the sunset part with my copic airbrush using y35, y32, and YR 16. After I airbrushed all the colors on, I put my blender pen in the airbrush and sprayed a little of that over it as well. To do the cloud, I just used the blender pen to take the color away. The little couple that I used for the wedding couple is actually Spring Couple from CC Designs. I think this stamp is absolutely adorable! For this card I have dressed Emma up a little bit by adding pearls and stickles to her dress, but they could be made to look more casual as well. The sentiment for the card is from Bildmalarna and is part of their new wedding release. Now, what beach wedding would be complete without the sand? This is one of my favorite new products- Mudpuddles. It comes in a little jar kind of like flock or flowersoft and you spread it on your card or layout and let it dry you don't need any kind of adhesive. It dries and stays on the project perfectly- no chipping or flaking off. I love it!!!!! It's much easier than trying to use glue and real sand-

I know I've tried that before.

I hope you can join us over on the new challenge blog.

I look forward to letting my stamps get out and play with each other!!!

Red, White, and Blue

Well, at this time of year you see a lot of red, white, and blue around in preparation for July 4th. I have made this little red, white, and blue Mimosa card from Bildmalarna in honor of the upcoming holiday.

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers and the color challenge from Bildmalarna Blog. This image is the super adorable Little Mimosa. I have colored her with my copic markers. It is kind of hard to tell in the picture, but there are several hints of sparkle that I added with my copic spica pens to her dress and bow. The paper I used is Cupcake from Basic Grey. The red piece on the side was embossed with my Cuttlebug stars embossing folder. I added a little bit of lace and ribbon to the top and some prima roses as well. The roses were actually white and I sprayed them with my copic airbrush so they would match the colors in the card. I placed the flowers on top of some pearl gems I found in the wedding department of the craft store (I'm not sure what the exact name is). The sentiment is from the label accents set from Scent With Love.

Mimosa with Butterfly

I love Bildmalarna stamps. I think they are some of the cutest ones around and I am so thrilled to be a part of their Design Team. I recently ordered this adorable little stamp Mimosa Butterfly. I love how the stamp is all one part, so much easier than masking and cutting out like you have to do with some other stamps.

I colored Mimosa with my copic markers. I have used the sketch from Friday sketchers as my inspiration. The paper I used is from Basic Grey and is the Lemonade collection. I added a bow tied with bow easy (of course there is no way I could tie one this perfectly on my own) and then added some buttons. I then stamped the sentiment Thinking of You with my label accents stamp set and cut it out with my labels 4 nestabilitie. I hope you have enjoyed my sweet Mimosa card.

A Bildmalarna Mother's Day

I hope all the mothers out there had a fantastic mother's day! I know I did. My little piggy made me breakfast, we went shopping, and then out to dinner. It was a very fun day. We are hosting a Mother's Day challenge on Bildmalarna Blog. I decided to use this adorable new stamp of Tossa and a swan that was included in the Summer Kit from Bildmalarna.

The entire kit was adorable and I can't wait to use all of them. If you love Bildmalarna stamps, you do not want to miss out on the kits. Anyway, for my Tossa and swan card, I used Cosmo Cricket designer paper as well as the new Cosmo Cricket core'dinations in neutral. I added some Prima flowers and a sentiment from Just Rite. To top off Tossa's beautiful swan, I added a little bit of stickles. We would love to see what type of mother's day project you can create using Bildmalarna stamps, so stop by and show us what you've done.

Some new challenges

Our current challenge on Bildmalarna blog is to create an easel card. These cards look great and are super easy to make. You should be able to find directions on splitcoast or anywhere on the web if you google easel card. I was going to try and give directions here, but what I typed was confusing even me and I just made the card so I think it's better to leave that kind of stuff to the professionals. This card is also my Scrappy Frogs entry. The Scrappy Frog challenge was to choose 3 elements from the list provided on your project. I have used embossing, lace, and plaid on my project.

Now on to my card, I used a piece of beautiful turquoise cardstock as my base. I added some paper I found in my scrap pile I think it is from My Mind's Eye. For my image I chose this adorable little Mimosa on the bench stamp, I cut the image out with my oval nestabilitie and matted it with the scalloped oval. I used the following copic colors to color the image- dress R05, R02, YG03, YG00, flower bag BG 13 and BG 10, flowers YR16 and Y02, skin E21, E00, E000, E0000, R20, hair YR 23, E35, Y21. To decorate the outside of the card, I added some prima roses. One of them was kind of an off white color, so I added some chalk to turn it an orangey color so it would blend in with the card better. On the inside I added the sentiment, Spring, some lace, and a flower I made with a spellbinders die. So if you would like to join either challenge or both like I did, get started on your project!!!

Bildmalarna Bling

The challenge over on Bildmalarna Blog is to create a project using a Bildmalarna image and some bling. I decided to create a card with this adorable little Tossa with Flower image. I colored
her with my copic markers of course. I used this great new paper from Basic Grey called Origins. The green, brown, and yellows went perfect with this image. I also added a little border using the Martha Stewart floral band punch. The flowers are from petaloo, the yellow one was actually white, but I colored it with my yellow copic so that it would match the card. The sentiment which says Thinking of You is from my favorite sentiment set, Label Accents and fits perfectly inside the nestie. We would love it if you could play along with us over at the Bildmalarna Blog. You could win an adorable new stamp Mimosa with Chickens.

Mimosa with Cupcakes

Well, I just got my first order of adorable Bildmalarna stamps in, and I love them. Yes the name is hard to say, but the stamps are too cute! Cindy is now carrying these babies at stamping scrapping!!! So, we have started a blog devoted to these adorable little stamps and have a color challenge posted. The blog is www.bildyblog.blogspot.com and the challenge is to create a card using the colors brown, pink, and turquoise. Three of my favorite colors! I created my card

using Mimosa with Cupcakes. I think she is absolutely adorable they have such sweet little faces. The paper I used is all scraps I found in my huge scrap pile so I have no idea what company it is from. I colored Mimosa with my copic markers- BG 13 and BG 15 for her pants, RV 11 and RV 14 for her shirt, E 37 for her shoes and sleeves, YR 23, E33, and Y21 for her hair, and E02, E000, YR000, and R20 for her skin. The sentiment is from Just Rite stamps.

I hope you will have time to check out these cute Bildy stamps and if you have some of them already, please join us and play along with the color challenge for a chance to win a Bildy stamp of your choice from Stamping Scrapping!!!!