Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #49

Good Sunday morning. It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. The challenge is to use numbers on your birthday card. Make sure you check out the awesome cards the design team created. Birthday Sundaes' owner, Kristie, is sponsoring the challenge this week. She is offering the winner the Birthday Mae stamp set from Some Odd Girl.


I used some more from the Celebration from DCWV stack for this card.


I'm still having an issue with my camera, so I had to use my phone to take the photo of my card. Sorry for the poor quality.

Now for some news. This will be the last challenge at Birthday Sundaes. I want to thank Kristie for allowing me to provide cards for this team. It has been such a wonderful experience seeing all of the great talent out there. Thanks also to the wonderfully talented members of the design team. They have inspired me week after week.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #48

Good Sunday morning. The weather here has been glorious. I haven't really been able to enjoy it. I hope to get some time today to sit outside and soak it in. I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful, and hopefully crafty weekend.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. Our challenge this week is to include an animal on the front of your birthday card. Go check out the adorable cards the design team came up with. Too cute!! And our sponsor this week is Just Wordz. The lucky winner will receive her Party Time stamp. Make sure to check out the stamps at Just Wordz. So very versatile.



For my card, I used some Bella Blvd. Tail Waggers and Cat Naps. I think I may have to get some more of this paper. I'm sure I could use it a lot.



I hope you will join us this week and create a birthday card with an animal on it. Be sure to include a birthday sentiment on the front. Have a great week.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #47

Good Sunday morning. It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And the challenge is pretty easy. Show us your green. The challenge is to use green on your card with a birthday sentiment on the front.

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Digi Stamps. Check out all of the adorable images they have to offer. Bugaboo offered our design team some images to choose from to use on our birthday cards for this challenge. I chose Birthday Penguin - tall cake. I love penguins. I also used the birthday sentiment that goes with Clyde the dragon.

To create the card I used the current sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy. Another really nice sketch.


And here is my card. I used some more of my DCWV Celebration. I think it turned out pretty cute. It will probably be used for someone else at work.


Go and get inspired by the great cards the rest of the design team created. I can't wait to see yours.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #46

Good Sunday morning. We have a busy weekend here with dog events. But I do have a card to share with you for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. The challenge this week is everyone's favorite - Create a birthday card with a birthday sentiment on the front.

We have an awesome sponsor this week too. Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is offering 3 images of the winner's choice!! Be sure to check out their really cute digis. They offered a couple of images for the design team to use. I chose Tulips.


Tomorrow is Jackie's 21st birthday. I am going to give her this card. She's very excited about it.

Hop on over to BS and check out the beautiful cards the other design team members created. I can't see what everyone makes this week.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #45

Happy Sunday again. I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. Ours is going pretty well.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And, oh boy, what a fun challenge. Get Messy Birthday Card!! Try your hand at getting messy with inking, misting or painting on your card. This week's challenge is being sponsored by Couture Stamping by Candice Fields. Candice is a former BS design team member and is a CTMH consultant. She is offering a CTMH Fashionista stamp set. She is also offering a 10% discount to BS fans during this challenge. Email Candice directly to use this discount (stampinpearls at gmail . com).


I used a sketch again for my card. I used last week's Card Patterns sketch. I really liked the sketch and decided to use it even though I couldn't enter my card in their contest.



It's time again to be making cards for the guys I work with. The first birthdays in my group are in March. I think there are 3 birthdays in March and I'm not sure who this card will be for yet. But I will be ready.


I inked the edges of all of the little squares using a sponge dobber. I only recently got a package of these. What was I waiting for?? I then used the dobber and a stencil to create the checkerboard at the bottom of the card. I put a SRM sticker on top of the checkerboard for the sentiment.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #44

Good Sunday morning again. It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And Kristie has a great one this week.

This week the challenge is to create a Stair Step Birthday card. I had never even tried this type of card before, so I was quite intimidated. Kristie has 3 different tutorials for 3 different types of Stair Step cards. I chose to create one using her first tutorial, which is from from Splitcoast Stampers.

But before I show you my card, I have to tell you about our sponsor this week. Stamp Fairy is sponsoring our challenge this week.


They are offering 1 lucky winnder a $10 gift certificate to Stamp Fairy. Be sure to check out the really cute images they have to offer.


Stamp Fairy offered the design team a couple of images to use for our challenge. I chose the Birthday Kids 1 image. I printed the image 2 times - once on plain cardstock, the 2nd time on some patterned paper.


I cut the box and the party hat from the patterned paper and glued them onto the image on the cardstock. I cut along his shirt so that it still looks like he's inside the box. I have been wanting to try paper piecing with a digi image for a long time. It sure was fun and I am happy with the way it turned out.

I hope you will give the Stair Step card a try. Make sure to check out the design teams' wonderful work. All of the different types of Stair Step cards are represented. They are all so pretty.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #43

Good morning again this Sunday morning. It's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. We have a photo inspiration challenge this week....


Doesn't that photo just make you want to eat a cupcake? It comes from My Sweet and Saucy.

So the challenge is to use the photo as inspiration. But, there's a twist. You must include a heart and a birthday sentiment on the front of your card.

I followed this week's sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy.



I used an image from Pink Cat Studio, Birds Make A Giant Cupcake. So cute....


I think I will give this card to my boyfriend. His birthday is next week. I usually don't make his cards, but I really want to start.

Be sure to check out the awesome cards the design team created. I hope you will let us inspire you to create a birthday card with a heart this week.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #42

Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you are enjoying the weekend. We were running errands yesterday, marveling at how spring-like it was outside. It's been a very strange winter.

It's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. This week is everyone's favorite - Birthday Card with Sentiment. And we have another wonderful sponsor. Karen Doodles is sponsoring our challenge this week. Be sure to check out her amazing images.

The design team was offered several images to choose from to create our cards this week. It was a tough decision, but I chose Penguin Cupcake. I love penguins, and these guys are adorable.

And I used another sketch from Seems A Little Sketchy. I love these sketches. And this one is no exception.


And here's my card.

I used papers Celebration from DCWV again this week. And I had to buy a black Copic marker. While I was there, I got 2 more too. This was a fun image to color.

I can't wait to see all of the wonderful cards submitted this week. Make sure to check out the all of the great cards the rest of the design team created.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #41

Good Sunday morning. We continue to enjoy a very unusual winter here in the northeast. It is so unlike January, almost February around here. I took a picture about 3 weeks ago of some daffodils coming up by the front door. They are still coming up, and haven't died off. Unbelievable.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And this challenge is a fun and challenging one. The challenge is to create an easel card. I was very nervous about doing this. I have made one once before, but I wanted to try a different kind.

But, before I get to my card, we have a sponsor - Twendy Twine. Check out the blog here, and the store here.


And here is the cool prize one lucky participant will win.


Trendy Twine ValenTwine Mini Pack {Valentine's Day Bakers Twine}

This little pack includes 40 yards:
20 yd of Valentine Cherry Cupcake
10 Berry Red
10 Posy Pink

Kristie has a few tutorial on the at Birthday Sundaes for some assistance with getting started with your easel card. I had made a regular, straight easel card last year. This time I wanted to create a sideways one. This is the tutorial I used.

I was really nervous about getting this done. I had a horrible week at work and was just having a hard time getting anything done in the evenings. I finally decided what I wanted to do and studied the tutorial. I thought I would have a problem with getting the folds right, but I understood how it was supposed to work, so I was able to improvise when it didn't look like the one in the tutorial. Here it is:

I used the DCWV Celebrations stack. Just perfect for birthday cards. The image and sentiment are from the Paws I Care set from Whimsie Doodles. The card in the tutorial was 8 x 8. I thought that was a little large, so I reduced mine to 5 3/4 x 5 3/4. I made a 6 x 6 envelope to go with it.


I hope you will give an easel card a try. I look forward to seeing all of the wonderful creations submitted this week.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #40

Good morning fellow crafters. I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. I have been having computer problems this weekend. I have been unable to access my photos through Picasa, so no scrapping. I had glorious plans of getting a 2 page layout done and several cards, but I am still working on getting the computer cooperating. At least they are not lost. As a matter of fact, I have them in 3 different places right now. Have to reduce that to only 2.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. And we have another wonderful sponsor this week - MelJen Designs!! I love their images. I have a wishlist for some there as well.



This week's lucky, random winner will recieve 4 images of her choice. Our challenge this week - Create a birthday card with a birthday sentiment on the front, a favorite.

MelJen was so generous and offered images for the design team to use. I chose Robbie the Robot. I thought he was so cute, and I thought I had some great paper to go along with him. I did find, however, I NEED more Copics.

To create my card, I found a sketch to use. These sketches have been so inspirational for me. For this card, I used last week's sketch from Come and Get It Challenges. I'm not entering the challenge, but just loved the sketch.


And here's my card....


I used blues to color him. I found I don't have any gray markers. And I also don't have black. A shopping trip is in order.

I am entering this card into the current challenge at Cards For Men which is Boys and Their Toys.

I decorated the envelope to go along with this card. I fussy cut some gears from the collection I used and included a similar element from the card. This will allow me to enter this card into the card challenges at Scrappin'-n-Chattin'. Challenge #2 is to create a matching envelope for your card.


I can't wait to see what everyone creates. Have a great week.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #39

Good Sunday morning. Winter has finally arrived to the northeast. We haven't had much snow here in our area, but up north just a little bit, they had about a foot this week. But we do have the cold. Brrrrrr.

It was great to see all of the wonderful entries last week at Birthday Sundaes. So many awesome birthday cards. It's time for a new challenge. But first, we have a great, new sponsor to talk about. Apron Strings is sponsoring our challenge this week.


Apron Strings is a monthly kit club. They offer 3 varieties/prices of kits. Make sure to check out the wonderful kits they put together. One lucky winner will receive a monthly card kit.

Our challenge this week is a photo inspiration. And it's such a wonderfully seasonal photo....



The photo is from The Complete Cupcake. What awesome cupcake toppers. Part of the challenge is that a snowman must be included on your card.

For my card, I followed the sketch from Seems a Little Sketchy again. I am really liking this site.




And here's my card....


I used a set from Cosmo Cricket that I won a while ago. I remembered it had a snowman, so I knew it would be perfect.

I can't wait to see your interpretation of the photo inspiration and all of the wonderful snowmen. Have a great week.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #38

Good Sunday morning. It was nice to have a little break from the routine during December, but it's also nice to get back to normal.

It's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. I was so excited to see that Whimsie Doodles is our sponsor this week. I love their images. I have a whole list of images I want to get.


One lucky winner who participates in this week's challenge will win a $10 gift certificate to Whimisie Doodles' online store. They also have a special offer for Birthday Sundae fans. To receive 10% of your Whimsie Doodles order, use the code Birthday10. How cool is that? This code will expire 30 days from today, January 8th.

So I bet you would like to know about our challenge. Well, it's an easy one. Create a Birthday card with sentiment on the front, with the option of using something new. Make sure to include in your post what new item(s) you used.

To create my card, I wanted to use a sketch. I don't use a sketch all that often any more for cards. I found a sketch that I fell in love with at Seems A Little Sketchy.


Whimsie Doodles gave the design team several images to choose from to use on our cards this week. I chose Gift Leah.


I also used a new item on this card. I used my new collection of Nikki Sivils Something for Everyone papers. I really love the blues in this paper for this week's challenge.

I hope you will give our challenge a go this week. And be sure to check out Whimsie Doodles.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #36

Good Sunday morning. We have been having great weather this weekend on the east coast. I hope everyone is enjoying some relaxation and family time.

It's time to for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. We have a great sponsor this week too. Karen's Doodles is our sponsor. Be sure to check out the awesome images she has. One lucky participant will get 3 digital images of her choice.


Our challenge this week is to use old, neglected stash. Karen provided the design team with 3 images to choose from to use on our projects for this challenge. I chose Bigsby with a gift.


The only item that is not from old stash on this card is the kraft card base. The patterned paper is from at least 4 or 5 years ago. The white card stock was in my drawer of white cardstock scraps. And the yellow and red cardstock are from my stash of colored cardstock. This was a really fun card to put together.

Be sure to check out the great cards the rest of the design team created. I hope you will visit your old stash and share with us a new creation using some old products.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #35

Happy Sunday. I hope that everyone is enjoying some down time. We are away at a trial this weekend, so not much relaxing.

Being Sunday, it's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. We have a very interesting challenge this week. The challenge is to create a birthday card, with a birthday sentiment on the front, and include a tree on your card.

To create my card I used my Echo Park A Walk In The Park collections, both my 6x6 and 12x12 collections.



This card was so much fun to put together. Check out the creative cards the design team created with trees. I hope you will get creative too, and share with us your card this week.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #34

Good Sunday morning. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. The weather here is cool, but nice. We are recovering from the stress of the week and enjoying the end of Stew working 2nd shift. Hopefully this will have been the last week that he will have to work it. I can handle the weekend 2nd shift work, but all week is tough.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. Today is a special day. It Tracey's birthday!! Happy Birthday!! And she is offering the prize for this week's challenge. Be sure to stop by her blog to wish her a Happy Birthday!!

The prize Tracey is offering is this cool Christmas themed pack from Kaiser. How fun!!


Oh, and the challenge this week is to create a birthday card, with a sentiment on the front. Nice and easy.

I wasn't sure who I wanted to create my card for this week. I have been increasing my collection of digital images, and decided on a cute little doggie with a heart balloon from Bugaboo Digi Stamps. I thought the image would make a cute card for Stew's birthday, from the doggies.


I am going to enter this card into the current challenge at Cards for Men Challenge #22 which is to include an animal on your card. Now I just have to remember I have this card. Stew's birthday isn't until February.

I hope you will share your birthday creation with us this week. Be sure to check out BS and the wonderful cards the design team came up with.

Birthday Sundaes Guest Designer Week

Good Sunday morning. I hope everyone on the east coast survived the snow storm. We lost our cable/internet about 6:30 last night and the power sometime between 9:00 and 10:00. The power came back on just before midnight. We we got up we had the cable and internet back too. We didn't get hit too bad. We only have about 3" of snow on the ground.

So, this week at Birthday Sundaes Kristie gave the design team a week off. This was so nice of her. I know I have been having a rough time in real life, and I know some of the other dt members can appreciate a week off too.

Even though we have the week off, the challenge continues. We have 7 guest designers who will provide your inspiration this week. The challenge this week is to create a birthday card. Really simple, right. Just be sure to include a birthday sentiment on the front of the card.

Check out the guest designers' blogs. Here is the complete list:

Amy
http://www.redheadedcrafter.blogspot.com/

Felicia

http://scrapperinthemaking.blogspot.com/

Adrian

byadrian4u.blogspot.com

Nita

http://www.niftynitanotes.blogspot.com/

Candice (from DT Term 1)

http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/

Sarah Vait-Melby

http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com/

Karen

http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/

Stop by and see the amazing cards these girls came up with. I hope you will joins in the challenge this week too.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #32

It's Sunday morning and time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. This week's challenge is a color challenge. Create a birthday card with a birthday sentiment and the colors purple, green, white and black. Very seasonal....

This was a bit challenging for me. I couldn't find any papers that had all of these colors alone. So I went with multiple pieces of paper.


I hope you will give the challenge a try. Make sure to check out the wonderful cards the design team created. They all do such beautiful work.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #31

Good Sunday morning. It's been a pretty nice fall weekend here. Trying to catch up on housework, so no scrapping getting done.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. This is a fun one. The challenge is to create a tall or long birthday card. We have a sponsor this week as well. Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is offering our prize - 3 digital images of the winner's choice.


SNSS offered a choice of images for the design team to use for our cards this week. Such a tough one to decide which one to use. Make sure to check out all the other great images SNCC has.

I chose the fall arrangement for my card. It was so fun to color this image. It's been a while. I'm going to have to use more images. I used variety shades of brown cardstock from my stash and a piece of paper left from my September Artful Delight kit. I really like how it turned out.

I hope you will give a long or tall card a try this week. Be sure to share with us.

Good Sunday morning. We are having gorgeous weather here in the northeast. We had Willie's first AKC Trial this weekend. I was very nervous about the whole thing. We had a couple of problems, but Willie is a trooper.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. In honor of the season, the challenge is to create a birthday card, with the sentiment on the front, with fall colors. Make sure you check out the AWESOME cards the guest designer and the design team came up with.

For my card, I used the Sassy Send Off Sketch #4 from Sassy Lil' Sketches. Another very versatile sketch. I'm really going to miss these sketches.


The card I created is for another of my mechanic's. We have a bunch of birthdays at the beginning of the year, then a bunch at the end. Not so much in the middle. I used some more of my September Artful Delight kit to create the card.

I hope we have inspired you to create a fall theme card. Please be sure to share your creation with us.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #29

Good Sunday morning. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. After an extremely stressful several weeks at work, we have now worked our last day with the company that we have worked for for 16 years. On Monday we start with a brand new company. At least we both have jobs. We spent a great day in NYC on Saturday, seeing Zarkana and eating at Chipotle. We also stopped at Cold Stone Creamery once we made it back to Poughkeepsie. It was a wonderful day.

It's time for the new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. The challenge this week is to create a birthday card that has ribbon on it. Pretty easy. I wanted to create a card for one of my guys that recently left to move to Georgia. It's sometime challenging to create a masculine card with ribbon.

I used the Week 4 Card sketch at Sassy Lil' Sketches. Another very versatile sketch. I'm going to miss Sassy Lil' Sketches. See their Friday post here.


And here is my take....

I hope you will share your card with us again this week. Be sure to include a sentiment on the front of your card. Take a look at the wonderful inspiration the design team came up with at BS.