Outlines - Happy Birthday!

Warning - put your sunglasses on for this one! This week's Outlines design team challenge is to make a birthday card. And what a coincidence that today happens to be our fearless design team leader's birthday! Happy Birthday, Jenny, this one's for you! 

Since Jenny is not fond of pink, I used as much pink as possible...that's what friends are for, right?  My papers are from Jillibean Soup's Blossom Soup 6x6 pad.  The stamps  I used are Candles Square Large (E-401), Split Layering Collage-Meow (H-937) and Friends fur-ever (B-1080).  I colored the images with Copic markers and added some Copper Pearl Pen accents.

Please be sure to visit the rest of the design team members' blogs to see the birthday cards they have made!

Bev Gerard - Savor the Journey
Jeanne Streiff - Inky Paws

Jenny Gropp - One Krafty Kat - Our Birthday Girl!

Lisa Silver - Silver Stamping

Sandy Hulsart - Creative Moments with Sandy

Vicki Garrett - Summerthyme Studio

And while you are making the rounds, be sure to make your way over to the Outlines blog to see who the big winners of last week's hop are!

Thanks for stopping by!

Belli Challenge #111 - Felt or Fabric and RI CASE Challenge - Ayana

Happy Wednesday! Today I have another combined Belli Challenge and Repeat Impressions CASE challenge to show you. For the Felt/Fabric challenge, I used this beautiful Maya Road suede flower.   The layout comes from the card my fellow Repeat Impressions design team member Ayana Posadas created.  I used the Flowering Vine (4314-K) image to create a border strip and colored it using Copic markers.  I added blue rhinestones to the center of each flower.  The Deepest Sympathy sentiment (8612) is from the Quartet Complements series, which is a versatile set of sentiments.

Please be sure to make your way over to the Belli Challenge blog to get the rules for playing along with our felt/fabric challenge, and while you're there, be sure to check out the wonderful cards from the rest of the Belli Challenge team!

You should also head over to The House That Stamps Built to find out about playing along with our CASE challenge and to see the great cards the rest of the team made using Ayana's great card for inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of the week!

Belli Challenge #80 - Flourishes

It's time for another Belli Challenge! This week's challenge is flourishes. I've got this one covered! My patterned paper has flourishes, my chipboard piece is a flourish AND it's stamped with flourishes, my stamped image has flourishes AND my sentiment not only has flourishes, but it's from Flourishes' Flourished Words set! I used Mercy's MTSC50 sketch from last week as my starting point. The patterned papers are Stampin' UP!'s Razzle Dazzle collection and the flower stamp is from the set of the same name. The card stock is all SU's current In Colors.

I colored my stamp with the In Colors markers in Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry and Crushed Curry, plus Old Olive for the stems, and then I went over my flowers with a clear Spica marker and added yellow rhinestones to the center of each one. I used a Fiskars border punch to punch the edge of the Melon Mambo cardstock and then used the little flower pieces up in the right corner, with pink rhinestones added to the centers of both the positive and negative flowers.

BIG news - we are looking for a few new members to add to the Belli Challenge design team! If you're interested in applying, please check out yesterday's post over on the Belli blog. Submissions for the design team are due by January 3, 2010 - we hope you'll apply!

Please be sure to visit the other Belli girls' blogs and see what they have done this week (links to their blogs are over on the left sidebar)! Also be sure to see what our guest designer, my fellow Krafty Kat, Jenny Gropp, has created for this week's challenge.

To play along with us, create a card or project using flourishes, share your link with us using Mr Linky on today's Belli blog post. If you post to SCS or PCP or any other online gallery please use keyword CBC80 so we can find it.

Thanks for looking! Enjoy the rest of your week!