August Lily-Boo Challenge

Hi everyone it's August first and that means a new challenge over at Lily-Boo too Challenge blog.

For this month it's "anything goes" as long as you use a Boo! So you can make a card, a scrapbook page, an ATC, a post card, a piece of wall art, etc... Basically whatever you create as long as it has a Lily-Boo image on it you can enter it in the challenge. We'd love for you to play along with us, so if you don't have a Lily-Boo yet, there are tons of super cute images at Cuddly Buddly and there are even some freebies too! So no excuses, get over there and grab one so you can play along this month. You have all month to link up your creation over at the Lily-Boo Too Challenge blog.

I used my Fairy Cupcake Lily-Boo on a card for my niece. Her first birthday is next Sunday and I wanted to make her a special card. It has lots of glitter and sparkle from the Stickles on the fairy's wand-dust (is that a word?) and the star on her dress. I also sprayed the two Prima fairytale roses with glimmer mist after I colored them with my markers to match the card. I just love how you can make a white Prima any color you want just by spraying with mists, coloring with your markers, ink pads or paint. I stuck a chipboard number one (because it's her first birthday) down in the corner after I colored it with light purple ink and a thick coating of UTEE (yes, I'm still hooked on covering everything in UTEE).

I hope you'll stop by Liy-Boo Too and show us how what you can make with a Lily-Boo digi stamp.

A Lilyboo and Sketchy Thurdsay's

Hi, I hope every one is having a great weekend. I'm having a fabulous weekend, actually my whole week has been great! Kevin has been on vacation since the 4th and we've just been busy doing things around here like riding our 4 wheelers and hiking at Old Man's cave.
So here's my layout for this week's Sketchy Thursday's challenge.
I colored up a Lilyboo digi "garden trellis" that is perfect for my layout, cuz I really do love my garden. It's not much (about 4'x9' raised bed) but that's all the room we have. I'm just happy I can have any at all :)

Since I had a couple of picks of my garden and wanted to include them all, I made a little fold-y flap to hide my other two photos behind my colored image.

See - when it's all closed up, you'd never know they are back there!

Lilyboo July Challenge

Summer theme challenge.

We have decided that the challenge cards should use a Lilyboo designs image. The prize for the winner will be a Lilyboo designs digi of their choice.

So if you haven’t got what you need for a summery card already pop over to our gorgeous new Lilyboo designs shop over on Cuddly Buddly and see if there is a digi you need in there, with prices at 99p (around $1.49 U.S.) you can’t go wrong.

There are 90 freebies over on Cuddly Buddly so if you haven’t popped over there to grab some yet, go now!!!

We can’t wait to see what you all create with these gorgeous summer days as your inspiration.

So, head over to Lilyboo's Challenge blog to see what the DT has come up with and link up your summery Lilyboo creation too.


Here's My Card (which I posted yesterday)

It Really is a Summer Card

I know, you're looking at this and thinking 'she must have posted the wrong picture' But no, this really is my summer themed card for Lily-Boo's.
What makes it a summer card? The inside of course :) it reads: and enjoy the summer!
This little kitty image "cat at window" reminds me of my little kitty, Arney. In the summer he spends more time outside than in and when he wants in, you'll find him pawing at our glad door around back. It's funny to see his little mouth opening wide meowing to get in, but you can't hear him. It's quite a pathetic spectacle he makes. I inked up the background of the image and the sentiment with some distress ink (antique linen and tea dye)
The image, as I mentioned, is a Lily-Boo that I colored with my Touch markers. The card stock is from the Imaginice build-a-card pad.

Happy Father's Day

To all the Dad's out there, Happy Father's Day!

For my husband, I made a real simple card (cuz he's a no frills kind of guy)

This card shape was cut on my Cricut using the Wild Card cartridge. The paper is from the SEI Moravia paper pad and it is AWESOME for masculine cards! This paper has flocking on it (though you can't tell in the photo) it is fuzzy to the touch along the cream colored stripes. The solid blue frame around the cut out window is also part of the Moravia paper pad. I just love how all the papers coordinate in the paper pads! I attached the blue frame with some copper eyelets(they seem like a "masculine" fastener LOL) The sentiment is stamped inside and peeks through the window in the front of the card.

This is the card I made for my Dad. I used more of the SEI Moravia paper. The image is a Lilyboo digi stamp and I mounted it on some cardstock that I sprayed with dragonfly Glimmer Mist and then ran through my Cuttlebug using the Moroccan Screen embossing folder. I also added some Stickles to the booty in the treasure chest.

Lily-Boo's Is Moving

Lilyboo has a new home. The boutique is moving to a new site and we hope all of our followers (and some new ones) will join us at our new blog site HERE
You will now be able to purchase Lilyboo digi's at Cuddly Buddly.

Freebies .....quick!! get on over to Cuddly Buddly!!!
To celebrate our move over on to Cuddly Buddly, Kim has been burning the midnight oil to get a great big bunch off boo's uploaded for freebies!!!

We are working hard on freeing up some space for when Sam's gorgeous new designs are ready to go!

There is an absolutely awesome selection so check out the new Lilyboo freebie page at Cuddly Buddly and snag yourself some treats to play with!!! There wil be more added daily.

Lily-Boo Blog Candy

I honor of Lou's birthday she gave us the whole month of June off from challenges (is she great or what!) and Lily-Boo's is having a birthday blog candy of 2 digi sets of your choice.

All you need to do is ....pop on over to the boutique (the Lily-Boo link is in my side bar) and scroll down the left hand sidebar to see all our super cute Boo's, then go to Lily-Boo's too challenge blog and pop a little comment on with which are your 2 favorites.

So, the blog candy will be open for entries until Saturday 5th June, when we'll pick a lucky winner!!!

I thought I'd share my favorite Lily-Boo image (so far)

Lily-Boo and May Swap Too

Here's a card I made for a friend on the Paper Crafting Mania Forum. Over there we had a card swap and this is the card I made to give to my swap partner:

The butterfly image is a digi from Lily-Boo's Boutique. I colored it with my Touch markers and added just a little bit of Stickles for hints of sparkle. I cut out my colored image and mounted on top of some purple eyelash fibers. The card stock was embossed with a Sizzix EF and the butterfly ribbon was from my stash. I sprayed the card stock all over with some glimmer mist too (it just goes with everything)

Lily-Boo's May Challenge

Hi everyone! It's May and that means another challenge is up at Lily-Boo Too challenge blog. The challenge this month is to make a card any shape but a rectangle or square. I know some of you make shaped cards often but this is a rarity for me.

For my card I used one of the cat images from Lily-Boo's Boutique. He looks quite happy with his giant ball of yarn. I used my Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge to cut the shape of the card. I know wild card is an obvious choice for shaped cards, but they are all themed and I wanted a clean slate to work with. I cut our my image after I colored it using my scalloped edge scissors. The I inked those edges and after I glued it down to my base I added an iridescent glittered embossing powder to make it pop even more. I wrote the words "HAVE A BALL" with my Ranger perfect medium pen and then added aqua embossing powder to it.
The inside of the card is lined with circles that are shaped like gears that I cut with my Cricut using SCAL (I wanted to use scallops but thought they were a little feminine) one larger then the card to peek out when you look at the front and one smaller to fit inside.

I used the colors aqua, red and white for the color challenge on PCM (I knew I could find that paper;))
This is a birthday card for my Dad who happens to be a cat lover, but don't tell him, his birthday isn't till the 20th.
This card also qualifies for the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft - Don't be square
CRAFT - challenge 48
Maljen's- #5 challenge
Penny's Challenges - #28 challenge

Foster's Dream

Happy Saturday! I wanted to share a layout with you today of our dog, Foster. He's such a goofy dog. He falls asleep in the middle of the room flat on his back like this:

He doesn't even wake when the girls come running in. About the only thing that will get him up is yelling at our cat, Arney. Then Foster jumps up for "duty" (he thinks it's his job to police the cat)

For my layout I used DCWV Nana's Kitchen paper. The great doggie image is a brand new release Lily-Boo's Boutique digi ( you can click those words or use the link in my side bar) I cut the "dream bubble" out on my Cricut using SCAL. The little bone cut is a Sizzix die.

Here's a close up of my colored image. This is one of the six in the dog set. I'm guessing this must be what Foster is dreaming about to sleep so soundly.

CupCake Crazy!

I know I've got a lot of cupcakes going on here. I just love this paper I found at Hobby Lobby (and it was 50% off this week!) It has little glittery accents but they just aren't showing up in the photo :( The image is a Lily-Boo's digi from the circles collection that I colored with my Touch markers. I added glitter embossing to the icing and clear embossing to the strawberry. The sentiment (a studio g) is stamped on the ribbon with timber brown Stazon ink. The flowers are Prima and they are actually a little more peachy colored IRL. The centers of the flowers are island blossom dew drops. Also, because I used a ribbon, I'm going to submit this over at Practical Scrappers cuz the challenge this week is ribbon, fibers or floss. Thanks for stopping by.

Lily-Boo's Wants You to Join Us

Lily-Boo's Boutique, the place to get some really cute digital images has a group on SNR card universe and we'd love for you to join us. In fact, Lily-Boo's will give away a FREE Digi when we reach 50 members!

Who doesn't love to get something for free?

Lily-Boo Too April Challenge

The challenge this month at Lily-Boo too challenge blog is to make a spring card with the colors yellow, light green and a blossom.

For my card I used one of the Lily-Boo's Boutique Mother's day digi stamp images because it reminds me of being outside enjoying the nice weather (even if you have house work to do).
For the card base I used SEI Mimosa paper chartruse dots and for my blossom I used two Prima flowers layered and a little yellow rhinestone center. The 'happy spring' stamped sentiment is a little Studio g on yellow card stock.

Cuttlebug Folder Storage

O.K. I have a confession: I have only had my Cuttlebug for 3 weeks! You see, I had the old Sizzix system (the extremely heavy red one that you pull down on the handle) and I was able to use that for my Cuttlebug folders (with the adapter of course). I just couldn't justify buying another machine that would do the same thing. Then those wonderful people at Provo Craft created the blue Cuttlebug. Well, blue is my favorite color and I know someday when my Cricut chirps it's last time I will be replacing it with the blue version. So I saved my pennies and when there was a great deal on the Green Wednesday I snatched up my blue Cuttlebug. Let me tell you, I should have got one sooner because it does a much better job both embossing and cutting with the Sizzix dies I already own. The embossing is so much deeper and defined.

Whew, now that I've got that off my chest. Here's what I've created for you to peek at today:

It is my mini lunch box that I use to hold my embossing folders. (I got it at Hobby Lobby) The so super cute image is a Lily-Boo digi. Of course I had to make it match my blue Cuttlebug. Here it is before I decorated it:

It served the purpose but didn't add any pizazz to my work area, just hanging there on my peg board.

Now it shouts KRISTINA REALLY LOVES HER BLUE CUTTLEBUG!

I colored up the little cuties with red hair to look like my girls'. The blue bling is Prima adhesive crystals and the rhinestone flower is also Prima, from the Chelsea accents tin. If you fancy this image for your own Cuttlebug love, head over to Lily-Boo's Boutique in a hurry because they are only selling a limited number of the Cuttlebug Cuties images.

My New Gig

I am so incredibly excited to tell you all that I've been selected to be on the DT for Lily-Boo's Boutique! If you could hear me I'm squealing with delight. Lily-Boo's are such fun digital stamps and I get to play with them as a member of their DT. I hope you'll come visit me and the other designers on Lily-Boo too ~ a challenge blog and of course Lily-Boo's Boutique to get some Boos of you're own.