Candy Corn @ Halloween

Good morning everyone!

Today I can share with you the new release @ Digital Delights and it's all about Halloween! We don't really celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands, but it's still fun to create with these lovely images. I've used one of September's New Release: meet Candy Corn Kiddles! I've made a little sweet wrapper to be wrapped around a bag of candy. I love what you can do with digi's, as I set the image within a frame from the Ghoulish Frame set, they originally come seperately. I also used the banner shape in Microsoft word as a frame for my Ghoulish Sentiment. Anyway, here's a picture of the finished article. 

Unfortunately, I had no idea what candy corn was, so asked some of my lovely teamies, did a bit off Googling and finally found what the little blighters look like. However, I did manage to colour the main image the wrong way around (It should be white, orange, yellow. I did white, yellow, orange). You would think the DP was a dead giveaway for the right colour order, but not so much in my case apparently. Oh well, never mind, I thought it still looked good :) As candy corn isn't sold here as far as I know, I've used a bag of mixed caramels as a substitute, but I am sure it would look even cuter wrapped around a bag of candy corn.

Materials:
* Digital Delights Candy Corn Kiddles, Ghoulish Frame set and Ghoulish Sentiment set, all coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs

<<These digis are all newly released, see this link for the full release!

* K&Co HW Mat pad
* Pebbles black chipboard chips
* Green washi tape from local department store chain (Hema)
* Ribbon, peel offs, gems from stash

Our sponsor this week is Digital Delights, there will be a 10 dollar store gift card in it for the winner of this challenge!

http://www.digitaldelightsbyloubyloo.com/

Challenges:
* Frosted Designs (Use Office Supplies, I've used staples to adhere the wrapper to the bag of sweets)
* Lollipop Crafts (Fall Frolic)
* Cutie Pie Challenge (No Flowers)
* Stamps & Fun = Creativity (Anything but a Card)
* Anything but a Card (Anything but a Card)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi.....again!)
* Hybrid Chick (Pop it Up, I've used foam pads to lift the image and the sentiment off the background)
* Lexi's Creations (Autumn Colours)
* Alota Stamps Challenge (Halloween)
* Mema's Crafts (Choice of 5 themes, I've chosen Holiday Bliss & Fall Colours)

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Valentine Sweetie Sleeve & Friendship's Garden Blog Hop

Hi everybody,

In addition to our challenge (with the same theme), we are doing a blog hop at Friendship's Garden people! Our hop is sponsored by Designs on Cloud Nine, we're calling it "ITS A LOVE THING"! You can win a 20 dollar gift certificate to their shop! Awesome, right? PLUS, some of my teamies are having their own little giveaways during the hop, so look out for those extra opportunities to win!

If you're hopping along with us, you should have arrived from Dena's blog, if you want to start the hop, please visit the challenge blog first! Chana is the next stop on this hop, tell her I said hello :)

Before you leave, here's my make. I made a gift sleeve for a box of heart chocolates I will be giving to my hubby. He deserves it, because he always does the photography and photo shopping for this blog AND I forgot to make him a Christmas card last December.....naughty me! We will be having some lovely tapas on Valentine's Day after work and I will take this prezzie along with me. It's a really easy project to do, especially if you have a scoring board.

Materials:
* Design on Cloud Nine Bee Mine images
* Me and My Big Ideas Fashion District Striped DP (which incidentally was a gift from my husband for our first wedding anniversary last year!) & Dovecraft Piece of Cake DP
* Sentiment stamp from Eline Vintage stamp set
* Clear Stickles on the bees' wings
* Brads and border peeloffs from my stash

Challenges: 
* Moving Along with the Times (Have a Heart)
* Little Miss Muffet (Valentine/Love)
* Sassy Studio (Love is in the Air)
* By the Cute and Girly (Love is in the Air)
* ABC (In pairs; my bees and two pairs of brads)
* More than Favours (Love)
* Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge (Love is in the Air)
* Truly Scrumptious (Love & Hearts)
* Ladybug Ink (Loves me, Loves me not)
* Creative Belli (Valentine/Hearts)

Right, that's it from me, hope to see you during the hop and at the challenge (which has a Love Theme as well, plus use at least 3 types of embellishments)!

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Flower Birthday

Good evening, I'm back again with another card! It seems that sometimes I don't have time for weeks and then I have so much time I don't know what to do with it! Anyway, I thought I'd make a few generic cards for birthdays and such, so here is the first one:

Here's the inside:

I've used Eline's huis papers (in the Meadow), they are really beautiful A4 papers. The rest is from my stash. This is the first card I've used the giant pearls on, I've got a whole assortment of colours and I think they look really beautiful here.

I want to submit this card for the following challenges:

* OLLCB (3 of a kind)
* Moving Along with the Changes (Spring)
* Paperplay Challenges (Layer it up)

BTW I've made a little sweetie wrapper to go with the Valentine's card I've posted Sunday:

I've used the same basic paper, punched some flowers and stuck them on top with a little gem in the middle. I hadn't done anything like this before, but it wasn't very hard and still looks fairly impressive.

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