Altenew & Verve Birthday {SSS/STB}

Hello! One more day of work and then I am on holiday for the summer. Being a teacher is wonderful for summer break but already my mind is whirling with ideas for next year! I have a HUGE TO DO list and I will be moving rooms at school too! SO exciting but lots of work ahead!!

I inked up another Altenew Stamp...just playing tonight and haphazardly stamped the flowers all over the card...I didn't line them up but I liked the messy look. I hope you do too!

 Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp

Seize the Birthday

 

Viva la Verve {Happy Birthday} & Seize the Birthday

Corey and I just got back from a quick weekend getaway! The weather was gorgeous and we had so much fun! While we were away, I kept looking at the fun sketch at Verve. I must admit, I struggled with it. But once I went with the doily for the circle shape, the card came together quickly. I am also linking this card to Seize the Birthday.

I used some new Lawn Fawn papers...so pretty! I used a coral/navy/kraft colour combo too. Using some distress inks, I inked all the sides of my card and layers. I think it softens a card.

I used Verve's Great Friend and Poppy Birthday for my stamps. I love the Poppy Birthday font and sentiments. SO pretty and clean!

 

SugarPea Designs {One Year Anniversary}

SugarPea Designs is so excited to be celebrating our 1st Birthday – and what an amazing year it has been!! We are celebrating this momentous occasion with a Blog Hop featuring our AMAZING SugarPea design team and some very talented Special Guests!

Today I am featuring a card and a matching gift card holder using the new Classroom Cupids set! I LOVE owls and so I stamped the owl three times onto my white paper. I then fussy cut out the middle owl, to give my card some depth. I coloured the owl's bellies with mu Copic markers and then I took the sentiments from two other stamp sets in the SugarPea Designs Store to make my sentiment on my card!

  

I used the sketch at The Challenge and the colours at Just Us Girls, for my card! I am also linking up at Seize the Birthday!

  

Now you can’t have a Birthday Bash without prizes and there are lots of prizes to be won along the way! A few of our blog hop participants will be giving away a SugarPea Designs stamp set so please leave some love on your travels. In addition to this, one lucky winner will be randomly chosen from all the comments left and that winner will receive a:

But that’s not all…we also want YOU to be part of the party by sharing a card with us.

Once you have completed the hop, we’d love it if you’d keep the celebration going, by creating a Birthday card or project and linking it up here for a chance to WIN a $25 Gift Certificate!

*Hop and LinkUp ends midnight, January 28th with winners being announced and posted on February 1st.

Finally, enter coupon code BDAY01 at checkout to receive 10% off all orders – valid until January 24.

SugarPea Designers

SugarPea Designs Blog
Lesley Croghan<<<You are HERE
Anita Madden
Jenny Peterson
Kim O'Connell
Mary Johnson
Wendy Bond
Tracy Valure
Simonne Clay
Stacey Schafer
Wendy McGaffey
Vera Yates
Kerri Michaud
Lisa Lara
Cathy Preissing
Shanna Shands
Cibele Glazer

Our Special Guests

Tracy MacDonald
Danielle Lounds
Tara Godfrey
Veronica Zalis
Angel Rivera
Jen Shults
Isha Gupta
Amy Tsuruta
Dina Kowal
Chaitali Narla
Brianna Loeffelbein
Lisa Henke
Piali Biswas

The Card Concept, The Shabby Tea Room, Seize the Birthday & Viva la Verve {Fabulous}

Happy Wednesday! Today we have a brand new challenge over at The Card Concept. This is my last challenge with the team as a Guest Designer! It was wonderful to play along with these talented and inspiring ladies.

This week we are simply looking for a Birthday Card. I chose the inspiration photo because of the white cake mixed with the pretty flowers and the woodgrain. I did not manage to get the woodgrain incorporated in my card but I tried to capture the spring like quality of the colours. 

My sketch came from the Viva la Verve Sketches. I LOVE this sketch! It was great to use up some scraps from my bin. I also used an oval for the center to fit my sentiment which is a new one for me from Stampin' Up. I am a sucker for scrolling font! I am also linking this up at the Seize the Birthday Anything Goes Birthday Challenge. I am also linking up at The Shabby Tea Room Anything Goes Challenge.

Paper Sweeties February Challenge, Colour Q & Seize the Birthday

The time has come for a brand new challenge over at Paper Sweeties. This month's inspiration challenge is full of possibilities...you should come and play along...there are some great prizes!

  

Be sure to check out the amazing inspiration from our team...lots of way to interpret our challenge this week! I was inspired by the banners in the background, they reminded me of a birthday celebration!!! So I created a little birthday set!

Be sure to hop along to see the other design team samples!

Amber Kroening

Andrea Ewen

Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Char Cundy

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Jeanne Jachna

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan<<< You are here

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs

February Guest Designer: Donna Baes

 

I used the Paper Sweeties sets called Beautiful & Stand Add-On for my projects...who doesn't love some fresh baked goodies on their birthday!

I was inspired to play along with the Colour Q and Seize the Birthday as well.

Seize the Birthday and Color Throwdown {Bunches of Birthday Wishes}

For the next month, we are having an Anything Goes Birthday celebration at Seize the Birthday!!!! This will only be for this month and then we will be back to our bi-weekly schedule and we will also be introducing our new design team! To apply for the design team, please CLICK HERE and do not forget about our new sister challenge blog called "Seize the Sketch" which starts on August 6th!! 

From July 11th until August 6th, we are hosting a...

"Anything Goes Birthday" Linky Party!!! 

You are free to use any sketch and any colours,

as long as you share a birthday themed project!!

I wanted to play along with the current Color Throwdown Challenge. It is their 250th challenge and their 5th year running! 

When I first started blogging and making cards in 2009, this design team gave me a lot of encouragement!!! I played their challenge all the time and I still play along when I can! I met one of my bestie blog friends through this challenge too...LeAnne Pugliese! 

I decided to ink up some new goodies I ordered from Lil' Inker! LOVE the new balloon dies and I bought the matching stamp set too! I just recently discovered their fun designs.

Seize the Birthday #18 {Oh Snap!)

Wow, the last two weeks FLEW by and we have a brand new sketch over at Seize the Birthday! Design Team Member, Jen Nelson has created the sketch and I absolutely loved it! There is so much you can do with it! This week we are sponsored by Neat and Tangled Stamps, they are offering a stamp set to the Winner!

I wanted to create a masculine card based on the inspiration photo over at The Alley Way Stamps and I need a belated birthday card for a male family member, then I remembered the fun challenge over at CASology, hence the mustache >>> it is FURRY. *wink*

I am playing along with a couple of challenges today:

The Alley Way Stamps-Inspiration Photo

Simon Says Stamps-Anything Goes
 CASology-FURRY

Seize the Birthday {Sharing another Bugaboo Birthday card!}

We are having so much fun this week, using Bugaboo Stamps to create birthday cards!! I went with some bright, bold colours for my 2nd card using this week's sketch! You have until May 28th at Noon (EST) to join us!!

Here is the sketch!

I decided to flip the sketch on its side and used a flagged sentiment in the top left hand corner. We hope you will join us! There is a wonderful prize from Bugaboo Stamps up for grabs!! 

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Bugaboo Stamps (Poppi Watertoy), Sentiment AMUSE (Retired)

Inks: Copics

Papers: MME It's a Boy Thing, White, Black, Poppy Parade

Extras: Button

To JOIN OUR CURRENT CHALLENGE,

CLICK HERE.

Seize the Birthday #17 {For You}-Sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps

This week at Seize the Birthday, it is my turn to create a sketch and I went with an old standby that I love to use. It is an easy sketch but feel free to change up the rectangle element and make the sketch your own!

I have fallen in love with Bugaboo Stamps...seriously! Wow, they are fun to colour and I loved the sweetness to the images. I paired this adorable Elephant called Edward Elephant Flower with some pretty paper by Simple Stories I just purchased from Paper Issues.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Bugaboo Stamps-Edward Elephant 

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black and Copics

Papers: Simple Stories DSP, Kraft, White, Black

Extras: Black Grosgrain, Buttons

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

The Ribbon Carousel (Celebration)

Seize the Birthday #16 {Birthday Wishes}

Have you heard the news? Over at Seize the Birthday we are going to a two week challenge schedule! So now, you have two weeks to complete the sketch! Yippee! Also, you are welcome to create as many birthday cards as you would like with the sketch-either masculine or feminine...it is totally up to you! 

Our sponsor this week is the Cutting Cafe and they gave us some adorable digital images to work with! I just adored this sweet Owl and created a clean and simple birthday card!