Tickled Pink Challenge #16

Hello everyone. I'm back today with a Tickled Pink Challenge card. It's been a LONG time since I've used my poor, neglected Lolitas! So for today, I decided to pair up 20's Evie with my BG Curio dp. I thought they were a perfect match with the vintage feel of both. It also plays into the TPS theme of "spring" with the flowery dp and MM layered flower. I also used an OLD Mercy sketch for my layout. Oh how I miss Mercy's sketches!

Materials
Stamps: TPS 20's Evie digi, PTI Birthday Button Bits
Paper: BG Curio dp, PTI kraft, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, foam tape, CB folder, EK punch, Coluzzle, MM flowers, PTI button, CTMH ink, Robin's Nest pebbles

Another challenge combo

This was another creation I made yesterday during what was probably my last day off in awhile. My new Safeway store opens this Thursday, so it's massive panic and perfection and then straight into the Thanksgiving holiday. Nothing but 6-day work weeks for me for a while. More stamp money though!!

Can I just say that I *LOVE* the way this card turned out?! I made this for the TPS monthly sketch challenge #7, and this week's LLB challenge #22 which is a color challenge. Boy, PTI ribbon sure does make a pretty bow huh? I swapped Lilith's roses out for a snowflake brad. Now she's all set for the holidays!

Materials

Stamps: TPS Lilith, CTMH Jingle Borders

Paper: BG Jovial dp, A Muse kraft, CTMH cs

Other: Copics, foam tape, misc. brad, PTI ribbon, CTMH ink, rhinestones

Happy Birthday TPS!!

It's a very special month over at Tickled Pink Stamps. The store turns ONE! And in honor of this achievement, Lil' Lolita Boutique is having a birthday challenge. Create a birthday creation to help us celebrate one of the coolest online companies out there! Your card must use a Lil' Lolita stamp or digi. You can hop on over to the LLB for some great inspiration from the DT, and to TPS to buy some of these awesome Lolitas.

I decided to use Lylah and her present here that's she's ready to give to Kellie and the crew for such an awesome first year. Of course I had to color her dress pink for the occasion and use a pink ribbon. I also used Mercy's sketch # 97 from this week.

Well, this is my last post as the Guest Designer for LLB this month. It has been LOADS of fun, and I really enjoyed sharing my love for the Lolitas! I've really enjoyed working along side Kellie and the Design Team. They have been very nice and supportive. And most of all, I have loved seeing all of your creations and participation in the weekly challenges! You are all very talented out there and should be proud of yourselves!

Thanks again, and enjoy the challenge this week!

Materials
Stamps: TPS Lylah, CTMH Thoughtful Seasons
Paper: Sassafras Lass Sunshine Lollipops dp, A Muse kraft, PTI cs
Other: Copics, foam tape, Nestie Label, CTMH inks, Stickles, misc. ribbon, stitching

Lil' Lolita Boutique Challenge #20

It's another great challenge over at the Lil' Lolita Boutique! This time it's a sketch challenge! This sketch is great for you to try out the "big head" treatment to your lolita digis.

That's what I did with Miss Lylah here. It makes it really easy to do more detailed coloring, and even some paper piecing like I did here. I paper pieced Lylah's hat and dress with my CTMH Hooligans paper. I also used the opportunity to be more creative with Lylah's hair. I even added some glitter streaks with my Spica pen (if you can see it).

So hop on over to the LLB for the sketch and some great inspiration from the Design Team!

On a side note....sorry I haven't been blogging for a few days. The "crud" finally got me on Friday and still hasn't let go. Ugh! I hate being sick!

Materials
Stamps: TPS Lil' Haunts Lylah digi, CTMH October Word Puzzle and Thriller
Paper: CTMH Hooligans L2pp
Other: Copics, Spica pen, Gelly Roll pen, misc. ribbon, Stickles, CTMH inks and edge distresser

Lil' Lolita Boutique Challenge #19

Good morning everyone! I'm bakc today with another Lil' Lolita Boutique Challenge. This week's challenge is to incorporate skulls into your project.

Well, that's an easy one using the *NEW* Frankie image. He has a skull belt-buckle! I played it up by mirroring his skull with my EK punched skull at the base of the image. I used my Copic mulit-liner to draw on the same skull "face" from his buckle onto my punch out. Then I used some more of this super cool metallic skull and crossbones ribbon I found in the Target $1 bin. I had this brilliant plan of using the skull patterned paper from the BG Eerie collection, but as you can see, Frankie covered up most of the paper so you can't really see the skulls. Oh well!

I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch for the layout. Head on over to LLB to check out the challenge details and see the rest of the Design Team's awesome creations!

Materials
Stamps: TPS Frankie Frankenstein digi
Paper: BG Eerie dp, Making Memories dotted dp, PTI cs
Other: Copics, EK punches, foam tape, $1 bin ribbon, CTMH ink, misc. screw brads

I'm a LLBC Guest Designer!

Good morning everyone! Welcome to my first creation as a Lil' Lolita Boutique Guest Designer! The time difference between me in Washington and TPS in Melbourne has gotten me a little twisted around. That whole "International Date Line" thing. It's crazy to know that they're 18 hours ahead of me! Wow! I'm still nervous that I converted wrong...

Anywhoo...
I've had this card ready for a couple of weeks and have been DYING to share it! Let me introduce you to the *NEW* "Lil' Halloween" edition, Lylah the Witch! Now I chose to print this digi bigger so I could have some fun with detail coloring, so this isn't the full image. I love everything about this new Lylah (well, minus the spider 'cause I hate spiders)!

Today's LLB challenge is a color challenge. Black, orange, and purple. Get into that Halloween spirit! I took advantage of her awesome outfit to use all three colors in the challenge. I even played up the purple in today's challenge by coloring her eyes purple! The super cool black die-cut strip is from WeRMemory Keepers. LOVE it!! It even has adhesive already on it. Found it at my LLS.

Have fun with this week's challenge! Don't forget to submit your card, using only a Lil' Lolita stamp or digi, to the LLBC blog before next Thursday for a chance to win an awesome prize! Also check out the rest of the DT's creations! They're fabulous!

Materials
Stamps: Lil Lolita Lylah the Witch digi, sentiment is A Muse
Paper: Bo Bunny dp, BG Eerie dp, PTI cs
Other: Copics, Stickles, rhinestones, Prima flowers, WRMC die cut ribbon, CTMH ink, Memento ink

Blah....

I've had a serious case of the "Blahs" lately. I've been so busy with work, volunteer work, card classes, and DT work that I've had this affinity to just sit and stare into space. Sometimes I'd wind down with a good book, and that helped a lot. (Stephen White's "Privileged Information is my current read--Love his work!)

I finally decided to sit down and color and have some "me" time with my crafts. I made this card pretty quick for this week's LLBC #17 which is a sketch challenge. Since the image took me a while to color, I went with the simple version of the sketch and didn't embellish or stray much.

Just finished one of my DT projects which was a really hard one for me. I think that's what was giving me my Blahs since I didn't really want to do it. But now it's done and it will be posted later this week. My FIRST LLBC October Guest DT card goes up Thursday! That one I'm really excited about since I love the way my card turned out!

Enough blabbing from me. I'm off to have some brunch and then maybe read some more.

Materials
Stamps: Lil' Lolita Ivy digi, CTMH Fringed Phrases
Paper: CC Material Girl dp, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, Nestie die, Prima rose, rhinestones, CTMH ink

A little hunting

Check this out! I made this the other day...well, I really made three because they were so cool! I was hunting through my paper stash in search of Halloween paper when I came across this printed transparency I bought over a year ago.

...and then the lightbulb went on. I stamped out some 50's Lilith images and these cute little chipboard/felt hearts I bought on a whim a few months ago and it all came together. Did you see the cool skull metallic ribbon I found in the dollar bin at Target a couple days ago?! Totally rad! I had this great idea to paper piece Lilith's skirt and then realized I had to then paper piece the skulls. That was a project! But I really like how it turned out. I also tried Amy Young's straight hair coloring technique shown at the Color Me Copic blog. Way cool and so informational!

So here's the inside of the card:

And here's the back of the card:

Making these totally made me happy and excited! Plus the "Glee" season premier last night. AWESOME!! That Sunshine girl can SING! :D "Survivor" is on tonight. Hope they don't boot Coach Jimmy off quite yet.

Materials

Stamps: TPS 50's Lilith, CTMH For All Occasions

Paper: Printed transparency by Hambly, CTMH Gypsy cs, PTI white cs, Making Memories dotted dp

Other: Copics, CTMH inks, Memento ink, Stickles, misc. gingham ribbon, Target $1 bin skull ribbon, Recollections heart embellie

Cute as a button LLBC #15

Good morning everyone! Happy Monday. It's the LAST day of my week long vacation. :( It's been a very nice, and much needed, relaxing time off. A couple of days I didn't even make it out of my PJs!

Yesterday was one of those PJ days and I spent most of it watching football and crafting. I made this card for this week's Lil Lolita Boutique Challenge #15 which calls for the use of buttons. Easy enough for me since I use them pretty much on every card! I kept it subtle with the two little buttons along side the yellow rose. I wanted to use this rose so bad to mimic Evie's rose that I almost forgot to use buttons! And did you notice that I used my new favorite FTL #107 from Clean and Simple? Love it! Tweaked it a bit with the placement of the sentiment.


This was also the LAST of this CTMH Magic Moments paper pack! Yippee! Another one bites the dust! Which is why I decided to share this second card I made with the last of the scraps. Kinda sad though since this paper was recently discontinued. It was one of my favs for a long time. I played of my new PTI Button Bits set by punching circles from the last of the scrap and then adhearing a button on top. I really like how this turned out.

Materials
Stamps: TPS 20's Evie digi, CTMH Fringed Phrases, PTI Button Bits
Paper: CTMH Magic Moments L2pp, A Muse kraft
Other: Copics, CTMH inks, buttons, and hemp, CB folder, EK punches

LLBC #14 with a new sketch challenge

Good (late) morning everyone. I wasted soooo much time this morning trying to use my Photobucket account to upload these, but I kept having sizing issues, so I gave up. I really need to upgrade my photoshop so I can do watermarks.

Anyways....today's card is for this week's Lil' Lolita Boutique challenge #14 which calls for you to involve music. This was a tought challenge for me. I ended up having to think outside the box on this one. I've had this 60's Ivy image colored for a couple weeks now, and I had an epiphany with the paper. Birds, singing, music notes. I also added more stamped notes to the Prima. Yay! It works!

I also used a sketch from a challenge site I recently discovered: The Sweet Stop. Now they've obviously been around awhile since they're now on challenge #73! New to me though! So I did use sketch #73 for this card.

"And then".....(lol!) I used the scraps from Ivy's card to created this SCRS Turntable Josh card for my friend's birthday this Sunday. ANOTHER Sept. birthday! I swear I have like 20 birthdays this month!

Materials

Stamps: TPS 60's Ivy digi, SCRS Turntable Josh, "birdie" A Muse sentiment, CTMH Say it in Style and Hot Diggity (music notes)

Paper: BG Offbeat dp, A Muse kraft, CTMH cs

Other: Copics, CTMH ink, brads, edge distresser, paper piercer, and button, Prima flowers, misc. ribbon, Coluzzle

Girly Girl and Special announcement

Hello everyone! Today I bring you a card for this week's Lil' Lolita Boutique Challenge #13 which calls for anything Girly Girl. Well pink, lace, and pearls seemed pretty girly to me! More scrap lace from Grandma was used here for the strip and to create the "flower". I knew I wanted to use this paper from my Cosmo Cricket pack, but I didn't have a pink that matched this shade just right. So after some experimentation, I discovered that if I laid down R22 as a base and then layered E31 over it, it helped change the tone to be closer to the color I needed.

Speaking of Lil' Lolita Boutique.....I have been chosen to be a guest DT for the month of October!! I'm so excited! Love the Lolitas and can't wait to have fun with the LLBC. Kellie says that October should not be missed. Do I hear a NEW release coming?!

I hope you're enjoying your holiday weekend. I actually don't have to work today since it's my normal day off, so Mom and I are going Goodwill shopping! We LOVE to go looking for treasures and find cool stuff. I often find craft items that I use on my cards.

Materials
Stamps: TPS Lil' Lolita 20's Evie digi, CTMH Thoughtful Sentiments
Paper: Cosmo Cricket Earth Love dp, CTMH cs, A Muse kraft
Other: Copics, foam tape, CTMH ink and stick pin, Stickles, EK corner rounder, adhesive pearls, misc. button and scrap lace.

Fun with LLBC #12

I had a lot of fun with this card for the 'Lil Lolita Boutique Challenge #12. Yay for sketch challenges! Too bad I missed the linky deadline though. I took a great idea from my friend Amy Young about blowing up the digi image of Miss Lylah. This really worked well with this sketch, since the main image panel is more square and all the Lolitas are so tall and lean.

I found this cool piece of lace in my stash and it went perfectly with my Basic Grey dp. One thing with making Lolitas bigger is that their eyes are that much bigger too! I'm always a little bit intimidated when I color their eyes; I don't want them to look creepy! Lol! I need to work on my black hair coloring skills a little I think too.

Wish me luck! I threw my hat into the ring for a LLBC DT spot!

Materials
Stamps: 'Lil Lolita Lylah digi, CTMH Fringed Phrases
Paper: BG Eva dp, A Muse kraft, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, foam tape, MS punch, Stickles, CTMH ink, scrap lace.

A rose is a rose (LLBC #11)

Hello everyone!

Today's card is my entry for this week's Lil' Lolita Boutique Challenge #11 which asks that you use roses on your card. Any kind of rose will do, and for mine I used my Lilith digi since she is holding her roses. The sentiment fits her sad little expression. I also added one of my handmade book flowers. This is the LAST of these sheets of Eva paper and the last So Sophie tag. Why change a good thing, right? ;)

Hope you all had a fabby weekend. I had a nice time camping the past few days. Perfect weather; it rained overnight Saturday, but cleared up by morning. Then, just as Dad and I finished breaking down camp and stashing our stuff under the awning it started POURING! Good 'ol Western Washington weather for ya!

Materials
Stamps: Lil' Lolita Lilith digi, CTMH For Every Occasion ss
Paper: BG Eva dp, So Sophie journaling tag
Other: Copics, foam tape, EK punches, misc. button, CTMH ink, book pages

60's Ivy

Still on a pink and green kick, plus it helped me use up some more of these sheets of my BG Eva pack. This Lil' Lolita image is 60's Ivy. I love, love her cool retro outfit! I glammed it up by adding Stickles to her belt and headband. And check out this old Making Memories fabric tag. I've had this this FOR-EVAH! It made the perfect addition to this card.

Enjoy your Tuesday. I'll be trying to pound out the cards today to get ready for another Farmer's Market tomorrow.

Materials
Stamps: Lil' Lolita 60's Ivy digi
Paper: BG Eva dp, CTMH cs and Daydream dp (pink striped)
Other: Copics, Making Memories fabric tag, Memento ink, misc. buttons, CTMH ink, Stickles

Ivy with SSSC #80

Ivy is my favorite of my new Lil' Lolita digis. She's so stinkin cute with a little bit of sass. Plus that outfit?! So funky! This image was a lot of fun to color. It was my first attempt at coloring hazel eyes. That's one bonus about the Lolitas' big eyes...you can play with the coloring. I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch #80. It also goes with this week's challenge over at Lil' Lolita Boutique that calls for "lots of dots". I think this BG Eve dp qualifies for that, and the skittles....and the dotted ribbon.

Materials

Stamps: Lil' Lolita Ivy digi, CTMH Fringed Phrases ss

Paper: BG Eve dp, CTMH cs, Amuse kraft

Other: Copics, misc. ribbons, Robin's Nest skittles, CTMH inks

Mojo Lylah

It's been a loooonngg time since I've played along with the Mojo Monday sketch. I guess it's mostly because the sketches didn't fit with what I wanted to use, but this week's sketch was perfect for my new Lylah digi. Another of my Lil' Lolita purchases. Coloring Lylah was a lot of fun, especially her cute dress! The eyes were a different story. Lolita eyes are just so big, that when I colored them brown they made her look really scary. Kinda like shark eyes! Yikes! So I quickly fixed it by using a lighter Copic to tone it down.

Materials
Stamps: Lil' Lolita Lylah digi, sentiment is Amuse
Paper: BG Green at Heart dp, CTMH cs, misc. pearl paper
Other: Copics, foam tape, Stazon, CTMH paper piercer, MS punch, misc. ribbon

My first Lolita!

Hello all! Sorry my posts have been kinda random. I went to Seafair yesterday. My first time on a boat on Lake Washington for Seafair! It was soooo cool! The weather was a bit dicey when we launched, but it cleared up just in time to see the Boeing air show featuring the Blue Angels. Man! I love it when these guys come every year! It was so rad actually "feeling" them fly overhead! ....then having my eardrums almost blown out! Lol! Little sun burnt too, but well worth it! Saw a bit of the hydroplane races too. Seeing those I hope to share pictures soon.

Anyways, on to the card. This is my first ever card made with my new 'Lil Lolita stamps! I bought a few rubber and some digis from Tickled Pink the other day during their brief digi sale. Sale?! I'm there! Lol! So today's card uses my 20's Evie digi. She has that nice classic look that I thought would go great with my Kioshi paper. The 'Lil Lolita Boutque blog has a challenge this week to "Bling it up". Well, that's easy enough! I added rhinestones to the lace trim, the sentiment, Evie's flower, and a big one in the center of the button. I also Tsukineko shimmer spritz on the flower, but you can't tell in the photo. I used Taylored Expressions sketch #123 for the layout.

My month is jam-packed with lots of stuff, so I appoligize in advance if I don't post everyday.

Materials
Stamps: Lil Lolita 20's Evie digi, sentiment is Amuse
Paper: BG Kioshi dp, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, foam tape, CTMH ink, rub-on flourish and bitty sparkles, Kaiser flower and purple rhinestone, scrap lace, misc. button