ROMANCING THE CANVAS

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Challenge #88: Feel the LOVE

Welcome to another Sentimental Sunday!

This week's Sponsor is:
Little Darlings

This week's challenge is:

Feel the LOVE

(plus a sentiment)

We want to see reds, heart, love...anything that has to do with the feeling of LOVE!!Now, I know you are going to LOVE this weeks inspiration, I had a great time creating them using Wendy's Digital Delight images that she gave me.

She featured them on her Tuesday site for interest of how to use a topper, but I wanted to use them here also because they are so adorable and LOVING!

I personally am in love with them!

She kindly let me create some "Toppers" for her and I want to give them more exposure here as they are LOVE LOVE LOVE!

ENJOY!

I hope you enjoy these.

I want to personally thank Wendy at Digital Delights for creating these Images and Little Darlings for Sponsoring us this week and Sentimental Sundays for having me as a DT. The leader of Sentimental Sundays has quickly become an invaluable friend and she runs a stellar site so please pop over and check out what her Challenge is all about. Get in quickly... she usually has in the 100's of entries!!!!

Please be Kind to One Another

LUV SAMARA

Craft Us Crazy : Anything Goes

Crafty Purple Frog : Valentine’s Day/Show us some love

Little Miss Muffet Challenges :Valentines and Love

Crafts and Me : Bright colours

Forever Friends : Valentine

Moving Along With The Times :Have a Heart (At least 1 heart clearly visible)

Pals Paper Arts : Any reds

Sassy Studio Designs : Valentine’s

Creative Belli : Hearts/Valentine

Little Red Wagon : Valentine’s Day/Love

Paper Pretties : Ribbon or Twine

Paper Shelter Challenge : Love is in the air

Penny’s Paper-Crafty : Love is in the air

Simon Says Stamp : Animal Antics

Truly Scrumptious : Love and Hearts

Deep Ocean Challenge : Love You!

My Time To Craft : A Is For Adorable

Stamp-N-Doodle : Romance, Love, Valentine’s

Top Tip Tuesday : Valentines & Tipper Week

Tuesday Throwdown : Use Hearts

Digi Makeover Challenge : Be My Valentine

Die Cut Dreams : Pink, Red, Heart

Karens Doodles : Cute and Cuddly

Lollipop Crafts : Anything Goes

Corrosive Challenges : I {Heart} You

The Crafty Pad : Show some Valentine/Anniversary Love

Di’s Digis Designs : Valentines

Totally Gorjuss : K.I.S.S.

Cardmadfairy’s Digi Days : Hearts

Daring Cardmakers : Pink & Red

Fabulous Friday : Ribbon and/or Twine

Fairy Tale : Love,Love,Love

Sweet n’ Sassy Digi Challenge : Valentine’s Day

Emerald Faerie Garden : Be My Valentine

Freshly Brewed Monthly Challenge : Love

Joanna Sheen Challenge : Love is in the Air

Really Reasonable Ribbon : Red & Pink with Ribbon

STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON

PHOTO INSPIRATION THEME

Thanks to all of you for joining STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON for last weeks challenge. It was really great doing the commenting. As usual, I learned bunches for my own cards.

The winners will be posted very soon under the WINNERS TAB on STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON.

This week's Challenge was really fun, as a Designer! I've never quite done a card like this before.

The Company that is sponsoring us is Dude Time Doodles

The winner of the Challenge will receive a $5 Gift Certificate to their store.

Perhaps you would like to look here to get an image.

They helped me FOR SURE to be assigned one. There are wonderful images to choose from. Next time!

There is a 2nd PRIZE for those who use an image from SWTD and you have a chance of being the GUEST DESIGNER for our next challenge. Because this is such a becovetted prize, I decided I am going to include the person who won this week!

this is your PHOTO INSPIRATION

Go Crazy With It!

Take it wherever you want...just use the photo as your stepping off point k?

Meet Wendy. She is our Guest Designer from last week. A very talented artist, as are all of you who entered our challenge. Believe me, it was a very tough job to choose! I promise you that!!!

Hi, my name is Wendy, I’ve been card making for about 8 years, I started off by making my own wedding stationary, and have been addicted ever since.

I am a trained Florist, so I have always been crafty and like to try my hand at most things.

I enjoy making my own flower embellishments, from paper, fabric, felt, lace, anything I can find really!

I also make Beaded jewellery & try to do some scrapbooking when I can.

I have been blogging for nearly a year now and get so much inspirations from other fab blogs and have made some great friends.

This is the first time I’ve been asked to be a Guest Designer and I was so excited to be asked to join in this challenge, Thank you for having me x

Wendy x

This is the card Wendy entered into our challenge. How fun is this. Man does he look excited...um nervous??? I don't think my son Jordan looked like this when he proposed to OUR LAURA on the beach, while having a picnic, in ISRAEL! I believe (hmmm - Mommy's choice to believe) he was cool as a goose. Oh sure Mommy!!! I think it was Our Laura who was freaking a lid with a "finally!" haha Don't most of us womyn do that???

Thank you Wendy for joining us. If you would like to stop by Wendy's blog and leave her a comment you can find the link here.

For my card I did Mr. "HOWIE HOT HOT HOT!"

I think you will enjoy the thought of him.

Especially if he were on a Calendar! hahaha

The image is, of course, from DUDE TIME and ALL the paper is from STAMPING WITH THE DRAGON'S STORE and is called SELF HEALING. It has wonderful embellishments that also go with their SELF HEALING paper pack. I have used STAMPIN' UP! Ribbon for the side and for the bow and have used $ store bling. The Sentiment is by me and is from the computer on STAMPIN' UP!.

HAVE A HOTTTTT TIME!

SAMARA

DELIGHTFUL CHALLENGES

Last week was grandly successful at Delightful Challenges with our Valentine theme Challenge Anything but a Card.

All of us who Design for Delightful Challenges and comment on your lovely cards really appreciate your entries. It is wonderful to see new techniques and ways that WE can learn to improve what we do. Thanks for that!

Hop on over to the Delightful Blog to see the Winners of last weeks Challenge.

For this week, the Challenge is

Punches and Dies

and

Wendy has a new release of stamps!!!

This is the most exciting part of the month as a Designer.

If you would like to enter the Challenge, you do not have to use one of Wendy's great images from the Digital Delights store, but if you do - you can enter 2 times!

For your first entry, please put your blog link.

For your send entry, please put "second entry" after your name.

This week's Sponsor is ~

Cutting Cafe is offering 3 sets from there store

to this weeks Winner.

Pop on over to The Cutting Cafe...Regina has some outstanding stamps that would be amazing to win~!

GREAT SUCCESS TO EVERYONE.

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN YOUR COMMENTS SECTION!

LUV SAMARA

Now, I don't know what got into me that my "Praying Girl" is praying in the garden, rather than beside her bed, but at the time - with the "Bedtime Sentiments Set" - Now I lay me down to sleep - I thought of a beautiful garden with butterflies and flowers. So here you have it...My Praying Girl is about to Camp Out after communing with G-d!

I love the new techniques of making our own flowers! The patterned paper is Bo Bunny.

And of course a Martha punch and the Spellbinders Border for the leaves. The Burgundy Paper is Bazzill and is cut with the Cricut and outlined with a white Gel Pen.

I decided to try to back my gal with orange, but think I prefer the top pic where she is backed with Pink.

SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS CHALLENGE

Challenge #87–Dry Embossing

The Die Cuts challenge last week was a huge success. Sentimental Sundays had some gorgeous entries, not only by the Design Team but the entrants were outstanding. Each time I comment on the cards I am amazed at how many techniques I learn, the number of stamps that people are able to work with, in different and unique ways and how people are now making their own embellishments, such as flowers and tags, rather than buying pre-made ones.

The people who did not have die cut machines managed still to enter the challenge using wonderful punches and putting them together in ways that were stunning. Thank you to all of you for giving me the pleasure of seeing and learning from your work!.

For this week, DRY EMBOSSING is the challenge. That means using IMPRESSIONS FOLDERS, or your scoring board or a stylus to make unique designs in your paper. Sentimental Sunday's wants to see how you can design your paper without INK, without heating tools and without any powders or Versamark Type Sticking agents.

Be sure to go back to SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS BLOG on Tuesday to see who the lucky winners of last weeks challenge are!

This weeks sponsor is:

Heather Ellis

If you want to see Heather’s Etsy Shop, then click here, and check out all of her fabulous digi stamp characters. They are just as adorable as this popular one above that most of us - Designers - used for our Inspiration cards over at SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS CHALLENGE BLOG.

This weeks winner will receive 3 images from Digi Stamp Characters!

CHALLENGE RULES:

This weeks challenge is: “Dry Embossing” (plus DON'T FORGET a sentiment)

here is my take on Heather's Digi Image

This flower was fun! I took pink paper and punched the edge with a Martha punch and then scored with a SU scor pad 1/4" apart and then folded back and forth over and over. At the end I glued the pieces together. Then I pushed the middle onto the table and used a hot gun to hold the middle together. I mounted it all onto a 1" punched circle of the same color and, of course, as you can see added the bling.

I used the same Martha punch and color to enhance the top of the card. The ribbon was simply a twirl, glue, twirl, glue. The corner is a Martha Emboss Corner. The Beige is a SU impressions folder that I inked with Tim's Vintage Ink.

The FRIENDS sticker is from Bo Bunny's new line. The embossed fleurs are a SU metal emboss/cut folder. I love these - they work SO well. The piece of lime green you see running vertically is an emboss from my cuttlebug. It is a border impressions folder from Cricut.

I trimmed my little Heather Ellis darling with the same paper as the fleur and top enhance. I gave her pockets and a neck thingi (I don't know what they are called.) And of course, I colored her with my beloved Copics. The paper you see in the background is from the same new Bo Bunny set.

A better look at the paper (hmmm, why did my ink just go red - crazy puter's!) Maybe to match the bling, her hair pin and the mail post "you've got mail!"