Di's Mice Take the Cake? No, Donuts

April's wonderful sponsor is Di's Digis.

It's all about animals.

Prize: The prize for April's winner is a $6.00 voucher.

Di's Digi Stamps has some wonderful COLORED images as well as black and white.  I bought both of these wonderful digital stamps (black and white and colored).  I used a COLORED image here.  I did touch up the blue, yellow and pink on the donuts and pink on the mice to give a darker color and pop.  I die-cut the circle and applied Antique Linen to the circle and Ground Espresso to circle outline and give more depth to the bottom of the circle or you could call it a globe.  I applied the same colors to the background scallop with a touch of worn lipstick.

I had this scalloped square with the other edges already on it - who knows what I was going to use if for, but I've now used it to good advantage.   I pop dotted the circle and put a die-cut "celebrate" on the bottom.

Close-up below.

Supplies:

Donuts and Sprinkles Colored at Di's Digi Stamps

Donuts and Sprinkles Black and White at Di's Digis

Little B Handwritten "celebrate" die-cut

Spellbinders Nestabilities Small Classic Scalloped Squares Die

Distress inks Antique Linen, Worn Lipstick and Ground Espresso

Vagabond die cut machine

Di's Monty Mouse

Our Die Cut Diva's challenge is "Free Time" and the sponsor for the September is Di's Digi Stamps.  Check out the challenge here.  

Arlene here. and I found the cutest little mouse at Di's Digis one day and have never used it until now.  I thought this mouse was so cute, really just adorable.  I like the extra flowers, but now that I'm looking at the Nuvo drops, I think fewer would have been better.  But the mouse is still adorable.  What do you think? 

Close-up below

Supplies:
Di's Digi's Monty Mouse
Die-namics Pierced Circles STAX
Little B Handwritten
Copic markers:mouse W2, W3, W5, R11, flower stems G03, G05 leaf G03, G05, G07, lips E04, flowers Y03, Y19, YR19, flower center R59, Y19 ribbon R22, R24, R27, multiliner (blck) to create floor
Glossy Accents on the eyes & nose
Hero Arts flowers (years old) colored with Copic markers
Vagabond die cut machine

Ice Cream and Birthdays

It's all about birthdays and I have a cute birthday card to show you today.  Be sure to enter the Birthday challenge this month.  Just a little sparkle and gems.  I feel like I'm entering an old style ice cream parlor.

Close-up

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Happy Birthday - 1  available at Cheapo Dies

Elizabeth Craft Designs Ice Cream Cone   available at Cheapo Dies

Little B Handwritten Scallop dies

Glitter papers and scraps of paper

Vagabond die cut machine

No coloring

Red Stickles

Mixed sequins

Kinda Cute Treasure

WINNERS FOR AUGUST WILL BE POSTED ON THE 3RD OF THE MONTH FROM THIS POINT FORWARD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.  
Check tomorrow, guys. 

The sponsor for September is 



Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez sells stamps and digital images.
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Be sure to join the challenge.

The theme is to use the color "YELLOW" in your project.

The treasure in this chest is yellow gold.  I thought this chest was so cool and decided it had to hold gold as well as a skeletal hand.  I  doodled circles and half circles to create the coins inside the chest and added some squiggles to the book to create handwriting.  A key to go with the book to lead someone to a treasure chest is what I had in mind.

Arlene's blog is A Bit of This and That.

Kinda Cute Monkey Magicician (I used the chest and book)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Elizabeth Craft Designs Steampunk Charms (key)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Ropes 1
Little B Handwritten (celebrate)
Puzzle panel is from an old card
Copic markers C2, C6, E33, E37, Y08, YR16, YR27 on chest & E30 & V91 on books
Mitzibishi Uniball SIgno Broad white pen
Vagabond die cut machine

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

Hero Arts Love Potion # 9

February is the month of love.  

Well, I always think of it that way.

Hero Arts is our sponsor and I always have a wonderful time making cards with their products.

You won't believe how I came up with this idea.  I wanted to create a project using the "Enjoy the Journey".  I went to bed and woke up in the morning with the idea that the bottle looked like a flask, rather than the normal bottle.  Suddenly, Love Potion # 9 came to me.  Since it's about love and it's February, the month of love, I had to use red for the "flask".  You never know how you will come up with an idea.

Close-up

Supplies:
Hero Arts Enjoy The Journey die cuts.
If you want the matching stamps, click HERE
Rinea Patriotic Variety Pack (Red Paper)
Rinea Crafter's Pack Glossy Gold Paper
Little B dies (love)
Sizzix Tim Joltz Alterations Thinlits ABC (potion # 9)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Vagabond die cut machine

Arlene & The Die Cut Divas

A Little Tea Mouse

Win a  free digital stamp of your choice by entering the Die Cut Divas challenge.

This mouse is just so darn cute and I wanted him to be the main focus and thought he could be used for any event from cheering up a person to saying "Happy Birthday".  

Close-up of the cutie.

Supplies:

Sasayaki Glitter Tea Mouse digital stamp

Copic markers

Elizabeth Craft Designs Postage Stamp Squares

Die-Namics stitched squares

Little B Handwritten die (hi sentiment)

Nuvo Crystal Drops in Red Berry and Midnight Blue

Papers from stash

Vagabond die cut machine

Arlene and the Die Cut Divas

A Sled for You

I know it's only September and too soon for sledding, but I thought this would make some boy happy, maybe some older boy whose birthday was near winter and he received the key to the car.  Maybe?   Whichever, I thought a blue and yellow card was the combo for me.

I die-cut the sled parts and used floss for the reins for the sled.  I've pulled apart twine so it would fit in the holes too.  Whatever you decide to use, use something, because there is a greater impact and enjoyment of the finished sled with some kind of reins.

Close-up of sled

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Sled at Dies R Us

Elizabeth Craft Designs Steampunk Charms at Dies R Us

Little B Handwritten (for you dies)

Paper for Key from backing in package

Vagabond die cut machine

I'm at A Bit of This and That.

What's up pup?

 March's theme is: for the love of animal/ pets and our Sponsor is

Di's Digi Stamps



The PRIZE is $12 voucher to Di's Digi Stamps shop.

Here is my second card for the challenge this month...

For more info the card visit my blog here. There is still time to join our challenge this month, can't wait to see what you all have to show us!

Monica and the Diva's!

Love a Summer Flower

Arlene here.  Hannah asked me to post my latest card here on the 29th, so without further ado.

I used a "love" die from Little B "Handwritten" with a beautiful Memory Box Kyle Stem set upon the Elizabeth Crafts Design card front.

Card standing up 

Inside of Card - you can see the 3 squares I inserted through the hold in the front of the card on the inside panel.  I thought it added something extra to the inside.  

II used the Memory Box Hello Scrpt, A Little B "you" and another Memory Box left-over die-cuts from the Cityscape Nightline on the left side.  
I have seen the front on another piece of card stock, but wanted to see if this die-cut front piece could function on its own and YES IT CAN!
Check out my blog at A Bit of This and That.