Happy Birthday Lacey!!

Today is a happy day - members of the Wags 'n Whiskers & Stamp and Create Design Teams are celebrating the birthday of our owner/designer Lacey Stephens.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY LACEY!  Here is a card I made in your honor Wags 'n Whiskers' adorable Ellie & Squeak digi image :

Ellie & Squeake are colored with Spectrum Noir markers (which I won as a WCMD prize from Crafter's Companion - thanks you Crafter's Companion!!) and the presents are colored with Copics.  Since Ellie is holding a present I decided to pair the image with some patterned paper by the Paper Studio that has presents all over it.  
     I hope your birthday is a very happy one Lacey, and I am honored to be a part of one of your DTs!!
~ Crafty Math Chick

WnW85 - Birthday!

Hello friends & followers!  Welcome to my Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge post.  It feels so good to be back creating for Wags 'n Whiskers again.  Today's theme was 'Birthday' and I used Ellie and Squeak to celebrate:

 I will be SO happy when we are moved into our new place and I am able to unpack ALL of my craft supplies.  The Bic Mark Its are good in a pinch, but I miss the variety of my Copic marker collection, and I think they blend a bit better too.  The paper is something I purchased at Hobby Lobby on sale, since all my boxes of patterned paper is buried and non-accessible at the moment, but I liked the candles and balloons, festive no?  This card also fulfills the requirements of Partytime Tuesdays' Anything Goes Birthday Challenge and Delightful Challenge - Birthdays.
     I hope you will play along with our challenge - any digi will do - you don't even need to use a WnW digi, though as an extra incentive a second winner will be chosen to receive a free digi image of their choosing from the entries sporting WnW images.  Good luck!
~Crafty Math Chick

Wags 'n Whiskers Recipe

Hello again!  I am back with my card created for today's new Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge 79 - A Recipe: 1 image, 2 ribbons, 3 patterned papers.  For some reason, this was difficult for me, but I finally came up with this card using Ellie & Squeak:

LOL, little Squeak can't wait to get his tiny paws on that present!  I colored the duo in with Copic markers and used patterned papers from The Paper Studio's 'Birthday Extravaganza' stack (I love the papers in this stack!) - like how the background DP is all presents like the one Ellie has in his trunk?  
     Hope you will play along with us!  You have two weeks to link your creation and you could win a Wags 'n Whiskers stamp of your choice!  Although WnW images are not required, if you DO use one, you are put into a SECOND drawing for a WnW Digi - how sweet is that?!!  Can't wait to see what you create!  
     I have also entered this card in the following additional challenges:

• One Stop Craft Challenge 181 - Celebrations, and
• Card Crafter's Circle Challenge 22 - Rainbow Bright (since I used a rainbow of bright colors in this card).

Have a great day!  :)
~Crafty Math Chick

Ellies and Tigers and Cards, Oh My!

     Welcome back friends & followers!  Two posts from me today, impressive no?  I have two more cards to show you today.  The first was made for a Stamp TV Challenge to CASE DT Member Lee Murphy, a daunting task if you have seen her uber impressive gallery.  I selected to CASE this card: 'Wild Elephant' using Theresa Momber's new 'Wild About You' set which I LOOOOVE because I really love elephants.  In fact, when I saw this card by Lee I was SOLD!  So, here is my card based on this one:

You are supposed to change at least 2 things about the card for this challenge, so I swapped out the background patterned paper (mine is by DCWV - it has orange glitter on it, not sure that shows up in the photo), changing the ribbon to this pretty, gold, glittery, netted ribbon that I picked up at Michaels in the holiday section (Lee likes glitter) and I didn't have room for the sentiment so instead I attached some pretty bronze bling (Lee also likes bling) in a favorite 'Lee arrangement' in the corner.    My section with the silhouette elephants is a little smaller as well.  The adorable ellie was stamped on the orange oval die cut and then again on Gina K. Luxury cardstock and colored with Copic markers (C00, C1 & C3) and cut out and paper pieced onto the orange oval.  I like how the cute ear sticks out a little bit this way.  I hope I did Lee proud.  This card also fulfills the requirements of the following additional challenges:

• Sundays with Crissy Challenge 27 - Animals,
• Stamp & Create March Month Challenge - Paper Piecing,
• Challenge Up Your Life 65 - Zoo Animals,
• CMC Copic Challenge Group Challenge 39 - Anything Goes w/Copic Markers,
• Inky Impressions Challenge 50 - You're My Pot of Gold (use gold (ribbon) & bling (lower left corner)),
• Card Crafter's Circle Challenge 14 - Gold, and
• Heidi's Hobbystugu Challenge - make a card where an animal is the focus.  

     My second card was created using My Time Made Easy Pretty Patterns Sketch 50 and the cute 'Cubbin' Around' image from Meljen's Designs:

(aren't they cuuuuuute?!!)  I used Prismacolor pencils and OMS to color in the tiger cubs and Copic Markers (C00, C1, C00) to shade around them (wanted to see what it looked like - do you like that effect?  I am still deciding).  The wild B&W striped background paper is from a new Recollections stack by Michaels and then I embossed a few Only Orange strips with my Animal Prints EF and tied a narrow, black stain ribbon around it to complete the sketch.  This card also fulfills the requirements of the following additional challenges:

• Kaboodles Doodles Challenge 111 - How Cute Is That? (I think the tigers cubs are wicked cute),
• Desert Island Crafters Challenge 27 - They listed 10 items of which you had to incorporate at least 3 - my card has (1) orange, (2) grass, and (3) colored pencil coloring,
• Sundays with Crissy Challenge 27 - Animals, 
• CMC Copic Challenge Group Challenge 39 - Anything Goes w/Copic Markers, and
• Heidi's Hobbystugu Challenge - make a card where an animal is the focus.   

     Well, that's all I have for you today my friends.  Thanks so much for stopping by to see my creations and read my ramblings.  Be sure to stay tuned, blog candy will be forthcoming in the near future!  ;)
~Crafty Math Chick