Happy Birthday Froggie -Cardabilities Sketch

Hi everyone I'm excited to share another great sketch from Cardabilities. I've used a cute digital image from Pink Petticoat digital stamps, this happy birthday froggie is from the set called "Hoppy Wishes for Her"

Here is sketch #8 a circle card, I love the cardabilities sketches they always have such fun unique designs.








My card is a 5" circle, I've used Bazzill cardstock and colored using my copic markers.

Embellishment Tutorial -Designed 2 Delight Extravaganza

I love this little "Cup of Posies" digital image from Designed 2 Delight, for my embellishment tutorial, and as a special treat each design member of D2D has created a beautiful handmade embellishment along with a tutorial to share.

My tutorial is "Hand Stitching with Beads"

I've previously colored my image with copic markers, then used the following tools to create my stitching embellishment.

**Piercing mat, piercing tool, needle and thread, small seed beads**

When choosing your beads make sure that your needle is small enough that the beads will slide all the way past the needles eye and onto the thread.

I pierced 10 holes around the heart image on the mug, I've numbered each hole, to help with the tutorial directions.
Using the needle and thread I pushed up through hole #1 (I kept my thread doubled for thickness) I did not tie a knot, instead I place a piece of tape to hold my threads in place.

I place my first bead onto my needle then went down hole #2, thread up through #3, add my second bead, down #4, up hole #5. I continued around the heard until I came up through hole #1. Then continued adding beads in the same manner as I went around the heart in reverse direction.

When I came back up hole #1 I added one more bead to the bottom of the heart, and took my thread back through the same hole (#1) as shown in the photo below.

For the flowers, I poked holes in the center of each. I came up one hole with my needle, added a white bead then went back down the same hole. I continued until I had added beads to all flower centers.
And just to show you the back of my project... it doesn't have to look pretty, see how messy mine is :)

I also added beads to patterned paper for a fun corner embellishment. I used a Stampin Up piercing template to make my holes, you also could use a ruler.

I Then used the same method as above to add red beads to my punched design.

My finished card

I used my computer and printed out the "Thinking of You" saying, then added two beads for more embellishment.

Join us for the embellishment challenge and get this free digital stamp designed by Faith, the Designed 2 Delight artist.

**Make-Your-Own Embellishments Blog Extravaganza**

The Designed2Delight Lead Designers have been busy!!
Follow all the links below to view 9 different tutorials for 9 different embellishments (on 8 different blogs) that YOU can make YOURSELF!!

Designed2Delight.com

Don't forget to stop by the Designed2Delight Digital Stamps group on Crafter's Digital Art Center for the details AND a FREE Digital Stamp!!

Jane ~ Make Your Own Buttons Tutorial

Lola ~ Make Your Own Felt and Fabric Flowers Tutorial

Faith ~ Make Your Own Faux Prima Flowers Tutorial

Kathy ~ Make Your Own Chipboard Accents Tutorial

Debbie ~ Scalloped Punched Paper Flower Tutorial

You are HERE

Robin ~ Stitching with Beads Tutorial

Michelle ~ Scallop Punched Flower/Medallion Tutorial

Michelle ~ Ribbon Frame Tutorial

Sherrie ~ Make Your Own Ribbon Roses Tutorial

Miss You -Hula Island

This cute little penguin digital stamp image is called "Hula Island" from Designed 2 Delight.
The jumping fish are fro the Life's a Beach cricut cartridge on page 50 of the handbook.

Fun in the Sun -Challenge #17 at Meljen's

Thursday's are a great day for a new challenge along with new images at Meljen's. Melissa has created 5 new images that are so fun for summer days.

The challenge is to create an "easel card," this is my first time creating this fun card design, I got instructions for my easel card at Splitcoast Stampers -HERE.
I used the new "Brook at the Beach" digital stamp, I love this adorable care free image.

I used my copic markers to color the image, and George and Basic Shapes cricut cartridge to cut out the oval shapes. Text is printed from my computer.

Come see more easel cards and new release images -HERE

Meljen's images area available at Whimsy Stamps -HERE

3 cute cards using Meljen's Digital Stamps

Remember Meljen's super cute images that I showed you last week? Well, I created two cards from that new release and one card using a previously released image.

For all these images I used the paper piecing technique, I printed the images on several pieces of colored and patterned paper, then cut out each item.

Apple Beary Fairy

New release imagesPenpal Mouse

June 24th images

Teddy Bear Cast

You can find all these fun images at Whimsy Stamps -HERE

New Images at Meljen's -- so cute

5 new release images:

"Penpal Mouse"
"Teddy Bear Couple"
"Apple Beary Fairy"
"Little Lighthouse"
"Curious Little Rat"

You can find them all available for purchase in the Whimsy shop!

Sister in Christ -From Designed 2 Delight

As a design team member for Designed 2 Delight we got to choose a few of our favorite digital images to create with. When I saw the "Sister In Christ" image I fell in love with her... it's a beautiful reminder to me that we are all sisters here on earth to support and uplift each other in all that we do.

This image is found at Designed 2 Delight under the "Angels and Fairies" category


Remember to check out the Delightful Inspiration blog -HERE, Faith, Designed 2 Delight's Artist, offers free digital images to those who play in her weekly challenges.

Meljen's Challenge #15 -Circles Galore

Hooray for Brand new images and a Challenge at Meljen's - this week the challenge is "Circles Galore". And if you add up all the polka-dots on my card then there are tons of circles!


I used two of Meljen's images for this card, the new "Candy Land Dreams" and the wonderful "sweet sentiment" (not a new image, but can be found at Whimsy Stamps) which I copied directly on my purple polka-dot paper.
I use the paper piecing technique for the "Candy Land Dreams" image, printing on four different polka-dot papers, then cutting out each image in a certain color. I wrapped clear cling wrap around three of the candies.

Look at the super cute new images Melissa has created, oh so yummy!!
All Meljen's Design Images can now be found at Whimsy Stamps -HERE

Come over to Meljen's blog and see what the Design Team have created using these brand new images, and how they included circles on their cards -HERE, you can also join us in this challenge.