Three Snowflakes

Hello and Happy Sunday. ;o)

Are you ready for Christmas? I am so behind-I almost feel like giving up this year! lol But I am hoping to get the tree trimmed and my cards done and posted by early this week...:o)

This week I am hosting the Dottie's World Challenge. I really wanted to do a sketch but I still haven't figured out how to do one on my mac...So I decided to do a simple challenge this week-Just add THREE snowflakes to your card, along with a Charmed Download.

I used one of my all time favorite Charmed Downloads-Madison In The Mountains; from the World Tour Collection. You can get it HERE.

I colored her in with my copics; and I also airbrushed the background.

Paper is BoBunny and so are the buttons and sparkles.

The ribbon is CTMH

The metal snowflakes are from my LSS.

The paper flowers are Prima-I also stickled them a bit too to give them a Christmas feel.

The sentiment is a brand new not yet released Close To My Heart stamp from the "A Little Everything" set

I think that's everything.

Thanks for stopping by and have a good day,

Nicole M Bailey

Truly Scrumptious Challenge #22

Hello and Happy Wednesday. :o)

It's another Truly Scrumptious Challenge-the last one for the year 2009.....yikes. Is time flying by or is it just me?

For the TS Challenge #22 we have another fabby sketch of course.

Here it is:

The added challenge is to use vellum as well. I haven't used vellum in a long time. But it gave me a chance to play with a white stazon ink pad that my stampin' buddy Shelly gave me for my bday. Thanks Shell ;O). I stamped white snowflakes onto the vellum-it turned out great.

Here are the rest of the details for today's card:

Paper is CTMH-Aspen

The image is a new Tilda from the Jolly 2009 collection. I colored her in with my copics and I also used spica clear and gold pens-love that soft sparkle you can create with those.

The paper flowers and bling are prima. The sentiment is CTMH-stamped in Twilight.

Thanks for stopping by today and make sure you check out the Truly Scrumptious site to see what the other designers came up with-and enter the challenge! This week's prize is hosted by Whimsy Stamps. :o)

Nicole M Bailey

You're a star!

Hello and Happy Sunday. :o)

This week's Dottie's World challenge is hosted by Adele, and she wants us to add a star or two or three to our cards-and of course add a Charmed Download.

So when I first read this challenge-the first thing that popped into my head was the Star of Bethlehem....perfect for the season. I knew I had to use this super cute Charmed Download-called Nativity from the Bumper Christmas Collection-get it HERE.

Of course I colored in my image with my copics and added some Frosted Lace stickles to the ground for snow-before the stickles dried I also added some DoodleBug sugar coating-lilly white glitter-it's a tad bit "chunkier" than the other dust so it gives it a nicer snow look.

I also used my glue pen on a CTMH chipboard star, and then dumped a ton of yellow doodlebug sugar coating on it-nice and sparkly.

I used Basic Grey-Eskimo Kisses paper and some prima bling flourishes, SU! sparkle brads, and CTMH heavenly blue ribbon.

The sentiment is Kraftin Kimmie's from her new Holiday Sentiment collection.

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Nicole M Bailey

Boy Oh Boy!

Hello. ;o)

Here is my DT card for this week's Dottie World "Boy Oh Boy" challenge. Lou from DW designed another adorable collection of digi-stamps called "Boy Oh Boy" and wanted us to use them this week.

I decided to use this adorable little boy doing a cartwheel. I printed him on Magna CS with my Canon pixma printer-and then colored him in with my copics.

I made this card for my little nephew who is turning 6 this month. He's such an active little guy so as soon as I saw this image I knew I had to use it. Ashton has really dark hair-so I went in and used warm grey 01/03/06 .

The paper is discontinued K&Company.

The sentiments are from a brand new not yet released Close To My Heart stamp set.

Make sure you stop over at DW to see what the other designer's came up with. :o)

I also used this fabby friday sketcher's sketch #7. I have sooooo many sketches sitting on my mac desktop that I keep meaning to use.....so this sketch is a few weeks old-but still so very fabby. ;o)

Happy A Fabby Saturday!

Nicole M Bailey

MIA?....not quite-but here is my TS Challenge #21

Hello. ;o)

Long time no post. I've been semi-missing in action.

a couple of weeks ago my hubby surprised me with a fabby shopping trip in Chicago-my new favorite US city. And then upon our return, he asked me to help him set up an HR dept. for our small manufacturing company. Or should I say...become the HR department...lol anyways, I've been working hard helping him out.

I missed a couple of my DT challenges...which makes me sooooo sad. So I promised myself that I would get the cards done-even if they were late. So here is the card I made for the TS challenge #21. I especially wanted to complete this card bc I LOVE the sketch. If you don't already do TS challenges-you should stop by and check it out! We have the BEST sponsors who always offer the cutest stamps/digi's to the winner of the challenge!

Debbie-our GD made the fabby sketch and asked us to add a bling flourish.....:o)))

Here is the fabby sketch:

Here are the complete details for my card:

The paper is My Mind's Eye-Bloom and Grow

The image is Magnolia and colored in with copics. I also used a clear spica copic pen on Tilda's hair for a bit of soft luster. You can't see it in the photo but it looks really pretty on the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabby Friday. ;o)

-Nicole M Bailey

Dottie's World Challenge

Hello and Happy Sunday!

It's another challenge day at DW today and The exceptional Gunn is hosting this week.....and did she dream up a challenge!!!

Here is what she wants:

"When I say gingerbreadhouse I mean: lets be inspired by them. They have this beautiful warm brown color, and the embellishment are so full of colores. And ofcours I get reminded of the fact that Christmas is coming up.
So think about the colors and the embellishments or even the shape of gingerbreadhouses and use some of it on a card or a box. And ofcourse there has to be a Charmed downloads on the project."

Okay so I LOVE gingerbread anything....:o}, but this was tough!

I decided to go with the whole "gingerbread house decorating thing..." Lots of yummy embellishments and yummy papers....and a Holiday themed Charmed Download.

Works for me!

The Charmed Image I used is from the Dottie Bumper Christmas Collection and you can get it HERE

Of course Dottie and her snowman friend are colored with copics

The paper is Eskimo Kisses by My Mind's Eye

I wanted to show you two different stickles I used on this card. The Snow is Frosted Lace stickles.....it dries with a rough surface and very little sparkle...perfect for snow. :o)

I used my favorite stickle color-Star Dust on the Snowman and Dotties' buttons. Star Dust has a pearl essence color to it and will pick up any color beneath it. So color with your copics first and then add a dot or two and voila!

Thanks for stopping by today...make sure you check out Dotties World to see what the other designer's came up with for this challenge.

Nicole M Bailey

True Friend Recipe

Hello and Happy Thursday!

I really love this card...it took me forever to make! :o}

There are so many different elements/layers to it.

The paper is BoBunny-Kitchen Spice, and so are the buttons and brads

The image is a Tilda, colored in with my copics.

Bling is prima

I also used a couple of border punches....one is MS and the other is SU! Geesh that SU! scallop border punch is such an essential tool...love it!

The sentiment "recipe", and rolling pin that Tilda is sitting on are also magnolia stamps along with the frame stamp...the True Friend sentiment is Close To My Heart.

The white "scalloped" ribbon was Making Memories from a few years ago-I was glad to finally put it to good use!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fabby Thursday!

-Nicole M Bailey