Jazzy Paper Designs Challenge #15!!!

Hello all!!! This is going to be my last Jazzy Paper Challenge post :( I am so sad to be leaving but I am going to enjoy having more family time! I have had sooo much fun designing with these talented ladies and Tenia is the sweetest host ever! Thank you to all of you for having me!!!

Onto my card for this week! We all chose a CD cover from bluenote.com and this is the one I chose! I saw the patterns and it reminded me of distressing so thats what I did!

Hope you can all play along with us!!!

P.S PLEASE vote if you havent yet or if you have been voting please continue! I only have until the 31st to get out of 2nd place :) Also, if you have been voting please email me with how many times you have been voting so that I can enter you in the drawing for the Snowy Wishes set!!! Thank you guys!!!!

Jazzy Paper Designs #13!!!

Hi everyone! I am excited to share my Jazzy Paper Designs design team card with you guys this week because I was able to choose my own inspiration album! So fun! I chose a inspiration piece and added my two favorite female singers Etta James and Billie Holiday. Then, I took from the album the general layout, the colors and I searched Google for my favorite pics of each of them, photoshopped them to make them more textured and then put it all together! I hope you can all play along, I had a lot of fun with this one :)

Jazzy Paper Designs Challenge #12!!!

Its time for my Jazzy Paper Designs post!!! I have got to tell you that I had a little bit of a hard time coming up with how I was going to use these colors since I didnt have the bright blue but after I got started I really loved the color combo! This week is this Thelonius Monk Poster, make something inspired by it and please come play along with us!

Jazzy Paper Designs Challenge #11!

Hello all!!! Time for Jazzy Paper challenge 11! This one is a sketch :) How fun is that drawing? I hope you guys can get a chance to play along, the sponsor is Schlosser Designs, I just LOVE their stamps! Hurry on over and check them out!

Jazzy Paper Designs Challenge #10!

Hey everyone, here is my DT card for Jazzy Paper Designs! Please feel free to play along, the inspiration is this Herbie Hancock cover! It is sponsored by Betty and you have the chance to win digi's so go get inky!

Jazzy Paper Designs Inspiration Art Tatum!

Hey guys, I have one more post for you before I head off to get a little z's! This one is Jazzy Paper Designs, if you arent familiar with Jazzy Paper they use album covers as inspiration each week! Above is this weeks inspiration and my take on it. I wanted to be sure I got the V shape of the two sets of piano keys meeting but I wasnt sure how to do that since I dont have any piano stamps so I decided to do the music notes, the quote from one of his songs and the butterflies to "jazz" it up a bit, cheesy pun intended ha ha! Hope it inspires you to play along and good night all!

Trying to get out of the box...

Hey everyone, this is a post for a couple of challenges! Im combining for one of the rare times ha ha! I dont usually combine unless its a sketch and a color but these two challenges are too perfect not to! My first challenge is for DESIGN DOLLIES, which is why I have chosen the image of the girl, I have a hard time with images like this so I am trying to improve but I think it came out ok, the digi can be found HERE at Stamp Insanity. I am new to Copics and I am trying to practice so please excuse the coloring :) The second challenge is for JAZZY PAPER, I am the Jazz cat of the month so I am not entering to win just to play along with another card!

Im the Jazz Cat Of the Week!!!

Hey Everyone! I got a great email letting me know that I was to be a guest designer this week at Jazzy Paper Designs! How exciting!!! My inspiration for this card is above, I just fell in love with the piano part of the scene and the pink and yellow so that is what I took from it! Please go check out what the awesome design team has done with the inspiration and play along! P.S did you notice I took out a section of the card base near the sentiment? It was one of those accidents that turn out well, I cut the sentiment tag too short so it looked a little bit odd so figured might as well cut it and see how it looked!

What do you think about it? BTW the musicical section is an Ippity stamp! I love it!! Dont forget, my current challenge runs until the 15th so you still have plenty of time to play along with mine also!

Paper Crafts Magazine Go To Sketch Challenge and Jazzy Paper Designs Challenge!

Hey everyone, here is a card I made for TWO challenges! Can you believe it? I NEVER combine challenges, I also dont enter a challenge that I dont have specific cards for, I hate that, i'd feel like im cheating ha ha!  This one is just too hard to pass up the challenge though since one is a sketch and the other (Tenia's) is a color challenge, I thought it would be a great opportunity to try to do both in one card. So... here is my submission, if you want to read about Paper Craft Magazines sketch challenge you can go HERE and if you would like to visit the lovely Jazzy Paper Designs challenge go HERE.

Today....

Yay I won a challenge! I enter everything and NEVER win so I was quite surprised when I got the email!!!  It is from the sweetest persons blog, Tenia Nelson, you can see her blog HERE she is a dear! My prize is for digital stamps from HERE, Simple Doodles Digi Stamps, they are super cute so check it out!  Also I am working on submitting to card magazines so I am doing halloween and fall things and you wouldnt believe how hard it is to find props like candies and things for halloween in March!!! I ended up getting packs of Skittles and seperating out the orange, green and purple then I got lucky and found a few lollipops that were halloween colors thrown in with some pink and yellow too! So... moral of the story is that if you need halloween colors in March go for the Skittles :) I cant post this without a picture so here is one of my recent cards that I submitted for publication. Hopefully my luck continues!!!