Aud Sentiments Challenge #31

Edit:  Won card of the week honor at Word Play Weekend #6

Happy Thursday friends.  What's Thursday mean?  First of all, it means the weekend is almost here!!  YAY!!  But even more importantly, it means it's time for a new Aud Sentiments challenge.  Another YAY!  This week our challenge is to use a Sentiment about Food/Drink.  We all like food and drink challenges don't we?  hahaha!  Here's my stab at the challenge...

Look... a pie man!!  "How Sweet"!!!  This image was soooo fun to color.  The sketch is from CardPatterns and the first time I saw it I said this is it.  It almost looks like we're looking in a little cafe window and watching the pie man wheel his pies around.  I think that turned out pretty great.  Thank you CardPatterns.  I used a couple of dark (and I mean dark) brown buttons, then added some metal brads for something a little different.  Talk about different... I thought I'd chosen all antique brass brads, but getting out in better light, I think I have 1 antique brass, 1 gold and 1 silver.  Yikes!!  Oh well... I think it almost works.  Antique brass for the brown, gold for the olive green and silver for the blue!?!  OK... maybe not, but I'm tryin'!!

Our sponsor for this challenge is once again the great Robyn's Fetish.  They have some wonderful stamping needs including great images.  Take, for example, pie man.  The lucky random winner will receive ????.  Great, right?

Other challenges:
CardPatterns - the SKETCH
Crafts 4 Eternity - embellies starting with "R" - ribbon
Crazy 4 Challenges - add twine, floss, string...
Word Play Weedend - blue
Just Some Lines - spotty dotty
Simon Says Stamp and Show - show some metal
Totally Stampalicious - something old (metal brads), something new (Prima papers)
Kaboodle Doodles - food and/or dring
Stamps R Us - 1 image, 2 DPs, 3 embellies
Everybody-Art-Challenge - anything goes

Thanks for stopping in today folks!  Come join in the fun with us and create something for food/drink.  Have a great day!
Denise

Stamps:  Robyn's Fetish Pies 4 Sale One Pence digi image, MFT How Sweet It Is sentiment
Papers:  Prima Botanical Collection (blue polka dot), Prima Madeline Collection (plaid)
Ink:  Distress Ink walnut stain (for sentiment)
Supplies:  Ribbon, brads, twine, BG buttons, glitter, border punch
Techniques:  Copic markers, prismacolor pencils w/ OMS

Aud Sentiments Challenge #29

Good Thursday morning stamping phenoms.  Look how close we are to the weekend!  WooHOO!!!  Today is time for another fun challenge at Aud Sentiments Challenge.  The sentiment challenge this fortnight is "A sentiment/card for a male".  We all need more of those cards, don't we.  Here's my take on that theme...

This crazy fun image is Napoleon from our sponsor this week, Digis with Attitude.  That 'grouchy' lion's stare is frightening, right?  OK... not frightening, but fun!  Digis with Attitude have many more of what I call 'grumpies' plus sentiments to go with them.  Why don't you take a few minutes and go see them all?

Amazingly this card came together for me rather quickly.  Of course, no problem figuring out what color the lion should be... light brown, medium, brown, dark brown.  haha!  And since he is so monochromatic, I wanted a bit more color and design in my papers and MME fine and dandy true blue worked perfectly for me.

If you want a good giggle, please bop over to all the DT's blogs as they have created some equally fun and grumpy cards.

Other challenges:
The Decontructed Sketch - the SKETCH -- didn't enter, this sketch closed last night, but wanted to give them the credit
I Did it Creations - anything goes
Woodware USA - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - spots and/or stripes
Stamps R Us - goin' digital
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - use at least 3 different DPs
Creative Card Crew - anything goes
The Paper Shelter - anything goes
The Pixie Cottage - a sketch and/or here comes the sun
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - boys! boys! boys!
Truly Scrumptious - anything goes
Charisma Cardz - boy oh boy!
DYSU Challenge - animals
Do it With Digis - it's all about the boys
Crafty Catz - anything goes
Delicious Doodles - let the sun shine (background DP)
Digi Days - for the boys
2 Sisters Challenge - use a digi
Crazy 4 Challenges - bring a giggle to someone
Sugar Creek Hollow - masculine
Really Reasonable Ribbons - anything goes
Stamp Something  - stamp something with beachy colors
Crafting for all Seasons  - anything goes -- their 1st challenge!!  : )

That's it for me this morning my friends.  Have a great day... a great weekend and see you soon.
Denise

Stamps:  Digis with Attitude Napoleon digi and sentiment digi
Paper:  MME fine and dandy true blue, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  none
Supplies:  Buttons, ribbon
Techniques:  Copic markers w/ prismacolor pencils and OMH

Aud Sentiments Challenge #28 -- late, late, late!

Hi again friends.  This is my second post for today so if you're looking for my Cupcake Inspirations Challenge post, please scroll down, or click here.

I'm afraid this post for Aud Sentiments is a tad late, but I've finally gotten caught up and hope to stay that way for a while!!  Ahhhhh... what a good feeling!!  Now on to the challenge!  This fortnight's challenge is No Sentiment.  Isn't that funny for a 'sentiment' challenge blog?  I thought it was a fun idea and give an 'atta girl' to whoever thought it up.

To be honest, I love this card!!  I adore that image from A Day for Daisies and guess what.  It's a freebie!!  Better get over there quick and get this one before they get smart and realize what they're giving away!!!  : )  I also love these papers (more about them soon).  Everything just came together so nicely.  That almost never happens for me!  haha!

I don't say this near often enough, but I always hope you'll go see the other DT members blogs as we have a great team and they always have amazing projects to share with you.  It's worth your time to visit. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is The Digichick.  I must admit, I wasn't familiar with this sponsor before this challenge, but believe me, I have them bookmarked now!!  They have some great items in their store.  They kindly let each DT member select an item to use for this challenge.  It was soooo fun looking through everything.  I ended up choosing this set called "Playful Sunshine Scrapbook Kit".  Just look at that list of items that comes with this kit!  For my card, I chose to use Floral Ivory (the main background DP), Gingham and Polka Dot Red.  It was hard to narrow it down to these three as I love them all, but I'm very happy with these three.

To me, this screams of vintage.  I know I don't have any rough or dinghy edges, but it seems so to me.  The image looks vintage as do the DPs.  What do you think?

Other Challenges:
I {heart} sketches SFYTT  - SKETCH
Craft Your Passion - check it out -- use checks, plaids or gingham
Cute Monday  - anything goes using a digi
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes
Double Dutch Challenge - vintage
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - circles
Creative Craft Challenge - distressed/vintage
Clear it Out Challenge - any ribbon/trim
Crafty Creations - anything goes
Creative Card Crew - May flowers
The Paper Variety - movie inspiration -- Baby Boom (with Diane Keaton)
Scrapalicious - flowers
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - look what the store brought
Copic Oz - celebrate women
Moving Along with the Times - 2Bs -- buttons and baby
Paper Romance - Mother's Day
Southern Girls - let's hear it for the girls
Stamp Something - anything goes
Mami Doodles - spots and/or stripes
By the Cute and Girly - anything goes
The Emerald Faerie Garden Challenge - anything goes

OK folks.  That's it for me today.  No more posts!  Thanks for coming by and looking around.  I love it when you do that!  : )  Take care until next time.
Denise

Stamps:  A Day for Daisies Kiss for Sis
Papers:  Quirky Twerp Playful Sunshine Scrapbooking Kit -- floral ivory, gingham, polka dot red, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  none
Supplies:  Nesties, flower, BG buttons, pearls, SU choc chip ribbon, pop dots
Techniques:  Copic markers and prismacolor pencils w/ OMS

Aud Sentiments Challenge #26 and BLOG HOP

Happy Thursday stamping friends.  Aud Sentiments is going to have a lot of fun today and we hope you'll join in with us.  It is our 1 year anniversary and we're going to celebrate all during this challenge!!  So... let's get to the challenge, shall we?  We are so pleased to have Sassy Cheryl's as our sponsor this week.  She has utterly adorable images and are such a pleasure to color up.

The theme for this challenge is... ANYTHING GOES.  Isn't that everyone's favorite???  I know it's mine!  Here's what I came up with...

This is Sassy Cheryl's wonderful image called 'Nature Boy'.  Doesn't he look so proud of his new little buddies?  That smile of his just makes me smile and that's one of the greatest things going.  I used a fun new item on this card that I'd picked up on my last visit to Archiver's.  They're called bubble caps.  I wasn't sure what they were when I bought them, but thought I'd try them out.  The back of the package shows that you'd need a tool to press the bubble caps to a cap.  Well, I just did it by hand using DP instead of a cap and it worked fine.

Stamps:  Sassy Chery's Nature Boy digi, TLC Creations sentiment digi
Paper:  MME fine and dandy, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  none
Supplies:  Nesties, MS border punch, bubble caps
Techniques:  Copic markers and prismacolor pencils w/ OMS

NOW... onto more fun!!  It's a Birthday Celebration and a BLOG HOP!!

Each one of the DT members has picked one of our favorite sponsors to use for this hop.  Each sponsor is giving away prizes on each blog.  Just think of all those goodies waiting to be won!  Here's all you have to do...
1.  Visit each blog in the hop and leave a comment.
2.  Become a follower of Aud Sentiments.
3.  Leave a comment on this post about what you like about our challenges or any ideas you'd like to see.

That's it!  You'll have until the end of the challenge to complete the blog hop.  Now... you should have arrived here from Amy's blog.  If you stumbled across us accidentally, head back to Ruthie's blog, our starting point.  Here is the order of our hop...

Ruthie

Julie

Audrey

Ali

Scrappy

Maria

Lorraine

Dee

Kym

Tammy

Amy

ME

Yep, I'm bringing up the rear.  Well... someone's got to do it!!  haha!  For my sponsor, I selected Meljens Designs.  Here's a little something about them...

Meljens Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins.  She illustrates whimsical images inspired by her kids and family.  The Meljens Designs blog has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month.  Please visit their line of stamps at Whimsy Stamps. 

Each DT member got to select an image from their sponsor to use for this hop.  It was very hard to select just one, but I decided to go with 'Gruffy Little Gnome'.  I just love him and he's sooooo fun to color!!  Here he is...

Fun, right??  Now don't forget... you must leave a comment on my blog to have a chance to win some Meljen's prizes.  They are giving away 4 images of your choice.  AWESOME!!  And leave a comment on each of the other blogs so you'll have a chance to win their sponsor's prizes.

One last item to mention.  Aud Sentiments is now opening a DT call.  Please head over to the challenge blog to see how to enter.  The DT call also runs through the duration of our challenge... until April 26.

Stamps:  Meljens Gruffy Little Gnome digi, Stampabilities always make me smile
Papers:  MME Stella and Rose Hattie (polka dot), BG urban prairie, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
Supplies:  Nesties, BG buttons, Bella's baubles string of pearls, ribbon
Techniques:  Copic markers and prismacolor pencils w/ OMS

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you've had fun!!  I know I have!
Denise

Aud Sentiments Challenge #25 and BLOG HOP news

Hello friends.  It's Saturday, one of the best days of the week!!  So glad you stopped in today.  I'm afraid I'm two days late with my DT challenge card, but I finally completed it for this challenge which is a sentiment/card for a child.  That leaves things wide open for you, right?  There's lots of great children themed stamps... it's just choosing which one!

Is there anything sweeter than a sleeping baby?  And this image called 'Sleeping Infant' depicts that so well with her little feet tucked under and her little bum up in the air.  I know... awwwwwwwwwwwww!  : )  This image is from our sponsor this week, Digi Doodles.  They very generously gave the DT some of their images to play with and I just had to color up a little baby girl.  What fun!!!  Please go take a peek and their store and see their great images.

I kept the embellisments pretty simple as I think this new paper from MME is gorgeous!!  I just love their new Stella and Rose line... all four new collections!!  I still need to get Gertie and Hattie, but I'm having a great time using Hazel and Mabel.  You'll be seeing quite a bit of these in my future posts.  I just hope it doesn't get boring!!

Now for the BLOG HOP news!!  We're going to be having a BLOG HOP for our 1st birthday!!!  This celebration BLOG HOP is going to run from April 14 - 26.  AND there will be lots of prizes so plezzzz make sure to mark it on your calendar.  AND, if you'd like to help spread the word, please feel free to grab the badge on my sidebar and even post about it.  We certainly hope to see you in a couple of weeks to join in the fun!!!

Other challenges:
Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge - the SKETCH
CES Challenge - children
Catch the Bug - anything goes
By the Cute and Girly - cute and girly
One Stitch at a Time - mother's day/babies
Sentimental Sundays - cute and cuddly
Paper Playtime - digi monday and anything goes
Stamp Something - april digi day
Wags 'n Whiskers - ribbons and pearls

Once again, thanks for stopping in today.  I hope you enjoyed looking around.  Have a fun day and I'll see you soon.
Denise

Stamps:  Digi Doodles Sleeping Infant digi, sentiment - Stampendous Baby Invite
Paper:  MME hazel, Gina K. pure luxury
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Supplies:  Nesties, ribbon, charm, pink pearls
Techniques:  Copic markers w/ prismacolors pencils and OMS

Aud Sentiments Challenge #24

Good morning friends.  Man, the weather in my area was just wonderful yesterday and is supposed to be again today.  That really puts a smile on my face!!  Something else that puts a smile on my face is a new Aud Sentiments Challenge.  (OK... that was just too corny, wasn't it?? haha!)  The challenge theme this week is 'Get Well cards'.  What a great idea as I never have one when I need one!!  You too?

This image is called 'Little Honey's Nurse' and is from Sassy Studios, our sponsor for this challenge.  They kindly shared some images with the DT and I chose this one.  She was very fun to color... and fast!!  I think I made this card in record time!!  As always with my pinks, they are quite yucky in the photo.  Please imagine the bow and pearls and a perky, pearly pink, 'K?

I colored my nurse up in Breast Cancer awareness colors.  I have a few girlfriends that have suffered from this awful disease and know what a tough road that is to travel.  Luckily, all I've known have survived and are doing well.  Let's all pray that more and more women enjoy that outcome and that it continues for my friends.

Challenges:
Sunday Sketch & Stamp - the SKETCH
Alphabet Challenge - S is for stripes
Krafty Kimmie Stamps - anything goes
Sweet Stampin Challenge - your favorite move -- one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Cutie Sunday - your favorite color combo -- mine is pink with just about anything!!
Aly's Sunday Challenge - anything goes
Going Grey - anything goes
ABC Challenge - Q is for quote -- use a quote or sentiment
DYSU Challenge - add a bow
Bling it On  - anything goes

I've got to keep this short this morning so I'll say my thank yous... thank you for coming by dear friends.  I hope to see you soon and I have more fun to share soon.  Have a great day!!
Denise

Stamps:  Sassy Studios Little Honey's Nurse, sentiment - computer generated
Paper:  BG Eva
Ink:  none
Supplies:  RR pink ribbon, breast cancer charm, pink pearls
Techniques:  Copic markers and prismacolor pencils w/ OMS

Aud Sentiments Challenge #22

Good morning friends and neighbors!  It's Thursday!!  Oddly, I really like Thursdays as I know the weekend is now within reach and I can make it until it's here.  hahaha!  But... let's get down to business.  It's time for another Aud Sentiments Challenge.  This challenge is to use a trendy saying.  I'm not sure how 'trendy' mine is, but it fits this image perfectly!

 

Luckily for all of us, our sponsor for this challenge is Kenny K's.  They create such great, fun images and generously offered the DT an image of their choice.  FUN!!  I chose the ever cool Groove Dude.  He's just jammin' and 'having fun', isn't he??  The random winner will receive a great prize so come on and join in.

Did you ever color something and immediately think... mistake!  That's how it was with this dude's guitar!  A green guitar was just not a good idea!  But I couldn't print off another image at the time so I had to go with it!  Just let me say... sorry 'bout that guitar folks!  haha!  Also, I wanted to ask if you all ever get 'grainy' results from your copics?  It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it's not pretty.  It happened on this dude's skin.  I'd appreciate any suggestions you could share with me.

Creative Craft Challenge - cards for a teen

Well... that's it for today.  Thanks so much for dropping in and I hope you'll join in our challenge this week.  Remember... the weekend is coming!!

Stamps:  Kenny K's groove dude, DSP  Play digi sentiment

Paper:  BG lime rickey and mellow (the green), Gina K. pure luxury

Ink:  Distressed Ink vintage photo (for sponging even tho it's nearly invisible!)

Supplies:  MS large dots

Techniques:  Copic markers and prismacolor pencils w/OMS, sponging