Happy {Chinese} New Year!

Good Morning and Happy Chinese New Year!! 2012 is the Year of the Dragon- {what's your sign?}

It's also time for another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week we're hoping you get inspired by this photo

I chose to use the red for inspiration on my card in honor of the Chinese New Year!


Hope to see you join in on the fun! Check out all the details HERE!

♥Hearts♥

Happy Monday!

It's Monday & time for another challenge @ The Pink Elephant!! This week we're getting in the mood for Valentine's day- we're playing with HEARTS!

I colored this cutie over the holidays- looking at her just reminded me of Strawberry Shortcake :)


Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and hope to see you all play along @The Pink Elephant Challenge!

(I'm also entering this in All That Scraps Wednesday's Challenge- Anything Goes!)

Hello 2012!

Happy New Year! 2011 was a great year- can't wait for what 2012 will bring!
(Hopefully some better blogging than what I've been doing lately! LOL)

Anyway, let's kick start this year off with the first challenge of 2012 at The Pink Elephant! The theme this week is ANYTHING GOES and is sponsored by the wonderful ladies at My Favorite Things!

I made this super simple card using this a la mode- All Star set.. perfect for any occasion!


Check out all the details on how to enter the challenge- a random winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to the My Favorite Things store!

TPE Challenge #125: Embossing

I'm BACK! Did ya miss me?

I finally got a little bit of some mojo juice running through me... well at least enough to make this card this weekend for The Pink Elephant Challenge!

And how could I not when this week's challenge is sponsored by the wonderful My Favorite Things!! The challenge this week is to use some sort of embossing on your card- dry or heat embossing (or both!) I chose to make my own embossed background using my Scorpal...



Check out all the details on how to enter the challenge HERE! One random lucky winner will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to My Favorite Things!!

For Katie's Boyz

It's The Pink Elephant Challenge time!!

SCORING is the theme You just need to create a card/project using a "Scoring" technique. You can use either decorative scoring or scoring used to create a project (& not just the fold on your card!) We're sponsored this week by the wonderful peeps @ Scor-pal!

I decided to create a card for Katie's family with the digi that LORi Boyd had made just for them..


Check out all the details to enter this week's SCORING challenge at The Pink Elephant!

TPE Fall Inspiration Challenge!

Hi there! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! (& Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends & readers!) :)

This week The Pink Elephant is hosting an inspiration challenge! prepare to be inspired :)

and this week TPE is sponsored by Sassy Cheryl's Digis! One lucky random winner will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Sassy Cheryl's Digi Store!!

I used this super adorable Candy Corn Girl and pulled out some of the colors from the photo to create this...
Check out all the details to enter The Pink Elephant Challenge!

BOO!

This week at The Pink Elephant Challenge...

we're challenging YOU to a "Trick or Treat" Theme!!

I made this quick card using "Boo" from the ghostly duo Peek & Boo from By LORi Designs!
We can't wait to see all your Spooky & Fun Halloween Cards & Projects!!

TPE118: CASE a DT

Happy Monday my loyal blog readers! Can you believe that we're into the last week of September already?! Where has this year gone?!

It's time for another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week we're challenging YOU to CASE (aka Copy) one of the design team members!

This week I chose to play with one my newest Anya images from The Greeting Farm... this sweet girl has sat colored in my stash just waiting to be put on a card :)

PLEASE check out all the details on The Pink Elephant blog and hope to see you play along with us this week!

TPE117: Just a note...

Happy Pink Elephant challenge day! This week's sponsor is none other than our very own Arielle Gordon & The Wax Fruit Company!

This week's challenge is a photo inspiration:


I used this pretty cherry blossom image and made a simple card using the colors from the crocheted blanket...
Check out The Pink Elephant blog for all the challenge details!

Ferris Wheel Fun!

Time for another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week's sponsor is The Craft's Meow and the theme is VINTAGE!

Now, vintage style isn't really my "thing".. but I did the best with this scrapbook page I created with some photos from my sister's summer trips and my nieces' favorite part of them...FERRIS WHEELS! I used this Life is a Carnival set, distressed some edges with vintage photo distress ink.
See all the details here to enter the challenge on The Pink Elephant blog!

TPE Challenge & 500th post!

Happy Labor Day to those of you in the states!  Hope you are all enjoying and extra day to your weekends!  (Wow! I can't believe this is my 500th post! I'm going to have to think of something to celebrate :)  Stay tuned...)

This week's The Pink Elephant Challenge is sponsored by Tickled Pink Stamps! They were so kind to allow the DT some of their fun images to play with for this week's sketch challenge!


I chose to use this adorable Lil' Pinkette Pippa


Check out all the details to enter the challenge and the other fabby works from the rest of the DT :)

TPE 114- Paper Piecing!

It's time for another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week's sponsor is none other than the FABULOUS The Greeting Farm..and the challenge theme is Paper Piecing!

I don't find myself doing this technique too often (I like to color too much! :)) But this was lots of fun and I may have gotten a little carried away... I used the new Ballet Anya digi image, paper pieced her outfit with pink polka dotted paper AND added another layer for her tutu using vellum :)


This week's random winner will receive a 4x6 stamp of choice from The Greeting Farm!!   Hope to see you join in on the fun!!

TPE 113: Inspiration

This week's The Pink Elephant challenge is to be inspired by this photo...


I used the colors (trying really hard to not make it a Christmas one!) and the patterns as my inspiration...


(I used this adorable Amelia stamp that I was so lucky to win during TGF's August release contest!)

Please check out all the details on the challenge on The Pink Elephant Challenge blog!

TPE: In Stitches!

Happy Monday! Back again with another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week's challenge is to include stitching (real or faux) and sponsored by none other than the fabulous Christy from Tiddly Inks!


I just LOVE this sweet girl...

(and the sweet fun sentiment, I found for $1 at Michaels!)

Check out all the details of the challenge on The Pink Elephant blog!

TPE 111: Butterflies!

Happy Monday.. how were your weekends? Is it just me or do they seem to fly by faster and faster every week?

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is to create using butterflies! I pulled out this set from Hero Arts I've had and decided (after some suggestions from my niece on what colors they should be-hence the rainbow) to make a fun flutterby thank you card set...


I also used some baker's twine I had won from the Twinery- my oh my do I love this stuff!

Thanks for swinging by and please check out more inspiration from my fellow DT members on their blogs (links on the left) and the deets for the challenge on the TPE blog!

TPE {SKETCH} Challenge

It's time for another challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week's challenge is sketch challenge sponsored by There She Goes Stamps!

I don't make circle/shaped cards too often, but this sketch was too fun to play with- I think I went a little polka dot crazy :) LOL


Check out all the details and more inspiration from the DT on The Pink Elephant Challenge blog!

Fun in the Sun!

Hi All! Just a quick post to share this week's The Pink Elephant Challenge: FUN IN THE SUN!!

This week's challenge is sponsored by Whimsy Doodles! A random winner will get a $10 gift certificate to their store! I used the adorable Diving Leah on my card...

TPE Challenge: Inspiration!

Happy Monday!

This week's The Pink Elephant Challenge is sponsored by Pixie Dust Studios! One Random winner will receive 3 digis! The challenge this week is to be inspired by this photo:


YUM Cupcakes! :)  I used the color combo from this photo and created this card using Pixie Pearl:


My 5 year old niece also LOVES to color with me, so I printed out the same image for her and this is what she did.. just gave her some extra help with cutting out Pixie Pearl and the rest was all her!



Check out all the details to enter the challenge at THE PINK ELEPHANT!!

Thanks for stopping by!

TPE Challenge: FELT!

It's time for another challenge over at The Pink Elephant! This week we're challenging you to use FELT!

I had these felt border strips that I've been hoarding... waiting for the perfect project to put them on! (They are from Queen & Co. and they are always a vendor and the scrapbook conventions..and only $1!)


I followed this wonderful tutorial made by Amy to give Anya some blue highlights in her hair :)


I also made another one after remembering I had some scrap pieces of felt laying around.. and I LOVE that I can cut them with my nestabilities! & I'm entering this in the Anything Goes challenge on the ATS Wednesday challenge.

After making my cards I've decided that I *NEED* more felt in my stash!!

Check out all the details on this week's challenge on THE PINK ELEPHANT challenge blog

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Fourth of July to all of those celebrating in the U.S! Hope you are all staying cool.. still boiling hot here! It was 117 degrees yesterday {blech!}

This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant is a color combo challenge- and since it's Independence Day- we're playing with red, white, & blue! TPE's challenge is sponsored by Fred, She Said with a prize of a $5 gift certificate to their shop!

Here is my card using the darling image, Emma the Skipper!


Check out all the deets to enter the challenge HERE!