It’s a Color Challenge at Kaboodle Doodles!

I was so sad to read the news about MTC and Cricut! I am not in a position to buy a new cutter, so I will have to use the version I have currently or risk losing it altogether if I update… thankfully, SCAL is still an option. Without those programs, I would not have been able to make this cute, cute Easter Basket!

And that would’ve been a bummer!

The basket is an SVG file from SVG Cuts.com. There is a little slit in the handle, so it can be used as a placecard holder. It only took about 5 minutes to make this little cutie and it’s just the right size for one Easter egg! How FUN to do an Easter egg hunt with these little guys!

The image I used around the border of the basket is called ‘Chick Border” from Wink Wink Ink.

Here’s a better picture of the image:

Wink Wink Ink is sponsoring the newest challenge at

the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog this week!

The challenge is:

Yellow, Green, Pink and Blue

and the prize is: a $15 Wink Wink Gift Certificate!

 

Happy Birthday with Kaboodle Doodles and Paper Pretties

The newest challenge this week at Kaboodle Doodles

is brought to you by

Paper Pretties

Our Kaboodlers were provided with

a variety of super cute images to

work with this week!

Our project is themed:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I chose this cute “Birthday Balloons for You”

The blue plaid paper is from Floppy Latte Designs.

You can’t see it very well in this picture, but the top white panel

is embossed with a Fiskars “Party” plate.

Nice and simple!

Cute and cheerful!

Just right!

The prize provided by Paper Pretties this week

is THREE digis from their store!

So, I hope you can come over to the 
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog

and play with us this week!

Kaboodle Doodles, Challenge 57: GO GREEN!

2ND POST TODAY!! MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A LOOK AT MY FRESH BREWED POST (SCROLL DOWN)!
THERE'S A TERRIFIC FREEBIE THAT IS ONLY AVAILABLE TODAY!!!

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It's time for a new challenge at the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog!
Thanks so much to everyone who played along in our recipe challenge last week. It was a pretty challenging challenge and your entries were amazing! Be sure to stop back tomorrow and see who our winner is and who has been chosen to be in our Top 3!

This week's challenge is to GO GREEN! 
Use green on your card - paper, ink, embellishments - whatever, just make it GREEN!

Our sponsor this week is Cardmadfairy's Card Creations. The winner will recieve their choice of 3 images from theCardmadfairy's Card Creations store.


Our design team has been very busy creating some projects to help inspire you in this challenge. Make sure you stop over and show us some love!

Here's my card!


I chose the "Spring Tree" image and watercolored it for a nice, soft look.


I used a Sentiment Tag from Chris (Mudmaven Designs) that she shared for FREE on her blog!


I LOVE this set of tags and will surely be using them a lot!


Each tag is a separate image, so you don't have to print a whole sheet of tags to get the one you want! I love that!


Thank you, Chris, for sharing this awesome freebie!

Up Up and Away!! Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #56

The challenge this week at the Kaboodle Doodles Blog is a unique recipe:


3 DP's, 2 Solids and 1 embellishment
Our sponsor this week is
Gingerloft


They provided us with terrific samples to work with. I chose the "Hot Air Balloon".


Using Inkscape, I created an SVG file from the image in order to cut all the balloon panels. Cut it in 3 papers and pieced it together!
I chose 3 papers from a Colorbok pack I picked up at Walmart for $5. Love those bargains!!
Obviously, my two solids are orange and white.
One simple little orange bow and it's ready to go!

This is one of those cards that can be suitable for almost any occasion, so I haven't added a sentiment, yet!

I'm sorry I can't share my SVG file, because it's not my image to share! 
But you can pick it up at the Gingerloft Store.

They have generously provided a prize for this challenge!
If you choose to play along, you can win your choice of any THREE images from their store!
This challenge was definitely one I had to put some thought into and hopefully, you'll give it a shot! Using only one embellishment is harder than you think!!
You'll have to stop over at the Kaboodle Doodles Blog and see all the creations our team "cooked up" with this recipe!!

Our Kaboodle Doodles Design Team:

Audrey

Cammy

Chris

Christy

Farrah

Jill

Lorie

Sandra

Stacie (that's me!!)

Tina

Hearts and Flowers on Valentine's Day!!

 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!


I hope your day is filled with love and chocolate and flowers and all things lovey-dovey!


In the spirit of all things romantic, I have made a pretty, heart-shaped gift box... I left it on my desk so maybe when I wake up, it will be filled with goodies! (-: 




The challenge this week at Kaboodle Doodles is 

Hearts and Flowers! 

We are so pleased to be sponsored by
Pink Cat Studios!
They have graciously supplied FIVE Pink Cat Studio Digis as our prize to offer to you, our loyal participants!!
We were generously offered our choice of several of their adorable images to work with.
I chose "Birds on a Wire" which you can pick up HERE at the Pink Cat Studio Digi Store!
For my project, I used an SVG file I received from Brianna at Bea Originals. I loved the idea behind this box and the way it opens at the top by separating the heart. I colored my image digitally with Paint.NET and duplicated it 4 times before printing to make one strip that wraps all the way around the box. Now that I'm looking at it, I wish I had embossed the side panels. But, I still love how it turned out and I hope it has inspired you in some way to come over and join our HEARTS and FLOWERS challenge at Kaboodle Doodles!!


Thank you to everyone who entered our "Ribbon Stash" challenge last week!
Your entries were lovely and it was fun to see all the different ways ribbons can be used!


The rules for entering our challenges are very simple!! But there are rules, in order to keep it fair for all our participants and for our generous sponsors!!

We are sponsored by wonderful and generous businesses who have kindly offered their products as prizes in our challenge.  In the interest of fairness to all challenge participants, all entries that do not follow our simple rules (please see the sidebar at the Challenge Blog) will be removed. Thanks for understanding and playing along!

Be sure to visit Kaboodle Doodles tomorrow to see the winner and top 3, chosen by our Design Team! 
And speaking of our DT, be sure to stop over and show some love for all their lovely creations this week!

My fellow Kaboodle Doodles teamies:

Audrey

Cammy

Chris

Christy

Farrah

Jill

Lorie

Sandra

Stacie (that's ME!!)

Tina

This project qualifies for a few challenges:
Digital Tuesday, Use a Die Cut (my entire project was cut on my Cricut, except my Pink Cat Studio digital image around the bottom
Cute Card Thursday, Hearts and Flowers- I hope this qualifies, since the name of the challenge at Kaboodle Doodles (my DT for this project) is exactly the same! (-:









By the way, on a side note, to all my regular visitors... You're probably wondering why it is that every time you come to visit, my blog looks different.
Bear with me!!
I'm trying to find a layout/background/theme I like... I'm really not entirely happy with this one yet, either, so it's a work in progress!
Thank you for visiting and I hope ya'll are having a SUPER Monday!!

Kaboodle Doodles, sponsored by The Stamping Boutique

Break out that Ribbon Stash!

This is the Challenge at Kaboodle Doodles this week!

and we are so pleased to be sponsored by

The Kaboodle Doodles team chose a VARIETY of

Stamping Boutique images this week,

so pop on over and show them some love!!

I chose "Mail Girl".

You can grab her HERE.

I can't explain why my dark blue

base card looks gray and grungy!

Must've been the one operating the camera! (me!)

In real life, this card looks pretty cute!

I was cleaning out my ribbon bin the other day

and found a nice long piece of white from somewhere...

Looped it around a pencil and hot glued it down...

made a cute little bow with the end of the tail

and that's one piece in the stash

not going to waste!

It's always a good idea to occasionally take a peek 

into the bins and boxes...

it's amazing how many things we manage to

"stash" away, thinking, "Oh, I'll use that later"...

Those piles pile up!

So it's a great time to take a wander

thru your ribbon stash

and play along with us this week

at Kaboodle Doodles!!

Challenges this week:

Papercraft Planet, The Stamping Boutique Falling in Love with Digis Digi Day Event, Challenge #2, Valentine with No Red or Pink

Fairy Tale Challenge Blog, Snow and Ice

One Stitch at at Time, Do it With a Digi

Make it Monochrome!

A NEW CHALLENGE starts today at KABOODLE DOODLES 

and our theme is

MAKE IT MONOCHROMATIC.  

You have until 6pm EST on Sunday, Feb. 6 

to get your MONOCHROMATIC card created and 

linked up at KABOODLE DOODLES.  

We are very fortunate to have another FABULOUS sponsor this week:

 FRESH BREWED DESIGNS.  

If you have a chance, you'll definitely want to head on over and check out the AMAZING selection of images - both digis and red rubber!


And Fresh Brewed Designs
is running a MONTH LONG CHALLENGE
on The Latte Lounge
and Papercraft Planet!


I am entering this card for those challenges!
The theme is Birthdays
and the PRIZE is
BRAND NEW FRESH BREWED DESIGNS RUBBAH!!

For my card this week, I chose one of FRESH BREWED DESIGNS from the Valentine's Collection called Fresh Brewed Flowers!


My design was inspired by a card I saw at Extreme Cards and Papercrafting.


I guess I could have printed the image and sentiment a little closer together so that the bottom of the window box in the image would not be hidden, but overall, I LOVE the look of this card!


The paper-piercing, while it looks elegant and complicated, took less than 10 minutes using the FREE template from Gem's Cottage.


The hardest part of this card? Coloring all the polka dots in the curtains! LOL! (-:
This was a fun and easy card and I hope you'll get a chance to play with us at Kaboodle Doodles! 


With a chance to win THREE Fresh Brewed Designs images, there's lots of good reasons to play!

Bling it Up with Kaboodle Doodles and Digi Doodle Shop

The Challenge this week at Kaboodle Doodles

is

Bling it Up

We were so lucky this week

to get to play with 

our choice

of Digi Doodle Shop

images!!

 I chose "Rooster" and Cheryl (*CAFE)

This one's for YOU!

For the first time ever, I colored an image

using Paint.NET.

No pencils, markers, paint...

it's ALL done digitally!

Once I got the hang of it, I actually had fun with it!

And even tho I still need work on shading and blending, I think it turned out pretty good!!

My "Bling", which is hard to see in the photo, is 4 ruby rhinestones in the corners of my rub-on sentiment and a gold, heat-embossed swirl at the top.

In real life, this card is really pretty and I already have a recipient picked out for it... which is unusual... usually, they all just go into a box but this one is special to me and will be getting mailed! YIPPEE!!

So, if you want to play "Bling it Up" with Digi Doodle Shop,

We'd love for you to join us at

Kaboodle Doodles!!

The Kaboodle Doodles Team have made some

really pretty projects, so pop on over and give it 

a whirl!

And stop in and show my team some love:

Audrey
Cammy
Chris
Christy
Farrah
Jill
Lorie
Stacie (that's me!!)
Tina