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Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge for May

Hey, there! You have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate from Globecraft Memories if you enter Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge for May! Globecraft Memories has been creating some very cool new products - my favorites are their Piccolos!

Globecraft sent us frames, Piccolos and enamel powder to play with, and here's Kathy's palette:

Here's my card:

S U P P L I E S:

Paper: Ivory cardstock, Cardstock Bubble Frame Kit (Gloebcraft Memories); Stamps: All Booked Up (Papertrey Ink), S5050 (Hero Arts); Inks: Pistachio, (Color Box), Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo, Embossing, (Ranger Industries) Sepia, (VersaFIne) Embossing plates (Papertrey Ink); Accents: flowers (Prima), pillow sticker (K & Co), ball chain (Ranger Industries), Piccolos (Globecraft Memories); OTHER: enamel powder (Globecraft Memories); Adhesives: Beamons 3-in-1 glue, Glosy Accents, Pop-dots

T O O L S:

Heat tool, Ranger ink applicator tool, post-it notes, Vagabond, Mcgill punch

I N S T R U C T I O N S:

1. Apply Pistachio ink directly to frames and heat set.
2. Adhere stand to kit's backplate.
3. Apply Vintage Photo to embossing plate with ink applicator tool and emboss large oval with large letters; repeat process on small oval with text plate.
4. Apply Worn Lipstick to ovals with ink applicator tool.
5. Ink larger oval's outer edge with Peeled Paint. 
6. Heat set both ovals.
7. Stamp sentiment with Sepia and punch out.
8. Edge outside of smaller oval with embossing ink and role edge in enamel powder; heat to emboss. Repeat on sentiment panel.
9. Place Piccolos on sticky portion of Post-it, (to keep them from blowing away) apply glue, enamel powder, and heat emboss.
10. Stamp vine background on ivory cardstock with embossing ink; apply enamel powder and heat emboss.
11. Cut embossed cardstock into an oval (I used the kit's bubble dome as a guide) and adhere to the front of the backplate.
12. Assemble flowers and adhere with pop-dots; adhere butterfly and Piccolo flowers.
13. Adhere bubble dome to front of backplate with Beason's glue; adhere large oval to backplate.
14. Adhere sentiment panel with pop-dots and Piccolos with Glossy Accents to front of small oval; adhere small oval to large oval with pop-dots.
15. Cut ball chain to size and adhere around edge of bubble dome with Beacon's glue (I used a toothpick for precision placement of the adhesive.)

TIP: You can remove excess or stray glue from the bubble dome by gently rubbing with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol.

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!       

Check Out Tamara Laan!

This week's Guest Designer over at the Lily Pad is the very talented Tamara Laan! Tamara likes to make CAS and/or cute cards. She made three cards to share with our readers; but check out some of her past creations:

Tamara really knows how to rock the chevron!

Love this color palette!

Pretty darned cute, eh?

Check out Tamara's Guest Designer post and her blog, Tamara's Scrap Corner, for more great cards!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

 

Rain Challenge at the Lily Pad!

Simon Says Stamp is sponsoring a month-long rain challenge over at the Lily Pad, and the prize is a gift certificate worth $25 smackers!

For the challenge, use rain on your card... er... not literally - just something that is like rain or is about rain, or rain-related! We don't care as long as it brings to mind showers!!!

Here's my card:

S U P P L I E S

Lili Of The Valley April Showers stamp; Copic markers; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Cougar 80# White and Bazzill cardstocks; Gigi font

Head on over and enter this challenge before it closes on Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EST. Who doesn't wanna win a $25 GC from the best supply store on the Web?!

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Virginia's View April Challenge at the Lily Pad!

It's time for a new challenge over at the Lily Pad: Virginia's View! This challenge offers an inspiration photo by our resident muse Virginia Lu.

So here's Virginia's inspiration photo:



And here's my card:

The central image is a digital stamp (Small Things from A Day For Daisies). It looked a little bare all by itself, so I drew in some leaves and vines in the corners and then colored them as well.

S U P P L I E S: 

DIGITAL STAMP: A Day For Daisies; CLEAR STAMP: Hero Arts (CL351); INKS: Memento Lady Bug; MARKERS: Letraset FlexMarkers; CARDSTOCK: Bazzill, Cougar 80# white; EMBELLISHMENTS: pearls (Memory Box); OTHER: Diamond Stickles

T O O L S:

Corner Chomper (Stub/Deco)

The prize for winning this challenge is the winner's choice of one set of Letraset FlexMarkers, so head on over and dive in! The challenge ends on Thursday, Mary 3, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

Check Out Lisa Alonzo

This week's Guest Designer over at the Lily Pad is the very talented Lisa Alonzo! Lisa's self-proclaimed style is "cutesy" but she's always up for some diversity. She made four cards to share with our readers; but here are a few of her past creations to whet your appetite:

Is this clever or what?!

Paper Smooches Pin-Up!

Clean and Simple - love it!

Check out Lisa's Guest Designer post and her blog, My Creative Endeavors, for more great cards!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge for April

Don't foget to check out the Lily Pad's First Birthday Blog Hop - it continues until 11:59 p.m., EST, on April 8. Three lucky ladies will win $100 each in goodies and GC's, and there's a fourth prize of $50 - $200, with a winner to be drawn from all of the people who Like us on our new Facebook page. 

. . . B A C K   T O   O U R   S C H E D U L E D   P R O G R A M M I N G. . . 

It's the first Friday of the month, and this means that it's time for our color challenge over at the Lily Pad! Kathy Racoosin, our resident muse, picks a color palette, and you do the rest. Here's this month's palette.

My card is a direct steal of the card Kelly Marie (Lawn Fawn's owner) made for the Lily Pad's first birthday blog hop:

 

S U P P L I E S:  PAPERS: Bazzill cardstock, Cougar 80# white cardstock; STAMPS: Critters Ever After (Lawn Fawn); INKS: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Copic markers; GEMS: Mark RIchards; FONTS: Fontdinerdotcom-Sparkly; OTHER: Diamond Stickles

T O O L S:  corner rounder, Tonic paper cutter, detail scissors

Lawn Fawn is our sponsor, and the winner of this challenge gets her choice of one in-stock stamp set ($15 retail value)! You have until Thursday, April 19, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EST to enter.

So go make a card and enter it to win!!!

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Lily Pad Cards 1st Birthday Blog Hop!

Hello, Card Lovers!

Welcome to your next stop on the Lily Pad's First Birthday Blog Hop. You should be arriving from Jennifer McGuire Ink.  

(Which is a tough act to follow, let me tell you!)

Here's my card:

S U P P L I E S

Stamps: Dream Big (Close to My Heart), CG299 (Hero Arts), Ribbit (WR Memory Keepers); Inks: Celadon (VersaColor), Leviticus Line (Fresco), Peeled Paint (Ranger Distress), color stack (Martha Stewart); Accents: Fragment Charm (Tim Holtz), gems (Mark Richards), border sticker (K&Co); Fibers: twine (Hempotique); Other: Glossy Accents, pop-dots 

Your next stop is the oh-so-sweet Carol Theng's blog Carol's Paperie.

If you hit a bad link, you can always  go back to the Lily Pad to view the master list of blog links. Please report any bad links to aris@inlinkz.com.

Don't forget to leave a comment and/or Like Lily Pad Cards on our new Facebook Page to enter to win prizes*** (retail value $500)! The contest is open until 11:59 p.m., EST, Sunday, April 8, so relax and enjoy yourself at a leisurely pace!

*** The Comment/Like Combo Prizes. There will be three $100-prize packages, randomly drawn, from the comments left on the blogs (including this one) and from those visitors who choose to Like us on our new Facebook page. The more comments you leave, the greater your chances of having your name drawn! (NOTE: Only one comment per blog, please.)

The Facebook Prize. The fourth prize package depends on how many people Like us on our new Facebook page. Here's how it works: If we reach 750 Likes by the end of the contest, we'll draw for a prize package worth $50. If we reach 1,000 Likes, the prize value will go up to $75; 1,500 Likes = $100; 2,000 Likes = $200. 

Go here for more details.

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!