Creative Inspirations By Karen

Friday, October 9, 2020

Today's Friday Freebie at Bugaboo

Guess what today's Friday Freebie is over at Bugaboo!?! It's Stella Instant Witch! :) Go grab her for free!!!

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Cowgirl Princess Birthday

Another birthday card for a co-worker. For this one I asked the gal who works the closest with her what her likes were, her hobbies, if she collects anything, etc... I was told she was a bit of a contradiction, that she was a rough tough cowgirl type, but she is also all girly and likes her bling. So, rodeo/cowgirl princess came to mind. I looked through my images and found this one from Cute As A Button called Cheyenne. I went with pink girlie colors with a black base, added some gems and ribbons. The tag is a Stampin Up tag set.

Thanks for looking!

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends (UP TO 3 ENTRIES) – ATG

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge – ATG

Word Art Wednesday (up to 5 entries) – ALWAYS anything goes

Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenges – Birthday

QKR Stampede (enter up to 3 times) – Always Anything Goes

Creative Fingers – Always Anything Goes

PolkadoodlesCrafting Challenge – ATG

Your Scrapbook Place (enter up to 3 times) – Always ATG

Creations In Pink (up to 3 entries per month) – Anything goes, in pink

A bit more time to craft – ATG

Cute As A Button – ATG w/optional ‘grey tones w/a pop of one color’

Monday, October 5, 2020

Under Your Bed

This card was made for the Tuesday New Release Post at Catch The Bug. This image is called Clown Around - Hello

For this image, I added some teeth and blood droplets to make it look a bit darker for Halloween and used darker colors for his outfit. For the card I added some spider punch, ghost punch and a cat punch. I added some gems and called it good enough. All of the papers used were scraps laying around from other cards I've made recently.

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Make My Monday – use up you scraps

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog (5 entries)– Fall/Halloween+ a sentiment

Simply Create Too (enter up to 3 times) – Black & Purple only

SheepSki Designs Challenges (up to 3 entries) – Autumn and/or Halloween

Gift Tag

This was made for this fortnight's Magical or Fairytales challenge at Incy Wincy Designs Challenge.

This challenge is being sponsored by Polka Doodles and Rachelle Anne Miller. I used an image from both on this card, the Little Fairy walking the lady bug is from Rachelle Anne Miller, the flying fairy (Serenity Fairy Joyful) is from Polka Doodles. As you can see, I added the tag to a gift basket.

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613 Avenue Create (UP TO 3 ENTRIES)– anything goes/optional twist – winged things

Sweet Stampers (starts the 10^th of every month) – Things With Wings

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Belly Button

This was made for the Catch The Bug Humor Me Wednesday Post

I have been failing all around, this was supposed to be posted last Wednesday... Did you know we have an International Day of Older Persons? Well, that was a few days ago too...Oct. 1st.

For this card I used an image called Stella Belly Button. I used some fun DPs from a paper pack I got at Tuesday Morning. Added a bow, some rickrack, doily flowers and gems.

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Dream Valley Challenges (enter up to 10 challenges) – Make It digital

The Paper Girls – Pick 3 (flower, doily, circle, lots of layers)

The Crafter’s Café Challenge Blog (up to 5 entries – only 10 challenges) – ATG

Autumn Leaves

This card was made for this fortnight's Stella Says Sketch Challenge.

For this card I used two Bugaboo images, Autumn Brat Leaves and Autumn Sign. Both were colored using Paint 3-D. The only thing I added is a bow.

Thanks for looking!

613 Avenue Create (UP TO 3 ENTRIES)– anything goes/optional twist – winged things

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge – ATG

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog (5 entries)– Fall/Halloween+ a sentiment

Crafty Gals Corner (up to 2 entries) – Fall Colors

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie (up to 5 entries) – cookie photo

ColorMy Heart Color Dare –

SheepSki Designs Challenges (up to 3 entries) – Autumn and/or Halloween

A bit more time to craft – ATG

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Happy Birthday from the Cat

This card was made for one of my co-workers. Her birthday is this coming Tuesday. I asked the ones who worked closest to her what her favorite things were and they said she was crazy about her cat and reading. I found this in a folder of images from Createful Hearts, The image is called Story Time. I have to say, yes this was colored digitally by myself, however the lines are so light, it made it tough. The other images I have from this store have much darker lines. I have added some fun DPs, lace ribbon, pearls, flowers and wires. I used a lot of pop dots both for the picture and for the strip across the lace. The flowers are clay stickers. The sentiment is from Create With TLC (I added the bottom line)...

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The Paper Girls – Pick 3 (flower, , circle, the color gold, lots of layers)

Simon Says stamp Challenges (up to 5 entries) – ATG

Word Art Wednesday (up to 5 entries) – ALWAYS anything goes

Seize The Birthday (up to 3 entries) – Birthday Blog Hop – Birthday theme

QKR Stampede (enter up to 3 times) – Always Anything Goes

Creative Fingers – Always Anything Goes

PolkadoodlesCrafting Challenge – ATG

A bit more time to craft – ATG

Cute As A Button – ATG w/optional ‘grey tones w/a pop of one color’

Crafty animals – Always anything ‘animals’ goes

crafty critter crazies challenge - Critters

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Fall Pumpkin

This card was made for this month's Fall/Autumn challenge over at Pattie's Creations Challenge.

For this card I used two images from Pattie's Creations. I used Pumpkins With Vines and a freebie from a previous challenge. Did you know Pattie gives away a freebie with each challenge? I added some fun DP I had laying around from other cards I've made, not sure they go super great together, but... I added ribbon and twine and some gems. I drew the stitching around the image.

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Make My Monday – use up you scraps

Artsystamper Digitals Challenge (enter up to 3) – Ribbons &/or Bows

Crafty Gals Corner (up to 2 entries) – Fall Colors

Allsorts Challenge Blog (max of 3 entries) – Autumn Colors

SheepSki Designs Challenges (up to 3 entries) – Autumn and/or Halloween

Up To No Good

This card was made for the Oldies but Goodies post at Catch The Bug.

Here are three older images from Bugaboo. This is Har Repotter the Chosen One, Har Repotter Brave One and Har Repotter Sidekick. I colored them all using Paint 3D. The sentiment I created myself, I ran my stamp pads around the edge of the image and added some gems to each corner.

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Dream Valley Challenges (enter up to 10 challenges) – Make It digital

Little Red Wagon – Just KIDding

Moving Along With The Times – Animals and/or birds

Crafty animals – Always anything ‘animals’ goes

crafty critter crazies challenge - Critters

Wicked

This card was made for the Oldies but Goodies post at Catch The Bug.

For this card I used Stella Witch-Instant Witch. She was colored using Paint 3-D. The sentiment was cut using my Cricut, Stella was cut out with the Cricut as well. I added some gems a couple spiders cut with a mini punch (on the purple spider web paper) and a 'moon' punched with a circle punch.