BLOG HOP WITH THE LITTLE MISS MUFFET CHALLENGE BLOG

Hello- welcome to the LITTLE MISS MUFFET CHALLENGE BLOG HOP!  You are now in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa:

If you have arrived here from Jane's blog, you are right here where you should be!  If not, and you'd like to start at the beginning, click HERE to link to the first stop on the hop.

Can you hear squealing? You can? That would be the noise of a collective group of Little Misses, bouncing around with excitement! And why are they bouncing around with excitement? No, they haven't had too much cake. We are proud to announce that Jodie, from Bugaboo Stamps, has designed some exclusive Sunbonnet Rubber Stamps for Little Miss Muffet Stamps. Oh, ok. You're squealing now too!

And, as if that wasn't enough, this week, they're also releasing a rather fabulous new Birds on a Wire Die too. Sorry, I'm excited... I'll stop talking, so you can take a look SNEAK PEEK:

Gorgeous, aren't they? You can get hold of all these goodies, right now from the What's New! Section at Little Miss Muffet Stamps. And, we're running the following Special Offers:

• Buy the Combo Set, that's all eight Rubber Stamps, at a special introductory price, and get one random Little Miss Muffet Rubber Stamp in with your order for free

• Buy any combination of four Sunnbonnet Rubber Stamps, and get one random Little Miss Muffet Rubber Stamp in with your order for free

 To celebrate all this exciting news, The Little Misses have joined forces with the Bugaboo Stamps Design Team for a fun Blog Hop, just so you can see these great images, in action. But. It's not just a Blog Hop, Peeps! We have prizes too:

• Two randomly drawn winners, will receive a Fancy Sunbonnet Miss Muffet Stamp, plus, a random Little Miss Muffet Rubber Stamp

• A Further four randomly drawn winners, will receive a random Little Miss Muffet Stamp

It goes without saying, the more comments you leave, the more your chances of winning. 

The Blog Hop will close at 8pm, Central time on Sunday 26 May.

To give you an idea of how cute these are coloured up and on a card, here's Miss Muffet on my card:

Ingredients of my card:

Copics coloured image

white CS card base

green CS card mat

maize coloured CS card mat

printed DP

fibre trim

white lace

felt flowers

bling gems

Here is a better look at the image:

Your next stop on the hop 

but remember to leave a comment below, for a chance to win one of those wonderful prizes!

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

Durban

South Africa

FREEBIE FRIDAY AT BUGABOO STAMPS!

BUGABOO STAMPS has a cute freebie for you today, and this is the card I made with it:

This cutie is called Baby Moon, and if you link to the the Catch the Bug blog you can see the other projects made with it, AND find the link to the store to nag the freebie.

To make up my card I coloured the image using Copics, and used some Stickles on the moon.

I also used:

white CS card base

yellow CS background

blue and yellow card mats

2 different DP's

satin ribbon and bow

diaper pin charm

pearls

peel off "Boy" sentiment 

I would like to add my card to the following challenges:

CUTE CARD THURSDAY, #270, TIE IT UP

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE, #46, ANYTHING GOES

LADYBUG CRAFTS INK, OH BABY

CARDMANIA, #21, SPOTS AND/OR STRIPES

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA

THE OUTLAWZ FRIDAY CHALLENGE USING COPICS OR OTHER ALCOHOL MARKERS

It's time for me to share with you the details of this week's Copics and Other Alcohol Markers challenge over at The Outlawz.  

How about making a ONE LAYER card for this challenge?  

I found it difficult as I like to pile on the layers and embellies, but did make this one to share:

My image is from Mo Manning, printed onto Bazzill textured cardstock and I used Copics and a white gel pen to colour it.

Here is a better look at what the colouring looks like on texture:

To create my card I used a scallop border punch for the bottom edge of the card front.  I also scored two lines along the border and wrote the sentiment by hand.

The back of the card is royal blue cardstock, on which I used the scallop border punch along the top edge.  I then scored it and folded it over the front and glued it down.  The 'faux' brads are actually a white gel pen blob with some Stickles.

I would love to see what you come up with for this challenge.

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

PERFECT SENTIMENTS, #80, ANYTHING GOES

COLOR THROWDOWN, #243

ONE STITCH AT A TIME, #164, USE A DIGI

OLDIE BUT GOODIE DAY WITH BUGABOO STAMPS

Oldie but Goodie Day  on the Catch the Bug blog is such fun because we at Bugaboo Stamps get to create with our favourite oldies.

Today's share is a card for Father's Day, for whih I have used Bugaboo Stamps' GUY - SUPER.  Is/was your dad your Superhero?  I am certain most girls think so! (I know my dad was ... cos he could see through walls, could see behind him, and knew exactly what I was doing in my bedroom while he was in the lounge - how did he do that!!!??? LOL! And now that he is in Heaven his superpowers have not faded as he is still looking out for me and he is with me every day ... just wish I could give you a great big hug again, Dad!)

Here's my card:

The image is coloured using my Copics and a white gel pen :

I kept the card clean and simple, as I wanted the fabulous image to speak for itself, without having to vie for attention with patterned papers and embellishments.  

the sentiment was created in MS Word and I added a red CS card mat and stick on gel stars for impact.

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

EUREKA STAMPS, #40. NO DESIGNER PAPER

LOVE TO SCRAP, #6, COLOUR MY WORLD (PRIMARY COLS)

STAMPS + FUN = CREATIVITY, #152, MASCULINE

A SKETCH CHALLENGE AT THE OUTLAWZ

Just sayin' .....

This is my 1300th post since starting my blog in June  2010 ... phew! that's more than one post a day ....

Well, onto the important stuff ..

The Outlawz Sketch Challenge today has a really easy sketch to work with:

and this is my interpretation  (As you can see I flipped the sketch, because it work better with the orientation of the vine diecut:  

The image featured on my card is from Saturated Canary that I printed ont cream textured cardstock and coloured with Copics and a white gel pen :

I fussy cut the image, and pasted her onto patterned DP that was matted onto turquoise CS.  The swirl in the sketch I interpreted as a vine die cut and added flowers and pearls, available from BLUEBERRY BEAR.

Also from BLUEBERRY BEAR is this metal embellishment, that I Copics coloured from copper coloured to maroon, to match the colour palette of my card.

The sentiment was also Copics coloured to match.

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

INCY WINCY, METAL MANIA

CORROSIVE CHALLENGE, #174, MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY

THE SQUIRREL AND THE FOX, #44, HERE COME THE GIRLS

A PINK BARBIE BIRTHDAY CARD

A client ordered a birthday card - a PINK BARBIE BIRTHDAY CARD - so I popped off to the free colouring pages on the web to find a Barbie image suitable for a little girl, whether she is 3 or 13 (I forgot to ask the age of the little girl).  Here is my card:

I coloured the image using Copics and a white gel pen and popped it onto a pink CS mat.  Stickles were added for bling.

A few years ago, on my travels  I bought some metal "Barbie" logo charms, and this is the first opportunity I have to use one - I knew it would come in handy someday! 

The other elements in the construction of my card include:

white CS card base

pink butterfly DP

remnant of very bling-y trim

sewn on pink sequin flowers and beads

gems

roses

lu'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to add this card to the followng challenges:

OLDIE BUT GOODIE, INSPIRED BY A SONG (old item – “Barbie’ logo charm) (One Day my Prince will come – from the Disney movie Snow White)

CREATIVE CREATIONS, #10, FOR A CHILD (10)

INCY WINCY, METAL MANIA

LOVE TO CREATE, #66, SOMETHING FOR A CHILD

PLAYING PURPLELICIOUS AT THE OUTLAWZ MONDAY GREETING CARD CHALLENGE

PURPLELICIOUS

... that is theme at The Outlawz Monday Greeting Card Challenge this week, and here is my Purplicious card:

I have used a Rick St Dennis image called Miss Razz-L-Dazzle from his Etsy store, and coloured it using my Copics and a white gel pen.  The green parts of her gown have a liberal helping of Stickles:

To make up my card I sued the following from my stash :

white CS card base

lilac CS card mat

metallic DP (offcut) -I love how the camera flash caught the shiny metallic bit in this shot cos it looks like she's surrounded by paparazzi :

I also used some satin ribbon and a peel off sentiment.

If you enjoy colouring really detailed and beautiful images the Rick St Dennis Etsy store is well worth a visit!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

365 CARDS, DAY 140, FRAME-ABLE

USE IT TUESDAYS, #55, YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS (my DP is my favourite ‘catch touch’ item and I keep every last little scrap of it – I can’t bear to throw them away!)

ECLECTIC ELLAPU, ANYTHING GOES

JOANNA SHEEN, GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

DURBAN

SOUTH AFRICA