Karen's Sweet Hearts

The amazingly talented digital artist Karen Middleton has created six new images for Cuddly Buddly, and my cards today highlight two of these cuties.

The first card features the image "Bird & Eggs" colored with Copics, then framed with Marianne Designs Die Circlets , and mounted on Kim's digi paper - Cottage Collection Yellow, also from Cuddly Buddly.

The second card features the image "Kitty in Hat", and was also colored with Copics.  The Prima flowers, pearls, ribbon and butterfly charm are all from my stash.  The digital papers are Kim's Pretty Mix - Purple and Kim's Peppy Papers - Purple/Lime all available at Cuddly Buddly.  The sentiments on both cards are from Eliza and Bro's Sentiments rubber stamp set.

Snowflake Beauty

It's time for Team Buddly to show off their projects for Cuddly Buddly's Let's Keep Creating Challenge, and our theme for the next fortnight is White on White.  For this challenge I get to work with a Karen Middleton digital image, so I chose "Christmas Ladies - Snowflake".

The image was colored with the four grey families of Copic Sketch markers, except for the eyes and lips which have a touch of color added to them.  Glitter was added to the snowflakes, and snowflake buttons from Jesse James were attached to both layers of the easel card.  The card was cut with Spellbinders Grand Labels 11, and the paper that the image was attached to was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, then trimed with diamond dust.  The sentiment from Waltzingmouse was embossed with silver, then covered with a holographic embossing powder.

Challenges I am entering this card into:
Charisma Cardz - #43 Anything Goes
Crafty Purple Frog Challenges - #27 Sparkle
Crimbo Crackers - #1 Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - PCJ #22 Use a Digi
Paper Pretties - PWC177 Embellish
Scrapbook Sisters - #58 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes
My Time to Craft - #163 Quite White
Ooh-la-la Creations - #91 Let It Snow
Christmas Inspirations - #35 Die Cuts or Punches

Checking His List

Santa is checking his list to see if you've been naughty or nice, and guess what - you made the nice list!!!  My card features a new digital image called " Santa's to do List" from Cuddly Buddly, that I colored with my Copic Sketch Markers, then cut out using an older Spellbinders die frame.  The frame was inked with red and Vintage photo distress ink and popped up with foam squares.  The sentiment was from Waltzingmouse, dps are from Basic Grey's Wassill paper collection, and the ribbon and beaded cord are from the local big box craft store.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Moving Along with the Times - #19 Vintage

Bearly Mine Challenges - #21 Easel Does It

Christmas Elegance

As part of the Cuddly Buddly  pre-release team I get the chance to work with the images before they are available on-line, and this past week I was given one of Karen Middleton's images that is available for purchase now.  This elegant image is "Holly and Ivy" and was printed out on water color paper, painted with Tim Holtz Distress Inks, and then I did the burnished velvet technique with a clear glitter.

The image was cut with a Spellbinders Scalloped Oval, popped up with foam dots onto the dp which is from Basic Grey's Figgy collection.  The dies were all cut with Tim Holtz's Festive Greenery, and rhinestones from my stash added the final touch.

Cuddly Buddly is also giving away over 100 free digital images from their archives so hop on over to the store and check out the super cute digis.  While you're there also check out the newest releases and all of the other wonderful products that you can purchase from this awesome on-line store.

Challenges for this card:

Anything Challenge - #51 Die Cuts/Punches or Both

Paper Crafting Journey - #20 Die Cuts and/or Punches

Crafty Card Makers - #53 Anything Goes

Winter Easel Card

Today is suppose to be a very warm 29C here, and then we have a big change coming our way - wet and cool, only 14 on Tuesday and a whooping 10 on Wednesday!!  I think it will be a great excuse to stay indoors and color!!

Todays' card is another beautiful image from Karen Middleton and is available online at Cuddly Buddly.  This one is called "Winter Flight" and I used my Spellbinders to make a beautiful easel card after coloring her with Copics.  I've added shine to her wings, the stitching around the card, and the small starbursts around the bird with the Sakura Clear Star Gelly roll pen.  Pearls were of course made with a Viva Decor pearl pen, snowflakes were included with a Christmas gift I received from a friend a couple of years ago.  The dp is Mitten Weather from Cosmo Cricket.

I am entering this card into the following:

Card Cupids - Cards with Stitching

Getting Cricky - #1 Winged Things

Color Me Creative Copics Challenge - #25 Winged Things

Creations by Gill M - #14 Anything that Flies

One Stop Crafts Challenge - #146 Anything but Square

Paper Creators Crafts - #6  All About Easels

Totally Gorjuss - #95 As You Like It

The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge - #12 Shaped Cards

Jelly Park Challenges - Diecuts and/or punches

Mami Doodles - #32 Shaped Card

Karen Middleton Christmas Fairy

Good morning everyone!  The sun is shining and we are suppose to get to 26C today, and right now there is a nice cool breeze that will hopefully keep the house from turning into a furnace.  Todays card is another gorgeous fairy from Karen Middleton - newest digital artist at Cuddly Buddly, and is entitled "Christmas Lights".

I colored her with Copics, added Irridescent Gold Twinkling H20 to the ornaments and  fairy wings, and used the Sakura Clear Star Gelly Roll Pen to accent the star bursts.  The image was diecut with Spellbinders Label 4, then layered onto one of two dp's that I used from last year's Bo Bunny Christmas line.  The yarn, flowers, brad and sentiment tag are all from my stash.

Entering this card into the following:

Aud Sentiments Challenge - #35 Anything Goes

Divas By Design - #9 Christmas in August

Flutter By Wednesdays - #168 Open

The Outlawz Copic Challenge - August 26 Anything Goes

Bunny Surprise!!

The newest digital artist at Cuddly Buddly is Karen Middleton, and she has many beautiful fairy images, but she also has some adorable animal and children images available at the store.  Cuddly Buddly also has a new blog that highlights all of the wonderful cards the Design teams create using new images, that sometimes go straight to the shopping site, and never get seen on the CB blog - check out the new blog Fabulously Crafty Friends and if you visit before the 25th of August you can enter to win some Fabulously Crafty Candy.

                           

This little cutie is "Bunny Surprise" by Karen Middleton.  I have colored the image with Copics and embellished the card front with Prima flowers and pearls made with Viva Decor Pearl pens. 

Challenges I am entering this card into:
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - ABC's
Designed 2 Delight - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss- #94 Cute and Cuddly
Patties Creations Challenge - #28 Animals or Insects
The Poodles Parlour- Anything Goes

Butterfly Wishes

Cuddly Buddly is now the home of a new digi stamp artist, Karen Middleton, and this beauty is Butterfly Wishes.  The image was colored with Copics, then I added Glitter and shimmer with Smooch , Stickles and Sakura's Clear Star gelly roll pen.  The dp's are from Kaiser Craft's Devonshire Collection, and the small yellow pearls were made with a Viva Decor pearl pen.  Lace is from Prima, the decorative corner is a Martha Stewart punch, and the sentiment is also from Karen Middleton's digital sentiment set from Cuddly Buddly.

Challenges I am entering:

Flutter By Wednesday - #166 Butterfly, Fairy or Angel

AI Factory - Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy - #14 Anything Goes

Delightful Sketches - Things with Wings

Truly Scrumptious - #63 Lace it Up

The Paper Variety - Citrus Color Challenge

Tumbling Along

Wow, it's been a busy few days and I am finally getting the chance to enter a card into some challenges!  Cuddly Buddly has a big announcement this week -

  

"We are truly honored and delighted to let you know that the experienced and highly talented coloured pencil artist, Karen Middleton has joined us and that we’ll be releasing eight beautiful illustrations from her Enchanted Wishes collection as digi stamps on Thursday 11th August."

I received Tumble Angel to play with this week and here is the finished card!!!

Isn't she just the sweetest little angel?!!!!

The image was colored with Copics and cut using my latest purchase - Spellbinders Grand Circles Nestabilities.  Love the size of the grands as they allow you to make all the elements of your card - as you can see here, even the card base was cut with them!

The design paper was from my stash and was embossed with Craft Concepts embossing folder Starry Night, and then I rubbed white ink over the embossing to highlight the stars.  Pearls from Kaiser Craft, ribbon from my stash and sparkle was added to the card using Sakura's Gelly Roll Clear Star Pen.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

The Outlawz Copic/Promarker challenge - July 22 Things with Wings

Little Darlings Challenges - #4 Girly

Simon Says Stamp - Shaped Cards

Lexi's Creations - #45 A Shaped Card

Ohh la la Creations - #85 Circles

The Crafty Pad - #131 Embossing Heat or Dry

Little Claires Designs - #11 Things with Wings

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - #13 Oh So Girly

Make sure to check out Karen Middleton's digital images at Cuddly Buddly!!