Aloha Friday Challenge #40 - Mid Inspiration

Happy Aloha Friday!

I hope you all had a great week!  Today it's time to welcome the other Bees from their vacation, yay! We're all sharing our Mid-inspirations for Kitty Bee Designs' current Valentine/Love challenge happening at the Aloha Friday Challenge blog.  We hope you've had a chance to add your links to your projects, but if you haven't you still have some time.  The challenge ends next Friday at 5 am HST.  Here is a reminder of the details:

Aloha Friday Challenge #40

VALENTINE/LOVE

Ends, Friday, Feb 13, 2015 at 5 am HST

Sponsor: 2 Cute Ink

Make sure to stop by the KBD Aloha Friday Challenge blog to see the other inspirations by my teammates.

I'm using the same image from last week, BEE Happy, which is the January Freebie from 2 Cute Ink. I had printed her off twice because I wasn't too sure if I would like using the Wink of Stella glitter brush pens as much, but in the end I did.  I did a similar color job on this bee and then decided to add a little more "fun" to this card.

"Fun" as in "fun-cutting" instead of fussy cutting.  (hahaha!)  I chose a pretty patterned paper from my stash and printed off another cheesy sentiment.  Instead of the usually banner I probably would have done I decided to go in a diagonal manner with the placement.  Another fun add.  I think my mom can add this one to her stash if she hasn't already given it away.  This bee makes me smile.

Don't forget you have a week to link up your project to the current challenge.  It ends a week from today.  This is the perfect challenge to stock up on these types of cards and you'll have them out before the big day!  Have a great Aloha Friday and a fun crafty weekend!!

Aloha Friday Challenge #40

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

Today starts a brand new challenge over at the Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge blog.  It's the first challenge back for the Bees after a long hiatus.  We've had a nice long rest and are definitely excited to be back.  We hope you'll join us for the the next two weeks, here are the details for this challenge:

KBD Aloha Friday Challenge #38 

VALENTINE/LOVE

Ends, Friday 2/13/15, 5am Hawaii Time

Sponsor: 2 Cute Ink

We're super excited to have one of our favorite stamp companies, 2 Cute Ink, sponsoring this challenge so you definitely don't want to miss out on submitting your project.  If you need some inspiration, make sure to stop over to the challenge blog to check out Shirl's & Tania's adorable cards featuring some 2 Cute Ink images.  If you are a part of the 2 Cute Ink mailing list you will know that they give freebies out every month.  I thought the freebie for January was perfect for this challenge so I picked it for my inspiration card...

I know my card is pretty CAS but there is a little bit of a sparkle to it that I love!  I only used 3 Copic markers to color her (shadow on her wings, her bow and her face) and the rest was colored with a couple of my Wink of Stella glitter brush pens.  I picked up the yellow and black at the Crafter's Companion warehouse sale last November and have since added a green and gold to my collection. They are pretty fun to use when you don't want to color.  At first I didn't think I'd need the other colors, but it worked out well here.   I went with a pretty cheesy sentiment, yep I just couldn't help it!  hahaha!  Here's some sparkle before I sign off...

BEE Happy - 2 Cute Ink

Now this should be a fairly easy challenge for everyone as there are so many ways to play this one out.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Have a great day and a happy crafty weekend!

Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge #38 Reminder

Hello and Happy Aloha Friday!

I'm popping in today to not only share my latest Christmas card but to remind you that you have another week left to link up your creation(s) for our current challenge over at the Aloha Friday Challenges at Kitty Bee Designs:

CHALLENGE #38

UNUSUAL COLORED CHRISTMAS

**Create a Christmas card or project using non-traditional Christmas colors (Red & Green)

Challenge closes Friday, Dec. 19th and winners will be posted on Sunday, Dec 21st.

Our amazing sponsor for this challenge is:

Make sure to stop by the blog to see the details and leave some love for my teammies, they really have outdone themselves again.  Here is the card I am sharing today...

If you saw my spotlight last Monday you'll recognize this layout and these colors.  Here's a little secret, I turned out three cards using the same layout, paper pad and dies all in the same evening.  It was actually a lot of fun and so easy to complete 3 cards all at the same time.  I picked which Kitty Bee image to use, in this case, Pup with bone (retired), used minimal coloring and in no time at all I had 3 cards to add to my completed list.  I love this layout so much I might use it for all my Christmas cards, just gonna change up the image, patterned papers and colors.

I guess the trick is to pick your layout, papers, image (optional), colors and then make an assembly line and you too can have some quick cards done up in a few hours.  The cool thing about this card is that I can take off the tag and add it to a gift bag if I wanted to and still be able to add something to the card base.  I think I'll keep it as is.  No need to ruin a good thing.  :)

Alrighty then, if you haven't had a chance to link up, go HERE so that we can come over to ohhh and ahhh.  Remember you have until next week Friday to participate in our last challenge for 2014.  I want to thank those of you who have been our loyal challengers for 2014.  You are all so awesome and we appreciate you!!   We'll see you back in 2015.

Mahalo for stopping by today.  Have a terrific Aloha Friday!

Hugs,
Leanne for Kitty Bee Designs
Team Bees - Aloha Friday Challenges

Aloha Friday Challenge #28 - Favorite Color Combo

Happy Aloha Friday everyone!

You know what that means... A new and fun Aloha Friday Challenge with Kitty Bee Designs!!  Here's the challenge for the next two weeks:

Challenge #28

Favorite color combo

We are sponsored by the awesome Megan K. Suarez aka:

Stop by the challenge blog to see the awesome projects from my teammates using either a Dilly Beans digi or a Kitty Bee Designs image.  We were lucky enough to receive a few images to play with.  I actually grabbed this one when it was a freebie and loved it right off the bat.  Here is Elly Framed and my color combo is anything with black or brown and in this case it was the colors of the rainbow...

I printed a panel of the same image and colored them up with Copic markers.  Afterwards I matted them to a black panel.  I found some really cool paper from a Colorbok stack which became the backdrop.  I normally don't color the eyes with red, but I've seen so many in blogland that I had to try it and ya know, I really love how it turned out.  Especially with the gradient of orange and yellow.  I tried to do that with the blue and greens but it doesn't stand out as much.  Still love how they all turned out. ^.^

I think I used a lot of markers I haven't used in a long time which was great, because some of them had dried up ink. Boo!!  I'll have to go through them all just to see which ones I need to refill.  I do not relish that task. hahaha! Anyhoos, we hope you'll join us for this super easy challenge.  Have a happy Aloha Friday and a great weekend!!  Mahalo for stopping by!!