Howdy all! What a crazy and wonderful time of year, right? I’m up enjoying all the holiday festivities with my family but wanted to pop in with a card for 2CCC’s January challenge! I used Bugaboo’s Hedgie Birthday 02 to make a sweet birthday card for someone special. I used Prismacolor pencils to color this little cutie up. Here’s a closer picture:
This isn’t the only awesome image from Bugaboo Stamps either! You should head over and check out all they have to offer! Be sure to check out their Freebies and Sale page first as new images are 50% off the first week, and they post a new freebie every Friday!!! For that matter, sign up for their newsletter so you don’t miss any of their new releases or promotions! Annnnddd… don’t forget to see what the rest of the 2CCC DT has made for the challenge, and to play along with any creation you have made *with a critter*. It doesn’t have to be a Bugaboo image even though they are this month’s awesome sponsor!
Couple notes on this card… I used Pink & Main Rounded Rectangle dies for the image and sentiment. The patterned paper from The Paper Studios had glitter accents, so I added Stickles to parts of the image and added glitter epoxy dots from Pink & Main as accents.
ETA: This card was chosen as a Top Pick by Crafting Happiness!!! 
&
a Top 3 Pick by Sparkles Forum Challenge!!! 
I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
- Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenge – #4 Anything Goes
- Make My Monday Challenge – #112A – Female Birthday
- Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Party Time
- Createful Heart Design – #15 – Anything Goes – ends 1/13
- Creative Sketchy Girls – #43 – Anything Goes
- Sparkles Forum Challenges #123 – Add Glitter and Sparkle – TOP PICK!!!!
- Sweet Stampers – #39 – Anything Goes
- Lil Patch of Crafting Friends – #120 – Anything Goes
- Allsorts Challenge – #551 – Anything Goes
- Colour Crazy Craft Challenge – #50 – Anything Goes
- Creative Moments – #182 – Anything Goes
- The Paper Shelter – Anything Goes
- Crafty Sentiments Designs – Anything Goes
- Papercraft Challenges – #53 – Anything Goes
- Though the Craft Room Door – Anything Goes
- Tuesday Morning Sketches – Annual Anything Goes
- Crafting Happiness – Ribbon – TOP PICK!!!
- Double Trouble Challenge – SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing (old Hobby Lobby paper, very, very old ribbon from Oriental Trading Company, relatively new epoxy dots from Pink & Main) AND Double Trouble (linked to Crafting Happiness and created for 2CCC)
- Crafty Animals -#34 – Anything Goes
- Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper – January – Anything Goes with patterned paper
- Pearly Sparkles Challenge – #47 – Anything Goes
- The Crafting Challenge – January – A Touch of While
- Crafty Creations Challenges – #405 – Anything Goes
- World Wide Open Design Team Monthly Challenge – #12 – Anything Goes
Misplaced Mojo 
Hi, Karen! Your little cupcake hoarder is adorable done with that amazing cupcake background! Great card, and such sweetness (pun not intended LOL). I especially like that this card can be used for a child, man or woman! Fantastic! Happy New Year, Karen!
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Love the image and the paper works perfectly. Thanks for playing along with us at Crafty Animals. Lisa DT
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What a super cute image and super background papers. Thank you for joining our ‘Anything goes’ challenge at Allsorts.
Kath x
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Karen, I just love your little critter! Your card is so ‘sweet’, and someone will love receiving it! Great job!
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A real fun creation with all those cupcakes, thanks so much for sharing and joining us at Allsorts challenge.
B x
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Wonderful card. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Shelter challenge
DT Priyadarshini
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Karen, this is so cute and fun! I love that background paper you used too. Perfect for the precious image. Love your card!
Lynn
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What a beautiful and cute card. Thanks for joining in with my anything goes challenge at Allsorts.
Lynn x
DT
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So very cute!
Thank you so much for joining us at Allsorts challenge!
Ellibelle’s Corner
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my goodness, this is so adorable!
thank you so much for playing along with us at sparkles monthly!
hugs and kisses from germany,
Silvi
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This is brilliantly cute,
Thanks for sharing it with us at Creative Moments,
Hugz Tinz
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This is so adorable, Karen, and I love your coloring! The cupcake paper is such a fun choice for this card and matches the image perfectly. Great job putting all those challenges together. 😀
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Thank you for the sweet comment! Submitting to challenges is usually more time consuming than making the card, LOL! But I figure it wouldn’t hurt if it got the 2CCC challenge some exposure, or drum up more followers for my own blog. Sometimes I think the majority of people submitting to challenges are actually DT members of other challenges!!! LOL
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I just love your coloring and the fun cupcakes! Thanks for joining us and good luck with with your entry!
Hugs, Joy
Joyfully Stamps
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, Owner/Coordinator
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Cute card and love the background paper. Cute Bugaboo image and coloring. Thanks for sharing over at Colour Crazy challenge.
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Thank you so much! I appreciate to kind words!
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Your card is adorable. Great coloring. That image is so cute and is perfect for the background paper. Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
Barbara DT Member for https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/
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Thank you for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment!
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Love the cute image and great cupcake B.paper.Thank you for joining us at Jan’s Digi Stamps
Carol GDT x
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Such a loevlay and cute card.
Thank you for joining us at the Sweet Stampers and i hope to see you again.
Hugs
Kuni
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Hi Karen just popping back to say-Thank you for joining us at Pearly Sparkles
Carol dt x
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Karen, Absolutely adore your lil’ cupcake hoarder…. he is colored so divinely. The cupcake background is the icing to your creation! Thank you for sharing such a sweet creation with us at Jan’s Digi Blog Challenge! Happy Crafting! Happy New Year!
Hugs,
Jan
(Owner & Illustrator of Jan’s Digi Stamp Shop)
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Jan, you are just the sweetest!!! I’m blushing from your gracious and extravagant comment! Happy New Year to you too!
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This is so beautiful. Nice work.
Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
Annette DT / Admin / Registered Owner for https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/
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Thank you for sharing your cute card at Make My Monday!
I hope you’ll play along again when we have our next challenge.
Your Doodle Pal,
Janeen from the Make My Monday design team
You can view my blog at:
https://www.demidoodle.com
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This is adorable and the backing paper is perfect for this image. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday. Love Dawn x
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Thanks for joining us at the Crafty Creations Challenges for our latest challenge. Good luck and join us again soon. Hugs, Kathy {Crafty Creations Challenges}
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Me again. Love how you added stickles for sparkle. Thanks for joining us at Sparkles Monthly Challenge. Love Dawn x
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Sweet card! Love your cute image!
Thanks for playing along with us at Tuesday Morning Sketches!
Debbie ~ TMS DT
Debbie’s Dash of This and That
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Thank you Debbie! And I love the name of your blog!!!
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Lovely card Karen. Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
Wendy DT Member for https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/
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Lovely work. Thank you for joining Jan’s Digi Stamps challenges Hope to see you again next time.
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A sweet card. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday.
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Adorable image and great coloring…love that cupcake background paper. Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble and Crafting Happiness.
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what an adorable little guy celebrating with a cupcake! I adore the background paper with even more cupcakes and your coloring is fantastic! Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving your thoughtful comments – they made my day! Now, good luck with that snippet box in the coming year. I may have more than one myself *wink*
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I may have a couple boxes of snippets, and maybe even another box of backgrounds, mostly stenciled designs. Now, you would think it would be easy to match them up and bust out a ton of cards, but no. The backgrounds are too busy for most of the snippets, die cuts, and colored stamped images. I’m trying to think up a way to use all those backgrounds too this year! If I can pull it off, I may even make a blog series about it. I can’t be the only one who spent time experimenting and making backgrounds, then can’t figure out how to use them!
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Nothing goes together better than cupcakes and birthdays! Such a cute card.
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Adorable card and image, I love how you colored it to match the background paper perfectly! Thanks so much for joining us at Sparkles Monthly.
Tammy x
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Your coloring here is perfect. I am in awe! -Renee’
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Aw shucks, Renee’!!! That is so sweet but I promise I didn’t do anything complicated. In fact, I use Bristol paper for my coloring, which doesn’t take as many layers as paper designed for colored pencils. I find it faster though because the tooth of the paper fills up quickly. The down side is it doesn’t allow for a ton of color mixing. But that’s how I rationalize the FULL set of pencils 😁 Thank you so much for the kind words!!!
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