Digi Darla Mondays

Good morning friends.  Today is Kierstynne's first day of school.  Busy, busy.  We have a back to school meeting at noon so I'm posting early.

This week at Digi Darla our challenge is "Anything Goes with a Twist--use a digi stamp, bow, and at least one butterfly."  

I cheated a bit and used a paper that had bows on it. The digi is called Summerfly Flowers.  I colored them with Chromatix Alcohol Pens and added some Sakura Clear Star pen.  I stamped the sentiment from a set of words from The Paper Studio.  I love this sentiment set because you can create your own phrases and there are words for every occasion.  

The card base is standard A2 size and is SU Old Olive. I found that beautiful flowered paper in my stash and thought it worked beautiful for this card.  I matted the image onto the same Old Olive card stock and used pop dots to adhere it to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  I hope to see some of your creations entered into our challenge this week.  Have a great Monday and God bless.

Fridays with QKR Stampede

Welcome back for another Friday challenge with QKR Stampede.  Our challenge this week is "Anything Goes".  Oh the possibilities.

For my card, I chose to use Digi #8206 Spicy Pepper and Digi #8205 Hot Pepper.  

I began by printing off my images onto Neenah card stock and coloring them with colored pencils and OMS.  I fussy cut them out and used pop dots to add them to the card.  The card base is Recollections Red. I used some papers from my stash and matted them all onto Black Recollections card stock.  I printed out the sentiment from my Word Processing program and matted that onto some black card stock as well.  I added a bit of Sakura Clear Star to the rose and drew three hearts in each corner.

I hope y'all will join us this week for this easy but fun challenge.  The prize??   2 digi stamps from the store, but if you use a QKR image, you will get to pick 5.

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful weekend.  God bless y'all.

Something Old

Thanks for stopping back in peeps.  I sure do appreciate it.  

The card I have for y'all this time uses a stamp from The Stamp Man Nautical set.  I used Memento Espresso Truffle ink to stamp it and DI Vintage Photo to edge it.

I wanted the image to have a distressed, old look so after edging the image with Vintage Photo, I added some ink to the image itself.  I matted it on a nice Gray from SU.  The DPs are from DCWV and have script and postal images in a distressed form.  I matted the DP on Very Vanilla (SU) and the whole thing is on a Gray (SU) card base.  That's it...no gems, pearls or bling.  I wanted a CAS manly card for this one.

Thanks again y'all.  Have a great day!  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
The Pink Elephant--#192  CAS
Anything Goes--#89 Mail It
Party Time Tuesday--#113-- Anything Goes

Celebrate

Welcome to my blog today.  I hope you enjoy what you see.

The card I have for y'all today uses a set of stamps from The Stamp Man called Aspects of Design 2-Nautical.  This is the first set of stamps I have used by this designer and they leave a really crisp impression.

I don't do alot of manly cards, so sometimes I have a hard time deciding what to do, but not this time.  I knew I had the perfect stamp set for a manly card.

I began with a vanilla card stock base from Colorbok. The base measures 6" x 6".  I added a DP panel from Colorbok and a strip of DP from DCWV My Guy pack.  I stamped the images on GP White card stock  with Memento Espresso Truffle and inked them heavily with DI Vintage Photo.  I matted them onto Chocolate Chip card stock from SU.  I die cut an Olive Green (SU) circle and cut off the bottom portion of it and adhered it over top of the other elements.  I cut out the ship after coloring it with ShinHan Art marker CG 0.5 Cool Grey, Copic YR27 Tuscan Orange and Chromatix Apricot 3.  The sentiment is from Fiskars Make a Wish set and is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  I added three green buttons from my stash to the patterned strip to finish off the card.

Thanks for looking at my creation.  God Bless y'all.

Challenges:
Anything Goes--#87 Make it Manly
Digital Tuesday --#199 Birthdays
Divas by Design--Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday--#258 Something Old
Daring Cardmakers--March Color Combo