DS4J Progressive Christmas Challenge

Hello there.  Welcome to my blog.  Today's post features the freebie from Digital Stamps 4 Joy.  This is a progressive challenge.  Each month, as long as you play along, you will receive a new Christmas image.  This allows you to get a jump start on those cards for next year.  This month's is a beautiful candle.  I followed the Feeling Sketchy #77 challenge to create the card.

I printed out the candle and then used Crayola's and Sakura pens to color it in.  I found that cute poinsettia in my stash and had to use it.

Thanks so much for coming to see me today.  Make sure to hop on over to DS4J and play along.  Have a wonderful day and God bless y'all.

Recipe:
Stamp: DS4J Freebie Progressive Image
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Sakura Gel Pens
Cardstock: Recollections, Darice
Paper: DCWV
Embellishments: Poinsettia-K&Co
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, ATG Gun

Freedom isn't Free!!

Welcome to my second post of the evening...only three more to go..:)

The image for this card is a beaut from The Paper Shelter.  The challenge this week is Buttons or Brads.  I chose brads.

Aint' she just too dang cute?  I wonder who she is waiting for?  Maybe her daddy, her brother, uncle, boyfriend...someone coming home from serving a tour overseas with the military?  Who knows.

She's printed on Neenah white card stock and colored with colored pencils.  The back ground of the image is done with chalks.  The card stock for this card is all from Colorbok.  The DP is DCWV Boyhood stack.  I followed the Feeling Sketchy sketch for this week to make this card.  I used Fiskars Shape Cutter to make the circle and a Fiskars Scalloped border punch for the bottom layer.  After matting the image, I used my new Tonic Retractable pick to make the holes for the Recollections Black brads.  I hand wrote the sentiment and inked it with DI Vintage Photo.  The image is inked with DI Vintage Photo too and then popped up on the card.

Thanks so much for hanging with me.  I appreciate it. God bless you.

Challenges:
Feeling Sketchy--#64 
The Paper Shelter--#118  Buttons and/or Brads
Penny's Paper Crafty--#133 For the Girls
TTCRD--Anything Goes

2 Chronicles 15:7

Welcome back to my blog where creative things happen.  I've been pretty creative today.  It's been dreary and with nothing on the schedule for a change, I got to play.

I have a card that uses a Dearie Dolls image.  That is one talented lady, that Mary Ellen is.  She creates the cutest images.

To begin, I printed out the image and sentiment on Neenah card stock and used BIC markers to color in the image.  I used some glitter gel pens in green and purple to color in the butterflies.  

The card base is Old Olive (SU).  I used a Nestabilities circle die to cut out the image and sentiment.  I matted the image onto a square of Old Olive card stock.  The DP is from Cardmaking Magazine and was a freebie.  The green striped DP and the purple card stock are from my stash.

That's it.  How simple was that right?  Thanks for stopping in today.  God bless y'all

Challenges:
Feeling Sketchy--#54
My Time to Craft#217  In the Sky

Love at Easter

Welcome back.  Thanks for taking a peek at my card. I know that Easter is over, but I can add this to my stash for next year.

The image is a freebie from Paper Craft World.  I used Chromatix pens to color in this little cutie.

After coloring him, I cut him out with my Cutterbees.  I made a 5" square card base from SU Old Olive card stock.  The DPs are from GTD and I got them at Tuesday Morning for $1.99.  Told y'all I loved that store.  I followed a sketch from Feeling Sketchy to make this card.  I matted the polka dot panels on Old Olive just to give them a bit of separation from the back ground.  I had the sentiment in my stash from a long time ago and I think it came from Studio G.  I used Versa Magic Spanish Olive to stamp it.

Thanks again for stopping in.  Have a wonderful night.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
My Papercrafting--Dessert Fridaze 
Feeling Sketchy--#53
Red Carpet Studio--#30

Sassy

Hey there.  Thanks for dropping in.  I have a card that uses one of my favorite designers, Kenny K.  I love his images.  They are so sassy..

I printed out this sassy chic on Neenah and used my colored pencils to give her some life.  I haven't been using my pencils lately because I'm trying to get better with my alcohol markers, but pencils are still my favorite.  I decided on an orange and blue combo. I like that springy look of these two colors together.  I made a 6" square card base from a beautiful blue Colorbok card stock.  The DP is from DCWV and it fit perfectly with the colors in the image.  I matted the corner triangles on a turquoise card stock from Recollections so that they two papers wouldn't mesh together.  The image is matted on an orange panel from Recollections.  All the flowers are Prima and the brads are from my stash.

I hope y'all liked what you saw today.  Have a wonderful Good Friday evening.  We are having a special service at church and my husband is singing.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Kenny's Krafty Krew--#136 Anything Goes
Feeling Sketchy#52

Feeling Sketchy #49

Thanks for coming back.  I know I have to find another way of posting all these cards so that you guys aren't sitting here for an hour.  I get into my mojo groove and forget about everything else except making cards.  Oh well, maybe one day I will find a better system.

The card I have for you uses this weeks sketch from Feeling Sketchy.

This cute little owl is one of the first free digis I ever downloaded.  At that time, I wasn't keeping track of who designed them.  If anyone knows whose image this is, please let me know so that I can give proper credit.  

I colored this image with Chromatix pens after printing it off on Neenah card stock.  I made the card base from SU Chocolate Chip and it measures 5" square.  The DP is from American Crafts and is cut 1/4th inch smaller than the card base.  I used a piece of mottled green DP from DCWV for the large diamond shape.  I ran it through the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and because the DP was thin, it embossed very deeply and really gave it the look of a tree.  I used a scalloped rectangle for the brown panel.  I used my Nestabilities to cut out the squares.  

After coloring the image, I inked it with DI Vintage Photo and added it to the center of the card.  I stamped this cute greeting from Studio G with Versafine Onyx Black ink, trimmed it, inked the edges and matted it on a small panel of Chocolate Chip CS.  I used pop dots to add the sentiment.

To finish up the card, I added tons of gems from Queen and Co.

Thanks for stopping in tonight/today.  I hope you enjoy this little card.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:

Feeling Sketchy--#49

Flower Pot

Welcome back for another card.  I'm so glad you stopped in.  I hope you enjoy our visit today.

The card I have for you starts with an image from Imagine That.  

Imagine That has started a new progressive challenge on their blog.  You receive this image for free and as long as you make a card using the image, you will get the next one free as well.  I love this image.  It was a little difficult to color because there are some really small areas, but it came out pretty well.  I used colored pencils on this one.  

I don't know why the background looks so spotted and yellow because it isn't that way.  I started with a Brown card base that measures 6x6.  The background paper is from DCWV and measures 5 7/8" square.  I inked the edges of it with DI Vintage Photo.  I then cut a panel of SEI DP and one from DCWV into 4" squares and then cut them in half diagonally.  I layered them in a pinwheel shape and after cutting out my focal image using my circle cutter, I inked the edges with Vintage Photo and placed it in the center of the card.  I added a sentiment from Doodle Pantry and some square gems in the three remaining corners.

Thanks for stoppin' by y'all.  I hope y'all have a great day!  God bless.

Challenges:

Imagine That--Progressive Challenge #1

Feeling Sketchy--#47

Feeling Sketchy #44

Howdy folks.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I have a nice springy card for y'all today.

I decided to use shades of green for this card.  I am so waiting to see the first signs of Spring.  I guess we will know for sure tomorrow if it's coming or if we have to suffer through six more weeks of this cold stuff.  If Phil sees his shadow tomorrow I swear I'm going to shoot that little groundhog.  It's all fun and games, but what people don't realize is that groundhogs are blind.  He isn't going to see his shadow at all.  Oh well, such is life.

I started with a SU Crumb Cake base.  I used a Happy Birthday Embossing Folder on a piece of Glitter Green card stock from DCWV.  I used two strips of DP from Gina K Designs Wisteria Lane paper pack.  I used my Cuttlebug and die cut a scalloped circle to put behind the little girl (Provo Craft).  The sentiment is from TCP.  I stamped it in Memento Bamboo Leaves and inked the edges with DI Vintage Photo.  The little birthday cake is from a swap that I was in a couple years ago.    I used pop dots on the girl and the cake.

Thanks for stoppin' in today and I hope y'all enjoy your weekend.  God bless ya!

Challenges Entered:

Feeling Sketchy--#44

Through the Craftroom Door--anything goes

Have a Very Mice Day

OK.  I have to admit that I am addicted.  I have it bad.  What am I addicted to?  House Mouse Stamps.   I just love them.  They are so dang cute. I have right around 10 of them and cannot wait to collect more.  I think I need a 12 step program.

This week over on Feeling Sketchy they have a very clean lined sketch for us.  There wasn't much interpreting to be done with this one.  I used one of my House Mouse stamps for this one. 

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black and used colored pencils as my medium.  I am still learning to color with the alcohol pens so I usually rely on my good old trusty pencils.  I trimmed down the image to 3.5x5", matted it on a light pink and then a dark green, all by Colorbok.  I used a strip of pink and green striped DP from DCWV to go across the image and pop the sentiment.  I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black and matted it the same way.  The back ground DP is also from DCWV.  I used a piece of Bubblegum Pink from Colorbok as the card base.  I wanted this one to be fairly straight forward, so I didn't add embellishments.  I probably could have added some pearls to the corners, but I didn't.

I am also entering this card in the Created with Love anything goes challenge and the Outlawz CAS challenge for this week, and the Through the Craftroom Door challenge.

I hope you are enjoying my projects.  I am so thankful that I can once again craft.  Thank you so much for stopping in and the comments that you guys leave.  You have no idea how much I enjoy reading them.  God bless y'all.

Blissful Day

Howdy!  Hope everyone had a great day today.  I did.  I had some quiet time this evening while my mother in law took my daughter and her cousin to Disney on Ice 100th Year Anniversary show.  I was able to do some card making while listening to a James Patterson book on CD.  I love my quiet time.

This card is a 6x6 square card.   The little mouse image is from Beary Wishes.  I colored it with my colored pencils and OMS.  I added some glitter gel pen to the roses and the little flower on the mouse and the swirls on the cup. I trimmed the image to slightly less than 4x4 and matted it on a 4.25x4.25  tan piece of card stock.  The background is made from strips of rose patterned paper cut to  1" and matted on strips of brown card stock cut to 1 1/8".  I staggered them according to a sketch from Feeling Sketchy.  I printed off the sentiment and trimmed it down, matted it on the tan card stock and placed it in the bottom right hand side.  I used pop dots for the focal image.  I inked the edges of the focal image and sentiment with Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink. I used a dark red card stock from Colorbok for the card base.  To finish off the card, I added some ruby red pearls to the top right and bottom left corners.

I am entering this card into the Feeling Sketchy #42 challenge for this week.  I just recently found this site and this is the first time I am entering one of my cards. I am also entering this one in the Through the Craft Room Door challenge for this week..Anything Goes.

Thank you for stopping in today.  I hope you have a great weekend.  God bless  you.