From the Heart Progressive Image Challenge

Good Morning.  Thank you for stopping by little area of blog land.  I appreciate the time you take to stop and see what I have been creating.

The card I have for y'all today uses an image by Faith at From the Heart.  You have your choice this month of what image you would like to use.  If you played along with the challenge in November, you should have received an email enabling you to pick which image you wanted.  If you didn't play along, you can go the From the Heart store and if you buy $10 worth of products, you can receive it for free.  The two images you have to choose from are:
                              

Aren't they cute?  The first one is Candy Cane Anneke and the second one is  For the Birds.

I chose Anneke and this is the card I created:

I decided to color her dress and hat green so that it wouldn't overpower the candy cane.  I used my Crayola colored pencils and OMS to color Anneka.  The patterned papers are from MME.  I used a Tim Holtz die to cut out three rolled ribbon flowers using pieces of the same patterned paper and a piece of the Red Recollections card stock also used on the card.  I added some leaves from my stash and a cute little bauble charm from Prima.  I added some Evergreen Stickles to the center of the roses.  All of the fur parts of Anneke's hat, dress and boots were done with Deco Art's Glistening Snow Writer.  Mine has gotten a bit thick and will no longer come out of the tip so I used a tooth pick to place it where I wanted it.  It's not quite as dimensional as I would like it, but it gives the fur quite a bit of sparkle.

I hope y'all will give From the Heart's December challenge a try.  Everyone is a winner if they play along Faith's monthly progressive challenge.

Challenge I am entering this card in:
Shopping Our Stash--Holiday/Winter
Through the Craft Room Door--anything goes
Penny's Challenges--Tic Tac Toe (I used the bottom row)

Home Sweet Home

Good evening friends.  How is everyone tonight?  I hope you had a wonderful Wednesday.  It's been quiet around here tonight.  My daughter has been at her grandma's since 2pm so I have been able to get quite alot accomplished.  Mostly cards, but a load or two of laundry and dishes were done too. :)

I have a card for y'all tonight that uses as image from Shelly's Images.  I used my Chromatix pens from American Crafts to color this one after printing it out on Neenah card stock.  I'm almost out...gotta order some.  Can't live without it.

I know it's kind of hard to see, but the swirly lines that you see are actually an acetate frame from K and Co.  It's been in my hoard stash for about a year.  One of the challenges I made this card for challenges us to use a specialty paper.  I don't really have alot of that, but I thought I would pull out one of theses frames to use.   It has beautiful purple glitter flowers in the left corner and glitter swirlies all around the frame.  I matted the frame on a piece of yellow card stock from Colorbok and a piece of DP from DCWV.  I then ran that through my Cuttlebug with a rectangle die.  I used pop dots and adhered the whole frame over the image.  I matted the whole thing on a piece of the DP from DCWV and a light blue card stock base from Colorbok.  For a final touch, I added a glittered chipboard bird from K and Co. to the bottom left corner.  I didn't think it needed any more embellishing.

Thanks for stopping by tonight to see what I have been up to.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash--#96 Not Your Normal Paper
Through the Craftroom Door--Anything Goes
Twisted Tuesday--#47  Animals and Flowers
All That Scraps--Winged Things
Divas by Design--Spring Colors
Sweet Stamps--Spring Pastels

Fairy Cup

Welcome back to Em's Thoughts.  It's so nice to be back up and posting again.  I was going stir crazy not being able to do my challenges and post my cards.  You don't realize how much you enjoy something until you don't have it.

The card I have for y'all uses a cute little fairy from Meljen.

I colored this little cutie with Chromatix pens from American Crafts.  I used a scrap piece of Gray card stock from SU that already had the scallop shape in it.  I added a piece of Clear Window Plastic under the gray to make it look kinda like a window.  I made the card base a 5" square and added a piece of light pink card stock from Recollections.  The DP and hot pink card stock are from American Crafts.  I used pop dots to add the focal image and added some hot pink gems from Queen and Co. to finish it off.

Thanks for being so patient with me while I was getting my Internet back up.  I hope y'all have a great night.  God bless

Challenges:
Avenue 613--#12 Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door--Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion--#155 Make It Cute

Kiss Me Quick

Welcome back to my blog.  I have another St. Patty's Day card for you this time.  I used an image from QKR Stampede for this one.

This little leprechaun is just too cute.  I printed out the image on Neenah card stock and colored him with Spectrum Noir pens.  I took my blender pen and going in circle, gave him some texture.   I also gave him some dark green eyes although you can't really see it in the picture.  I trimmed down the sentiment and matted it on green card stock from Recollections and used some pop dots to add it to the corner.  I added some glittery shamrocks just for interest.

I made a card base from the same green card stock and added a piece of DCWV back ground paper before adhering the image.

Thanks for stopping in for a quick visit.  I truly appreciate it.  God bless y'all.

Challenges:
QKR Stampede--#29 Show Us Some Green
TTCRD--Anything Goes
Tuesday Alchemy--#52 Anything Goes
Red Carpet Studio--#27 Leprechaun
The Pink Elephant--#190 St. Patrick's Green
The Outlawz--Monday Greeting Challenge
Simply Create Too--#32 St. Patrick's Day/Green
Party Time Tuesdays--Luck of the Irish