Challenge #98 at Digi Darla

Happy Monday!  Can you believe we are three weeks into the New Year already?  Man, I think this year is going to go as fast as 2013.  Either I'm getting older or time is going faster.  I'm voting for time. :)

This week our challenge at Digi Darla is an "ABC Challenge".  Your job is to pick a letter and use that as the muse for your project.  I chose the letter B.

Recipe:
Stamp: Natural Beauty by Digi Darla
Sentiment: mine
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol
Papers: DCWV
Cardstock: Recollections
Flowers: The Paper Studio
Tools: Fiskars Trimmer, ATG Gun, Pop Dots

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope y'all have a great day and God bless!

Sassy Studio Designs Challenge

Hi there.  This is my last post for the day.  My fingers are getting tired. :).  This tag is for the Sassy Studio Design challenge on Facebook. Since PCP closed, they moved their challenges over to FB.

The theme of the challenge is FOLDS.  This can be in the folds of the her dress, a fancy fold card, etc. You can request the free image, Katniss Girl of Fire Sassy by emailing Jackie at ssdpcp (at) gmail (dot)com.   Once you complete your card, you will upload it to the FB page.

I used the "folds" of her dress for this tag.  I really like the gradient effect of her dress.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all have a wonderful day.  God bless!

Recipe:
Stamp: Katniss Girl of Fire by SSD
Sentiment: Printed on my computer
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Sakura Glitter Gel Pen in Clear Star
Inks: Distressed Inks in Wild Honey, Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot;  Stampin' Up Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie, Sunflower Yellow
Cardstock:  Shipping Tag from Staples
Embellishments: Pearls--Queen and Co., Flourish: My Stash, Ribbon: My Stash
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, Cutterbee Scissors, water, Pop Dots, Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive

Also, there is a new challenge blog in town.  Mod Squad Challenges.  This blog is run by the team from Gina K designs.  Each Wednesday there will be a new challenge with lots of great prizes.  Each month, you have a chance to win a $50 gift certificate for Gina K.  Oh yeah, I am so down with that.  I love Gina K.  The first challenge for this blog is "A Few of My Favorite Things".  You are required to use at least 3 of Cat's favorite things on your project.  I chose Pearls, Distressed Edges and Ribbon.

Entering into:
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges--Anything Goes
Mod Squad Challenges--A Few of My Favorite Things
Creative Moments--Anything Goes

Melonheadz Friends Challenge

Good Morning, friends.  I hope y'all had a great weekend.  Thank you for joining me for the first challenge of the new year at Melonheadz Friends. We have a great challenge for y'all this fortnight. Birthdays..who doesn't need cards for that occasion all the time.

I chose the "50's Bundle" to make my card.  I remember when I was a girl, my grandmother made me a poodle skirt.  I loved it and it was black and pink just like this one.  I even had saddle shoes. This bundle comes with those cute little records.  I added the name of some of the songs that were popular in the 50's.

Recipe:
Stamps: Melonheadz 50's Bundle
Sentiment: mine  (inside says: You were born)
Coloring Medium: Crayola Colored Pencils, Gamsol
Paper: The Paper Studio
Cardstock: Recollections, GP White
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, Cutterbee scissors, Sakura White Gel Pen, Zig Millennium black pen, ATG Gun, pop dots

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope y'all have a fantastic Monday.  God bless!

A Girlie Card

Welcome to my blog.  Today's card is going to be entered into three different challenges.  The first challenge, QKR Stampede, is Soft Pastels. The second challenge, Love to Create, is an Anything Goes challenge with a sentiment. The third challenge, Stamping for the Weekend, is for Something Girlie.  I love the shabby chic look even though I am not that good at creating it.  So, for this card, I just started adding elements without really spending too much time arguing with myself over them.  This is how it turned out....

To make this card, I started with a Whisper White (SU) card base A2 size.  I trimmed down a piece of pink card stock from Recollections to 4"x5.25".  I adhered that to the card base.  I found two pieces of DP from Kand Co. that I liked and cut them down to 2" wide.  For the lighter pink, I shortened it to 5" and the darker pink to 4.5".  I notched the ends of each one for a banner effect. I then inked them both with DI Vintage Photo and adhered them to the card.  I took a piece of white lace and using glue dots, I scrunched it up across the card.  To hide the raw edge of the lace I used a punched strip of green card stock from Recollections. I used pop dots on the top edge of the strip to even out both sides.  I punched a piece of White (GP) card stock into an oval and using pop dots added this sweet little vintage girl that I received in a swap a couple years ago.  I then used pop dots to adhere the whole thing to the card.  In the upper right hand corner I added a paper heart inked with DI Vintage Photo and three paper flowers from Recollections.  The sentiment is from TCP's Faith Greetings stamps set.  It is stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa and inked with DI Vintage Photo.  I added the sentiment on an angle with pop dots.

I like the way this card turned out.  Kinda vintage, kinda shabby but still pretty clean.  I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by.  Keep tuned in for some more creations and my first post for Digi Darla.  God bless you.

Berry Sweet

Boy, I can't wait for summer.  Not for the heat or the swimming or even laying out in the sun.  I want strawberries.  Nice, big, juicy, pick 'em yourself strawberries.  Every year my daughter and my MIL spend the day together picking strawberries at a local farm.  I think Kierstynne eats just as many as she puts in the basket.  I always send extra money for my MIL to put in the donation jar to cover what Kierstynne eats.  There is nothing better than straight off the vine, fresh strawberries.  My MIL makes jam from them, I freeze some for Strawberry Shortcake later on in the year, and of course, we eat some of them that day.  Nothing can beat it.

When I saw the inspirational challenge over on The Pink Elephant, I knew just what kind of card to make.  Yep, you guessed it.  A card featuring strawberries.

I used a cute stamp set from Fiskar's called Fresh Fruit.  It has quite a few fruit images as well as cute sentiments.  I used the strawberry image and stamped it out on GP White card stock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I also stamped the images on the back of a piece of White Mulberry Paper and a piece of Chocolate Mulberry paper.  I colored in the strawberries with my BIC markers.  I fussy cut all the images out.  Using a glue dot I adhered the mulberry "chocolate" to the strawberries and used a white gel pen and a brown BIC marker to draw drizzles on the chocolate.   I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black and matted it on a piece of pink card stock and notched out the ends to form a banner.

The background patterned paper is from DCWV and had all the colors I was looking for in it.  I pulled out a scrap of brown script paper and a piece of dark red plaid paper that looked like a basket pattern.  I cut them down to size and adhered them to the center.  Using pop dots, I added the strawberries and the sentiment.

Those "chocolate covered strawberries" look good enough to eat.  I can taste them now.  I hope strawberry pickin' time gets here soon.

Thanks again for stoppin' in.  Have a truly blessed day.