The Flower Challenge #48 - Reminder

 The Design Team is back with new cards to inspire you to join The Flower Challenge this month.

We are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and are using their digital images for our cards.  The winner of the challenge will receive $12 gift to their store.

I printed the sentiment when I printed the digital image which is colored with Distress Inks. 

The Design Team and our guest Lee Ann Barrett hope you will join us for this month's challenge.

The Flower Challenge #48 - Brown and Pink

 It's time for another The Flower Challenge.

This month we are sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and they are offering $12 in digital images to the winner of the challenge.  All of the designers are using their images.

I colored my image with PolyChromos pencils using Gamsol on the background only.  The panel was stamped with a sentiment from Altenew, cut with an MFT circle die, backed with fun foam and placed over the roses.

Our guest designer this month is the talented Lee Ann Barrett.  Please check out what she and the Design Team have made for our Pink and Brown challenge.

Just Us Girls #334 - Word Week

The word Nancy chose for this week's Just Us Girls challenge is

With the times we're living in there are a lot of heroes in our lives.  I don't normally have anything in my stash for this but due to the generosity of MFT, I have a digital image to use.  While a lot of doctors are putting their life on the line for patients with Covid-19, my real doctor hero is my Dad.  He was in general practice for over thirty years, after serving in WWII, going to medical school and raising a family of six children. He indulged his love of Scouting by training over 50 Eagle Scouts and attending a number of Jamborees as a leader. He also served his community and church in numerous ways.  We lost him four years ago, 5 days short of his 100th birthday.

I'm too technically challenged to be able to manipulate the image so I just printed it out from the PDF.  I'm also not that good with fussy cutting so I just cut the doctor with a stitched rectangle.  This is the third one I did trying out different coloring mediums and papers, settling on Neenah #80 colored with PolyChromos pencils and Gamsol.  The background, including the sentiment, cut was stenciled with brick from MFT.

Who is your hero?  The Design Team and our guest designer Deborah Frings would love to see your hero cards.  Won't you join them and our guest designer in this challenge.

The Flower Challenge #43 - Reminder

There's still time to make a card for The Flower Challenge. 

Our sponsor is Bugaboo and I'm using the same digital image they gave me for this reminder, sizing it differently.

The panel was cut with a scalloped oval from MFT and colored the teapot with Inktense pencils.   It's placed on some Summer Sunrise cardstock (appropriate for the theme don't you think?) that was embossed with Seeing Spots.  I decided to forego a sentiment.

Why not check out the our guest designer Trina Pham and the rest of the Design Team's cards for inspiration and make a card for this challenge.  You could win a $12 gift card to the Bugaboo digital store.

The Flower Challenge #43

This month The Flower Challenge wants you to make cards with this theme.

 

Bugaboo Stamps is our sponsor for this challenge and I painted this digital image from them in Spring colors.

I sized and printed the image on lightweight Mixed Media paper and painted it with Distress Inks.  When dry I cut the panel with a rounded corner rectangle die from Hero Arts and put it on some SSS lavender cardstock. 

Our guest designer is Trina from Phamstastic Designs.  She and the rest of the Design Team have cards for your inspiration using Bugaboo Stamps images.  If you are the winner of the challenge, you will receive $12 gift code to their store.

The Flower Challenge #42 - Reminder

The month is half over and it's time for The Flower Challenge reminder.  We hope you have already made your card but if not here is the theme.

That should make it easier for you.  Our sponsor is our very own Rachel Vass with her wonderful digital images that she is offering as a prize to the winner.  I chose the peony bouquet and for this card I zoomed in.

I colored with Distress Ink, added a sentiment from MFT and placed it on some Raspberry Fizz cardstock.

Please check out what the Design Team has made for inspiration.

The Flower Challenge #40 - Reminder

There's still time to make a card for our current The Flower Challenge:

We are sponsored by Alex Syberia and she has furnished me with another one of her wonderful digital images and will be awarding the winner of this challenge two digital images.  She is also guest designing with us.  You can see her images on her Etsy site but you should also check out her blog.

I have seen designers paint with Brushos and I wanted to try it so I did the background using black.  The Spring Bouquet is colored with Zigs and Distress Inks.  I cut two MFT ovals, scoring the top of one and using Scor-tape to attach it to the other.  A little cut on the bottom lets it stand.

The Design Team and I are hoping to see your shaped card in our gallery.

The Flower Challenge #40

It's the beginning of a new year and there's a new The Flower Challenge.

This is not my favorite thing to do and if not asked I will never make a shaped card.  But asked I was so here's what I did.

Alex Syberia is our guest designer and also our sponsor.  She gifted me with this lovely lupine digital image that I watercolored with Zigs and cut using an MFT die.  I chose this digital because my Mom loved lupines and had a book called Miss Rumphius that she liked to share with the children at church.  She was also a prayer warrior so I thought the sentiment fit.

Alex will be giving two of her gorgeous digital images to our winner.  If you haven't checked out her Etsy site you should.  Also take a look at what the Design Team has made.  There's so much to inspire you to make a card for this challenge.

The Design Team is showing off their favorite cards from 2019.  You'll want to check out their blogs to see them.  Many thanks go to Viv for making the collages for us.

Just Us Girls #472 - Photo Week

As our hostess, Nancy picked this for photo week at Just Us Girls.

She doesn't know what she put me through because I don't have any of these stamped images.  Never one to give up, I searched for free clip art to make my card.  I'm telling you this so you know you can do the same if you don't have any stamps that work for the challenge.

I printed it on Mixed Media paper and did a little coloring with both Distress Inks and PolyChromos pencils.  I wanted it to look like an old photo so I inked the edged and ran my Clarity brush over the oval to give it an aged look.  I couldn't decide what to do so I left off the sentiment.

I hope the images don't stop you from entering a card in our gallery.  The Design Team and our illustrious guests, Janet and Cindy have inspiration for you over on the blog if you get stuck.  Don't miss a chance to be Chic of the Week and a guest designer.

Addicted to CAS #119

Doni is our host at Addicted to CAS this week and she chose the code word

I had to resort to a digital image for my apples since I didn't have any stamps.

I colored the image with Zigs and computer generated the sentiment.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Create a Smile.  They are offering a $15 gift certificate to their store.  In order to win you need to make a Clean and Simple card and link it up to the gallery.  Need some inspiration?  Check out what the Design Team have made to inspire you.

Addicted to CAS #115

NOTE:  If you saw this before it was because I scheduled it on the wrong date.

Ceal is the host for Addicted to CAS and she chose the word 'Summer'.

This time I had to resort to a digital image for my card but I love it!

Making s'mores is the epitome of summer to me.  A campfire, roasted marshmallows, a box of graham crackers and wonderful chocolate bars. Yummy yummy come down to my tummy.  Distress Inks were used to color my image and the sentiment is computer generated.

The rest of the Design Team have summer cards waiting to inspire you.  The winner of this challenge will get a $15 gift certificate from Create a Smile.

We hope to see you in the gallery.

Merry Monday #249

I did it!  My very first digi image.  I wasn't sure if my printer ink would work and not smear but it did fine as you can see by this mistletoe that I did for Merry Monday.

I printed it on light weight multi-media paper so it would go through my printer and I could watercolor it with Distress Ink.  The sentiment is from My Craft Spot (closed).

Thanks for dropping by.

Owl Sketch

I have a whole library of digital images that I got from pcCrafter years ago.  While looking for something else, I ran across this owl picture.  I printed it up, not knowing quite what I'd do with it until the Sweet Sunday sketch came along.  It was a perfect fit.

Isn't he just the cutest?  The background paper is from Lost and Found by My Mind's Eye, the basket weave from a DCWV picture stack and the polka dot from who know's where.  I have a lot of the "who knows where" paper.  I've picked up pieces in a variety of stores and they are not always labeled on the paper.

Sometimes when I am finished with a card I see things I might change if I were to do it again.  The polka dot behind the image for example.  It blends in too much with the horizontal piece but I didn't want to use the blue as the vertical strip.  Ooops, as I previewed this I realized I should have put the polka dot behind the basketweave.  That probably would make a big difference.  If I can take it apart, I will.  I could have used a darker blue circle but it's done now and it's not bad, just not great.  And I haven't decided what sentiment will go inside.  Get well maybe?  He looks like he needs a good rest.

Freshly Made #12

This is a quick card I wanted to do to get in on the Freshly Made challenge.  It was soooo easy.  Here's their sketch.  You can tell just by looking at it that it would be an easy sketch to follow.  The decision is what "kind" of card.

I looked through my collection of digital images from pcCrafter and fell in love with this snowman.  Plus I won some stamps from My Craft Spot called "Winter Wonderland" a couple of weeks ago and this gave me a chance to use them.

The background paper is from the first Christmas stack I ever bought and I need to use it up ; ).  I ran the strip of white through the Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folder leaving a space for the sentiment.  On the sketch it was on the bottom but I didn't think it would show up on the printed paper.  I hand cut the snowman image and popped him up on dimensionals.  So there you have it - freshly made.

Pretty in Pink

I've been adding digital images to my cards this week and having fun going through the ones I have.  I found a set of girlie ones and thought they'd look good on the Mojo Monday sketch.

I turned the sketch on it's side to make my card which is 5 1/8 by 7.

The images are from pcCrafter from a set called "Pretty in Pink" by Carol Halm and come already colored.  I cut the scalloped frames with my Cricut but don't remember what cartridge.  I don't really like to add big bows to my cards so decided to use the glove instead.  It was from the set so the colors matched as did the corner piece.  I inked the edges of all the pieces to fit in with the coloring on the large picture and popped them up with dimensionals, all except the corner piece and brown strip.  I'm really loving this card.