Waiting for Spring

Digital Delights Delightful Thursday!

 

Getting ready for Christmas. This little birdhouse is vacant, waiting for Spring!

 

 

 

Recipe

 

Christmas Birdhouse Digital Stamp

Church Accessories Set

Christmas Hugs Sentiment Set

Prismacolor Markers

Stickles

Glossy Accents

Distress Inks in Barn Door (for the banner)

and Broken China (for the Sky)

Forest Moss (on holly leaves)

Paper by The Paper Studio

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 



Vintage Birthday with Luna Girl

 

Crafting By Designs Sponsor this week is

Lunagirl Moonbeams

 

The challenge is

 

Anything Goes with a Luna Girl Birthday Twist

 

 

Using this image made for a quick and easy card.

 

Recipe

 

Luna Girl Image from Victorian Birthday Greetings Collage Set

CTMH B&T (from my stash at least 8 years old!)

Stickles

Offray Ribbon, melted with  my heat tool

Heavy Duty Thread and my Singer

Gems from Hobby Lobby

 

Enjoy the holiday...Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

 

Snow Bird Card

 

It's Tuesday, which means Tuesday Throwdown's latest challenge is ready for you.

 

The theme is

Snow Birds

 

Our sponsor is

 

I printed my bird as large as an A2 envelope would accommodate. I then colored him by making a mask out of computer paper, cutting it up, using temporary adhesive, and sponging him with Distress Inks. I then used a stamp from CTMH to give him a herringbone grey finish.

 

 

But

 

When I left the Card Club meeting Saturday, it was sprinkling, and since he was Distress Inked, the ink took on the pattern of the rain...too cool!

Stickles and Glossy Accents finished his face.

 

The inside of the card says,

 

"Fun".

He was.

I hope you take a moment to enter our challenge with a  birdie card. Any bird will do.

Happy Thanksgiving,

 

A Magical Castle

 

Hobbycutz is such an amazing brand. Kobie's designs inspire me!

 

Take this cut out flower window for example. I feel like I am looking out the window of a nearby cottage, across the sea from this amazing castle.

 

Speaking of castles, I recently visited Disney with my daughter and granddaughter. Everything about Disney is real to 6-year-old Molly.

 

We ate dinner in the castle. She met all the princesses, had her picture taken with them, and got their autographs in her special little album.

 

And SHE became a princess herself, which allowed me to be the "Queen Mother" and get sprinkled with Pixie Dust, along with my daughter, the "Queen."

 

 

It was a truly magical day.

 

 

The breathtaking digital stamp image of the castle is from Digital 2 For Tuesday. I am so thankful that I came across this site quite some time ago. Cora graciously shares these images free of charge.

 

The paper is from Hobby Lobby. I used a Tim Holtz Die called, Tattered Banners to create the simple sentiment piece, along with a retired stamp from See D's (I don't think they are around anymore).

 

 

 I inked all the edges with Distress Ink and a bit of Stickles give some glimmer.

 

 

The image is colored with Prismacolor Pencils.

 

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges

card mania - autumn colors

crafty boots - remembrance

make it Monday - anything goes

challenges for everybody - AG

 scribble and scrap - AG
 

Be sure to check out the challenge at Hobbycutz.

Our sponsor this week is


Have a Magical Day!

 



Snowball Sarah

I have been super busy prepping for a 25 Christmas Cards for $25 party at my house, but still found time (just got up at 2 AM, that's all) to make a cute card for Digital Delights,
 where I am on the Design Team.

 

 

This cutie is Snowball Sarah. I colored her with Prismacolor Markers, shading with a few grays.

I colored her cheeks with a bit of pink Prismacolor Pencil.

 

The paper is by Stampin' Up!.

 

I embossed the banner over the sentiment, which is from the Christmas Hugs Sentiment Set.

 

 

I used some Stampendous Shaved Ice on her hat. Simple black marker was used to make the stitching.

 

 

Be sure to check out the Challenge this week...it's

 

Thankful

 

and $15 Gift Certificate is being offered as a prize by

 

 

Gotta run...

 

 



Pig Angel

This week's challenge at Crafting by Designs is
 ANYTHING GOES

with a TWIST OF CHRISTMAS!  

Rick St. Dennis is our wonderful sponsor
and he is graciously gifting one winner  
3 digi images from his new Zibbett store.   
 



 

Colored with Prismacolor Markers, I used some dots to create texture in the background and on the piggy.

 

I also used Prismacolor Pencils to shade the pig.

 

Stickles add shine.

 

 

Bells and brads add sheen and texture.

 

Background paper by MME.

 

Challenges I am entering with Pig Angel

 Inky Impressions - Red and Green

Bearly Mine - Christmas in Pink

Deep Ocean - Winter

Shopping Our Stash - Something on Your Desk (markers)

Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas

Digi Sketch - Animals

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Sparkle

 

Be sure to stop by Crafting By Designs to see all the DT work...awesome!

And, they used more sweet images by Rick St. Dennis!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Peas...

Pinspirational Challenge time!

 

This is my inspiration card for the challenge.

 

I used a Bugaboo image...such fun!

 

Be sure to check out the challenge, and all the Design Team's efforts...the challenge is:

 

 

 

to use this picture as your inspiration!

 

My two little peas were coated in Glossy Accents after being colored with Prismacolor Markers.

 

 

The ribbon is from my stash. So is the paper. I have had it for ever so long!

 

I used a sentiment from Flourishes. The heart was cut with my Cricut, and the dots on the heart are made with Stickles.

 

I hope you will enter the challenge at Pinspirational Challenges...we all love Pinterest...why not make it useful in a challenge, right?

 

 

 

 



Monkey with a Message

 

Digital Delights New Releases! Check out the rest of the inspiration by the Design Team!

 

My contribution is this Festive Monkey.

 

 

 I colored him with Prismacolor Markers.

 

 

 

Ribbon from Hobby Lobby last year.

 

 

 

The sentiment is also Digital Delights, from the Christmas Hugs Sentiment Set.

 

 

Be sure to check out the Challenge this week. You could win a $15 voucher to the store at

 

 

The challenge this week is:

 

All That Glitters

 

Now to attack that pile of card stock on my desk...

 



Baby Mermaid

Awwww....

Love this image from Smeared Ink.

 

 

I used it to make this inspiration piece for the Anything Goes Challenge at Crafting By Designs.

 

Go and enter right now! Anything Goes!! You could win a

$15 voucher from Smeared Ink!

 

 

The image is colored with Prismacolor Pencils. Stickles make the shell sparkle.

 

 

The patterned paper is by CTMH and K&Company.

 

I used a sentiment from Crafty Secrets.

 

 

I stitched the card on my Singer, using Heavy Duty thread.

 

The mosaic tiles are from my stash.

 

 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

 

Enjoy the Journey,