Flamingo Splash -- a New Release at All Dressed Up Stamps

 It's time to feature a little new release inspiration for All Dressed Up Stamps. There are 3 new release each month, and this month, I had the fun of being able to design with the cute, cute Flamingo Splash:

I colored Flamingo Splash with Copic markers, then created some die cut for my card.  I thought she might enjoy a rough wave pool, so a created some stormy seas for her to ride through using a die set from Taylored Expressions and a stitched hill die from Close to My Heart that I used for a wave.  The bikini has been in my stash for many years.  I think it was a freebie in a magazine subscription.  Do they even have those anymore?  The sentiment is from Pink & Main. 

You'll find all the new releases in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Shop.  You'll find more inspiration in the ADU Facebook group and on the blog.  Check it all out! 

Mouse Ahoy! for Di's Digistamps Challenges

 It's Saturday, and it's time for a new challenge at Di's Digistamps Challenges.  The challenge runs for the next 2 weeks.  The theme of the challenge is Summer Fun (include a sun or water or both on your project).  You don't have to use a Di's Digistamps image, but we sure do like to see them when you do. 

I used both a sun and water on my challenge card, and an absolutely darling Di's Digistamps image called Dreamboat Mice.  This is the black & white version.  There is also a pre-colored version. 

I colored Dreamboat Mice with a combination of Copic and Olo markers, then fussy cut the image.  The water was created using 2 dies.  One was part of a rainbow die from Taylored Expressions.  The other was a die from Close To My Heart (retired).  The sun die is from Spellbinders Paper Arts.  The sentiment is from Colorado Stamp Company. 

I hope you can join us these next two weeks for our Summer Fun challenge at Di's Digistamps Challenges. I'd love to see what you create!

Use Stash Items -- a New Challenge at Di's Digistamps Challenges

 It's Saturday, and that means a challenge is underway at Dis Digistamps Challenges. The challenge will run for the next two weeks.  Use a Di's Digistamps image and increase your chances of winning awesome prizes!! She has so many great ones in her Etsy Shop! The theme for the next 2 weeks is 'use stash items'.  Most of us have been crafting long enough we have a serious amount of items in our stash!  This should be an easy challenge!

Di has some new Fairies in her shop, and I decided to use one of those for this challenge.  I chose 'Sleeping Moon Fairy'.  It comes in both black & white and pre-colored, but I chose the black and white version, so I could color it. I also thought it would be fun to make it into a rocking card: 

I colored Sleeping Moon Fairy  with Copic markers, a long-time stash item for me.  Then, I fussy cut her out using my favorite detail scissors from Close To My Heart that I've had for years (so, another stash item).  The circle die she is mounted on is from Hero Arts.  I have many of their nesting dies in my stash and use them all the time. Some of the first dies I ever bought were from Spellbinders.  I thought it only right that I use a Spellbinders die on this project, so the scalloped circle die is from that company.  The sentiment is from one of my favorite companies, Taylored Expressions.  I stamped it, then used the coordinating die to cut it out several times. 

That's my card for the 'Use Stash Items' challenge at Di's Digistamps Challenges. Please join us!  I'd love to see your creations! 

So Doggone Sweet -- for The Paper Shelter

Our Christmas break is over at The Paper Shelter. We are back with weekly challenge for you to participate in. I hope you can join us!

The theme for our first challenge of 2025 is 'embellish it'.  As always, if you use a TPS image and you are chosen the winner, the prize is considerably better.  But, you can enter any challenge you would like. 

For the 'embellish it' theme, I have used the darling image A Walk in Style: 

I colored A Walk in Style with Copic markers.  Then I used a set of dies from Taylored Expressions to cutout the image and to back them.  The paw print paper is a digital paper from AMB Illustrations.  They ave some great pet papers! I found the paw print embellishments in my stash.  They are from The Paper Studio.  The sentiment is a clear stamp from Close To My Heart.  It is part of a set. 

Below is a graphic explaining the prize structure:

I hope you like my Walk in Style. I really enjoyed creating this 5x7 card. I also hope I see ou entered in The Paper Shelter challenge.  I'd love to see what you create. 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends -- ATG

Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

Digichoosday -- ATG

Promarker Challenge -- Favorite colors (teal & pink)

I Spy with my Little Eye -- feather or fur (fur)

Wag Your Tail -- for The Paper Shelter

 If you're happy and you know it, wag your tail!  Hello, and thanks for visiting today.   Welcome to challenge #612 at The Paper Shelter.  This week's theme is 'All Creatures Great and Small.  You have until October 8 to enter.

Here's my creation for the All Creatures Great and Small challenge. You know I love dogs, so any excuse to color one up, right? 

I used the fun Bath Time image from The Paper Shelter to create this card. It is colored with Copic markers.

The frame die is from Taylored Expressions.  The sentiment is from Close To My Heart, and cut out with die from Taylored Expressions.

I hope you can join us this week at The Paper Shelter challenges.  We have great prizes!

Plus, I'd love to see what you create!

Love Heart -- An All Dressed Up Stamps new release

 Hello, and thanks for visiting my blog!  Today, the All Dressed Up Stamps design team member are showcasing this month's New Releases.  There are 3 of them.  They are all found in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Shop. 

I had the delightful experience of being able to design with new release image, Love Heart:

Isn't she a super sweet image?  I colored Love Heart with a combination of Copic and Olo markers. This is a mini slim sized card.  The pink hearts paper is from AMB Illustrations.  I used a set of mini slim dies from Trinity Stamps to frame the Love Heart image and add the hearts paper layer.  The small stitched hearts are part of a die set from Close To My Heart. The sentiment is from my stash.

Thanks for the visit!  Stop by the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Group and the ADU Blog for more inspiration and challenges to enter!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenge:

Passion for Markers -- die or punches (used a few dies on this)

Egg Painting -- an All Dressed Up Stamps New Release

Hello, crafty friends!  Today is a New Release day at All Dressed Up Stamps.   You can find all the New Release inspiration on the All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge Blog, and in the ADU Facebook group. Today, I have the pleasure of designing with the awesome Easter image  called, Egg Painting.  Isn't it the sweetest?

I colored the darling girl and her bunny (Egg Painting) with Copic markers.  The sentiment is from an old Close To My Heart acrylic stand.

I cut out the Egg Painting image and backed her with dies from Pink & Main. The floral background paper is from Crafter's Companion.

Check out all the new release inspiration, and don't forget to enter the challenges!

Christmas Deer -- for All Dressed Up Stamps

 Hello friends, and welcome to November!   My blog has been very quiet for several months.  I fractured my knee in July, and for 3 months I couldn't negotiate the stairs to make it to my craft room.  But, I can walk again, and it is wonderful!  

Nov. 1, and it's time for a new challenge in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook group. The theme this month is Season's Greetings.  You have the entire month of November to get a project made and placed in the folder in the ADU Facebook Group. Wendy -- artist and owner of ADU -- has many wonderful Christmas images in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Shop.  Treat yourself to an image, create something with it, and join us! 

I absolutely love the Christmas Deer digital image, so I chose to create with it. I think it's those soulful eyes!  Here is the card I made:

I colored Christmas Deer with Copic markers.  The background paper is from Crafter's Companion.  The sentiment is from Gina K Designs, and the foliage die cuts are from Spellbinders.  I finished the card with some sticky backed pearls from Close To My Heart. 

'Tis the season to finish our Christmas cards!  Get something created and join us in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook challenge! I'd love to see what you create!

Daisy Fairy -- for All Dressed Up Stamps

 Greetings, friends!  It's June 1 already!  These months go by so fast!  June 1 means a new challenge is starting in the All Dressed Up Stamps facebook group.   Our theme this month is "Pick a color/colors".  Pick your favorites, and join in the challenge! You'll find many fantastic images in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Shop. The challenge starts today, and runs all month.

I chose the "colors" option for my card.  I like to combine multiple colors together when Copic coloring, instead of always using a color family.  This works particularly well for hair and flowers.  I combined both hair AND flower multiple colors here on this card:

This is Daisy Fairy.  Isn't she the sweetest?  I used shades of pink and yellow on the petals of her dress and flower in her hair (one of my favorite color combos for coloring Copics.) Another favorite combo was used on her hair.  I used shades of violet, blue violet, blue, and gray. 

I found papers that matched my theme so well at We Are 3 Digital Shop.  The 2 designer papers are both from the Darcy's Garden collection.  There are 6 more beautiful papers, for a total of 8.

The sentiment was computer generated, then cut out with banner die from Hero Arts. The glitter  trim is from Close To My Heart.  The crinkle ribbon is by D.L. Art.  The oval shapes are by Spellbinders Paper Arts.

I hope you join us this month for the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook challenge, Pick a Colors/color. You'll find another challenge every month over at the ADU Challenge Blog. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Passion for Markers -- 3 or more layers

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

Cutie Pie Challenge -- Digis & die cuts

A Place to Remember -- for Dies R Us Challenges

 It's October 15th, and it's time for a new challenge at Dies R Us Challenges. The challenges are Anything Goes, as long as you use a brand of die sold in the Dies R Us Store.  The challenge will run for 2 weeks.

A couple from my church recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.  They met at a Bible camp, that is very wooded.  I thought this die was perfect to make a die for their special day...

I created this card using a Crafter's Companion A Place To Remember Create-a-Card die. The sentiment is computer generated unto a stitched tag by Tonic Studios. The red stitched heart die is one of the Just Stitching Hearts die by Lawn Fawn. 

The background paper of the card is by We Are 3 Digital Shop. It is one of the Fairy Land papers. 

I hope you can join us this next 2 weeks for our Anything Goes challenge at Dies R Us Challenges.  We give away a gift certificate and 3 designer choice awards every challenge.

For those friends in Canada, check out the Didi Crafts Store for wonderful crafting products and reasonable shipping rates. 

Dance like its your Birthday -- for The Paper Shelter

 It's Wednesday, and that means there's a new challenge starting over on The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. Challenges run for a week.  This week, the theme is "Party Time!!"  That's a fun one!  If you use a Paper Shelter image and you're the random winner of the challenge, you get a $30 gift certificate to The Paper Shelter Store.  How great is that?  Use any image, and get 3 images of your choice.  Either way, it's pretty awesome!

Party time!  I went with a birthday theme for my design team card for this challenge.  I thought this Go Go Girl was so darn cute!

I think I hear the Bee Gees all the way from the 80's!

I colored Go Go Girl with a combination of Copic and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. The tags are from Close To My Heart.  The sentiment is computer generated. The papers are from Crafter's Companion.  The sequins are from Queen & Company.  I finished the card off with some Timeless Twine. 

I hope you can join us this week at The Paper Shelter challenge blog, for our Party Time- themed challenge.  I'd love to see what you create!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

D.L. Art -- September Linky Party

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

Cutie Pie Challenge -- Birthday 

Dream Valley Challenge -- 2 or more patterned papers

Dragonfly Dreams -- Happy birthday

In Sympathy

 It's Labor Day today, and I can't figure out where the summer has gone.  Kids are back in school, we're fast losing daylight, and days are much cooler.  There are signs of autumn everywhere.  Life moves so fast!

I needed 2 sympathy cards last week.  Hard week, for sure!  I reverted to two of my go-to digital images to make them with.  They're from Eureka Stamps. They go together quickly because all it takes is a bit of ink and some pretty papers:

This uses ES-digi34502 (Tree Losing Leaves) and ES-digi4505 In Sympathy.  

Here's a 2nd card using the same inking technique:

I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks and a few sequins by Close To My Heart.  The designer papers are by We Are 3 Digital Shop.  The first card uses the Howdy Autumn papers. The 2nd card uses the Paisley Texture papers. 

I'm entering these cards in the following challenges:

QKR Stampede -- ATG

Pink Gem Challenge -- ATG

D.L. Art -- Sympathy

D.L. Art -- September Linky Party

Angie's Digital Stamps -- Use Fall colors

AUD Sentiments -- Sympathy

Let's Pawty! for Cute Card Thursday

 It's the first Thursday of the month, and that means it's time for a new challenge at Cute Card Thursday. Challenges are Anything Goes, with an optional twist.  This month, the twist is Birthdays.  The challenge will run all month.

We have 3 sponsors each month, with one of those sponsors being Whimsy Stamps. I found this adorable stamp while perusing the vast selection of digital stamps...

This Dachshund Balloon is by Crissy Armstrong.  So cute, isn't it? I colored it with Copic markers. I created the rocking card to mount Dachschund Balloon on, because it seemed to need some movement.

I cut the rocking card out on my Silhouette Cameo 3 with a file I found in the Silhouette Design Store. the balloon paper and the cardstock is from Crafter's Companion.  The sentiment is from an acrylic stamp I got at Close To My Heart. 

I hope you can join us this month at Cute Card Thursday.  You have all month for your anything goes projects, and Id love to see what you create! 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

Polkadoodle Challenge -- ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

ABBMTC Extra -- ATG

ABMTTC -- ATG

A perfect Time to Craft -- ATG

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge -- ATG

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge -- ATG with a Critter

Crafty Animals Challenge -- ATG with an animal

Boo! Gnome -- for SheepSki Designs

 It's challenge time at SheepSki Designs Challenge Blog!  Yup, Sept. 1. Challenges last a month and have a theme.  This month, the theme is: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play.  You'll find many darling images that fit that theme in the SheepSki Designs Etsy Shop, but you can use any image you want (though we'd love to see a SheepSki Designs one, of course!)

Boys and girls come out to play, but how about gnomes? Here's my first Halloween card for 2021:

This adorable gnome is Trick or Treat, #228.  I colored it with Copic markers, then fussy cut it.  

The papers on this card are by We Are 3 Digital Shop. The orange paper is from the Cute Halloween Collection. The plaid is from the Autumn Flannel Collection. The glitter trim is from Close To My Heart, and so is the tag die.  All the other dies are from Spellbinders. 

I hope you can join us this month for our Boys & Girls Come Out and Play challenge at SheepSki Designs Challenge Blog.   I'd love to see what you create! 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

Passion for Markers -- Add a Sentiment

Polkadoodle Challenge -- ATG

ABMTTC Extra -- ATG

ABMTTC -- ATG

DigiChoosday -- ATG

Live Joyfully -- an All Dressed Up Stamps New Release

It's New Release Day at All Dressed Up Stamps!  Every month, on the 7th and the 22nd, the design team features the new releases.  Today is my turn.  There are 3 new releases this month.  Here is Skipping Girl...

I colored Skipping Girl with a combination of Copic and Spectrum Noir markers.  The rectangle dies are from Spellbinders.  The banner dies that the sentiment is on are from Tonic Studios.  The cloud dies are from Close To My Heart.  The cloud papers are from We Are 3 Digital Shop. They are 2 of the Canvas Scenes papers.

Check out what the other design team members have created, and the other new releases on the All Dressed Up Stamps Blog, and in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Group. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

D.L. Art -- August Linky Party

A Perfect Time to Craft -- ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft -- ATG

ABMTTC Extra -- ATG

Creative Fingers -- ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

On the Moon -- for Ching Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog

It's Tuesday, and this is the day that I post for the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge Blog.   We have a new challenge that's just getting underway.  The theme this month is Embossing -- wet or dry.  You can find many beautiful images in the Ching-Chou Kuik Etsy Shop that would work wonderful for this, or any challenge! 

I have a confetti embossing folder that I thought might look like falling stars (if you use your imagination).  I also have been wanting to color up the lovely On the Moon.  Here's what I created:

I colored On the Moon with Copic markers.  The background paper (behind the embossed piece) is from We Are 3 Digital Shop. It is one of the Daydreams papers. The stitched stars are Tutti Designs dies. 

I hope you visit the Ching-Chou Kuik Inspiration & Challenge blog for all the great inspiration, but also to enter this month's challenge.  Visit the Facebook group, too, for another challenge and even more inspiration.  You'll find it here. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Passion for Markers 

Crafter's Castle -- ATG

The Fairy and the Unicorn -- Fantasy

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

Worldwide open design Challenge -- ATG

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a colored image

AUD Sentiments -- Fairy Magic + a sentiment

A Star is Born -- For All Dressed Up Stamps

 July 1 -- Christmas in July -- There'll be lots of Christmas challenges this month, and Christmas cards made and displayed around bogland.  I decided to get in on the action.  July 1 -- a new challenge is starting at All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Group, with the theme of Seasons.  It's wide open on that one -- use any season you want, just make sure you use a beautiful All Dressed Up image found in the All Dressed Up Stamps Etsy Store. 

Seasons -- Christmas -- it is certainly a season, and you'll find some awesome images celebrating it in the All Dressed Up Etsy Shop, like this super sweet, A Star is Born...

I colored A Star is Born with Copic markers.  The background star die is by Crafter's Companion. The light blue stars are from Close To My Heart. 

I hope you choose your favorite season and join us at All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Challenge  for this month's challenge.  You have the whole month of July!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Promarker Challenge -- CAS

Lemon Shortbread Challenge -- ATG

Crafty Gals Challenge -- For the Boys

The Holly and the Ivy Challenge -- ATG Christmas

12 Months of Christmas Link Up -- Christmas in July

Light it Up -- For Cute Card Thursday

 It's the first Thursday of the month, and Cute Card Thursday has now gone to monthly challenges.  That's right, monthly!  You have a whole month to make a card and try to win a prize from our awesome sponsors!  The theme is Anything Goes -- with the optional twist of Summer.  

The 4th of July is a big, big holiday here in the States, and my little town has a huge celebration.  Last year, of course, was a bust, but this year, the party is on!  There's things happening on all weekend, but the highlights are a huge parade, a beach party, and of course fireworks.  I believe this little guy is ready for the action...

adorable, isn't he!  He's from Whimsy Stamps, one if this month's sponsors. He is part of the Gnome Summer Celebration Digital Stamp Set.  He is one of 3 stamps in the set. 

I colored the Gnome Summer Celebration with Copic markers, then went searching for some patriotic papers.  I found these at AMBillustrations. They are the Stars & Stripes papers.

The blue star embellishments are large sequins from Close To My Heart.  I computer generated the sentiment, and placed it on a banner form Tonic Studios. 

I hope I have as much fun on the 4th as this guy appears to be having!

Join us this month as Cute Card Thursday! Remember, it's a month long, and the theme is Anything Goes, with the option of Summertime.  Our sponsors are Whimsy Stamps and All Dressed Up Stamps. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

The House That Stamps Built -- Red, White & Blue

Double D Challenge -- Signs of Summer

Paper Craft Crew -- Summer Nights

Cut it Up Challenges -- Red,White, and Blue

Stinkin Inkers -- Let the Sparks Fly

Happy Rose Day -- For The Paper Shelter

 It's Wednesday, and that means a new challenge is underway at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog!  The challenge will run for a week, and the theme is 'Digital'.  Use a digital image, digital paper, sentiment, or all of the above.  We'd love to see a Paper Shelter image used, and if you're chosen as the winner of the challenge, you'll get an awesome $30 gift certificate to spend in The Paper Shelter Store!  Wow! 

The Paper Shelter has such awesome products that I had trouble deciding what to color up for today's challenge.  Since the first day of summer is soon upon us, I decided on Rose...

Rose has flowers, butterflies, plus skin and hair -- everything I like in an image!  So, she was pure pleasure for me to color with my Copic markers.  

I modified a sketch a saw at Sketch Saturday to create this card.  The bit of designer paper is a pad from Crafter's Companion.  The butterflies are cut out of the same pad.  All the dies are also from Crafter's Companion.  The sentiment is a stamp from Close To My Heart. 

I hope you can join us this week at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog for our 'Digital' Challenge.  I'd love to see your creations, and we have wonderful prizes you could win! 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

Passion for Markers -- Summer Colors

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG

QKR Stampede -- ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft -- ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft Extra -- ATG

Books are Magic -- For Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

 It's the 1st Sunday of the month, and it's time for a new challenge at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends. The challenges are always Anything Goes, and it will run for 2 weeks.  For the next 2 weeks, we have the awesome sponsor, Ching-Chou Kuik!  I adore the art of Ching-Chou Kuik,  so it was pure pleasure for me to "work" with these images.  Besides, I was just waiting for an excuse to color up this particular image that I received.  This is Lil Bookworm Fairy: 

I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite CCK image out of all of them I've collected, but this would surely be in the top 5.  I am an avid book reader, so it tugs at my heart.

I colored Lil Bookworm Fairy with Copic markers.  I cut her and and backed her with dies by Spellbinders, inking around the outside of the die with Wisteria ink by Close To My Heart.  The background paper is by Crafter's Companion.  The sentiment was computer generated.  The crinkle ribbon was from my stash. The tiny cat die is from my stash, but I believe it originates from a Crafter's Companion Advent set. 

I hope you are able to join our Anything Goes Challenge at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.  I'd love to see your creations, and you could win a wonderful prize from Ching-Chou Kuik, and pick wonderful digis, like this one!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

D.L. Art -- June Linky Party

Morgan's Artworld -- ATG

Classic Design Challenge -- ATG

Worldwide Open Design Challenge -- ATG