I Love Summer -- for Scribbles Designs

It's the weekend!  Yea!  Since it's only the second full day of summer, I thought I'd offer some Summertime inspiration for my Scribblers Inspiration post, over on the Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog today.

This first card features Sneakers:

I colored up the Sneakers image with Copic markers.  I computer generated the "I love Summer" on the toes of the shoes before I printed the digi.  The papers and word stickers are from Echo Park.  

This next card has a fun design.  It's the first time I've made this card.  Here's the card, closed up:

The sentiment on the front, one of 7 that comes in the Words 3 set, is from Scribbles Designs.  The best part, though, is the fun design inside .  Here's the card, partially opened:

Here's a close up of the Flower Doodle 8 --

I colored the Flower Doodle 8 with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.  I love colored pencils on Kraft.

This card design was a free SVG file from My Scrap Chick.  The papers were from my stash.  The gold birds were free from Paper Wishes. 

That's it for today's summertime inspiration.  Now, it's time to get outside and enjoy this beautiful summer weather.  It's far too short and I want to enjoy it!  Woohoo!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
C.R.A.F.T challenge -- Summer
D.L. Art -- June Linky Party
IDCB -- ATG

You're Tweet

Happy Flag Day!  I was at the nursing home this afternoon to play piano and help with the Flag Day program.  The flag and what it stands for means so much to our older generation.  I hope that kind of patriotism doesn't die out when they do!

I colored up this image yesterday and made it into a card this morning in-between commitments. It's the freebie this month of June at the Outlawz Progressive Freebie.  It's by We Are 3 Digital Shop.  

I colored this Tweet bird with Faber Castell colored pencils.  It took a lot of coloring to get this image colored.  My hand was cramping up!   I used a sketch from the Outlawz Wednesday sketch to help me design the card.

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
Outlawz Progressive Freebie -- June
Outlawz Wednesday Sketch -- Week of June 13
D.L. Art -- June Linky party

Friends Furever -- for Scribbles Designs

 It's my day to share some DT inspiration on the Scribbles Designs blog. It's the "Monthly Scribbler's Showcase".  I have 2 cards to share for my portion of the showcase.  The first one uses #611 Birdhouse 6

I colored the Birdhouse with my neon Copic markers -- the ones I hardly ever have a chance to use.  I used a variety of dies to create the card, including the sentiment.

Here's the next card:

This uses #417 Dog Bone, colored with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils, and Puppy Power Papers Set.  The sentiment is from a retired Close To My Heart acrylic stamp set.  The circle card base is from a Tattered Lace die.  The other circle dies are from Close To My Heart.  There's a tiny bit of Timeless Twine on this cad to finish it off.

That's my inspiration for Scribbles Designs.  There are some awesome digital stamps and papers to be found there, so poke around on both the blog and the store and you'll like what you see!  

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
D.L. Art -- May Linky Party
IDCB -- ATG

Lemon Shortbread -- ATG
Crafty Sentiments Designs -- ATG

Hugs -- for Path of Positivity Challenge Blog

It's the first Monday of the month, so that means it's time for a new challenge at the Path of Positivity Challenge blog.  This month, our sponsors are SheepSki Designs and Lunagirl.

For this challenge, I worked with a gorgeous design, Flower Bouquet, from SheepSki Designs.  With it, I created this:

This month's challenge at The Path of Positivity Challenge blog give you the option to use your favorite color(s).  This time of year, I'm more into the pastel, soft colors, often leaning towards pinks and blues.  For this card, I stuck to a pink theme.  I love coloring on Kraft, and I like Kraft with bright colors.  It's a great contrast!  So, I have lots of favorite things going on with this card.  

I colored the Flower Bouquet image with  Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils.  This Flower Bouquet was very enjoyable to color up!  Wouldn't it make a pretty Mother's Day card?

The sentiment is an acrylic stamp from Power Poppy.  The papers are from Close To My Heart.  The jute string is from Really Reasonable Ribbon. 

I hope you can join us this month at The Path of Positivity Challenge Blog for our optional "Choose your favorite Color(s)" challenge.  Or, you can enter any positive themed project you'd like. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges: 
SheepSki Designs - Your Favorite Colors (pink and pastels)
SheepSki Designs Facebook Challenge -- ATG
IDCB -- ATG
Word Art Wednesday -- ATG
Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme -- English Country Garden
Outlawz Monday Greeting Challenge -- Flowers (must have something green)

Cheers to a Lovely Friend!

Cheers to you, my lovely friend!  Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

I recently won some wonderful images from Sheepski Designs from a challenge, and I just had to color this one up!  I'm going to enter it in some more challenges, in hopes that I get lucky enough to win again!  

This image is called Bumblebee Blossom.  I colored it with Copic markers and colored pencils.  

The card base was cut out on my Silhouette Cameo, and was found in the Silhouette Design Store.  The sentiment is from Power Poppy Stamps.  That bright yellow ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon. 

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
Sheepski Designs Facebook Challenge -- optional twist, Spring things
Sheepski Designs Challenge Blog -- #12, flowers
IDCB -- ATG
D.L. Art -- March Linky Party
Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

Happy! for the Path of Positivity Challenge blog

It's time for a new challenge, this first Monday of the month, at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog.  If you've been following along with us this year, you've caught on to our color themes.  This month, the optional color theme is 'yellow'.  I love yellow!  Yellow makes me happy!  Yellow makes me think of sunshine, warmth, and growing things.  Yellow, to me, is a fell-good color!  

We have 2 guest sponsors this month at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog -- Limited Runs Digital Stamps and Imagine That Digistamp.  For the beginning of our challenge, I had the fun of using Flower with Ladybug from Limited Runs. 

I colored Flower with Ladybug with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils.  The easel card is an SVG file from My Scrap Chick.  The digital paper is from Snap Click Supply.  The sentiment -- one of my favorites -- is a stamp from Hot Off The Press.  I found the buttons in my stash while looking for a ladybug brad that I'm SURE I have, but never found!

I hope you join in the challenge this month at Path of Positivity.  To be eligible for the awesome prizes from our sponsors, please follow the optional 'Yellow' theme.  Or, enter anything inspirational that you'd like to.  The challenge will run until April 1st.

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

Brown Sugar Challenge -- Spring or Easter

IDCB -- ATG

Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

Daisy Bucket -- a DigiStamps4Joy New Release

It's New Release Sunday at DigiStamps4Joy!  There are some great new releases, and I had the absolute delightful experience of working with one of them -- Daisy Bucket:

It's winter here where I live, so I've been craving bright colors, so I went with raspberry colored daisies!  Why not!

I colored Daisy Bucket with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.  The easel card is an SVG files from My Scrap Chick.  It makes a very elegant card, doesn't it?  The sentiment is from Hot Off the Press. 

I hope you take time to check out all the New Releases today at DigiStamps4Joy.  You won't be disappointed in the fantastic talent from the design team, or the new digis in the store!  

A new challenge just started at DigiStamps4Joy on March 1.  It's Anything Goes, with an optional theme of "being Young".  It goes until March 31, so I hope you can join in the fun! 

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

D.L. Art -- March Linky Party

AUD Sentiments Challenge Blog -- ATG with a sentiment

Brown Sugar Challenge -- Spring or Easter

IDCB -- ATG

Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

Wishing You a Beautiful Day -- for MHKDesigns Monthly Challenge

It's March, and it's time for a new challenge at MHKDesigns Challenge blog.  The challenge is Anything Goes, if you use an MHKDesigns image.  Yeehaw!  Today is also New Release day for Blessed Lily, and I used it on this month's challenge card: 

I used the Blessed Lily image and colored it with Faber-Castell pencils, using the colors in this month's inspiration photo (see below).  The sentiment is also from the Blessed Lily set.  The designer papers on this card, also from MHKDesigns, are the Get Well Flowers Digital Paper Pack.

MHKDesigns products used on this card:

Blessed Lily Digital Stamp Set

Get Well flowers Digital Paper Pack

As I mentioned above, the MHKDesigns challenge runs all month, is anything goes if you use an MHKDesigns image, but if you choose to use something else, here's an inspiration photo for you to use:

I hope to see you at the MHK Designs March challenge!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
D.L. Art -- March Linky Party 
IDCB -- ATG
Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenge Blog -- Stamped image
Outlawz Thursday Challenge --  Metallics
TTCRD -- ATG

Sending Love to Dawn Blog Hop -- with MHKDesigns

Sometimes life can be tough.  That's when you need your friends.  Recently one of the MHKDesigners, Dawn, lost her mother-in-law. To make things worse, she's been ill herself.  The MHKDesigners have banded together to show our support and send her some cyber love.  Dawn, may you feel surrounded by tenderness today and know that I care.  I've been there.  I've lost my mother, my father, and my father-in-law and been through serious illness.  It hurts.  Friends make the burden lighter.  So does our faith, and I know yours is strong.  Keep praying, friend, and God we see you through to the other side!

Today's blog hop begin's at the MHKDesigns blog, if you get lost along the way. 

You should have come here from Jess'es blog.  Wasn't her card beautiful?

Dawn, this card is for you:

This card used the following MHKDesigns products:

Sentimental Lily

Get Well Flowers digital paper set

There's more inspiration ahead, so hop along to the uber talented Em!  

Thinking of You -- for MHKDesigns

Hello, crafty friends!  I'm on the MHKDesigns blog today featuring   this month's new release, Framed Favorites, found in the Etsy Shop.

I used Faber-Castell pencils on Kraft on one of the framed flower images that come with the Framed Favorites digital stamp set.  I kept the rest of the card simple so the image would be the focal point.  There is a bit of MHKDesigns Seaside Digital Paper Pack on the card. 

MHKDesigns products used:

Don't forget to join in on the MHKDesigns monthly challenge.  You have until January 31. 

Snowy Christmas Tag -- for QKR Stampede Challenge Blog

Ho! Ho! Ho!  The month of December is upon us!  Let the festivities begin!  We've begun decorating the nursing home this week (inside, that is -- outside began a couple weeks ago whenever the weather was nice and we had a few spare minutes).  This evening, the first of many groups will be at the nursing home for their annual Christmas festivities.  This evening, it's the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and their families.  It will be a great event!

Speaking of events, there's a new challenge starting today at QKR Stampede challenge blog.  This week's optional theme is 'Christmas Tags', or you can enter an 'Anything Goes' project, too.  I love making tags, so I had fun with this one!

This tag uses the digital stamp Snowy Christmas Tree (ES-digi39401), colored with Faber-Castell colored pencils.  

The background paper, the musical notes, is a digital paper found at Snap Click Supply.  It's by Cosmo Cricket.  All the dies used on this tag are by Paper Wishes.  The fibers are from Close To My Heart. 

I hope you can join us this week at QKR Stampede for our Christmas Tags optional theme.  I'd love to see your entry, and we have great prizes to win! 

Wishing You...for Path of Positivity

Welcome, crafty friends!  It's time for a new challenge at Path of Positivity Challenge blog.  This is the 3rd and final month of our "Surround Yourself" themed challenges.  This month, the optional theme is "Surround Yourself with Music", or you can enter any positive project.  We have 2 guest sponsors this month -- Limited Runs, and Imagine That Digistamp.  For this post, I got to play with a fun image from Limited Runs:

This is Mini Birds - Starry Night, by Limited Runs, printed on blue card stock, and colored with Faber Castell colored pencils.  The sentiment was computer generated.  

I've always liked the song Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) by Don McClean, and as soon as I saw this Mini Birds - Starry Night digi stamp, I thought of that song.  I've also been a fan of Vincent VanGogh ever since I studied art history in college, so this card ties in to both my love of art and music.  

Papers on this card are from Close To My Heart.  I used dies by Die-namics to cut out the image, sentiment,  and backgrounds. 

I hope you can join us this month at the Path of Positivity for our "Surround Yourself" with the good things of life challenge!  It runs until Dec 3, so you have plenty of time!  

Growing Goodness -- an MHKDesigns New Release

Hello, good friends!  I   I hope you are enjoying this month's New Releases at MHKDesigns as much as I am!  Make sure to start at the MHKDesigns blog, then comment on each designer's blog for your chance to win!  

This is a card I made using the new Growing Goodness Digital Stamp set, available in the MHKDesigns Etsy Shop.

I used one of the images from the Growing Goodness digital stamp set and colored it with Faber-Castell colored pencils.  MHKDesigns images are so easy to shade!  They take very little coloring.  I LOVE this sentiment, and it is part of the Growing Goodness set.  The papers, also from MHKDesigns, are the Positively Purple Patterned digital papers.

MHKDesigns products used on this card:

Growing Goodness Digital Stamp Set

Positively Purple Patterned Digi Papers

Have you joined the MHKDesigns challenge?  There's still plenty of time.  They run from the first of the month to the end of the month.  If you use an MHKDesign image, it's Anything Goes!  I hope you link up!  Check out the MHKDesigners & Friends Facebook group, too, for news, inspiration, and fun!

Funky Fall Foliage -- an MHKDesigns New Release

Happy Tuesday, fellow crafters!  Today is the second day that the MHKDesigns team is featuring this month's new releases.  Today, you'll see Funky Fall Foliage.  All the New Releases can be found in the MHKDesigns Etsy Shop.  

I LOVE coloring flowers.  They are my most favorite thing to color, so this release was a particular pleasure for me.  I tried to make the image into a fall-looking flower, perhaps closely related to a sunflower, but somehow, when I look at it closely, I think I caught the look of a dandelion quite well! Oh well!  It was a joy to color, however you interpret the flower image.

I colored the Funky Fall Foliage image with Faber-Castell colored pencils.  The sentiment is part of the Funky Fall Foliage set.  Papers for this card -- also from MHKDesigns, are the Sunflower Sampler digi paper pack.

MHKDesigns products used on this card:

Funky Fall Foliage

Sunflower Sampler Digi Paper Pack

Makes sure you start on the MHKDesigns blog, then comment on each of the designer's blogs for your chance to win this set (yes!) or even all of this New Release(!)  

Have you joined the MHKDesigns challenge?  It's just getting started.  They run from the first of the month to the end of the month.  If you use an MHKDesign image, it's Anything Goes!  I hope you link up!  Check out the MHKDesigners & Friends Facebook group, too, for news, inspiration, and fun!

No Worm for the Early Bird! For Path of Positivity

Happy October, crafty friends!  It's time for a new challenge at The Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. We're midway through our 3-month theme of exploring how the arts impact our lives and our crafting at the Path of Positivity.  This month, the optional theme is "Surround Yourself with Literature."

Our guest sponsor this month is Sparkle N Sprinkle. I used the very fun digital stamp, Wilson Birds to create this:

I printed the Wilson Birds digital stamp on Kraft paper, then colored the mirrored image with Faber-Castell colored pencils.  The sentiment, also part of the Wilson Birds set, is SO darn cute!

I chose this stamp set, and this particular theme because, after perusing my husband's bookshelf, I found 11(!) bird books.  He and I are what you could refer to as diehard "birders".  We even have our own life lists of birds we've seen and identified. 

I hope you can join us this month for our optional "surround yourself with literature" theme.  Tell us how your project connects to the theme in your post -- maybe it's a particular book that speaks to you, a poem, or a quote.  Our challenge will go until Nov 5.  

Let It Snow (Please not YET!) for the 12 Months of Christmas

It's a new month, and that means it's time for a new challenge at The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up.   This month's theme is Anything Goes, as long as it's Christmas!  Yea!

We have 2 wonderful sponsors this month:  Pattie's Creations, and Decosse's Dynamite Doodles. 

I used a sweet image by Pattie's Creations to make this shaped card for the challenge, and paper pieced some Christmas papers from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles.

This is Polar Bear Snow Globe.  I printed it first onto Kraft paper and colored it with Faber-Castell colored pencils.  Then, I printed it again on a piece of Decosse's Dynamite Doodles paper from the 12 Days of Christmas 2015 series and fussy cut the snow globe base, attaching it to the Kraft paper.  I then printed a 3rd copy of Polar Bear Snow Globe on copy paper, fussy cut that, and used it as a template to make the snow globe shaped card.  Once it was cut out, I glued the Polar Bear Snow Globe piece to the front, and Voila! my card was almost done!  All it needed was an appropriate sentiment. I found that at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles. The "Let it Snow" sentiment, complete with snow, tied the card all together.  I printed it on a piece of Decosse's Dynamite Doodles digital paper from Holiday Hoopla textured papers collection. 

I hope you join our "Anything Goes as long as it's Christmas" theme this month at The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up.  We have wonderful sponsors, great prizes, and I'd love to see what you create!  

Bloom Art Stamps Inspiration for September

I'm posting today for Bloom Art Stamps.  I have two cards to share -- one made with a clear stamp set, one made with a digital stamp.

I'll start with the card I made with the clear stamp set, Seasons: Tree with Fruit...

I inked up parts of the Seasons: Tree with Fruit stamp with different colors of ink, trying for a fall-like look to the tree.  Then, I inked up a squirrel and a bird from the set, fussy cut those, and added them to the tree.  I used a snowdrift die to make the grassy "hill". 

Card #2 uses the digital stamp, Coneflower Arrangement. 

I printed Coneflower Arrangement on Kraft paper, then colored it with Faber-Castell colored pencils.  I love using colored pencils on Kraft paper.  It's one of my favorite ways to use colored pencils!  

I used a couple dies from Lawn Fawn to cut out and back the Coneflower Arrangement digital stamp.  The designer paper in the background is from Snap Click Supply and is also digital.  The crinkle ribbon is from 3 Girl JAM. 

Bloom Art Stamps has some amazing stamps -- both clear and digital.  Please check out the store, then the blog for inspiration.  You'll also find us on Splitcoast Stampers. 

A Marvelous Challenge -- for MHKDesigns

September 1st?!?  Where do these months go?  That means we're starting a new challenge over on the MHKDesigns blog.  As always, the challenges are Anything Goes if you used an MHKDesign image.  There is also an Inspiration Board for you if you choose NOT to use an MHKDesigns image.  It will be pictured below.

I have some pretty mums blooming in my yard, and they were the inspiration for this card, along with the colors from this month's inspiration board:

I used the Mum's the Word Digital stamp set, and colored the flower image from that with Faber-Castell color pencils.  The sentiment is from the Marvelous Digital Stamp set.  The designer papers on this card are from MHKDesigns.  They are:  
Pawsitively Purrfect (dark blue)
Stenciled Roses (turquoise paper and pink houdstooth)
Rosy Posy papers (green dot)
MHKDesigns products used on this card:

Mum's the Word Digital Stamp Set

Marvelous Digital Stamp Set

I hope you join us this month at MHKDesigns Challenges.  Here's the Inspiration Board to help you:

I'd love to have you link up, and I'd love to see what you make!

My Awesomeness Amazes Me! An MHKDesigns New Release

Today is the last day of New Releases at MHKDesigns.  Start at the MHKDesigns blog for your chance to win the set!  It's an awesome one!  

Today, the MHKDesigns design team is showcasing 'Sassy Sayings', and the sayings are just that!  Sassy!  

Fun, right?!?  Don't you have a friend in mind to send this to?

I colored one of the vintage images with just a bit of bright color using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.  I printed the image on Kraft so I already had the skin tone.  I added the Sassy Saying, and I had my card.  Fun!

I made the easel card using a Sizzix die and digital papers from MHKDesigns.  They are from the Damsel in Distress digital paper pack.

MHKDesigns products used on this card:

Sassy Sayings Digital Stamp Set

Damsel in Distress Digital Paper Pack

Have you entered the MHKDesigns challenge yet?  You still have  a bit more time, as it runs all month.  Use an MHKDesigns image, and it's Anything Goes!  

Just Fur You! An MHKDesigns New Release

It's time to showcase another MHKDesigns New Release.  This one is 'Pet Puns'.  Being a dog lover, it's perfect for me and many of my dog loving friends!  

I used the dog image of the Pet Puns set and colored it with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.  The sentiment, also from the Pet Puns set, was cut out with a round punch and secured with a paw brad from my stash.  The paw print paper is from MHKDesigns.  It's the Pawsitively Purrfect digital paper pack.

The card base was cut out on my Silhouette Cameo with a file found in the Silhouette Design Store.

MHKDesigns products used on this card:

Pet Puns Digital Stamp Set

Pawsitively Purrfect Digital Paper Pack

Have you entered the MHKDesigns challenge yet?  You still have  time, as it runs all month.  Use an MHKDesigns image, and it's Anything Goes!