First Prize -- for All Dressed Up Stamps

 September 1 -- there are signs of Fall and signs of kids returning to school.  There are also signs that there is a new challenge at All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Challenge.  It starts today and runs the month of September.  The theme is 'Free for All' (Anything Goes).

I have a young friend that I have been pen pals with for many years.  It all began when I was going through cancer and her grandmother (a friend of mine), thought it would be a good experience for her to send me some encouragement and cute artwork.  Well, 8 years later, we're still writing each other!  She is a very special young woman who should have dumped this old lady long ago!  One of her passions is horses.  She shows themselves, takes riding lessons, spends as much time with them as she can, and probably loves her horses more than most people.  I made this card for her using an old, but very appropriate, All Dressed Up image called, First Prize:

I colored First Prize with Copic markers. I cut the image out and backed it with dies from LDRS Creative. The papers are part of a nautical paper pack from Pink & Main,  The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.  The star sequins I used to embellish the card are from my stash.

I hope you can join us this month for our Free For All challenge in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook Group.  I'd love to see what you make! 

Hello Summer -- for The Paper Shelter

 Hello, and happy Wednesday!  Thank you for stopping by my blog.

It's time for a new challenge at The Paper Shelter. This challenge is a little different than the usual ones.  First, the theme is Anything Goes. Also, the challenge will last a month and both teams are participating.

I used the darling TPS image, Sunshine, and created this mini slim card: 

I colored Sunshinewith Copic markers, then set about creating the card.

I used a die set from LDRS Creative to create the base of the mini slim card and the layers.  The patterned papers are from Crafter's Companion, while the solid card stock colors are Taylored Expressions. The sun and clouds are from Spellbinders, and the sentiment strip is from Taylored Expressions.

Here are the prizes you can win entering the Paper Shelter challenge! 

You have a whole month this time to join us, so I hope to see you in the challenge!

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

DigiChoosday -- ATG

A Place to Start -- ATG

Dream Valley Challenge -- Summer Colors

Polkadoodle challenge -- ATG

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge -- add a sentiment

Little Squeak -- for All Dressed Up Stamps

 Hello, and happy October!  I so love this time of year. The geese are gathering on the lakes by my house, the leaves are at their Autumn peak color, and the days are cool and crisp.  So lovely!

Today is the start of our new challenge in the All Dressed Up Stamps Facebook group.  This month's theme is "use orange and/or Purple".  Oooo, fun!

I used the adorable ADU image Little Squeak  for my project this month.  You will find it, and many wonderful images that will fit this theme in the ADU Store. 

I colored Little Squeak with Copic markers, then set out to find orange & purple papers to fit the challenge theme.  I found the patterned papers in a stash from Crafter's Companion.  The shaped dies to make this mini slim card are from LDRS Creative.  The sentiment and card base are from Taylored Expressions. The purple and orange flowers are from Prima Marketing.  Little Squeak -- so adorable!

I hope you can join us this month for our 'purple orange' challenge in the ADU Facebook group. There's also another challenge each month on the ADU challenge blog.

Thanks for visiting!

Winter Birthday Wishes -- for The Outlawz Paper ala Mode

It's Saturday, and today starts a new challenge at The Outlawz Paper ala Mode Challenge.  All year, our challenges have been sponsored by We Are 3 Digital Shop. One lucky winner will get a gift certificate to the We Are 3 Shop! The theme for the current challenge is Winter.  It will run for a month. 

The design team was given some beautiful We Are 3 Digital Shop products to create with for this challenge! 

I used papers from Winter Serenity (love the watercolor look of these!), one of the printables from Wonderland (there are 4 printables in this set), and a sentiment from the Warm Wishes Sentiment Set.  How fun to have a winter birthday sentiment!!  This is going to my brother.  He has a January birthday. 

I used a set of dies from LDRS Creative to construct this card. 

I hope you can join us for our Winter challenge at The Outlawz Paper ala Mode challenge! I'd love to see what you create! 

Giraffes on Holidays -- for The Paper Shelter Challenges

 It's Wednesday, and that means a new challenge is starting today at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. Every Wednesday, a new challenge begins.  If you use a Paper Shelter image, and you're the lucky winner of the challenge, you'll win a $30 gift certificate to the Paper Shelter Store.  Use any other image, and you'll get 3 images of your choice from the Paper Shelter Store. We have a very easy theme this week.  We just want you to use a digital image.  Of course, we'd love it if the digital image was from The Paper Shelter!

It's almost Halloween!  So, when choosing a digital image for today's challenge, I searched The Paper Shelter store for Halloween themed images and found LOTS of them!  It was hard to choose just one to use for today's 'Digital Image' challenge.  However, this one, particularly charmed me.  It's called Giraffes on Holidays, and I used the Halloween image from the set. 

I colored Giraffes on Holidays (there are 4 images in the set) with Copic markers.  Isn't he just so cute?  I wonder how long it took him to get his costume ready for his evening of Trick-or-Treating? 

I used digital papers from We Are 3 Digital Shop on this card, and the sentiment is from We Are 3, also. The background paper is from the Moody Nights paper collection. The sentiment is printed on one of the Inky Textures papers. The sentiment is part of the Halloween Wishes Sentiment Set.

The card base is part of a set of slimline dies by LDRS Creative. The elongated oval die is by Spellbinders, and the spooky garland is from The Scrapping Cottage. 

I hope you can join us this week (and every week) at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. We Have such great digis that you can win, and I'd love to see what you create!

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

Crafting Happiness Challenge -- use any of the following colors: purple, orange, green, black

Colour Crazy Challenge -- ATG with a hand colored image

Passion for Markers -- dies &/or Punches

Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

AUD Sentiments -- ATG with a Halloween sentiment

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge --ATG

Classic Design Team Challenge -- ATG