I Love You -- For Di's Digistamps Challenges

February 1 -- the month we celebrate love.  February 1 is also the start of a new challenge at Di's Digi Designs Challenge.  The theme for the next 2 weeks is "Have a Heart" (use at least 1 heart on your project).  You don't need to use a Di's Digistamps image, but we sure like it when we do!

I used the darling Di's image, Have the Micest Day for the "Have a Heart" theme challenge.  The image is available in both black & white and colored.  This is the black and white version: 

I colored Have the Micest Day with Copic markers. Aren't they adorable little mice? I recently found a mouse in my garage, and I have to admit, my first thought was NOT "how cute!"

I used a stitched rectangle die from Taylored Expression to cut this out, then backed it with a tiny hearts digital paper from AMB Illustrations.  I heat embossed the sentiment and the tiny red hearts with a stamp set from Spellbinders.  I small stitched heart from Pink & Main was the perfect size for the sentiment.  I heart embossed with white pigment ink and super fine white embossing powder.  It's my favorite way to heat emboss with white.  

I hope you enjoyed my card and your visit to my blog.  Please join in with our "have a heart" challenge at Di's Digi Designs Challenges.   I'd love to see what you create!

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

Creative Fingers -- ATG

Cut It Up Challenges -- Have a Heart

Festive Fridays -- Valentines

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)

Snugglecan Ted -- for Di's Digistamps Challenge

 Greetings, fellow card makers! Thanks for visiting my blog today.  It's Saturday, and it's time for a new challenge at Di's Digistamps Challenges.   The challenge will run for 2 weeks, with the theme of 'Winter Wonderland'.

I found those awesome image, Snugglecan Ted, in the Di's Digistamps Etsy Shop.  It was sooooo fun to color!  It is available in a black & white version and a colored version.

Here's Snugglecan Ted: 

I colored Snugglecan Ted using a combination of Copic and Altenew Artist markers.  I love to color rust!  It is one of my favorite things to color! I enjoyed this whole image.  The scarf and hat, the bird, it was all so fun!  

I decided to keep the rest of the card simple to really focus the viewer's eye on Snugglecan Ted.

I hope you can join our Winter Wonderland challenge at Di's Digistamps challenges this week!  You can use any image, but a Di's Digi will get you more of a prize if you win!

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

52 Christmas Card throwdown -- Wild Animals

Allsorts Challenge -- Close to Nature

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends -- ATG

Three Chilly Penguins -- for Di's Digistamps Challenge

 Hello, and welcome to 2025!  It's going to be a crafty. inspiring year!!

Today is the first day of the new challenge at Di's Digistamps Challenges.  Our month-long break is over, and it's back to the fun of creating. The theme for the next 2 weeks is "hand colored image".  You can use any image you want, but you'll be entered into a separate drawing if you use a Di's Digistamps image.  She has sooooooo many cute ones in her online Etsy shop.  When I wrote this post on 1-2-25, everything in the store was 50% off.  I hope you get in on the sale!!

For the hand colored image challenge, I colored up Three Chilly Penguins.  I had so much fun with this!

Three Chilly Penguins -- darling, aren't they? I colored the image with a combination of Copic markers and Altenew Artistry markers.  I used a mini slimline die from Spellbinders to cut out the Three Chilly Penguins.  The sentiment is from Pink & Main.  The gems are from my stash.

I hope you can join our challenge this next 2 weeks.  I'd love to see what you create! 

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

ABC Christmas challenge -- favorite color (rainbow) and animals (penguins)

Digichoosday -- ATG

Elliebelle's Crafty Corner -- ATG

Word Art Wednesday -- ATG

AUD Sentiments -- Winter, with a sentiment

Promarker Challenge -- Mega Christmas Challenge

In Sympathy --- using Hero Arts

Greetings, crafty friends!  I hope you are enjoying the holiday season. Even though it's the holidays, the need for sympathy cards continues.  I have 2 to share with you today.

When I need sympathy cards, I often reach for a stamp and doe set from Hero Arts.  It's called the Hero Arts With Sympathy Bundle .  I used different color ways on these 2 cards, but the same basic design:

I like creating my own background paper, and I did that here using watermark ink and clear embossing powder.   I stamped and colored up several of the floral designs in the bundle, but decided to keep it very simple.  They were colored with Copic markers and cut out with the matching dies in the set.  I heat stamped the sentiment and several extra layers, glued them together, and had some dimension for my card.  The vellum was cut using the Hero Arts circle infinity dies.  HA vellum is the thickest I've ever used.  It has become my favorite vellum. 

Here's a close up of each card.  The first uses Pesto card stock:

The second card uses Peacock card stock:

Supplies used on the cards:

With Sympathy Bundle

Pesto cardstock

Peacock cardstock

Intensified Black Ink

vellum

Circle infinity dies

Thanks for visiting today!

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

Promarker Challenge -- ATG

Crafty Gals Corner -- ATG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends -- ATG

Happy 2025! A New Release at All Dressed Up Stamps

 Here it is, the first card I created for the year fast approaching.  It's a new release from All Dressed Up Stamps.  Wendy Burns releases 3 images each month and the design team showcases them at various times throughout the month.  Today, I had the honor of creating with 'Happy 2025':

I colored 'Happy 2025' with Copic markers. I used 2 different hexagon dies from Taylored Expressions to cut her out and add the embossed details.  I then got out my circle dies to add some festive color and to create the round card base.  The Happy New Year sentiment is a rub on  from Hero Arts.  They have the best rub-ons I've ever used. 

There she is, wishing you an outstanding new year!  

Thanks for stopping by today.

Friend Holiday Card -- using Hero Arts

 Happy holidays to you!  Thank you for visiting my blog.  Today, I'm featuring a holiday card using Hero Arts products.  I plan to enter in the the Hero Arts Stay Crafty 'Deck the Halls' challenge and to use it as one of the cards I send in to apply for the Stay Crafty design team (Hero Arts). 

Using a Hero Arts products, here's my holiday card: 

I started with a 2 layered snowflake stencil from the November 2023 My Monthly Hero kit.  This was part of the deluxe kit.  I used 2 colors of ink cubes from the Aqua Core ink cubes bundle of 4 inks. The shiny aqua snowflakes were cut out using the Snowflake Pattern Cover Plate die.  The 'Friend' word die is from the Smile/Friend Stamp and Cut XL. The Happy Holidays stamp was part of the November 2023 kit. I used 2 colors of Hero Hues card stock -- Passion Flower & Amethyst.

Happy holidays, Friend!  Thanks for stopping by!

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

Hero Arts Stay crafty with a Blog Named Hero  -- Deck the Halls challenge

Cut it Up Challenge -- Use more than 1 diecut 

My Time to Craft -- Something snow related

Aloha Friday Challenge -- Christmas/winter

Passion for Marker Challenge -- ATG