Spring at Polkadoodles using "Just a Note"

 Hi Everyone, Carolyn here--Spring is coming!!!  I think this card for Polkadoodles just oozes fresh air, sweet smell of flowers, and the pitter patter of raindrops!  I used the image called "Just a Note" and it just makes me smile!

 

Using my favorite medium Copics:

Purples: BV13, BV02, FV2

Pinks: R0000,RV000,RV10,RV02,RV21, R81,R83,R85

Greens: YG11, YG17,23,06

Yellows: YR12,21,YR04,14,15

Browns: E43,41,44

Grays: C0,1,2,3

Prismacolor pencils

White Posca Pen

Glossy Accents on raindrops

One other great die that Polkadoodles carries is the Flower Flourish set-now I only used the filigree small unit but there are 6 pieces! I cut mine from PD design paper and added buttons in the centers.  The papers used are from the Scrumptious Sugar pack and Winnie's Mermazing Ocean paper pack

       So many great goodies they have on their site and even a new Spring collection debuting soon!

I always finish the insides of my cards shown here using dies and stamps from my stash!
Thanks for looking-see you soon!

You're GNOME-azing from POLKADOODLES- Adorable

I'm sure that you Crafty Folks LOVE Gnomes the same as I do!  Think it's just that Huge nose and full beards that just gives me a chuckle!  I'm thrilled to use my first Gnome from Polkadoodles called "Your Gnome-azing".  She's in her garden which is just where I like to be.  I used a combination of soft and deep colors on her, adding a "woven" look to her hat.  In addition, I used one of Polkadoodles many metal dies called Flower Flourish.  This die comes with solid as well as a filigree cut, so 6 flower sizes and shapes-very versatile.  I finished my flowers with buttons in the centers. After I aged the image with light brown ink, I matted it with blue cardstock and mounted it to one of the many paper packs found at PD!  This pack is called "Soft & Scrumptious" and IS Gorgeous.
There are so many crafting supplies at this great site, please check them out!  I think I have more GNOMES in my future.  They have a six new characters out right now and more to come.
 

You're GNOME-azing from POLKADOODLES- Adorable

I'm sure that you Crafty Folks LOVE Gnomes the same as I do!  Think it's just that Huge nose and full beards that just gives me a chuckle!  I'm thrilled to use my first Gnome from Polkadoodles called "Your Gnome-azing".  She's in her garden which is just where I like to be.  I used a combination of soft and deep colors on her, adding a "woven" look to her hat.  In addition, I used one of Polkadoodles many metal dies called Flower Flourish.  This die comes with solid as well as a filigree cut, so 6 flower sizes and shapes-very versatile.  I finished my flowers with buttons in the centers. After I aged the image with light brown ink, I matted it with blue cardstock and mounted it to one of the many paper packs found at PD!  This pack is called "Soft & Scrumptious" and IS Gorgeous.
There are so many crafting supplies at this great site, please check them out!  I think I have more GNOMES in my future.  They have a six new characters out right now and more to come.

Springtime over at The Paper Nest Dolls with Ellie!

This week for Paper Nest Dolls, I'm using Ellie with Flowers--perfect for Springtime that will Hopefully come to Illinois soon!
I love this bright blue and yellow combination for my Get Well card-I'm always needing those.  To me this copic colored image is perfectly framed with a denim looking paper and crisp polka-dotted background.
I used a Stampin' Up stamp and yellow mini buttons for accents.   I repeated the dotted paper as the liner inside the card and a circle stamp for a sentiment.
So, as this is a REMINDER to you, come over to our challenge to enter your creation and maybe win a prize!  We'd love to see your projects!

REMINDER of a Color It Create It Show It Off CHALLENGE! It's time for FALL

I always like this time of year when I can bring out my Black Sparkly cardstock to use as a background when I take my October images! It makes them so special!
This special card is to REMIND each and every one of you that we have a Challenge going on over at Color It Create It Show It Off and you still have time to join us!  There are some adorable Sherri Baldy images to choose from if you're a winner! 
I chose to use  Scan0011 (or as I call her Fall Girl hehe) and I really went full out FALL COLORS on this one!!  The real reason there's so many patterns on the card...is that I liked ALL of them and couldn't make up my mind!  The one with the leaves has shiny embossed sections on it-swoon!  Love adding buttons (THAT comes from my Mom), I accented the bottom edge with mini yellow pompom fringe to give different texture and topped it off with a tag stamped with a KKS stamp and orange epoxy dot.  I always finish the inside of the cards I make and this time used a kraft and pumpkin paper with yet another KKS stamp and dots.
Hope this got your creative juices going and you're chomping at the bit to join our Challenge over at CICISIO! 

Paper Nest Dolls Sponsors "Too Cute Too Spook" at Come And Get It!

This week at Come and Get It October Challenge, We are celebrating our THEME-Too Cute to Spook!!!  EEEK be watching for those FUN scary cards/projects coming your way.  Our Sponsor is Paper Nest Dolls and boy does Christine have some great Digital Halloween images!  **That's right you heard me!  Not only does she have those wonderful rubber stamps but ALSO great digital images as well.  I just love the versatility of those!** 

This one is called Witch Ellie riding broom and she was a dream to color up!  Copics were my coloring choice and I added some random roof tops underneath her-they aren't part of this image.  I matted her with this Amazing thick, wrinkly, neon green paper that has sparkle to it.  I got it at HL in black, green and purple-awesome for this time of year. Added some accent buttons and then used a design paper that had green bats flying around.

On the inside, I used the reverse side of the bat paper and then stamped it with a great Halloween sentiment from KKS.
Come on over and play with us at Come and Get It Challenge!  We'd love to see your inspiring creations!!

New Challenge over at Color It Create It Show It Off--ATG--Sherri Baldy! 2 Winners!!

 For many many years, I sewed for my family and saved money but, more importantly, had fun making creations -fabric art!
This cutie, Img 831 from Sherri Baldy, is a favorite of mine for those reasons ( I nicknamed her Button Gal).  As a member of my Fav Design Team at Color It Create It Show It Off, we are so lucky to get to use these unique images!
We are announcing the CICISIO Challenge today and you can join in this ATG event here.  We can't wait to see your creations and have a chance to WIN some prizes!
To keep with the Sewing "theme" of the image, I used stitches "rub-ons" around the edges of the image and the fun flap.  After coloring her with copics, I attached 2 loops of a satin measuring tape ribbon and added small shaped buttons to bring out the pretty lavenders on the card.  The sentiment is from KKS and suits the card perfectly!  On the inside liner,I repeated the black embossed dotted paper and chose another sentiment from KKS.  LOL I've got JUST the friend to send this to!

Entering this card:

The Paper Shelter-digital
Create and Make-ATG w/ Yellow 
Digi Choosday Crafting-ATG
Crafty Girls Creation-ATG 
Digital Delights by Louby Lou-ATG w/ stamped/digi 

 

It's "Sunny Days" at All Dressed Up Challenge! Come out and play!

Welcome back to a brand new challenge.

As always the theme for our Blog Challenge is -

Anything Goes 

but you must use a All Dressed Up Image.

Not got any? There are some gorgeous freebies -} here. 

But please respect the rules! 

 Or you can buy any of Wendy's fab images from the All Dressed Up store -} here. 

Now what could be easier than that? 

For this Challenge, I'm using the image "I Love Sunny Days"--you can't help but smile when you look at this cutie!  I love the color combo of oranges and moss greens so, after coloring her so, I added some clouds and grass with some dots for flowers and had a happy little scene created.  I die cut a row of flowers in the moss green and then made a double row out of it, added some flower buttons .  The inside has a great matted stamped sentiment from KKS.

We will randomly pick a winner to receive 3 images of your choice, and our DT will chose their top 3 creations. 
We also have a guest DT spot, so if you are the winner, you'll be invited to share a creation as part of our DT for the following month.

 We do hope you will find the time to play along - You have until the evening of the 14th to enter your creation--We hope to see you there!

Oddball Art Co. is Sponsoring us at Crafting When We Can- BRIGHT & COLORFUL is the Theme

What a great theme we have for this next challenge at Crafting When We Can--BRIGHT & COLORFUL!  Perfect for some Summertime fun and sponsored by Oddball Art Co.   As they say on their site:  Perfect Combo of Sweet & Sour Glittering Up the Grunge-what fun!
This image is called Sallie & Charlie and was such Fun to color up with my copics.  Lots of details but easy to get to all the layers.  Sorry for the washed out effect in the corner-didn't realize that I had the Ott light that close!  I laid out a layer at the bottom of the image of sand colored Flower Soft-so glad I had that close at hand!  Mounted that on top of some green plaid paper after gluing some white bubble die cuts  along the edge.  I really liked the fresh summer printed design paper for that "crisp" look in the background.  The 3 buttons I found were lime green, hot pink, and aqua blue-added some aqua/white baker's Twine in bows and think it's just Sassy!  It could be a card for just about anything-I left the inside of the card pretty basic with a stamped sentiment.  We hope you will join us over at the CWWC Challenge and when you go visit the Oddball Site, we know you will have fun walking through the Store!

Theme Challenge at Crafting When We Can-Sponsored by Lemon Shortbread

This week at Crafting When We Can the Challenge is to find inspiration from this:
  It could be the gorgeous colors, button, or maybe sewing theme--Or all three!  This image is from Lemon Shortbread and she has beautiful digitals of all kinds.  Check her out!  She is called Babydoll Dress Girl   and she is done with copics.  I teamed her up with this awesome paper that had several of the colors as well as spools of thread, scissors, sewing needle and on top of that, I used mini buttons as the centers of the flowers. To add a little more accent, I used rub-on "faux stitching" around the image.  On the inside is the reverse of the patterned paper-it is in a glowing orange with sewing patterns and advertisements.  I used a stamped thank you sentiment from my stash.
We would love to see your creations on our Challenge this week.  The Prize is a $10 gift certificate from the Lemon Shortbread Shop!  SEW get to work and show us your stuff!

ATG Challenge at All Dressed Up, using one of the ADU images--Win Some Images!

Welcome back to a brand new challenge. We had some fabulous entries last month, so keep checking back for our winner and top three!

 As always the theme for our Blog Challenge is -

Anything Goes 

but you must use a All Dressed Up Image.

Not got any? There are some gorgeous freebies -} here. 

But please respect the rules! 

 Or you can buy any of Wendys fab images from the All Dressed Up store -} here. 

We will randomly pick a winner to receive 3 images of your choice, and our DT will chose their top 3 creations. 
 
I have an older Granddaughter so always like the selection of teen images that Wendy Burns offers at All Dressed Up.  This one is called "Just So Cool" and  who doesn't love listening to music!  I do apologize for the light exposure on this card-nothing I could do would give me a better picture!  I really liked the play on the denim mat, chevron paper, and micro dot navy paper with the mini red button accents!  On the inside the red chevron paper really livens it up and I stamped it with my large Happy Birthday stamp.  I think any Teen will love it!  
We do hope you will find the time to play along - You have until the evening of the 14th to enter your creations

Bingo Challenge over at Crafting When We Can

As this post is after the Thanksgiving Holiday (in the States that is), I hope all my friends had a great Turkey Day with your family and friends.
It's sort-of the launch into the Christmas season and with that in mind, I'm using an image from Devil Cait Designs and the image is called Tracy.  With this Crafting When We Can Challenge, we are to use a Bingo Board.  I'm using Buttons, Animal, and Snowflakes (on the paper).  In addition, I colored her glasses like candy canes, a Cardinal (my fav bird), and accented with striped Graphic 45 papers.  The red velvet ribbon is SO Christmas and the shiny gold ribbon slide really shows it off. On the inside liner, I've used the coordinating textured Cardinal paper and a Christmas sentiment.
Come on over and join in our Challenge.  We'd love to see your creations!

My Besties UK Challenge for October 1st has a Theme of Halloween! Wooooooo Will join us??

When I think of Halloween, the colors of purple, green, and orange come to mind!  This week at the My Besties UK Challenge site it's Anything Goes with a theme of Halloween!  I'm sure we will see some BOO-tiful creations!  I'm using the image Daisy "img104" from Sherri Baldy's Store here, and it's a versatile one in that you could really use her for a whole host of seasons.  When I saw her, I instantly thought of black hat and pants, wild purple hair, and orange flowers.
Well I have yet to figure out my problem with the inability to pick up the rich purples on my card by my camera-imagine that all the blues you are seeing are really purple!  I put orange dots on her pants and then put Stickles on top of those.  The image is triple matted with a black glitter cardstock and orange on the back layer.  The card is wrapped with baker's twine with some embellishments of a felt pumpkin and black scary cat.  I am lovin' the multi-colored chevron paper!
On the inside liner, I had some great spooky house paper  that was a recent purchase-so cool!  I used a sentiment from KKS that was matted in orange and purple and this great button that has a black cat in it!  I know several deserving friends that I could send this too--woooooooo will it be?  This Challenge at My Besties UK lasts all month and we'd love to see your creations--Spooky or Fun we love it all and can't wait to see all of you there!

I'd like to enter this in Challenges:

My Besties International Challenge-ATG, Halloween Twist