It's Batter Up! at Come and Get It Challenge- Theme is use 2 different Embellishments!

 Well I'm sure we've all spent time at the ball diamonds this summer with our kids so I find that this set of 4 boys playing at the summer sports is perfect for the Challenge at Come and Get It!  The Twist on this Challenge is to use 2 different embellishments--Mine are Baker's Twine and a Bat/glove charm. Our Sponsor for this Challenge is Pickled Potpouri and my image is called the Boys of Summer. 
I was so happy that I'd saved this baseball stitched paper for just the right card!  Makes a great background for this type of card.  This is on a 4.75" sq. card so I matted the design paper with red cardstock as well as the copic colored image.  You can see the r&w twine and then the waxed cord bow holding the charm.
On the inside I used a brightly colored paper with baseball caps.  This is unusual for me, but I left no sentiment on the inside.  That way I could use it as a Birthday card, or even a Thinking of You card.
Be sure and join us in our Challenge and have a chance to get a prize from our Sponsor!

It's Father's Day over at Come And Get It Challenges-ATG and Time for Tea Images is sponsoring us!

 Over at Come and Get It Challenge, we are celebrating Father's Day!  Our Challenges are always ATG, but starting in July we will also have Themes!!  How exciting~
This cute image is from Time For Tea Images and she's called World's Best Dad.  I love how she's a little girl wearing her Daddy's Slippers and bringing him a gift and newspaper!  Since I'd already colored her in a fav combo of brown and blue, I found several cute papers and even a blue gingham ribbon to set it off.  In the bottom left corner I used a KKS sentiment stamp "You're So Special To Me" and added some beaded blingy blue flowers underneath it.  I also added a silver double heart charm.  On the inside, I stamped the perfect sentiment on her Dad's card.  It's one from KKS also.
I'm sure you all are making cards to share with your loved ones so show them off!  Come over to our Challenge and have some fun!

Come and Get It Challenge is ATG ! Our sponsor is Knitty Kitty-how exciting!

This week at Come and Get It Challenge, we are showing off our Embossing Talents!  Of course, it's an Always Anything Goes Challenge so there's no reason you can't just join in the fun!  Our Sponsor is Knitty Kitty and this image is called Deep Sea Diver.  It is such a FUN image with so many options!  I have been saving this fantastic green/blue swirl paper that reminds me of the papers you used to make with the oil floating on top of water.  Perfect for sea water?  After coloring up the diver with Copics, it was on to Embossing.  I'm a Frantage nut so that was my solution.  I think you can

see it along "the sea floor" around his Flippers.  I used Aged Teal Frantage, a mixture of golds and teal embossing enamel.  I continued it up into the water area and mixed it among the seaweed, fish and bubbles.  I put a mask over the diving helmet the kitty's using and eventually coated it with Glossy Accents.  I used a small bubble die cut  next to the triple matted image and then used some gifted branchies in browns, spring green and mint green in a cluster, with a string bow and accented with a pewter sea shell.  On the inside, I used the reverse of the green water paper which was anchors.  The sentiment stamp is from KKS and a great sentiment to give a guy--hummm maybe at Father's Day! 
So I hope we will see you at our Challenge so that you can inspire us with your creations!

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Crafting With Dragonflies-Animals

Great Christmas cards created with Sherri Ann Baldy imges! Purple & Lime love it!

One of my favorite Christmas card digital images this year was the one you see here from Sherri Baldy!  We know it as Scan 102 and she can be found HERE in Sherri's store, newly released.
I always have a love/hate relationship with the colors of purple but thought I'd tackle it for this card-because of the awesome paper I found that contained purple/lime, one of my favorite combinations.
After coloring with copics, and accenting all the beads, stars, and snowflakes with stickles and liquid pearls, I matted her with lime green and then wrapped the image with purple sheer chiffon ribbon.  I added a great sentiment stamp from KKS and a silver Tree charm with narrow bow.
The inside liner continues the color theme and a larger clear stamp from KKS.  I love how festive this card turned out!!
I'd like to enter this in the following:
My Besties International Challenge-Winter
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge- Option Christmas

Reminder: ATG Sherri Ann Baldy's Month long Challenge over at Color It, Create It, Show it Off

 There are so many Christmas images in Sherri Ann Baldy's shop, and many have made it onto MY cards this year, that you will have trouble deciding which is your favorite!  I created this one for Color It, Create It, Show it Off  using  "Img 454" and it is perfect with her deer antlers headband!  I used some double-sided papers from my stash and then wrapped the pretty card in a rich red organza ribbon and attached a silver Christmas Tree charm.  I also used a beautiful holly leaf swirl die cut from a dear friend in New Zealand-what a treat!
When I looked at this image, I thought-black velvet dress so hopefully I achieved that look.  I felt like she would be dressy, going to a party or a Christmas Concert.  Some white flower soft sprinkled on the fur on her dress give some dimension.
On the inside liner, I used another  Graphic 45 paper-I think it was meant to be cut apart and used separately but I like the look of it all together.  A wonderful sentiment stamped for the inside from the great group KKS finishes it off. 
As a reminder, there is still a Challenge here.  Our challenge runs from the 1st day of the Month and ends the end of the day on the 29th, and our winners are announced on the last day of the month. You can check the prizes out -the images are amazing.

Thanksgiving, a time to be Blessed at Lacy Sunshine Stamps

This is of course the month of Thanksgiving...being grateful for all that we and our loved ones have...of being Thankful for our Friends and Family.  Signs of Harvest and our nations' Bounty leave us very Blessed. 
This month, we at Lacy Sunshine Stamps welcome you all into our little homes, our "blogs", to share in this Fellowship and we share our projects that depict the Bounty of the country.
For my project, I chose Sunflower Indian  Maiden to use-one of a new Indian series that was created by the Founding Artist, Heather Valentin.  The beautiful details of her outfit, flowers, lovely facial expression makes her a real stunner.  I color my images with Copics and have included a recipe card to list them for your pleasure.  I just loved the use of a Kraft card blank to keep the total effect "natural".  I mixed that with some designer papers with a burlap weave and multiple-colored leaves-placed strips of the reverse of the leaf paper on the corners of the image.  It almost looks like beading don't you think?  I wrapped the mat with some hemp cording and added my own pewter sunflower charm.




On the inside of the card,I stamped a Thanksgiving verse, accented by many of the papers I already used.
THANK you for stopping by my home away from home.  We all hope each of our Lacy Sunshine family and friends will take a moment to be thankful for all the blessings that have been bestowed upon them.  Remember how lucky you are to have all that you have.  Come back and visit a little while longer!

Join in the Monday-Greeting Group Challenge at Outlawz! Creative Bug is Sponsoring us!

 What a treat to be asked to be a Guest Designer over at Outlawz for the whole month!  The Monday-Greeting Group asked me to share in their posts and I was thrilled to do it.  This week's theme is Sporty (any sport applies) and they are being sponsored by Creative Bug. As you can see, this image is called Tabyna Turtle...So I had to expand on the RACE (that's Sporty, right?) between the Tortoise (turtle) and the Hare...  Isn't she a cutie?
I used some creative design paper from AdorniT that is double-sided.  I had this scrap that I was playing with and before you know it, I was turning it into an EASEL Card!
I colored the image with copics, computer generated the sentiment, added a pewter charm with baker's twine...another sentiment with foam dots raises the inside sentiment up so that it catches the bent front flap.  I added an embellishment that looks like an award ribbon with a metal accent and some colored wood flowers.  I was thinking that the inside paper with it's chevrons looks like movement and racing lanes on a track.  Well, you might be running kind-of funny!
I hope you will join in this weekly challenge and post your creation for all to see!  You'll get great exposure and a chance to win some prizes.  I look forward to seeing you next Monday, June 8th!

Art by Miran Sponsors Southern Girls Challenge=Shine Like the STAR you are!

I'm SO pleased to finally get to use an image from
Art by Miran-one of my All Time Wishes!!  This one is called Florina and I love images that go off the page like this one. **sigh** Was such fun to color!  It was so cool that they were sponsoring Southern Girls Challenge these 2 weeks with a Theme of STAR(s).  I KNOW you're looking for it!!  Well, just over the round tag, you will see one of my charms in the shape of a STAR-in fact, it says Movie Star on it!  I used a 5.75 x 5.75" square card blank from The Paper Cut.  This is a great site to get pre-scored card blanks in all kinds of assorted cuts -even swing card blanks!  There blanks have a great weight to them and are so smooth to the touch.  Of course, envelopes to match!  Then a purple mat with a striped design paper on top.  The alternate patterned paper is roughed around the edges with a Tim Holtz distress tool and then I penned the stitch lines on it.  The ribbon is threaded through a top slot in the crease and wrapped to the inside.  The sentiment is just one I had from my stash.  I'm so glad you stopped by and took a look!  Come and join us in our challenge! 

Masculine Birthday using Tool Theme!

I'm having such fun making these masculine Birthday cards-these would even be cute for your kids to give to their Fathers!  The "tool" image is so realistic with the shadow casts...  I've always had lots of charms around-used to sell them on Ebay-so I decided to add a saw and a ruler charm to the stretch of Rickrack that accents this card. The 2 design papers are from the same set at Doodle Pantry as well as the sentiments.  I needed this set quickly so these pre-colored sets work SO well!  Put them on a card blank and do some matting and gluing and you've got a card.

Fitztown is sponsoring Seems a Little Sketchy -I'm showing ladybugs!

I always get a smile on my face in the spring/summer when I pull back some leaves and find those garden soldiers, the Lady Bugs! They fight so many bad bugs that bother my plants-I give them a little cheer, like Go Bug Go!  Ok, so that may be strange but I truly hate the bean beetle (Looks like a ladybug but orange with black dots) that has invaded their numbers and killed many of the LBs off AND they bite!
This week at Seems a Little Sketchy, we are using images from FITZTOWN and they are very pretty-please go check their site out!  The prize will be 3 images from them!!  Colored with copics, double matted, mini buttons down the side, ladybug ribbon,and a pewter daisy charm hanging from red/black baker's twine.  These were all the goodies that I added to this simple design sketch for my embellishments on this Birthday card.

WOOF! Check out my "Wrapped" Squigglefly entry for this week!

 Great challenge on Squigglefly this week-- --Wrap It Up - use your imagination. Wrap ribbon or twine around a layer, wrap a die cut around a corner, use wrapping paper instead of designer scrapbook paper, use an image with a wrapped gift...


I chose to use this with my dog bones twill ribbon, which I wrapped around the front panel of my card.  That way the twill showed on the inside of my card also!  The image I used was called Puppy Love by Fawn Palmer and as a grandmother of a pre-teen, I adored working with it!  The long blonde hair was fashioned after her and she loves the color purple.  I used a patterned paper to simulate wallpaper and then the solid for carpet.  I used 2 new methods on this card that I've never tried before:  choppy straight lines to simulate dog fur and alternating hash lines on her blue jeans with colorless blender to show distressed areas.  The tut said to use the colorless copic then, when dry, to go lightly over that with E41 to create the beige tint that they sometimes have.  I like the effect!  I added some charms that I had to the knotted ribbon~a heart that says Love and an enameled Top Dog House.  I've got SO many charms from when I used to sell on Ebay that I've GOT to start using them more-they make such cute accents!  
So go grab any of your Squigglefly images and get to wrapping!  A chance to win a free image from the artists' gallery is well worth the effort!  See you there!