It's time to Garden over at ALL DRESSED UP STAMPS!! ATG Challenge

 

This is my latest DT creation for All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge using "Little Gardener"--Perfect for this time of year.  We have already planted most of our personal garden and the Iris and Daylillies are getting ready to pop.

With this image I chose to fancy cut it, using some braces on the back side for stability.  She has the most adorable puppy in the wheelbarrow.  I stamped the 6x6 card background using Horizon Lines-Reflection stamps from Sweet November Stamps, which gave me clouds, trees and shrubs.  The sentiment and sand/gravel are both from S/U.

The ADU Challenge will last for a month so be sure to make your creation with an ADU image  and enter the challenge.  The Design Team votes on the winners, no random number here and we can't wait to be inspired and new ideas!

Thanks for looking....Carolyn

 

DT Call at All Dressed Up for their Blog Challenge DT AND the Facebook DT!

 There's currently a DT Call over at All Dressed Up and that's so exciting for several people!!  There are actually 2 Teams: Blog Challenge DT (what I'm looking for) but also the Facebook DT!  I'd wanted to share 3 cards that I previously made using an All Dressed Up Images: One image is called "I Love My Puppy" , "Mirror Mirror", and "Amore" is the last one.  They have such adorable digis to choose from and if you need an image, several freebies to color up and join in!  Can you tell I like using the images they have? I'm planning on submitting one of the cards for consideration for the monthly post that's required and hope that you will do the same. Good Luck!

Guest Designer at All Dressed Up this week!! SO HONORED!

I've always admired the Digital Image site, All Dressed Up, and recently had an opportunity to enter a challenge they had with the theme Hearts.  I was truly honored to have my entry chosen as one of the Top Three... which then turned into an Invite--eek!---to be the Guest Designer at the next Challenge on March 2nd!  I'm Over The Moon to say the least.
This is my entry for that Great Honor, using I Love My Puppy-in love from the first moment I saw it in the All Dressed Up Etsy Shop HERE.  This dress I colored reminds me of a sundress I had back in my childhood that had these intricate "medallions" on it similar to the blue ones in the coloring.  She has such a sunny personality I had to put her in the clouds!  I matted that image on some gorgeous sunny dp- also used in the liner- and I took some baby red ric-rac and wrapped the edge.  As I tend to do, overthink the designing, I wanted to show this really neat raindrop paper that I have in my stash (sunny/rain) and used some floral die cuts from my stash (colored to match the yellows), topped off with a button(favorite embellie) and some embroidery floss.  The perfect stamp says "I'm Here Rain or Shine" from KKK.  Inside, I kept it simple using the Umbrella and sentiment stamp that says "Wishing you Brighter Days".
This is a card very special to me cause it will be going to a very Dear Niece that is recovering from surgery and is now on the road to recovery.  It was just a perfect time to be asked to use such a great image from All Dressed Up and I thank them for the opportunity to do so!  Check them out-I'm sure you will find the perfect image for YOUR life!

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!