It's STRAWBERRY PICKING Time over at All Dressed Up Stamps!

I just LOVE strawberries-we used to take the kids to the strawberry fields and let them pick, and EAT, all they wanted to before taking our load home to process.  This cutie NEW IMAGE is called STRAWBERRY SEASON  from All Dressed Up Stamps.  Making my mouth water just looking at her.

I made this card on a Mini Slim blank-was new to me but excellent for those narrower images.  Using of course red gingham paper for the background, trimmed the edge with red rickrack, a buggy themed paper as an accent-the card was created.  I used dimensional dots to lift her from the background.  Somehow I got a swish of green copic marker under her ear-OH NO...just turned it into a strawberry earring and the recipient will never know! On the inside, I continued with yellow gingham paper and stamped in brown the sunflower-sign-and message from my stash.

Hope you like and hope you enjoy this DT creation of mine for ADU!

Come back soon, Carolyn

 

I Love to Bake....Birthday card for All Dressed Up Challenge

Welcome to the June Challenge at All Dressed Up Stamps. 

The theme here at All Dressed Up Stamps Blog challenge is

Anything goes with an ADU image

***Please remember your creations must use an

 All Dressed Up Image*** 

If you don't have any of our images yet, we have provided some  gorgeous freebies which you can find-} here. 

so no one has any crafty excuse at least to not join in our challenges but please respect the rules by not sharing these images … simply tell your friends to come here so they can join in the fun too! 

You can also buy any of Wendy's amazing 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 choose their top 3 creations. All winners will be announced at the end of the month.

 

***I decided to jump onboard the "Slimline Card" train and try my hand on one-they are a lot of fun!  The image I used from All Dressed Up is called " I Love to Bake".  I added the black and white checked tablecloth, the pennant banners from KKS using a stencil and two of their rubber sentiments.  As this was my first SL card, it was a little awkward at first but it won't take long to get the hang of them and make several! On the inside, I was already to add a floral print with a black background when I happened to turn it over and found the b&w hounds tooth pattern!  What a perfect piece to use.  I'm so happy with this addition to my Birthday Card Stash!

The All Dressed up team hope you will play along with us and you have until the evening of the 14th July (UK time) to enter your cards with the link below. 

And don't forget to visit our Etsy Store to see all of Wendy's fabulous images. 

We can't wait to see what you all make!

See you again soon

All Dressed Up Challenge~ Anything Goes with an ADU image

Over at All Dressed Up Stamps, we are currently running our April 15th Challenge and we want you to join in!  It runs to May 14th and is AG with using an ADU image.

The one I chose for this event is called Strawberry Girl and can be found in the Shop here.    Lol this card has had 2 revisions much to my frustration but I'm happy with the end results.  I had to fancy cut the image as the background I was creating got ruined.  So originally, her blanket would have showed up much better had I not done that.*** It just goes to show that you have to be flexible with your creations 'cause you never know when things are going to go down the tubes!  You just laugh and go on!  As I was running out of time, I used some zigzag papers chipped at the top to form "grass" and had some emergency cloud paper that was used in the background.

In the inside, I used a smaller graphic paper and a white label die cut to frame the friendship sentiment that I stamped.  Both of the sentiments were from KKS and really come in handy! 
We hope to see what YOU create for the challenge-the winner gets free images from ADU and there's tons to choose from!  Hurry on over!

Reminder to come on over and play with us at Color It Create It Show It Off!

I created another card for Color It Create It Show It Off  as a REMINDER of the great Challenge we currently have going on!  Doesn't this cutie sitting on a Strawberry Jam jar make you hungry for that sweet treat?  Yummy!  She's Img671 from Sherri Baldy's shop.  Trying to keep everything rosy and pinkish-red I used 2 different design papers and then some Petal Lu flowers.
I just love this KKS Sweetness stamp I used for the inside sentiment!
Come on over and play with us at CICISIO and hopefully you will win some images for your efforts!  We'd love to see your creations!
Entering this card in the following:
My Besties Aussie Challenge-Spring/Flowers

New Sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy-Robyn's Fetish is the sponsor!

 We got some cute images from this great site, Robyn's Fetish to use on this week's sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy.  Mine is a Strawberry cluster and it really makes me think that some warm days are ahead.  I can just picture the juicy strawberry juice dribbling down my chin....well it's 40 degrees here tonight so let me have my dream right?
The cluster of flowers features a punched layered paper flowers-pierced in the center with a brad, moistened and scrunched up into a dimensional flower.  The other flower is actually a prima stacked flower that is sitting on top of a cloth "spoolie" or "yo-yo" they used to be called. Then I filled in with tan, green, and cream branch punchies from a friend.  I gave this to my daughter for her recent Birthday and she just loved it!
Come and play along with our 2 week challenge-Robyn is giving away 3 digital images to the winner and you can enter more than once.  We'd love for you to visit!

Let's get fruity on Squigglefly this week!

 The challenge this week on Squigglefly is to use fruit on your card--it can be your image or embellishments.  Well since we're finally in Springtime it seems like a natural opportunity.  I tell you I was a little stumped by this at first, but when I started working on some cards this week, I found this great strawberry paper by The Paper Patch called Garden Strawberries. And~click~ I suddenly had the song "Strawberry Fields Forever" in my head!  This image called "Slow & Steady Sally by Cheryl Alger" actually shows her on a tightrope I believe with a ladybug.  I decided to use that curvy line as a guide for a Field of strawberries she was walking on.  With the blue sky background and the Juicy Birthday sentiment, I think it will be a big Smile Maker for a friend's young daughter!