Happy EARLY Valentine's Day from All Dressed Up Stamps!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

It's still cold and somewhat snowy here in Illinois but at least we have dodged the large sweeping heavy snow storm heading to the New England States!

The card shown is from the great digital images from All Dressed Up Digital Images Store~ There are so many to choose from!  The image I used for the New Release on the 7th is called "Hugs"-so appropriate don't you think?  It is mounted on a A6 card and that gave me lots of room to stack papers and embellishments/dies/and stamps from my scraping stash.

Hope to see you in one of our Challenges that start on the 15th of each month.

 Love, Carolyn

Polkadoodles New Winter Collection: Frosty Smiles- Snowman Friends

 Hi there -Carolyn from Illinois on this chilly, FROSTY morning!  As Valentines Day approaches, this image from Polkadoodles called Frosty Smiles - Snowman Friends, will make a great card for SO many people!

  This is the image just using copics to color it up:

Copics Used:

Blues: B0000,B000,B00,B21,B12,B23

Pinks: RV000,RV00,RV29-63-52-55-91

Browns: E44-42-43-44, W3

Grays: C0,C00,C1            

Yellows: Y32,YR21,YR12  

Prismcolor pencils: French Grey, Scarlet Lake,Pnk 

                                                                                

                                                                                 

                                                        Papers, flowers,snowflake chipboard,stencil,die all from my stash.

Thanks for looking!

                           

Sweet Valentine using Sherri Baldy's Img 5281

It's that Special time of year when our thoughts
turn to our loved ones and those that are near and dear to our hearts.  Love comes in may forms and I like to express my feelings to family with my cards.
Sherri Baldy makes it so easy to choose one of her digital images to use but, it also is a curse!!  Because there are so MANY to pick from in her Bestie Shop.  This cutie is Img 5281 from the Sweet Lil' Things collection.  Just makes me feel like Spring is right around the corner!  I used the same beige distressed polka dot paper on the angled corner as in the inside of the card.  Metal butterfly has a Baker's Twine bow on the top.  There's an Echo Park sentiment block on the inside greeting.
Be sure and check out The Besties Shop for Your Valentine image-she has so many! 

Sami Stamps is Sponsoring Come and Get It Challenge. Theme is Love is In The Air!

 What a very clever image of love this is from Sami Stamps called Happy Heart Fairy found here.  We sure do have great sponsors over at Come and Get It and you can enter our latest Challenge with the theme of "Love is in the Air".
This horizontal beauty was such a fun, whimsical image and so quick to color and shade to put on a project--maybe that's because I knew exactly the paper I had on hand that would be perfect for her!  As you can see I Love the combination of pink and black!! After coloring her. I edged the image in black, mounted the sentiment from my stash with a hot pink cardstock and added a black faceted flourish spray.  On the inside liner, I wanted to see more of the b&w heart paper so that was the background.  Using the P&B print as a mat, I used another stamped sentiment-this is so versatile in that it could be an Anniversary card, a Valentine's Day card, even a Birthday card.
Come on over to Come and Get It Challenges and get an opportunity to wish a great prize from Sami Stamps!   We can't wait to see your great creation!

All Dressed Up ~ New Release! Theme is Romance And or Red!

February 2017 New Release!!

Hello Dressy Fans :)
Welcome to the first new release images for 2017! And Wendy has done us proud again with more gorgeous images.
They are now available in the Etsy Store -}here

As you can see, I chose to use "Some Bunny Loves Me" and fell head over heels in love with it!  Using the color combination of Pink and Gray -Yummy- I also put some clear Wink of Stella over the dress, shoes, and bows for that beautiful Shimmer!  Then, using a large heart die, I adjusted it so that the bunny ear tips extended over the gray matted heart.  The reverse pattern of the raspberry polkadot is this flourished print that is the vertical accent on the card. Added some pearls at the top and bottom and stamped the SU word~Adorable~ at the corner. 

 

 On the inside, I used a Valentine Word/Sentiment paper and then stamped it with a KKS stamp in the corner--Lots of room for your own personal greeting! 

Don't forget we have two challenges running right now - 

Our Blog Challenge
ending on the eve of the 14th 

and our Facebook Challenge 
ending on the last day on the month. 
The current theme is Romance & or Red.

Visit us again on the 15th for the new Challenge!!  I'd like to enter this card in the following :

Cards and More-Pets and other Furry Friends
PINspirational Challenge-Inspirational photo

Love Struck with Sherri Baldy's Images at Color It, Create It, Show It Off Challenge

For the month that's all about L.O.V.E, we are starting a new Challenge over at Color It, Create It, Show It Off with some wonderful Sherri Baldy images!

This one is Scan0066 and I think I've been bitten by the Luv Bug!  From her big green eyes to her frilly dress to the assorted posies and hearts in the corner, I'm Smitten.  After coloring her with Copics, I matted her on some pink chevron paper and then wrapped the corner with some pink satin ribbon with a repeated LOVE scripted on it.  I found this beautiful pink on pink swirly paper for the background, offset the image and used a great clear sentiment sticker that says "Love Struck". What fun it was to gather an assortment of different flowers, rosebuds, flower spikes and enameled cardstock colored hearts with words imprinted on them to anchor the corner of the card. On the inside, I used the overall pink heart paper and then used a colored digital sentiment heart that I had from my stash.  LOL it makes MY heart go all aflutter knowing that this one will go to someone special!
Now, go get inspired, come over and join us at Color It, Create It, Show It Off and enter your creation and make us fall in love with your present to us!  We'd love to have you join us!

Entering this card in the following Challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers-Love 
Pammie's Inky Pinkies-Celebrate 
Digi Chooseday- ATG 
Through The Craft Room Door- Always Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown-Love Notes

Always Anything Goes at Craft Your Passion! Sponsored by Fabrika Fantasy this week~

As we wind up the month of January, Craft Your Passion has 1 more Always Anything Goes Challenge up it's sleeve!  We're being sponsored by a new group this time, Fabrika Fantasy, and they've got some adorable digitals available for you.  This one's called Dancing Squirrel and you get both the b&w and colored jpegs and pngs.
I've got a friend that this card will be perfect for her to give to her husband for Valentine's Day.  They have a running joke about finding squirrel cards for all occasions and exchanging them.  I tried to make it more "masculine" by using some barn wood paper, a touch of kraft mats, and the more creams/browns/blacks in the accent papers. The front sentiment is computer generated and on the inside of the card I placed a complete V Day sentiment, all the while using the color combo listed above.
 As mentioned before our challenges at CYP are always ATG--Fabrika Fantasy is awarding a prize of 3 digital images from their store to the chosen winner of the challenge!  A great way to get to know them for sure.