"Same But Different" for the My Besties UK Design Team--Hope you are inspired!

 It's half-way through the month and, at My Besties UK, we like to have an event called "Same But Different" on the 15th.  Each of the DT members take the same image and put our own Flair on it!  This month's image is called Hollyhock Fairy and she's a cutie!  You can find her on the My Besties Shop here.
After coloring her with copics, I added Diamond Dust Stickles to her wings and Diamond Glaze to her gorgeous brown eyes so that they would look wet.  She is double matted, with a heavy lace accent on the side.  I used a double sided paper that had the whitewashed on one side and the terracotta colored patterned paper on the other.  The bonus is that on the edge of the 12 x 12 paper, as many companies are doing now, there was a sentiment on the very edge in Kraft color.  As you can see I used it on the front along with some flat based pearls. I finished my project in the inside liner by using the patterned paper and a rubber stamped Friends sentiment.
I hope as you look through the images, you will get inspired by our creations and go to Sherri Baldy's Store and pick out a cutie to use yourself!

I'd Love to enter my card in the following Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner-Freestyle 
Creative Moments-ATG w/ Twist, Fall Colors 
Crafty Sentiments Designs-Use your Favorite Stamp or Image 
Inky Chicks-Fairies and/or wings 
Through The Craft Room Door-ATG 
My Besties International Challenge Blog-ATG

Craft Your Passion~Always Anything Goes Challenge~ Sponsored by Julia Spiri-CHALLENGE WINNER & Top 5!

For the second image I used The Little Dragonfly from Julia Spiri and just love the way she turned out!  This image is a very popular one from her store and she's so delicate looking!

I think fairies looks so interesting in colored hair-pulled out a technique from the past where you show a lighter shade of the color through the wings to help with the transparency effect of the wings, which have a coating of Diamond Stickles over them.  Tried the split look of 2 different design papers which is so totally different for me!  A matted stamped sentiment and a cluster of wood, paper, and prima flowers with rhinestone centers and die cuts balance off the corners.  The inside of the card is finished off with another stamped sentiment.
We look forward to you joining us over at the Craft Your Passion Challenge blog!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Southern Girls Challenge-Sparkle (Fairy Wings)

New Techniques at the One Sweet Challege/Sweet Pea Stamps-Z-Fold Method

This post for One Sweet Challenge from Sweet Pea Stamps is all about learning or using a new technique. So I decided that I would try a Z-fold method, I believe that is what this is called, using a beautiful image from The Sweet Pea Stamps Shop called Beautiful by Holly Durr.  I used copics to color her in and various heritage style papers.  I love the feel of the butterfly die cut with the Happy Birthday stamp!  Felt it's very elegant.  Be sure and check out our challenge this week and get your entry ready!

Aurora Wings Sponsors us at Craft Your Passion-Always Anything Goes!

Every week we have a new challenge at Craft Your Passion usually featuring images from amazing sponsors.  This week is no different as we are working with digitals from Aurora Wings.  Their delightful fairies are some of my favorites!  This week I'm using Daisy Elf and I've dreamed of using this after seeing it on so many friends' cards!  I love the way her delicate wings look and the depth of the color in the flower petals.
I found a delightful paper by Echo Park that was double sided and thought that by using 4 mats under the image, that it really made the copic colored image really pop.  I wrapped the matted bundle with pink sheer ribbon...do you get the feel that I like PINK?? One of the complimentary papers in the set I used inside and finished it off with a sentiment and colored gem flower.
At Craft Your Passion, our challenges are Always Anything Goes and the winner receives $10 worth of digital images from Aurora Wings- WooHoo!

Lacy Sunshine-Anything goes Challenge-Christmas in July

I know that you all have heard of Christmas in July events--gotta think of someway to beat the heat right?  Well, Team A from the Lacy Sunshine Creative Team wants to welcome you to the bi-weekly challenge!  We are featuring the Whimsical group of images created by Heather Valentin called Briar Whimsies...they live in the woodlands among the fairies and mushrooms.  On rare occasions it snows in the forest so, you might see some snow!
The image I'm using is Mushi Whimsie Christmas and she's using her mushrooms as Christmas Trees.  She's very decorative herself in her Christmas Red and white "fur" trimmed outfit.  There was a lot of Flower Soft flying around my craft room.  Of course, there are ornaments hanging from the "Trees" and the festive red mushrooms are topped with the snow that fell in her picture.  I felt like she needed to be on a forest dirt floor among all the other trees on the design paper--some of them are glossy embossed and glittery.  On the inside of the card is the coordinating paper that matches with both verses on the paper as well as a wonderful sentiment from my stash.
Please come and join us for a delightful Christmas in July with Lacy Sunshine-We can't wait to see your creations and get inspired!

Lacy Sunshine ATG Creative Team 2 week Challenge-"Spread Your Wings-in the Summer Sun"

We've started something new at Lacy Sunshine, a
2-week Creative Team Challenge for all of the fans of Lacy Sunshine images! 
We are so excited to strut our "stuff" and especially, to see all the wonderful projects that you enter in the Challenge--It's Anything Goes and we know that you ALL love those!!   The image that I chose to illustrate the monthly theme of "Spread Your Wings-in the Summer Sun" is Desiree Dragonfly Buggmees and she can be found here.  I just adore the intricate details and the adorable faces that Heather creates for her Lacy Sunshine Store!
I love layers so I picked up colors from the Copic colored image (see recipe card) and used several mats of design paper.  I love buttons--can you tell??  The card blank is a 6x6 scalloped edged blank I got in a deal from England so I use them sparingly but Gladly give them up for Lacies!!  In the inside, against a soft purple paisley print, I placed a fancy cut flower from the Fred she Said collection I have from a past DT experience.  It has a choice of sentiment inserts so I chose a Thinking of You. 
So come on, We Want To See Your Creations!  You have the next 2 weeks to enter and we wish everyone the best in the Challenge!

Things with Wings Monthly Challenge at Sweet Pea Stamps!

This is my post for the New Challenge this Month --Things with Wings!  There are so many images at Sweet Pea Stamps that will fit this bill!  I decided to use Green Bubble Sprite and will eventually try the tutorial at the website on how to make realistic bubbles!  I like how these turned out but we have an artist that shows how to make ones that are iridescent and so beautiful-Check it out sometime!  

This is kind of how this card came to be...I kept having this piece of Magic Mesh, that was given to me by a friend long ago, keep on tumbling down on my craft table where I do all my creations...Irritated I kept putting it back ..until I thought that it really looked like the shimmery sea and matched the iridescent bubbles of the Sprite. So one thing led to another and hence the card.

Be sure to check back for the next month's theme at One Sweet Challenge-Sweet Pea Stamps has so many images that will inspire you to enter your creation!  Remember: Our prizes for our challenges are a $10 coupon if the winner uses a Sweet Pea Stamp rubber stamp or digital image and a $5 coupon to the Sweet Pea Stamp store if the winner did not use a Sweet Pea Stamp.  See you there!

Aurora Wings is the Sponsor for Seems a Little Sketchy's Sketch Challenge

 This week we are thrilled to have Aurora Wings as our sponsor at Seems a Little Sketchy.  The image I'm using is called Poppy Fairy and I just love her! The sketch that SALS gave us to use is shown here-since I wanted to show more of the image as a rectangle instead of a square, I wasn't able to "sprinkle" various accents like the sketch shows.  BUT, I decided to use purple and pink guinea feathers placed at the corners instead, as if they ran underneath the image.  I just love "Icelandic Poppies" with their soft pink colors so I colored these like them.    

There's diamond Stickles over the Fairy Wings.  The winner of the 2 week challenge will get a $15 Voucher from Aurora Wings so we hope that we see YOU there!

Emerald Fairies and Artful Inkings are debuting as a Sponsors at Southern Girls Challenge! Welcome!

 This great new sponsor for SGC is named Emerald Fairies and they have so many cute pixies it just puts a smile on your face to work with them!  The one that I'm using is called "Jewel" and she fits right into the theme at Southern Girls Challenge this time--Stripes!
I'm using an Outer Stair Step Card blank from The Paper Cut in a very springlike color, Sour Apple.  With this being pre-scored, it takes all the measurement and folding hassles out of your hands!  Easy, Peasy!  On the back level, I used a fence die cut and a TH grass dc and then multicolored small prima flowers to create an outdoor scene.  The design paper I used was 2 sided so I used both as accent papers.  The digital image was colored in copics and then I used diamond Stickles on the wings for some shimmer.  I used my computer to create the sentiment and then mounted it on some complimentary green cardstock.  Here at Southern Girls, we have a new challenge every 3 weeks with different, awesome sponsors.  Come and place your entries and join in the fun!

And additional card was needed so I quickly chose a cute image with a guitar, as my husband sells guitars in our shop in his spare time!  This image was very easy to color and shade so that made me happy!  I basically used some masculine striped paper and musical paper from my stash...sad but I could probably furnish a shop with my paper addiction.  I made some loops from a roll of satin ribbon and added them to the matted image.  Stamped with a Studio G "Big Hugs" stamp on the front and Hero Arts stamp with happy Birthday image.  Think I've got several uses for this card!
 

Challenge 75 at Southern Girls Challenge-Things that start with "F" !!!!--Great Sponsors

Marianne Designs and Iva Nova Chest are the two sponsors this week on Southern Girls Challenge and we are SO Glad to have them here!  We were able to use any image to make our "F" word creation and I chose to use a Freebie over at Squigglefly, where I'm a DT member.  The cutie image is called "Fairy Fun" by Fawn Palmer and she's sitting in a Field of Flowers with 2 Fairies holding her braids! The sentiment is also from Squigglefly, created by a fellow DT member, Charlene Mitchell-you can use it in so many ways!

I used a copics and Stickles on the design, loopy paper lace, embossed green card stock and this wild variegated wide rick rack.

Come play with us for the next 2 weeks so you can have a chance to win some fabulous prizes from our sponsors! I think I put enough "F's" for everyone!