Fairy Shelly

Hello, today is my day to share with you a project from our wonderful sponsor.

The file I chose is called Fairy Shelly.

I made her a tad larger than my card, which I turned into a twisted easel.

 Isn't' she adorable? I just love her.

 This is what the card looks like when open. I created a fun beach scene inside and used a gorgeous bow as the easel prop.

Life is sweet

 This was the progressive challenge image for August from Bloobel. You can check out all the cute images here.

 It's a tad creepy but I think it's pretty cool!

Sunflower

Hello there! Happy September!!

This month at Connie Can Crop, our challenge is

Our sponsor this month is

I chose to use one of  my files from Treasure box for my project, she's called Sunflower.

I added one of my Peachy Keen faces and a sentiment from MFT along with a bow using some beautiful ribbon.

I hope you will link up with us!

Imagine That progressive challenge

Isn't she pretty?  I just love her! Her outfit is in one of my favorite color combinations so I used the pre-colored image.  I found a fun shape in my SIL library to cut out the image and create a frame.

 I just bought this washi tape recently and thought it was a good match.

I pulled out my treasured 3 Girl Jams ribbon to make a gorgeous bow.

Art Impressions water color

I jumped on the Art Impressions water color stamping band wagon.

I've been wanting to get the Marvy markers for a long time.

I love the look of this style.  There is for sure a learning curve and practice needed, but I'm happy enough with the first few I made to make a couple of simple cards.

 First of all, I have to share I scored 2 sets of the Marvy markers for 60% off recently at Joann's I had 2 coupons and they let me use them both! SO happy when that happens!!

 To finish the cards off I used my Spellbinder's dies to frame the pieces.

The birds are also spellbinders.

Miss Daisy Stamps Holly Blossom

This is a "new to me" company called Miss Daisy Stamps.

This was a free gift along with the 2 designer papers you see.

I used a card file from the SIL store to create this fun card.

 I added the digital papers to my cut files and also layered sweet little Holly Blossom on the background before I printed it.  The snowflakes around her and the 2 on the front are also cut files from my library, I just colored them white and turned them into a digial element.

 I added a pretty fluffy ribbon using my 3 Girl Jam ribbon. I'm so glad I stocked up before they closed up shop. This stuff is so pretty!

Mermaid shaker

How cute is she!!!!?? Oh my, I just love her.

I love that so many artists are flooding us with mermaid images right now. I've got a dozen or more waiting to be colored and created with.

I just had to get this one done right up.

This is from Gerda Stiner Designs.  I'm fairly new to her work and I love her style.

I created a shaker card with this image.

 I colored her hair and tail using patterns from my sil program then colored the rest of the image in with my pencils.  I cut her separate along with her hair and tail so they are all pieced back together and she is mounted with foam tape to the background.

 I used tiny gems in pale blue and cyrstal for the shaker elements to mimic bubbles to match along with the image.  For the "sand" I used some chunky embossing powder and glued it along the bottom.

Eureka challenge - Add some bling

digi21001 Hybiscus & Bee

digi7801(550) Happy Birthday

Happy Monday!! Today I'm sharing another cool technique. After I colored my image, I used a brick pattern die cut to cut the image.  I carefully applied glue to the pieces while still in place on the die then laid my yellow paper on top and pressed really well.  After getting all of the pieces in place, I had a few that moved due to static on my cutting plates so I placed the grid or mortar lines back in place and glued the loose pieces, leaving a few around the perimeter missing on purpose.  I then removed the mortar lines again and sponged the piece with gray ink.  I then glued it in place.  I printed the Happy Birthday on yellow pearl paper and put it in the bottom corner.

So how did I do?  Have you every tried this?  It took some time but I think it's really cool!

Spotlight technique and new Eureka challenge

digi21201 Butterfly and Bluebonnet

The challenge this week is buttons and bows, I'm stretching it a bit by using my colored circles as the buttons, buttons of color if you will...

 I decided to try a new to me technique.  I always see such pretty cards made using this spotlight technique and that's what I pictured when I first saw this image.  I used my circle die cuts and cut a piece of paper the size of my card front, then laid the circle dies and cut them from that paper.

I then took that piece and laid it over my image and colored through the holes I made.

After I was done coloring I took my pale blue color box cat eye and rubbed through the circles to created the sky.

I think it turned out pretty cool, I'll be doing this more often.

You make my heart sing

I have a gorgeous box card to share with you today!  This is a file from Creative Kuts.

You can find this file on the new Etsy shop.

I used 2 of the wobble springs from Close to my Heart to mount under their heads.

Christmas ornaments

I used the coffee bundle and the barn door ribbons for my bow today and added a small piece of green jeans for some extra color.  I used my bow maker so I could get lots of layers in my bow.

This ornament is from SnapDragon snippets, the pine cone it a bit tedious to assemble but it's very realistic I think.

   

My next ornament is a fun one, it's the ghost from SnapDragon Snippets, I turned him into a snow man.  Does he pass?  

  

And finally for today, I made the Beast's rose into an ornament.  This is a file from SVG Cutting files.  It's supposed to be a shaped card but I made it a little smaller and glued the card base together so it doesn't open sandwiching the hanger ribbon for extra strength. I cut the top of the dome from acetate.  I used a glue dot at the very top and hid it with the bow and 4 glue dots along the bottom and hid them under the base.

  

Family love

Fluttering by

 This is pretty simple yet elegant I think.

I used the Denim ribbon for my bow and added a wallpaper die cut butterfly.