Have a Wonderful Day

Have a wonderful day and do something creative!

Here I have made a reminder card for Design2Delight DT's Saturday challenge which is 'BLING'.  You still have time to get something made and entered into the challenge.  Go here for all the details!

I used the easy to color Design2Delight 'Fresh Cut' for my card and colored with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. For bling I added Stickles' dots here and there in amongst the flowers & hearts. Also Stickled the edge of the sentiment oval.

For additional bling, I painted some of the clouds with Iridescent Medium which adds a pretty glimmer.  And I added two HUGE gold rhinestones to the upper right corner of the card and a pretty glittered dragonfly right beside the flowers.

I think I used every type of bling I own!!

Challenges I've entered this card:
The Cheerful Stamp Pad - petals
Stamp Something - use a digi
Charisma Cardz - bingo (flowers, gems, circles(dots?))
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
Catch the Bug -  anything goes
Sentimental Sundays -  flowers
House of Gilli - dot dot polka dot
Sparkles Forum - one for the girls
Stamp Scrap & Doodle Sat. - friendship
Stampin' for the Weekend - spots & dots
Sweet Stampin - rainbow colors
Gingerloft - make it sparkle
Ellephantastic - add some layers
Wags N Whiskers - sparkly
The Poodles Parlour - round & round the garden

I do hope you will join the D2D Challenge this week!!

PeggySue

Do You Stack Up? Challenge #24

This week the challenge over at Do You Stack Up? is to use a star.

Again we have three sponsors!

Little Musings Stamps will give the winner a choice of three digital stamp kits.

JLJ Designs will award a $10 gift certificate to the store to the winner.

Pixie Dust Studio is giving the winner a choice of three digis.

My contribution for your inspiration for the week is:

I chose an image by Little Musings called "Starlit 5" that says 'Catch a falling star'.

Its quite the star lit night in my world, and I'm catching the brightest, most sparkling star!

I used the basic resist technique of stamping various stars (Autumn Leaves) in Versamark watermark ink and embossing with clear embossing powder. I sponged a light coat of Ranger Distress Faded Jeans ink over the whole card.  Then I added some more stars in the same fashion as before.  After that came the intense sponging of Faded Jeans, Weathered Wood and a touch of Black Soot around the edges.

By this time, I could bearly see the image!  But, I had printed it twice, I colored the other image with Distress inks and cut it out.  The yellow star got a couple of coats of Iridescent medium for super sparkle. I pop dotted the star and net over the original image.  I used a black marker to trace the sentiment so everyone could see it.  

My fingers were quite blue when I finished, but it sure was fun.

Challenges for this card:
Bearly Mine - anything goes
Crafts and Me -  bling it on
Scrap-Creations - anything goes

You will want to go to the challenge blog and drool over the DT's creations 'cuz they are gorgeous!

PeggySue

DYSU challenge #20 CELERY, WHITE & SEA GLASS BLUE

 

Time for a color challenge at Do You Stack Up?

These are lovely colors, aren't they?!!

We have Three wonderful sponsors:

Deb´s Creations: 2 Digi Faeries Images winner´s choice

Squiggle Stamps: Ł10 gift vouchers for the store

The Stamping Boutique: 5 digis of winner's choice

So, what did PeggySue do for this challenge??????

I tried my hand at a bit of elegance, some sophistication, some clean & simple.
The image is by Squiggle Stamps, called 'Wedding Cake' and I can see this image being very useful!
Squiggle has absolutely darling images that you need to see!

I printed the image on watercolor paper and used Distress inks to color.  I added a little iridescent medium on top of the the hearts. A wedding card must have sparkle!  I think that is a rule, isn't it?

I found a few challenges for this card:
Stamp Something - anything goes
Stamps R Us - going digital
Aud Sentiments - no sentiment
Crafts & Me - anything goes

PeggySue

Do You Stack Up Challenge #17 Make it POP

Did everyone have fun at our Easter Blog Hop?  Lots of you won prizes and I know that's fun!
We really enjoyed putting the hop together, even though there were a few snags.  We learned a lot from them, with your help of course!
We are now back to the regular way of doing challenges, where we actually tell you what the theme is!

We are going to POP IT which for our challenge means making something pop off the page, as in 3D or using pop dots or a folding card that pops up.
I hope you could see in the above snippet photo that I have popped up a couple of layers of those little flowers. But, more about my card later.
We must talk prizes first!! Our sponsors this week are:

Stitchy Bear Stamps will be giving away a  $10 Gift Voucher for images by Stitchy Stamps, Floppy Latte Designs, Beary Dust Stamps.
Digis with Attitude is giving a $10 CAD ( Canadian Funds)  Gift Certificate for their store.
Blackleaf Studios will be giving away the super cute "Welcome to the jungle" digital stamp set.

Yea! Great prizes aren't they?!!

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I chose to use a Stitchy Bear Stamp called "Flapper" for my example, or inspiration card.

I used the Shaving Cream technique for the background which smells so good!

For the Flapper, I used my smallest stamp mounting block and inked it up good with Ranger Distress ink 'Scattered Straw'.  I pressed it onto the very smooth card stock prior to printing the Flapper.  I was at the printer with the black embossing powder to pour it on as the print came out.  You can see some of the embossing in the snippet picture up top.

I decided to tear around the Flapper, instead of the usual straight cutting or die cutting.  Then I painted the torn edges with the same Distress ink and topped it off with some Iridescent Medium.  Love the sparkle it has.  Of course I had to pop it up off the card.  I have two layers of flowers popped up.

I have to admit, I'm pretty darn happy with the way this card turned out. *grin*

 You have got to check out the Design Team's work at DYSU this week.  Incredible!

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes - sparkle and yellow
Scrap-Creations - flowers
Cludia & Co - CAS
Crafts & Me - vintage/distress
Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
PeggySue

Do You Stack Up Challenge #12 Shine On!

Do you see the shine and sparkle in this little snippet picture?  I went all out with the glitzy stuff on this card.  But more about that later.

It is time for another challenge over at Do You Stack Up!  And we want to see SHINE!  You know, glitz, bling, sparkle, shimmer, and I think you get the idea.

One of our sponsors for this week is Digi Doodle. They have got all kinds of images and even freebies at their shop.  They are offering a $10 Gift Certificate to their store.

Our other sponsor for this challenge is Digi Stamp Characters by Heather Ellis.  Heather has a shop on Etsy full of sweet characters of her imagination.
Heather is offering the winner three images of their choice from her shop.

Finally, I get to show my card!  I used the Whale from Digi Doodles.  I flipped the image once and made it smaller so the bigger whale would have a buddy.  Gosh, I'm so thoughtful....Ha!

The whales are paper pieced and look a bit grayish or greenish in the photo, but that's not the case.  I painted iridescent medium on top of the pattern paper to give the whales lots of shine.

The water background was painted using several different shades of blue acrylic paint.  One was a metallic blue.  I put some seaweed and coral in my seascape with two different green shades of Stickles.  The challenge is for Shine and everything I used on this card shines!  Even the 'bubbles'!

Lots of you love the glitter, so we are really hoping to see lots of entries this week.  I hope you have looked at the Design Team's work for inspiration as they have worked hard on this challenge.  Please give the challenge a try because we have some great prizes and you can't win if you don't enter!

PeggySue