Sweet Treats

Today's design team project with Craftin' Desert Divas is a fun triple shaker card! I started by printing 3 of the icecream images from the Cool Treats digital stamp set and coloring them with colored pencils.

              

I die cut the smallest rectangle from the Crazy Stitched Frame Dies set 6 times -3 for the fronts and 3 for the backs of the shaker boxes. For the front pieces, I then cut out the centers to make frames and for the backs, I ink blended the polka dots in 3 different distress ink colors using the Sorted Shapes 2 stencil.

After building the shaker boxes, I filled them with microbeads in 3 co-ordinating colors. The "Sweet Treats" sentiment is from the Simply Said Clear Stamp Set but I'd like share a little tip here for stamping sentiments with Distress Ink...sometimes Distress Ink gets splotchy if you try to stamp sentiments with it, so if you first press your stamp on to a Versamark ink pad and then on to the distress ink pad it seems to help the ink cling to the stamp and gives better coverage that way.

That's it for me until next week~

My Spring Coffee Lover's Blog Hop Entry #2

Today's second design team project is with Craftin' Desert Divas and is my first attempt at an "Impossible Card". There was a great tutorial over on Split Coast Stampers this week that finally convinced me to give it a shot, since it folds flat for mailing. The fold is actually much more simple than it looks! 

I will also be submitting this as my second entry over at the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop and joining in once again with the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge. 

I used a new digital stamp from the CDD shop called "Flamingo Coffee Mug" along with the sentiment from the "Simply Said" stamp set.

Coloring was done using water color pencils and a water pen. Sequins and sparkle drops made the perfect accents to the pattern papers I found in my stash from Creative Memories.

Have a great weekend ~until next time~

My Spring Coffee Lover's Blog Hop Entry #1

Today's card with Craftin' Desert Divas is my first project submission for the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop. 

This Chibi Coffee digi stamp is part of the new coffee collection over at CDD. I colored it up using colored pencils with clear Spectrum Noir Glitter pen over the top.

The background was embossed and sanded then splashed with FSJ Silver Silk. I added a few layers for texture and heat embossed the "Hi!" sentiment from the Say It Big stamp set. Topped it off with a few teal sequins from the Emerald Isle Sequin pack and I was done!

That's it for me today -please consider joining us for and playing along with the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop~

Oh Baby -A Shower Card

Today's design team project with Craftin' Desert Divas is a fun Shutter Card I made using a template from Hot Off The Press, Hello Little One digital stamp and the "Oh Baby" sentiment from this Simply Said Clear Stamp Set.

All coloring was done with my Chameleon colored pencils and a Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen.

Both of the soft green patterned papers are from long ago in my paper stash

To make a card like this, you do need a 12 x 12 sheet of card stock to cut your card base from and then it fits in a larger than standard envelope...not quite a 5 x 7 once it's done.

I went with the giraffe image since she's using a jungle theme in her nursery...I hope she likes the card as much as I did while I was making it, lol. Oh, and my new phone takes AWESOME photos -whew! Until next time~

Peonies Bouquet Anniversary Card

Today's design team project is my first for the monthly moodboard challenge over on the Crafting Desert Divas Gallery FB page...come join us for a chance to win some prizes!

The Peonies Bouquet digital stamp image sure is a gorgeous one! I loved coloring it up using my watercolor crayons and then blending it out with a waterbrush.

Fun little details were added using Glossy Accents on the sentiment, berries and flower centers along with some iridescent glitter.

Until next time~

Sorry For Your Loss

Today's design team project with Craftin' Desert Divas is my second for the April moodboard, but this time I used the egg shapes as my inspiration instead of the pastel colors. I also used the sketch challenge from Your Next Stamp and between the two of them, I came up with this cute pet sympathy card.

The Pet Shop images are from a CDD digital set and the sympathy sentiment is from a CDD clear stamp set. I did the coloring using my Chameleon Colored pencils and my Scan N Cut fussy cut all the images for me. Each one is also accented using clear Wink of Stella pen, but sadly the camera didn't really pick up on all that shine and shimmer.

The paw prints are dry embossed using an embossing folder and I then highlighted the raised surface by both sanding and brushing over the top with white ink. I then cut the 3 ovals out using my Creative Memories shape cutter tool and adhered the light blue patterned paper underneath. This card is a 5 x 7 base.

Until next time~

Pet Shop Planner

Today's project is my weekly planner spread with Craftin' Desert Divas.

To complete this adorable layout, I used two digital stamp sets...the Planner Basic Bundle and Pet Shop.

I used patterned paper from my stash and colored all the images with colored pencils.

I printed my digis on sticker paper, colored the "To Do" and "Weekend" stickers using markers and then cut them out using my Scan N Cut.

That's it for me today...until next time~

Spring Chick

Today's card is my first design team project using the April Moodboard over at the Craftin' Desert Divas FB Gallery. 

I used the Cute Chick digital stamp and colored her in with colored pencils. I die cut the patterned paper using the Crazy Stitched Frames -using all 3 sizes and adhered the middle one using foam dots.

Inside sentiment comes from the Simply Said stamp set.

 The sentiment on the hand trimmed banner is from the Birthday Sentiments digital stamp set. The sequins came from the Shimmer sequins pack and I sprayed the patterned paper with a Shimmer Spray. It's really very pretty in person!

This card went out in the mail to one of my nieces this week -hope she likes it! 

Until next time~