Looking Ahead...Happy New Year!

Today's design team post is my last collaboration with Lemon Shortbread Digital Stamps. I had a lot of fun working with their images these last few months! But my hubby and I have a big relocation move coming up and I don't have a lot of time for creating and blogging right now. So I am taking a step back and hopefully will be back in the full swing of things later this fall. 

I loved this image from the first time I set my eyes on it last winter. She is called Bohemian Winter Girl and you can find her in the Etsy Shop. She comes with the image full sized and also cropped -like I used here.

I embossed vellum using a snowflake embossing folder for a subtle textured background layer...hard to see good here, but it's very pretty in person! I colored her using colored pencils and highlighted her earmuffs and the circle layer under the sentiment using the clear Wink of Stella glimmer pen. The punched snowflake was cut from holographic paper for added glitz.

That's it for me today...I'll be back next week with my September  Christmas card for Happy Little Stampers.

Peaceful Spirit

Today's design team project with Happy Little Stampers is for their Christmas Challenge where the optional theme is "Sequins" this month.

This 2 piece stamp set is an oldie from Stampin' Up and I colored it with pencils on kraft cardstock. The vellum frame was added to help ground the design and draw the eye into the depth of the scene.

The iridescent sequins are meant to imitate the dreamy quality of a soft snowfall...not sure if I captured that exactly the way that I had originally intended too, but I guess not every card can be our favorite once the creative process is finished, lol. 

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

Mermazing Holiday Wishes

Today's post is for Happy Little Stampers and I used this cute little Mermaid scene that was pieced together using digital stamps from Craftin' Desert Divas.

This is a 5 x 7 card and has quite a few layers. The images were all colored with pencils and light blue ink was blended onto the background.

The biggest challenge was placing all the clam-shell presents in the background...much easier to do that with physical stamps vs digital stamps in the humble opinion of this non computer savvy person, lol.  I then muted the background by adding a layer of patterned vellum over top and popping up that top layer using foam tape for dimension.

So, another card down to add to my holiday card stash...how are your holiday cards coming along?

Until next time~

Get Well Soon

Today's card is a sneak peek of a new stencil and digital stamp set that will be released in the Craftin Desert Divas web store on Friday and is my design team creation this week for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. I was also inspired by the middle & vertical row of the TicTacToe board from Paper Craft Crew this week.

I used distress inks for coloring the tree through the tree stencil and involved a good bit of masking! 

The inside sentiment is an old one and retired from TAC.

I colored the digi images with my Spectrum Noir markers and the "Get Well Soon" sentiment on the front of the card is from the "Simply Said" CDD sentiment stamp set.

Until next time~

You Got Mail

Today's design team card was made using the sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and a digi image from Craftin' Desert Divas for their February Release Event.

The image was colored using my Chameleon colored pencils and cut with a circle punch. The red vellum was trimmed with scalloped edge scissors for the layer behind the focal point.

Inside I used 2 more circle punches and a digi sentiment.

The pink glitter washi tape I cut in half using my paper trimmer and adhered to each side. The wrapped thread is just a white and silver crochet thread.

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

Celebrate Love

Today's design team post uses the sketch from Atlantic Hearts and will also be entered @ Just Add Ink for "Just Add Something New", @ Alphabet Challenge for "V for Vellum", @ heARTful Stamping for "Anything Goes + a Stamp" and @ 613 Avenue Create for "Anything Goes/ Something New".

This card is a 5 x 7 size and the dry embossing was done using a reversible embossing folder from Spellbinders.

The something new that I used for this card is the "Amazing You" stamp set that I just got FREE from Stampin' Up during their Sale-A-Bration sale going on now until the end of March...for every $50 you spend you get something for free! ( Click on the sale brochure to the right on my blog for more info!) The flower and the sentiment on the card front both come from this awesome stamp set. The flowers I colored with my Spectrum Noir markers and fussy cut out to layer on the card front.

The gold glitter enamel dots are self adhesive, came from CTMH and made the perfect accent for the card front.

The inside sentiment comes from an Anniversary sentiments set from MSE, but the half circle blue burst is from the free set from Stampin Up that I mentioned above.

You may recognize that the green leaves dieut frame is from the December Paper Pumpkin kit...I used it in this card here last week too, but it looks completely different! The sentiment was stamped on Vellum in black pigment ink and then heat embossed using holographic powder, so it shimmers and changes color when moved around in the light -very pretty in person!!!

Until next time~

Peaceful Snowy Scene

Today's card is one we will be making at the January library class and I will also be entering it @ One Crazy Stamper for "Anything Goes -- but with a twist -- add purple or blue and a ribbon or button", @ Creative With Stamps for "Snowflake", @ Stamps & Fun for "Use a Stamp" and @ The Crazy Challenge for "Winter Wonderland".

The snowflake background is randomly stamped and heat embossed with a single snowflake stamp using holographic powder. 

The large snowy scene was stamped in Versamark ink and then colored using the Poppin' Pastels technique....which involves rubbing dry art chalk colors over the top before the ink dries. Very easy and very pretty!

Until next time~