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Summer Days

Hello friends!  I hope that you’re staying cool during these Summer days!  For the most part, it’s too warm, humid or both outside, so I spend most days in the air condition.  Trying to organize things is what I’m attempting, but I end up crafting instead! LOL

I’m stopping by today to share that we have a new challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “SUMMER DAYS”  this month.  This seems rather appropriate right now, so I hope you’ll join us.  Here’s what I came up with: 

I have used these penguins many times and I just love them!  This is an older set called “Penguins in Paradise” from My Favorite Things (store closed).  I thought they’d be perfect to use for this theme and I wanted to make a scene for them to do all of those fun Summer things that we do!

I started with another My Favorite Things die set called “Beach Scene Starter” that cuts out the sand/water/palm tree/shells/sun/clouds/land and then I used inks to ink blend them in various colors.  For the sand, I splattered several different watercolor colors and Copic Opaque White.

After placing my scene together, I stamped, colored (with Copics) and die cut the three penguins and beach ball that I added to my beach scene and popped up with thin foam tape.

I used a white gel pen to add highlights to the images as well as details to the water shore area, coconuts, beach ball and the shells.  I also took a glitter brush pen and went over the sun as well as the penguin’s shades for some shimmer.  The sentiment is from the  Taylored Expressions Mini Strips-Hello Summer that was white heat embossed over dark blue cardstock and cut out with the mini sentiment strips die.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and will join us for the challenge this month!  Please be sure to stop by the blog to check out the inspiration from the rest of the team!

Thanks for stopping in and I’ll see you soon!

Challenges:

  1. Four Seasons – Summer
  2. Love to Craft – Anything Goes
  3. Love to Scrap – Anything Goes
  4. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes + Critter
  5. Creative Moments – Use Die Cut (I used several)
  6. We Love Stamping – Sun/Sea/Sand or Anything Goes (within post details)
  7. A Cut Above – Anything Goes with a Die Cut
  8. Cupcake Inspirations – For the Birds (penguins)

A is for Alphabet

Hello and happy Friday!  It’s not only “Good Friday”, but it’s Easter weekend here for us, so plans to enjoy the time we have together with food and laughter.  At least that’s the plan anyway!  I hope that whatever plans you have that you enjoy yourself.

Today starts up a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!  We have finished up the entire alphabet round and starting back up again for the 14th round which began in 2011! WOW! So beginning with the alphabet, the hostess has chosen “A” is for Alphabet (choose your own letter of the alphabet and a theme that begins with that chosen letter.)  *Remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter*  I hope you will find some time to join us in the gallery!  Here’s what I’ve created:

The alphabet letter that I have chosen is “C” is for Chickens!  I needed a card for someone and so I thought of these Spring Chickens Stencil from Taylored Expressions.  I used that, plus the coordinating die to cut out the chickens. Along with that, I used the Yard House die set, Chicken Wire BG and the Just Chicken In sentiment set.

The quirky chickens and for an inside joke were sent to help cheer someone up not feeling well.

I started with a separate panel to stamp and stencil the chickens on.  I cut them out from the stenciled panel.  On another piece of cardstock, I stamped the Wire BG and ink blended around the edges.  I placed this onto a top folding A2 sized gray panel.  I wanted the area with the chickens to be the focus, so I took the TE Rounded Rectangle Stacklets and cut a piece of vellum that I used to create my scene on with the Yard House die set.  I centered the “hen house” and then used the placement of that to adhere the vellum panel to the center of the card front.

Lastly, I added the other chickens to the scene and the stamped/die cut sentiment which was popped up with foam tape at the bottom right of card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed my card and it gave you a smile! 😊  Have a wonderful Easter weekend my friends!

Challenges:

  1. Creative Friday – Humorous 
  2. Allsorts – Stencils & Masks/AG (chicken stencils/die cut bundle)
  3. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2515 Anything Goes
  4. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  5. The Creative Crafters – Anything Goes
  6. Dragonfly Dreams – Animals