Outlawz Sketch Challenge April 30 - May 6

There's another new sketch challenge over at the Outlawz!! Here is the LINK if you would like to check it out.

Our sponsor all month has been Deedee's Digis!! Her images are so cute and such a good buy!! Deedee will give a prize at the end of the month for one of our challengers!!

Deedee's Digis



Here is our new sketch for this week and right below it is my card I made with a Deedee's image, Dog, from the  Make a Joyful Noise set.

I rotated the sketch on it's side.  To color my focal image, I used Copic markers, C2,C3, C4, FV2, BG0000, YG0000, YG01.

The dog prints around the focal image is a clear stamp from Image Tree. I had a little booboo so that is why the butterflies are there on the upper right corner! Sometimes booboos are just unavoidable and can sometimes add to the card in a good way!!

I hope you will check out the Sketch Challenge and get inspired!!

Have a good day!
I'm entering my card in these challenges:
Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes
Scribble and Scrap Challenge - anything goes
A Random Fan Challenge - anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Recipe, 1 image, 1 designer paper, something purple
 (my purple is strip of cardstock, butterfly, and the dog tag)


Have a great crafty day!

Liebster Award............Part 2

Liebster Award, Part 2

If you've been blogging awhile, you already know all about the Liebster Award!! I've been blogging not quite a year and a half, and although I have heard of this award, it is just this week that I was nominated not only once, but twice!!! (So, since I don't know of any rules that prohibit me of being nominated twice and accepting the award, I will do double duty!! First, thank you, ladies, for the nomination!!  (It looks like I've been nominated a third time by my good buddy Janet McLaughlin so there will be a Part 3). That's okay because I can think of lots of people to keep this going!!



Part 1:  Here's the link to that blog post in case you are interested.  LINK

Part 2:  The second nomination came from my friend Charlene Mitchell. We are both members of the Outlawz Design Team and we are also classmates in the Backgrounds Class at Color Me Creative.  HERE IS HER BLOG. A wonderful blog. I hope you will go check it out. She posts a new blog every day and she has amazing talent!! Charlene chose 11 questions to ask me about my crafting hobby.

Rules for participation in the Liebster Award Nominations

Thank you Liebster Blog Award presenter on you blog and answer the questions they presented.

• Link back to the blogger who awarded you.
• Copy and paste the pink Liebster Award logo to your blog.
• Nominate 5 blogs to receive the award who have less than 300 followers. 
• Create a new list of 11 questions for them.
•  Inform them of their nomination.  

So here are the questions Charlene asked of me:




How long have you been crafting?   Since I was in junior high. My grandma got me interested in crocheting and embroidery.


What other hobbies do you do? I like photography, feeding and watching birds, growing flowers, and doing landscape work


Why did you start a blog? I started a blog to enter challenges at the Outlawz.


Are you on any Design Teams? Two of them, the Outlawz and Through the Purple Haze Challenges.


What inspires you the most in your card creations? Sketches! I love sketch challenges. Love the challenge of following the sketch as closely as I can


What is your favourite colour to craft with?  It has to be purple!!


What can’t you live without when it comes to making cards?  It has to be my paper trimmer and next would be my copic markers.


What is your favourite time to craft?  Between 8 p.m. and midnight.

What do you do to relax?  Color with my copics and play Jewel Blitz!


What is your best quality?  I can keep a secret FOREVER!!


What makes you laugh out loud?  Being with my grandkids!!









Well, there you have my questions and answers that Charlene asked me. Thanks again, Charlene, for nominating me and be sure to stop by her BLOG.


Five people I am going to nominate are: Lisbeth, Anita Blake,  Lucy Gregg, Jacqui Woodward, and Fiona Henderson.

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So this is Part Two. In the next day or two, I  will do Part Three with Janet McLaughlin.

Have a wonderful day!!!

New Challenge at Through the Purple Haze Challenges #39 - April 28 Sketch

There is a new Challenge at Through the Purple Haze Challenges!!

This week is Team B and we were given a lovely Sketch to use.

 

We have two sponsors this week!  We have Aurora Wings! 

Aurora Wings Etsy Store

 So, here's my card using the Aurora Wings image Pansy.

Prize is $10 coupon.   

My background paper is from my stash. I used an embossing folder to emboss some purple cardstock and then cut in one inch strips. That became my "ribbon". A butterfly sticker became the "bow".  I added the self adhesive pearls to the center of six embossed designs. All items are from my stash.

I printed the Pansy digi onto X-press it copic cardstock and cut an oval with my Cuttlebug using Spellbinders Ovals Nestabilities and then layered onto a purple piece of cardstock cut with the Scalloped Ovals Nestabilities of the same size.  I colored the image with Copic markers.

 Copic Colors I used:
Skin: E000, E01, E21, R20
Eyes: V12, V93
Lips: R83
Hair: E77, E7, E50, E89
Leaves: YG01, YG13
Pansy: Y35, FYR1, FV2, V17, V12
Other Flowers: R22, B01, B06
Background: C2 and B000

Delicious Doodles is our other sponsor this week!

 Prize is 4 images.

Delicious Doodles

My card with the Delicious Doodles image, Fern the Forest Fairy is here below.

I used a 6 x 6 piece of patterned paper for my background layer and ran it through the Xyron machine so that my lace would stick down. I secured the lace with three dragonfly brads and an ivory rose that I colored the edges with  Copic R02.

My image was printed off on X-Press It Copic cardstock and layered with a burnt orange paper from my stash. I used a corner rounder to round off both layers. Best little invention ever!!

My image is colored with Copic markers.
Skin: E50,E11, E01
Eyes: B45
Hair: Y28, Y26, Y23, Y21
Lips: R83
Wings: YG61,YG63, YG67
Mushrooms: E35, E08
Flowers: R02, R04, R05
Small Flowers: FY1, YR65Acorns: E31
Bird: E35, E31, E81  FEET E18
Green foliage: YG01, YG61
Sky Background: B0000



Hope you will stop over at the Through the Purple Haze Challenges and see what the other Design Team members came up with!

I'm entering the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - a Card
Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
Lady Anne's Let's Show It Off - Comment






   Have a great week!

Liebster Award

If you've been blogging awhile, you already know all about the Liebster Award!! I've been blogging not quite a year and a half, and although I have heard of this award, it is just this week that I was nominated not only once, but twice!!! So, since I don't know of any rules that prohibit me of being nominated twice and accepting the award, I will do double duty!! First, thank you, ladies, for the nomination!!



Part 1:
The first nomination came from Sandra Van Blaricum. She is the team leader of the Design Team I am on at the Outlawz Sketch Challenge! HERE IS HER BLOG. It is a great blog. I hope you will go over and see her lovely artwork. It will knock your socks off!!! Sandra chose 11 questions to ask me about my crafting hobby.

Rules for participation in the Liebster Award Nominations

Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and answer the questions they presented.

• Link back to the blogger who awarded you.
• Copy and paste the pink Liebster Award logo to your blog.
• Nominate 5 blogs to receive the award who have less than 300 followers. 
• Create a new list of 11 questions for them.
•  Inform them of their nomination.  

So here are the questions Sandra asked of me:

 1. What or who was your inspiration to start crafting?  My grandma. She taught me how to crochet and embroider and then I went to plastic canvas and other forms of crafts.

 2. When did you start crafting?  Some time in junior high school.

 3.What is your favorite style of crafting? Making handmade cards is my favorite.

 4.What is your favorite time of the day to craft? After supper.

 5.If you could only choose three craft items to make a card what would they

be? Hmmmmm.....that would have to be pretty patterned paper, a stamped or digi image, and my copic markers.

 6.What other hobbies do you have? Flower gardening, bird watching and bird feeding, photography

 7.Whats your favorite crafting tool? Cuttlebug

 8.Name 5 things on your desktop right now?  Paper cutter, tape runner, copic markers, paper scraps, sponge daubers

 9.Who is your "Idol"in crafting land? Sandra Van Blaricum of course!! She is fantastic.

10.What would you like to learn in crafting? How to draw my own digi images

11.Name one thing you can't craft without. My paper cutter


Well, there you have my questions and answers that Sandra asked me. Thanks again, Sandra, for nominating me and be sure to stop by her BLOG.


Five people I am going to nominate are: Janet McLaughlin, Helen Smith,  Wendy Billings, Andrea Beecroft, and Katya Bess.

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So this is Part One. Tomorrow I will do Part Two with Charlene Mitchell.

Have a wonderful day!!!

New Sketch Challenge at the Outlawz April 23 - 29

Hope everyone had a joyous Easter!! We had wonderful weather for an Easter egg hunt and it's so nice to relax and spend time with family!

There's another new sketch challenge over at the Outlawz!! Here is the LINK if you would like to check it out.

Our sponsor all month has been Deedee's Digis!! Her images are so cute and such a good buy!! Deedee will give a prize at the end of the month for one of our challengers!!

Deedee's Digis



I'll get right to the point!! Here is our new sketch for this week and right below it is my card I made with a Deedee's image Butterfly from the Bugs and Blooms set.

I rotated the sketch on it's side.  To color my focal image, I used Copic markers. My Happy Birthday is computer generated. I used a mini punch to punch the holes for my yellow ribbon to lace through.

I hope you will check out the Sketch Challenge and get inspired!!

Have a good day!
I'm entering my card in these challenges:
Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday - square or rectangle, anything goes

Happy Easter!

I'm so happy to see that Gerda is having challenges again! For those that wanted to play, she gave us a cute little image of a baby chick hatching from an egg!! It is just darling and so perfect for Easter.

WWW.GERDASTEINERDESIGNS.COM

Here is my card! Hope you will go over to her challenge and see what the other challengers entered using this cute digi image!

HAPPY EASTER!

A New Sketch Challenge at the Outlawz

If it's Wednesday, it means there's a new Sketch Challenge at the Outlawz!!  Hope you will stop by and see what the Design Team has cooked up for you as inspiration for the new sketch which is shown below. But first, our sponsor this month is Deedee's Digis!! One of my favorite companies! If you stop by her online store, you will see why!!

And here is the Sketch!

And here is my card! I used Deedee's image called Bird from the Hello Spring set.   I colored the image with Copic markers, added a sentiment from Gina K Designs and did some paper layering according to the Sketch. My bow is cut from a die called Filigree 3D by Sue Wilson (Joanna Sheen's online store) and I slipped a butterfly charm onto it. Up in the corners, I used my EK Success button punch and it was done. Pretty simple card.

Hope you will stop by the Outlawz and check out the Sketch Challenge there!


I'm entering my card in these challenges:
Color Me Creative Challenge - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Charming or Charm
Party Time Tuesday - Use Die Cuts








Have a wonderful day!

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #37 --- Add a number

This week, we have an optional twist for you at the Through the Purple Haze Challenges. It is Anything Goes with an optional "add a number".

We have two sponsors this week. Lacy Sunshine who has given the Design Team members an image to work with and Hobby House, a crafting superstore with all sorts of good finds!!


Lacy Sunshine will award a prize of 4 digis to our challenge winner.

The Hobby House will award a winner a coupon to use in their online store!

Here is my card using the Lacy Sunshine image Lil Fidget. I colored her with copic markers. The image was cut out as a square and then the corners were rounded off. All the papers were from my stash. I heat embossed a black 5 with Stardust embossing powder and layered the number onto a rectangle that was also heated embossed with Stardust embossing powder. I stamped a Happy Birthday (Gina K Designs) and added a few blue gems and gorgeous stick-on butterfly and my card was complete.  Hope you enjoy my card!

Copic Markers used: 
Skin: E21, E01, R20 and lips: R85
Hair: E35, E47, E57, E30 and I went over the hair with a White Derwent Colorsoft pencil which I have been seeing a lot of that done lately, so thought I would try it. Nice for a change!
Eyes: YG67
Dress: B12, B21   Tights: B00, B0000
Wings: YG41, YG45
Ground: C2


Hope you will check out our challenge blog at Through the Purple Haze Challenges and have a great week!


Challenges I am entering:
Sister Act Card Challenge - a card
Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
A Random Fan - Springy Pastels
Open Minded Crafting Fun - Easter or pastels

Pajama Party Anyone?

Today, I have a card I am entering for The East Wind Challenge. We could use any image we want, but we get to enter our card in the random drawing twice if we use an East Wind image. And.....we must use a sentiment.  Easy enough. I love East Wind images and Unky gave us a cute little girl in a bunny suit for subscribing to her newsletter.

Here are the copic colors I used to color in my image!
Skin: E21, E01, R20
Eyes: B06
Hair: Y21, Y23, Y26
Bunny suit: R21, R0000
Basket with Eggs: E51, E57, B00, YG41, Y13
Background marbling: B0000, B01, O Colorless Blender


The ribbon is from my stash. My Happy Easter sentiment is from D.O.T.S. (now Close to my Heart) and the little puffy sticky eggs I got at Walmart in the Easter decorations section.


Hope you will hop (no pun intended) over to the East Wind Challenge and take a look at all the other entries!


Have a great day!

New Outlawz Sketch Challenge April 9-15

Easter is less than two weeks away and for this week's Outlawz Sketch Challenge, I made a card using a rabbit digi from our sponsor this month who is Deedee's Digis!

 Here is the Sketch for inspiration!

Such a fun sketch---I really enjoyed making a card with it!!

Here's my card!

I used papers from my stash. The focal image was a bunny digi from Deedee's Digis which was printed onto copic compatible cardstock and then cut out with Labels 18 from Spellbinders.

The flowers in the corners are Stampin Up punches. Do you like my grass? I took white flower soft and colored it with Copic refill G40 and then used a Two Way Zig Glue Pen, waited a few minutes for the glue to get tacky and then dabbed the green flower soft onto the tacky area. I really like the way it turned out.

I colored my bunny image with Copic markers.

Bunny: N3, N2, N1, N0, N3, R81

Flowers and leaves: R22, FYR1, YG41, YG61

Sky: BG0000 and Colorless Blender

Big Flower Punch outlined with RV55

I'd really love to see you join in on the Outlawz Sketch Challenge this week!

I am going to enter my card in these challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes of Spring

Created with Love - Easter

Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes (Square or Rectangle)

Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes

Squirrel and the Fox Challenge - All Creatures Great and Small

Have a great day!!

Simply Challenged Challenge - Use Polka Dots and an SBS image

This month the challenge at Simply Challenged Challenge was to use a Simply Betty Stamps image and "polka dots". I have the perfect image to use which I have been wanting to make a card with. Earlier this year, Betty Roberts did some commissions for some of us SBS members and I asked her to do my grandkids, Laurel and Logan. I provided pictures and she drew the most awesome images!

Today, the card I am sharing is Miss Laurel as she is affectionately called. Here is my card!

As you can see, I have some polka dots, on the dress, the background paper, the ribbon that is threaded through the corners of my layered image and my polka dot punched layer. I added some pearls to the corners and one in the center of the flower on her big floppy hat.

I colored the Laurel image with Copic markers. The image also comes with a sentiment, You're the Sweetest!!

Copic Colors I used:
Skin: E21, E11, RV10
Eyes: B41, B45
Hair: Y21, Y23, Y26
Dress and Hat: R81, R83, R0000

This image along with many many other ones are available at the Simply Betty Store.

I'm also going to put this card in at the:
Outlawz Color Challenge - Mystery colors and theme
Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge  - a Card

Have a great day!

Outlawz Sketch Challenge April 2-8

The Outlawz Sketch Challenge is happy to welcome in the month of April!

We have 5 sketches this month, one for each Wednesday of the month!


And our April sponsor is Deedee's Digis!  She will give a prize to our monthly winner!

Here is the Sketch!!

And here is my card using Deedee's Cat image.

I used paper and ribbon from my stash and some kitty embellies also from my stash!

I colored the image with my Copic markers.

Cat: W1, W2, W5, R20

Eyes: YG09

Grass: YG61

Fence: W5, E99

Hope you will come check out my teammates cards at the Sketch Challenge!! 

P.S.  We have a new DT member. Janice W---check out her BLOG

I will enter my card in these challenges:

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday - CUTE

Open Minded Crafting Fun - Animal Antics

Lady Anne's Show It Off - for inspiration

Have a good day!! Aren't we all glad April Fool's Day is over with!!!!