Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Outlawz Sketch Challenge

Welcome to Wednesday and a new Sketch Challenge over at the Outlawz!






Wednesday Sketch
 
Each week, we put up a new sketch and you get to see how it inspires you!! All month of July, we have had The East Wind as our sponsor. Unky will give a digi prize to our July winner. Her shop is full of delightful digi images!! I love them all!! Be sure to check it out!
 
Shop at The East Wind


 
And be sure to Like the Facebook page.
 
Here is our sketch for this week!!
 
 
 
It's an easy great sketch! Here is my card using Faith from The East Wind.
 
 
I used papers from my stash and used my Cuttlebug to cut Spellbinders Labels 4 to get my image into the desired shape.
I used Copic markers B00 and B000 for highlighting around the printed image.
 
Hope you like my card and that you will go visit the Outlawz Sketch Challenge to see what my teammates came up with for the use of this remarkable sketch!

Challenges I am entering:
613 Avenue Create - AG Use a Sentiment
Through the Craftroom Door - AG (Anything Goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday - AG
Sister Act Card Challenge - AG

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!
 

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Through the Purple Haze Blog Hop Winner

Hi everyone! This is Darcy and I just drew the winner from the 42 names in a basket of all those that commented on my blog during the Through the Purple Haze Challenges Birthday Week!!

http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/


All you had to do was use the word PURPLE in your comments and your name went into the draw!!


I made a short video showing me drawing a name and here is the video. My first video using the iphone and it cut off a little at the end before I could thank everyone for commenting!!!


Well, something went wrong with the video so I am deleting it. There is no audio and the Play button isn't working, so I will just tell you that Susan Kennedy is the winner of a $10 voucher at Scrapper's Delights.



Thanks so much to every one that commented on the daily blog hops! It was so appreciated and I hope you had fun! I know I did!

The challenge blog for the Birthday at Through the Purple Haze Challenges is open thru Saturday night UK time so you still have time to get your card entered in for 7 (SEVEN!!!) sponsor prizes.

Thanks for joining me!

And congrats to Susan Kennedy for winning the digi prize from my blog comments!!

Outlawz Sketch Challenge July 23

Welcome to Wednesday and a new Sketch Challenge over at the Outlawz!



Wednesday Sketch
 
Each week, we put up a new sketch and you get to see how it inspires you!! All month of July, we have had The East Wind as our sponsor. Unky will give a digi prize to our July winner. Her shop is full of delightful digi images!! I love them all!! Be sure to check it out!
 
Shop at The East Wind

 
And be sure to Like the Facebook page.
 
Here is our sketch for this week!!
 
 
And here is my card using Aurora Gardening, which was the June freebie image I received just for subscribing to the newsletter.
 

 GET TheEastWind Freebie and Promotion infos by simply subscribing to the Newsletter!
http://cmtd1.com/s/443/b785f49cd4e1df282175ca167e8fe5bd
 
 
 
I colored my image with Copic markers. All of the papers are from my stash. The little tag off in the corner is from my stash also and is a sticker. I used some think green wire to come off the tag. It was actually some floral stems I trimmed off of a paper flower. ( I never throw anything away........that was a GOOD thing in this case!)
The Happy Birthday stamp is from Gina K Designs.
 
Hope you like my card and that you will go visit the Outlawz Sketch Challenge to see what my teammates came up with for the use of this remarkable sketch!
 
Have a great day and thanks for visiting!
 
If you took part in the Through the Purple Haze Birthday Blog hops, I will be drawing my winner about 8 p.m. CST tonight! So you still have time to drop by and leave a comment for me for the week--must use the word PURPLE  in your comment to qualify!
Here's a link to the first blog hop which was Monday the 14th!
 
 

Monday, July 21, 2014

Through the Purple Haze Challenges #51 Distressing









Well, the birthday week is over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges although you may still enter the challenge there for another week yet!


Through The Purple  Haze Challenges



But time marches on and so do we!! It is Challenge #51 and we have an exciting sponsor!






My card is made with Blossom from Delicious Doodles. I am not real big into distressing as I tend to make girly and cute cards, but this was fun especially with this gorgeous image. I decided to use mainly blue colors.  I totally love my Tim Holtz Burlap Distressing Stencil and I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks for my background layer with the stencil. I randomly stamped a butterfly in black. I don't even know the maker of the stamp as it is a really old wooden one and doesn't have a company name on it.. I added a sponged in wood butterfly and some washi tape and some jewels and I was done!
 
 
 
I colored my image with Copic markers.
 
 

I hope you will join our challenge this week!!

Challenges I am entering with my card:
Delicious Doodles - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Butterflies
Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

Have a great week!




 

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Through the Purple Haze Challenges Day 7 (Sunday)

Welcome to Day 7 (Sunday) of the 7 day ongoing birthday party for Through the Purple Haze Challenges !!!  This is the final day of Birthday hopping but the challenge will remain open for another week for your entries!
http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/



All week long Anita, Fiona, and the girls have been celebrating the one year birthday of Through the Purple Haze Challenges!!


This is Day 7 of the birthday celebration week and every day this week we have had a birthday blog hop for you.  If you have missed any of the previous day's blog hop, you may want to go back and take a look because Anita and Fiona are giving away blog candy for commenting. Just complete the hop and leave a comment on the main blog Through the Purple Haze Challenges saying that you've completed the hop and be sure to use the magic word (BIRTHDAY).
 YOU MUST USE THE WORD BIRTHDAY SOMEWHERE IN YOUR COMMENT!! So please leave a comment on each daily challenge blog. The more comments you leave the more chances you have of winning the blog candy prize for the WEEK!
And of course, we have our challenge sponsors that will award a prize from their shop. We have had 7 sponsors for 7 prizes! Wow! That's a great reason for entering our challenge. Your chances of winning are 7 times greater than our usual weekly challenge with only one sponsor.


And all of us participating in the blog hops would love to see your comments along the way for each day of this birthday week! And some of the Design Team girls are giving out a prize of their own just for commenting on their blog this weeklong party!!

I will be giving out a prize of digi images from one of the week's sponsors, too, just for commenting on my blog this birthday week! There is a small catch though. In your comment, you must use the word PURPLE!!  haha, now that's not too hard since the challenge is THROUGH THE PURPLE HAZE CHALLENGES!!  I will randomly select a winner from all the comments left on my blog this week and will pick the winner on July 23rd so you have plenty of time to comment!!  DON'T FORGET TO USE THE MAGIC WORD....(SEE ABOVE)!!



Today, our final blog hop day, we have Encino as our sponsor!  I hope you will stop by their online store and have a look around. And Pssssst!! I have heard that Encino is giving a digi to each of our entrants! Oh, my goodness, now you really have to enter!!



Shop: http://www.encinostamps.com/

Here is my card using Freddy the frog. I actually gave this card to my grandson for his 4th birthday and he LOVED it.  Made me soooooo ribbeting happy! Hahaha...... a little frog humor!
 
 
I colored Freddy with my Copic markers and added some flowers from some new Spellbinders sets that I got Flower Power 1 and Flower Power 2. The LOVE is a die from Tattered Lace called Everyday Sentiments.  Hope you like my card!
 
For the inside, I just used some stickers to go with my computer generated sentiment.
And here is our final blog hop order!  You should have arrived here from the talented Lucy and from here, you will go to awesome Sylvia!
 
Blog Hop Order:

Through the Purple Haze Challenges
 Lisbeth
 Lori 
Anita
  Lucy 
Darcy  This is me! You are here!!
  Sylvia
  Through the Purple Haze Challenges
(leave a comment to say you've completed the Hop)
 
Well, it sure has been a fun week!! I've enjoyed blogging every day and seeing all the visitors come to my blog!!
Hope to see you again!!

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Through the Purple Haze Birthday Day 6


Welcome to Day 6 (Saturday) of the 7 day ongoing birthday party for Through the Purple Haze Challenges !!!
http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/




Happy Birthday Through the Purple Haze Challenges!! Anita, Fiona, and all the girls are putting on a week long party with lots of prizes!!


This is Day 6 of the birthday celebration week and every day this week we have a birthday blog hop for you.  We will be finishing up on Sunday, but the challenge blog will be going for another week to let everyone have a chance to participate in the activities. Anita and Fiona are giving away blog candy for commenting so be sure to comment to be eligible for prizes.

I hope you will visit Through the Purple Haze Challenges every day this week. There will be a short blog hop each day to help us celebrate. In addition to our usual weekly prize, we are giving away a blog candy prize for COMMENTING!!   YOU MUST USE THE WORD  BIRTHDAY SOMEWHERE IN YOUR COMMENT!! So please leave a comment on each daily challenge blog. The more comments you leave the more chances you have of winning the blog candy prize for the WEEK!
And all of us participating in the blog hops would love to see your comments along the way for each day of this birthday week! And some of the Design Team girls are giving out a prize of their own just for commenting on their blog this weeklong party!!


I will be giving out a prize of digi images from one of the week's sponsors, too, just for commenting on my blog this birthday week! There is a small catch though. In your comment, you must use the word PURPLE!!  haha, now that's not too hard since the challenge is THROUGH THE PURPLE HAZE CHALLENGES!!  I will randomly select a winner from all the comments left on my blog this week and will pick the winner on July 23rd so you have plenty of time to comment!!  DON'T FORGET TO USE THE MAGIC WORD....(SEE ABOVE)!!


When you enter our Anything Goes challenge, you will be so glad you did!! Each day of the week, we are being sponsored by a different company. So there are 7 sponsors with 7 prizes given out!! How wonderful is that??? And one of our sponsors is giving away a free digi image to every one of our entrants. So don't miss a day or you miss out!!


Today, Saturday, we have Tattered Lace as our sponsor!  I hope you will stop by their online store and have a look around.



 
For my card, I used the Tattered Lace Oriental Crane Die set and the Everyday Sentiments set. The Oriental Crane set comes with two cranes of two different sizes and a cattails.
For the setting sun, I just cut a circle to use as a mask and sponged Memento Inks over the masked area to sponge my background. After I lifted the circle mask it was stark white, so I sponged some yellow ink over the circle area and just placed my larger Crane and three Cattails on the background layer.  I finished off with a brown glittery ribbon in the lower corner. 
 
The "Especially for You" sentiment is part of the Everyday Sentiments set by Tattered Lace. This set has about every sentiment you can think of.

If you started hopping from the beginning, you should have arrived here from the very awesome AnitaIf you have randomly found yourself here, you may want to start at the beginning of the hop so you don't miss anything!! The entire list is below.

From here, you need to go visit the wonderful Wendy.
 
 Blog Hop Order:
Through the Purple Haze Challenges
Blog Hop Order:

Darcy  This is me! You are here!
 Wendy
Jacqui
Jo
Through the Purple Haze Challenges
(leave a comment to say you've completed the Hop)

Don't forget to comment on my blog for a chance to win some Blog Candy!! I'll be drawing July 23rd!!  And you must use the word  PURPLE!

  

Friday, July 18, 2014

Through the Purple Haze Challenges Day 5

We're on Day 5 of the week long Birthday blog hop for Through the Purple Haze Challenges. Hard to believe we are a year old, but we are and it has been a blast!!


Each day we have been sponsored by a wonderful company and today we are sponsored by Ike's Art, a wonderful company that I just recently heard about and am so thrilled they gave our Design Team a few images to work with.






The image I got to work with was the Peacock. I decided to go with an "untraditional" peacock color and colored my images with soft browns and blues. I used Copic markers to color and I really liked how soft looking it turned out. Hope you like it too!



All the papers and flowers are from my stash.

NOW!! MORE ABOUT THE BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday Through the Purple Haze Challenges!! Anita, Fiona, and all the girls are putting on a week long party with lots of prizes!!

This is Day 5 of the birthday celebration week and every day this week we have a birthday blog hop for you.  We will be finishing up on Sunday. If you missed any of the earlier blog hops, you may want to go back and take a look because Anita and Fiona are giving away blog candy for commenting. There is a short blog hop each day to help us celebrate. In addition to our usual weekly prize, we are giving away a blog candy prize for COMMENTING!!   YOU MUST USE THE WORD BIRTHDAYSOMEWHERE IN YOUR COMMENT!! So please leave a comment on each daily challenge blog. The more comments you leave the more chances you have of winning the blog candy prize for the WEEK!

And all of us participating in the blog hops would love to see your comments along the way for each day of this birthday week! And some of the Design Team girls are giving out a prize of their own just for commenting on their blog this weeklong party!!

Yes, I'm giving a prize!! I will be giving out a prize of digi images from one of the week's sponsors, too, just for commenting on my blog this birthday week! There is a small catch though. In your comment, you must use the word PURPLE!!  haha, now that's not too hard since the challenge is THROUGH THE PURPLE HAZE CHALLENGES!!  I will randomly select a winner from all the comments left on my blog this week and will pick the winner on July 23rd so you have plenty of time to comment!!  DON'T FORGET TO USE THE MAGIC WORD....
(SEE ABOVE)!!

When you enter our Anything Goes challenge, you will be so glad you did!! Each day of the week, we are being sponsored by a different company. So there are 7 sponsors with 7 prizes given out!! How wonderful is that??? And one of our sponsors is giving away a free digi image to every one of our entrants. So don't miss a day or you miss out!!
If you started hopping from the beginning, you should have arrived here from the amazing Katrine.
If you have randomly found yourself here, you may want to start at the beginning of the hop so you don't miss anything!! The entire list is below.
From here, you need to go back to Through the Purple Haze Challenges and leave a comment saying you've completed the hop and don't forget to use the secret word! (hint: up above). I hope you've enjoyed today's hop. 

Blog Hop Order:
(leave a comment to say you've completed the Hop)

Have a great time playing with us in our Birthday Blog Hop!!