Harley ride and a sketch......what a day!

Today was gorgeous!  Went for a 2 hour ride on the harleys and then came home and did the 'Our Craft Lounge' sketch.  Can't hardly beat a day like this.

Never really thought I would get into fairies but this statmp set just speaks to me.

This card seemed to make itself.  The colors and image were made for each other.

Image:  OCL "Fairy Dust is a Must"

DP:  Pizazz Papers

Colors:  Copic Markers

Card Base:  DCWV Luxury Pack

Ribbon:  Michaels

Bling:  Inky Dinky Drops from Inky Impressions

12 hour shifts in the ER for the next 3 days, so, no scrapping or cardmaking.  See ya next week.

Who's Feeling Sketchy?

Doodle Dragon Studio has a sketch challenge going!  Remember to use a Doodle Dragon image/Dustin Pike to be eligible to win he prize.  He has wonderful images both for sale and for free  (hope you didn't miss his blogaversary-WOW).

What fun!  I had a great time playing with both the image and the sketch layout.

Materials:

Image:  Dustin Pike/Doodle Dragon Studio

Word Art:  Create with TLC (amazing word art for free and for sale)

Coloring:  Copics

Ribbon and brads from my stash

DP:   Paper Pizazz

ALSO USED:  dazzling diamonds glitter from SU and nestibilities for die cutting.

Our Craft Lounge sketch challenge

Our Craft Lounge has posted their weekly sketch challenge.  Since I don't seem to have much mojo going right now, I fell back on a holiday card.  They seem to be the easiest for me to put together.  So......Happy Halloween everyone!

The stamp set is Spook-tacular from Our Craft Lounge.  The spiders are covered in black sparkly-fluff. The spider web is clear embossed.  The DP is DCWV photo stack and the card stock is from couture card stock.  I have used ribbon from Michaels and SU dazzling diamonds around the sentiment.  The center ribbon is simply layered paper with cut out and embossed candy corns.  On the DP, I have cut out extra candy corns and made them into embellishments.  Cut them out, cover with versa mark and dip in Ultra thick embossing enamel.  Heat to melt the enamel.  Dip again, reheat and repeat for a total of 5-6 times.  This gives a beautiful, 3-D embellishment to us on your card.  Everything is placed on the card with scor-tape or dimensionals.

Create with TLC

This is a 'just because' post.  I have been visiting a new site for me.  It is called 'Create with TLC'.  They do amazing word art.  They seem to be able to put into words all those things I think but just don't seem to be able to say.  Amazingly, there are daily freebies, sometimes several!  I am posting a card done with one of their word art frames.  So simple, says exactly what I wanted. 

I am sorry that I don't know where I got the center image.  This was the perfect card fro my friend at work who does love her fancy shoes.  (Hers has heels that light up when she walks!)  They just make her 'HAPPY'.  Please visit TLC and check out their offerings, freebies or for sale.  They are really wonderful.

Prairie Fairy

The Prairie Fairy has put out a beautiful free digital image of a fairy with a daisy for the DT call they have ongoing.  Although I am new to this blogging thing, the image is to good not to play with.   Soooo, this is my submission.

The image is from Prairie Fairy, the moon and the word are from 'Graphically Speaking' a cricut cartridge.  The ribbon is from Michaels and SU dazzling diamonds are (ever) present.  :)  The background paper is from my scrap basket.  All of the coloring is using copics.  Enjoy my card and feel free to click on my blog header to go to my site and look at my other cards.  Also, go visit Prairie Fairy and check out some great stamps and try out for the DT.

Our craft lounge - April challenge

Our Craft Lounge is always in the midst of a monthly challenge.  There are new sketches posted every Friday, winners chosen at the end of each month.  Today is my take on this weeks sketch.

This card uses the image from Dandy Days and the sentiment from Say it Big.  The papers are all from my scrap box.  There is coloring with copics and SU dazzling diamonds.  The card is dark blue and the frame around the image is mirrored cardstock (both are hard to see in the photo).

Our Craft Lounge Challenge

Our Craft Lounge has another weekly sketch up and running.  Go to the site and check it out!  This weeks has lots of layers.  I managed to get one more card in for today and here it is:

The butterflies are from 'Natures Notes' from Our Craft Lounge.  All of the cardstock is mirror finish (very hard to photograph!) and most of it came from Couture Cardstock.  The ribbon is from Michaels, the glitter is dazzling diamonds from SU.  Copic markers for coloring the butterflies and the half pearls.  Lots of dimensionals, under the panels and to lift the edges of the butterfly wings, to give the card some character.

The mirror cardstock is fairly easy to work with and cuts very smoothly.  Just wouldn't want to have to photograph it very often!

Good Night

Multiple challenges, couple of cards!

What a rainy, stormy day it has been!  Hasn't let up all day and I have gotten to play in the craft room for almost all of it!  I have 2 cards that I did today that fit into several current challenges.  The first card is entered in challenges at:

Papertake Weekly:  Open theme

Cute Daisy Mae:  For the boys

Inky Impressions:  Recycle it

The images are all freebies from Dustin Pike's website!  Isn't it a great background!  Coloring is with copics.  SU dazzling diamonds on the hand drawn anchor.  The paper is from my scrap basket and the sentiment a random stamp in my drawer.  I just love the dragon stamps and Dustin puts lots of freebies on his website.  Check Here

My second card is for several challenges also.  They are:

Couture Cardstock:  Unusual color for me

Friday Sketchers:  sketch challenge

The Cuttlebug Spot:  Pink and green

This another digistamp from Dustin Pike's website. (a freebie!)  The bg paper is DCWV,  plain brown cardstock on kraft paper cs.  The ribbon is from Michael's, SU dazzling diamonds, flowers that I punched, generic rhinestones and coloring with my copics.  The sentiment is from SU. 
Have had great frun today but means I probably won't get to play for a couple of days!  Oh well............

Easter is coming! Easter is coming!

This card is for 2 challenges:  Doodle Dragon Studio Challenge using one of Doodle Dragon  images and Couture Cardstock using a medium along with the cardstock.  This was a fun image to play with.  Gotta love a dragon getting into Easter!

Debbie Mumm bg paper, scrap ribbon and yarn. A Doodle Dragon Studio image colored with copic markers.  Nesties to frame a hand printed sentiment.  There are SU dazzling diamonds, insects from an Our Craft Lounge stamp set and Diamond Glaze for some shine and depth.  A thin strip of the bg paper on the inside and the card is ready to go to my son and his SO in Oklahoma!

Faux stitching for Couture Cardstock

Faux or real (yeah, right!) stitching is the requirement for todays entry into the month long, daily contests at Couture Cardstock.  Doing some planning ahead for father's day!

Kraft cardstock for the card.  The image is a digital that I downloaded.  I'm sorry I don't remember where.  It is colored with copics.  There is paper and ribbon from my scrap box.  A nestie is used to cut out the sentiment which is from SU.  Faux pearls, colored with my copics and dazzling diamonds from SU.  Faux stitching finishes it off.  This was a fun card to work on.  I am definitely getting to like these digital stamps!

Our Craft Lounge challenge

Our Craft Lounge sketch challenge is the basis for this card.  Pretty easy sketch, seems sort of blank at the bottom.  Hard for me to leave open spaces like that.  I finally put glitter on the bottom row of flowers to spice it up a little. 

Not sure what I'll do with this card, but some little girl will like it!

The image is (of course) Our Craft Lounge.  Copic markers for the coloring, nesties for the cropping, SU dazzling diamonds and papers from my scrap box. 

Multiple challenge card!

Today I am posting a card that enters several challenges going on right now.  I find that it is a real challenge to make a card that incorporates several different requirements and still "works".  This card uses the sketch challenge from Friday Sketchers,  the Cute Daisy Mae challenge to use a fairy,  KL Scrapin & Stampins challenge to us flowers and stitching (faux in my case), Couture Cardstock's daily challenge is to use red (see the mushroom and ladybug), The Cuttlebug Spot challenge to include wings and the Paper Take Weekly challenge to us lilac and lemon.  I hope you enjoy the card.

The fairy is from Our Craft Lounge.  The cardstock for the card is Couture Cardstock.  The patterned ivory paper is from the DCVW luxury stack.  The main image and sentiment are stamped on Neenah solar white.  There is a copious amount of SU dazzling diamonds, copic markers, scrap paper, eyelash yarn and dimensionals also used.  The flower is a JoAnns white flower colored with my copics, a rhinestone brad completes the flower.  Inking with Memento inks on some edges and faux stitching on others completes the card.

Another day with Couture Cardstock

Today is the 18th day in a row in the Couture Cardstock daily giveaway.  Here is my submission for today.

This is an easel card.  The main stamp is from stampscapes and is colored with copic markers.  The sentiment is from SU.  Pearls, dazzling diamonds (SU) and scrap paper finish it off. 

Couture Cardstock month long prizes!

My cardstock that I won from Couture cardstock came in today.  How beautiful!  I have been playing with it already.  Some of it is really glamourous.  I can't wait to post something made with it.   This is my entry for today.  To use dimensionals in a project.

This is a freebie digital image from Hambostamps.  (thanks!) The bee and the fish are from Our Craft Lounge stamp sets.  The flipflops are a single stamp of unknown origin.  Colored with copics, scraps of paper and ribbon.  There is SU dazzling diamonds, pearls, faux stitching and dimensionals all used.  The flowers are from Joanns.  Plain white, colored with my copics to match the coloring.  There is no sentiment yet, not sure where or why this one is going yet. 

Hope you enjoy this one.

Visit Olive Juice Studio blog for cool candy

Go and visit the Olive Juice Studio.  They are giving away blog candy for guessing the number of plastic easter eggs that are in a basket shown on the blog.  It's just that simple.  The more people that join in, the more prizes that will be added to the blog candy (which is already pretty good). 

Good luck