Monday Greetings Challenge

This little girl is enjoying the Halloween season.  Today I used Daisy May Pumpkin Carving from Angie's Digital Stamps to create this cute Halloween card for The Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge.

For the background I used We Are 3's Orange Retro.  All the sentiments are from my stash.

Home Depot Joy

This layout was designed using DAW Surface Designs's Woodworkers Clip Art and a car from Creative Fabrica's Street Scene Builder.  The striped matting is from We Are 3's Vintage Carnival Collection.

Roses

Roses always create such beautiful cards.  I've been practicing my rose coloring - inspired by the Inspire Me Monday video at Power Poppy - Copic Shading and Shadows.  I designed this card with flowers using Power Poppy's Graceful Still Life.  I was pleased with my first attempt - but felt my roses were lacking color due to over shadowing.  So today's attempt was to have brighter roses.  I'm happy with these in that I was able to leave some white at ends of petals to brighten up my flowers.  Entering my completed work in the Power Poppy challenge Power & Spark - Go Ahead - Inspire Me.

Summer Fun - Surprise at the Beach

This is a card I designed for The Outlawz - both the Wednesday Sketch and Tuesday Color Challenges.  I used TLC Creations' beautiful free image Summer Fun - Surprise at the Beach.  Just seeing this makes me want to dig my feet into the sand!

When I first saw the sketch, I imagined creating a card very similar including a butterfly and a tag.  My butterfly turned into a sandcastle - and I thought the sand pal and shovel was just the perfect tag to complete this card.  The Color Challenge was Tic-Tac-Toe - I chose Bathing Suit, Orange, and Palm Tree.

Sometimes I Just Want Something Quick and Easy!

I've been wanting to create an eclipse card. This is what I designed - wanted to keep it quick and simple.

Patterned paper from We Are 3's Just for You was used for the base.  The top layer is from We Are 3's Delightful Dragonflies.  Using my Eclips, I cup out the sentiment and popdotted it back onto the front.  Very simple, yet effective technique.  Holly was added from my stash - I have a lot of holly left over from classes I've taught.  Think this might be my goto Christmas card this year to help empty my stash of holly and snowflakes.

            

With Deepest Sympathy

Today I was practicing coloring white roses when my hubby came in asking for a sympathy card for the family of a golf buddy who had died yesterday. I continued with my coloring - and altered the image a bit. The original image from Power Poppy (Graceful Still Life) includes books and a hat. I used Gimp to erase those elements, and I added a golf club and golf ball. Quite the turn my card took - but I love how it turned out.

Here's a close-up of the image.

Kindness is the Way Daisy

I love the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.  For this week, I used the stamper's Anniversary Card Casing Julia S.  Used for my card is a freebie from Power Poppy, Kindness is the Way.  The sentiment is from the Little Things Collection at We Are 3.

My flower doesn't show up well in the photo - here's a close up.

Wedding Cake

I designed this layout using We Are 3's Burlap Beach digital paper.  

This is a 12 x 12 layout.  I wanted a ripped look between the solid and patterned papers - but I also wanted to print across the two papers.  So I used GIMP placing the solid over the patterned paper from Beach Burlap.  I then used the erase tool to "erase" the solid paper until I received the torn effect I was looking for.  The titles were then computer generated.

Floral Scene

Do you have a hard time when it comes to coloring digital images?  Today I took advantage of a free Floral coloring class at Kit and Clowder - with a free image (Kindness is the Way) from Power Poppy - resulting in this floral card.

Birthday Beauty

Today I used Amy in the Garden (Sasayki Glitter Designs) which were colored with Gimp.  For my background papers, I used Winter Serenity and Sweet Sounds (We Are 3).  Added pearls from my stash.  The sentiment is from We Are 3's All-Occasion collection.

Hopy you guys like my design for the Paper Ala Mode Challenge at The Outlawz, and do do join in the fun.

  

A Clean and Simple Layout

Having just finished four intricate scrapbooks that took me four years to make, I'm all about Clean and Simple for a while!  I thought I would show you a quick layout using We Are 3's Little Star digital papers.

Let's Have Some Coloring Fun!

Isn't this a beautiful image!  This is a card I designed for two Power Poppy challenges - Hues to Use and Power & Spark Inspire Me.  I used Power Poppy's Graceful Still Life digital stamp.  For the Inspire Me challenge, I was inspired by Allison's Inspire Me video - Copic Shading and Shadow.

Allison's video was especially helpful to me in explaining using Warm, Neutral, and Cool colors to shade.  I tended  more to just go with darker colors.  I have to admit this is probably only the 3rd time I've colored roses -  these are by far the best I have ever colored!  I still have work to do - One thing I will work on next is consistency.  I was quite happy with my first rose - but although I used the same colors and technique, I think a break in between made a difference in how much I shaded or how dark I shaded.  So the colors in my roses are not consistent.  I think now when I have multiple roses, I will shade all of them at the same setting.

My colors also became somewhat muddied - so definitely room to improve!  And I sometimes blended too much, completely blending out my shading.

Overall, I found Allison's instructions exceptionally helpful!!  Thanks, Allison!  Here is a close-up of my work...I have to say, while my coloring is far from perfect, it doesn't help that when I photograph them, it seems the shading disappears.  

When at Kit and Clowder

Still enjoying Kit and Clowder's celebration - today's make is using the freebie from Conie Fong - Ellie's Holiday Helper.  Ellie is a bit of a different design for me - but I really like it.

I chose to keep it simple once colored - kind of figure Ellie doesn't really need anything else!  For my background, I paper pieced Shabby Glam from We Are 3.

My Holiday Letters Christmas Card

Today I want to share with you a Holiday Letters Christmas card - created with paper from the Holiday Letters Collection from We Are 3.

To make my heart, I used the rhinestone effect on my Sizzix Eclips to create the circles border.

We Are 3's At the Beach

There are so many cool and fun giveaways going on over at Kit and Clowder.  I'm beginning to feel a bit stressed - a slow computer is not a good combination with my switch to digital work.  It took me all day to do this card!  With this card, however, I got to use a Kit and Clowder giveaway - Summertime from All Dressed Up - with We Are 3's new release - At the Beach.

Baby Girl Panda Card

Happy Saturday!  Today I want to share with you a Paper Ala Mode card I made - created with an image from Sasayki Glitter.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a wonderful day and join us at the Paper Ala Mode Challenge.

We Are 3's June Release - Tropical Delight and Pineapple

What a great new collection!  For this card, I've used the Tropical Delight Collection and the Pineapple precolored image - which has such fun colors!

Memories in a Layout

Today I'm sharing another layout for my wedding album.