Day Two of the Challenge

It's not Christmas until I've wished someone a Merry Cactus - here with a digital sentiment from We Are 3 (Cactus Thoughts).  Fun quirky Southwest sentiments are some of my faves.   

The cactus on today's tag is from the Cactus Family Cartoon Set from Design Bundles.

Playing in the Desert

I've got yet another layout inspired by the Creative Memories Virtual Crop last weekend.   

I just couldn't resist a desert layout and was able to use one of my sentiments from We Are 3's Cactus Thoughts set.

Santa Claws meets Kerst Christmas

This gorgeous Santa Claws image from Last-Minute Manda is featured in the Kerst Christmas Challenge if you'd like to join in (hurry!).  I'm really not sure if they are sloths or racoons - but this time I've gone with sloths colored digitally.  I did print three copies and cut layers for dimension.  The cactus pattern on the large package is digital paper from The Hungry JPEG.  The sentiment is We Are 3.

New Papers at We Are 3

I spent quite a bit of time in the Card Maker Success Summit that just ended yesterday.  The theme seemed to be Ink Blending with Alcohol Inks - isn't that perfect for a digital scrapper?  LOL!  I did get loads of ideas, though - but this idea struck me, and I've been playing ever since.  Daniel West's "Lunchbox" cards.  They are small gift card inserts that can be slipped into lunchboxes, drawers, wallets, purses, pockets, etc.  I've always wanted to be that person who did this....but I'm not much of a "writer," so never jumped on the bandwagon.  But when I saw Daniel's clean and simple cards with a simple message - I got excited that I don't really need to write little notes - I can let my vast inventory of digital sentiments to do that job for me. 

Here's a closeup of one of the cards.  The background on each of these cards is from the new Painted Canvas collection.

The sentiments are from a variety of sentiment sets at We Are 3:  Dreams, Special Wishes, Cactus Thoughts, and Cactus Greetings.

Power Poppy Creative Confetti Challenge and Wow! What a Birthday Gift

Woo Hoo. I've been so excited playing with two new digital stamps created just for me by Bonnie at We Are 3 - Camille's Cactus and Camille's Cactus Flower. Besides these fun images, I am using Cactus digital papers and a sentiment from Cactus Thoughts - all new releases at We Are 3. Check out these fabulous items HERE.

I'm playing catch up on Creative Confetti challenges at the Power Poppy blog since I wasn't able to get to my craft table for the past few weeks.  Last week, the challenge was to Make it Shimmer!  For this challenge, I made a treat box with an acetate lid - embellished with a belly band and some Cactus decor.  For the shimmery inspiration from Power Poppy, I sprayed the cactus with some metallic shimmery spray paint...difficult to see in the above photo, so here is a close up of the shimmery cactus.

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