Oz Meets Black Eyed Susans

Please scroll down to see my Black Eye Susan card which is the second card listed in this post.  Thanks!

Happy Monday and the start of a new month!  Today's the day Doodle Pantry is releasing a wonderful selection of new sets, and I am happy to share two cards using two of the new images.

My card above showcases the new Lil'l Oz Bundle Plus.  This set comes with individual images of the four characters, in addition to the group image which I used.  Plus this set has lots of other goodies including colored and outline versions of all the images, sentiments and digital papers.

For my card, I combined the colored group image with a sentiment from the set.  My layout was inspired by Sweet Sketch Wednesday 212.  I used a variety of die cut layers and made my own flower embellishments with the help of a flower punch.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday SSW#212 -- Sketch

Sentimental Sundays Challenge 161 -- All things digital; must have a sentiment

Dream Valley Challenge 60 -- Make your own flowers or embellishments

My next card showcases the new Black Eyed Susan set.  This set comes with both colored and outline images as well as sentiments and digital papers.

For this card I merged 3 outline images --2 single flowers and 1 flower with bud -- to create the grouping of black-eyed susans.  Images were colored with Copics, and I added green accents to the small leaves and stems with a colored pencil.  The centers of the flowers were filled with flower soft, and ribbon was threaded through a Spellbinders' Lacey Oval Die.  I also added black pearl accents.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons Challenge 50 -- Anything Goes with ribbon

The Craft Place -- Flowers

Outlawz Alcohol Markers Challenge June 28-July 4 -- Anything Goes

When you stop by Doodle Pantry to see all the new sets be sure to check out all the July specials.  Click HERE to see all the specials and pick up your coupon code.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a great day!

CASYL Challenge #22 -- Photo Inspiration

Happy Friday!  Today starts a new challenge at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long and its a sweet one.  For this week's CSAYL Challenge #22, we have a photo to inspire your creations..  Will you take inspiration from the colors, shapes, images or something else?  Can't wait to see what you create!

Link to Inspiration Photo

Our sponsor this week is Di's Digi Designs.

Two participants this week will win a $10 gift certificate to Di's Digi Designs.  Be sure to check out their adorable images.  You have until midnight EST on Wednesday, July 3, to link your Christmas creations.

Now about my card above...I drew my inspiration from the colors, shapes and cookie decorations. My decorations are images (that I merged) from two different CDS sets.  I used a combination of circular and square shapes.  Then embellished the edges of the white scalloped layers with glitter before adding red rhinestones to the holly berries and corners.  What fun!  Hope you jump start your Christmas creations and take part in CSAYL Challenge #22.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day.  

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Hats and Things with Hippo-Ray

Hi all!  I'm sharing a card today that I really had fun making. This cute hippo is from an older Doodle Pantry set called Hippo-Ray .  I updated this precious image by merging a bow and string of pearls from the new Doodle Pantry set, Hats and Things, on top of the dancing hippo.  I love Doodle Pantry's add-on sets.  They really are fun to use, and can give your images a whole new look.  The sentiment is from another DP set, Happy Sheep.

The digital images I used are precolored making for a quick and easy card.  I did add some of my own coloring and shading to the images.  Although it's barely noticeable in the photo, I cut out the ruffle from a second copy of Hippo-Ray and added it to my card with dimensionals.  Both the green check and floral digi papers are also from the Hippo-Ray set.  I used lots of different dies and punches to embellish my card -- Marvy flower punch, MS butterflies and leaves punches, Spellbinder rectangular die as well as a Papertrey scallop border die. Pearls were added to the centers of the flowers and butterflies.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Inky Impressions (IIC #113) -- Anything Goes

Bearly Mine Challenge #91 -- Flowers Galore

Digi Makeover Challenge #93 -- Punches/Dies

Paper Playtime Challenge 12 -- Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Enjoy the rest of your day!

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CSAYL Challenge #20 -- Snowy Pair

Good Morning!  I am very happy to announce that I have been asked to join Christmas Stampin' All Year Long's Design Team.  There's a  Christmas Stampin' All Year Long (CSAYL) challenge posted every Friday.  

This  week's CSAYL Challenge #20 is to include 3 of the following elements on your creation:

M- Metal E - Embossing Folder  R - Ribbon R - Rub On Y - Yellow

C - Chipboard H - Heat Embossing  R - Rhinestone I - Distressing Ink S - Sticker T - Twine M - Markers A - Acrylic S - Stickles

Beccy's Place is sponsoring this challenge; and one participant will win 3 images of choice.  For a chance to win link up your creation by June 19 at midnight EST.

For the card above, I used the precious Snowy Pair image by Beccy's Place, and had lots of fun adding the following challenge elements to my creation -- I colored the outline image from the Snowy Pair set with Copic Markers and embossed the panel of white card stock with an Embossing Folder.  Embellishments include Ribbon, Rhinestones, and 2 tiny silver snowflake Stickers.  I also incorporated the color, Yellow, into my design.

In addition to the challenge elements, I added digital paper piecing to the hats and scarfs, and embellished the image with fun flock, flower soft and lots of glitter.  Also the edges of the image panel were sponged with ink and glittered.  And the best part -- I have another Christmas card to add to my stash!

Thanks so very much for stopping by.  Hope you join us for this week's challenge at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long.

Quirky Stork

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Today's card uses the new Doodle Pantry digital set, Quirky Stork.  It's this month's featured set for Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 35 (DPDC35).  All participants who enter this challenge and create a project that follows the theme/rules will be emailed this set for free!  Challenge runs through June 24, 9 PM ( EDT).

For my card above, I merged the outline image from Quirky Stork onto some digi paper and added some digital paper piecing.  After printing the image, I colored it with Copics.  I glittered the gray shadows on the wings and bridge of the beak.  (Unfortunately, I couldn't get the sparkle to show in the photo.)   I used lots of layers and die cuts and finished with rhinestone embellishments.  IRL, there's lots of sparkle and shine!

The sketch is from  Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge --Sweet Sketch 209:

 

I also will be entering this card in the following fun challenges:

365 Cards Day 159 -- Sparkle and Shine (I added rhinestones & glittered the gray shadows on wings & top of beak.)

Crafty Calendar June Challenge -- Things with Wings

Totally Gorguss Challenge 188 -- Hey Baby! - cards for a baby

Digi Haven Anything Goes Challenge for One Year Anniversary -- Must use a digi (Congratulations on 1 year!)

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Palo Verde

Morning everyone!   Today's the day Doodle Pantry is releasing a fabulous new selection of  digital images.  I used an image from the beautiful new Palo Verde set  to make this card.  This set comes with outline and pre-colored images as well as matching digi papers and sentiments.  

For my card, I used the outline image which I colored with Copic markers. Although, it's barley visible in the photo, I sponged the edges of the image panel with chalk ink; then heat embossed with clear EP mixed with dazzling diamonds.  IRL, the edges have a nice sparkle.  I opted for a simple design to allow the blossoms and greenery to take center stage.  

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe #126 -- Three elements with same letter (PEARLS, PAPER AND PALO VERDE BLOSSOMS)

Inspire Me Fridays 105 -- Anything Goes

Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge #169 -- Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #9 -- Anything Goes

Addicted to Stamps Challenge 47 -- Make your Mark Coloring (COLORING WAS DONE WITH COPIC MARKERS.)

Outlawz Copics Challenge (CPC053113) May 31- June 6 -- Anything Goes

Rhedd & Rosie's Challenge #7 -- Blooming Lovely

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Hi everyone!  After checking out some fun challenges this weekend, I was inspired to start my Christmas cards.  I love making Christmas cards, except when I'm  still making them on Christmas Eve, like last December!  Plus, I recently got some new goodies, and couldn't wait to play with them. 

 My new Christmas Window Santa image is by Bugaboo, and the sketch I used is Catch the Bug -- SSS 137.  Sentiment is by Doodle Pantry.  I colored my image with Copics and did some digital paper piecing.  I also added glitter to the snow and fun flock to the trim on Santa's hat and coat.  I die cut black felt to make the large scallop border.  The white embossed border is by MS.  Two different sizes of MS punches were used to make the snowflakes.  Sentiment was punched out with a SU! word window punch.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Catch the Bug - Stella Says Sketch Challenge 137 -- Sketch

My Time to Craft Challenge #222 -- Christmas in May

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long Challenge #16 -- Christmas Carols (Santa Claus is Coming to Town)

Pile It On #20 -- Add Fabric /Felt (I die cut black felt to make the large scallop border.)

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 207 -- Christmas

Creative Corner Challenge 19 -- A Song  (Santa Claus is Coming to Town)

One Stitch At A Time Challenge #164 -- Use A Digi

Card Makin' Mamas CMM69 -- Punches (I used large and small snowflake punches & a word window punch.)

Since I had so much fun making this card, I might even try making a holiday card every week or two!  Hope everyone has a great week!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sentiments, anyone?

Morning All!  Don't know about you, but I"m always on the lookout for just the right sentiments to go with my digital images.  Well, I am thrilled to announce that Doodle Pantry is releasing three fabulous sets of sentiments today, and they will be FREE for a limited time -- May 15-19!

The new Celebrations set has 12 great digital sentiments.  The card below combines one of the sentiments  with images from Cupcake Ants.

The new So Endearing set includes 10 wonderful sentiments.   For my next card, I paired a sentiment from So Endearing with an image from Puppy Presents; and just so you know, the little flowers (which were merged behind the dog) are from Spring Song Birdies Color Plus.

The third set of sentiments is called So Thankful and contains 10 great ways to say thank you!  I used one of the sentiments from this set and combined it with Doodle Pantry's beautiful Texas Dogwood.

 To go to the Doodle Pantry Store, just click HERE  to preview the sentiments and get instructions to download the free sentiments. Remember, these 3 sets are free only for a limited time. May 15 -- May 19!  After that, the sentiments will be available for purchase at Doodle Pantry ($2 for each set) .  

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Jacaranda

Good Morning everyone and happy start to a new week!  Spring has finally sprung, and we have been enjoying beautiful

weather and gorgeous spring blossoms.  Don't know about you, but I just love this time of year.

In keeping with the season, today's card uses a beautiful pre-colored image from Doodle Pantry's Jacaranda set.  I needed a quick card, and using a pre-colored image help make this card a snap to put together.  I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Calendar May Challenge -- Blooms and Blossoms

Challenges 4 Everybody #19 -- Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge #142 -- Bingo Bash (I used pearls, image and sentiment.)

Hiding in my Craft Room (HIMCR) #96 -- Name Your Colors (Used shades of blue and plum.)

Kraftyhands May Challenge -- Flower Frenzy

Card Mania Challenges CMC #20 -- Flower Power/Flower Magic

Craft Your Passion Challenge 161 -- Floral Delights

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Blog Candy Winners!

Thanks to all who entered their names for a chance to win a $15 Doodle Pantry gift certificate.  I used Random.org to choose the two winners:

The winners are #11-Miami Kei and #7-Sandi.  Congratulations ladies!

Kelly and Sandi -- please contact me by email so I can send you the necessary codes and information.  My email address can be found on my sidebar, just after my listing of followers.

Fancy Flamingos

Hi everyone!  Just a heads up to let you know that today's release day at Doodle Pantry.  Laurie has released 8 fabulous new digital sets, a new template/SVG, and 4 Color Plus sets of previous released images.  In addition,  there's a 25% off sale going on now through May 6, excluding gift certificates.

For today's release, I am thrilled to showcase Fancy Flamingo.  This  new set includes both colored and outline images, as well as digi papers and sentiments.  For my card above, I  combined 2 outline images and a sentiment from the set to make an anniversary card.  Coloring was done with Copics and colored pencils.  I also added some Spirelli string art around the scallop die cuts.

All patterned papers are from my scrap bin, including the flower, which I made for another project and never used. It feels so good to recycle some of the many leftover bits and pieces I've been saving.  Gotta do this more often!

I will be entering my card in the following challenges:

Whimsy Inspiration Challenge #58 -- pink

A Gem of a Challenge -- Going Green (All patterned paper and handmade flower were recycled from my scrap bin.)

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge #121 -- Perfect Papers (Use at least 3 different patterned papers.)

Outlawz Monday Greeting Card Challenge April 29 -- Anything Goes include sentiment

Artistic Inspirations Challenge -- Lots of Layers

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #110 -- Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge #43 --  Cute with Lots of Layers

Digi Makeover Challenge #86 -- Celebrations (Must use a digi.)

Party Time Tuesday PTT 118 -- Anything Goes

Creative Crafts Challenges 2 Challenge 9 -- All about animals

Bearly Mine Challenge #84 -- Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!!

Celebrating with Blog Candy!

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Morning All!  As I just reached over 40,000 hits, I would like to thank all my followers and blogging buddies for your support, encouragement and lovely comments..  Thanks so much everyone!

To celebrate, I would like to share my love of digis by offering a $15 Doodle Pantry gift certificate to 2 lucky individuals.  To enter the drawing just leave a comment on this post and include your name and  blog's URL.  That's it!  

Leaving a comment on one of my cards would be appreciated, but not necessary to win.  You do not have to be a follower to be eligible to win.  I would only want you to follow me because you like my blog, not just for this chance at winning my blog candy.

You have until April 30 to enter.  Winners will be announce at the beginning of May.  Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you have a great day!

Swimming Mallard

Happy Sunday!  Hope everyone enjoyed their day.  Today, I have a Father's Day card to share.  I'm actually early for a  change.  I find masculine cards very hard to make, and usual put them off until the last minute. Well, when I first saw the new Doodle Pantry Notebook Paper set, it gave me an idea, and I couldn't wait to give it a try. 

Don't you just  love when an idea in your head works out on paper?  Not only am I happy that my design works, but I really like how the images, sentiment and digi paper from Doodle Pantry's Swimming Mallard Color Plus look merged on top of the lined paper.  Although I used pre-colored images, I did change the color of the notebook paper to match the tones in the patterened digi paper,  To add some dimension, I cut out a second copy of the duck image and adhere it over the first image with dimensionals.  I also embossed a panel of kraft (SU! crumb cake) cardstock for texture.  This is probably the first masculine card that I ever made that came together quickly and easily.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss Challenge 180 -- Embossing

Crafty Catz Challenge 179 -- One for the boys  (can be for a child or an adult)

Paper Crafting Journey -- Use A Sentiment

Divas by Design Challenge -- Butterflies and Birds

CDAC Anything Goes Challenge Room -- 4/1 -- 6/30 Anything Goes

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

I have some blog candy up for grabs, click here if you are interested in entering your name to the draw.

Birthday Fairy

Hi All!  Here's my attempt at Stella Says Sketch 135.  I used Bugaboo's fun Stella Tidbits-Fairy Visit.  I changed up the sentiment a bit to make it more 'birthday fairy' appropriate.  Coloring was done with Copics.  I also paper pieced the dress and booties.  Glitter was added to the wings and wand, and gloss to the lens of the glasses.  IRL, there's lots of sparkle and shine.  

I will also be entering my card in the following challenges:

Delightful Challenges -- Color My World-anything colorful

Moving Along with the Times -- Fantasy or Fairies

Flutter by Wednesday #236-- Use a sentiment with your butterfly or fairy

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge (PWC254) -- Happy Birthday

Thanks for taking the time to visit.  I have some blog candy up for grabs.  Please click HERE to enter!

Smartypants!

Hi everyone!  You are in for a treat today because Doodle Pantry has released a bunch of new digital sets.  Since I couldn't choose just one of the new sets to showcase, I decided to merge a little something from 4 of the sets into one card.

First, I filled one of the new colorized jars from Bottle & Jar COLOR with a bunch of paperclips from Pencil & Paperclip COLOR plus.  After grouping the paperclips and jar together, I merged the jar on top of a sheet of lined paper from Notebook Paper (free with purchase for a limited time, Apr 16-24).  I then merged 3 pencils, also from the new Pencil & Paperclip set on top of the jar and paper.

I should mention, at this point, that all formatting, grouping and merging was done in a Microsoft Word document.  After I got all the images grouped the way I wanted them to look, I merged dotted digi paper "behind" the images.  I just love the look of the dotted digi paper peeking through the jar!

After cutting out and mounting my image to the card's base with dimensionals, I added my new (free with purchase) Smartypants sentiment on top.  Design includes dry embossing, banner die cuts, and metal embellishments including a 'real' paperclip.  What fun! 

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody #18 -- Anything Goes

Sparkle N Sprinkle April Challenge -- Use a digital image

One Stitch At A Tie Challenge # 159 -- Bright Colors

Opus Glue Challenge #154 -- Color Challenge (brights or pastels)

Pile It On #15 -- Embossing

Card Crafter's Circle Challenge #70 --  Die Cuts  and/or Dry Embossing ( I used both.)

Card Mania Challenge (MC) #18 -- Punches and/or Die Cuts

Make It Monday -- Always Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you enjoy your day!!

Berry Nice Mice

Hi everyone, hope all is well!  This cutie image is from the Berry Nice Mice set, and it's the featured set for this month's Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 33. This challenge runs through April 24 (9 PM eastern time).  All challenge participants who follow the theme/rules will be emailed this set for free!  Click here to view the challenge and preview all the goodies this set includes.  Sure hope you can join us!

Now about my card... I used the outline image from Berry Nice Mice, and colored the image with Copics and Irojiten Pencils.  I also added some shading around the edges with pastels.  Digital Papers used are from Quirky Snowmen.  The sketch I used is this week's Sweet Sketch Wednesday #201.  I did turn the sketch on its side and used an oval instead of a rectangle to fit my image.  Hope that's okay!

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #201 -- sketch

Shelly's Images TTT Challenge -- Use Scallops

Bearly Mine Challenge #81 -- Anything Goes

Paper Playtime Challenge #7 -- Use a Pun

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Humorous Birthday

Happy Monday!  Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.  Lots of family and friends are celebrating birthdays next  month.  Here's a humorous birthday card I worked on this morning using a fun Stella image from Bugaboo.  Hope it gives you a chuckle.  I colored the image with Copics and Irojiten pencils.  I also added some liquid glass to the eyeglasses.  Papers are from MDS, and embellishments include baker's twine, punched flowers and rhinestones.

I will be entering this card in the following challenges:

Bugaboo's Catch the Bug April Challenge -- Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 88 -- Humor

Dream Valley Challenge 54 - Happy Birthday

Artistic Inspirations Challenge 36 -- Anything Goes

Have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Flip Flops

Bring on Flip Flop weather... Today is release day at Doodle Pantry, and I have two cards to share which showcase the new set, Flip Flops. Talk about fun to work with!  This set comes with both colored and outline images, sentiments and digi papers.  AND the best part, this set is free with any purchase from April 5th through April 24th!  

For the card above, I used one of the digital papers that comes with the set for the background layer and also used the same paper to piece the insoles.  The straps and soles were colored with Copics and layered with clear gel.  The little flowers are "leftovers" from a punched border and topped with tiny pearls.  Finally, I added a ribbon belly band to hold the ornate tri-fold card base together.

For the next card, I resized the image and sentiment to fit my design.  I used dotted digi paper from Doodle Pantry's Watermelon Lunch set to die cut the borders and paper piece the insoles.  Instead of coloring, I glittered the straps and soles with MS glitter. The tiny flowers were die cut and the larger flowers were punched.  After adding the flowers, I finished up with lots of bling.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.  Many thanks for taking the time to stop by to see what I've been up to.