Memorial Day card

My card isn't really just for remembering those who have faught for our freedom here in America, but also for those who are still fighting to defend it. I kept the card rather simple and no bling or glitter of any kind so that I can send it to Operation Write Home so that they can send it to a solider overseas. I used Get Sketchy challenge for the layout and the OWH blog hop theme of red, white, and blue for my color theme. I didn't use any other challenges that I know of (shocking I know). I know it may not be much but it comes from the heart.

Color Your World

I can't believe it's almost been a month since my last post. It's been a busy month with trying to wrap up the end of another school year. After June 4th I should be back to my normal posts and play time. Until then I've got finals to give and grade, classroom clean up/pack up, and all of the sign off a teacher's got to do. On top of that I have to look into speech therapy for my 4 year old. He's a talker, but something just feels off. I don't think it's anything serious, but I will feel better once we check it. I did get the latest Scrapbook etc. and have been drooling. While looking through the June edition of Scrapbooks etc. I came across a great layout that I can't wait to CASE into a page of my own. In the mean time, I thought it would make a great card too. I love rainbows and clouds and all things sky related so I thought it was perfect for my little card.

The layout:
The rays in Practicing Creativity's You're Dandy set was perfect for the rainbow rays I needed. The clouds that came in the set were the perfect scale size for the card as well. I heat embossed the clouds in white a little longer than normal so that it bubbled some to give them some texture and then I cut each on out. Two of th clouds are mounted up on foam dots to give them some depth. The words are computer generated in purple so that I could use all of the colors of the rainbow. I think the only thing I would have done differently was to sponged more light blue on the sentiment scrap so that the clouds could stand out more.

Challenges used:
Crafty Calendar - the great outdoors
Stampin' for the weekend - smile/cheer up
Saturday Crafter - no patterned paper
Quixotic Challenge - word/sentiment focus
Wee Memories - sky's the limit
Paper Sundaes - favorite book, poem, or fairy tale (Wizard of Oz and the Over the Rainbow song).

Spring Formal

Sassy Studio Desgins had a release today and I created a card with one of the new images. I tried to get it posted for ya'll last night but I just couldn't finish it in time. She was lots of fun to color with my copics, but I just didn't feel like it was enough so I took out a jar of Shimmerz Wintergreen Blingz and painted over her gown to give a some sparkle...LOVE how it turned out. Then I added some small rhinestones to take it to the next level. Next I decided to turn the whole card into a monochromatic one and kept the color going. The cardstock is from PTI (don't remember the color), the DP is the backing of my Verve stamps that I just went over with a copic that I used on the dress. The sparkle strip on then bottom is white mulberry paper that I color with the same copic and then went over with the Wintergreen shimmerz. I also painted the small flowers with the same shimmerz and colored the bigger flower with a matching copic as well as the bling I added to the center of it. The cardstock base was also stamped with PTI's Background Basics Text Style in Versamark.

Challenges I used:

Stamp Challenges - sketch

Dare U 2 Digi - flowers

Paper Play - pastels

Charisma - girly card with flowers

Beary Scrap - flowers