Sympathy

I am honoured to be the Guest Designer at Createful Heart Design for the challenge running until mid-July.

I have used an image from Createful Heart Design called Flower Patch Butterfly.

I also used a digital paper from Createful Heart Design.  Colouring is with copic markers.  I added a sentiment from Digi Ditto and some stickers.

I would like to enter:

Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/06/pennys-challenge-498.html

Christmas Pets and Recycling

What do Christmas Pets and Recycling have in common?  This card for a start!

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

ABC Christmas - R is for Recycling
http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/r-for-recycling.html
Winter Wonderland - Christmas Pets
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/christmas-pets.html
Christmas Crafting - Traditional Colours
http://christmascrafting.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/were-back-challenge-14.html

I'll start with the Christmas Pet.  This is Merlin looking at the Christmas tree.  He comes from Eiglassing Digital Stamps.  I coloured his tree using copic markers and then added some red rhinestones for the garland round the tree.

Now for the recycling.  There are two recycled items on this card.  The first is the gold ribbon.  What you see is actually the back of the ribbon which came from a box of Guylan chocolates.  The other side has Guylan written on it!  The other recycled item is the chain on the dog tags.   My son recently swam in the NZ Secondary School Championships.  While I was waiting for him to get changed, I was talking to the receptionist who was sweeping the floor.  I spotted this bit of chain amongst the stuff she was sweeping up!  I knew straight away that I had a use for it.  She was a bit bemused by me wanting it so I'll have to make sure I show her the finished product!

The rest of the card - the paper is from Bearly Mine Designs and worked well with the colour scheme that I had already chosen.  The dog tags come from Digi Ditto.

Back to School with Meljens Designs

Another Back to School challenge.  This one is at Meljens Designs:
http://meljensdesignsdt.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/challenge-126-back-to-school.html

I have made a card that doesn't use an image that looks like a school image - no apples, backpacks, etc.

However, the star on the turtle's back made me think "You're a star" which was my starting point for this card.  In searching for a particular image for another card I was working on, I found these puzzle pieces that I had from Digi Ditto.  They were just perfect for adding some ABC stickers!

The image comes from Meljens Designs and is called Turtle's Little Star.  I have coloured this using three shades of blue copic markers and then circle die cut using Spellbinders.  The matting is blue cardstock.

The background paper is from Trimgym Digital Stamps and the sentiment from Sugar Paw Scraps.  I have added some little blue rhinestones to the right hand corners.