Life Imagined

Hello (last time for today, I promise) Readers,

This the last of my African inspired cards for today. As usual, I will be playing along with Colour INKspirational, Pinspirational, CASology, and Freshly Made Sketches. Here is my final card for tonight, enjoy!

The world and, again, the geometric element are both on one layer. The sentiment strip was placed over the images. Lots of white space and look at that image with Africa front and center of the stamp.

The geometric strip was masked and then sponged
using different shades of orange.

Challenges Entered:
PINspirational: Challenge #237

CASology: Week 340- Africa

Freshly Made Sketches: FMS385
Colour INKspirations: #CI54 - Black and White with a 'pop' of colour.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

Conversation Hearts

Hello Everyone,

For today I will be playing along with a host of blogs. It seems that love is in the air in Blogland. I will be entering INKspirational, PINspirational, Double D Challenges and Creative with Stamps. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The conversation hearts background stamp by Peddlers Pack is just adorable.
Coloring the hearts was so fun. It got tedious when I colored the background a light shade of gray.
Because as we all know, conversation hearts have red words.

The sentiment 'Let's' is from another stamp set. It says 'Let's Party', so naturally I only stamped the 'Let's' part of the sentiment on black paper and heat embossed in white.

I have sequin hearts in my stash and thought I would never use them. So, I kept them just in case.
Well, here we are using sequins hearts, who would have known. I also added iridescent sequins for a bit of variety.

 Challenges Entered:
Double D Challenges: Month of Hearts
Inkspirational: Challenge #180- Text
PINspirational: Challenge #232
Creative with Stamps: Challenge #35- Love

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

Winter Wonderland

Hello PINspirational Friends,

I am so happy to have you here today. We have a new challenge at PINspirational! But before I get to the challenge here is my card for today, enjoy!

I enlarged the digi and added the blue 'halo' around her head. Printed.
Stamped the snowflakes and sentiment. Colored the digi using polychromo pencils.

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Pinspirational

Challenge #230

The sponsor is

~Lemon Shortbread~

Prize-3 digis

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Above: I wanted to create a fade effect on her cloak. It seemed to go with the rest of the design. Below: Detail shots of coloring and stamping.

 

 Well, thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to visit my corner of the internet. I do hope you will join us at (PIN)spirational and play along. Until then take care and we will see you soon!

Good Vibes

Hello PINspirational Friends,

I am so happy to have you here today. We have a new challenge at PINspirational! But before I get to the challenge here is my card for today, enjoy!

This card is shown as two images when in fact it is one digi split in two.
With the help of photo editing software, it made it very easy to get these results.
I have said it before and I'll say it again;
Tinker around with your software. See what it can do. To me, that is the best way to learn.
For this card, layers are the answers to its success.

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Pinspirational

Challenge #228

The sponsor is

~Cute As A Button~

Prize-2 digis

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Above: I have never experienced a drive-thru diner but I can only imagine food and roller skates not being the best idea. I guess that is why they are no longer around. Thoughts? Below/Left; Bottom/Right: Our waitresses lips and sentiment are coated with Wink of Stella. I wanted to add a bit sparkle to an already very colorful card. 

 

Well, thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to visit my corner of the internet. I do hope you will join us at (PIN)spirational and play along. Until then take care and we will see you soon!

Witches Hat

Hello PINspirational Friends,

I am so happy to have you here today. We have a new challenge at PINspirational! But before I get to the challenge here is my card for today, enjoy!

Isn't this hat magical?
The cutting file is by The Cutting Cafe who happens to be our sponsor this fortnight.
I used this hat to 'boo' my neighbor.
Below is an explanation of what it means to boo someone.

Fun huh?

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Pinspirational

Challenge #227

The sponsor is

~The Cutting Cafe~

Prize-2 sets

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Above: EEEKK... A spooky glittery spider crawling down the witches hat. It is not part of the hat it is part of the 'boo' tag. The circle tag is a combination of die cut letters, a holographic circle that was leftover from the cutting file. But what sets it all off is the overly large store-bought spider. I plucked it out of the bag and attached it the tag! Left/Below: I was inspired to create my own bow using holographic ribbon. ( I have way too much craft things!) I am not the best at making bows so all I did was tie it into a knot a few times. I like the way it turned out. Right/Bottom: This hat is actually very large. How large? Well, an entire bag of Hershey Kisses fit into the container.

 

Challenges Entered:
Shopping our Stash: #377 - Not Your Average Card


Well, thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to visit my corner of the internet. I do hope you will join us at (PIN)spirational and play along. Until then take care and we will see you soon!

Two-in-One

Hello PINspirational Friends,

I am so happy to have you here today. We have a new challenge at PINspirational! But before I get to the challenge here is my card for today, enjoy!

Lots of color and a few surprises are part of this card. First, it opens from the top! Second, it uses two My Bestie images, our generous sponsor for this fortnight challenge. You can see the card is partially open which hints at what is inside.

The color of the sunflowers and our grateful girl on the front really lets this card stand out.
I used a flimsy sheet of kraft paper for the cover. This gave me an opportunity to fold the kraft paper and not add too much weight. I tried to think 'out-of-the-box' and I think I succeeded.
Now let's open the card!

Surprise! Yet another My Bestie image called Happy Fall.
The sunflowers along with the leaves are so festive and fun.
You can easily add a personal message on the doubled up kraft paper.

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Pinspirational

Challenge #226

The sponsor is

~My Besties~

Prize-3 digis

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 A detail shot of both of the girls.

You will notice on the front of the card I colored the space around her hair a kraft brown color in hopes that it would camouflage the space that otherwise would have been white. 

 Challenges Entered:
Card Concept: #99- Sunflower Serenade



Well, thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to visit my corner of the internet. I do hope you will join us at (PIN)spirational and play along. Until then take care and we will see you soon!