Crayons

 Hello Everyone,

For today I am playing along with Sketch Saturday Retro Rubber Challenge and The Paper Players. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

This is a single stamp from Darkroom Door- link here.
All I did was pop this card into my MISTI and stamped the image.
Colored the crayons using polychromo pencils and put the panel on an A2 card.
I liked using the polychromos because of its transparent quality.

This was a very simple and easy design that I am going to replicate for other teachers.
I like the whiteness around the colorful crayons. The sentiment is right on theme for the card too.

I wanted the apple to have a blackboard quality. So I distressed it using white pigment ink around the edges. Then stamped the sentiment and traced over it to mimic chalk handwriting.

Challenges Entered:
Sketch Saturday: Week #623
The Paper Players: CAS Challenge- PP504
Retro Rubber Challenge Blog: Challenge #141- Anything Goes

Darkroom Door 'Crayons' Release Date: June 17, 2017

  

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

Monochromatic Sympathy Card

Hello All,

For today I am entering challenges from The Paper Players, Sketch Saturday, Paper Craft Challenges. Here is my card for today. Enjoy!

Challenges Entered:
Sketch Saturday: #584
The Paper Players: Theme Challenge- PP462
Papercraft Challenges: Challenge #47- Monochrome 




Thank you so much for stopping by and I 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.

Spring Colors

Hello All,

For today I am going to be playing along with Sketch Saturday, Watercooler Wednesday, Retro Rubber Challenge, and Stamp, Ink, Paper. I hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it. Take a look! 

The background was created using celery and acrylic paint. Three years later it was dry😆, I washed it with white acrylic paint and Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink.

Current Challenges:
Sketch Saturday: Week 562
Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge: Challenge #198- Wings of Wonder
Watercooler Wednesday: WWC220 - All About Occasions 
Retro Rubber Challenge Blog: #110- Theme: Spring is Here 
Stamps: Backyard Basics by SU! 2014

 

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.

Stripey Thanks

Hello All,

For today I am playing along with Retro Rubber Challenge and Sketch Saturday. Here is my card today, enjoy!!

 Challenges Entered:
Retro Rubber Challenge: Challenge#108- all the colors of the rainbow!
Sketch Saturday: Week #559
 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I 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.

Mermaid Original

Hello Again,

For today I would like to play along with Sketch Saturday, Papercraft Challenge, Sunday Stamps and CASology. Here is my card for today, enjoy.

This gorgeous mermaid is from A Day for Daisies and is sponsoring Papercraft Challenges this week. I adore this image because of its artistic sketchy quality. I colored her using the color challenge from Sunday Stamps. The beautiful subtle colors seemed perfect for an ocean scene. 

The placement of the mermaid outside the scene looking in really enhances its design. Plus I grounded her on the sand for a bit of depth. The clouds and ocean are layering stamps from Hero Arts. I lightly sponged the sky using Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, and Sea Salt Distress Inks. I think the effect is just beautiful along with the stamped clouds really creates a realistic sky.

The sun sparkles along the ocean using Embossing powder and Wink of Stella. These layering stamps are outstanding. They make it so easy to create these wonderful scenes. I wanted to lightly shadow the mermaid's tail, skin, and hair to look like it was dimensional. I think it turned out fairly nicely.

Challenges Entered:

CASology: Week #336- Ocean

Papercraft Challenge: Challenge #33- Fantasy

Sketch Saturday: #556

Sunday Stamps: SSC201- Easter Hues

Thank you so much for stopping by and I 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.

Acorns

Hello, Y'all,

Today I am playing along with Sketch Saturday and Inspired By... Fall beauty has never failed to awe me. This card does not disappoint the spirit of the season. Enjoy!

Lots and lots of visual texture. Examples of texture are the lace stamp embossed in white and sponged using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, the plaid background tag, and the wood foreground tag. 

I was challenged how to create an embellishment in accordance with Sketch Saturday.
A simple wooden oval embellishment seemed to be the perfect touch for solving the challenge.

The wooden texture tag is just delightful.
I stamped the acorn image, inspired by well...... Inspired By... and colored using Prismacolor colored pencils.
Adding the acorn stamp creates more texture without the bulk.

Challenges Entered:
Sketch Saturday: Week #535- by Claire G
Inspired By...: Inspired By... fall beauty
 

Okay, that should do it for me!! 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.

Bride in Flowers

Hello Everyone,

This post comes a bit late, but PINspirational has a new challenge up and running. The inspiration pin is all about weddings and togetherness. Before we get to the challenge I would like to share my card with you, enjoy.

This is an amazing image from Morgan's Artworld.
The background has a marble and watercolor texture which was created digitally.
Our bride was layered on top of the background and then colored using colored pencils.

______________________________

Challenge #193

The sponsor is

~Morgan's Artworld~

Prize-3 digis

______________________________

I tried to keep embellishments simple and classic
as to not deter from the all its detail.
The card's color scheme was inspired by the challenge pin.
Subtle colors with stark black boundaries seemed to have worked nicely.

The black frame was die-cut then set on top of the image-
then mounted on black cardstock.
I am really pleased with the effect.

Challenges Entered:

Sketch Saturday: Week #468

Double D Challenges: Anything Wedding

Well, that should do it for me. I hope you have a great day and thank you so much for stopping by my little byte of the internet. I do hope you will join us at PINspirational. It should be fun! Until then take care and happy crafting.

All the best,

Shawna