The Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge

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The current Greeting Card Challenge at The Outlawz is to use purple – this was a no-brainer for me as it is hard to NOT use purple on a card! I originally printed the main image on this card to enter in the Hambo Hoedown challenge, but was going to be too rushed for the deadline, so I made it work for this challenge.

The birdhouse image is a background digi called Large Birdhouse from Hambo Stamps. Great image to colour and I merged it with a bird image from Doodle Pantry - Happy Bird (it’s a freebie!) There is a sentiment on the flag, although it might be a bit hard to see – it just says “4 You”.

Merged digi images and printed. Coloured with prismacolour pencils and OMS to blend. Edged with distress ink. Added the silver corner and border stickers and added the half-pearls as shown. Added Glossy Accents to all the windows.

Fun card to make and I really like the birdhouse image as it works so well to add bird images to!

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For the Greeting Card Challenge at The Outlawz

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi image Hambo Stamps (Background – Large Birdhouse), Doodle Pantry (Happy Bird), sentiment computer generated
paper: SU (WW), dk purple card
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (milled lavender and dusty concord)
misc: Inkssentials ink blending tool & foam, prismacolour pencils, fiskars scissors, half-pearls, Ranger Glossy Accents, Silver corner and border stickers

Thanks again for dropping by. If you leave a comment – thanks for that too! For my Canadian friends, have a wonderful long weekend. If it’s not a long weekend where you live, enjoy your weekend doing whatever you enjoy doing!

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Hambo Hoedown

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I recently came across a link to a link, which lead me to the Hambo Hoedown – a Wednesday, progressive challenge where if you participate following the theme (this week it’s a sketch, which I turned on it’s side) and use a Hambo Stamps image, you get a freebie that you can use for the following week. So, this is my first entry and my first card using a Hambo image and what fun I had with this! The colour challenge this week at The Outlawz is to use a version of yellow, orange and white and it worked perfectly for this card.

Printed Cool Cat image (it’s a freebie!) and coloured with prismacolour pencils and OMS to blend. Used the Eastern Oval die to cut out both the image and the scalloped layer. The aqua dp is actually a Christmas pattern (the other side has snowflakes but I love it for so many non-Christmas things!) Edged all my pieces with Ranger distress ink and attached as shown. Used the Tim Holtz ruler to poke holes in both top and bottom then I used a Sharpie marker to do my faux stitching. Attached my sentiment and my very cool sunglasses brad and then the orangey-coloured crystals. I added Glossy Accents to the glass of ‘whatever’ Mr. Cool Cat is drinking! I’m thrilled with how this turned out and it was a super fun card to make!

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Cool Cat at the Hambo Hoedown!

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi image Hambo Stamps (Cool Cat Freebie), sentiment Meljens (think this was a freebie too)
paper: SU (WW), dp Bo Bunny, bright yellow card
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (dried marigold and china blue )
misc: Inkssentials ink blending tool & foam, prismacolour pencils, Nellie’s Multi-frame die (Eastern Oval MFD009), sunglasses brad, Sudio G crystals, Ranger Glossy Accents, Sharpie marker, Tim Holtz Ruler, paper piercing tool

Thanks so much for dropping by. Hope to see you at the Hoedown and at The Outlawz!

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Inspiration Challenge at Dude Time Doodles

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Just a tiny warning to head up this post: I’m labelling this one as “Pushing the Envelope” as there is some off-colour humour below! (Now, I think it’s pretty funny and I loved making this card, but this warning is kind of for my mom!!!)

Anyway, thanks for stopping by today. The challenge at Dude Time Doodles this week (always a Wednesday), is to create a masculine birthday card. That’s it! I chose to use Dr. StrangeGlove (he’s also available with other sentiments here) and . . . second warning on this post . . . I PURPOSELY spelled ‘surprise’ incorrectly! I’m actually a very good speller! I could just picture him saying ‘sirrrrrrrrpriiiiiiiiizzzzzee for you’ so I chose to spell it the way I did!

So, on to the card. Coloured image with prismacolour pencils and OMS to blend. Edged all my pieces (except the thin polka dot strip because I forgot!) with distress ink. Attached as shown and added these special brads. Popped up the sentiment and then scroll further down for the sentiment on the inside. I don’t do much that’s special inside my cards as I’m a very slow cardmaker and it would take me a week to make one and that would just be ridiculous!

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A Sirprize for your birthday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Thanks so much for dropping by today! I hope to see you over at the Dude Time Doodles Challenge blog. If you enter, you have the chance to win free digi images from Dude Time Doodles! Hope you’ll check out all the fabulous creations of my fellow DT members too!

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Squigglefly SFC1912 and The Outlawz Sketch Challenge

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Another post today. Wow! I have renewed respect for all those fabulous artists out there who provide freebies every single day and also for those awesome crafters that MAKE and POST a card every day! (and may have families too!) Just don’t know where the time goes . . .

Quick post for now as I wanted to get this uploaded. Coronation St. comes on in 15 minutes and that is the one time of the day I sit and do absolutely nothing else (except maybe eat dinner or enjoy my final cup of coffee of the day!) (so, I blew my timing – Coronation St. is now over, my coffee almost gone and dinner finished!)

It’s Monday and there’s a new challenge up at Squigglefly.blogspot.ca. You are to use a sentiment as the main focus of your card and Squigglefly has tonnes of awesome sentiments that you can use! If you use a Squigglefly image, you have the chance to win a free one just for entering!

When I first saw this sentiment, (‘Joy Everywhere‘, by artist Lynne Stansbery at Squigglefly.com) I thought it was strictly meant for sympathy cards but when I paired it with these boots (from DZ Doodles – a freebie) and the little blurb she wrote about them, I saw it a bit differently.

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Squigglefly Challenge and Sketch Challenge at The Outlawz

Here’s a direct link to the post but I’d like to quote what she says here too:

“We all experience a little rain in our life’s, sometimes stormy weather and for some disasterous outcomes. These boot images, SEEING RAIN BOWS, represent “hope”; the front facing boot represents putting on the foot gear needed to go through the experience, the bow boot represents walking-out-of-the-stormy condition with “rain bows.”

When I saw the boots originally listed as a freebie, I thought they were cute but once I read what she (I think the blog owner is Diane) wrote, they held a whole different meaning. Whenever I use this image, I will include the blurb. I think it’s awesome and oh so relevant!

I’ve had the chance recently, to get to know someone a bit better and this sentiment definitely applies to her. She is normally in a good mood and when she enters a room you definitely know it and sometimes, depending on how ‘up’ her mood is, you shake your head and laugh as she leaves (and actually while she’s there too). Thus, a whole new meaning for this sentiment for me!

I hope you’ll join us at Squigglefly this week! My card is designed around the Sketch challenge at The Outlawz too. It ends some time tomorrow I think, so I wanted to get this uploaded!

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MMTPT198 Teaparty for Gypsy

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As I have mentioned before, I belong to a group called the Tuesday Teapotters over at Splitcoast Stampers. Cindy (Mothermark) writes a crazy story every week (that I have confessed to her that I usually don’t follow or really understand!) However, the next part of the post is the ‘Challenge Translation’ which summarizes what the challenge is and then the ‘Destination Station’ is an (always) optional destination that we can send our card to.

I have had the priviledge of requesting 5 (I think) Destination Stations to receive cards and the impact these cards have on the recipients is beyond words. I have also participated in every challenge since March 2010 and have had the honour of sending a card to a whole bunch of different and very, very grateful recipients!

So, that being said, this is another Destination Station that I put forward. Gypsy is the friend of a friend – I have never met him and while I can’t post all the info that I know, I can tell you that he is a 69-year man, living in an LTC facility in Ontario, Canada. He has no family and due to a situation with his electric wheelchair, he is stuck using a manual one, which limits his access to outside (he can go out on a tiny balcony) and he is even limited in access to places that he NEEDS to go within the facility. Enough said. So, this teaparty is an effort to bring the outdoors, inside.

I made this card for Gypsy and I have sent him a photo box to keep all his cards in along with a copy of the crazy story and the challenge that was posted just for him. He is going to be touched beyond words and I can’t wait until he starts receiving the cards. They will come at a perfect, perfect time!

I used an image from Squigglefly.com, called The Old Front Porch, by artist Lynne Stansbery. The sentiment is from the Little Lighthouse set at Doodle Pantry.

Coloured the main image with prismacolour pencils and OMS to blend. I love this image and can just imagine setting out there with my e-Reader, enjoying an awesome book! Sponged the edges of all the pieces with distress ink and attached as shown. Added the gold border sticker, Added a bit of Stardust Stickles to the plants and Glossy Accents to the table top. I was going to add it to the window too, but sometimes it’s a bit too much ‘liquid’ and really saturates the paper, so I opted not to. Popped up the sentiment and added the 2 bird brads.

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Bringing the outdoors, in for Gypsy!

Thanks for popping by. I’d love it if you left a comment!

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It’s Freebie time at Dude Time Doodles and an Announcement!

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It’s the 2nd Wednesday of the month which means it’s time for a freebie and a new challenge at Dude Time Doodles Blog! Check out Mo and he’s alllllllllllll yours AND if you submit a card made with Mo, you get the chance to win a Guest Designer Spot for the month of June! If you have been following my blog at all, you might remember that I was a Guest Designer for the month of April. (Here’s the announcement part . . . ) I was invited to be a member of the Design Team at Dude Time Doodles sooooooooo you are going to be seeing a continuous stream of DTD, masculine, humorous cards!!!! I am privileged to be on the Design Team for Squigglefly.com and work with some awesome DT members and am looking forward to working with the fabulous DT at Dude Time Doodles!

So, on to my card . . . I printed Mo (nice and big as you can see!) and coloured him with prismacolour pencils and OMS to blend. Bear with me as I continue to learn how to colour skin and in particular, faces (he’s been indoors far too long given the pale face he has going on!!!) Anyway, I have some awesome masculine papers and I used an old MoJo Monday sketch. Sponged the edges of all my pieces with distress ink and attached as shown. Mo is popped up on very thin pop dots and the sentiment has a bit thicker ones. Added the brads and voila. Mo looks like a pretty grumpy Gus, which is why I chose the Doodle Pantry sentiment that I did!

 

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Mo Stooge - new release and freebie at Dude Time Doodles

 

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi images  Dude Time Doodles (Mo Stooge), sentiment Doodle Pantry
paper: SU (WW), black card, dp = Simple Stories (2306 & 2305)
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (walnut stain and black soot )
misc: Inkssentials ink blending tool & foam, prismacolour pencils, OMS, brads

I hope you’ll join us for the challenge this week or at least meet Mo! There are 2 other new DT members starting with me at Dude Time Doodles – Sharon and Margaret (Mags) and we also have Rachel as our Guest Designer this month. I hope you’ll pop in and check out their inspiration (links will be on the DTD blog) along with the rest of the DT!

Thanks for stopping by! btw, if you’ve attempted to look at my gallery, I can’t quite get it to work (that will teach me for trying to set it up at 1 a.m.!) It’s a work-in-progress and I’m still working on it! The blog portion of my site though, is filling up with cards if you want to scan through them!

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Join us for another challenge at Squigglefly.com!

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It’s Monday, which means it’s challenge time at Squigglefly.com. This week Holley’s Hobbyists are up (and I’m on Holley’s awesome DT) and the challenge is ‘Stickle Me Up’ – use Stickles or glitter on your card! We’d LOVE it if you’d use a Squigglefly.com image (there are are so many awesome ones to choose from) and there are also freebies to use! IF you use a Squigglefly image, you get a chance to win a free one – woo hoo you get to pick out the image you want FOR FREE!

I have used two new images on my card. The first is Little Miss Sunshine by Diana Garrison and the sentiment, You Did It is by Jess Holland (‘You are Amazing’ and ‘You Did It’ are included in the set).

This image screamed glitter to me! It was an awesome image to colour. Once again, my Sakura glitter pen came in very, very handy as that is what I used to colour in the main image, except for the face where I used Stickles. The picture doesn’t show it very well at all, but the whole image is Stickles and glitter!

Printed image and used die to cut out. Coloured with prismacolour pencils. Used distress ink on all the layers and the lace. Attached bottom layer then lace. Main image is popped up on very thin pop dots and the tiny pieces that stick up are from the die (I just lifted them all with a craft knife). Popped up the sentiment and added the pearls. This card is going to a very special friend who is in a very sad health situation and I know she will love it!

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Little Miss Sunshine for Rita

 

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi image  Squigglefly (Little Miss Sunshine, artist Diana Garrison; sentiment You Did It, artist Jess Holland)
paper: SU (WW), dp from my stash, dk purple card
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (dusty concord )
misc: Inkssentials ink blending tool & foam, prismacolour pencils, ribbon, pearls, Stickles (Stardust), Sakura clear glitter pen, Nellie’s Multi-frame die (Incire Flower 3 MFD038)

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you over at the Squigglefly Challenge!

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Doodle Pantry DPDC23 and MMTPT196 (part 2)

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On the first of every month (until the 24th), Doodle Pantry has a challenge where you must use a Doodle Pantry image and create a paper project. They advertise for everyone who plays, that you will be sent the free image that they post. If you don’t have any Doodle Pantry images (hard to believe!!!), BUT they have freebies available here. There are always specials happening and right now there are a few new sets that are free with a minimal purchase. Sorry about the enabling, what can I say . . .

I’m also a Tuesday Teapotter on Splitcoast Stampers and for the challenge this week, we are to make a pink, purple and black card with Dora the Explorer for a 4-year old (Eva) with a heartbreaking story. (that card is in another post). Part 2 of the challenge is that we can send a card to her 6-year old sister (Mela). This card is for her Mela. I have also included some fun stuff for them to colour. Eva lives in a hospital in New Zealand so she and her sister have to find fun stuff to do together!

So, image is from Doodle Pantry. I coloured it with prismacolour pencils and OMS to blend. I doodled around the edges of the turquoise strip, the sentiment and the main image. Also edged everything with broken china distress ink. Attached as shown and added the crystals for fun.

You have a number of weeks to enter the Doodle Pantry challenge and don’t forget about that free image set. All of their sets come with funny or cute sentiments too!

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Card for Mela in New Zealand

 

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi image Doodle Pantry (Jelly Bean Ants – more images in set), sentiment also from Doodle Pantry (another set)
paper: SU (WW & turquoise ?), dp from my stash
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (broken china )
misc: fiskars scissors, Inkssentials ink blending tool & foam, prismacolour pencils & OMS, misc crystals, Sharpie/Bic markers

I always appreciate you dropping by and love it when you leave comments.

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Another Squigglefly Challenge SFC1712

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Rhonda’s Rowdy Rascals are up this week with some awesome blue and pink inspiration for us! That’s the challenge this week. If you use a Squigglefly.com image you have the chance of winning a free image. If you don’t have any Squigglefly images (you have more willpower than I do!!!) BUT, you can also find some freebies here! (If you have signed up for One-a-Day-in-May, you will have been able to download 2 new images already. I have been staying up late in the last while (midnight-ish!) and guess what? Once the clock turns to 12:00, your new images are ready to download!!

This is the card I’m entering for the current challenge. All of the images (except the sentiment) are from a new artist for Squigglefly, Diana Garrison and the set is called Garden Party, just released on April 29th. There are lots of images within this set and I just loved them! Super simple but I really like how my card turned out!

Coloured everything with prismacolour pencils and OMS. Layered my pieces as shown after I sponged all the edges. Attached main image, added the brads, Sakura glitter pen to the dots around the flowers and the trail of the butterfly and added Stickles to the butterfly wings.

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Simple blue and pink for Squigglefly Challenge

 

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi image  Squigglefly.com (Garden Party by artist Diana Garrison – more images in set), sentiment (crystaldolphins.net)
paper: SU (WW), light blue from my stash, dk blue cs and DCWV
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (chipped sapphire and spun sugar?)
misc: fiskars scissors, Inkssentials ink blending tool & foam, prismacolour pencils & OMS, misc brads,  Stickles (Stardust), Sakura glitter pen

I hope you’ll join us at Squigglefly this week for the challenge! Thanks for stopping by!

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CFC0422 Challenge at The Outlawz

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Every couple of weeks, Anne Fenton and Sandi Huggett very generously provide 2 free images for us to work with. All we have to do is create one project using one of them (you can enter more!) and you get the next 2 emailed to you, and then work with both or either of those! This dragonfly image is one of those images! It’s so pretty and so much fun to work with!

Used a Tonic distress tool to rough up (distress) the edges of both my dp and tag then used ink to distress the edges of both. I added the ink on a diagonal on the tag and kept adding until I liked it. Coloured dragonfly with prismacolour pencils and OMS. Attached everything as shown. Once I popped up the dragonfly, I added Stickles to his wings and a tiny bit on the tail. I added the sentiment and the crystals in the corners. I wish I would have placed the dragonfly a bit lower down, but those pop dots sure stick! All-in-all I’m happy with how it turned out!

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Dragonfly Birthday

Card Recipe:
stamps: digi image  Sandi Huggett via The Outlawz CFC and my own WordArt (crystaldolphins.net)
paper: SU (WW & turquoise?), kraft tag, dp = KaiserKraft
ink: laser printer ink and Ranger Distress inks (old paper, tea dye, shabby shutters, chipped sapphire, walnut stain)
misc: fiskars scissors, screw brads, Inkssentials ink blending tool, prismacolour pencils, OMS, misc crystal, Stardust Stickles

Thanks for dropping by and I’d love it if you left a comment!

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