New Year, New Design Team!

     I have some exciting news.  At least, it's exciting for me and I hope you'll think so, too!  I've been invited to join the design team at Lexi's Creations, an every-other-Monday challenge.  The theme for this challenge (my first as a DT member) is Anything Goes.  I've used one of Lexi's digital images, "Claudia", which can be found here at the Fairy Dust Crafts store.  New Year, New DT, New-to-me images all combined to result in this fun, monochromatic, new-January card.

     Isn't Claudia just begging to go shopping at the January sales?  Or maybe she's already been.  Either way, she's dressed to the nines and a perfect January Child.   What a great birthday card this would be!  OK, I'm convinced and I'll send it to my aunt who is a January child and turns 95 this month.   The image is colored with new Copic marker colors (left in my stocking by Santa!), and I used new dp and CS.  It just felt right to use new things for this card.  However, the flowers I combined at the bottom were all in my stash but I put them together to make a new flower.  I used Creative Inspirations paint to make them all shimmery and shiny.  Adding the two punched snowflakes (oh, new punch, too!) was perfect to enhance the wintry feel.  I also used a corner punch to round the corners of the matted image.

     Of course, I have to enter this into as many challenges as possible in keeping with Pile It On Challenges and their idea of doing one card for as many challenges as possible.  I'm not entering this one in their challenge because it doesn't fit their theme this week, but I'll enter one later that does fit.  I've said before that I like to select the challenges before I make my card so that I can make sure each card matches the theme of each challenge I picked.  Sometimes I have to discard some of the challenges I've chosen because a card takes a different path but I try to include all the ones I've chosen.

Anything Goes Challenges -- Blue and one other color
Craft Us Crazy -- Anything New
Creative Belli -- Snowflakes
Creative Card Crew -- Snow Day
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge -- New Beginnings
Di's Digi Designs -- Something New
Fussy and Fancy -- Animal Print or Birthday (& Happy birthday to them!)
Just Some Lines -- Anything to do with the New Year
Ladybug Crafts -- Anything Goes w/ new stash items
Lawnscaping -- Birthday
Our Craft Lounge and Kathy's Lily Pad, partnered together this week for -- colors
Paper Creations Ink -- Die cuts or punches
Papertake Weekly -- Anything Goes w/ Something New option
Sassy Cheryl's -- New Beginings
Sparkles Forum -- Anything but a Christmas card
Stamps R Us -- What you got for Christmas
The Squirrel and the Fox -- Something new
Truly Madly Crafty -- Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland -- Let's Go Shopping

     OK, I hope if you haven't played Lexi's challenges before now that you'll jump over there, look at all the great inspiration from the DT and do something for this one.  How can you go wrong with 2 weeks to make one, teeny, little project?  You don't have to use Lexi's images but how can you resist them?

Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie