Crafty Friends

     How did it get to be August?  I'm simply not ready to face what is usually the hottest month of the summer out where I live, especially after we've already had 26 days in a row of temperatures over 100F!  But these delightful ladies from Jan's Digi Stamps (called "Crafty Friends") have the right idea - stay indoors and craft!

     This is a pre-colored image, cut with a Spellbinders die, and adhered with dimensional dots.  The striped pink background paper is from Recollections.  The sentiment is part of the Crafty Friends set and I printed it, then fussy cut it before adding it to an upper corner of the image.  Very CAS but still pleasing because of the die cut shape of the image.

     Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's

Dies R Us

Outlawz Monday

     Remember, the theme at Jan's Digi Stamps challenges is always "Anything Goes" and we always have 2 winners; 1 from those who use one of Jan's images and another from all the other entries.  Clearly, it pays off to use a JDS image because your chance of wining the prize is so much higher.  :-D

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Birthday Wishes

     I know you've already seen my DT card for SheepSki Designs if you visited on Wednesday, but this morning I'm sharing a card with a stunning (and fun to color) image from SheepSki called "Peonies" because SheepSki is sponsoring the challenge over at Crafty Friends and I was lucky enough to be a Guest Designer.  :-D  The theme for the Crafty Friends challenge this fortnight is "Use 2 or more dies." 

   

I pulled all my colors from the inspiration board

at Color My Heart Color Dare #341.

     I colored the peonies with ProMarkers, then used a die from Sue Wilson to cut the image.  I trimmed one end of it so that there would be a straight side on the left.  I chose a golden yellow CS for the background and cut the butterflies into it with a Memory Box die.  

     I mounted that onto a kraft card base, then added the image and one of my signature, hand sewn, bows with a tiny pearl.  The bow was 'dyed' with a ProMarker to match the color of the sentiment.  The sentiment was cut with Tim Holtz word dies by Sizzix.

     This is one of those fun cards where I get to combine ribbon (for the bow) and flowers (in the image) and still have a flat card for easy mailing.  If I have to choose between ribbons and flowers as embellies, I'll almost always go with ribbon because the bulk of flower embellies make cards difficult to mail.  When I do use dimensional flowers, I almost always am giving the card personally, not mailing it.

     Challenges:

As You Like It

Crafty Catz

Digi Choosday

Dream Valley

Happy Craft

Outlawz Greetings

Paperbabe Stamps

Passion for ProMarkers

Southern Girls

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie