Ladybug Girls

     I think I'm getting more practiced (and hopefully better) at merging images.  Before I learned how to do that with .png images (thanks to my bogging buddy, Lynn!), I would place images as close as possible before printing them or I would fussy cut them and overlap them as needed, but my card this morning shows how I overlapped two separate Bugaboo Stamps images to make a single image and then printed. 

I started with the newest sketch from Stella Says Sketch

with the sentiment flipped side to side.

Image printed onto card front
Colored with ProMarkers
Sheer ribbon added to top
Ivy leaves cut from scrap dp w/ Sue Wilson die
Scrap strip of dp added across the ribbon
Sentiment cut w/ CUTplorations dies
3 black pearls added

     Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge
Catch the Bug
Crafter's Castle
Crafty Friends
Double D
Lemon Shortbread
Penny's Paper Crafty
Pixie's Snippets
Word Art Weds.

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Watermelon Girl

     I love fun summertime images of people eating watermelon (my favorite summer fruit!) and this is another of the older images I found when I was browsing through my files of digital images from companies which have gone out of business.  This one is also from Karen's Digis as was the one on my post from yesterday and I probably added it to my collection in 2011 or 2012.

Colored w/ ProMarkers
Image cut with QuicKutz die
Ivy cut with Sue Wilson die
Green butterfly is machine embroidered

     Challenges:
Arty Divas
Crafty Friends
Crafty Sentiments
Creative Moments
Cutie Pie
Lemon Shortbread
Mod Squad
Passion for ProMarkers
TTCRD

     Well, even though our weather has cooled considerably after those really hot, hot, hot four days of temperatures over 100, I'm going to go cut a piece of watermelon and add it to my lunch plate.  :-D  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie