Make-Believe

The current Outlaws Sunday Challenge Songs and Rhymes is "Cinderella." I immediately knew that I'd use this adorable image from The Paper Shelter to make a card. I used sentiment scrapbook paper from my stash for the background of the card front [Once Upon A Time] and inside [Happily Ever After.] Colored the little beauty with Spectrum Noir and white gel pen, adding a sparkly silver gel pen and rhinestone heart stickers to her crown and glass slipper. The sentiments are computer generated. [Since you might not be able to read the inside sentiment, I'll post it here- Have a wonderful “Happy Ever After!” (Oh, that’s just fairy-tale wishful thinking! Since we live in the real world, we pray that you have many years of wedded bliss, only occasional bouts of wedded stress, and rare moments of "whatever was I thinking?!") PS I noticed that my printer smudged the sentiment a few places. Since I wanted to get the card finished in time to enter it into the Outlawz challenge, I tried to "fix it" with the silver gel pen. Not sure if it works so will clean the printed heads and try running another one later and swap it out. [Smudged printing is one of the few problems that can happen with digital prints. However, I often smudged sentiments when stamping them, too, especially when they had lots of words like this one has. So… it’s a tradeoff.]

 

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenges- Cinderella      

The Paper Shelter- #381 Love Is In The Air

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                                    

Bugaboo Stamps- Anything Goes                                  

I remembered fussy-cutting some Tinkerbell silhouettes a while ago and dug one out to create another card to enter into the current Do-Al[l] Creative named "Mythical Creature/Fairies." I cut a circle from a scrap from a plastic document folder. I really like this one which is from an old 3M hanging pocket that I used when I had a cubicle instead of an office. Am glad that my packrat tendencies made me save it these last few years.  The inside sentiment is a freebie from TLC Creations. You can find it HERE.              

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Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #384-#385 Anything Goes                    

Cute Card Thursday- #580 Anything Goes                                                        

Do-Al[l] Creative- Mythical Creatures / Fairies                                               

My final card for this post is also my final entry into the current Simon Says Monday Challenge named "Tag It." I've had this rocking chair sticker in my stash for some time. I "dressed it up" a bit with a few Tombow markers and white gel pen then fussy-cut the chair and attached it to a scrap of background paper. The tag on the front of the card is from my scrapbook stash, and the fun inside sentiment is computer generated. [When coming up with a title for this blog posting, "Make-Believe" was an immediate fit for the first two cards. Then, I realize that for some of us, we'd like to consider the many changes that come with aging a "make-believe," too. Personally, it does feel like a long ago "Once Upon A Time" that I had no daily aches and pains and never had to wonder just why I walked into a room!

 

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Simon Says Monday Challenge- Tag It   
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Happy Birthday                                    

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- May