Two Critters & A Beauty

This sweet digi from Hetty Clare named Pony Plait is the freebie at this months Progressive Outlaws Challenge. I wanted to color the horse grey, so searched google for inspiration and found a photo of a Grey Arabian with wonderful mottling. (My FIL used to raise this beautiful breed of horses and I've always thought that they were almost magical to watch as they "marched" around the show ring!) After coloring him, I selected background paper and colored the rest of the image in colors that compliment the stripes. I decided to create an easel card and used a tutorial I found on Pinterest.  Then finished the card with two sentiments and few little puffy hearts stickers.  

 

Supplies: 

·   Digital Image- Hetty Clare (Pony Plait)

·   Instructions for Easel Card can be found HERE

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Instructions for Easel Card can be found HERE

·   Sentiment- TlcCreations Freebie (True Blue Friend)  

·   Assorted background papers from my stash

·   Puffy Heart Stickers- Sticko’s from WalMart (The pack contains 113 assorted puffy hearts for just 99 cents!)

Entered into:  

Outlawz Challenges- Progressive Freebie- June (Pony Plait from Hetty Clare Art)

Incy Wincy Designs- Man’s Best Friend/Fur Babies/Pets

Jan’s Digi Stamps- Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- June                      

Let’s Craft and Create- #160-Anything Goes 

I made an additional easel card base to showcase a beautiful digi from Cute As A Button named "Peacock Mermaid." I created her image in the mirror by printing off an extra copy that I flipped after I copied the image onto paper, then reduced its size to fit within the mirror frame. [This is one of the many reasons that I like using digital images. They are so easy to manipulate.]  After printing the images I colored them with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen.  I cut the oval shape from the inside of the mirror and taped a scrap of vellum over the hole. I then positioned the reflected image under this vellum and taped it in place, creating the look of a well-weathered mirror.  The sentiment from a Beccy's Place set.

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Cute As A Button (Peacock Mermaid)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Sentiment- “Beauty Is A Light in the Heart” from Beccy’s Place Digi set (Feathered Nest)

·   Assorted background papers from my stash

·   Stickles- Star Dust (adding magic to the mermaid scales and tail)

·   Small heart-shaped pink rhinestone from my stash.

Entered into:  

Cute As A Button-FB Progressive Freebie Challenge #37

Cute As A Button- #57 Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #134 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes #511 

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration & Challenge Under The Sea 

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                

My final card this post is a simple gatefold. And it went together very quickly with a pre-colored flamingo digi (that had a built-in sentiment), a few scraps of patterned paper and scraps of ribbon.  The inside sentiment is one of my favorite freebies from Desert Diva.

 

Supplies: 

·   Colored Digi- Imagine That! “Keep Calm and Flamingo On” (retired)

·   Patterned paper- Imagine That! “ Tropical Breeze” (retired)

·   Other patterned papers are from my stash

·   Inside  sentiment- Desert Diva Freebie (You Make Me Happy)

·   Sheer black dotted swiss ribbon- JoAnne’s

Entered into:  

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #444-445 Anything Goes                   

Outlawz Challenge- Saturday Paper Ala Mode- A Splash of Pink               

Outlawz Challenge- Inlinks Challenge

A Perfect Time to Craft 2020-Anything Goes- Challenge #6-2020