myasperations 2-18-22

I won a Di’s Digi challenge last year and picked this precious image, named Rosie Bear,  as my prize because it reminds me of my sweet mother, who was named Rose. After we attended our first Stampin’ Up! party in the mid-1990s, Mom and I were regular stamping buddies. We both loved to color, and she really liked making cards with kittens, bunnies, and bears… so she would have LOVED this image.  She also collected vintage lace and doilies so I perched Rosie on a delicate lacy heart digi (Mom would have also loved that I got it for FREE. Last year I was introduced to a company named Free Pretty Things For You (FPTFY), which offers a treasure trove of patterned papers, digis, and clipart images…and many of them are free! I get weekly emails that always offer at least one freebie. This digi is from a large set of pretty papers with floral and heart themes. The sentiment is also a freebie from one of my favorite stampers.

I’m entering this in several challenges including the Passion for Markers Challenge (a few of my favorite colors are pink and brown, plus the Victorian colors on the background paper) and the Path Of Positivity Challenge. The current optional twist is Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY. My mom is a providing of so many of my happy memories (being my stamping buddy was just one of them!)  

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Dis Digi Stamps (Rosie Bear)

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

·   Lacy Heart Digi- A freebie from Free Pretty Things for You (FPTFY)- HERE

·   Front Sentiment- freebie from Desert Diva (You Make Me Happy)

·   Collage Patterned paper from a box of A2 cards with white envelopes- Hobby Lobby

·   Pink Plastic circle- made with a scrapbook template and upcycled front of a journal

·   All other items from my stash.

 Entered into:  

Di’s Digi Stamps- Use Red and/or Pin

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #98

Passion for Markers Challenge- Week #628 Favorite Colors

Double D’s Challenge- Shades of Pink

Gem of a Challenge- Week #4 Anything Goes                               

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- February        

Outlawz Challenge- Saturday Paper Ala Mode- Let’s Get Digital!

Outlawz Challenge- Inlinks Challenge

     

I love finding treasures in the clearance aisles of craft stores, dollar stores and thrift stores. This colorful birthday card includes items trimmed from 2 different party invitations plus a sprinkling of sparkly stickers all arranged on a Z-fold card.  The adorable fairy digi- complete with vellum wings decorated with a white gel pen- is trimmed from a cute All Dressed Up Christmas image.

Supplies: 

·   Digi- All Dressed Up (Christmas Baubles)

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

·   Sparkly Star Stickers- local Dollar Store

·   Front Sentiment- trimmed from “It’s A Party” invitations (Clearance aisle Hobby Lobby)

·   Inside Sentiment- “Celebrate” from invitations (Clearance aisle Hobby Lobby)

·   Instructions for Z-fold card can be found HERE.

·   Vellum and other basic items from my stash.

Entered into:  

All Dressed Up- #125 Anything Goes (Feb)

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge- Anything Goes

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Birthday)  

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #6 Anything Goes                         

I used a wood-mount stamp, ink pad, and upcycled calendar page to make this beautiful, and actually CAS card. I cut an A2-sized section of a cloudy sky from a calendar page.  The stamp was inked with a Memento Black pad, then I stamped the rocks off of the bottom of the cloud photo. Before reinking the stamp, I stamped a second image to add a hazy depth to the scene. (The calendar page surface is more slippery than cardstock, so the image smeared a bit when I was stamping it. I think that adds just a little more contrast to the scene, right?!) To add a bit more color, I trimmed it down a bit to add a layer of blue paper. Scraps of white ribbons and a layered sticker finished the card.  I’m entering this card into several challenges including Path Of Positivity Challenge because I love that it always inspires me to focus on positive things in my life. And during the last few years that has been a true challenge!) The current optional twist is Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY. I know that my family lived in poverty during my younger years. With six kids both of my parents worked hard to keep us fed and clothed! We didn’t have money for extras, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have lots of fun memories! I didn’t stay in a hotel until I was in college, but my family camped in state parks across the Midwest. And when we camped, it was in the "old school" way, on the ground, sometimes even in tents! I remember one July 4th at Custer State Park in South Dakota, my sunrise wakeup call was getting hit by a snowball as I stepped out of the “girls tent.” I didn’t even know it could snow in July in South Dakota. But in the early 70s, it did! 

Supplies: 

·   Wood-Mount Rubber Stamp- Stampscapes (Pines and Rocks 195G)

·   Front Sentiment- Dream Sticker from my scrapbook stash

·   Black ink pad, cardstock, sheer ribbon, satin ribbon, and an upcycled cloud photo from an old calendar from my stash.

Entered into:  

The Paper Shelter #499 Shades of Blue

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #531-532 Anything Goes                   

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #98