myasperations 6-15-23

I am honored to have served as a Guest Designer for Beccy Muir at Beccy’s Place and am now one of her “Contributors” (which means that she provides me with digis or clear stamp sets several times a year and I get to create cards or other items with them!) It is always fun to see the images Beccy invites me to use.  This time, the digi and sentiments are from a just released set named “Fairy Folk.” I love that Beccy names each of the people (and also critters and imaginary characters), and this beautiful fairy is named Sebille. I have never heard that name before, so googled “meaning of the name Sebille” and was rewarded with several options including “a female name of English origin meaning Prophet, from the legend of King Arthur” and “fairy”, and “an Islamic baby name for boy or girl that means way, path, road or route.” (I love all of the options!)   

You can see from the pic of the WM set that Sebille actually adorns her head with a few graceful bird feathers! However, for my card, I decided to turn her into the Queen (bee) that she is by adding some glitter to her wings, and tucking those feathers under a gold crown!

I’m entering this card into several challenges including Outlawz Monday Greeting: Fairytale Wishes (one of my favorite Fairy Tales is Cinderella, with the kind and generous Fairy Godmother. I also included the optional twist… sparkle!); and the Time Out Challenge: Sportive (Sebilles sweet face and smile exudes the emotions of “playful and lighthearted.”)

Supplies: 

·   Digi and Sentiments- Beccy’s Place Digital Stamp Set (Fairy Folk)

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

·   Patterned paper and Crown Sticker- Hobby Lobby

·   Pioneer Black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   Glitter, a scrap of ribbon, and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

IncyWincyDesigns- JUNE- Rainbow +/or Birthday   

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge- Fairytale Wishes  (twist: Add sparkle)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Lots of Layers

Allsorts Challenge- Week 732: AG  (Option-Birthdays)

Time Out Challenge- #240 “Sportive”  

I’ve been a DT member for the challenge at QKR Stampede for several years. The web-based company was recently purchased by a company named Want2Scrap.  As the name reflects, the site now offers a large assortment of items that scrappers will love, plus they still sell many popular stamp lines including QKR Stampede, Eureka, Biblical Impressions and others. (Please note that they have transferred most of their inventory to the website, but are still working on adding more. So make sure to stop in a few times and see “what’s new!”  Also, stop by the QKR Stampede Challenge, which is always “Anything Goes” and several prizes are awarded. Maybe you’ll be inspired to enter a card or two yourself?

This card went together really quickly with two Eureka sentiments, a scrap of star-patterned paper, some bling, and a simple t-shirt template that I sketched to fit an A2-sized card front and envelope. (I plan to use this template again in the future for other holidays, etc. So… watch for it!)

Supplies: 

·   Front Sentiment- Eureka Digital Stamp (Super Dad) Also available in unmounted or cling-mounted

·   Inside Sentiment- Eureka Digital Stamp (Happy Fathers Day with Stars) Also available in unmounted or cling-mounted

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers, Sakura Gelly Roll white & silver gel pens

·   Patterned paper and Star Stickers- Hobby Lobby

·   T-Shirt Template- made by ME!

·   Stickles and all other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Cupcake Inspirations- #571 Inspiration Challenge Fathers Day/Masculine

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #113 (Twist-Inspired by a Pattern 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #599-600 Anything Goes  

Gem of a Challenge- Gem of a Challenge- Week #12 AG             

Jan’s Digi Stamps- June 2023 Anything Goes    

Paper Funday- #54 Anything Goes  (Optional Twist: no squares!)

Several years ago, when I first discovered digi stamps, I stumbled upon a wonderful blog hosted by a generous woman named Paulette, that offered lots of free sentiments and other digis. She also sold digi sets packed with lots of images, sentiments and even backgrounds on Etzy! You can find the freebies HERE, and on FB HERE (includes LOTS of items for journaling) and items for sale (plus a few more freebies) HERE . (Notice- you might want to grab a hot beverage before you visit the sites because I can spend blocks of time oohing, ahhing, downloading items and shopping! So fun!)

I’m entering this card into several challenges including Snippets (which is a favorite challenge of mine that helps me to use up my ever-growing stash of scraps, aka snippets! I slid the remainder of the scraps I used in my card beneath it in a photo. I really like several of those papers so am glad that I have some snippets left. I also had doing a bit of paper-piecing with the plaid scrap on the bottom cup. And the "tooled leather" looking paper is actually scraps from a partial roll of vinyl wall paper that I found at Goodwill years ago.)

Supplies: 

·   Digi- TlcCreations digi set- Coffee Time (Retired. But check out a great new coffee set HERE!)

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

·   Inside Sentiment- "Simple Life" from Beccy’s Place Digital Stamp Set (The Drovers Life) 

·   Black Photo Corners- available from several sources

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Snippets- Week #456

Scribbles Designs Challenge- #120 Sip and Savor      

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge-June   

Outlawz Challenge- June 2023 Linky

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #207 Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG #256

Di’s Digi Stamps- Beverages

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #23 AG