myasperations 6-28-23

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 I had such fun using 2 digis, 2 sentiments and 3 patterned papers from one of Beccy’s new coffee-themed sets named “Café Elements”! A gatefold base, and a scrap of vellum fussy-cut into a puff of steam helped create a scene that almost makes my mouth water. So yummy! 

Supplies: 

·   2 Digis, 2 sentiments and 3 patterned papers from 1 Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Café Elements)

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

·   Scraps of vellum and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #208 Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #601-602 Anything Goes   
Paper Funday- #54 Anything Goes      

I had fun making another card using one of my newest digis from Patties Creations. A colorful strip of bee-patterned ribbon, plus a scrap of sheer black and white dotted ribbon provides a nice background for Blinky the Bee Keeper. 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Patties Creations (Blinky The Bee Keeper)

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

·   Sentiments from SnapClickSupply Company (Sweet as can be Word Art)

·   Stickles- Diamonds (on bee wings)

·   Bee Ribbon-Hobby Lobby

·  Sheer B&W ribbon-JoAnnes 

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG #257
Double D’s Challenge- Color Choice (Yellow) 
Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #113                
Patties Challenge- Anything Goes (June #207)

This card was inspired by a sketch from the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Group {BYSHC} I found this great group on FB a few years ago and, although I don’t use sketches very often, I do like the ones that they offer, and I LOVE that they host Linky parties several times a year. (I don’t think I’ve missed one of their linky parties since I joined. They offer lots of wonderful prizes and the sponsor is so gracious and kind!) 

This unusual Christmas card features a paper-pieced Cowboy Boot as the focal point. I used a coloring page created by artist and author of children's books, Jan Brett, to develop the template for the boot. I sized the boot to fit on the front of an A2 card, printed off two copies, and cut one copy along the outline to use as the boot base (which I traced onto kraft brown cardstock.) I then cut the other copy into the three boot leather sections (which I traced onto old scraps of embossed wallpaper that resembled “tooled leather.”) After fussy-cutting the boot base and leather sections, I adhered them together double-stick tape. The ginal touches were to shade and highlight the boot heel and add a fun sentiment to the inside. YeHaw and Boy Howdy... I do like how this card turned out!

Supplies:

·   Boot Template- Created with a Jan Brett Coloring page you can find HERE.
·   Boot heel colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and white colored pencil.
·   Digital Papers- We Are 3 Digital Papers (Howdy) and scraps from my stash.
·   Front Sentiment- “Merry Christmas Y’all” from 2 Cute Digi Stamp Set (Country Snowman)
·   Digi- “Kick Up Up Your Heels” from QKR Stampede (Company currently closed)
·   Small star punch, silver paper, Kraft and other assorted papers from my stash
Entered into:  

{BYSHC} Sketch Challenge FB- #34 June 2023
Park Hopping-My Happy Place (June) Related Amusement Park=Wild West City   
Rudolph Days Challenge- June
Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge-June  
Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Christmas)
Outlawz Challenge- June 2023 Linky