myasperations 11-10-23a

    This is my second hot beverage card to enter into two of my favorite annual challenges- Beccy’s Place “A Month of Holiday Cards” and coffeelovingcardmakers.com’s “Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.” Beccy’s wonderful attention to detail when drawing this tall and elegant glass mug of apple cider looks so realistic. Can’t you almost smell its yummy spicy aroma? Ahhh… heaven!

  

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Pumpkin and Spice)

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

·   Front Sentiment “Happy Thanksgiving from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Celebration Panels)

·   Inside Sentiment- a Freebie From Decosses Dynamite Doodles (May the Bounty…)  

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Beccy’s Place Challenge- A Month of Holiday Cards- Nov 2023  

        Since I’m a Contributor for Beccy’s Place, I’m entering just for fun!

coffeelovingcardmakers.com- 2023 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Inspiration Station- Challenge #55 Inspiration Prompt 

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Fall Harvest 

Paper Funday- #59 Anything Goes    (Optional Twist: Grateful, Thankful, Thank you)

The Four Seasons Challenge- Anything Fall (Nov)   

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge-Fall/Halloween Greeting  

Outlawz Challenge- Nov 2023 Linky

     The sponsor for the November Outlawz Progressive Challenge is Sandra, and I got creative with her wonderful background digi, using it to create a quilt for a baby card!  I copied and pasted the digi into a Word document. Then I reduced, resized and recolored it before arranging the squares into a quilt pattern. I like the result… except for one unexpected oops. I wanted to add some depth to the card, so used a light grey marker to add impressions under the cute baby's body and sketching a few ‘folds” in the quilt. I didn’t anticipate that the black ink would smear. So… I tried to fix it with a white colored pencil. Meh… didn’t work very well. But I think I’m just being a little overly picky. (I often get that way with my creations!) If you look closely, you can also see the stitches I added to the quilt with a white gel pen. 

     I’m entering this card into several other challenges, including The Paper Shelter’s “Warm and Fussy” (babies with binkies always give a warm and fuzzy feeling inside!)

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Sandra’s Starry Background (Freebie for Outlaws Nov 2023 Progressive Challenge)

·   Baby with Binkie Digi- Freebie from Skogstokiga (Blog now closed)

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

·   Front Sentiment- Freebie from Papercrafts Magazine (no longer available)

·   Inside Sentiment - We Are 3 Sentiment set (Baby Wishes)

·   Sparkly Star Stickers- Hobby Lobby

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

The Paper Shelter- #575 Warm and Fuzzy

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #621-622 Anything Goes  

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Anything goes)

Outlawz Challenge- Progressive Challenge (Nov) Starry Background by Sandra

    My final card is a simple one that I made for a few challenges, Crafty Cats “Make it Sparkle” and Park Hopping “My Happy Place.” (This second challenge has become a favorite of mine as it has introduced me to many new amusement parks. The inspiration for this card is the original Disneyland in California… which opened when I was in elementary school. I’ve loved Tink ever since I was Disney's first Peter Pan movie!)

    This card was inspired by an amusement park- challenge [shades of yellow], plus I found a template for the sweet Tinkerbell silhouette on a blog that was sharing creative pumpkin carving. Yep, you read that correctly. This Tink was created to be carved into a pumpkin. (I added a pic of the beautiful pumpkin, which you can find, along with the Tink Template HERE.) I resized the template a bit and traced it onto a scrap of black paper, actually is a scrap from a black envelope that had a white interior which made it very easy to see my pencil tracings. I created a swath of sparkles by sketching  a spray of assorted-sized dots of white gel pen that I then topped with sparkly Stickles. So fun! 

Supplies: 

·   Tink Silhouette- Template available HERE

·   Sentiments- Computer Generated

·   Pioneer Silver Photo corners- available from several sources

·   Sheer black dotted Swiss ribbon- JoAnne’s

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes #658 (Optional twist- Make it Sparkle)   

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Nov)   

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #44 AG                                          

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #117 (Anything Goes Positive/Twist-Texture