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      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 and this time my card features Beccy’s new sets named ‘Ruff Day”. I used 1 pre-colored digi (mainly because I knew that I could never get my coloring of this beautiful dog to look this good) and 2 sentiments from the set.  

     I love that Beccy names the characters that she creates, and this noble-looking dog is named Fortescue. I did a bit of research and ancestry.com notes that the name is ”English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French fort ‘strong’ + escu ‘shield’.”  With a name like that, I have a feeling that a dog named Fortescue does just about anything he wants, when he wants. Ha!

      The Pop-Up Accordion fold took a little time to put together, but a YouTube tutorial helped with the process and I love the resulting card!

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi and Sentiments- Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Ruff Day)

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

·   Tutorial for Pop-up Accordion Card HERE

·   Sheer black dotted Swiss ribbon- JoAnne’s

·   Patterned papers, large pawprint, dog bone cut out, and other items from my stash.

Entered into: 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Add Some Texture

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Jan)    The Secret Lives of Pets (Universal Studios)

Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes #664 (Optional twist- Make Me Smile)   

Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge- Celebrations

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #222

This card features an adorable winter digis from Sweet November stamps, a cute penguin named Percy. I love his sweet face and glasses… so decided he needed to be the center of attention on a T-shirt card, amidst a flurry of flakes. I included an A2-sized template so you can create a T-shirt card if you’d like, too!

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Sweet November Stamps (Percy Penguin)

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

·   Front Sentiment “hello” handwritten

·   Inside Sentiment- Desert Diva (Snowflakes Are Kisses from Heaven)

·   Inside Sentiment - We Are 3 Christmas Sentiment can be found HERE.

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

The Paper Shelter- Anything But a Square

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge-Happy Hello’s: AG (optional: Add sparkle!)

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday  (Fun in the Snow)

Outlawz Challenge- Jan 2024 Linky

Allsorts Challenge- Week 765 AG  (optional Anything But Square)

Friends of Sweet November (FB) Jan-Winter Blues 

My final card for this post is for the Butterfly Challenge, one of my favs! The challenge sponsor, Mrs. A, is offering a few changes for the new year. Each challenge will incorporate a letter/sentiment as one of the themes, and this one also includes six colors from which to choose. I had so much fun creating this card, weaving pretty ribbons that I’ve had in my stash for over two decades to tape behind a heart-shaped aperture. The vintage-looking butterflies, trimmed from patterned paper that I picked up at Hobby Lobby a few years ago, embellish the card. A few of them were left in their pretty dusty blue color, the rest were colored into three of the other colors: Apple Green, Almond, and Amethyst. (All of the colors are antiqued versions of the ones in the challenge, to match the Victorian feeling of the card.)   

Supplies: 

·   All items from my stash.

·   Butterflies colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen.

·  Front Sentiment- Desert Diva (Happy Anniversary)

·  Inside Sentiment is computer generated.

Entered into:  

Butterfly Challenge- #191-A is for Anniversary  

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #631-632

Papercraft Challenges- Challenge #102-AG

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #119 (Anything Goes Positive) 

Paper Funday- #61 Anything Goes (Optional Twist: Let's Celebrate!)