myasperations 12-21-24

    This digi named “Time to Celebrate” from All Dressed Up was a FB Freebie provided to all members when our numbers reached 3000 in July 2016!  I decided it was the perfect image for a New Year's card… especially when I cropped it to zero in on the “toast” and added lots of bling! (Note- some of the bling is compliments of Stickles,  and some happened by accident when I added a shadow to the image with dots of grey marker. It was darker than I’d planned, so I tried to tone the dots down with a layer of white gel pen dots. I was pleasantly surprised that this action looked pretty sparkly on its own. Vióla!)  

Supplies: 

·   Digi- All Dressed Up Digital Stamp (Time to Celebrate) Currently Not Available

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

·   Front Sentiment “Celebrate the Season” from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Cardinals)

·   Inside Sentiment- QKR Eureka Digital Stamp (Another Year…) Currently Not Available

·   Sookwang double-sided tape- Available from several sources on the web.

·   Stickles- Diamonds

·   All other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into: 

Classic Design Challenge: Anything Goes (optional- Happy Holidays) 

      Since I’m a DT for Sheepski (one of the sponsors), please don’t include me in the draw for their prize!  

Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge #586 Anything Goes

All Dressed Up- Anything Goes (Dec #158) 

All Dressed Up FB Challenge- December: Celebrations  

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- 5th Annual Blog Hop & Anything Goes-Weeks #679-680 

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Dec)    Celebrate New Years in Orlando (theme parks+!)

       Earlier this month I'd created a paper-pieced Christmas card using one of Beccy Muir’s newest digi set releases. (You can see that card, and read about how it was created HERE.)  I used the same process for this card but replaced the sparkly stars with cute little gingerbread cookies fussy-cut from patterned paper. (I discovered that they were in a playful mood when I attempted to add them to the tree, as they wanted to climb the branches, cling to the star, and a few even somersaulted to the ground to start the game all over again. Silly little Gingers!!) The rustic woven background for the tree is from a wallpaper sample book I’ve had in my stash for a few decades!

  

Supplies: 

·   Digi and Sentiments- Beccy's Place Digi Set (Christmas Trees) 

·   Woven Background- scrap of vinyl wallpaper

·   Gingerbread Cookie Patterned Paper- Hobby Lobby Christmas Basics 6x6 paper pack

·   Sentiments- Computer Generated

·   Sookwang double-sided tape- available from several sources on the web.

·   Papers (plaids, glittery red, metallic silver) and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge- #244 AG 

Double D’s Challenge- Christmas Trees 

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Christmas) 

ABC Christmas Challenge- ‘ Y is for Your Favorite Colors’ (Classic Christmas Colors: Red and Green!)

Colorful Options Monthly Challenge: December-Red, Green and/or Gold  

Beccy’s Place Challenge- Dec

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

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge- Dec 2024: Optional Christmas  

Inspiration Station- Challenge #68 Inspiration Prompt (The gingerbread cookie was my inspiration!)

       The third card is my first entry into the current at Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. The December theme is Coffee + Snowman, so this coffee-drinking Snowman digi image is a perfect fit! It is also a freebie from Tiddly Inks. I used a wintery blue color scheme, digging into my scrapbook stash for the fun background paper. I had trimmed several of the coffee steam whisps when I fussy-cut the snowman, but I didn’t want to lose their whimsical addition, so I cut a circle of vellum and adhered it to the back of the snowman. Using a fine-line black marker I traced steam whisps that I’d trimmed from the image onto the vellum, adding highlights with my trusty white gel pen. A few snowflakes fussy-cut from the paper were adhered to the card with foam tape, adding embellishments while saving the little beauties from the trash bin.

   An added note-Although Christy Croll, the artist/owner of Tiddly Inks, closed her challenge blog a few years ago, she has maintained the blogsite to maintain access to coloring tutorials plus several freebies (including this image) HERE, and sells a nice assortment of digis in her Etsy shop HERE.     

                             

 

Supplies: 

·   Snowman Digi-Tiddly Inks Freebie (Something Warm- in the Freebies section of the blog HERE)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers, Black Fine-line Sharpie Marker, and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiment “You Warm my Heart” from Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Christmas Cheers)

·   All other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into: 

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge- Dec #37 Coffee + Snowman    

Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge- Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge- Week 812/13 AG

The Four Seasons Challenge- Anything Goes Winter Dec 2024   

We Love Stamping- December-Winter (optional AG)