Saturday, June 7, 2025

myasperations 6-7-25

       This is my DT card for All Dressed Up Stamps and features an adorable digi from “New Release Inspiration” Day for one of artist Wendy Burns' latest creations.  I love this fun digi named “Splash” and after printing and fussy-cutting the beautiful mermaid and her little turtle friends, I brought them to life with markers, and a white gel pen. They were next placed into a beachy scene created with an upcycled calendar page for the background (sky,  water, and dark stretch of sand), and torn tan parchment paper with a bit of shading and highlighting added with markers and gel pen, provided the sandy stretch of beach in the foreground. The final touches were adding some bling with dark teal gems and Stickles.                                                                                                      
 
Supplies: 

·   Digi- All Dressed Up Stamps (Splash)

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

·   Front Sentiment “Happy Birthday”- from my stash

·   Inside Sentiment “There’s Something About you… Mermazing”-from Sweet November Stamps (Empowering Sentiments Pack)

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

·   Gems, Patterned paper and all other misc. items and tools from my stash.

 Entered into:  
 Colorful Options Monthly Challenge: June  Mood Board-Summer (Shades of Aqua Blue)       
The Four Seasons Challenge- Summer Season June 2025  
The Paper Shelter- #641 AG   
Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge- #598 Anything Goes
Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge-AG June 2025
Outlawz Challenge-June 2025 Linky  

   I made this card for a grandniece graduating from High School this week. Sig is an outgoing, talented, free-spirit, so I think she will like this card, especially if she notices that I colored the little beauty’s hair to match hers- shining, long, and multi-colored (brown in front, blond cascading down her back). She also likes dangly earrings with bling/gems. Looking closely, you can see one sparkling from her exposed ear! Lastly, she will surely like the check we enclosed… although she might not know what a check is?!!! 
Supplies: 

·   Background- upcycled calendar page.

·   Instructions for Z-fold card can be found HERE.

·   Digi- {Polkadoodles (Winnie Celebrations: Skys the Limit)

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

·   Front and Inside Sentiments are both freebies from DesertDiva (a favorite site for free sentiments)

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

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

Entered into:  
Time Out Challenge- Challenge #290  Pick 2: Weather (sunny day), Recycle (calendar page)
Polkadoodles Challenge- Challenge 7- Week 2- AG                     
 Park Hopping-My Happy Place (June)       Peppa Pig’s Balloon Ride
Word Art Wednesday Challenge- Weeks #702-703

     My final card is a fun birthday card featuring a digi from Di’s Digis, which was provided as a freebie on Di’s FB page after she reached 3000 followers in May 2019! The colors on my card were inspired by the small scrap of an upcycled wedding card with light blue and light green circles.  The scrap also includes gold “sequins”. I fussy-cut several of them to embellish the card, then went all out with the bling factor- adding a holographic gold frame beneath the light blue frame, plus a sprinkling of gold stars on the front and inside of the card. Yippee!
                                                    
Supplies: 
·   Digi- Di’s Digi “Yippee” (no longer available… but Di has many adorable images in her Etsy shop HERE, currently all are 30% off!)

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

·   Inside Sentiment- a Freebie from loveSVG  HERE  (need to open an account to access freebies.)

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

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

Entered into:  
Di’s Digi Stamps-Animals Acting Like Humans
Paper Funday- #77 Anything Goes 
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Masculine (I surrounded the little mouse with blue!)
Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday: June (One For The Boys- lots of light blue on my card)         
Double D’s Challenge- Frames (mouse surrounded by four “frames”- three colors and one of sparkly gold!) 

9 comments:

  1. Thank you for being part of The Paper Funday Challenge. Your card is gorgeous and your colouring is remarkable. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.

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  2. Great card. Image is super colored. Thanks for playing with us at Penny's Papercraft.

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  3. Kathy, I love your take on the card for your grandniece! That's so sweet that you took the time to include all those little details like the hair color and dangling earrings. I know she'll appreciate it, especially the check! As guest designer over at Word Art Wednesday this month I just wanted to pop over and say thanks for submitting your card with them, and best of luck on winning the $30.00 Taylored Expressions gift card. We appreciate you!

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  4. Fun and creative cards!
    Thank you for joining our challenge at Double D and The Four Seasons!
    Diane DD, TFS Co-Owner
    {Nellies Nest}
    {Double D}

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  5. Beautiful card. Thank you for joining us at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge. Greetings Sylvia DT.

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  6. Beautiful card!
    Thank you for joining with us at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog.
    Good luck with your entry
    Maritza DT

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  7. Your card for your grandniece is so fabulous - so full of detail and wonderful images. She is sure to love it! Thanks for playing our Pick 2 Challenge at Time Out! It's always great to see you in the gallery.

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  8. I just love all your creations. You have such an eye for color and design, and it really shows!!! Lots of wonderful work here, and great take on the challenge. Thanks so much for playing along with us over at Double D, I hope we see you back again soon!!
    Judy~ DD DT Designer

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  9. All of your cards are exceptionally sweet. Thanks for playing along at The Paper Funday Challenges and we're looking forward to seeing more of your designs soon.
    Donna xx
    Paper Funday Challenges
    Inspiration Station Challenges
    Beautiful Blossoms Challenge

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