myasperations 9-15-25

    This year, Path of Positivity is challenging you to Embrace the Unexpected!  This month's theme is "Take a Walk & Find Inspiration from Something Unexpected that You See Along Your Route.” (More theme info is available HERE.)  This theme is optional, so as long as your creation is positive or encouraging in some way, enter it into the POP challenge for a chance to win $6 worth of images from our sponsor, Scribbles Designs, and/or be honored as one of our special "picks"!

     On my walk, I was happy to see neighbors enjoying a last hot day of summer on their deck with tall glasses of icy lemonade. I was even happier when they asked me to join them!

     My card features a freebie from Scribbles Designs named Pitcher & Drink . I used a fine-line permanent black marker to trace the digi onto a scrap of acetate, creating a clear pitcher and glass. A few scraps of yellow vellum cut to size, slid into place, became the lemonade, then adhered it to the acetate with small strips of double-stick tape! Then I added my favorite embellishments- condensation droplets! Using the permanent marker, I drew little water droplets onto the front of the acetate, then used a grey alcohol marker to add a bit of shading. When the shading was dry, I added a little dollop with a white gel pen to get a realistic look. (Just a heads up, I practiced this technique on a scrap of acetate before I tried it on the actual card front!)  

    The beautiful background scene is an upcycled painting from an old calendar.  After cutting it to size and attaching it to the card front, I created a table top with a scrap of woodgrain-patterned paper, and added a “tablecloth” with a scrap from a small plastic doily. The final photo includes the signature of the painting’s artist. (Sadly, I can't quite decipher it!)

 

Supplies: 

·    Background scene is upcycled from an old calendar

·    Digi-Freebie from  Scribbles Designs (Pitcher & Drink)

·    Black Fine-line Sharpie Marker is used to trace the digis and condensation droplets onto acetate scraps

·    Shading and highlights on digis and droplets added with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·    Woodgrain-patterned paper- Hobby Lobby

·    Front Sentiment is a freebie from www.maxammadestudio.com (Sadly it appears that this blog has closed.)

·    Inside Sentiment- Freebie from Desert Diva (Sending you Sunshine)

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

·    Small plastic doily, other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into: 

The Paper Shelter- #650 AG

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- Weeks #716-717 AG/Family Friendly

Crafty Catz Challenge- Sept 12-25 AG

Classic Design Challenge: Anything Goes #09-2025 Sept/Oct (twist- Trees and/or Leaves) 

Paper Funday- #80 Anything Goes  (Optional Twist: Changing Seasons)

    I made this card to enter into several fall-themed challenges being held right now! It features a cute digital image from Sweet November Stamps, named Summer Breeze, and I’m thinking she might also enjoy a warm fall breeze, too! The beautiful pre-colored background scene is a freebie from one of my favorite FB sites (See details in supplies list) Free Printables for your Junk Journaling with TLC.

   After I colored and fussy-cut the sweet digi, put all the pieces together, adding a layer between the background and the digi so that she didn’t get overpowered by the brightly colored scene.  

     I’m entering this card into several challenges, including Time Out Challenge: Favorite Season (Fall is my favorite season. I love the colors of leaves and pumpkins, plus the pumpkin spice coffee and especially the DQ pumpkin pie Blizzards that appear every fall!)   

 

Supplies: 

·  Fall Scene through the window- Free Printables for your Junk Journaling with TLC (FB) (The group sponsor, Paulette Slater, offers dozens of free sentiments and digis every month to site members. If you join, you can access this digi HERE)

·   Digi- Sweet November Stamps (Summer Breeze)

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

·   Front Sentiment- “Bring on the Pumpkin Spice” Freebie from LoveSVG (no longer available)

·   Inside Sentiment- “Fall Breeze…” Freebie from LoveSVG (no longer available)

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

·   Patterned papers, other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into:  

Friends of Sweet November (FB) Sept 

Inspiration Station- Challenge #77 Inspiration Prompt 

Time Out Challenge- Challenge #297 (“Inspired By…” Challenge) 

Outlawz- Tuesday Color Challenge- Color Board-Sept (twist- Fall is in the air) 

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday: Sept (Colours Of The Season)         

  I wanted to create a few more cards featuring Tim Holtz Found Relatives cutouts for the Simon Says Ephemera Challenge. They are so fun to pair with funny sentiments, and this free sentiment from Gingershouse Blogspot really resonates with me! The base of the card features a scrap of very old light blue mulberry paper from a roll I found at a local thrift store. (A very vintage label read “Drawer Liner,” was wrapped around the thickly textured roll of paper. The paper was also very lightly printed with trailing vines covered with small flowers. I highlighted them with white and gold Liquid Pearls.) After layering the mulberry paper, photos, and a few paper doilies onto the card, I added the sentiments and TaDa… let the giggles begin!

     An added note- I am sending this card to a dear SIL who is the mother of a very active 4-year-old. I think it will resonate with her! 

 

Supplies: 

·    Vintage Portrait- from Simon Says (Tim Holtz idea-ology FOUND RELATIVES)

·    Sentiment (divided into two sections)- freebie from Gingershouse Blogspot (I am not an early bird…)

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

·    Liquid Pearls- White Opal, and Buttercup

·    Mulberry paper, paper doilies, other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into:  

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Layer it Up! (Use ephemera)

Polkadoodles Challenge- Challenge 10, Week 3-AG                    

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Sept)   

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge- Anything Goes (Sept) 

Outlawz Challenge-Sept 2025 Linky