myasperations 9-7-25

    This is my DT card for the “New Release Inspiration” Day for artist Wendy Burns' latest creations at All Dressed Up Stamps.  I love this playful little squirrel and his birdie friend in a digi named "Acorn Season"! I used a circle template from my scrapbook stash to encircle most of the little scene, catching several of the blowing leaves within the circle. Alcohol markers and a white gel pen helped bring the digi to life. After trimming around the circle, I fussy-cut the little leaves that had “escaped” the circled area and decorated the acorn basket with them. When finished, I adhered the finished scene to the front of an old postcard from my stash and added lovely fall/Thanksgiving sentiments!

    An added note: The first photo was taken in daylight, and the colors appear somewhat washed out. So I took a second pic away from the window, and the details are easier to see.

                                       

 

Supplies: 

·    Background scene is upcycled from an old postcard

·    Digi- All Dressed Up Stamps (Acorn Season)

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

·    Sentiments- from Power Poppy’s Digital Stamp Set (Autumns Opulence)

·    Leaf embellishments on inside sentiment are fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper (from my stash)

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

·    Circle template, other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into:  

Colorful Options Monthly Challenge: Sept Color Board (Anything Goes) 

The Four Seasons Challenge- Summer Season Sept 2025  

Inspiration Station- Challenge #77 Inspiration Prompt 

Outlawz- Tuesday Color Challenge- Color Board-Sept  

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

Outlawz Challenge-Sept 2025 Linky  

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

     This card is a perfect fit for the current chocolate/sweets theme at Park Hopping. It features a cute image and sentiment from a Tiddly Inks set named "Cookie Bug and Extras".  After coloring the Cookie Bug, I fussy-cut the digi and added glitter to her wings. I printed off, colored, and fussy-cut extra copies of the yummy cookie in various sizes to decorate the card front and sentiment.

    An added note: Although Christy Croll, the artist/owner of Tiddly Inks, closed her challenge blog a few years ago, she has maintained the blog site HERE to provide access to coloring tutorials, her Etsy shop, and 39 freebies in assorted themes.

     I’m entering this card into several challenges, including Time Out Challenge: Theme- Friendship, encouragement, support (The sentiment notes that good friends are important in life, which is true. However, good friends WITH chocolate would be a WIN-WIN!)

Supplies: 

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

·   Digi and sentiments are from a Tiddly Inks Freebie set (No longer available), but you can check out the Freebies section of the blog HERE

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

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

·    Clear glitter, ZIG 2-way glue pen, other misc. items and tools from my stash.

Entered into:  

Classic Design Challenge: Anything Goes #08-2025 Aug/Sept (optional- Happy Birthday) 

Passion for Markers Challenge- Week #804: Anything But Square  

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Sept)    The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium (Universal Studios FL-USA)

Time Out Challenge- Challenge #296 (Theme Challenge)  

    Back in the 90s, a friend and I opened a stamp store in South Dakota, and Art Impressions was one of the first companies that we carried. While de-cluttering, I found a box full of stamped images that I had made way back then. (Yes…this is definite proof that I have inherited the craft packrat gene from my dear Mom!) I was amazed how well this inked image survived this long, so I colored, fussy-cut, and set her aside while I worked on a card base. There were a few mug-shaped cards in another box, so I decided to put them to work to create a card that I could enter into the current Coffee Loving Paper Crafters/Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. After adhering cloudy sky patterned paper, I attached the sweet angel, created the sentiment tag (hand-written), attached it and a pink bow to the handle… and TaDaa!  

Supplies: 

·    Mug Template- I found several on Pinterest, the one that is similar to mine, with instructions for putting it together, is found HERE.

·    Angel on Cloud Wood Mount Stamp from Art Impressions (image no longer available)

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

·    Front Sentiment “Happy Birthday Jesus”- handwritten on small tag

·    Inside Sentiment-The Paper Shelter digi set (Vintage X-mas Designs)

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

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

Entered into:  

Coffee Loving Paper Crafters/Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge: #45 Sept New Format  

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge- #261 AG 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- Weeks #714-715 AG/Family Friendly