Scarecrow with Wagon - Squigglefly group on PCP Sketch Challenge

 

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Good Morning!

What a fabulous morning we are having here today. The 90° weather and high humidity slipped away last night and it’s going to be in the 70’s today. It was a great crisp fall morning.

Making this card was so much fun. I LOVE these new images from Squigglefly. I had a little problem with this one only because I wanted to keep the image large because of all the detail, but I wanted to play along with the sketch challenge at the Squigglefly group on Paper Craft Planet. What a fabulous sketch and challenge with a mystery twist! So my card ended up to be a little larger then it started out.

I planned on posting it here on Friday, but I wasn’t totally satisfied with it. There was just something missing. It was too flat for me. If you are familiar with my work, you know that I usually have the image layered and popped. However, this image has so much detail that I didn’t do that. But, since I can’t post something that I’m not 100% satisfied with,
I printed the wagon with the pumpkins and flowers a second time, colored it with Copic markers and cut it out. This doesn’t look to difficult until you get to cutting out the spaces between the spokes of the wheels. So I used foam tape to layer but kept the bottom of the wheels grounded.

Then I used Liquid Glass on the pumpkins and faux flower soft on the flowers (with a wee bit of glitter) and center of the BIG Sunflower.
I wanted to add brads in the hub of the wheels, but forgot to do so before adhering, so I used gray pearls instead. I used chalk for the blue background.

Other then the Pumpkins for sale sign, I really didn’t want to add any other sentiment so I used a spellbinders fancy tag, wrapped some matching ribbon around it, added two buttons with matching floss and two bitty sparkles and a bow.

I needed to balance out the bottom left corner so I added three green flower sparkles.

The green squares looked a little plain so I cuttlebugged them. All pieces were distressed with Dessert Sand Ink.

The Hand Stitching around the card was done with matching Embroidery Floss.

Other Challenge Blogs this card was made for:
Speedy The Cat's Friends - Pumpkins
Stamp, Scrap, Doodle - Stitching
Drunkin Stampers - Fall
Crazy 4 Challenges - Bling

Sunflower Fence and Mr. Straw

Good Morning!

I’m so delighted to be able to share this card with you today. I was the top pick for my FSS card using Pumpkins and sunflowers at the Delightful Challenges last Wednesday. That win entitled me to be the Guest Designer this week at Digital Designs by Louby Loo. What an honor.

My card was inspired by a sketch at Card Positioning Systems and two Digi Images from Digital Delights. The first image is called Sunflower Background and the other is Mr. Straw. I printed the sunflower background twice, then resized smaller and printed that twice, then Mr. Straw once. Colored them all with Copic Markers, cut out and layered with foam tape. I used white liquid appliqué on the clouds and heated to puff them.

The word Hello is a clear stamp from Close to my Heart. It was stamped with New England Ivy ink then heat embossed with Clear Detail EP. The papers are from a newly released paper pack called Olivia, from CTMH.

The Hand Stitching was done with matching Embroidery Floss.

Other challenge Blogs this card was made for:
A crafty Little Place - Brown, Green & Orange
Creative Card Crew - Fall
Everybody Art - Autumn
Paper Playtime - Autumn
Creative Craft World - Fall

Rustic Snowman

Well, here I am with another Christmas Card. This could also be just a plain old winter all occasion card.

Isn't this the cutest snowman, or would it be snow lady. I always wonder about that terminology. We always call them snowmen. Must we now change it to snow person??? *Ü*

Anyway I have an addiction for snow people and found this great Digi Stamp from Squigglefly. It’s called Rustic Snowman. The DP is left over Basic Grey paper from last year. I LOVE this paper. I can’t remember the name of it right this minute.

The image was printed and colored with copic markers.

Pansies in Tea Cup - Squigglefly Challenge 37

Here's another card I finished yesterday. I went with my husband to the hospital for test and took some card bases along to stitch while I waited. Well, I wasn't going to post this until tomorrow, but I got some fantastic images from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and I have two cards in the works. One of which will be posted tomorrow for Digi Day with SNSS over at  SNR

We have another fun challenge planned for Digi Day tomorrow, but this time we thought we'd give you a freebie for joining us (you must play along by 10pm EST tomorrow( Thursday, 2.25) night for the freebie), PLUS we'll be drawing one lucky winner who plays along by Monday morning who will win a $10 digi credit to the store!!


This card was inspired by Squigglefly Challenge 37. I am so glad I purchased the Jumbo Coluzzle Circle template before Provocraft discontinued making them. It saves me the trouble of trying to find a bowl the right size to trace around.
This card was also made for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge this week to use flowers. This was an easy one for me since most of my cards have flowers..
My card was also entered at One stitch at a time Challenge Blog. This challenge was to use stitching. Well, 99% of my cards have stitching! *Ü*


The image for this card is a Digi stamp from Fred She Said. The image was printed then colored with Copic Markers.


The Happy Birthday & papers are from Close to my Heart.


The white pearls were colored with Copic Markers to match.
The Hand stitching around the card was done with matching Embroidery floss.