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Monday, March 20, 2023

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge Mid Month Inspiration

Hello Crafty Friends and Happy Monday! I hope you had a glorious weekend and the weather was kind to you. We had a chilly Sunday here in Florida along with some much needed rain.

Today is the mid-month inspiration post at the Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge Blog. Jan released 2 new sets for March 2023: Rain Dance and Dogwood Blooms. My card today features the Rain Dance image and a sentiment from the set.

The sentiment makes this a sweet Card of Encouragement, and who doesn't need one of those from time to time? I've colored the image using Prismacolor Pencils.

I've left the design sweet and simple but this card wasn't simple to start! Let me explain - my HP printer would not feed this 80 lb card through so I went to my laser printer. The laser printer prints fabulous lines on smooth card but on this paper I use for pencils (it's a bit textured as "tooth" is needed for successful pencil coloring and blending), it spit and sputtered the lines. I had to go in with a Micron Fine Liner Pen to "fix" the stuttering but it's just not the same! Anywho....I pulled my bottom lip up and carried on.

I hope you'll hop over to the blog today and see all the lovely projects my teamies have made. Also, join in the challenge - you have until the 2nd of April to enter.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

Outlawz Sunday Songs & Rhymes - April Showers Bring May Flowers (rain)

Monday, March 6, 2023

Jan's Digi Stamps March 2023 Challenge

Hello, I'm back with my second post for today. It's a new challenge month at the Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge Blog and Jan has released 2 new sets this month: Rain Dance and Dogwood Blooms. Jan is also having a Flowers Sale, where 24 Floral themed sets are discounted until the 31st of March.

In keeping with the St, Patrick's Day theme I have going today, I've used one of Jan's older sets for my DT project, it's the Lucky Charm set, which is marked down for this month as well!

This is such a lovely set, drawn so beautifully. I remember spending hours combing through clover as a child, looking for that 4-leaf one, and I've found a few in my day. My sister did resin art and she made a pendant for me containing one of those 4-leaf clovers. Would you believe I found that pendant in my mother's jewelry box when we were going through her things after she passed? That pendant is 50+ years old.

I've colored this image using Prismacolor pencils, which seem to be my new coloring tool of choice. The patterned paper is from a digital paper pack included as a magazine freebie several years ago. The panel has been cut using the Stitched Rectangle Nesting Dies from Kat Scrappiness and the sentiment is included in this Lucky Charm set.

We hope you'll join us this month at the Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge. My teamies have created lovely projects using the new sets on offer and I know you'll be inspired. Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies

Double Trouble

Crafting Happiness

Ching Chou Kuik