Beautiful Blossoms Challenge Feb/Mar

Hello Friends and Happy Wednesday! I hope you had a lovely St. Valentine's Day, my hubby always buys me a box of chocolates and a card.  He always picks the best chocolates and thoughtful cards!

Today starts a new challenge month at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge.  Projects must feature a floral as the focus and a mood board is provided for inspiration, the mood board this month is:

I decided to use the mood board as inspiration. I never think to put pink and yellow together, it is so fresh and Spring-like so my project was definitely inspired by those colors in the mood board.

Some time ago, I purchased the Stick and Stamp Mat from Brutus Monroe and this large floral stencil was included with the purchase.  I put the stencil away, knowing some day it would come in handy and I forgot about it.  Imagine the Light Bulb that went off above my head while I was shopping my stash and found it!

Using Distress Oxide Inks, I placed the stencil off center on the panel and blended the inks.  I splattered water and diluted pink ink over the panel and set it aside to dry.  The sentiment is from Altenew and I finished the card with clear iridescent sequins.

Please visit us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge and see what lovely projects my teamies have created.  We hope to inspire you to play along.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Penny's Challenge

Word Art Wednesday

Creative Inspirations

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday

Stencil Fun

Ally's Angels

WW Crafters and Colorists

Colorful Options

Pammie's Inky Pinkies

Simply Create Too - I love Flowers and the colors Pink/Yellow as a combo

Through the Purple Haze

Creations in Pink

Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Challenge - Orange and Yellow

Happy Tuesday Crafty Friends!  I hope you are well and enjoying a great day.  Today begins a new bi-weekly challenge round at the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Challenge Blog and the team is designing with the colors Yellow and Orange.  My card today features the lovely Serenity Fairy Princess  from the Serenity Collection from Polkadoodles.

Isn't she lovely?  She has been colored using alcohol markers, the panel die cut with a fancy edged die from Alina Craft, designer papers from the Pink & Main Summer Splash 6x6 paper pad, Gold Mirror card from Recollections, sequins from my stash and the sentiment is part of the Serenity Collection and has been cut using a circle die from Kat Scrappiness.

Please visit the challenge and join in for your chance to win a lovely prize from Polkadoodles.  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

TTCRD

Path of Positivity

CD Sunday

INTAAS - Colors:  Oranges and Lemons

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

613 Avenue Create

Stamping Sensations

Di's Digi Design

Fairy and Unicorn

Creative Knockouts

Illuminating Marigolds

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  Today's make and share features some cheerful marigolds and a Pantone Color Scheme.

The Pantone Color of the Year 2021 is actually two colors - Yellow (or Illuminating) and Ultimate Gray.  I have been wanting to create a project using this color scheme, so putting my thinking cap on...I received the Altenew Smiles and Hugs Stamp Set with Coordinating dies as a Mother's Day gift so here was my chance to create a Pantone card featuring some cheery Marigolds.

I stamped and heat embossed the images and watercolored them using Arteza Real Brush Markers.  Using the coordinating dies, I cut the flowers and leaves and placed the arrangement on a scrap of designer paper from The Paper Studio.

I heat embossed the sentiment, which is from the same stamp set, popped the strips along with the flower in the front on foam pads and lastly, added Nuvo Drops to accent the design.

Have you created a Pantone project yet?  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Penny's Challenges

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Word Art Wednesday

Crafty Creations

Creative Inspirations

Crafty Gals Corner

Try It On Tuesday

Altenew May Inspiration Challenge

Incy Wincy

A Place to Start

Avenue 613

Fab N' Funky

Aud Sentiments

Stamping Sensations

April Showers Promise

Hello and Happy Monday!  Today begins a new challenge at Pammie's Inky Pinkies with a theme of Anything Goes.  The sponsor this week is Jan's Digital Stamps and I had the pleasure of using an image from the April Showers Promise digital pack.

This is a gorgeous image and was fun to color.  I went crazy with a Spring Theme and lots of cheerful Yellow.  The Wellies set the tone and I went with it!  I colored the image with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers, designer papers from the American Crafts "Everyday" 6x6 paper pad, sentiment from the new Spellbinders "Wonderful Spring" Stamp Set and card candy dots from my stash.

Please join us the week at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and enter your creation for a chance to win a prize from Jan's Digial Stamps.  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Always Fun

Outlawz Challenges Monday Greetings

Cutie Pie Challenge

Use Your Stuff

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper

Moving Along with the Times

NBUS

Pearly Sparkles

Reverse Confetti #SYSChallenge

A Bit More Time to Craft

A Bit More Time to Craft EXTRA

Crafter's Cafe

Alphabet Challenge

Yellow Daisies

Happy Friday!  The month of July flew by and the Autumn Season will be here before we know it,  I'm ready for some cooler weather; at least cooler for Florida Standards...80's instead of 90's LOL.

Today's make and share is a bright and cheerful card using an Embossed Embossing Technique....I'll explain:

I dry embossed a white card panel with a Daisies Folder but before embossing, I covered one side of the embossing folder; the raised side, with Versamark Embossing and Watermark Ink.  I embossed and sprinkled fine white embossing powder over the entire piece of card, then heat embossed the panel.

After cooling, I inked the embossed panel with Squeezed Lemonade and Scattered Straw Distress Inks and was left with rustic Daisy panel.   I die cut 2 stitched circles and stamped a sentiment from Kelly Creates, added a ribbon and bow to complete the card.  I am very pleased with the outcome and will be experimenting with this technique again.  

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Polkadoodle

Cardz TV #120

Your Next Stamp

Creative Fingers

Lil Red Wagon

Watercolor Wednesday

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges

Crafty Sentiments

Digi Choosday

TTCRD

Crafty Creations Challenge - Luck of the Irish

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  Today beings a new challenge at Crafty Creations Challenge and the sponsor for this challenge is Cute As A Button digital stamps.  For my design team project, I had the pleasure of using Luck of the Irish digital image.

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day greetings, this image is so sweet and I enjoyed coloring her up with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.  This is a standard A2 sized card using a polka dot paper from my stash.  I typed up an Irish Blessing and used as my sentiment along with adding some sequins for embellishments and inking the edges of the papers with Mowed Grass Distress Ink.

I hope you'll join us at Crafty Creations this challenge for your chance to win some adorable images from Francesca Lopez at Cute As A Button Digital Stamps.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

** Challenges Entered:

Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday

The Crafty Addicts

Creative Inspirations

Crafting with an Attitude

Make My Monday Challenge - Something New

Hello and Happy Monday!  Today begins a new challenge at Make My Monday Challenge Blog and the theme for this round is "Something New"....new baby, new job, new home, new stash, etc.

I recently purchased a 6x6 paper pad from Recollections named Patisserie.  This paper pad has some of the loveliest  papers and it's what I have that's new so my design team creation meets the theme of this challenge.

I used 2 different papers from the pad, some dragonfly dies I have in my stash.  I added a ribbon, some sequins and a flower dimensional sticker,  inked all the edges and called this standard A2 sized card complete.

I hope you'll join us this round at Make My Monday Challenges, we'd love to have you.  And I'd like to remind you of the new challenge for March starting this Wednesday at The Paper Funday Challenges.  The theme for the month of March is Anything But a Card with a Twist:  Use the color Green.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

** Challenges Entered:
Crafting From the Heart
Artistic Inspirations
Get Creative Challenges

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges - Daffodils Circle Scroll

Today starts a new challenge at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges and the sponsor for this weeks is the sweet Pattie's Creations.

For my design team project, I had the pleasure of using the Daffodils Circle Scroll from Pattie's Creations.

With all the cold weather everyone has been experiencing, even here in Florida, it was nice to create a card with a bright and warm feel.  This is a lovely image and very versatile which made creating this card very easy.  This card measures 5" square and the image was easy to color up with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.  After stamping a sentiment inside the frame and adding a few sequins for bling, the only thing left was to add a ribbon and pop up the focal image on foam pads.  All done!

Please join in this week at Penny's Challenges and we hope you will be inspired to create along with us.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna