Varada Sharma - Your Special Day

Hello Friends and Happy Sunday!  Today I have a quick post featuring a digi stamp from the Your Special Day Digital Stamp set by Varada Sharma Designs.  This set is part of the larger Sweet Summer Release for July 2022.  

The Your Special Day Set includes sentiments and a cake image however I've chosen to use only the Gifts to create a celebratory card that could be used for a birthday, a wedding, an anniversary, or any other special occasion. 

The image has been colored using alcohol markers and fussy cut, then adhered flat to a fancy scallop die cut panel.  The patterned paper is part of a digital paper pack from Polkadoodles.  

The sentiments have been die cut into strips and popped on craft foam for dimension.  They are included in this digi set.  To complete the card design, I've added light peach enamel dots.  I love this fresh color palette of Teal, Coral and Blue, it's so soft and feminine. 

That's all I have for today.  Have a great day and until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

CD Sunday

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

613 Avenue Create

Paperbabe

Hero Arts Stay Crafty

DL. Art

Addicted to Stamps & More

Fab n Funky

TTCRD

A Place to Start

 

Inspiration Station Challenge #33 - Celebrate

Hello and Happy Birthday America, it's the 4th of July!  It's a busy Monday so let's get started.  Today begins a new bi-weekly challenge round at The Inspiration Station and the inspiration picture is:

How cool is this...it's America's Birthday and the picture features a birthday party in progress.  This inspired me to create what else but a birthday card!  I dug deep in the stash for this card.

The embossing folder is from Darice; it's not a 3-D folder..just one of those "old-fashioned" folders...LOL...use what ya got I say and my stash needs love.  The balloon dies were gifted to me long ago when I first started this card making adventure.  The sentiment die was a Christmas Prezzie a few years ago from a swap buddy.  The designer papers are from the Birthday Essentials paper pack by Kat Scrappiness.  Remember when Baker's Twine was all the rage?  Well, I still love using it!

I've inked over the embossed panel with Catherine Pooler It's a Boy Blue ink, the 2 small balloons are popped on craft foam for dimension and no proper birthday card would be complete without some sequins; which were added here and there.

Please visit and join in the fun at The Inspiration Station.  Let's see your "Celebrate" themed projects!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered

Dream Valley

Corrosive Challenge

Crafty Friends

DL. Art

Can You Handle the Pressure?

Scrapping 4 Fun

Love to Craft

Crafting Happiness

2 Sisters on a Blog

Creatalicious

Dies R Us

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper

SSS Wed Challenge

The Sisterhood of Crafters

A Place to Start

Stamps Fun Creativity

 

Celebrate!

Hello Crafty Friends!  It is Christmas Day and I wish you all a very Merry Christmas.  Soon it will be the New Year and I pray the coming year brings an end to the COVID pandemic with peace and love in our communties.  Soon it will be time to Celebrate and that is the theme of my polychromatic card today....Celebrations for new beginnings.

For my card today, I've used the Altenew Floral Fantasy Stamp and Coordinating Die set and the Mega Label Love Sentiment Set to creat a colorful celebration card.

To start, I ink blended a background panel using Catherine Pooler inks.  After the panel dried, I wanted an appearance of texture so I smooshed deeper shades of blue inks onto the panel and splattered with black and white acrylic gloss spray. 

The florals and leaves were stamped using Catherine Pooler inks; for the last stamp layer on the florals, instead of using a darker ink, I stamped with watermark ink and heat embossed with fine detail silver embossing power.  The focal images were then cut using the coordinating dies.

The sentiment was stamped, cut and popped on craft foan with a nest of Altenew Metallic Thread attached behind for interest and texture.  Lastly, white, irridescent sequins were added for shine.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope your holiday is blessed.  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Alphabet Challenge

Creative Fingers Blog Candy Giveaway

Creative Moments

Happy Little Stampers Die Cut Challenge

Sweet Stampers

River of Creativity

Crafter's Cafe:  Favs - Everything Altenew!

QKR Stampede

Altenew December 2021 Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wed. Challenge

Happy "Bird" day Chickie

Hello and Happy Saturday!  Today begins the new Anything Goes Challenge at Bugaboo's Catch the Bug Challenge Blog!  For my design team project, I've used the Happy Bird Day Chickie digital stamp to create a fun Birthday card.

I've colored the image with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers and die cut the focal image with a scalloped die.  I created the background using the "smooshing" technique and Twisted Citron, Rustic Wildnerness, Blueprint Sketch and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Inks.  The focal and sentiment flag were popped on foam pads for dimension, sequins and doodling added for interest.

Please join us at Catch the Bug for the Anything Goes Saturday Challenge.  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

All Sorts

Di's Digi Design

Outlawz Festive Fridays

Creative Fingers

Crafty Catz

Let's Craft and Create

Creative Moments

Penny's Challenges

AAA Birthday

CRAFT

World Wide Open DT

Decoupage New Year's Cats

 Happy Sunday!  Today's make and share features 2 crazy Cats celebrating the New Year, lots of fussy cutting, foam pads and decoupage.

I've had this decoupage kit for over a year and didn't create anything with it last year so, in line with trying to use what I have in my stash, I used these quirky kitties to create a New Year's card for my January Swap partner.

The kit is from Crafts U Print, the card measures 6' square and has many layers of decopauge.  For me, fussy cutting is hard to get started but once I'm into it, I get into a rhythm and it goes by quickly.  I mounted the panels on black card, rouneded the corners and added doodling using a White Gelly Roll pen.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:

Pixie's Crafty Workshop

Cardz 4 Galz - New Year, New Stash

Hello and Happy New Year!

Today starts a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz.  The theme for this challenge is New Year, New Stash:  create using something new in your craft stash.

My design team project contains 2 new items:  the gold glitter card from Die Cuts with a View and the gold embossing powder from Ranger.

I just had to create a New Year's card because the gold just says Happy New Year and Welcome 2019!  Please join us at Cardz 4 Galz this challenge and show us what you have new in your craft stash!

I want to remind you of the new challenge blog at The Paper Funday Challenges.  The 1st challenge is an Anything Goes Challenge - anything made with paper.  Please stop in and join the fun.  

Until Next Time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

** Challenges Entered:
Crafting By Designs
Lil Red Wagon
The Paper Shelter
Creative Inspirations
Elli Belle's Corner

Crafty Creations Challenge - Christmas Glass

Hello Everyone!  It's time for another fun challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges and our sponsor this round is the awesome Bugaboo Stamps!  I just love the Bugaboo images and I had the pleasure of using the Christmas Glass image for my design team project.

This was a fun image to color up, Bugaboo images are an easy color; the bold lines make it super simple...and they are so cute!  This card measures 5" x 5" and is a tent fold style.  I used my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers and added a bow for some interest.

We hope you'll join us for some inspiration and join the challenge for your chance to win some images from our terrific sponsor.

Until Next Time, Happy Crafting!

Donna

**Challenges Entered:
Through the Craft Room Door
Retarte #132