Pretty in Pink

Good morning!!! Sun is shining but the world is sad! Lets shine more light on it with crafting the sentiment on my card today was so fitting for the current time!

My post today uses an image coming from the wonderful hands of Sherry West. Meet Starlight Star Bright Fairy:

What I Did:

I resized and printed her onto stamping card, of course she had to be colored in pink, I used alcohol markers and metallic gel pens. 

I Matted a 5x7in card base with lilac cardstock and some digital design paper. I matted and used a strip of the same paper collection but in lilac across the card. 

My image was matted with the same cardstock and added to the card.

The sentiment was printed this on stamping card and matted with the lilac cardstock before placing in on the bottom right of my card.

Finally I added some purple iridescent gems

What I Used: 

Digital Image: Sherry West Art - Starlight Star Bright Fairy
Stamping Card: X-Press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
Gel Pens: Gelli Roll
White Cardstock for base: Core'dinations Premium Heavy Weight
Lilac cardstock: Core'dinations Premium
Digital Design Paper: Polkadoodles
Sentiment: Polkadoodles
Gems: from my stash
Glue: ZipDry

The image is available from Sherry's Esty Store her images are currently only 99¢ and she has plenty of them to choose from.

Thanks for stopping by you can see my teamies inspiration over on our Facebook group.

Smile

Good morning, hope everyone is keeping safe and well. It looks as though spring may be back. After the snow last week and the stay at home order it definitely felt like groundhog day!

Well today is Tuesday and that means one thing Digi Choosday! yes it's the start of a new challenge over on the Digi Choosday blog and the designer are making you smile in their inspiration this time.

We were tasked with making a card with the theme you make me smile and only using 2 colors. I have chosen to use various shades of pink and brown and have used a number of Polkadoodle's digital products for my card including this cute little Silly Monkey:

What I Did:

 I started by resizing and printing Silly Monkey on to stamping card. I then colored her with Alcohol Markers, keeping my colors within my theme. I then fussy cut her and put to one side while I arranged the rest of my card. I chose some digital design paper's from the Helga collection and resized and printed these. I chose to use a brown card to mat my 7x5in card base and added the first layer of design paper onto this. I then matted 2 other pieces of design paper with the card stock. The first of these I adhered to the bottom right of my card. The second one I looped Silly Monkey's tail around the back of and added her to the front with foam squares (giving the impression she was hanging from the card.) I then added this to the top left of the card. Finally I chose a sentiment from Winnie's Special Moments quotes that fit perfectly with the theme. I printed this onto stamping card and inked it with pink distress ink so it coordinated with the rest of the card. It was matted on to brown card and added to the card to finish the design.

What I Used:
Digital Stamp: Polkadoodles: Silly Monkey
Digital Design Papers: Polkadoodles: Helga Big Kahuna VIP Download Bundle

Digital Sentiment: Polkadoodles: Winnie's Special Moments Quotes
Stamping Card: X-Press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
Base Card: Core'Dinations Premium Heavyweight
Brown Card: Core'Dinations
Distress Ink: Tim Holtz
Glue: ZipDry
Foam Squares: from my stash

The Digi Choosday Challenge runs for 2 weeks, it is always anything goes so there is no reason not to enter and you never know you may just win!

Looking for more inspiration? Then check out my teamies designs over on the Facebook page, you can also post your own Polkadoodles' designs on the Craft Stamp and Colour with Polkadoodles Facebook group

Thanks for stopping by, now go join the challenge!

It's a Polka-dot Kind of Day

Good Morning! Hope everyone is well. We are starting week 3 of home schooling and working from home.

My work is of course making cards using gorgeous images and today's is from Sherry West Art. Meet Poppi Pokkadott:

Isn't she just a sweetheart!

What I Did:

I resized and printed Poppi onto stamping card and colored her with alcohol markers. She was the fussy cut. I made a 5x7in card base and matted this with black card and some digital design paper. The frame was also a digital design. I resized and printed on white card. I then used a craft knife to cut around the ladybugs so that Poppi would fit under them. Once she was adhered in place I matted the frame with back card and added this to the center of my card.

What I Used:

Digital Stamp: Sherry West: Poppi Pokkadott 
Stamping Card: X-Press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
White Cardstock for card base: Core'Dinations Premium Heavy Weight
Black Cardstock: Linda Chapman
Digital Design Paper: Mein Lila Park printables
Digital Design Frame: Free Clip art
Glue: Zip Dry

Thanks for stopping by you can see my teamies inspiration over on our Facebook group and you can buy the digital stamp in Sherry's Etsy store