Everyday Images - A Newly Discovered Photography Challenge

I just discovered a new (to me) photography challenge happening twice a month at A Fresh Cup of Coffee blog and since I love to take pictures of all kinds of things I thought I'd try joining in when possible. 

This time the photo prompts are:

At Home (monthly)// In My Cup // Path // Tuesday Tranquility // Summer // Golden Hour // Out for a Walk (Quarterly)

At Home (monthly)

I found this beautiful trio of mini vases in crate at a local flower shop. It's perfect for flowers from my garden.

In my Cup

A glass in this case... Sparkling water with lemon and cucumber slices. So refreshing! And I love these pretty glasses I recently found at Marshall's 💛💛

Path

This is part of the path around Geneva Lake in Wisconsin we recently visited. 

Tuesday Tranquility

Another photo I took from Geneva Lake

Summer

Golden Hour and Out for a Walk (Quarterly)

(I combined these two promts)

A walk around our local lake during Golden Hour

I'm linking this up at A Fresh Cup of Coffee blog.

Summer Colors for Allsorts Challenge

For my second post of the day I'm sharing my card for the new Allsorts challenge where Sarah chose the optional theme of Summer Colors. We have a beautiful stamp set and stencil from Visible Image to give away to one lucky winner. 

This dragonfly stamp set (Dragonfly Dreams) from Visible Image is new to me and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to ink it up. The inky background in shades of lime green/yellow-ish was found in my box of extra background, I decided it was a good summer-y color to start with. I stamped the dragonfly image (the map themed stamping is part of the dragonfly stamp) directly onto the background and then again onto a scrap piece of Bristol Vellum paper to color and fussy cut the wings. I used Derwent Inktense colors. They were more of a hot summer pink (Fuchsia color) to start with but then I added a purple-ish color at the edges and used my waterbrush again so the wings turned more purple than I had intended.

The sentiment is from a set by Tracy Evans. I added glitter to the wings and a puple button with black twine onto the center of the dragonfly. Colored cardstock is by Stampin Up, probably a long retired color and then I used a white card base. 

I am linking up here:

•  Little Red Wagon - One Thing (one dragonfly or one button)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• TIME OUT Challenges - Mother Nature

If you'd like to see my first post of the day you can click here: Four Seasons August Challenge.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Four Seasons August Challenge - Never Stop Exploring

Hello everyone, today I am sharing 2 separate posts, they are due at different times so I didn't combine.  It's the first of August (how time flies!!!) and of course that means it's the start of a new Four Seasons challenge. This is our last month of summer for this year and hope you'll join us. As always it's Anything Summer Goes but we do have a wonderful mood board to inspire you if you need a starting point. 

And here is my card inspired by the sealife and colors. 

I still had the Silent Sea paper pad by Stamperia out on my desk and thought these small squares from one of the pages would work well with the moodboard in mind. They were glued onto a piece of smoky blue cardstock and then onto a stenciled background. I used Lavinia's Feather Leaf stencil, the pattern reminds me a little bit of water droplets. Inks for stenciling are Stormy Sky and Anique Linen (Distress inks/oxides) but it looks like the colors got mixed up a bit as it's hard to tell a difference. I found a perfect shade of red cardstock to coordinate with the crab and coral and I used my sewing machine along the edges. Card base is by Stampin Up but not sure which color. Probably retired as it's been a long time since I purchased colored cardstock and I no longer sort by color name. 

The small words are stamps from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Tiny Text Stamp set.

I am sharing the card with these challenges:

• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Ally's Angels - AG
• Classic Design Challenge - AG
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• Critter Crazy Challenges - Critters
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• Do-Al(l) Kreatives - AG
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stitch It
• Simon Says Stamp - AG

Some of the links included are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission if you purchase something through the links. As always, this is at no extra cost to you.

You can click here to see my second post of the day (will be live at 2am US central time/8am UK time). 

Wild Horses at the Seaside

Hello everyone, today is the start of a new Allsorts challenge and Val chose the theme of "At the Seaside" as an option and of course Anything Goes is always an option too if you'd like to go that route. Our prize is a collection of stamps from  Stamp Addicts.

I don't know where my mojo went and I was uninspired by my "seaside" stamp collection although I definitely would have had more than enough to choose from. Instead I decided to use some more pretty papers from a Stamperia paper pack.

These are from the beautiful Stamperia Silent Sea 8x8 paper pack. I decided on a tall card so I didn't have to waste the other half of this pretty paper (there was another gorgeous print on the opposite site and this helped save that for a future project). All patterned papers here are from the same paper pack, including the sentiment "the wild sea". Small bottle and seashells at the bottom right are also part of this pack. They were fussy cut to add to the card. I decided to use a Sepia pencil (mine is a Faber Castell Polychromo pencil) around the horses, sentiment at the top, bottle and seashells for a little more definition. As I mentioned in a previous post, I like to add stitches to these designer paper cards and I've done that here too.  For an embellishment I added some jute twine and a blue button. 

The blue paper is a retired color from Stampin Up  and I used a white card base which I inked lightly with Tea Dye Distress ink.

Some of the links included are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission if you purchase something through the links. As always, this is at no extra cost to you.

Linking up with these challenges:

• Crafty Animals - Animals
• Craft Rocket Challenges - Animals
• Creative Crafting Uncles - No Stamping
• Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge  - Coastal
• Paper Rock Scissors - Papers or Scissors (all layers are paper and I fussy cut using Cutterbee Scissors)
• The Paper Funday - Summer Splash