Seasons for digital tuesday

Hello and happy tuesday everyone!
I made today's card for our new challenge over at digital tuesday. This week Maria is our hostess and the theme she chose is

Celebrate the Season (any season!).

I hope you will join us, a fun prize is up for grabs from our fabulous sponsor
Spesch Designer Stamps.


Here is my card.
I used an image from Sylvia Zet, available for purchase from our sponsor Spesch Stamps. I thought this would be perfect to make a little fall themed "thank you" card with.
The image was colored with derwent coloursoft pencils and copics for the skin.
Papers are from a DCWV stack (harvest), which I just bought last week. Embellished with some punched flowers (Martha Stewart and SU), brads, and lace.

I'd love to enter the card to the following challenges:

• Happileigh Scrappin - SIO - Anything about Autumn /Fall (Colours, Holidays, Leaves...etc)
• Lexi's Creations - 2W - (2nd week) Autumn/Fall (ends 17th Sept)
• Catch The Bug - 3E, SIO - Punches or Dies
• Craft Us Crazy - 2W, 3E - Autumn Colors and/or Favorite Embellishments (2nd week)

Thank you so much for visiting!! And be sure to check back tomorrow as tomorrow is
Whimsy Stamps October Release Day!!

Ladybug girl

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Happy Tuesday everyone! Hope you are having a good week so far.

I made this card for this week's Digital Tuesday Challenge. Natascha is our hostess this week and she created a lovely sketch for us.

I had so much fun with this sketch, thanks so much Natascha.

This week we are being sponsored by
Spesch Designer Stamps



and the owner Tracey allowed us to choose one digi each for our designs. I chose Spring Ladybug by Star. It's so beautiful and was so much fun to color.

Here is my card.

Products used:
Stamps: digi - Spesch stamps (Spring Ladybug by Star), rubber - Whimsy Stamps ( everyday mini postage stamps)
Papers: My minds eye 6x6 pack, Stampin up Prints celery, Neenah white card stock, Stampin up green galore (retired)
Accessories: brads, ribbon, glitter
Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, Stampin up circle punches, ticket corner and small oval punch, janome sewing machine mini

Here is a closeup of the beautiful image.


I am entering my card to this week's Cute card thursday challenge with the theme of circles and Fussy and Fancy's challenge theme is Summer (and I do think that the image is very summery even though it's called "spring ladybug) so I am entering it there too.

I hope you'll join us this week, as there is a fabulous prize up for grabs from Spesch designer stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Have a great week!

The last unicorn

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Hi everyone!

I have a new card to share today for this week's digital tuesday challenge. It was my turn to choose a theme and I chose

in the garden or outdoors.

When I chose the challenge several weeks ago the weather was so beautiful and spring-y. Perfect for being outside. Yesterday we had a record high (I think) of about 95 degrees. Not so much fun to be outside when you have an air conditioned house. It's supposed to be even hotter today. I wish spring would last a little longer here, seems like we're going from winter to summer with just a few days of spring in between.

Now onto the card, digital tuesday is being sponsored by Spesch Designer Stamps this week, and the design team was so lucky again to be able to each choose an image to use for the challenge. I decided to choose one from Sylvia's designs, as I just love her style.

Here is my card.

Products used:
Stamps: digi - Spesch Stamps (proud unicorn), rubber sentiment -Whimsy Stamps (mini party letter seals)
Paper: Stampin up, neenah
Accessories: Prima flowers, sticky rhinestones, ribbon, glitter
Tools: derwent coloursoft pencils, sewing machine, circle punch, cuttlebug embossing folder

I'd love to enter my card to the following challenges:

• Scrappy Frogs (birthdays)
• Sentimental Sundays (inspired by a song - "the last unicorn")
• Drunken Stampers (birthdays)
• Marks Finest Papers (flowers)
• One Stop Craft -(textures)
• Cupcake Craft (tails)

That should be all for today. I hope you'll get to join us this week for a chance at a fabulous prize from Spesch Designer Stamps.

Enjoy your day!!

A sketch challenge

Happy Tuesday and thanks so much for stopping by today!

Hope you had a nice Easter holiday with your families! My husband had to work on Easter - as he does on most holidays - but at least he got off in the early afternoon! Of course that meant the kids had to wait until then for the easter bunny to arrive and they were not very patient. Poor things thought he skipped our house/backyard LOL. Luckily it didn't rain until late at night!!

Now here we are in the last week of April, I just can't believe it! Only a little over a month left until summer break!!! It's crazy!

Since it's tuesday it means we have a new challenge for you at digital tuesday. It was Natascha's turn to choose something, and she designed a fantastic sketch. I hope you'll play along this week!

Here is my card.

Ellie

I used the image "Moon" by Sylvia Zet from Spesch Designer Stamps, who are sponsoring us this week. The Design Team was lucky enough to be able to choose one of their images. And since I am a huge fan of Sylvia Zet's Art, I just had to choose one of hers.

And here is a picture of the sketch.


I ended up flipping the sketch, as I always feel like my images have to look onto the card instead of off the card, does that make any sense?? My sentiment is from stampin up. I used some night of navy card stock, with some old patterened paper from my stash. Added a punched border and some ribbon, and then finished it off with punched and layered flowers with brads and did some sewing along the edges.

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges.

• Creative Inspirations (use a digi)
• Sentimental Sundays (lots of punches)
• Sparkles Forum (anything goes)
• Inspire Me Fridays (anything goes)

That is all for today. Lucky me I got my laptop back yesterday so hopefully I'll be able to do a little more blog hopping this week!

It's a Magical World

Hello everyone and a happy tuesday!!

This week it is my turn to host the challenge over at digital tuesday, that means I got to choose the theme.


It's a magical world


is what I chose, that means I'd love to see fairies, gnomes, elves, dragons, all things magical!

We are sponsored by Spesch Designer Stamps this time and Tracey of Spesch Stamps kindly let each DesignTeam member choose one of her adorable digis. I had just recently discovered Sylvia Zet's art and was thrilled to see that Tracey also has some of her art for sale in her shop. So I chose the image "Loves me not" by Sylvia Zet. So cute!!

Since I usually have some sort of pink on my cards, I decided to go purple this time.
Image was colored with my derwent coloursoft pencils and blended with baby oil.

Papers are (retired) from Stampin Up. I used some nestabilites to cut out and mat the image on, added some photo corners, and did some sewing with my janome sew mini. Embellished with a couple of prima flowers with pearls and ribbon and then added some glitter here and there. The sentiment is also from Stampin up.

I am combining this with a few other challenges:

• Gingerloft (flowers)
• Catch the bug (scallops)
• Fairy tale challenge (something for a child)
• Crafty Purple Frog (things with wings)
• Paper Crafting journey (things with wings)
• The pink elephant (spring time)

I really hope you'll play along in my challenge, can't wait to see all of the magical digis that are out there!!

Have a great day!
Ellie.