Children's Challenge at Digital Pencil

Good morning everyone, hope you're all having a wonderful Thursday!

Mo Manning is having a special children's challenge this week. I had told my daughter about it a little while ago when they first announced it on the digital pencil challenge blog, and she just couldn't wait to make a card for the challenge. She usually plays with my leftovers, paper scraps and images that I messed up on, she just doesn't want to waist them I guess and for her they are perfect. For today's challenge I let her choose a Mo Manning image, and she decided  to go with this cute kitty, which was a freebie a while ago, and is now available for purchase at Mo's store. 

Here is her card.

I even let her use my faber castell polychromos pencils and yes, even my blending stumps. She wanted to make a birthday card, so I let her choose one of my birthday sentiments, the one she used is from Stampin Up, but I don't remember which set, as I have all the sentiments separated from their sets. She chose the silver ribbon, I did make the bow for her as she doesn't know how to make bows. The sentiment was stamped all by herself though. I can't believe how straight it turned out! Well, she wanted to add a flower too, but somehow she forgot...

So there it is, my 6year old's first officially blogged card :-)

Thanks so much everyone for visiting!!

Here comes Summer

I really wanted to play in this week's digital pencil challenge with the theme of "Summertime". It's been  a while since I used this gorgeous ice cream cutie from Mo Manning, and thought she was perfect for this challenge. 

She's been colored using my faber castell polychromos pencils and some copic markers. Then I fussy cut her out. 

The sentiment is from the set "Summer Letter Seals" from Whimsy Stamps. I created a scene with some designer papers, added some clouds (using a memory box die set), and t hen I aadded a flower with a little button and some twine. Finished it off with some machine sewing. Sorry the photos aren't the best today, it's cloudy outside.

Adding this card to the following challenges:

Mo's Digital Challenge- Summertime

Catered Crop - use the color yellow

Creative Card Crew - punches/dies
Papertake Weekly- anything goes
Cupcake Craft - summer scene
Squigglefly - Summer
Stamp and Create  - Summer fun

 

Featured Stamper

OMG just woke up to the news that I was chosen as this week's Featured Stamper on Splitcoast! How exciting!! If any of my followers would like to play along in CASing one of my cards, here is the link to the challenge forum. 

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone and happy stamping!!

Clean and Simple for Penny Black and More - June challenge

Good morning everyone, can you believe it's June already!! I do hope June will bring less stormy weather and less rain. Our town got flooded badly the last week of May, some cars were under water almost up to the roof...And these strong storms every evening are getting old too, At least we had a couple days with no thunderstorms.They always are so strong around here and really do take the fun out of spring.

 Weather aside, it's a new months and that means it's time for a new fun challenge at 

penny black and more.

We want to see your clean and simple creations this months, and this is what I came up with. 

I decided to make a simple one layer card, with a strip of designer paper on top.

I stamped my image ("guess what" by Penny Black) onto kraft card stock using onyx versafine ink, then used my faber castell polychromos pencils for coloring. I don't use kraft card stock too often for coloring on, but I like the different look it gives. Colored pencils work really well on kraft card stock.

Designer paper strip is from my stash. Sentiment is part of the PB set "critter party". Added some twine and a little button, and that was it. Oh, and then decided to do some paper piercing too. Hope you like the card.

I am playing along in a few other challenges too:

• Addicted to Stamps and More -  Coloring
•  Simon Says Stamp -  Anything Goes
•  Try It On Tuesday  Animals Or Birds
• Card Mania - Spots and/or Stripes

We have some fabulous prizes up for grabs again this month at Penny Black and more, by our very generous sponsors: Penny Black, Crimson Cloud, Stamp Addicts, and All that Scraps so there are many chances to win. Plus you can enter up to 3 times for even more chances. Don't forget you can use any stamp company you wish, just no digital stamps. I can't wait to see your clean and simple creations!