With Thanks

Welcome to the first Tuesday of May.

Time for inspiration Tuesday over at Craft-Dee BowZ. 

The May challenge at CDB has started and runs thru the end of the month. 

We hope you enter and you could be the next winner. 

The theme is always Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow. 

The May sponsor is Cute As A Button and the prize is 2 black and white images. 

On April 30,  I posted about a card using acrylic, printable acrylic.

 I printed a digital image onto the printable acrylic. 

That image was pre-colored and it turned out great. 

Check out that post here.

Well for this card, I decided to use a stamped image instead of a digital image.

 I also wanted to test out the alcohol markers and regular markers in coloring the image.

I think it really turned out great.

The image had a lot of open areas that needed to be colored. Perfect for my test. 

I stamped the image on the rough side, using black Staz-On, the side you would print on. I also colored the image on that rough side, I used alcohol markers and some distress markers. 

Both worked great.

Once done with the  coloring, I attached some glitter film to the back of that acetate, 

making sure I attached the glitter to the rough side. 

Next I added a white cardstock piece to the back so the image and the glitter really show up.

I added some gold strips to the sides and a bow and I mounted that on a creamy yellow card base. 

And my card is finished.

I really love working with the printable acrylic sheets.

Hope you will try using them as well.

That bow - Made it using my Craft-Dee BowZ

Made a single loop bow. Perfect for this 5X7 card.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Art Gone Wild - Catherine Scanlon - Daisies Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Creamy Yellow CS, Gold CS Ink: Staz-On Black Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, Spectrum Noir alcohol Markers, Tim Holtz  Distress Markers, Glitter Sheets (Stamp on It), Printable Acrylic Sheets (Staples)

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps  - #174 Flowers (#19)
• Dare 2B Artzy Challenges -  (May) Flowers (#5)
• Penny Black and More –  (May) Feminine with Anything Goes option (#14)
• Stamping Sensations - (May) English Country Garden (#9)
• Colouring in Scrapland  ANYTHING GOES OR FLOWERS  (#1)
• Crafting from the Heart  #242 ANYTHING GOES (WEEK 3) (#142)
• Get Creative Challenges  #80 ANYTHING GOES/NO TWIST (#8)
• A Gem of a Challenge   - #8 - Anything Goes  (#127)
• Colour Crazy Challenge -Wk 17 (Wk1 of 2) -  ALWAYS COLORING & ANYTHING GOES  WEEKLY CHALLENGES RUN FOR 2 WEEKS.  (#46)
• Creative Fingers -  No. 162 - ANYTHING GOES  (#67)
• Jo's Scrap Shack  - No. 279 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (#54)

Hope you are inspired by my card. 

Have a great week. 

I will be back soon.

For the Big League

Welcome to May.

I am so excited to welcome in the month of May.
Hopefully warmer weather and a little less rain will be coming our way.

Baseball season has started and I'm sure little league is in full swing (no pun intended) as well.

Since it's the first of the month, Craft-Dee BowZ has started their May Challenge.

The CDB challenge is a monthly challenge and the theme is always:

Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow.

That's easy enough, LOL

The sponsor for May at Craft-Dee BowZ is

Cute As A Button

Since it's baseball season, I spied this cute baseball batter over on the Cute as a Button site

 and since they are the sponsor this month I just had to use him

He is the Sandlot Slugger

and he is perfect for a birthday card for that little leaguer in your life.

When I started this card, I envisioned a baseball stadium in the background. 

Found the stadium image off the internet and it works perfect with the CAAB image. 

Also I saw some baseball stats in the sports section of the paper

 so I used those to add some additional interest to the card.

The sentiment is something I thought up and it's a great fit, I think. 

I added a simple little single loop bow to this card.

Needed something that was not frilly. 

Here are some pics of me making that sweet little bow

I've wrapped the ribbon around the 2 pegs so it looks like a U 

with the tales(ends of ribbon) at the top, 

and then I overlap the ends of the ribbon. 

Kind of like an awareness ribbon.

The ribbon end that's on the top

 gets threaded under the ribbon and between the posts and 

pulled up

These 2 tails of ribbon need to be tied in a knot

And those tails need to be pulled tight.

And wella, you have a bow. 

It is so easy and is quick to make a bow.

Here is the tool

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digi - Cute As A Button - The Sandlot Slugger Paper/Card Stock: Red CS, Lt. gray CS, Med. Gray CS, White CS Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers, Glue Dot, Stadium Digital image - Off the internet, Stats in the corners - from local newspaper.

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• Crafting By Designs   - May Anything Goes (#20)
• The Crafty Addicts   #60 - Anything Goes (#12)
• A Gem of a Challenge    - #8 - Anything Goes  (#126)
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges  #1918 - ANYTHING GOES (#8)
• Crafting from the Heart  #242 ANYTHING GOES (#143)

Happy Birthday

Hello Everyone

Today is the last Tuesday of April and I thought I'd scoot in and share my latest Happy Birthday card and the last Tuesday inspiration  for the month of April. I used a colored digi image that I printed on printable acetate. Then I added a piece of glitter film behind the acetate and trimmed it. Next I backed it with white cardstock to make the image pop.(Too bad the photo really doesn't do the printing on acetate justice. It really looks great in person.)  After that, I added pink CS and designer paper layers for more interest. I have a super small heart punch that I have had for years and those heart shapes are just the right size.

The gold Happy Birthday sentiment is a peel off sticker. I bought a sheet from Stamp On It. They have large selection of various peel off's. These are getting harder and harder to find.so when I find ones that I like I buy a few sheets cause I'm afraid they will not be around when I might need some more.

Here is my card

And my bow is a triple loop bow and I used the Craft-Dee BowZ tool to make it. It's the best bow making tool going. Perfect for anyone who is a challenged bow maker.

Are you bow challenged?? You really should have one of these.

I love mine and use it all the time.

It's available on the Craft-Dee BowZ website. 

Look on the left sidebar to place your order

Supplies I used on my Project

Stamps:  Digi - Doodle Pantry - Chocolate Box Truffle Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Pink CS, DP  Accessories: Ribbon, Glitter Film and Peel Off's (Stamp on It), Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam, printable acetate - Staples, heart punch.

I am submitting my project in the following challenges:

• Crafting from the Heart  #242 ANYTHING GOES (WEEK `) (#14)
• CuteNCrafty Challenge Blog   #25 ANYTHING GOES  (#38)
• Get Creative Challenges   #81 ANYTHING GOES/NO TWIST

I hope you liked my project today and will try to use printable acetate.

 It is easy to use and really pumps your card up a notch.

I will be back tomorrow with my May Project for Craft-Dee BowZ. 

Hope you will stop back in for more inspiration

When You Wish Upon A Star

Hello Everyone,

It's time for another challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.

The theme is always - Anything Goes.

The sponsor for this challenge is 

 Lemon Shortbread

Prize - 3 images

I am showcasing the prettiest image - 

Winterfairy.

I looked at this sweet fairy and she reminded me of the song 

When You Wish Upon a Star

 and that is  the design that I came up with based on those words.

I added stars, and used a embossing folder to give me some embossed rays

 and this is the design I came up with.

Stamps:  Digital image - Lemon Shortbread - Winterfairy Paper/Card Stock: Blue shimmer CS, White CS, Dark Blue Glitter paper, Silver CS Ink: None Dies Used: Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Scalloped Ovals Accessories:Spectrum Noir  Markers, dimensional foam, Star Hand Punch, Stampendous Star Class a Peels, Wink of Stella - Gold, Sentiment - Computer generated, Sizzix Embossing Folder Rays & Retro Circles

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge  - #7 - Anything Goes  (#75)
• Colour Crazy Challenge - Wk 15 ALWAYS COLORING & ANYTHING GOES  (#11)
• Creative Fingers -  No. 162 - ANYTHING GOES   (#26)
• Simply Create Too -  No. 148 -  ANYTHING GOES + OPTION: NONE (#105)
• Crafting With An Attitude - #50 -  Always Anything Goes (#162)

I hope you let your imagination run wild when you are trying to come up with a card design. 

You never know what your end result will be.

We'd love to see your submission in the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge

I will be back soon with another creation to hopefully inspire you.