Grandma & Grandpa

My second entry into the Our Daily Bread Designs Let Your Light Shine challenge, week 2. I went with the same vintage look as last week. This is a great challenge for me, I'm getting so many photos scraped. This is a pic of my grandparents at Christmas time. No date on it though. I used ODBD 'Ornaments' stamp set with Spellbinders dies. I purchased them as a bundle last year, (love the ODBD bundles). I used 3 die sizes but only one stamp image, all are on dimensionals  I'll be making more tags and decorations with this gorgeous set again this year. 

I used lace, which is hard to see under my watermark, and several strips of border punched pieces so that I could add this to the Hotspot challenge. This also goes helps it to go with last weeks page. The beautiful lace is from McMahon Five Designs, (also used on my first entry page HERE).

See the doodling around the journal ornament? That qualifies for the Stampin' Sisters In Christ challenge.

I really hit the jackpot of challenges with this page didn't I? Now I just need to find a challenge looking for 'distressed' (I sponged with brown ink), or 'vintage', heehee.

On a personal note....
My dear daughter just called to tell me she was at the ocean, and I could hear the waves. She and her bestie had to buy matching sweatshirts, hers is red and Jacq's is white. Silly girls. If you don't know already, my 16 y/o went to CA with her best friend and their grandmother. They are staying with family for 3 weeks. We miss her around here, but she calls & texts often enough.

Have a great week everyone!!!

VBS Silly

Here's a scrap book page with pic of my daughter's head photoshopped into a surfing scene. She is in the summer before her 8th grade year, here. I guess as a vacation bible school volunteer you have to put up with some crazy stuff. 

It took me forever to get this thing put together! I wanted to use my 'Fancy Fins' digi stamp by McMahon Five Designs, and I thought of this photo. 'Fancy' is colored with SU marker, and her white center is covered in Stickles. I fussy cut all of the other fish from a vellum cut out book by Hot Off the Press, which I have had for years. That's it for today, it feels good to get something posted. Thanks for looking and please let me know what you think.

Trash Art?

Well this isn't exactly what I had in mind to do for the Hotspot Challenge, but I don't do monthly challenges until the last minute! The theme for this month is HSC3 Earth Day and Trash Art. I more or less recycled. My adorable Breast Cancer Bear is from McMahon Five Designs. I made a card with him a while back but didn't like how it came out. I liked how he looked so I saved that part of the card. I added card stock stickers and dp for a new design. Think it's okay to enter a recycled image for trash art? Thanks for stopping by!

 

BCA with McMahon Five Designs

I received this image, 'Breast Cancer Butterfly Awareness' from McMahon Five Designs. Each month Sue has an image available for free if you promise to do your monthly self exam. You can also download a blinky or banner promoting BC awareness. It's a pretty cool reminder. How can you resist a cute digi? It's something different every month. Thanks so much Sue!

Breast Cancer Awareness Bear

This is my card using the Breast Cancer Bear from McMahon Five Designs. The sketch is this weeks Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. The colors I started with were 'kraft, black, and one other color', from the Our Daily Bread Challenges, but I didn't end up using an ODBD image, plus I ended up using pink and white. My pearl embellis are also from McMahon Five Designs. Thanks for visiting!

See the cute reminder blinkie on my left sidebar? My friend Kristine made this for M5D, to go with the bear!
Grab it HERE or HERE

Pink Ribbon/Pink Rose

This is my first card using the NEW Cottage Rose Cling Stamp from Layers of Color Art Stamps. I won this while blog hopping during the new release of Red Rubber at LOC. Check out the other amazing stamps that were released. This is such a gorgeous image, don't you agree??? I colored with regular Stampin' Write markers.

I'm entering this into the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge by using the pink ribbon. I also used pink, self-adhesive pearls from McMahon Five Designs. Check them out too, fabulous prices.

This card is going to my boss/principal who is a breast cancer survivor.

MMSC#59 and CDAC Challenges

I have two cards today. They are both for the MMSC59 challenge and the fdkoc challenge at the new "Crafters Digital Art Center" community.

For this first card I used a free digi from Layers of Color. This is not from CDAC, but you can use any digi for the challenge. I started with the turned MMSC59 sketch and the LOC art stencil called Victorian Art Stencil. I used Brocade Blue craft ink on Bashful Blue card stock. Rather than using the oval, I used the bird image, (freebie from LOC). I also used Flowering Gems clear art stamps from LOC. I colored with markers and added pearls, rhinestones, and stickles for glitter and shine.



The second card is the MMSC59 sketch in the original position, with the oval. The stamped image on the left side is the LOC art stamp set "Garden Borders". The "Praying Angel" image is a freebie from McMahon Five Designs, that I picked up at CDAC. She is colored with pencils and goo gone, but it smeared a bit with my printer ink. I used a Sakura clear jelly roll pen on her wings and in her hair for sparkle. The words are rub-on's.

Thanks so much for viewing my work and for your comments!