Surf's Up at the CDAC

I'm so excited the progressive challenges have started again at the CDAC ! Tiffany Doodles gave us a freebie surf board image to use. I paper pieced the surf boards and made this card

I am needing some teenage boy birthday cards and thought this would be a great image to use! Challenge is on til Sept 16th so pop on over and request your digi :)

Thanks for popping in :)

It's time to Clear it Out!

It's the first Tuesday of the month which means it's Clear it Out Challenge time!

The theme of the challenge is sympathy. Not a very easy one for me. I find this to be the most difficult type of card to make. We were given some awesome images from Digi Darla Designs to play with. I  chose to use the pre-coloured Poppy Oval.

It's amazing how quick a card can come together when you don't have to colour it! Here is my card

 I printed the image 3 times and layered it on white, then black. I stamped a 'crooked' sympathy sentiment so I covered it up with a digi one. I then added a ribbon. Easy peasy.

Thanks a bunch for stopping by, I'm off to take my monkeys to school. I think I am more nervous than they are ;)

Birdie Brown...make a wish

Head on over for a fun challenge at Birdie Brown. The challenge is to use her free digital image Apple Tree and Bear in a card.

Fall brings so much change. Kids back to school, cooler days and beautiful colours. It's my favourite time of year. Add a couple of family birthdays and it's the perfect season.

Here is a birthday card I made.  Inside doesn't have a sentiment as of yet, I was thinking along the lines of 'may your basket overflow with warm wishes'. Too cheesy?

After I loaded up my card I had to giggle. You can see that I added a little butterfly, except proportionately it may be a tad to big. Can you image what that bear would be thinking? It's as big as it's head -lol

I'd also like to enter this into the Digi Haven month long challenge.

Thanks for popping in!

Saturated Canary Card

SO I stumbled across a blog from across the pond. Where exactly I'm not sure. BUT, I do know that they are associated somehow with one of my fav digi companies Saturated Canary.

If you haven't seen these digis, you just have to. Go ahead, click the link...just promise you'll come back here ;)

Here is my card for the challenge

I have no idea where the sentiment is from, it was in my digi file (with no name) So if you know where it came from please let me know so I can give credit :) I coloured her with my limited supply of copics. Added some flowers, glitter swirl things (I've had forever) and some stickles to the sentiment heart. Voila!

Hope you are enjoying your long weekend :)

It's Hambo Time....Hi-Ya!

This week at the Hambo Hoedown it's time to 'tear it up'. Paper that is! For playing last week, we were given the digital image Wee Henry Karate to use. If you didn't play last week, you can still jump on board and make a card. No Hambo images? No problem you can purchase them (or snag a freebie) in their store and join in :)

I kept my card simply and left Wee Henry as the focus. I ripped my polka dot background paper and popped up some stars. My printer decided to omit lines while printing, so the sentiment doesn't come like that (nor does the image). To hide it, I coloured it red to match his headband.

Thanks for popping by and leaving your comments :) Have a great weekend!

Time to get SKETCHY at MelJen's!

This week at Meljen's challenge blog it's time to get 'sketchy'.

Here is my take on the sketch. Quick post today as we had our children's soccer end of year tournament. Since we have 3 we were there from 8am til 2. Which may not seem like that long but IT WAS! lol

Thanks for stopping by :)

Hambo Hoedown time!

This week at the Hambo Hoedown we are to use 'wood grain' somewhere on our card.
So I looked, and found this site that offers various textured backgrounds. I printed off some wood grain paper and laid my picture in front of it. I was trying to go for a 'framed' look.

The image is from Hambo Stamps called Lighthouse. It also comes with various statements :)

I found the anchor charm in a stash of things I had won from the CDAC a while back.
I really like the shadowing I was able to do with my copic markers. They are so fun to play around with.
Thanks for popping by :)