More Digi Darla's Angels

I love the images Digi Darla comes up with!  Easy to colour and fun.  In my last post I said I did a colouring experiment with her angel image and wanted to share the results.  I printed the image 4 times on a sheet and then took out my colouring tools... 

Started with my SU! markers on the top left image.  Top right image is done with watercolour crayons and paint brush.  Smoosh paint was used on the bottem left image and the bottem right is a combination of tools: watercolour crayons on the dress and hair.  Markers for the rest.  All 4 have clear Stickles on the wings. 

The top right image was used in my last post for the challenge.  The rest of the images follow:

 

Digi Darla Challenge #43

Hello!

Hope you are getting some time off to play during this time between Christmas and New Year's!  I spent 5 hours yesterday and 5 today making cards!  I feel SO GOOD!!!  No doubt about it, I am a crafter. 

Today I am sharing my creation for Digi Darla's Peace on Earth with Ribbon Challenge.  I used Annie Angel 4 for this challenge and coloured her many ways, which I will show in my next post.  For this finished card though I coloured her with watercolour crayons and stickles on the wings. then cut her out with Spellbinders Label 20.  Cut a mat with white shimmer paper using the same label set.  Once I combined them I added fake pearls from the dollar store.  I folded an 8.5" square card in half and ran a white ribbon down the centre then placed my matted image on top.  Added a Wordsworth quote to the bottem right corner.  Hugs!

Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas Eve Everyone!
My sister just went home after an evening of finger food, laughs, gifts and a movie.  It occured to me I haven't shared my Christmas cards wth you!  I made up 60 for english family and friends, 16 for french family and friends and 15 for co-workers.  I usually pick one style and do about 100 assembly style, so that I remember what card I gave people each year, but this year decided to vary a bit.

I got busy with other projects this December though and these cards just got sent out today. Gotta get started earlier next year! Anyway, these are my final 2012 designs :) 

 

 

 

Anything Goes!

This week at My Heart Pieces the challenge is "Anything Goes".  I chose one of Priyanka's newer images 'It's a Girl'.  It is similar to my last choice of It's a Boy.  I just love stuffed animals and babies. 

The first card is a baby girl card.  I don't have many occations to make these, but they are fun!  I fussy cut the image and coloured it in with my SU! markers.  I then adhered the image to a green piece cut with Spellbinders Labels 20 and embossed with Spellbinders Heart Embossing folder. This was then placed on top of a coral piece cut with Spellbinders Labels 23 and embossed the same.   The 5x 6 1/2" card was covered with SU! button fabric and then a 4 1/2 x 6" piece of white vellum.  A piece of knitted edged ribbon along the left side.  Then I placed my matted image centred on the card.  Final touches were a princess embossed bracelet along the bottem and a heart decoration in the top corner.

My second card has more to do with the Christmas season.... Baby's First Christmas.  The image is coloured with SU! markers and then simply cut square and matted.  On a white 5x 6 1/2" card front I placed two squares in the top left and bottem right.  I 'wrapped' them and then popped up the matted image in the centre of the card.  Cute and simple!

I wish all who celebrate a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, Merry Eid, Joyous Kwanza and Happy Holidays!  Thank you for following me and I hope you get some time to create too!  Hugs!

Recycling Candy.... (boxes)

It's so busy getting ready for Christmas!  My cards are almost done...
I know leaving it to last minute are we??? :) 

Wanted to share with you another recycling project I worked on last month.  We do not have small kids with lunches so the only time we buy small packs of chocolate is at Halloween.  Since we only had 8 kids this year at the door, we had a fair amount of chocolate left over.  I emptied all the Smarties boxes into my bowl in my craft room and thought it was a shame to waste all these pretty boxes.  (I am to bright colours as some are to shiny and glitter) 

So cover an 8 1/2" x 11 sheet of cheap paper with sookwang sheets, then peal off to reveal the stickiness.  Place cut box sides to sheet in a fun pattern. 

When you run out boxes, go find other candy wrappers to use!

 

Voila!  Brightly coloured 'paper' ready to use in your cards! 

Here are a couple of the cards I created...

 

The best part is you can use any wrapping that you have alot of the same...  Granola Bars, gum wrapping, etc...

 

 

Vibrant Colours

Hello All!

This week's challenge at My Heart Pieces is 'Vibrant Colors'.  I cannot think of anything more vibrant than baby boys' things.  Bright colours, wild combinations and fun!  I used one Priyanka's newer images 'It's a Boy' for this card.  Used my SU! dye markers to colour it all in, and used my Spellbinders to cut out the image and the two mats behind it.  Red twine wrapped around the left held my red tag stamped with Happy Birthday.  Numbered fabric tape along the bottem corner with a punched circle in red to highlight the '1'. 

 

I also created on that may not be as vibrant, but I love to make baby cards, so since this is a boy, I stuck with the blue/teal colour pallette.  Used blue and white twine to make it look like it was a picture hanging up on the blue button.

 

Have a great week and join us on this challenge if you have a chance to create!

Scraps

What to do with scaps after doing a project?  I tend to make multiples of a project like Christmas cards rather than do individual unique pieces.  I love unique cards, but as I send about 100 each year, I like to keep it an easy but elegant design that I can duplicate.  Anyway, this creates a lot of scraps of pretty paper I just cannot bear to throw away!  Shimmer paper is a weakness of mine and I just cannot waste any of it.  Check it out:

SO, I weave it, punch it and make all sorts of backgrounds for cards.

Have fun!

Occation Cards for Mom 3.0

I forgot to include some more of the all occation cards I made for my mom a couple months ago!  So here are samples of the last set I made for her.  I used Magenta stickers and paper.  Also used wrapping paper, velour paper, tea bag paper, SU! flowers and pearls.  Lots of fun!

 

 

 

Mom's Christmas Card

What to post today????
Well I have my mom's Christmas cards...
Every year for a few years now, I create some Christmas cards for my mom to send to her family and friends.  She only sends out about 20-25, so it's an easily doable project for me.  This year she basically said you decide the theme and colours.  I knew mom was not a fan of overly religious cards, so I designed this for her.

We are a French Canadian bilingual family, so some of the cards were done in french in respect for those who do not speak alot of english. 

I'll post my Christmas cards a little later, after I have sent them out. :)