DT Card for Lexi's Creations Challenge # 68 - At the Beach

My DT Card for Lexi's Creations    Challenge #68 - At the Beach!

 The challenge will run June 25th - July 7th, 2012.  Put on your creativity hats and come share with us  your special version of the theme. Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Be sure to check-out the work by my team mates over at Lexi's Creations. They are all so talented!

Sponsor:    Our sponsor  this fortnight   is 'Crop Stop':  If you are passionate about paper-crafting whether it be scrapbooking your memories, making cards or altered art, CropStop is your one-stop solution.    

I liked how this turned out, I merged two stamps from Make it Crafty to create the above scene using Paint Net.  The sentiment is from FDC and is one of my favourite Happy Birthday stamps, so elegant!    I have been loving how Sandra "Rose Petal' does her marvellous embellishment using the 'Foliage' die cuts and this one is my rendition of hers. Thanks Sandra...

Card details:

Stamp: The beach chair  from Make it Crafty,  girl 'Sitting Annalise' from Make it Crafty and the   sentiment from  Fairy Dust Crafts   

Die Cuts/Punch: Spellbinders Nestabilities   'Fleur de Lis Squares'. Spellbinders Shapeabilities  'Foliage' for the branch leaves, Marianne Designs for the flower, the corner add on's\  are from Marianne Creatables 'Little Butterfly set;  Punch from Stampin' Up-Modern  Labels & Word Windows

Paper:   Stampin' Up  bashful blue, marina mist  and whisper white card stock; designer paper - bought at Michaels.  
Colour medium: Prismacolour markers, Copic's for the skin and hair
Other: pearls

Note: won the $50.00 gift certificate from Oozak for Color Me creative challenge
Challenges:
1. The Corrosive Challenge:#152 Summertime Girls
2. Great Impressions:#4 Die Cuts or Punches
3. One Stitch at a Time: # 119 -  Summer Dresses
4.Allsorts: week 160 Any Die Will Do
5.Color Me Creative: #46 Big Hair
6.Emergency Crafters: Summer Sun
7.Raise the Bar: #107 Summer
8. Stampin for the Weekend: #12 Show Us Your Style -  for my entry the style is girly
9.Charisma Cardz:   #24 Summer
10. Shelly's Images TTT Show Us What Your Got or Anything Goes

'tis the Season

Whimsy Stamps, Little Miss Muffet Stamps and Make it Crafty have joined together for a three company blog hop and challenge to celebrate their new releases this week. To catch all the fun go to the Three Company blog site.

Card recipe:
Make it Crafty:  Gift Way digital stamp
Little Miss Muffet: Saffron digital stamp
Whimsy Sentiment -ticket
I only had one Little Miss Muffet stamp and that was Saffron so I used her:O)

I merged the gift-way digital stamp with the Saffron stamp and obtained the above image of the girl (Saffron) standing in front of the presents and the way-signs. I stamped Warm and Wishes on the way sign and hand wrote 'winter' on the middle slat. Coloured the image with Prismacolor markers, added glitter glue to the snow on the sign and ground  and then to add interest to Saffron's hat and muff I used  white fuzzy flock . To finish the card off I added   flourishes from Marianne designs die cuts and a snowflake flower from Spellbinder die cuts. Punched out a few hearts to send some 'love' along the way.

Update: won at Digi Designs Challenge Blog
Update: won the grand prize at Three Company- Paris challenge - published in the Whimsy online magazine !!!

Challenges:
Three Company - Paris Challenge: Love
Little Miss Muffet Challenge:   Valentine's  or Love or anything goes if you have a Little Miss Muffet image
Winter Wonderland: A Christmas card- anything
Allsorts Challenge Blog: week 142 or anything goes
Digi Designs Challenge Blog: It's All About Snow!
My Sheri CRAFTS:#79 Warm Wishes- while  mine may not look warm it is wishing 'warm winter wishes',hope that counts!
The Stamp Man Challenge: Texture: I have an embossed background and lots of added details
Craft Us Crazy: #21 Favorite Colour /Favorite Embellishment   Green is my all time favourite colour and for embellishments I love anything that  is or resembles a flower. In this card i have made a snowflake flower:)
Shelly's Images-Terrifically Thrilling Thursday- Show us what You Got  (anything goes)

Scene of Three

I made this card using digital stamps from Make it Crafty and practised a new technique (for me) of merging more than two digital images together to make a scene. Make it Crafty is having a 1 year celebration  and will be celebrating all of July! To have a look at their stamps  go to their site at  Make It Crafty! I quite like this card because it seems somewhat mystical  and the garden appears  filled with magical things.

 I use three images (two characters - the little girls  and one landscape ) to complete this scene.

Card Details;
Stamps: Make it Crafty; Sitting Jane, Forest Flowers, Summer Dream
Technique: merging digital images, heat embossing
Medium: Prismacolor Markers
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities: inverted circles,  beaded circles(the one with the button on it); Marianne Designs Creatables 'Frame Swirl', Stampin Up's 'Beautiful Wings'
Punches: Martha Stewart's scary branches, double edged punch;
Flower: handmade using various punches - EK Success  1" and 1/ their  1/2' Retro flower punches and Friskas Daisy punch
Other: Yellow Button from my Mother's button box - I love using her old button's, it brings back memories of her:)

Challenges Entered:
  Make it colourful(Make it Crafty's challenge blog):Merge stamps  - I used three
The Crafty Pad Challenge #129 Lots of Texture
Stamps R Us: through the garden gate
Lollipop Crafts:  Special Summer Challenge anything goes
One Stitch at a Time: challenge #70 - anything goes
Allsorts: week 111 Free and Easy