Spooky Cute Halloween

Karen's Doodles on Facebook is having a Halloween challenge involving the free digi that she gave away. You can request the free digi as long as you promise to make and post a Halloween card using the digi by 8/31; this is my entry.
The house, fence; tree and gravestones are all from the Lettering Delights Hallowscream Things graphic set. All the sets are on sale for $1 right now, so if you're looking to experiment, now's the time. I separated the layers for the house and gravestone in Photoshop Elements; it was quite simple. For those that want to know more about converting these files, Jin at Under a Cherry Tree has a video tutorial showing how to convert files.

The digi stamp was colored with my Promarkers, the DP are a combo of Debbie Mumm holiday stack and Provocraft; the cardstock is Recollections, ribbon from stock; and the charm is Making Memories 2009.

This card is also entered into Karen's Doodles Challege # 25 Polka Dots.
By the Cute & Girly August Animal Antics.
Bee Crafty: Anything Goes.

Summer Zest Apple Girl

The theme at Karen's Doodle's this week is Summer Zest. Cards are to feature the colors of summer; yellow, orange, lime green and a touch of blue.

I chose Apple Girl because it's one of the few not Christmas/Winter images I have that would work for this challenge. The backing papers are DCWV, MS embroidered floral punch, ribbons from Joann's, flowers from AC Moore and the sentiment from Cricut. Colored with Promarkers.

Shadowbox Christmas Card

The other day I saw a beautiful The Nutcracker themed shadowbox card done by a member of Mo's Digital Pencil DT team and wanted to make one just like it. Since copying is a no-no, and I want to enter challenges, I had to come up with my own idea.

I've never made one of these before, but they are similar to the recessed window cards that I like, so it wasn't hard to do. You actually have much more room to work with in the shadowbox card than with the window cards. The only drawback for me is that I don't like how the top and bottom are just left open. Unfortunately if you want it to be flat for mailing you can't really cover it with a box top type of doohickey.


Anyway, on to the details. I made this with a few challenges in mind, one being Karen's Doodles #22 Anything Goes.
I've used two images by Karen's Doodles, Santa Waving and Bigsby Cookies.

The next challenge is Digital Tuesday Challenge #70, 2 Companies, 1 card.
For this you mixed more than one company's digital images. That would be the Karen's Doodles as company 1 and the fireplace and little girl on the sofa from Stitchy Bear Stamps as Company 2.
The couch is paper pieced, while everything else has been colored with Promarkers, Copic Spica Atyous and stickles.

The third challenge is at OSAAT and is a sketch OR use pink somewhere on the project. I chose to use pink for the pajamas and the pink snowflake embellie.

The last challenge is at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #70 Out of this World. I'm counting on Santa as being something "Out of this World" to qualify for this challenge.

I should mention that the tree is a rubber stamp (Rubber Hedgehog) that I stamped and scanned so that I could re-size it. I've been doing this quite a bit lately with some of my rubber stamps. The convenience of sizing digital stamps has spoiled me, so I stamp and scan some rubber stamps for the same advantage. Of course, I do not try to profit from stamps I use in this method, so I hope it's not too big of a no-no.

Bigsby's table is from Cricut French Manor cartridge, the nestie svg shape is from Penny Duncan Creations. DP is DCWV and the sentiment and snowflakes are from K&Co.

This was a lot of fun to make, and I can see myself making a few more of these in the near future.

Karen's Doodles CDAC3 - Sketch Challenge

Here's a card I created for the Crafter's Digital Arts Center sketch challenge hosted by Karen's Doodles. Karen has also provided the free digital stamp of this cute kitty to use in the challenge. I wanted to make my card tall, so all the elements are kind of cramped, but they're in there! I think when it comes to coloring animals I prefer to use my pencils; for whatever reason I just do better with them. However, I tried to color this cat with my markers and he just came out bland. Ah well, a learning experience. The papers are K&C and DCWV, and the sentiment is computer generated.

Emma Bear in her Winter Wonderland

Today I have a card that I've made to fit the requirements of three challenges. The digital stamp I have used is Emma Snow Scene from Karen's Doodles. As it happens, one of the challenges is from Karen's challenge blog. The challenge is to make your card all white, except for the image, which can be colored.

The next challenge is from Winter Wonderland. For this challenge there is a sketch to follow. The sketch involved several circles. Since patterned papers were pretty much out, I had to go with some texture. I've used the Cuttlebug snowflakes and Sizzix dots folders.

The third challenge is from Christmas Stamping All Year Long. The requirement for this challenge is to include some buttons and bows. I've added a few buttons to the circle cutout and a bow in the upper left corner. I also used the same ribbon around one of the circles.

Emma was colored with Promarkers, Prisma color pencils and stickles. The sentiment was computer generated, then ruffed up a little so it would stand out a bit. The background snowflake frame svg is by Monica's Creative Room.

Karen's Doodles #20 Sketch

I'm still kicking myself for missing the deadline for challenge #19. I had another recessed window card to show, but I was a few hours too late. Oh well, I'll save it for another challenge...

This card is for Challenge #20 at Karen's US Challenge blog.
Today I've made sure I'm not going to miss out! I got to work right away on this card that features Karen's First Taste of Snow Stamp. What a fun image this is, and what a cutie the little girl is. I'm undecided on whether to add a "Let it Snow" sentiment, so it's unnamed for now!

Colored with Promarkers and backed with DCWV Christmas stack. I've stickled her coat, boots and flakes, but I don't think they show up too well in the picture. Some snowflake brads and MS snowflake punches embellish the card, with added gems and pearls. The rickrack is a glittered type, too, though again, not showing well.

ETA 7/26/2010: Yay! This card won for the challenge it was entered in, 3 free digis from Karen's Doodles.