Digital collage tag

This is my first ever attempt at creating a digital collage. Retro Cafe Art Gallery have a fantastic Las Vegas themed freebie up on offer at the moment. To enter simply download the free collage sheet and use it through any medium you like and then post a picture of your creation on their FB wall. Simple and fun!

I created my tag in Photoshop and used some vintage splatter brushes to age it up a bit. I then cropped out parts of the collage sheet and applied them to the tag. I am not the best at Photoshop but I am happy enough with this for my first attempt at a digital collage!

Birthday Time!

This week at Sentimental Sundays our theme is Birthday – use embellishments that begin with B! We are kindly sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps….

The design team got images to play with – lucky us I picked out the adorable Birthday Penguin with cupcake for on my card. He is holding balloons to fit the B theme and I added a double bow and a button too. I added glossy accents to the balloons to make them look dimensional and also some stickles for sparkle on my cupcake. I also added glossy accents to the polka dots on the cupcake wrapper and to the penguins beak.

Thanks for stopping by, and make sure to check out the rest of the DT’s adorable work!

Chipboard!

This week at Paper Play Challenges the theme is Chipboard – use chipboard on your project. We are kindly sponsored by Crafty Cutting. It is not actually my turn to play along with the design team this week, but I had this adorable mini album from Crafty Cutting so I just couldn’t resist!

I painted it pink and used some old Basic Grey papers to decorate it with, along with some flowers and embellishments. I have yet to add a title on it however. I covered the inside pages in a similar manner matting the BG papers in the centre. I also added some tags and extra non chipboard pages too. Very cleverly I forgot to take more pictures though :/

Make sure to check out the rest of the design teams creations, I love all the variety you can get with chipboard!

For a special Woman….

This week at Sentimental Sundays our theme is For a Special Woman (Mother’s Day). Make a card for a special woman in your life and make sure it has a sentiment on it! We are sponsored this week by Di’s Digi Downloads.

I kept my card very monochrome – I used an image I got in a stamped image swap and I thought it worked best with a black and white theme.

Make sure to check out the rest of the design teams creations, as always they are amazing!

Scribbles by Sandy Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Scribbles by Sandy Blogversary Lolla Polooza Hop!!!

We are celebrating one year in blog land for Scribbles by Sandy by having an ANYTHING GOES or also known as LOLLA POLOOZA hop!

You should have arrived here from Tameko Mays blog – http://www.creatingmypeace.com If you didn’t arrive from her blog and would like to start at the beginning, please go to the Blogversary post here.

I used a yet to be released image from Scribbles by Sandy, an adorable sunflower image….

I coloured it with my Inktense pencils and tied my papers and flowers into the colours of the sunflowers!

Your next stop on the hop is ** Cely Havens http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.ca **

 If you should happen to get lost along the way, you can find the blog hop list over at scribblesbysandy.blogspot.com. Oh and it wouldn’t be a blog hop without a prize would it?

One lucky winner will receive 4 digital images including the (surprise) extras from Scribbles by Sandy. Make sure to comment on the Scribbles by Sandy blog to be in with the chance to win! The hop ends on Sunday, May 6^th at midnight PST. The winner will be announced on scribblesbysandy.blogspot.com blog on Monday, May 7th. So, join us in the Blogversary Lolla Polooza celebration, have fun & good luck!

Pins and pearls!

This week at Paper Play Challenges we want to see you use your stamps with Pins & Pearls! Create a card/LO/Project that uses a stamped image/sentiment with some pins and pearls.

We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp this week:

(Please note: This is a voucher code that entitles the winner to a $15 saving off their order in Simon Says Stamp,  P+P charges will still apply unless the conditions are met to earn free P+P,  please check here if you would like to see these conditions)

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This was a tough challenge for me as I dont tend to use pearls much, and I have never used pins on a project before either. So first I had to figure out how to make a decorative stick pin. On my card I part cut out the butterflies on the DP so that their wings pop up from the card. I added blue pearls onto the butterflies bodies. I stamped my sentiment and a frame around it and added it with foam squares. I put my stick pin in behind it and called it done!

Make sure to head over to the blog and check out the rest of the DT’s work – they are fantastic, they really show you how pearls and pins are done!!

Cards For Kids….

Our challenge this week at Sentimental Sundays is to create ‘Cards for Kids’, and make sure to include a sentiment! We are sponsored by Digital Delights by Louby Lou. They kindly provided the design team with images and I used this super cute Humpty Dumpty image for my card. I embossed some Core’dinations to make it look like he was sitting on a wall and inked up a sky behind him. I hope he doesn’t fall!!

Make sure you check out the rest of the DT’s fantastic creations and then share your work with us too!!