Congrats

Hello from the design team  at the Brown Sugar Challenge. The theme this week is   Celebrations  and our sponsor this week is Store - bugaboostamps.com love love love her graphics love her new website

I love this image ... she is just so adorable.  The colors represent the school colors that this will be used for.   I used colored pencils and blended using Vaseline.  I also used silver glitter stickles to outline the graduation garb and the stars.  The frame was hand cut and then I ran it through my cuttlebug with a polka dot folder.
So sweet and so much fun

I hope you have fun playing along.






Thanks for stopping by ...

Have a great day.
Dawn.

Whoot whoot

WHOOT WHOOT !!! 

We busted buttttt and worked all weekend ... and I'm back in my room !!

I can finally unwrap the packaging of my Mom's Day goodies ....

  yeeeeee haaaa

new inks ... new stamps ... new cartridges

Time to get cracking and catch up 

Getting it back together ........

Ever so slowly.
We've had some major construction going on in the house that had bedroom furniture stuffed into my craft room for a few weeks (at the mercy of the workers -- 2 weeks 2 weeks ... actually there is no meaning to the term 2 weeks).   All I could do is open the door ... entry is not an option - getting supplies not an option.

Then the flu ... 

It's been intense to say the least ... but I think I can actually see a ray of sunshine.
Hoping to get it all back together

Mom's the Word

Hello from the design team  at the Brown Sugar Challenge. The theme this week is   Mother's Day  and our sponsor this week is Store - http://www.artstampsstore.com/

I made this card for a very special person (who is expecting) but no one know (yet).    I started with the image on white cs where I colored by blending colored pencils.  Using green cs, I cut the letters with my cricut using the Lyrical Letters Cartridge. I adhered it all onto the same color cs base in green and ran faux stitching with a white gel pen.

I hope you have fun playing along.






Thanks for stopping by ...

Have a great day.
Dawn.

Koi for you.

This is my team submission for this weeks challenge at Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesday.  The theme this week is to make an oval or round card.



For this card, I started with black card stock and I cut the two ovals using a large oval die.  I then cut two small rectangle pieces to make a hinge on the top (inside).

I cut the Koi using multiple pieces of cs (pink, salmon, black and yellow) with my cricut using the Art Nouveau cartridge.

The sentiment was stamped with a Hampton Arts rubber set using hot pink embossing powder.
I ran faux stitching around the edge with a hot pink gel pen.

The inside of the card I cut 2 ovals in the next size down in the die set to glue over the exposed hinges and for writing.
To my surprise, this card fits perfectly into an A2 envelope.




Thank you for stopping by.  I'm still on vacation, but I had these all ready to go for you.

Wishing you a fantastic day and thank you for stopping by!  Feel free to comment  - I would love to hear from you.


Dawn.

Friends are flowers

Hello from the design team  at the Brown Sugar Challenge.  The theme this week is USE A DIE CUT and our sponsor this week is Digital Paper Craft

For this card, I started with the image on white cs where I colored by blending colored pencils.  Using green cs, I printed the sentiment in an offset arc and then using an oval die set, I cut a hole for the inage.    I used a MS edge punch.  I adhered this all onto darker blue cs ... I set it all asymmetrical and added the paperflowers.

I hope you have fun playing along.






Thanks for stopping by ...

Have a great day.
Dawn.

Sun Rays

        This is my deesign team card for Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesdays - what a fun sketch (shown below) and to go with that there is a theme of 'a ray of sunshine'.  That is exactly what I am headed for too ... the Bahamas .... and pure sunshine and a well needed vacation ....  yea buddy !!


For this card I started with watercolor paper and water colored the rays from the corner.  I cut the short paper rays from orange cs with my Cricut and the Accent Essentials cartridge.  I hand punched the circle in a lighter shade of yellow cs.
The stamped clouds are from a stamp set from Neat and Tangled and I stamped them with Spiced Marmalade and  Scattered Straw and fussy cut them from the white cs and used dimensional squares to pop one over the other.
The sentiment comes from the same stamp set and I used Spiced Marmalade with clear embossing powder.






Here is the sketch for this week at Try Stamping (or not) on Tuesday.

Thank you for stopping by ... please feel free to comment.  I would love to hear from you

Have a fantastic day

Dawn