Being Together

If you're a horse lover, then you are going to love Marvelous Monday at Shelly's Images. Today's featured image, Being Together, is on sale, today only, in Shelly's Store! Saddle up and trot on over to Shelly's store and pick this beauty up for yourself. You'll be glad you did!

For my card today, I've used the fun sketches at Inspirational Card Sketches and Get Sketchy, for my layout.

Of course, the image, Being Together, is today's featured image at Shelly's Images. I've used a couple different mediums, this time, for coloring the image. First, I colored the image in with my oh so wonderful Promarkers. Then, I decided I wanted to add some distressing elements to the card, so I broke out my new, never used distressing kit by Making Memories. It comes with so many fun things that I still haven't used yet, but I did break out the edging tool for this project, as well as the chalks. The chalks came in green, tan and black. I edged the entire image in the green, very lightly. Next, I added the tan t the sky, and then used the black chalks to add some a shaded muffled cloudy look to the sky and between the slats of the fence. The distressing edger tool was used to distress the edges of the card base, and the matting on the image. I really like how it turned out, and it is sooooo much nicer to look at in person!

The woodgrain DP (Which you can't see much of, sorry) and the cowboy themed DP are scraps from my stash, as are the star shaped buttons. The buttons came from a western top my mom used to have. I save buttons off clothing when it gets thrown away. Go Green! I had purchased the metal ribbon slider brads and the leather cord at Hobby Lobby specifically for this project, and had intended to thread the cord through the ribbon slider brad. Things don't always work out they way we plan, though, do we? I found out that the cord was too thick to fit through the metal slider.... so I had to quickly come up with a plan B! What you see here, is Plan B! LOL! I had bought both of these for use on this card, and darn it, I was determined to make it happen! It looks different than it did in my head, but then, projects usually do once they roll around in my head and come spilling out onto paper!

I had so much fun making this project! I hope you'll enjoy looking at it.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:



Challenge #105 Sketch at Inspirational Card Sketches
ODBDSLC52 Use Leather or Pearls at Our Daily Bread
No Flowers at Creative Card Crew
Use Those Scraps at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #19 Male Card Using Brown and 3 Stars at Creatalicious
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Challenge #52 Punch Me Something Sweet (image) and Sassy (leather)
Challenge #112 Animals at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #89 Project/Card For A Male at Moving Along With The Times
SISC50 Holy Guacamole at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #41 Color at Paper Romance
Challenge #143 Best Friends at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #1 Layers at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #5 Wild West at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #63 Go Green (Recycled Buttons) at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #33 Use Green at Easy Craft Projects
GS #78 Sketch at Get Sketchy
Challenge #17 Go Green at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #16 Use Green at Delicious Doodles
Challenge #22 Memories at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #27 Men Only at Crafty Emma's
You Name The Challenge (Use Leather) at Stamping Vacation
March Pick 3 Green, Stars, Buttons) at Stamping Vacation
ASC Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Green at Card Cupids
Challenge #112 Buttons at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #85 For The Boys at Incy Wincy
CCH#58 Eyelets or Brads (ribbon slider brad) at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #14 1,2,3's (1 CS, 2 DP, 3 embelli's : buttons, cord, brad) at Happileigh Scrappin'
HSC2: Channeling Your Inner Movie Star (colors) at HotSpot

You And I ------- The Perfect Duet

Once again it is challenge time at Stamping With The Dragon. This round, the design team have some wonderful creations for you, using stamps from the Stitchy Bear Stamps store. If you haven't been to their store, you are really missing out! Stitchy Bear has images from tons of different designers, all in one place! You really need to hop on over there and do some shopping!

For my card, I used Duet, by Stitchy Bear herself. This image is so adorable. It reminds me of childhood and childhood sweethearts,and the song, "You and I." (Wish I could remember who sang that.. It was a duet, I think Crystal Gayle may have been the female of the duet). I decided to go with a simple look. I wanted to focus on the image, rather than overdo it with lots of embellishing. I colored the image with Promarkers, then sponged and distressed the image edges with brown ink. The musical background paper is from the new paper tablet by Tim Holtz. The gorgeous gold and metallic ribbon is from my stash.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Week #41 Use A Digi Stamp at Create4Fun
Week #73 Inspiration From A Song Title (You And I)
Challenge #104 Distressing at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #34 Use A Digi Stamp at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #3 All That Glitters (Glittery ribbon) at Gingerloft
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at Craftalicious
Challenge #66 Colors at A Crafty Little Place
Challenge #0030 Starts With G (girl image) at Other Lovelies
Challenge #16 Digi at Just Inspirational
Challenge #13 Coloring at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Challenge #25 Digi with favorite coloring method at Crafy Ann's
Challenge #63 Anything Goes at Paper Cutz

She's Been Framed!

Well, here we are, again. Challenge time at Craft Your Passion. This week,we are challenging you to use crumpled paper on your project. This was my first time trying this technique, and I have to admit--It was really fun! Of course, I won't admit how much ink I had all over me by the time I was done creating my project! We'd love for you to get out your paper, crumple it up, create something fabulous with it, and then join us in our Challenge. Come on over to Craft Your Passion and link up your new crumpled paper project! Just a reminder of the standard rules--No backlinking of projects, please. Your creation must be new, created on or after the challenge date, and before the challenge ends. Any backlinked projects will not be in the prize drawing. You don't want to miss out on your chance to win images of your choice from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps, so please please please don't backlink. We really don't like to have to exclude anyone from winning.

Now that the formalities are out of the way, here is my project for this week's crumpled paper challenge.

I've used an image by Lauretta's Digital Stamps, and created a frame with chipboard. I'm hanging this on the wall in my scraproom. (I plan to create another later, for use on another project!) The image is colored with Promarkers then cut out and mounted on crumpled paper that I distressed with ink. I used foam mounting tape to mount the image to the crumpled paper, to give it a 3D effect. The flower at the bottom is from Recollections. I used red stickles to highlight the flower and add sparkle and bling.

I am entering this frame in the following challenges:

What A Glamour Puss at Creative Craft Challenges
Bloomin Marvelous at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #14 Something For A Teenager at Crafts And Me
Challenge #42 Is It Black or Is It White at Fab N Funky
Challenge #24 Bling It On at The Creative Cottage
Week #71 Vintage at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #70 Fancy Floral at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #27 3D It at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #069 Grid (DP) at Treehouse Stamps
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle
Challenge #24 Anything But A Card
Challenge #8 Go Digital at Karber Weekly Challenge
Challenge #64 Anything Goes at Pollycraft
Challenge #62 Sparkly Glitter at Incy Wincy
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Open theme at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Anything But A Card at Whimsical Ink Sorority
Challenge #6 Get Ahead, Get A hat at Crafty Emma's
Vintage at Lots To Do
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up
Challenge #3 All That Glitters at Gingerloft

Fairies From The Dark Side and Challenge #6

It's time for a new challenge over at Stamping With The Dragon. This time, it's all about distressing. Hope on over to the challenge here, for challenge #6, and play along. You could win three digi's of your choice from our sponsor for this round... Lil Diva Stamps. She has some awesome images! You definitely don't want to miss out on your chance to win! While you're there, check out the wonderful photos of inspiration from the rest of our awesome Design Team!

This was my first attempt at distressing.... And Ive decided that I'm not very good at it! LOL I guess it's not bad for a first attempt, and hopefully I'll get better as I go along.


For the background, I used black Coordinations paper and then embossed it with the spots and dots cuttlebug folder, then distressed it with sandpaper so the pink core would show through. I also embossed another piece of the Coordinations with a flower pattered cuttlebug folder, and distressed that, as well. I bought the DP specifically for this card, but then once I started putting the card together, I wasn't sure I liked the paper LOL. I used a pink bow with pearl center as an embellishment.

The image is colored with Promarkers

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

2 Patterned Papers at Whimsical Ink Sorority
Challenge #22 Digi Madness at One Stitch At A Time (OSAAT)
GCA#97 Dry Embossing at Ann's Creative Nook
Cutie Patootie at Papertake Weekly
Think INK Challenge #25 Make Your Own Background at Arftul Inkables
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at Stamp With Sarah Kay
Week #61 Distressing at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #5 Circles at Papercraft Star
Challenge #28 Distressed at Raise The Bar
Challenge #7 Anything Goes at Miami Doodles
Challenge #19 Touchy Feely at The Creative Cottage
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #4 Digi Images at Just Inspirational Challenges