Come Play In The Duck Pond

Yay! It's Monday! We have a new featured image for you, today, at Shelly's Images! Just look at this gorgeous image, called "Duck Pond," from Shelly's Images! Perfect for a male card. I used this one for a quick Father's Day card. The image is so easy to color. I had a blast creating with it!

Hop on over and check out the wonderful creations by the design team.


Remember, "Duck Pond" is available for a special price, today only, in the Shelly's Images Store. Hurry over and pick it up for yourself, while its at the special price!


Today, I've created a simple masculine card. The image is colored with Promarkers. I've used the sketch at Dude Time Doodles, for my card layout. Both designer papers are from my stash. I've used these cool skeleton leaves, from Pizzazz Aplenty, behind the two corners of the image. I made faux flower soft and used it to add texture to some of the feathers on the duck, as well as the cattails and some of the grass. (Check out the tutorial on making your own flower soft tomorrow at Shelly's Images, for Tutorial Tuesday!) The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You and is punched with oval and scalloped oval punches by Stampin Up. I attached the sentiment with foam mounting tape, for dimension.



I'm entering this card in the following challenges:


Sketch at Dude Time Doodles
Challenge #41 Inspired By A Song (The River) at Lollipop Crafts
Week #22 Summer Citrus Splash at Paper Play
Challenge #29 Card For A Male at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #21 Special Man at Craft your Days Away
Father's Day/For A Male at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #54 Here Comes Summer at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Take A Dip at Whimsie Doodles
Challenge #38 Man's World at Scrapbook Sisters
Challenge #16 Glad for Dad at The Paper Shelter
Manly at Some Odd Girl
Things of Beauty at The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #11 It's All About The Boys at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Paper Crafting Journey
Card For A Man Or Boy at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #39 For Dad at Easy Craft Projects
Challenge #28 Texture at Delicious Doodles
Challenge #45 It's All About You, Dad at Simply Create
Challenge # Father's Day at Here Come The Boys
Challenge #42 Summer at Sarah Hurley
June Digi Day at Stamp Something
Challenge #134 Texture at One stop Crafts
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
What's On Your Desk at Stamp, Scrap, & Doodle
Challenge #119 Summer Colors at Corrosive
Challenge #61 Father's Day or Card For Dad at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #54 Summer Fun at Prairie Fairy
Masculine at Magical Monday
Challenge #30 Masculine Cards at Woodware USA
Challenge #7 Masculine at Bows and Berries

You're A Star!

It's Friday, and time for another new release day, at Digi's With Attitude! Today, there are two new releases in the Digi's With Attitude! store! Today, we bring you Movie Star Tween and Fortune Teller Tween! Once you see what my awesome fellow DT members have done with these images, you're going to want to have them for your very own!

Not only is it new release day, but It's also time for a new challenge! We had so many gorgeous entries in our Asian challenge. Now, lets see Who's A Star In Your Life! That's right! We want to see at least one star on your project! Get creative, and show us your awesome talent!

Get out your ink and start creating, then link up your fabulous creation at Digi's With Attitude! for your chance to win! There are great prizes and big honors to be won! Digi's With Attitude! is giving away a $10 gift certificate to their fantastic store! (If you haven't seen it, yet, Hurry over and check it out!) Fabulous color projects are being added to the images, for some wonderful inspiration!) You'll also be entered for a chance at being named Honorable Mention and/or Card of the Month!

If that's not enough, we have a fabulous sponsor this week, thanks to the generosity of Stitchy, from the Stitchy Bear Stamps Store! Stitchy is giving one winner a $10 Gift certficate to her shop!

Fabulous prizes up for grabs this week, so be sure you link up your creation with us, this week, at Digi's With Attitude! Don't miss out on your chance to win!

For my project, I am using one of today's new releases, Movie Star Tween, by
Digi's With Attitude! This little beauty is colored with Promarkers and enhanced with glitter for that extra star appeal. My card uses the sketch at Stamping Vacation for the layout. The papers are both from my stash. The black paper is texturized and embossed with a weird pattern and then highlighted with silver glitter. It almost feels like paper towels or tissue paper that has been clumped up, watersoaked and redried. It have a very cool texture! (Yes I just admitted that it's cool to soak down paper, clump it up, let it dry, and play with it! Guess I know why I loved to throw things in a tub full of water as a kid!) It seemed to match perfectly with this funky pink and black zebra paper! I wanted to go Monochromatic in a strange way, which is why I chose black as my neutral color. This gorgeous black lace is from Pizzazz Aplenty, as are these fabulous silver flatback pearls (in the upper left corner - Hard to see because of the watermark, sorry). The stick pin is a simple one, made by me. I wanted to incorporate metal and lace, but not have anything to gaudy so the attention would focus on the image. The ribbon and bow with pearl are all from my stash. I punched the stars with punches by Creative Memories. The image and stars are mounted with foam mounting tape for extra 3D effect.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Sketch Therapy at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #42 Time To Rock The Metal at Simple Create
Challenge #58 Digi Day at Creative Inspirations
Use A Punch At Card Cupids
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #52 Let's Get Punchy at Sentimental Sunday
Challenge #77 Bling It On at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #25 Metal and Lace at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #108 Pile It On! (5 layers) at Stamptacular Sunday
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Recipe Challenge (1 Image, 2 printed Papers and 3 embellishments – bow, silver pearls and metal stick pin) at I Did It Creations
Challenge #44 Digi Monday - Friend - at Paper Playtime
Challenge #149 A Right Royal Knees Up (Posh Gown) at A Spoon Full of Sugar
Challenge #25 Fashion at Ladybug Crafts
PTT#13 Anything Goes at party Time Tuesdays
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #7 Use A Digital Stamp at Amber's Crafts
Challenge #56 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #70 Monochromatic (Pink) at Sassy Studio Designs
Day 60 Sparkle And Shine (Black paper) at 365 Cards
Challenge #89 Anything Goes at Paper Cutz
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #96 Anything Goes at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #9 Bling at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #8 Punches or Diecuts at Little Miss Muffet
Challenge #53 Use A Die or Punch at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #53 Glitter, Glamour, Glitz at Phindy's Place
Challenge #23 Teenagers at Delicious Doodles
Have You Tried (Ribbon Over Lace) at Stamping Vacation

Craft Your Passion-Anything Goes-Card #2

As mentioned in my previous post, at Craft Your Passion this week, our theme is "Anything Goes," and we have three awesome sponsors for you, today!We are being sponsored by the wonderful Judy, from Pizazz Aplenty, and she's giving our winner a yummy package of goodies from her store! If you haven't checked out Pizazz Aplenty, you better rush over to their store and check it out! Judy has fast service, and wonderful prices! Our second sponsor is the fabulous Digi's With Attitude! If you have attitude or even just like attitude, these are the digi stamps for you! Cindy Lynn has created some fantastic images for us all to enjoy! The Grumpy Gretchen series is my favorite! If you haven't checked out her images, you really need to! They're awesome! Our third sponsor this week is Digi's By Phooka. Myriam has created lots of adorable images and they are just too cute for words! They are a newer digi company and could really use our support. Please jump on over to Myriam's store and check out her adorable digi stamps.

I decided to do two cards this week, one for each digi sponsor, so that I could make sure both companies had a project featured for each image they were nice enough to give our DT to work with.

For this post, I am showing you my card using this cute Hot Cocoa image from Digi's By Phooka.

I love this Hot Cocoa image. It is so adorable! Of course, it makes me think Winter, so I had to do a Winter themed card. We still have quite a bit of snow left on the ground, so it is perfect weather for a mug of Hot Cocoa. I colored the image with my Promarkers. The snowflake DP and striped DP are both from my stash. I used 4mm silver flatback pearls from Pizazz Aplenty for embellishing. I finished the card off with a small piece of silver snowflake trim, attached with mini glue dots.

Is this cute or what?!



I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #15 Embellishments at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #42 Snowflakes at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #91 Anything Goes at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Challenge #90 Winter Wonderland at The Pink Elephant
Anything Goes at Digistamps4Joy
"Ring" (Silver) In The New Year (Silver) at Paper Pretties
Challenge #55 Happy New Year (Silver) at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
New (silver pearls) at Stamp-n-Doodle
Challenge #6 Blue & Silver at The Hodge Podge Shop
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle at Character Cafe
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #36 Something New (silver pearls) at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #1 Brand Spankin' New (New silver pearls) at Pile It On
ASC32 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Free And Easy at Whoopsi Daisy

Give Me An Attitude, Because Anything Goes!

Whoo Hoo! It's 2011 and this is a super exciting day at Craft Your Passion! As you all hopefully know by now, our first challenge of the month is "Anything Goes" challenge! And we know how you all love those challenges! But, there is more big excitement....

For 2011, Passion will be having sponsors, so you will get chances to win awesome prizes from some fabulous companies like Aplenty, Letraset many more! Whoo Hoo! How awesome is that?!

Here is even more big news! Starting with this challenge, the first week of every month is our "Anything Goes" challenge, and these weeks will feature multiple sponsors! That's right! You will have a chance to win prizes from at least two companies, in our Anything Goes challenges! If you haven't yet become a follower, you might want to do that so that you don't miss out! We have some wonderful goodies lined up to give away!

This week, our theme is "Anything Goes," and we have three awesome sponsors for you, today!We are being sponsored by the wonderful Judy, from Pizazz Aplenty, and she's giving our winner a yummy package of goodies from her store! If you haven't checked out Pizazz Aplenty, you better rush over to their store and check it out! Judy has fast service, and wonderful prices! Our second sponsor is the fabulous Digi's With Attitude! If you have attitude or even just like attitude, these are the digi stamps for you! Cindy Lynn has created some fantastic images for us all to enjoy! The Grumpy Gretchen series is my favorite! If you haven't checked out her images, you really need to! They're awesome! Our third sponsor this week is Digi's By Phooka. Myriam has created lots of adorable images and they are just too cute for words! They are a newer digi company and could really use our support. Please jump on over to Myriam's store and take a look. If you love cutesy, these are right up your alley!

Now that I have rambled on for what seems like forever, and practically written a book, let me tell you about my card.

I have done two cards for this challenge, because I want to make sure all images that the sponsors provided to us, get some exposure. So, I've done one by Digi's By Phooka, and one from Digi's With Attitude, but will put them in separate posts.

This post, I am featuring my card with the Grumpy Gretchen Mechanic image, by Digi's With Attitude. I had so much fun creating with this image, and I couldn't help myself with the sentiment! LOL. I've colored Grumpy Gretchen with Promarkers. (she has some sparkle added, too, with my trusty clearstar gelly roll pen). The background paper reminds me of checkered flags, so I felt it was perfect for this image. I've used red Jezebel lace, and black Gabrielle lace from Pizzazz Aplenty. The 3mm clear rhinestones on her clothes and on the scalloped oval are also from Pizzazz Aplenty. I used black cardstock, and made lines to create a road, using a white primsacolor pencil. Then, I added a red button and a checkered flag button from the Start Your Engine series of Dress It Up Buttons. These are new- I bought them specifically to use on this card, because they are perfect for this image! The sentiment/quote is supposed to say, "If It Has Tires or Testicles, It's Going To Give You Trouble!. Unfortunately, I realized after I took the pic, that I made a typo. I have fixed it, but did not have time to take a new pic before my card went up. (Too much family stuff to day with the family yesterday and last night! Phew!) I punched the sentiment with the oval and scalloped oval punches, by Stampin Up, and attached it with foam mounting tape for dimension.


I made this card for my cousin who just broke up with her boyfriend and is making a "New beginning" by moving into her own place and being newly single again.


I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #61 Someone Special at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #10 Punch It Out at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #91 Anything Goes at Digital Tuesday
Anything Goes at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Challenge #15 Embellishments at Tip Top Tuesday
"Ring" (Gemstones) In The New Year at Paper Pretties
Anything Goes at Fairy Knoll
Challenge #55 Happy New Year (Silver Gemstones) at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #51 Pearls and Lace at Charisma Cardz
New (buttons) at Stamp-n-Doodle
SISC40 Sparkle at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Southern Girls
Something With Glitter at Stamp Something
Use A Quote (Mine has a typo in it, but you get the point) at Frosted Designs
Challenge #60 Red At If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #43 New Beginnings at Prairie Fairy
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle at Character Cafe
Challenge #112 New Beginnings at One Stop Craft Challenge
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #36 Something New (buttons) at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #11 New Beginnings (End of Relationship & Newly Single) at Quirky Crafts
Anything Goes Card Challenge at Creative Craft World
Sentimental at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #92 Photo Inspiration (colors: Red, White & Black) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #1 Brand Spankin' New (Card for someone Newly Single) at Pile It On
ASC32 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #4 Something New (Newly Single) at Creative Cowgirls
Challenge #46 Sketch at Critter Challenge
CCH#48 All Things New (Newly Single) at The Crazy Challenge
Free And Easy at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #2 New Things (car & flag buttons) at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #15 Something New (buttons) plus ribbon, lace or trim at Really Reasonable Ribbon
January Pick 3 (red Paper, Punch, Glitter) at Stamping Vacation