Swimming By To Say Hi

I'm swimming by to say hi, today, because it's time for Marvelous Monday at Shelly's Images!

Since we've just celebrated Father's Day, I've been creating a lot of male inspired cards, lately! I have another fun masculine card for you today, using today's featured image, called bad Day Fishing. You can get this fun image today only, for a special price, in Shelly's Store

This image reminds me of going fishing with my dad when I was younger. I remember one time, I went to cast my line into the water and got it hooked in my hair! Poor dad had to sit and untangle it! The things we put our dads (And moms!) through! LOL


My card layout follows the sketch at Ellephantastic. I'm using the Bad Day Fishing and the Hook Line and Sinker images, from Shelly's Images. The images are colored with Promarkers. I cut out the Hook Line and Sinker three times, to use as an embellishment for the bottom left corner in the matted image. I used foam mounting tape to attach them, so they have the 3D effect of fish jumping out of the water. The cute fish ticket says "Swimming By To Say Hi" and is from When The Scrap Hits The Fun. I added hand dyed dew drops above the fishy ticket, to simulate bubbles. The green patterned paper is a digi paper from Bearly Mine Designs. The other patterned papers are scraps from my stash. I used a Clearstar Gelly Roll pen to add some sparkle to the water in the image.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #56 One For The Boys at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #41 Inspired By A Song (Fishing In The Dark) at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #28 Card For A Boy Or Man at Mami Doodles
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Hooked On Crafts
Dad and Lads at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #38 Open at Top Tip Tuesday
Challenge #51 Put A Little Song In Your Heart (Fishing In The Dark) at Fresh Brewed Designs
June Sketch Challenge at Ellephantastic
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Deep Ocean
Challenge #38 Mixed Alpha's (Two Types of Text on Fish Ticket) at The Paper Variety
Challenge #103 Inspired By A Song (Fishing In The Dark) at Moving Along With The Times
Summer Fun at AI Factory
Challenge #117 For The Boys at Dutch Dare
Challenge #61 Summer at Alota Rubber Stamps
Favorite Things (dewdrops) at Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #10 Masculine at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #12 Animal Magic at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #77 Sparkle and Shine at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #83 For The Men at If The Shoe Fits... Scrap It!
Under The Sea (Fish) At Cardmadfairy's Digi Day Challenge
Challenge #12 Anything Goes (used a square of their digi paper) at Bearly Mine Challenges
Challenge #1 For The Men at Paper Creator's Crafts
Sparkle Power at Fairy Knoll
It's A Man's World at Catch The Bug
Challenge #9 Cards For Men at Little Claire's
Challenge #44 For A Guy at 2 Sisters
Anything Goes at Mygrafico
Challenge #116 Fun In The Sun at Stamptacular Sunday
Sparkly or Summery at Sentimental Sundays
Summer at Crafty Ann's
Something Old (Paper Scraps), Something New (Fish Ticket) at Totally Stampalicious
Masculine and No Flowers at Stamp-n-Doodle

Come and Get Your Sketch On!

Are ya feeling Sketchy? Are ya? Are ya? If you are, then come on over and play! It's sketch time at Craft Your Passion, this week!! You could win an image of your choice from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps.


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We now interrupt this challenge post, with important new information!

Okay, now that I have your attention, I wanted to remind all of you that Craft Your Passion will be having tons of awesome sponsors, starting in 2011! And, our anything goes challenges (The first week of the month) will have multiple prizes and multiple sponsors! This means multiple chances for you to win! Whoo Hoo!!! You are definitely going to want to become a follower and play along so you don't miss out! There are big things coming to Craft Your Passion in 2011!

The first week of December, we will be having one sponsor join us, just to give you a taste of what 2011 will bring!

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We now return you to our regularly scheduled challenge post, already in progress:


Here is this week's sketch, at Craft Your Passion:




What a fun and simple sketch! You really should jump on over to Craft Your Passion and play along with us!


Here is my DT card for this week's sketch challenge.





The sketch was so much fun to work with, and I love this image! My card also fits the sketches at The Pixie Cottage, Sparkle Dreams, Fairy Moon Crafts, and Truly Scrumptious. I used this fun new snowman image from CocoDingo. The image is colored with Promarkers. All three papers are from my stash. The ornament paper behind the snowman is glittered and embossed, for sparkle and texture. I also used a clearstar gelly roll pen on the snow and snowman, to give extra sparkle. This gorgeous new metallic gold ribbon trim is from the craft department at Walmart. I've printed and cut out this fantastic digi Christmas ticket by Miss Cutie Pie, punched a hole in it with my Big Bite and mounted it to the card with foam mounting tape, for dimension. The scalloped circle is punched using a 3" punch from EK Success. This card is for my favorite aunt, Judy, for Christmas.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #6 Inspired By Christmas at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #41 Snowmen at I Love ProMarkers
Sparkle at Simon Says Stamp
H Is For Holidays at The ABC Challenge
Challenge #76 Glitter at The Treehouse
Challenge #87 Winter Woodland at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #23 Show Off Your Style at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #17 Glitter at Crafts And Me
Challenge #45 Sketch at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #34 Sparkle & Shine at Meljen's Designs
Challenge #45 Sketch at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #27 Someone Special at Christmas at The Creative Cottage
Challenge #47 Christmas Colors at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #58 Let It Snow at Whimsie Doodles
Challenge #34 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Week #46 Let It Snow at Paper Play
Challenge #18 Embossing (Ornament DP) at Sarah Hurley
Challenge #6 Your Favorite Color at Southern Girls
Challenge #25 Favorite Things (tickets & glitter) at Paper Romance
Challenge #4 Anything Goes at The Hodge Podge Shop
Challenge #12 Christmas at Really reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #7 Tis The Season at Stamp and Create
Thoughtful Thursday 0035 Starts With L (Lantern) at Other Lovelies
Challenge #43 Snow & Snowflakes at Totally Papercrafts
FF#55 Tickle Me With Tinsel at If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #51 Winter at Stampin' For The Weekend
Challene #14 Winter Snowflakes at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #26 Snow at Easy Craft Projects
Challenge #2 Sketch at Sparkle Dreams
Challenge #10 Holidays at Card Makin Mamas
C4C64 Circle at Crazy 4 Challenges
Challenge #30 Circles at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #40 Season at One Stich At A Time
Merry Christmas at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #46 Winter Means at Pile It On
Challenge #6 The Great Outdoors at Gingerloft
Challenge #98 Red & Green at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #27 Traditional Christmas Colors at Lexi's Creations
SISC36 Sketch at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #27 Colorful at Pear Tree Designs
Challenge #24 Christmas Cards at Cards For Men
Week #32 Winter Wonderland at Scrap It With A Song
Challenge #37 Sketch at Fairymoon Crafts
Challenge #15 Two or More PP + Digi at Karber Weekly Challenges
Challenge #9 Sparkles & Scallops at Stamps R Us
Holidays at Whoopsi Daisy