Bless Your Heart! Sketch Saturday #519

June 23, 2018

It's time for a new challenge at Sketch Saturday! 

 A Day For Daisies is back this week

to sponsor our challenge! 

The prize this week:
$12 A Day for Daisies gift certificate.

A Day for Daisies provides over 1000 digital illustrations and a fast growing line of new clear polymer stamps, designs for all occasions! Tammy draws all of the beautiful images herself, in her distinctive style.  The ADFD Blog hosts challenges and free digital images are a regular feature each month.  Hope you check out their current challenge too!

Here is sketch #519:

I was going through my stash of card stock and found this fun paper.  I fussy cut the woman and decided to use her for my main focal point.  All the papers on this card are from Authentique Fabulous paper pad.  The tag was cut using SSS Stitched Dress Up Tags. The sentiment is from W Plus 9 Southern Sentiments.  I used Very Vanilla card stock for the base card and the circle for the sentiment.   I added some black ink around the border.  A button and twine were added to the top of the tag.  

If you live in the South, this sentiment has more than one meaning!  LOL!  I love this set of sentiments!  

Thank you for stopping by my blog!  Don't forget to visit all the DT blogs for lots of inspiration!  We sure hope you will play along with us!  

HUGS!

Claire

You're So Tweet--- PP398 and SSC181

June 17, 2018

HAPPY Father's Day to all the Daddies, Fathers, Dads, Pops, and Grandpas!  It is a hard day for me because I miss my Daddy so much!  If you still have your Daddy, give him an extra hug today!

It's Sunday and time for new challenges at The Paper Players and Sunday Stamps!

It is not often I can combine these challenges but, this week it worked out perfectly!   I hope you will play along with both challenges! 

The amazing Jaydee  is our hostess at The Paper Players this week.  She has a fun Clean and Simple challenge for us: Birds.  

The bright, vibrant color combo at Sunday Stamps is perfect for any type of card.  So have fun and get creative!  

 
Use a minimum of 3 colors and a neutral of your choice.



                                           Challenge Rules: Paper Players Challenge

 1.  Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3.  Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL.
 Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification!

5.  All stamping products are welcome.
Have Fun!

Challenge Guidelines For Sunday Stamps:

• Feel free to use any brand of product you have. 
• The colors from this challenge MUST be the primary colors on your project.
• Please Link up a new project created for this challenge (no back links). 
• Feel free to combine our challenge with up to FOUR other challenges.
• We reserve the right to delete any links that do not adhere to challenge rules.
• Please provide a link to us or use the graphic above in your post. 
• Have Fun!!!

The challenge will end on Friday, June 29th @ 6pm EST. Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.  You won't be disappointed! 

It is Clean and Simple week, so I started with a white card base and cut another white layer with a stitched rectangle die.  A strip of black and white stripes from MFT was added on the side of the panel.  I cut a SU Berry Blast card stock starburst using a retired SU die.  The Happy Birthday die from MFT was cut in Lemon Lime card stock. I used distress ink on the circle to make it look like the sky.  The little bird is from Clearly Besotted -Some Birdie Loves You.  I colored her with Copic Markers and added a few music notes for fun!  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.  Wink of Stella and a white gel pen was used on the eye.  

Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.  You won't be disappointed! 

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater (me)

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Annie Abrahamson

Elizabeth Stewart 

Jan Clothier

                                             Sunday Stamps Design Team

Amy Koenders

Annette Elliott

Claire Broadwater (me)

Heidi Baks

Heather Heroldt

Lisa Johansen

Melissa Grant

Monika Reeck

Teresa Kline

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

HUGS!

Claire

Happy Father's Day

June 16, 2018

Today I am playing along with three challenges that are all thinking about Dads/Father's Day.  It is still very difficult for me to make a card for Father's Day.  I miss my Daddy so much and it still hurts.  I did make a card for my Sweetie.  He is the BEST Papa in the whole world.  He is like my dad in his love of the newspaper, so this image was perfect for my card!


Cardz For Guyz #196  Father's Day

Cards In Envy   Let's Hear It For The Boys

Always Fun Challenge  #62  For a Male/Dad

I want to give a BIG shout out to my special friend, Lisa Johansen a.k.a. Snowy Moose Creations for sending this fabulous image to me.  She knows I love Pure Innocence stamps by My Favorite Things.  I didn't own this one and she stamped a few images for me and sent them to me (all the way from Alaska)!  What a great surprise when I opened my mail and found them!  THANK YOU, My Friend!  

I also combined the MFT stamp set Our Story and the matching dies to complete the room decor.  I used some scraps I found in my stash for the background and colored the images with Copic Markers. The sentiment is from Your Next Stamp For The Boys.  
Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents were used for shine.  

Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Have a great weekend!

HUGS!

Claire