Craft Your Passion & NEW RELEASE at Michelle Perkett Studio!

Good morning.  I love getting out my Greeting Farm stamps and playing with them, they totally make me feel like a little kid playing with my paper dolls.  Which I loved.  LOL  So today's card is for the:

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Anything Goes

I colored Harlow with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits and added some glitter to her eyeshadow.  That gorgeous DP is from My Mind's Eye - the only "con" to this paper is that it's not double-sided, but I can easily overlook that with how awesome it all coordinates and all the great ways it can be used.  Off to color some more!  

*NEW RELEASE * NEW RELEASE * NEW RELEASE*

Michelle Perkett's new digital stamp set "Angel Collection" will be released tomorrow and will be available at her Etsy shop in the afternoon! They are called Love, Inspiration, Faith and Peace - and they are just gorgeous, see:

We will be having a release party tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. EST at the Michelle Perkett Studio PaperCraft Planet group - how fun is that?  We will have fun, games and freebies to kick off the week long celebration of daily challenges and on Saturday the 18th we will have another fun party and would love for you to join us for the festivities in honor of the new digital stamp collection!

We will be having fun "angelic" themed challenges every day this coming week and will finish up the week with another fun Party next Saturday at the same time (noon PST /3:00 p.m. EST)!  There will be more freebies for that party too, so don't miss out! Hope to see you there!  :)

Peace.

Digi Darla & Totally Stampalicious

What are you all up to this weekend?  We're expecting rain and thunder storms and stuff, so you will most likely find me inside.  LOL  We are hoping to get to California for a few weeks to visit Jeremy's mom in July/August.  I have never been in the Summer, and would LOVE to do a few beach days with the kids.  Man, I love California - I can't wait to go back.  :)

I made today's card for the following challenges:

Digi Darla Challenge - Something Blue

and

Totally Stampalicious - Use 3 Different Ribbons

 I colored this sweet Digi Darla image with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits.  Cardstock,, DP, and brads from SU!  Ribbon pieces are from my stash.

Have a great weekend!  Peace.

D2D

Today's card uses the freebie from Designed2Delight that Faith always posts the first Friday of each month.  If you play along with the challenge, you get another freebie each week.  She's so generous, and I always love her artwork.  So here's my card for the:

Delightful Inspiration Stamp of the Month Challenge

I colored the Garden Fence image with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits and Stampin' Up! markers.  Cardstock, DP and pink ribbon from SU!  Buttons & purple ribbon from my stash.

I am thankful for random friends I make through this wonderful hobby of mine, you all bring a ray of sunshine into my life.

Peace.

DYSU & Stamp Something

I've been creating stuff like a maniac for my staff position at Scrapbook News & Review magazine -  you should definitely get a subscription to this awesome online magazine, it's FULL of inspiration.  Also - you have one more week to submit something for the July calls, which you can see here.

I loved making this card for the following challenges:
 

Do You Stack Up Challenge - Orange

and

Stamp Something - Use a Digi Image

I used the gorgeous "butterfly create" stamp from Michelle Perkett Studio, colored with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits.  Cardstock, gemstone & flower brads, and glitter from SU!  Flowers from Prima, DP from My Mind's Eye.

Peace.

Michelle Perkett Father's Day Challenge

Time for another Tuesday challenge at Michelle Perkett Studio!  This time, our theme is Father's Day with BROWN/NEUTRAL colors.  Here's what I came up with:

I used the adorable Cal the California Surfing Cow image from Michelle's Etsy Shop here, colored with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits, and Prismacolor markers.  Cardstock, DP, and giant brown brads by SU!

And then I made one more card using the same image but in bright, summery colors:

I hope you'll join us and play along this week with your new creation using one of Michelle's images!

Peace.

Diva & Flower Girl

I have 2 sweet cards to share with you today, the first is for the Tiddly Inks Challenge #51 - Darling Diva and also for the Creative Card Crew Challenge - For a Diva

 The inside of the card:

I used Blow Me Away from the Tiddly Inks shop, colored with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits and Prismacolor markers.  I fussy cut her out, and mounted onto SU! cardstock and DP. Germstone brads also from SU!  Buttons from foof-a-la.

This next card is for the following challenges:

All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Flutterby Wednesday - Open Challenge (must use fairy, angel or butterfly)

Card Makin' Mamas - Use Your Scraps
 

And this is my bag of scraps that I chose from:

And the result:

I colored Heidi among the Flowers and colored her with Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits and SU! markers.  Cardstock, DP, buttons, rub-on sentiment and ribbon all from SU!  I had this piece of yellow DP in my stash after I had cut a circle from it, so I used it as a frame for the image.  I love the way it came out and it's so nice to have a reason to use up some scraps!

Peace.

TGF Fairy Tale Card

The Greeting Farm is having a royal contest that you can read all about here.  The first step is to make a card using TGF characters inspired by a fairy tale or princes/princesses.  I knew right away that I wanted to go the fairy tale route, and here is what I came up with:

  

Yes, it took forever to make.  LOL  But it was sooooo much fun!  I incorporated 3 different fairy tales into my card - can you tell which ones?  ;)  I merged a couple of background images from Make It Crafty so that the "hilly lane" image had a rainbow behind it.  I used a castle stamp from Stampin' Up! to turn into the "Emerald Castle" - I found the wolf image online when I searched google for "big bad wolf images".  Cheshire cat colored image in tree is from Tiddly Inks.  Queen of Hearts image is from Dilly Beans.  Cardstock is from SU!  I cut the sun out of a piece of Summer Sun cardstock.  Images are colored with a combination of Prismacolor pencils & mineral spirits, as well as SU! and Prismacolor markers.

I am also entering this into the:

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Playing in the Summer Sun

Hope you are all having a good weekend.  Peace.