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Friday, July 29, 2016

August New Release with Little Blue Button!

This is my 2nd Post today!

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Hello sweet friends! 
Welcome to another Fun Friday! I hope you had a wonderful week and hopefully ready to get a jump start on gathering fun ideas and inspiration for all your crafty projects this weekend! With that being said, let's get right to it!!! 
New August Release
For my card today, I had the absolute pleasure of coloring up this awesome digital stamp, Compass! This is just one of the new stamps from August's new release. I really loved having the opportunity to work with this stamp because it is definitely not something I would have chosen to work with. It has definitely made me come out of my comfort zone a bit. So looking at this compass, I had two things in mind, create an art journal page with it or a masculine card. So due to time not being on my side this week, an art journal page was out. So a masculine card it is!!! So here is my card.......

 

I printed my image out on some Georgia Pacific cardstock and colored it using my Zig clean color real brush markers. Once the image was completely colored and dried, I took my white gel pen by Marvy and added some detailing. I added white dots, stripes and lines. I like that the image kinda pops with the white. I also took some silver texture gem from Faber Castell and drew the letters on the compass, "N", "E", "S", "W". It gave the letters a raised texture and once that dried, I took my black gel pen and wrote the letters again, then took the white gel pen and added dots to that. My initial thought was to make this look very masculine. So the colors I went with are, silver, gray, green, blue, black and white. Then I took a bit of vintage photo distress ink and added it around the image. I actually liked how it turned out and I do think it looks masculine enough. :)

So I cut down the image to a 3 by 3 square and adhered it to a piece of 3 1/4 by 3 1/4 piece of garden green cardstock from Stampin' Up. The image then got adhered to a piece of watercolored cardstock that I created. I used my Kuretake Gamsai Tambi watercolors to create the panel and finishing it by adding some splatters. I took that layer and adhered it to a piece of Night of Navy cardstock by Stampin' Up and then adhered that down to my cardbase. The sentiment is from my stash and that was stamped onto some GP cardstock and then adhered to the Night of Navy cardstock. Each were cut out using Lawn Fawn's stitched rectangles dies. To finish off my card, I added some black skittles that my friend Carri sells in her online store!. Well I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!


Please make sure to stop by the Little Blue Button Stamps Blog to see what my design team sisters have created for you using the Compass digi and the other new digital stamps from August's new release. If you want to purchase this stamp or any other stamp you may have been eyeing up, just go visit the LBBS Store.  Thank you so much for stopping by today and have a great weekend!!! 


 I would like to enter this in the following challenges:



FFC #149 "Anything Goes"


Hello sweet friends!
Welcome to another Fun~day Friday Challenge!! 


 This week's Challenge:
"Anything Goes"
Create a card, layout or project of your choice!

Our Sponsors this week are:
Little Blue Button Stamps
  The winner will win 4 digital stamps of their choice!
AND
Di's Digis
The winner will win a $12 voucher to the Di's Digis Store!
 So make sure to play along this week~


    Starts: Friday, July 29th   12:00AM

Ends:  Friday, Aug. 05th   6:00PM
(Eastern time)

I used the sweet image, Decorating Christmas Tree Regina by Little Blue Button Stamps  for my card today. I thought I might as well get a start on my Christmas cards early! So here is my card.

I printed the image out on some Georgia Pacific cardstock and colored it using some copic markers and some glitter gels. I really love how sparkly this image is in real life but for some reason, I couldn't get a good photo to show it. Trust me though, it is sparkling!  I then cut out my image using a spellbinders rectangle die. I popped up the image and adhered it to a piece of red holly paper from October Afternoon and then adhered that down to a piece of green cardstock base from my stash. The sentiment is from Cardz Tv and to finish it off, I added a few Christmas brads, again from October Afternoon. Hope you like!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments #160
Now let's see what the FFC Design Team has created for this Challenge:
TEAM B
Joyce 

AJ 





What do you need to do to enter?
Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,
using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements
Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)
Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.
You have until August 05th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.
All winners will be announced during the week of August 08th.
Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!
Until next time, enjoy life's blessings~
Thanks for stopping by!



Monday, July 25, 2016

Winners FFC #147 Announced~


Hi there friends...
We have the Top 3's and winners from Fun~day Friday
challenge #147! Are you one of them lucky ones???


Our TOP 3 winners from  FFC #147
 "321 Challenge":



                       #01----->  Valerija
                       #02----->  Art with Yogi
                       #06----->  Gerda


 And now our winner of the 3 digital stamps from:
Robyn's Fetish
 #02 Art with Yogi




All Winners & Top 3's Please email me at:
Joann6274 at gmail dot com!
You will have 2 weeks to claim your prizes!

  
Well my friends that is all I have for today. I hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by and until next time.... Enjoy life's blessings~
  


Friday, July 22, 2016

FFC #148 "Color Challenge" Use the colors 'Coral, Tan & Aqua'


Hello sweet friends!
Welcome to another Fun~day Friday Challenge!!

 This week's Challenge:

"Color Challenge"
Create a card, layout or project using these colors; Coral, Tan & Aqua! If you do not have these exact colors, please do your best to use similar colors in the same color families. 

Our Sponsor this week
Scrapper's Delights
  The winner will win 3 digital stamps of their choice!

 So make sure to play along this week~


    Starts: Friday, July 22nd  12:00AM

Ends:  Friday,   July 29th    6:00PM
(Eastern time)

Now let's see what the FFC Design Team has created for this Challenge:
Team A





What do you need to do to enter?
Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,
using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements
Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)
Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.
You have until July 29th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.
All winners will be announced during the week of August 01st.
Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!
Until next time, enjoy life's blessings~
Thanks for stopping by!



Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Winners FFC #146 announced~


Hi there friends...
We have the Top 3's and winners from Fun~day Friday
challenge #146! Are you one of them lucky ones???


Our TOP 3 winners from  FFC #146
 "Anything Goes":



                       #01----->  Spiral Creativity
                       #17----->  NannieFlash
                       #72----->  Lisa F


 And now our winner of the 4 digital stamps from:
Little Blue Button Stamps
 #14 Deonna B.




All Winners & Top 3's Please email me at:
Joann6274 at gmail dot com!
You will have 2 weeks to claim your prizes!

  
Well my friends that is all I have for today. I hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by and until next time.... Enjoy life's blessings~
  


Friday, July 15, 2016

FFC #147 "321 Challenge"


Hello sweet friends!
Welcome to another Fun~day Friday Challenge!!

 This week's Challenge:
"321 Challenge" 
Use 3 colors, 2 embellishments and 1 technique!
Create a card, layout or project with
this week's theme!

Our Sponsor this week is:
Robyn's Fetish
  The winner will win 3 digital stamps of their choice from the Robyn's Fetish Online Store!

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, July 15th 12:00AM

Ends:  Friday, July 22nd   6:00PM
(Eastern time)

I had the pleasure of coloring up their sweet image, "Pot of Tulips". So here is what I created for the challenge.
  

So I began by printing my image to size first. I used my Molotow masking pen to mask the entire image off so that I could create my background. I took some tumbled glass and salty ocean distress inks to create the sky. Also used a scalloped edged piece of paper that I cut from a punch, to create some clouds. Then I took mowed lawn and peeled paint to create the hilly grass. Once that was finished, I took some of my copics and created some grass with a few flicks.
 All that was left to do was take the masking off the image and color that in.

I colored in my image using my copics and I also printed out a second image because I wanted to give this image a lot of dimension. So I half colored the image that I built the sky around and I fully colored the second image. I then cut out the pot, grass and tulips from the second image and put them up on some foam tape and then added it to my original image with the background. Now the set of 3 tulips look like there are about 6 tulips in that pot, lots of dimension! I added some sparkle and shine to the butterfly and tulips using my Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen. So once that was finished, I adhered it to a piece of crumb cake cardstock by Stampin' Up and put that panel on foam tape.
My card is a regular A2 in size. All the cardstock is from Stampin' Up. I used crumb cake as my base and added a piece of Dapper Denim as my first layer. Then I took a piece of very vanilla and ran it through my hexagon embossing folder for the dimension. Before adhering it down to the dapper denim layer, I added 2 strips of soft pink ribbon. I tied a small knot to the one layer of ribbon to give it a little pop. Once that was done, I went ahead and adhered it down. And lastly, I took my image panel and adhered that to the top and with all the dimension, this card truly looks amazing in real life. I left it without a sentiment so that I can easily use this card later for any occasion that I may need it for. I hope you like!!
321 Recipe:
3 Colors ( green, blue, pink)
2 embellies ( two stripes ribbon, knot, sparkle)
1 technique (embossing)

Now let's see what the FFC Design Team has created for this Challenge:
TEAM B

AJ 




What do you need to do to enter?
Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,
using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements
Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)
Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.
You have until July 22nd by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.
All winners will be announced during the week of July 25th.
Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!
Until next time, enjoy life's blessings~
Thanks for stopping by!



Monday, July 11, 2016

Winners FFC #145 announced!


Hi there friends...
We have the Top 3's and winners from Fun~day Friday
challenge #145! Are you one of them lucky ones???

Our TOP 3 winners from  FFC #145
 "Color Challenge":


                             #23-----> Andrea W.
                             #25-----> Twisted Witch
                             #39-----> Lucy Patrick


 And now our winner of the 7 digital images from:
Bugaboo Stamps
 #16 Scrappy Scatty Jan

 And now our winner of the $12 gift voucher from:
A Day for Daisies
 #12 Kathy Schweinfurth

 
All Winners & Top 3's Please email me at:
Joann6274 at gmail dot com!
You will have 2 weeks to claim your prizes!

  
Well my friends that is all I have for today. I hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by and until next time.... Enjoy life's blessings~