Good morning, everyone, and happy Monday! I have 5 new cards that I have made using the free digi stamps provided by CDAC for their progressive challenge which is in its 5th round right now. I have to post them one at a time though because I have to link to them on the CDAC site so my plan is to post 3 today and the remaining 2 tomorrow. This is the same thing I did last round so I hope you'll all bear with me through this process. It's admittedly a bit tedious but necessary to make sure that the cards link up properly. If I had any sense, I would post them as I complete them but when I get on a roll, it's hard for me to stop, take pictures, edit them and write a blog post before I continue the creative process. My poor feeble mind just doesn't work that way! LOL
I promise to make the next 2 posts short and sweet, with only a brief description of the card and credit to the image's creator. Okay, here's the first of the 3 for today. Now, I have to be completely honest in saying that these digis are probably not ones I would choose if I was purchasing images for my card making but after coloring them and putting them on cards, I think they turned out rather cute! This one is a little girl holding a basket of gingerbread men. Judging from the basic shapes used, I think it was drawn on the computer. The artist was SSBS Design and I colored it with Copics.
I have to tell you a little anecdote here. When I was a very young child, my dad would take my brother and me to the bank and barber shop with him once a month. He worked for the postal service so he was only paid once a month. The barber shop was next door to a bakery and as a special treat and reward for behaving ourselves on these outings, he would buy each of us a big gingerbread man to eat on the trip home, where our mother and younger siblings were waiting for us to get home. I don't think the younger ones ever enjoyed this outing with Dad or the gingerbread men either. That is one of my fondest memories of my early childhood. My dad worked nights at the post office in downtown Fort Worth so we didn't get to spend much time with him during the day except on weekends and I cherish those times when it was just Dad, my brother and me hanging out together.
Okay, back to the card. I thought it would be fun to give this card to my sister for Christmas so I found Paula Deen's recipe for gingerbread man cookies and printed it out to put inside the card. I'll probably stamp some Christmas images on the recipe before I give the card to her. The sentiment is one I made up and typed into Word, printed on cardstock and cut out to fit my tag. Cardstock and dp is by DCWV.
That's it for the first card. Please stand by for the second and third ones.
(To be continued)
Anniebee
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
My third entry in the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge # 4 (cdacpc4)
Okie dokey, folks! I'm back with the last post for today. I'll have 3 more postings tomorrow which will encompass all six of my CDAC entries for this round. If you like what you see today, you'll definitely want to check back tomorrow for more Tricks and Treats. Okay, not really any tricks; just treats! The image on this last card is my favorite of the Halloween images we were given to play with this round. It is from Delicious Doodles Digital Stamps. If you look closely at all the details you'll understand why I say it's my favorite. All of the images are outstanding in my opinion and I enjoyed coloring every one of them but this particular design is right up my alley! Full of light and shadow, drama and artistry. I just squeal with delight when I get images like this to color! LOL
See what I mean? The character in the original digi stamp had spikey bangs but I took the artistic liberty of coloring them in. It was one of those happy accidents, really, but I liked it so much better that I have colored a second version the same way that I will post another time. Again, the sentiment stamp on the inside is from the Totally Witchin stamps set by Crafty Sprouts. I love this stamp set!!
In addition to the CDAC Progressive Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Repeat Impressions DCC1012 Designer’s Choice Challenge - Halloween of Fall
Paper Pretties PWC175 - Halloween
The Paper Shelter #35 - Animals
Pixie Cottage #91 - Sketch or Dark and Spooky
Scrapalicious - Color (Black, orange and purple)
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween or Goth
House of Gilli - any 3 of these colors (orange, black, white, green, purple)
You made it! Congratulations for sitting through all 3 of my posts and don't forget that there will be 3 more tomorrow, 2 of which are cute Halloween designs. The third one is really beautiful so you won't want to miss it, especially if you're not a big fan of Halloween. Thanks so much for stopping by today. As always, your comments are welcome and appreciated. I truly enjoy reading your thoughts about my work. Have a wonderful Wednesday, folks! Until tomorrow...
Happy crafting!
Anniebee
See what I mean? The character in the original digi stamp had spikey bangs but I took the artistic liberty of coloring them in. It was one of those happy accidents, really, but I liked it so much better that I have colored a second version the same way that I will post another time. Again, the sentiment stamp on the inside is from the Totally Witchin stamps set by Crafty Sprouts. I love this stamp set!!
In addition to the CDAC Progressive Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Repeat Impressions DCC1012 Designer’s Choice Challenge - Halloween of Fall
Paper Pretties PWC175 - Halloween
The Paper Shelter #35 - Animals
Pixie Cottage #91 - Sketch or Dark and Spooky
Scrapalicious - Color (Black, orange and purple)
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween or Goth
House of Gilli - any 3 of these colors (orange, black, white, green, purple)
You made it! Congratulations for sitting through all 3 of my posts and don't forget that there will be 3 more tomorrow, 2 of which are cute Halloween designs. The third one is really beautiful so you won't want to miss it, especially if you're not a big fan of Halloween. Thanks so much for stopping by today. As always, your comments are welcome and appreciated. I truly enjoy reading your thoughts about my work. Have a wonderful Wednesday, folks! Until tomorrow...
Happy crafting!
Anniebee
New cards for Round 4 of the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge Round 4 (cdacpc4)
A couple of days ago, I told you that I was working on several cards for the Crafters Digital Art Center's Progressive Freebies Challange that I have been participating in over the past 7 weeks or so. Well, I have 6 cards to post in 2 days so these next few posts are going to be graphics intensive. I really hope you enjoy looking at photos of my work or this may be a bit much for you to handle! LOL All of the images are colored with Copics. I'm going to spare you the details on these 6 cards but if you have any questions or want additional information, please include them in a comment and I will, of course, get back to you with the information you seek. The theme this round is Halloween or Mystical and you will see by the images that it was geared toward Halloween, which is fine with me. Many people object to the holiday because they associate it with devil worship or something along those lines when in fact, the original name was All Hallows Eve and it was a religious holiday. I love the costumes and hoopla associated with it.
I'm going to cut right to the chase with the first card. This image is by Sew Many Cards Digital Stamps. I made an easel card (my favorite kind) with this adorable little teddy named Bailey. I paper pieced and layered Bailey's pumpkin candy container and witch's hat to add dimension and visual interest. All of the shadows are accentuated in Copic #W3. The sentiment stamp is from the Crafty Sprouts Totally Witchin stamp set.
The next post will be for my second entry. I would put all of the entries in a single post to save time and energy except that each one has to have a unique URL to be uploaded to the CDAC Inlinkz app. So I'll continue in the next post. Thank you for your patience.
In addition to the CDAC Progressive Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafting For All Seasons #11- Fall flowers/pumpkins
Crafts and Me #56 - Color (Orange)
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween or Goth
To be continued...
I'm going to cut right to the chase with the first card. This image is by Sew Many Cards Digital Stamps. I made an easel card (my favorite kind) with this adorable little teddy named Bailey. I paper pieced and layered Bailey's pumpkin candy container and witch's hat to add dimension and visual interest. All of the shadows are accentuated in Copic #W3. The sentiment stamp is from the Crafty Sprouts Totally Witchin stamp set.
In addition to the CDAC Progressive Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafting For All Seasons #11- Fall flowers/pumpkins
Crafts and Me #56 - Color (Orange)
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween or Goth
To be continued...
Sunday, September 25, 2011
CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge - Week 3 (cdacpc3)
Well, it's mid-September already and we'll be half way through the Progressive Freebies Challenge at CDAC when the current one ends on the 30th. So far, I have completed 2 cards for this challenge, using 2 different images that were supplied to the participants free. To receive each successive set of free digi stamps, each participant has to enter at least one project using one of the free images that were sent to them and post it in the CDAC gallery. Here is the first of my 2 cards. I'll post the second one tomorrow. The artist of this beautiful image is Just Inklined.
I really enjoyed coloring this gorgeous sunflower and Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. This butterfly was once commonly seen in North Texas, where I live but I don't see them as often anymore. I guess they are going the the way of the Horned Lizard (Horny Toad) and eventually won't be seen at all here, though they are raised on butterfly farms.
It's after 4 AM and I have not been to bed yet so I won't list all the supplies I used to make this card. The image is by someone named Jum, who is a CDAC member If anyone wants further information leave a comment on this post and I will do my best to answer all questions. As previously stated, I am entering this card in the Progressive Freebies Challenge Week 3 at CDAC.
I'll be back tomorrow with the other card for the same challenge and if I'm lucky, I may even have time to complete another one before the deadline. Until next time, have a great weekend and...
Happy crafting!
Anniebee
I really enjoyed coloring this gorgeous sunflower and Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. This butterfly was once commonly seen in North Texas, where I live but I don't see them as often anymore. I guess they are going the the way of the Horned Lizard (Horny Toad) and eventually won't be seen at all here, though they are raised on butterfly farms.
It's after 4 AM and I have not been to bed yet so I won't list all the supplies I used to make this card. The image is by someone named Jum, who is a CDAC member If anyone wants further information leave a comment on this post and I will do my best to answer all questions. As previously stated, I am entering this card in the Progressive Freebies Challenge Week 3 at CDAC.
I'll be back tomorrow with the other card for the same challenge and if I'm lucky, I may even have time to complete another one before the deadline. Until next time, have a great weekend and...
Happy crafting!
Anniebee
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
My first CDAC Challenge entry and A Winner!
First things first. I'd like to thank everyone who turned out to hop along with us in the first JustWordz All About Babies Blog Hop this past weekend. We showed you all kinds of cute baby baby related projects and I received so many lovely comments and even gained a few new followers in the process! To all of my new friends, I want to welcome you and promise that I will do my very best not to disappoint you. Now, for the moment you have all been waiting for.... <long dramatic drum roll> the winner of the JustWordz Stamps!
Random.org was used to select the winner, out of 35 comments (two comments were left by one person so I eliminated one of them to make it fair for everybody), the magic number was...
#12 - Dixie, who said, "Your card is adorable! That is a very sweet image and I love the papers that you have used with it. The layout of your nephew is just wonderful, obviously a labour of love. The details are fabulous!"
Congratulations, Dixie!!! I'll be emailing you soon to request your mailing address so if you don't receive my message, please check your spam folder.
I also have a new card to show you today. I created this card from a digi stamp created by Sandi Huggett, who is one of my wonderfully talented DT sisters at The Outlawz, and also a member of CDAC (Crafters Digital Art Center). I just joined CDAC and I'm participating in their Progressive Freebie Challenges that just started this month. If you sign up to participate, they send you a set of digi stamps to use in your entries and you must submit at least one entry in each successive challenge to continue receiving the free images. If you fail to enter a challenge, you will not receive the next set of freebies unless you buy back in for $1. Several of the Outlawz members are also members of CDAC and it sounded like a fun challenge so I decided to play along. Besides, they are giving away a set of 12 Copic Sketch markers as the grand prize to one person who enters all of the progressive challenges!! Here is my first entry. I have actually used Sandi's teapot and teacup images before and I just love how they look colored with my Copics. I only had 2 days in which to complete my entry before the deadline and since I had some experience coloring these images, I knew I could beat the cutoff. And I did, with a day to spare!
Random.org was used to select the winner, out of 35 comments (two comments were left by one person so I eliminated one of them to make it fair for everybody), the magic number was...
#12 - Dixie, who said, "Your card is adorable! That is a very sweet image and I love the papers that you have used with it. The layout of your nephew is just wonderful, obviously a labour of love. The details are fabulous!"
Congratulations, Dixie!!! I'll be emailing you soon to request your mailing address so if you don't receive my message, please check your spam folder.
I also have a new card to show you today. I created this card from a digi stamp created by Sandi Huggett, who is one of my wonderfully talented DT sisters at The Outlawz, and also a member of CDAC (Crafters Digital Art Center). I just joined CDAC and I'm participating in their Progressive Freebie Challenges that just started this month. If you sign up to participate, they send you a set of digi stamps to use in your entries and you must submit at least one entry in each successive challenge to continue receiving the free images. If you fail to enter a challenge, you will not receive the next set of freebies unless you buy back in for $1. Several of the Outlawz members are also members of CDAC and it sounded like a fun challenge so I decided to play along. Besides, they are giving away a set of 12 Copic Sketch markers as the grand prize to one person who enters all of the progressive challenges!! Here is my first entry. I have actually used Sandi's teapot and teacup images before and I just love how they look colored with my Copics. I only had 2 days in which to complete my entry before the deadline and since I had some experience coloring these images, I knew I could beat the cutoff. And I did, with a day to spare!
I haven't put a sentiment on the inside yet as I'm uncertain of the occasion I'll use the card for. A special day could be a birthday, an anniversary, a new job, or any other special occasion so I have left it open for the time being.
Materials and Supplies:
Image - Sandi Huggett, colored with Copics
Card base - Core-dinations cards stock
Gold foil mat - AC Cardstock
White inside mats - Recollections
DT - K & Company (Jubilee and Best of Brenda Walton)
Paper doily - Michaels
Heart stick pin - won in blog hop and added Swarovski crystals and irridescent bead
Front greeting label - Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Tags
Inside mats - Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page set
Bright pink chalk ink - Studio G
Leaf-shaped bling - won in blog hop candy
Front sentiment stamp - Stampendous Special Messages set
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge- use one of the free digi stamps in your project.
Daisy Doodles Challenge #41 - Anything Goes
Happileigh Scrappin Challenge #37 - Birthdays
That's about all I have for now. Again, my sincere thanks to all of you who hopped with us last weekend. We'll have more fun things in store for you in the coming months. Until next time...
Happy crafting!
Anniebee
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