Creative Knockouts #149 - Animal Antics

"Animal Antics" is the theme for this week's Creative Knockouts challenge, sponsored by Fabrika Fantasy.  These cute kids are a digi named,  Little Travelers.  My card is a combination of the digi and stamps.  I have to admit I was momentarily stumped as a DT member because I didn't look at the theme when I chose my sponsor image (oops!).  I went to my trusty stamp stash and dug out a retired SU set called Zoofari and borrowed the snake for my card.  The background trees are stamps from Paper Smooches and the stitched frames are from Lil' Inkers.  There's lots of fussy cutting on this card and the kids are popped out to look like they are walking out of the picture.  It's super-cute IRL.

Take a look at the rest of the DT inspiration here and then play along with us!


Challenges Entered:
Little Red Wagon #349/ - Summertime
Craft Your Passion #319/ - AG
Tuesday Throwdown #310/ - Exotic Animals
Addicted to Stamps & More #201/ - AG
Crafty Gals #79/ - Lots of Layers
Paper Smooches July Challenge - Summer
Craft Rocket #19 - AG
Inspiration Destination #93/ - AG

A Day for Daisies Challenge #151 - Try A 2 Color Ombre

July Club Kit is out and features a collection of delightful queen fairies.  Mine is called Fairy Queen Ruby and she is brand new in the ADFD Shop!

I decided to try something new with this girl and used the an ombre look on her overskirt and sleeves.  I printed two images and fussy cut the overskirt and popped it out on the card to give it some dimension and the wings are colored over with Wink of Stella for shimmer.  The main image is die cut using Lil' Inkers Oval Stitched Dies; the background is an embossing folder from Anna Griffin; and "celebrate" is a Memory Box die.

Pop over to the ADFD Blog and look at the rest of the DT's creations.  You'll have a hard time choosing which new image you'll want to buy!

Challenges Entered:
Crafting from the Heart #118/- AG
Through the Craft Room Door/ 6/28-7/4
Tuesday Throwdown #300/ - Fairies and Fantasy
Crafter's Cafe #152/ - Things with Wings
Penny's Challenge #284/ - AG
Simon Says Stamp 6/29/ - AG
4 Crafty Chicks #305/ - AG
World Wide Open DT Challenge/ - 6/15-7/15
Kraftin' Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday 6/29 /- AG

Creative Knockouts #147 - A Charmed Life

Oddball Art is this week's sponsor at Creative Knockouts.  This forlorn little girl is named Cassidy.  She's going to a friend who is recovering from an operation.

The challenge is to add a charm to you card.  Unfortunately, there was no charm in sight in the piles around my craft room, but I found one of these little mini clips from my days as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  It's metal, and having moments of creativity leads to a charmed life, right?!?!  Take at peek at the DT cards here, and then play along with us!

Challenges Entered:
Mod Squad Challenge 6/22/ - All that Glitters
Penny's Challenge #283/- AG
Crafting from the Heart #117/ - AG
Craft Your Passion#317/ - AG
Dream Valley #134/ - Summer Colors

Dizzy Daisy

I'm featuring one of todays new digis from the Babycakes Digis and Design Etsy shop called 919 Dizzy Daisy today.  She's one of artist, Sandra Caldwell's newest releases.  The rest of the DT has colored up other goodies from this week's release, which you can find at the Sandra Caldwell Stamp Fans Facebook Group. (If you aren't a member, consider joining!)  Honestly, I don't know how she does it, but Sandra continues to crank out new digis every week for all of us to color.  Her creativity is amazing!

The sentiment is from Little Inker Designs and fits beautifully with the face of this flower.  The background print in an MFT birthday background stamp.  I just finished with Sandy Allnock's Copic Coloring class and learned some new color combinations, which I used on this flower.  Who would have thought that V15 could create so many lovely shading options!  Amazing, I tell you!!

Challenges Entered:
ABC Challenge 6/15/ - J for Just as You Like It
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards #111/ - Use a Die Cut
Seize the Birthday 6/16/ - AG Birthday
Let's Color Linky Party #10/
The Pencil Case #22 /-  V for Variety
Pile It On #110/ - Use something old (bg stamp), new (digi), and blue (ink around oval)

A Day for Daisies Challenge #150 - Add Glitter

It's time for a new challenge on the A Day for Daisies Blog.  This one is all about glitter!!  My little girl is covered in Stickles.

We are featuring Fall Cuties this week - a collection of little acorn girls.  Mine is called Acorn Cutie C.  I decided to give her a summer look and colored her with yellows, using red as an accent color.  Stop by the ADFD blog and see what the rest of the DT colored up to inspire you!  Tammy has a free image for you to use to join the challenge.

Challenges Entered:
As You like It 6/16/ - Favorite Die Stitched oval - I love all of the stitched dies.  The oval frames so many images so perfectly.
Crafty Girls #21/ - AG
Little Miss Muffet #140/ - AG

A Day for Daisies - June Club Kit Images

Hi Everyone,
Back for another week featuring Tammy's wonderful June Club Kit seal images.  This one is called Summer Seal Sitting.  I have so much fun coloring this seal.  I saw so many images of seals with a mottled skin that I decided to try it for myself and love the way this seal turned out.  I colored her with my W0, W1, W3,  & W5 markers and then added a bot of E41 and E42 on top to brown it up.  I'm not particularly fond of my colors for the flowers, but I love that seal!

Come and join our Flower Paper Challenge on the ADFD Blog.  You have one more week to play.

Challenges Entered:
Crafting From the Heart #116/ - AG
Digi Chooseday June 7-13/ - Add a sentiment
Crafty Gals Corner #75/ - Pop of Color
Creative Inspirations #253/ - Spring into Summer
The Paper Shelter #252/ - Sentimental
Crafty Girls #20/ - AG
Little Miss Muffet #139/ - AG
Seize the Birthday (through 6/14)/- birthday
Aud Sentiments #157/ - Under the Sea + sentiment
Penny's Paper Challenge #281/ - favorite embellishment (rhinestones & glitter)

A Day for Daisies Challenge #149 - Use Floral Paper

I took an ADFD hiatus in May due to too much going on at work. Arielle was a so understanding and it made my life manageable.  Whew!

Things have calmed down and OMG - I am so excited to share the new June Club images Tammy has drawn. . . SEALS!  This little one is called Summer Seal Waiting.

I have never colored a seal before and it was a blast!  I did a Google search and found hundreds of seals to look at.  I decided to make mine gray and white to play up that adorable face Tammy created.  Pop over to the ADFD Blog and peek at the rest of the seal collection.  The other DT gals have so much inspiration in store for you!

Challenges Entered:
Freshly Made Sketches #239/
Digi Choosday Wk #22 - Think summer
Shopping Our Stash #254/ - Elements (water)
Crafting By Designs June/  - AG
Little Red Wagon #344/ - Fit it In
The Paper Shelter #251/ - Flowers Everywhere
Aud Sentiments #156/ - AG + sentiment