DSC #132 - Anything but a Card or Layout

It's Friday! time for a new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! Our lovely sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps and you could win some free digis. Just follow our theme of Anything but a Card or Layout and using some digitally images and you're good to go! This challenge runs to the end of the month so you have plenty of time to enter.

Here is an inspirational image created by me as part of the design team...I made a menu:

 

I know it's hard to read but it's basically what I ate yesterday...lol. As I might have mentioned, I follow a plant based diet also known as Vegan. So everything on my menu is yummy and oh so good not only for you but great for the animals too! I took the cute Bugaboo Stamps image called Frame It - Stella - todays menu, and coloured it with my Copic Ciao markers in red, oranges and yellows. I matted it an the menu I created on orange, white and red cardstock. I didn't add any doo dads to it because it didn't really need nay. The colours made it look great on its own...lol. Here is the menu if you can't read it:

BREAKFAST:

1/2 a Pink Grapefruit

Bowl of Oatmeal swirled with Vegan Raspberry Jam (no gelatin)

small glass of unsweetened almond milk

LUNCH:

Mixed Baby Leaf Salad with dairy free pesto dressing 

Smooth and creamy (no dairy) Gazpacho soup (raw - made in my blender)

Berry Blast Iced Tea

SNACK:

2 large Rice Cakes with Caramelised Onion Hummus

Sliced Cherry tomatoes and chopped Cilantro on top

DINNER:

Curried Lentil and Butternut Squash Stew (made myself)

Served on a bed or Coriander Rice

Side of Purple Broccoli Stems (steamed)

Water with Lime Wedge

DSC #130 - Font Talk

Welcome to your weekly challenge over at Digitally Sweet Challenges! I'm a Design Team member and tis week we made projects for our theme "Font Talk" which mean to show off your use of different fonts. Our lovely sponsor is Lacy Sunshine Stamps and we were each allowed to use one of her designs...I chose to do a digital image with this beautiful Wisteria Etherial Enchantress:

I have fond memories of a huge wisteria that grew in my side yard growing up in New Jersey. My sisters and I used to play underneath it in the summer as it was hollow under all the leaves and blooms. It was cool under there and it was like being in a fragrant cave. It smelled soooo lovely. Only down fall was fighting all the bees to get inside...lol.

I sure hope you will join us over at Digitally Sweet. You will have the whole month of March to enter this challenge...ain't that cool? Can't wait to see what you create showing off your favourite fonts!

DSC #129 - Anything Goes!

Ooooh yes..I love an anything Goes challenge and that's what we have for you this week over at Digitally Sweet Challenges! Our sponsor is Lunagirl and she provided us on the Designs Team with some gorgeous images to work with. I created a card. It's basic but my new printer really made the images look fab:

I started with a pale pink pearlised card base. I also had some matching pink pearlised paper to mat the girl image on. I mounted the flower frame background image on brown cardstock and edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I went to town with fine glitter and added it all over the backing image. I also highlighted the pink flowers in the girl image with the glitter. Then as embellishments I added 3 pink buttons a pink stick pin pearl, a swatch of lace and added lace along the opening side of the card. There are also some glitter pen pearls as well. It came together quick but looks quite nice.

We hope you'll join us over at Digitally Sweet and enter a challenge this month...this on is the last for February so look for our Feb winners!

DSC # 128 What's In your bag?

It's time for another weekly challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges and our theme is this week is called "Whats in your bag?" Do a project that tells us something about what you keep in your handbag. Our wonderful sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and we were allowed to pick a stamp to work with. I chose an Asian theme...here is a digital card front I created in Photoshop:

Wonder why I chose this stamp and what it has to do with what I keep in my bag? Welllll I actually keep a set of chopsticks in my bag on the back of my wheelchair. I like to use them when we go out to eat Chinese. They're plastic so I can wash them at home and reuse. LOL To set off the Stitchy Bear's "Kyo"  already coloured digi stamp, I also used a few kits from an old blog train called "The Orient" made by The Blog Train Blog. It's from 2010 but you might still be able to find some of this kit still available!

I hope you will join us at Digitally Sweet! Don't forget to check out all the February challenges because you can enter any of them until the end of the month to win!. Have yoursef a fabulous day and thanks for visiting me!

Happy Crafting!
Hugs, Dorothy

DSC # 127 - Layout Sketch

Welcome to another Friday challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! This week our theme is Layouts and we give a nice sketch to use as a reference. I love sketch challenges and to see how it can be interpreted so many ways. Our lovely sponsor is Scrappiness Designs.

Here is the layout I created:

I used the digital scrap kit called "Make Me Smile" from Scrappiness Designs to create this layout of my daughter, Aurora, and her great grandmom whom she called Nani. The pastel colours of this kit really matched the pastel colour in the photo. It was done completely in Photoshop using only the one digi kit.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and having a look at my DT project. I do hope you will join in the fun for this week's challenge but DON'T forget...all our challenges run to the end of the month and there are 2 other challenges still going and it's not too late to enter our Colour Challenge and Anything Goes challenge too! Best of luck!

Happy Scrapping!
Hugs, Dorothy

DSC #126 Colour Challenge

Happy Friday!!! It's time for a new weekly challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges where hybrid crafting reigns! LOL This week our theme is a colour challenge. Go over to Digitally Sweet to see the colours. Our lovely sponsor is Sparkle n Sprinkle and here is a card I made for my DT project:

I ttok the Friends image into Photoshop and colourised it using the colour for the challenge. I then made three background papers using the same colours: the fine dotted paper, a multi stripe paper and a deep red slightly damask pattern paper. I printed then cut everything out. I arranged the matted layer after distressing the edges with Old Paper Distress Ink. I added a sheer ribbon and knot and moulded flowers that I made with air dry clay and moulds. So easy.

SUPPLIES USED

Zendoodle Friends digital stamp set - Sparkle n Sprinkle
Papers created by me in Photoshop
Ribbon and cly flowers from stash.
White card base from stash

I do hope you qill join us over at Digitally Sweet Challenges this week!

Happy Crafting!
Hugs, Dorothy

DSC #124 Anything but a Card or Layout

Happy Friday ya'll! Hope you had a good week and are ready for a new challenge over at Digitally Sweet Challenges. Our terrific sponsor this week is Lacy Sunshine and you could win some awesome images from her. All ya gotta do is enter a project using digital and it can be anything but a card or layout. I made a bookmark:

I don't have lots of embellishments on it as I wanted it to lay flat in a book. Yes I still read REAL books too...lol. I first coloured in the Lacy Sunshine image using Vintage Photo Distress Ink with a waterbrush. I also printed out some other papers from Far Far Hill. It's all matted on this matt gold mirri boaRD I found in my stash.  I added jute twine on the top and some frayed burlap under the image. I finished off with some dark brown card candies and some fabric tape that says "with love."

SUPPLIES USED:
Maddie Haddie Steampink Secret Window digi stamp - Lacy Sunshine Stamps
New York Times and Damask digital papers - Far Far Hill
Jute twine and Burlap - Poundland (UK)
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Gold mirri board, card candy, fabric tape - from my stash

DSC #123 Dance Like Nobody's Watching

I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things here but I finsally got into my craft room. it's still a mess, it still needs lots of reorganising but i made a little path for me to get in and make something. I had a hard time finding stuff (like my ATG gun which I still cannot find thanks to my daughter) but I found enough to make something for our challenge this week over at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

Our lovely sponsor this week is Lunagirl! I love love love her images and she let us have a few absolutely gorgeous dancing ladies to use for our projects. Here's my card:

I started with a premade card blank in white then added papers and embellies from my stash. I loved this theme and images as an ex-bellydancer...lol. Hope you like my card and will join us for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet!

SUPPLIES USED:
Lady image from Lunagirl
Sentiment created myself in Word
White card blank from stash
Blue pattered paper and blue pearl paper from my stash
Ribbon Bow from stash
Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass
Fiskars border punch looped border
Impex Heart stickers
Trimits Paper Crafts blue glitter butterfly

Thanks for having a look!

HAPPY CRAFTING,
Dorothy

DSC #122 Layouts Only Week

Hi there everyone! I know I took a long break over Christmas but it was necessary...I'll leave it at that...lol. But welcome to 2015 and we have a new challenge up at Digitally Sweet Challenges so come check us out!

as a reminder, Digitally Sweet requires that you use some type of digital image in your crafting. We have a new sponsor so we decided to add a LAYOUTS ONLY challenge to our line up. You can only make some sort of digital scrapbooking layout, it can be a real life page or a digital one but you must use a digital image by either printing it out or doing the whole thing in some sort of program.

Our sponsor is the lovely Scrappiness Designs and here is what I created using her kit called "Happy Noel."

This is a Christmas photo of my hubby and our Christmas tree in 2013. The ole hubs has lost weight since then and we also have verticle blings on our glass door now. But it was a nice sunny winter's day...lol...a rare thing here in the UK.

I do hope you will join us for this week's challenge at Digially Sweet and thanks for visintg me.

Also...Have a HAPPY 2015!

Peace & Blessings, Dorothy

DSC #117 Sentiment as Main Focus

It's time for this week's new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! This time our theme is to use a sentiment as the focus of your project. Our awesome sponsor this week is Lacy Sunshine Stamps! Don't forget to use something digital in your creations. I did another digital image this week, a card front:

I whipped this up in Photoshop with the very cool snowglobe digi stamp form Lacy Sunshine and a cute digi kit freebie from Cinnamon Scraps. If you click on the link it takes you right to the page to download the scrap kit yourself.Have yourselves a fantastic day and hope you will join us at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

Happy Crafty Christmas!
Dorothy

DSC #116 - Anything Goes

Happy Black Friday all! I sure hope everyone in the US had a terrific Thanksgiving Day! Hubbs and I had a cozy little Thanksgiving here in the UK. My British hubby likes us celebrating this holiday since I'm American. He likes turkey dinners but tonight it was a simpler meal than I would have made if we lived back in America. Plus being just the two of us and I happen to be Vegan. I roasted him a big turkey breast though and there is plenty leftover for his sandwiches the next couple of day and for the dogs to have a bit of course...lol.

It's time for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges and guess what? I'm the challenge hostess this week for an Anything Goes Challenge! Our sponsor is Stitchy Bear Stamps and I used a winter scene digi stamp:

The above is a digital image I created in Photoshop. I used the Lake Winter digi stamp by Stitchy Stamps at Stitchy Bear Stamps and a freebie digital scrap kit by Digilicious Designs to create this peaceul winter scene. I'm not a big lover of snow but I can appreciate a good winter scene...lol. Thanks for having a look this week and hope you will join us for this week's challegne at Digitally Sweet!

SUPPLIES USED:

Lake Winter digi stamp - Stitchy Bear Stamps
Winter Wonderland free Digital Scrap Kit - Digilicious Designs

DSC #115 Opposites Attract

Happy Friday and welcome to this week's Design Team project and new Challenge announcement for Digitally Sweet Challenges! Join us for this week's theme of "Opposites Attact" and sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps. I made a friend card:

This stamp was so cute. I coloured it in with Letreset Promarkersand set it on a frame I made out of 2 different pealised papers. I then punched out some little balloons out of the same paper. This paper was double sided so I could get a third colour in each bunch. I had a hard time finding a designer paper that I liked then I found this 6" carstock pad of all cupcake papers and this one matched the colours so well.So come on over to Digitally Sweet Challenges and show of your crafty goodness. I can't wait to see what to enter!

SUPPLIES USED:
"Ava and Deacon Friends" digital stamp - Bugaboo Stamps
Letraset ProMarker Set (12 colours + Free Blender)
Cupcake backing paper - Paper Cellar Cupcakes 6x6 Patterned Papers
Pearlised paper and beige & gold twine from my stash.

DSC #114 Photo Inspiration

It's time for another weekly challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! We have started a new format where there is still a new challenge each week but you have until the end of the month to get your project entered. You can read all about it here: New Rules. There is also a post about it HERE with info on our DT Call too!

This week our sponsor is the lovely Lunagirl. I just love using Lunagirl images as I'm getting more into vintage style. Wanna win some vintage images? Then ya gotta enter the challenge for your chance! Lunagirl gave us Design Team members some images to work with and here is what I created, a hanging ornament:

Please forgive the bad photo. I took it at night and the light really stunk. This is a twinchie, a 2 inch by 2 inch piece of chipboard that I glued the digital image onto with matt gel medium. I edged the image and sides and back of the twinchie with Black Soot Distress Ink. On the back I added the printed out wings from Lunagirl and some royal blue lace which looks dark in the photo. I spritzed the wings and image with Grape Juice Inkadink spray from Imagination Crafts and I also spritzed with Mr Huey's Shine spray. I'm starting to get into beading, It's slow going but I decided to make a bead dangle. I finally added black ribbon to hang the ornament as well as a black bow and black fabric flower I made. I like how it turned out...now...where to hang it? LOL

SUPPLIES USED:
Main image and wings collage sheet - Lunagirl
Beads - Jesse James Beads Dress It Up Black Magic set
Grape Juice Inkadinks Spray - Imagination Crafts
Mr Huey Shine Spray
Distress Pad, Black Soot
Blue lace, black ribbon and black flower from my stash
Winsor & Newton Galeria Matt Medium - 250ml

DSC #112 Anything Goes

Here I am with my latest Design Team project for Digitally Sweet Challenges and we have an easy these this week...ANYTHING GOES! So I know lots of you will join in the fun. We have a new sponsor this week that anyone who loves digi kits will love: Scrappiness Designs! She was kind enough to provide the DT with one of her adorable digital scrapbooking kits and I did myself a layout:

This is my hubby and daughter back in 2011 while we were on our summer holiday to Canet Plage, France. This was one evening while sitting outside along the beach at one of the many bars and restaurants. We've spent a few summers here as we rent a wheelchair accessible apartment and spend a few weeks at the beach. It's not far from the border of Spain as well so we usually drive down to Barcelona while there. We LOVE Barca...amazing city!

SUPPLIES USED:

Digital Scrap kit called "My Backyard - Bundle" - by Scrapiness Designs

Thanks for looking and hope you will join in the challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

Happy Scrapping!
Dorothy

DSC #111 - Steampunk Tag

Welcome to this Friday's design team project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! I hope you all will like this week's theme of STEAMPUNK! Our sponsor this week is the wonderful Lunagirl! Come join us and show off you use of steampunk digital images. This week I made a tag:

I started with a 3" x 5" tag I made out of cardstock. I nked all over it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I glued down one of the Lunagirl clockface image then stamped over it all with a Kaisercraft clear stamp called . Then I distress other Lunagirl images overtop and the "Explorer" word art I made in Photoshop. I stamped some corners on there as well. I made the balloon look 3D by printing it off twice and layering one on top of the other and added lace to the bottom and tucked some behind the balloon. This is my very first steampunk project as it's not my usual style but I'm happy with how it turned out...hope you all like it!

SUPPLIES USED
All images - Lunagirl
Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Fine print stamp - Kaisercraft clear stamp called Dictionary Meanings
Corner Stamp - Papermania Urban Stamp set called Type Print
Jute Twine
Lace from stash

Happy Crafting!
Dorothy

DSC #110 - Your Hero

Happy Friday all! It's time for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges and our sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps! Our theme this week is "Your Hero" but this could have many takes on it such as a friend, parent,dog...lol, or just someone or some position you admire like fireman, military, nurse, etc. We would love for you to join us! Here is the card I made this week as an example:

Look...NO distress ink! LOL. I just used lots of layers for this simple card as I really wanted the image and sentiment to stand out. I love dogs and one day soon I'll introduce you to my two fuzzy puppykids Buster and Paris. When I saw this image I knew I had to use it! Of course this also is me at least 10 times a day...hugging my dogs....lol.

SUPPLIES USED:
GirlPuppyLove digi image - Bugaboo Stamps
Scalloped white card blank - Cards UK bought in The Range
All cardstock - American Crafts Tropical collection
Border Punch - Fiskars Punch called Bracket Border
Copic Ciao markers
Gems from stash

Have a Happy Crafty Day!
Dorothy

DSC #109 - Sports

It's be a week since i've posted and I missed last week's challenge at Digitally Sweet because of my birthday goings on. I'm back this week with another easel card and our theme for our challenge is SPORTS. Make a crafty project with a sports theme and using some sort of digital image on it then come on over to Digitally Sweet Challenges and enter! You could win some gorgeous digi treats from our sponsor Stitchy Bear Stamps!

Here's my easel card:

I started with an A6 blank card in medium blue and folded it into an easel card shape. I coloured in the Trophy Bowler digi stamp with my Copic ciaos and printed out my own sentiment. I cut out the sentiment and the bowling ball will circle dies and I used white gelly pen to highlight the holes of the bowling ball. For the matted layers I used black cards and paper from the Stitchy Bear paper set called King of the Couch. Extras added was a sheer stripe gray ribbon and black card candi.

SUPPLIES USED (All links go to product)
Trophy Bowler digi Stamp - Stitchy Bear Stamps
King of the Couch Papers - Stitchy Bear Stamps
300 GSM Black Cardstock - Papermill Direct
Blue Card base & White cardstock - from my stash
Spellbinders Die Large Standard Circle Nestabilities
Sheer Stripe Gray Ribbon - Ribbon Oasis
Candi Dot Embellishments .35oz-Metropolis

DSC #107 Music

It's another Friday and it's time for the weekly challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! Here is my Design Team project for this week...a card:

I made an easel card this time using one of our sponsor's digi stamps. You can find this stamp here at Bugaboo Stamps. I took the stamp and coloured it in with my Copic Ciaos I then printed off a music sheet that I colourised in Photoshop and laid that as a base top and bottom all edges with Black Soot Distress Ink. I also printed out the music notes and fussy cut those out. I made the sentiment myself. Finally added 2 black bows and aqua blue gems.

Yeah I know I know...another BLUE project...lol. I know I've been using a whole lot of blue lately. Sorry about that. I'll make sure to use a diferent colour next time. I hope you enjoyed this week's card and I do hope you will join us for this week's challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

DSC #106 Rock It Out

Welcome to today's post everyone! It's Friday and you know what that means...time to show you this week's challenge and DT project for Digitally Sweet Challenges! This week's theme is "Rock It Out" and it's open to interpretation. Our lovely sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and we had some great images to work with. Here is a digital card front I made for printing:

I used a Coosey Creations kit called "Saxy Frog" to create this digital image. I just love the colours in this kit. the blues and greens are so pretty. I used 3 of the paper designs and the frog digi stamp which I coloured in Photoshop. I overlaid one of the papers over him as well to give him a textured spotty look. The digital ribbons and corners were from my digi stash and I made the sentiment myself. The font I used in it is called Howser which you can find here at kevinandamanda.com.

I hope you all will join us over at Digitall Sweet Challenges this week and join in the fun! Have a terrific weekend too. God bless!

Happy Crafting, Dorothy

DSC #105 "Charm"ing

Good morning lovlies! It's dat time...it's time for this week's new challenge at Digitally Sweet Challenges! We have a terrific sponsor this week...you could win your choice of digi stamp from Lacy Sunshine Stamps! She was kind enough to let us on the Design Team have an image each to work with. I chose this beautiful stamp called Emily Snow Princess. Our theme this week is "Charm"ed - Add a charm to your project.

LOL it's hard to see the white card base, this is what happens when I photograph at night. There is just too much glare on the photo. I used an extra light but guess I shouldn't have...can we say "overkill?" LOL This is an extra large card. It measures 6 3/4" by 6 3/4" which I made out of A3 white cardstock. I printed out the digi stamp and the 4 digital papers and sentiment. These were from a freebie scrap kit I had downloaded awhile back. I coloured Emily with my Copics, then added corner dots, a ribbon and a charm which is metal with a heart on it.I definitely didn't use traditional Christmas colours on this one but I went with the colours of the scrap kit I used. All supplies are listed below.

SUPPLIES USED:
Emily Snow Princess Digital Stamp - Lacy Sunshine Stamps
Creativ Christmas Free Digi Scrap Kit - Regina Falango (kit no longer available but she has other freebies)

A3 Cardstock Base - Papermill Direct
Copic Markers
Card Candi
Green Cardstock - Core'dinations Gemstone Cardstock 12"X12"

Thanks for having a peek...hope you will join us at Digitally Sweet Challenges. We would love to see your creations!

Happy Crafting!
Dorothy