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Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. Thanks for stopping by!

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Showing posts with label Colour of Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colour of Love. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Crafty Gals Corner , July Challenge - Anything Goes with an optional twist/Christmas

Time for another great challenge at Crafty Gals Corner. 

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Anything Goes w/optional twist being Christmas! ~

 Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(listed in alphabetical order)


     
Prize ~ 3 Digital Images


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Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate
Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-colored images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files.  Have some fun with Fred!

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Both of our wonderful sponsors have beautiful images of all different digi stamps for all occasions. 

This is the card I made for this challenge.

Using:   Christmas Angel
Colour of Love


 I loved this image I used for this card, perfect for one of the little girls in my family this Christmas,  The image was coloured with Copic Markers , Wink of Stella, Nuvo, and pencil crayons.  I layered her on Christmas Paper from my stash, and some gloss gold paper.  A add glittered snow flakes to add some sparkle. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.


Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Crafty Gals Corner - Anything Goes Challenge November 22, 2022

         Time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner. 

                       As always the challenge is anything goes.

                                   Our generous Sponsor is ……….

Colour of Love


The prize for this challenge is

3 digital images from the store.

This is my card I made for this challenge using a digital image from Colour of Love 

called  Sugi Sugar Plum




I coloured my image with copics, added white and gold Gel Pen, glittered die cut flowers, gems and pearls and layered the image on several background die cuts. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join in this anything goes challenge.  Pop over to our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team. 


Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Lazy Days of Summer Challenge at Crafty Gals Corner

Time of another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner.

The theme for this challenge is: 

~ Lazy Days of Summer ~ 

Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(in alphabetical order) 

       

Colour of Love
Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LacySunshine/


Prize ~ 3 Digital Images used by the DT



Prize ~ 3 Digital Images

For my project this week I chose to used a digital stamp called  

 Garden 7 by 
Morgan's Art World


I coloured my image with Copic markers, pencil crayon and a geli pen.  I added the ground using a rubber stamp and distressed inks. Then I stamped the  flowers in the background and added a  die cut fence. He was acute image and I loved creating the card. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative month.  I hope you will join our Lazy Days of Summer challenge this month. 

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Merry and Bright Challenge

Time for another great challenge over at  Crafty Gals Corner . 

The theme for this challenge is: 

Merry & Bright

Our sponsors for this challenge are: 
(in alphabetical order )

    

Colour of Love
Prize ~ 3 Digital Images


Prize ~ $10 Gift Certificate
Fred She Said Designs offers a wide variety of digital products with a floral flair and cute characters too - Digi's, Pre-colored images, Papers, Sets, Fred's Flower Kits, and even digital cutting files.  Have some fun with Fred!


This is my card I made for this challenge. 

I used an image from Colour of Love collection called Tis' the Season. 


I coloured my image with copics, pencil crayons, gel pens, and a Pentart Ice Crystal Pen.  I used designer paper from my stash to create my colour scheme. 

Closer view



This was such a fun image to colour. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.
Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to view the inspiring projects  
of our talented design team. 


Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Loving Heart Dreamer

Time for another great challenge over at Through the Craft Room Door. 

This is the card I made for this challenge.



The image I used is called Loving Heart Dreamer

Our generous Sponsor this week is

The Colour of Love



 The prize this week is 3 images from their store

Other views of the card. 




For my card I used a side step card pattern, Copic markers, pencil crayons, gel pen, and silver flowers, some die cuts,  Tim Holtz foil paper, and a Wink of Stella. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Remember to pop over to 
our challenge blog to be inspired by our talented design team.

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes 
The Corrosive Challenges - Anything Goes
Gem of a Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Kalani City Girl

 


Time for another anything goes challenge at Through the Craft Room Door.  This is my card I made for this week's challenge. 

Our Generous sponsor this week is  

The prize this week is 3 Digital Stamps from their store.

The image I used for this card is from the City Girl's collection called Kalani City Girl.  

To colour my card I used Copics, pencil crayons, Wink of Stella,  and Gel Pens.

 I added a paper flower I made using a stamp from  Heartfelt Creations and  Distress Inks.

 To complete my card I used designer paper from my stash and a variety of die cuts for layering. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Please join us this week.  Just create your project and enter it here. 

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Fantasy World

It is time for another great challenge over at Crafty Gals Corner and the theme for this challenge is:

Fantasy World

Our sponsors for this challenge are:
(in alphabetical order)


   
Colour of Love
Prize ~ 3 Digital Images





Prize ~ 3 Digital Images used by the DT

For this challenge I have used a digital stamp from Morgan's Art World called Fairy Children Dig Stamp 4. 



I coloured my card with Copics, pencil crayons and Wink of Stella.  I layered the card with some pretty Graphic 45 Paper from the Fairy Dust collection.  The sentiment and tag punch we an old stamp and punch by Stampin Up.

Other views




Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week. Remember to pop over to Crafty Gal's Corner to see the inspiring cards of our talented design team. 

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

A Fairy Birthday.


I am excited to announce I have been invited to be a member of the Design Team at Through the Craft Room Door. 

All set for another Anything Goes Challenge here at TTCRD?

Our Sponsor for this challenge is …

The Colour of Love - Formally Lacy Sunshine




This is the card I made for this challenge using our sponsor's image called Wildflower.


I first used a combo of Distress Oxide inks on watercolour paper for my background  which I blended then spritz with water. I put the card base in my printer and printed the wildflower image on the paper. 

I used a combination of Copic Markers, Posca, and Gel pens to colour the image and add a little more white to the the background.  To complete the card I added a die cute sentiment. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative week.  Hope you will join us this challenge. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the inspiring cards our design team has created for you. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams - Just Add a Flower
The Corrosive Challenges - Anything Goes
We Love to Create - Anything Goes
The Fairy and the Unicorn - Anything Goes Fantasy
Art Divas Challenge- Anything Goes