September Creative Inspiration Challenges with Kate Hadfield Designs!

A huge shout out and thank you to Kate Hadfield Designs for being our fabulous sponsor this month at Creative Inspiration Challenges!   You have to check out Kate’s shop which is loaded with FREEBIES and tons of inspiration for your future projects by Kate and her design team PLUS so so many awesome sets of  designs in so many options!  I’ll wait right here while you go visit Kate Hadfield Designs!  😉

I made a column card that folds flat if you need it to with the totally fun filled Let’s Celebrate Bundle!

I printed out the elements I wanted to use and colored with markers and colored pencils adding a bit of white gel pen for highlights.  I used two colors of paper from the Spring Papers Kit that is Free!  I use these lovely watercolor wash looking digital papers in my digital projects and I print them out and use for hands on crafting!  This card has the oh so pretty pink and orange from the kit with one of each printed out as is and a 4 x 6 sheet of the pink the confetti stamp randomly place and colored in Procreate then printed.  That formed the “bones” of my card (and yes it is slightly wonky just like me!).   I fussy cut all of the elements and using some strips of clear plastic from a package that I, of course had squirreled away instead of tossing, I glued them across the card.  From that point it was just like decorating a room for a celebration!  I used foam dots to pop things up and glue to attach others to get lots of dimensions!   This set has many other fantastic stamps in it and if you don’t want to get the markers out the bundle has the pre colored version!  I just had to make another card while I was crafting coz I was having so much fun with this kit!

Front (all folded up)

Opened to show the folds and the sentiment inside!

I made this card following a tutorial by Beccy at Beccy’s Place!  It is an exploding card with lots of room for many people to sign!  I colored up the champagne bottle and two glasses of bubbly with my Prisma colored pencils,  adding “25” on the champagne label for a 25th anniversary card!  For the exploding inside I added the sentie “Congratulations!” and dotted my markers for some festive color!  So the card lays really flat making the exploding part somewhat of a WOW factor indeed!  So two cards from this super fabulous set!  

 Now we want to see what you have to show us at Creative Inspiration Challenges for September where it is always Anything Goes and we want you to be the star of the show!

Monday Greetings with Mirtillamente Craft Shop!

I hope all of you are well and enjoying the beginning of the fall season!  Our sponsor for The Outlawz Monday Greetings is Mirtillamente Craft Shop!  Eve is such a great friend to us at Monday Greetings and we want to send her a big thank you and lots of love for all her support!  Please go by her shop and have a look at all the goodies! 

I made an easel card with the cutie pie grumpy cat in the awesome image "Autumn Pumpkin" 😊

I colored the image with Prisma colored pencils.  Then I took some fall paper and printed digitally for my back layer.  I made my card base with orange cardstock and layered the other layers on top.  I made my sentiment in Procreate "Have a Spooky Birthday!" and printed it out then popped it on a slanted piece of cardstock so it folds down flat with the card!  I hope you will play along with us at The Outlawz Monday Greetings for a chance to win lovely images from Mirtillamente Craft Shop!

Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenge for September!

A big thank you to Sandra for the delightful image we are all receiving for September!  Mandalas are always a bit challenging to me but just in time Jennifer Maker posted a video on YouTube about just about all things mandala and a Cricut!  Since my Cricut and I have a relationship that I can't really rely on in a pinch especially adding a design into Design Space for cutting....I took inspiration and played a bit with it!  Jennifer had three absolutely stunning shadowboxes with a mandala as the focus.   I thought this lovely mandala for this month would make a lovely setting sun without too many layers or design sense and hence my slimline sunset card was born!

I colored the image with alcohol markers and fussy cut out.  I made my slimline card base with yellow cardstock and attached a flap up of green cardstock to make my horizon line and attach my pink mountains (yep, they are mountains!) and my tree layer on top of that (yup, those are trees!)  Okay...you might have to use your imagination and squint kinda to see my trees and snow drift mountains but that's what art is all about! 😋  I made my sentiment tag using a freebie stamp set from a crafting magazine and inked my edges with Distress Inks!  Now come on and show us your crafting goodies using this wonderful image at The Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenge for September!