April at Creative Inspiration Challenges 🐣

 Happy Easter and I hope spring is treating everyone nicely like it is in my area of the world!  

A big thank you to Pattie’s Creations for sponsoring us this month!   It was so fun coloring up Butterfly on Daisy and Mouse with Umbrella and Raincoat and making a card and a cute Easter shaker box to hold candy for a basket!

I used Ohuhu Honolulu alcohol markers with brush tips to color the images.  I used digital paper from Creative Fabrica for both pieces.  I made my sentiments in Procreate and printed out.   Excuse the photos I had to just shoot and go and they are  rough!

Instead of tossing a little candy box I covered it, added the foam tape to the inside and added a cardboard insert with the super cute mouse and added some crystal raindrops with green sprinkles for the shake.  Just enough room left to add some candy for my daughter’s Easter basket!  Yup, they still get one every year 😁

Our theme this month is Anything Goes so get inky and a little gluey and show us what you’re up to this month!   We love seeing your creations at Creative Inspiration Challenges!

Creative Inspiration Challenges with Pattie's Creations!

It's August and hot as blazes where I live!  Great time to be inside with the a/c cranked up and crafting!  This month at Creative Inspiration Challenges our sponsor is Pattie's Creations!  A huge thank you to Pattie's Creations for sponsoring us! 💝 Please visit her store on Etsy and have a look at all the gorgeous designs! 

I made two pillow boxes from a kit I had picked up at Walmart!  I could have used the Cricut but I loved the pastel colors that looked like watercolors so went with the kit.   For the box above I used the image "Folding Fan with Orchids" and colored it digitally in Procreate then printed it out and fussy cut.  The sentiments for both of the boxes are stamps from my stash that were freebies in a now closed paper crafting magazine.  The box below has the image "Hummingbird Floral Wreath" and  I used the same process as above.  After fussy cutting I popped them up with foam strips along with the senties.

These images are just so lovely!  We hope to see you at Creative Inspiration Challenges in August where  it is always Anything Goes!!  Keep cool out there!😎

Creative Inspiration Challenges for March with Pattie’s Creations 🌷

 Goodness golly gee Spring is almost here in the South!  We are still yet to have our “Easter Snap” which will surely bring some much colder weather but we will be heating up fast after that!  This month at Creative Inspiration Challenges we have the pleasure of working with Pattie’s Creations!  A big thank you to Pattie’s Creations for sponsoring us!

This delightful image is Daffodils Circle Scrolls!  I made a rocker card base and used the Honeycomb Delight Mini Stencil by Stamplorations with Distress Inks.  I colored the image in Procreate and printed out with the sky blue background.  Next I used colored pencils and gel pens to make the colors pop.  I also went around the scrolls with the gold gel pen making faux stitching lines to bring them further to the front of my card.  The Bible verse is from Fred She Said Designs “Uplifting Sentiments” and inked with a variety of Distress Ink blues then popped up on foam squares.  I also used foam squares to adhere the yellow background circle (inked with Distress Ink) after gluing the daffodil image down.  We hope you will join us at Creative Inspiration Challenges for March and show us your crafty goodies!

Creative Inspiration Challenges for August with Pattie's Creations!

 A big thank you to our sponsor this month Pattie's Creations!  Please visit them and leave some love!  Our challenge for August at Creative Inspiration Challenges is Anything Goes like we do every month and we know you love it! 💖  I had some Christmas in July crafty time with this beautiful image Merry Christmas Lamp Post!  I am such a fan of lamp post and nothing is prettier than a Christmas lamp post!

My art journal gets tossed about and forgotten so much but thanks to my bestie Sall I find myself rummaging for it more often!  I did some Gelato play with some bits of glitter glue snow in two colors with my snow piles being made of Puffy paint!  I colored the image up with Copics and fussy cut then outlined with my Pitt Big Brush!  I hope this scene brings a shiver of frost to your world if then heat is like it is here where I live!  If you are having Christmas weather then may the glow of the candle warm you up a tiny bit!   Now grab up your creative toys and come play with us at Creative Inspiration Challenges!

May 14th The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes with Pattie’s Creations!

Here is our inspiration for this month!

Our fantastic sponsor this time is Pattie’s Creations!  Please give them a visit and show your support!

I immediately thought of my sweet Mama who passed away in 2016 when I saw this image!  She loved ducks in all shapes and sizes!  The love that moms show for their babies is a love that can’t be replicated.  I wanted to wish my Mama a happy Mother’s Day and thank her for all the love she gave me 💕

Gather up your colors and papers a glue and come play with us at The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge!

Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges March with Pattie's Creations!

Top o' the morning to you!  It's time to play with All That Glitters is Green And Gold!

Our sponsor this month is Pattie's Creations and we want to give them a huge thank you!  Please visit their shop and have a look see at all the fabulous images!  We had the chance to play with Irish Owl Hootie for this challenge!  

I colored him up with Copics and then used washable gold glitter paint on top of the shamrocks!  I added some touches of gold gel pen on the hat and Hootie!  I made the senti in Photoshop.  This was going to be a tag from the start and once again my paper punch went off larking about!  So it is a tag/note now.....we crafters always roll with the punches!  We do hope to see you at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges #15 All That Glitters is Green and Gold!  

 

Crazy for Cats Challenge #5 Nap Time with Pattie's Creations!

Another first time design team posting, this time for the Crazy for Cats Challenge #5 Nap Time!  All of us with kitties know how much they love those naps!  To tell the truth so do I! 😻   Our sponsor this time is Pattie's Creations allowing us to play with the totally adorable image "Nap Time"!  Please take a minute to go visit the Etsy shop and leave some love!

I colored up this little fellow with Copics and fussy cut him out.  I added a sentiment from Crafter's Square popping everything up on foam squares!  We do hope you will join in the Nap Time fun at the Crazy for Cats Challenge #5!  We are looking forward to visiting your blogs and leaving you some love!💕

January 20th The Outlawz Festive Fridays with Pattie's Creations!

Here we go with the themes:

Christmas and Anything Goes!

Our sponsor this time is Pattie's Creations!  Please give their shop a visit and leave some love! 💖 

Here is my watercolor oversized postcard using the oh so cute Hootie by Pattie's Creations!

I had a snowscape in mind until I saw the gorgeous weather we had today!  It has been simply beautiful here the past two days!  Zero humidity (I don't know the actual number higher than zero I imagine but lower by far than it usually is here!)  So a clear blue sky and some little wildflowers became the watercolor background for this adorable little owl!  I colored him up with Copics, used Koi watercolors and stamped a sentiment from Crafter's Square.  Do come play with us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!  Easey Peasey themes of Christmas and Anything Goes this time!

Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges Birthday Party in January!

That's right!  Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges is one year old!  YAY!  To kick off the party we are playing with images from our wonderful sponsors from the past year!  I am having a play with some images by LeighSBDesigns and Pattie's Creations!

I have been revisiting my art journal after a long, long holiday!  It has been great fun!  I used the following images and bits from SVG designs by LeighSBDesigns:

Oddleigh Poinsettia Elf and Snow Digi Stamp Set

Elegant Snowflake Layered Make a Card SVG Cutz

I used Dragonfly 1 and a dragonfly from Dragonflies Fly by the awesome Pattie's Creations!  Our theme this month is:

Come show us your Party Time make and give us a chance to visit your blog for a nice hot cup of cocoa!  We will be waiting for you at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges Challenge #13 Party Time!

 

January 6th The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge with Patties Creations!

Thanks so much to Pattie's  Creations for sponsoring us this time at The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge where the themes are:

Christmas, Dragonflies, Use Green and Birthday!  You choose which to use or combine them all!

I almost used them all on my journal page!  Just missed some birthday fun :)  I used Snow Covered Lamp Post, Dragonfly 1 and a dragonfly from Dragonflies Fly!  I had an abundant crop of dragonflies this year from tiny, tiny to huge, huge!  Although the recent freezing weather has probably done them in, I decided I wanted my Christmas season to have them anyway!  I used Gelatos for my background after priming the page with white acrylic paint.  I added the images and my sentiment (I think I made that up but I could have read it somewhere!  Who knows???); I added white snow and lines with white acrylic paint.  I added the glow with a Gelato and some flecks on the senti, too.  Come along and play with us at The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge!

 

September at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges with Pattie's Creations!

Here we are in September!  Where has the year gone?  I can't say I am sad to see summer fading a bit though!  It has been a long hot wet summer!   However, it has been spectacular for dragonflies!  I have seen tiny, tiny dragonflies all the way up to some pretty huge dragonflies!  They are large enough I can see all the segments of the body and the eyes and head and for me to be able to see that ....well, they are big!😸 

 So that leads us to this month's theme at Paper Dragonflies Creative Challenges for September which is "Time Flies- Clock and Dragonflies"     You can make anything you want from cards to 3D pieces using clocks and dragonflies."  This month you must include a dragonfly; they are not optional for this month.  We are being sponsored by the awesome Pattie's Creations Etsy!  I used "Dragonflies Fly" for my project!

I have been smitten with my love of kraft cardstock again and can't seem to stop using it!  For this card I colored the image with Copics using a pale lavender for the background because this scene reminded me of Monet's waterlilies paintings.  I layered the cardstock on some patterned paper and fussy cut a couple of the envelopes to pop on foam dots by the sentiment.  I made the sentiment in Photoshop and printed on the cardstock before adding the colored image.  I used several different pops of color on the dragonflies cause the ones I have been seeing are so many different wonderful colors!  We hope to see you playing with us this month at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges!  Many thanks to Pattie's Creations for sponsoring us!

Pattie's Creations and The Outlawz Sunday Songs & Rhymes Challenge!

 Today we start a brand new Sunday Songs & Rhymes at the Outlawz!  I chose the poem "The Birds' Bath" by Evaleen Stein.   It is a bright children's poem about a garden pool made for the birds!  There are many things to be inspired by in this poem and I hope you enjoy it!  Thanks to Pattie's Creations for sponsoring us this go round!

I chose this sweet image at Pattie's Creations and it is aptly named Sparrows in Bird Bath!  I didn't color the birdies as sparrows because I really wanted to have them bright yellow against the blues in the card.  I used Prismacolor pencis to color the scene before fussy cutting with a small white border around it.  I did add some Distress Ink in mowed lawn around the grass area.  The card is a center pop up step card (following a tutorial by Iced Images YouTube) with the center area top cut out to fit my image into with the sentiment from a paper pad.  I used another paper pad for the patterned layer on blue card stock.  We hope you will join in the fun at The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge!  All the details are HERE!