Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges for July with LeighSBDesigns!

I adore dragonflies so much!  My yard swarms with them each year is so many magical colors and sizes!  So with a theme of "Dragonflies" at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges this month and a lovely sponsor like LeighSBDesigns, you could definitely say I am one happy camper!  My choice of designs for this challenge was "Daisy Dragonfly Digi Stamp" and it is so, so gorgeous!

I am forever jotting down bits and pieces of information about my design teams on whatever paper happens to be about!  Then I promptly loose the said paper and the craziness begins!  Noel bought these little kraft cover notebooks and I decided to get serious about keeping my DT stuff in one place!  What better and more beautiful way to do that than have Daisy Dragonfly to remind me!  I stenciled some raindrops (Stamplorations) with Distress Ink but LeighSBDesigns has some really amazing digital paper packs that were released in the same collection as Daisy Dragonfly that would work wonderfully!  I had run out of colored ink for my printer and sadly, couldn't print out the paper!  I colored Daisy up with Copics, fussy cut and inked the edges with my Pitt Artist Pen before gluing down.  I absolutely love my new planner!  We hope to see you real soon at Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges!

 

August 19th Stay Crafty @Home Blog Hop by LeighSBDesigns

  

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!

Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉  I have been on a stay-cation at home with my kiddos watching movies and playing a ton of video games!  Not much crafting just bits and pieces so here are two bits!

 These stamps were freebies in a magazine from a looong time ago.  The little notecards came with the hearts cut into them so I just layered up some paint doodled canvas paper behind them.  I colored the adorable hedgehog with Arteza watercolors and the butterfly, too.  I added a shimmer Gelato to the wings of the butterfly.  I used a Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Opal Quarts pen from the Oozak store on the hearts to shimmer them up.  I used Distress Inks to match the colors on the hearts to stencil the envelopes with my Stamplorations mini stencil "Oh My Stars". This was really just playing with some "new/old" stuff! 😋 I will see you at your blogs soon!

August 13th SC@H Blog Hop!

   

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!

Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉 This happy fella is from Carmen's Veranda and is appropriately named, Happy Skeleton!

My background is cut from a page in my mixed media pad.  I was working on a fabulous tutorial by the Art Sherpa on Youtube but my hearts got real wonky, real fast! Definitely not the Sherpa's fault, I just kept wanting to even out each side!  But never fear it has been reborn to pair with a happy skeleton!  I used a 6 x 6 patterned paper and cut little slashes for the skelly panel to slip into.  I used my Arteza watercolors (still sooo loving these!) to color up the dapper guy and fussy cut before sliding the panel in the slots. .  I stenciled some hearts from the Stamplorations "Hearts All Over" mini stencil ....well, all over! with some fired brick Distress Ink on the patterned paper.  I wrote the sentiment with a white gel pen onto a section of the bokeh hearts from the mixed media pad and popped it up on the fat page.  Join us HERE for to play!

August 12th SC@H Blog Hop!

  

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!

Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉 More fun with Oddball Art's Exclusive for Members August Collection!

This was hilarious to me!  This friend? is just checking! 😋  I printed the image on cardstock and colored with my Arteza watercolors.  I am loving the vibrant, non-chalky colors...all 60 of them!  I used a reverse mask to splatter the "box" with blue watercolor and white acrylic paint.  I added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I cut the inside of the box out of a piece of watercolor paper that I had played around with ages ago and added a bit of Distress Oxide wilted violet spray.  The background patterned paper I stenciled a bit with Distress Ink in the same color and I used the Stamplorations "Oh My Stars" mini stencil around the image. I used the spray on my matt to color around the question and fussy cut it out.  I folded a narrow piece of cereal box accordion style to make a simple jiggly base for the sentiment.  So much fun and inky goodness!  I look forward to visiting your blog soon on this fabulous Stay Crafty@Home Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  

I am entering this at Ike's Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge #57