Sketch Saturday 628

I did this card for the Sketch Saturday Challenge #628. :

Sketch Saturday 628
 

CCEE2039 - Mushrooms

 Hi Crafty Friends,

It's Frances here again this week, bringing us the last challenge for the month.

According to the Days of the Year Calendar, September is Mushroom Month. So for our challenge this week, include one or more mushroom either stamped or die cut on your creation.

I used a digital image from Power Poppy for my faabulous mushrooms that I colored with colored pencils and copic markers. 

Check over on the CCEEstampers blogsite to see the team members creations for this week. You are welcome to play along and if you download to SCS please use CCEE2039 as your keyword. 

Make My Monday Challenge 131

 

The Make My Monday challenge got me going on some of my Christmas card making with their Christmas theme of the week. The gnome if from Rubbernecker, not sure of the source for the reindeer and sentiment. I die cut the trees out of design paper and mounted this all on a fabulous scripted design print with the lyrics of "Chestnuts Roasting on an open fire."  I used some crystal Nuvo to add a glassy look to the gnomes eye lens.  You can find this challenge HERE.

International Art and Soul Challenge

 I love finding tic/tac/toe challenges and here's one for the International Art and Soul challenge this week:

I used the top row going across for my card. I used white embossing powder on a big background stamp that has been in my collection for quite some time. Then after heating it, I rubbed distress oxide  inks on it to make an resist embossing. One of the colors I used was a red variation. I then used a copic red marker to color the flowers on the stamped image I added to the top. I placed a small blue twine bow under the sentiment.  Here is my card I want to share for this challenge:

The coffee cup and sentiment are from Unity. The background stamp is a retired SU stamp from my collection.  You can find the challenge HERE.

Twofer Challenge - Trees

 

I made these two cards for the Twofer Challenge to use  trees.  I used a tree stamp from a retired Stampin' Up set. The one on the left I stamped the image of the tree onto design paper. I used oxide inks and copic markers to make fall colored leaves on the tree. I die the park bench, then added a sentiment and paper doll image from Tim Holtz. The card on the right is on white cardstock, the swaps of color are from a Gina K stamp. I used the same tree stamp as the one I used on the other card. 

This challenge can be found HERE.

TicTacToe PP Challenge

 This card is for the Tic Tac Toe  Challenge on Power Poppy, I used the digital hydrangea  from Power Poppy, I used an old retired Stampin' Up stamp for the background I inked it with distress oxide ink (chipped sapphire), spritzed the stamp with water and smashed it onto my white paper. This has a brilliant blue cardstock card base. My tic tac toe items are blue, background stamp, and twine.  Check it out over HERE.

Creative Coffetti Challenge over on Power Poppy Blog

 

This is for the Creative Confetti challenge to create on colored cardstock. I printed out these Power Poppy digital poppies on red cardstock.   I colored all the leaves with white colored pencil to neutralized the bright color and then used green colored pencils to go over it. Then I added green copic marker to accent some of the veins and variation on the leaves. I used a brownish red copic marker to add a deeper red than the paper on the poppy petals that were in the shadows and folds, I lightly colored over the petals with white colored pencil to lighten the red to look like that was where the light was hitting on the petals. I used white gel pen for the center of the large poppy and a black copic marker for some of the dots in the center as well. I mounted this to red and white gingham design paper and used a black cardstock cardbase. I punched an oval out in black, added white gel pen stitches and added to the front of the card.  I have never tried printing off my digitals on colored cardstock before, but I really liked my results and I am sure I will do more of this in the future. 

You can find this challenge HERE.

Find this challenge  HERE