Summertime Mermaid with The Greeting Farm

Hi, I wanted to share a card I made for the Greeting Farm August card challenge, the theme is SUMMERTIME! I was excited since I have the Magic Kit, and they all are summery.  I chose to use the mermaid, so cute.

I tried a new technique coloring the two blue parts first with Memento dye and a sponge, with the white part blocked off.  Then I used the Thanks die and cut out 4 copies of the word and stacked them up.  I added a seaweed diecut.  I colored the mermaid with Copics, and used Cryogen paper so she's kind of sparkly.

This will be entered in the August Farm Fresh challenge at TGF.  Thanks for visiting.

Mini-Notebooks

I have really been enjoying the Papertrey Ink Challenges lately and here is my entry for this week's Challenge, make a Die Cut mini notebook.  I used corrugated cardboard for the backing and the paper is by WeRMemoryKeepers called Hall Pass.

I used 2 Papertrey Ink teacher sets for the stamping.  The first is the PTI Teacher's Apple Stamp set.  

  The second is PTI TagIts #6, Mini Stamp Set.

I also added google eyes because what kid doesn't love googly eyes.  Here is the challenge link which also has a wonderful video tutorial on how to make the mini-notebooks:

Make It Monday PTI Challenge #220.  

Thanks for peeking.

The Greeting Farm Challenge - Card #1

Good Morning, here are two cards I made for the Greeting Farms July challenge which is Blue, White and Red.  I wanted to experiment with my Zig watercolor pens and was playing around.  

The first card was embossed with stars first then watercolored.  

Here are the challenges:  The Greeting Farm Red White Blue Challenge.  The little girl is from the Magical Kit and I was glad to have a chance to color her up.  

 Thanks for peeking and have a great day!

The Greeting Farm July Challenge Card #2

Good Morning, here is the second card I made for the Greeting Farms July challenge which is Blue, White and Red.  I wanted to experiment with my Zig watercolor pens and was playing around.  

The first card was embossed with stars first then watercolored.  

The second card below was made by pressing the cardstock into ink dye on my table.  I did use red ink even though it came out a little pinkish!

The Greeting Farm Red White Blue Challenge.  Thanks for peeking and have a great day!

Watercolor Make-it-Monday #218

Hi everyone, now that things are settling a little Ive been trying to get in as much card making time as possible.  

 I really love the rainbow of colors that this card ended up with.  I made for Make it Monday at Papertrey Ink, the challenge was to use a die and watercolor.  

The "Hello" die I used is from Lawn Fawn, I used Zig Watercolor pens and the coffee cups are from Papertrey Ink - Heart2heart Mini Stamp Set #1.  I also had the coffee cup dies so I used that as a background to pop up the cups.  The cups are colored with Copics and I paper pieced some coordinating paper on the cups.  Phew.

Thanks for peeking and hope you have a crafty week.

I am entering this in the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday Challenge and the Lawnscaping Color Challenge by Lawn Fawn.

Word Art Wednesday - Dress Card

Today's verse over at Word Art Wednesday is from Psalm 31:25.    I hope you will play along with us - it is a very simple "anything goes"challenge... just create an uplifting and positive card or other artwork and post it at Word Art Wednesday challenges.  You can use this week's verse below, but it is not required.  

Karen M. (Papercraft Memories) created the beautiful graphic for today's verse from Psalm 31:25:

I couldn't resist going with the clothing theme and chose this adorable cut file from Mod Kid's Patty Young. I then printed it on my Silhouette Cameo and cut.  It was lots of fun choosing the belt & bows...

Happy Crafting Today and Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blue Koi Jammies

For today's outfit for Kids Clothes Week I decided to make some pajamas for the little guy.  I had in my mind the blue fish (which I applied with my Silhouette and iron-on transfer paper) and didn't use a pattern for the outfit.  

I up cycled a big adult cream shirt for the base that was a thrift store find, and I had already used the ribbing of it on an earlier project. It was nice to use all the shirt up! I put the little print from the front of the shirt on the back of the new pajamas.

I love the maroon ribbing and shorts as different for a boy. Overall, glad again for the inspiration of Kids Clothes Week to inspire me to sew this little outfit.