Ladybug Bloom card

I decided to do something totally different with the Designed2Delight image this week. I put Tim Holtz tissue paper strips on cardstock and then printed the image on it. Copics work, but they have to be the dark colors or they don't show up. The rectangle die is one of my new ones from Spellbinders, the background paper from Tim Holtz, the sentiment Stampin Up and the flower is from Hobby Lobby. I am very happy with the way this one turned out.

Guest Designer

It is kind of exciting for me to be asked to be a guest designer this week at the Designed 2 Delight Challenge Blog. Tomorrow a new challenge will be posted. This week's image is a precious jar with ladybugs.

This is the Poppy image I have had for some time-very simple and versatile. I used a Spellbinders die and my new decorative paper pack from K & Company.

Here is Caring Kaela and is one of Faith's newest images. She has the mouthless version as well, but I prefer the sweet little smiling one. The sentiment is from D2D also.

Angel Caroline

Another precious image from Designed 2 Delight! She was fun to color and I wanted to give the card a more vintage look by using that particular background paper. I used a sentiment from TLC Creations and just realized she is an angel and not a fairy! Those terms are sort of interchangeable, are they not??

Show it off Saturday at TLC

These are all cards I have done using Paulette's images and sentiments. The first is the Vintage Mercedes that I made that for my SIL for his birthday. The second uses the sentiment from the Love Ewe set and the little ewe image is from Designed2Delight. The last one is Dressing Up Vintage and one of my favorites. It is a great image for me to practice my copic coloring for class at Color Me Creative.

Happy Saturday to everyone.

The early bird gets the..............

Lucky shamrock! This is this month's free image over at Designed2Delight. I think I will make another card with this image, but this time color him blue. I chose the paper then colored the boots then had to make the bird coordinate, What fashionable blue bird would wear turquoise boots? None I know! A wren though would wear these boots proudly. It is another beautiful spring day here and Louie, Belle and I are enjoying the fresh air and sunshine.

How lucky can a kitten be?

This great little kitty image came from Marla Shega at Squigglefly. I like coloring her images because they already are shaded. I hadn't been to Squigglefly's blog in awhile but am happy I happened up on it today. There is a great story there about a little kitten named Lucky who was born with a birth defect and needs surgery. Squigglefly is donating all their profits this month to that great cause.

The sentiment When in doubt wear Red comes from TLC Creations .

Daffodils and cupcakes

Last week I made my card for the Designed 2 Delight weekly challenge, but forgot to add my link to her website. Hence no freebie for me this week. Faith's images are well worth the money to buy them so it was no big deal for me. I love daffodils and will use this image again. I used the Out of the box technique twice with spellbinders dies. Quite out of necessity though, because I messed up the coloring so badly I had to cut around the pot, but I was determined to save this image!! The sentiment is one I bought at Stampfest but don't remember which company.

The cupcake card is also from D2D over at Crafter's Digital Arts Center and is a freebie for entering the Other Themes challenge to mix two or more different prints of designer paper. I haven't done much using the different papers together but it is simple when you buy the paper stacks. All the paper goes together! Is that cheating?? I love cupcake images so this is another one I will use!