Tropical Cones

Tiny bubbles,
In the wine,
Make me happy,
Make me feel fine.

I went to Hawaii once. It was definitely the worse trip of my life. To make a long story short, my boyfriend broke up with me while we were there and I came down with pneumonia. Luckily, the symptoms didn’t show up until the last day of the trip.

But doesn’t this lovely Lani from Digi Shack make you want to go to Hawaii. I really would love to go again and make it a good trip so I can get that one out of my memory banks! I water colored Lani (of course-I’m stuck in a rut) and the DP is a We Are Memory Keepers Archivers freebie. Well, I sure spend a lot of money at Archivers to get the freebies (he-he). I guess I’d probably be spending that money anyway. When I got this freebie, they rang up my order and said that I only hand to spend $2.00 more to get the freebie. Yay!!!

I made the card for the SP Color Combo challenge using the Pink Elephant sketch. The Stamp with Fun Challenge is “at the sea”, and the Cardalicious challenge is green pink and orange. I hope they consider this to be within their challenge. Also, Digi Shack’s challenge is another color challenge which I hope this meets.

Aloha all,

Christine

Now I can’t get “Tiny Bubbles Out of My Head.”

Digi Night at Digi Shack

As part of the SNR Oh Say Can You See 4th of July Blog Hop the Digi Shack is holding Digi Night.  They are offering a free image as well as a sketch challenge.  If you participate in the challenge, you will be emailed a free image from the new release next week.  Also, on the Digi Shack blog, the are giving another digi image.  That means if you participate in the blog hop and the challenge, you will receive a total of three new digital images.  You have until Sunday Night to participate.

So, here’s my card for the challenge.  I used the lovely Patriotic Lani for my card.  She is one of the free images but I already had her anyway.

 

 

Here is the sketch.  There are three sets of four buttons attached to the card.  I love how this turned out.

I water colored Lani.  I like using blonde gals on patriotic cards because a little more color to the card and then I can use a bit of gold in my embellies.  The DP is DCWV Whimsy, the ribbon is Making Memories and the buttons are Favorite Findings I got at Wal-Mart.  They are a great buy at $2.29 for 130 buttons and they come in a ton of colors.

That’s it for today.Talk at you later!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Three for the Madness and a Fourth for the Daisy

I got busy in the craft room today and made three cards for the Midnight Madness challenge. So without further ado, four cards for you. (I’m a poet and didn’t know it).

Cherry Chocolate Cone. I have had a craving for several weeks now for sundaes with cherry ice cream and hot fudge. When I decided to color this image, I new it had to be cherry ice cream with chocolate chunks. Yum!

I used one of the free images from Digishac when they first came online. The sentiment is from them as well. I used Prisma colors and gamsol to color the image. The DP is from a Me & My Big Ideas paper stack.

I followed the challenge at Stamptacular Sunday which is “Chocolate” and at the Chrizma Cardz which is “Dotty”.

Flora Window. This is my second card for Midnight Madness. The friend that I’m sending cards to particularly likes this image from Sketching Stamper, so I thought I’d make a couple more.

I used water color pencils to color the image. The DP is from the DCWV Pocket Full of Posies stack. I added the flowers and pearls and wa-la; that’s it!!!

The 2 Red Bananas challenge is “May Flowers” and the Creative Card Crew challenge is “Pretty Flowers”.

Daisy Gems. One last card for the Midnight Madness challenge. When I looked at this image today, I thought of my niece because she loves daisies. I was pretty sure she would have daisies for her wedding (she has since called and said she is having daisies) so I thought I would color them in her wedding colors – blue, green and yellow. I haven’t seen samples of her colors yet though. I’m sure I don’t have the correct shades.

I used a free image from My Grafico and colored it with Prismas and gamsol. The DP is from the big box of K & Co. papers.

I’m also using the Cute Card Thursday challenge which is a “Bit o’ Bling”.

Blue Daisies. I once again made a card in my nieces wedding colors. I’m trying to get my brain thinking this way.

I think I’m the queen of free digi images. I used another free image from My Grafico and I used the sketch from Card Patterns. I colored the image with Prisma colors and gamsol. The DP is also from the box of K & Co.

I have a couple more cards that I’ll put in other posts.

Blessings,

Christine

Blooming Cherries

Cherry blossoms mean springtime!!! The cherries have already bloomed and are on their way to fruit but this image is beautiful!!! The image is from Digi Shack and I’m entering it into their sketch challenge. I also decorated the inside of this card.

Someday maybe I’ll be able to see the cherry blossoms in Washington, DC. Come to think of it, I could see the cherry blossoms in Emmett, Idaho, just a short drive from here. Maybe I’ll do that next year and use the pics for a Pink Saturday post!!!

Blessings,

Christine

Too Long Mail Box

The Digi Shack sells digi stamps and more and they have started a new challenge blog. This is their second challenge and it is to use the colors Going Gray, Summer Sun, and Certainly Celery and, of course, to use one of their digi stamps. I used the sketch from Chrizma Cardz.

If you haven't entered for my giveaway, you still have time. Click on the Martha Stewart book above and it will take you to the candy with a challenge post!!!

Blessings,