Digital Tuesday Challenge 'Bling!'

Hello! It's Tuesday, and by now you should all know what that means: the Digital Tuesday Challenge! This week's challenge is 'Bling!'. Simply make a card or project with something sparkly and submit it to the Challenge Blog for your chance to win one set of digi-stamps by My Grafico!

"My Grafico" is our sponsor this week and this adorable new set that I'm featuring today is called 'Slumber Party'. I made two projects with this set. The first one is a card. I used a pre-glittered paper from DCWV 'All Dressed Up' stack for some 'bling' in the background. I then added some adhesive rhinestones to her hair bows and the white bow for some added bling. The sentiment is computer generated. My second project is a scrap book page. I thought these images were perfect for a scrap book page about a little girl's Slumber Party, but I don't have little girls anymore so I didn't have any pictures to put on the page. I will probably sell this page at my local consignment store. I left empty white mats on the page so that the buyer will know where to put their own pictures.

All the images on this page with the exception of the flower border are in the set. For the title, I cut out three separate images and put them together.

Here is a close up of another little girl image. Notice the bling in her hair bows?

The set includes these make-up images that any little girl would love.

Don't you just love the phone and pizza? Few slumber parties are minus those two items!

And finally, whats the most important thing everyone wants to eat at any party? Popcorn of course!

If you'd like to play along this week simply click on the Digital Tuesday Challenge blinkie in my side bar and it will take you to the challenge with further instructions.

Have a great day! Amy

More Buttons and Bits!

Here are a couple of cards I made for last week's and this week's Featured Stamper Challenges on Splitcoaststampers. The first card uses the new Papertrey Ink stamp set 'Buttons and Bits'. It is for this week's Featured Stamper 'va.sunshine'. Her original card can be seen HERE. I kept the same layout, but changed the stamp set, papers/colors, and eliminated the stitching. The cloud on this card, is not included in the Papertrey set. The image is from an old retired Stampin Up! set. My card stock colors are Ruby Red, Brocade Blue, Very Vanilla and White. Designer Paper is DCWV 'The Spring Stack'.

My second card is for last week's Featured Stamper Versamom. Her original card can be seen HERE. For this card, I changed just about everything. I was just so inspired by her adorable Teddy Bear Card, that I remembered

my very neglected retired Stampin Up! 'Favorite Teddy Bear' stamp of my own, so I decided to make a card with it. The paper is Very Vanilla, tempting Turquoise, Creamy Caramel, and Chocolate Chip. The designer paper is DCWV 'The Pet Stack'. The present is mounted up on dimensionals and the image was colored with Prismacolored Pencils and Gamosol.

Before I close today, I just wanted to mention that I found some great vintage digital images on this blog HERE. She is also offering some blog candy this week....lots of free digital images to one lucky randomly chosen winner! So be sure and check them out, especially if you love cute and girly images like I do!

I have off today! Yippee! And its raining too, so I'll get lots of time in my craft room! I hope you will have as nice of a day as I will! Amy

Using Dimensionals

Before I discuss my card for today, I just wanted to mention that Darlene's Blog Candy for her Blog Anniversary is still going on, so be sure to check it out HERE. She is celebrating the one year anniversary of her blog, and has a great prize for one lucky randomly chosen winner!

Now, onto the details of my card. This card was made for a multitude of Dirty Girl Challenges on Splitcoaststampers, but I won't go into all those boring details of describing each challenge. I basically just wanted to show you how effective the use of dimensionals can be when you have a image like this Monkey image from Digital Stamp Oasis. Because the baby monkey is hiding behind the mother monkey naturally in the original image, I can really make that concept even more dramatic with dimensionals. I simply print, color, and cut out the image twice, but I 'pop up' one of the mother monkey images so it really does look like the baby monkey is behind the mother. Isn't that cool? The leaves on the palm tree are also popped up, but it isn't as dramatic as the monkey image because there is nothing behind it to look three dimensional. Here is a side view and close-up of the card. The palm tree is a stamped image from Mindy's Zoo, the sentiment is from Stampendous. The images were all colored with Copic Markers, but the backgrounds were colored with chalk.

Have a great day, and be sure to check out Darlene's Blog Candy and wish her a happy anniversary! Amy