Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge. Always Anything Goes #601

 Hello everyone!  Summer was a little late this year for Oregon.  Well today 7-16-2025 will be in the triple digits.  Way to hot for this gal.  I'll stay in the house and craft!!!  Here are the sponsors for challenge #601.

All Dressed Up

Colour of love shop

These two sponsors are simply amazing with their artwork.  Many digital stamps to fit your needs.  Please go leave some love and maybe a thank you.

My image is from Colour Of Love and is titled Wild Gypsy Roses.   Here is my creation.

What a beautiful image from Heather.  Have you ever tried to
color black hair?  Well my black hair is actually blue indigo.  I
just could not make it using black.  I have used PrismaColor 
pencils, Castle Arts oil colored pencils, Shuttle Art alcohol 
markers and probably other items I have forgotten about.  I did
a print and cut leaving a slight border around.  The paper is some
that I picked up during a Tuesday Morning run in 2019.  The card
base is olive green and then a pale yellow floral  G45 card on top.

The inside has a wonderful verse that I found online.

Just a close up.

The back!

Well that is it for this fortnight.  I hope you all have a wonderful two weeks and I will see you then.

From my heart to yours,

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know you are blessed!

Penny's Paper Crafty challenge #600 Anything goes using paper

 Hello from beautiful Oregon, USA.  It's almost our Independence Day which is July 4th.  Now in Oregon there is a phrase that 'summer starts on July 5th'.  That is going to be true for this year.  Tomorrow is July first and it's going to be 90+ degrees.  Rain is expected this coming weekend.  It's crazy!  But crafting is happening everyday.  So here are the sponsors for our 600th Challenge.

Mirtillamente Craft Shop

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Polkadoodles Papercrafts

I have to admit, I love these sponsors.  The images are crisp and clean and perfect for print and cut.  They both have different styles.  So please go on over to each and leave a little love and maybe a thank you!

On to my project.  My image is from Mirtillamente Craft Shop and is titled Autumn Witch Hat.  

I have a confession to make.  I am a planner person from way
back.  Absolutely love anything to help keep my life on track.
When I found the planner by Happy Planner I was hooked.  So
this is the 5th year using this system and I have pretty much 
perfected the way I set each month up.  First I create a monthly
image page announcing the month.  So for October 2025 I have
colored using my shuttle art markers and paper piecing this 
adorable Autumn Witch Hat.  I just happened onto this frame 
featuring the moon and stars and it worked perfectly.  I cut
the frame out of royal blue glitter paper and the backing is a pretty
silver.  The paper background is from some book but I couldn't
tell you which.  The blue bubble edge is washi tape.  

Here is a close up.  I paper pieced the book with some old scrap
of variegated tan paper.  October is cut from hot pink card stock.
The yellow flower and bright green button are from my big box
that is metal of buttons.  

That is going to be it for this edition of Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge.  I hope to see you again in a fortnight.  So until then,

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know you are blessed!  

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #599 Anything goes using paper

 Hello all!  Short and sweet post for challenge #599 at Penny's.  Here are our sponsors.

Fred She Said Store 

The Paper Shelter

Two really great sponsors for this challenge.  Go pay them a visit and leave some love and a big thankyou!

I am working with the image from The Paper shelter called Coconut.  Here is something different for a change.

This is my cover for Spetember 2025 for use with my Happy Planner.  I have been a planner girl since 8th grade.  I always have a place to put appts. and important dates.  But with the Happy Planner there is a lot more I can do to personalize it.  This is the cover.  On the opposite side is the start of the monthly calendar.  First off I colored a beach scene from Creative Haven books by Angela Porter titled DayDreams (here is the link.)  I used a very old set of Prang Colored Pencils.  I wanted to have the background reflect 'coconut' and the colors on her.  I think I did that a little to good.  I had to make a shadow to go behind here to make her visible.  I used my new Lanquo Markers from Temu for the water.  This is going to take some practice (not letting the kids-cats on the desk while coloring.)  When this was completed I added a 8.5 x 11 piece of dark blue card to cover the front illustration.  Glued on my new cover and punched the tabs.  Cover is complete.  Here are some more pics.  

That is it for this challenge.  I will be back in July with another creation from Penny's 
challenge.  

So from my heart to yours,  Be Healthy, Be Safe and know you are blessed.

Happy Birthday

USA!