Penny's Challenge #560

 Hello everyone!  In the USA it's Happy Thanksgiving.  Travel mercies to all who are traveling.  Short and sweet post.  Here are the sponsors.

Mirtillamente Craft Shop

Prize~~2 Digi's of the winners choice

SheepSki Designs

Prize~~3 digi's of the winners choice

Two fabulous sponsors for this fortnights challenge.  Love working with both of them.  Go say a thank you and leave some love.  They really do appreciate it.

On to my creation.  My image is from Mirtillamente Craft Shop and is titled Santa Ops.  Here is my creation.

I have always been told that I have a great sense of humor.  It
has helped greatly when coming up with captions.  I paper 
pieced all of Santa and the snow.  I used my Prismacolor Pencils
for Santa's Sack and the presents.  The base is AC Cardstock
and I layered on a scrap of blue for the night sky.  Punched out
a fir tree with a die and embossed with a very old snowflake
stamp using WOW embossing powder.  The background is a 
Christmas/Winter table cloth.

Sorry it's blurry.  Gold embossed Merry Christmas.

The back of the card.

Well that's it for this creation.  I will be back in two weeks for another challenge from Penny's.  I am now off to make an Apple Pie.  So from my heart to yours...

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know that you are blessed!

Penny's Challenge #559 Anything Goes!

 Hello all!  How was your Halloween?  Here at home I make special packages filled with goodies for the littles across and next door to me.  But, my daughter and daughter in law live in a very affluent area in Salem, OR, USA.  They are finding out that their area is where everyone loves to trick or treat.  They had a grand total of 406, yes 406 kids visit.  They gave out 6 really large bags of candy (the Costco size ones).  Just amazing.  That's my update!  Here are this challenge sponsors.

LeAnns World 101

Prize~~2 Digital images of the winners choice

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The Paper Shelter

Prize~~3 Digital images of the winners choice

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Ching-Chou Kuik Digital Stamps

Prize~~2 Single digital images of the winners choice

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Boy this challenge has some fabulous sponsors.  I love designing and creating with all of them.  Gang please go say a thank you and leave some love.  They might also have a challenge to enter.

My image is from Ching-Chou Kuik and is titled Lighting Up.  I got to practice my blending on this project.  Here it is!

I think that I used every color in marker, pens and colored
pencils I own.  The card is from Joanns.  The blue mirrored
paper is from Dollar Tree.  Die cut behind image is from 
Spellbinders and the corner decorations are leftovers of the
die cut.  This image actually took about 4 tries before I was
satisfied with the results.  Love how the blending turned out.
I used my sparkle gel pens and metallic colored pencils to
add some bling.  I colored her skin a very light powder blue.
Her hair is blue gel pen and her eyes are green.   

Here is a better image of the front.  I have made it into an
easel card.  

The bottom of the easel card is shown above.  You can now see
the actual die shape.  The Merry Christmas is another die from
KSCraft cut out of red glitter.  The easel stop is a pretty star
with a clear gem in the middle.

This is the envelope.

Well what do you think?  I actually am pretty pleased with myself.  Learned a couple new tricks and new techniques for coloring.  I am a happy camper!!!  So from my heart to yours,

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy and know you are blessed.  

Happy Veteran's Day!