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

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Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #598 Anything goes using paper!

 Hello everyone!  Glad that you could make some time for me.  Can you believe that it's June 4th already?  That can only mean one thing.  Christmas in July is almost here.  Busy busy time for design teams everywhere!  Here are the sponsors for our challenge.

Rachelle Anne Miller

Patties Creations

Patties Creations and Rachelle Anne Miller are two digital companies that can provide a digi for just about any occasion.  Crisp and clean images that can be print and cut easily.  Go on over and leave some love.  They do appreciate it.

My image for this fortnight is from Rachelle Anne Miller and is called Santa's little helper.  This was a very quick card.  Hope you like it.

Isn't she just the cutest little thing?  And the puppy with the
reindeer ears.  This will be one of my images for Christmas 
this year.  I used a light blue card as a base with a layer of 
lavender and a sheet from a Crafters Companion Christmas
card kit titled Contemporary Christmas from 2019.  I colored
the image using my Castle Arts Oil Pencil set.  There is a 
button on the end of the hat and a bit of green floss to tie
the present sack. 

The heavy card stock pieces are from the kit. 

Then of course the back.

That is my creation for this challenge.  I will be back in two weeks with another creation. 

So from the bottom of my heart to yours,

Stay safe, stay healthy and know you are blessed!

Penny's Paper Challenge #597 Anything goes as long as it is a paper project

 Hello everyone!  I'm back with another project for Penny's Challenge.  Announcement!! I will be out for the challenge on June 4th, 2025.  I am having oral surgery on May 27th, 2025.  I just won't be up for it.  So for this challenge here are the sponsors.

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

Leanns World 101

What a great group of sponsors for this challenge.  Please gang go show some love and a thank you.  They would greatly appreciate it.  

On to my project.  I have selected a image from Leann's World 101 called Azalea's New Dress. Here it is!

Here she is!  I love the way she turned out.  the image is colored
with Prisma Colored Pencils.  I see that I am leaning more towards
bright colors right now.  Purple and red really pop on a background
of white and tiny flowers.  The base is bright red cardstock from 
Bazzel.  Next is a layer from Graphic 45.  Then Azalea tops off
the card.

Here is the inside.  With the card titled 'Just a Note' this will
be a great space to write a message.

The Back.

I forgot to show the envelope!

Well that is my project for this fortnight.  I will see everyone for the challenge on 6-18-2025.  So until then stay safe, stay healthy and know you are blessed.

Penny's challenge #596 Anything Goes (as always)

 Ok kids.  Here is my contribution to Penny's Challenge # 596.  But first  let me tell you who our wonderful sponsors are.

Last Minute Manda

SheepSki Designs

I just love creating with both of these sponsors.  Go show some love gang!  Maybe a thank you is also in order.

I have used an image from SheepSki Design called It's A Spring Thing.  Here is what I came up with.

I had a lot of fun getting the tree and flowers to play nice together.
The envelope is light blue.  The card base is lighter blue with
scrap background.  Hello Spring is in mirrored card stock
many years ago from Dollar Tree.  Now I used colored pencils
from Prisma Color, Castle Arts, Arteza and even some from 
Costco to color this image.  I think it turned out pretty good.

Thank goodness for stickers.  These are from Creative
Memories from long ago.

I have a new personal sticker and I decorated the envelope.

Well that is it from me for challenge # 596.  I will still be able to contribute to challenge #597 but after that probably not for a few challenges.  My dream is coming true!  I am having oral surgery for dentures.  I have had rotten teeth all my life.  I am going to be smiling the rest of my years!!!

So from my heart to yours, Stay Healthy, stay safe and know you are blessed!!

Happy Mothers Day everyone!

Penny's Challenge #595 Anything Goes using paper

 Hello everyone!  I have a very quick post for you'all.  Here are the sponsors.

All Dressed Up

Colour Of Love

Two of the most wonderful sponsors that generously provide images for the design team so we can promote their stamps.  Please go and share some love and leave a thank you.  They do appreciate it!

On to my project.  I am using an image from All Dressed Up and the image is titled Spring Lamb.  

Here she is and cute as a button.  I colored her using my 
PrismaColor Pencils and my Castle Art Oil based pencils.  
I had some farm paper left over that I put in the background.
Can you see the corn and the Moo Cow?  The paper fit perfectly.
I have used a sky blue card, Lime green card and then the image.
I really like the way it came out.

Pretty simple.

The Back.

Well I hope that this gives you some ideas.  I hope everyone that celebrates Easter had a wonderful time.  

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

Happy May Day!

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge # 594

 Hello everyone!  Well I have to tell everyone what happened to my project for March 26, 2025.  I made a very cute ice skater birthday card.  Made sure I had enough postage on it and dropped it in the mail.  The second I did that I knew what I had done.  I didn't take any pictures.  So I didn't have a project.  But I made up for it on challenge #594.  Here are our sponsors.

Mirtillamente

Polkadoodles

I haven't worked with Mirtillamente very often but I love the images.  Polkadoodles I adore.  Go show some love gang and please leave a thank you!

I have an image from Polkadoodles that is named Ruby Oo La La.  Each year I try to make all my friends birthday cards.  It's gotten to be something they and I look forward to.  So here is the first of 10 cards for May 2025.

I received this image not colored.  So I let my imagination 
take over.  For Ruby, she has been colored with Prismacolor
pencils.  I tried using the other pencils but they just didn't cut 
it this time.  I also used my alcohol markers for skin and cheeks.
I cut her out on my Silver Bullet Pro and got started on the 
card.  The card is black with hot pink and purple solid and
a paper I actually bought many moons ago at Tuesday Morning.
The three balloons are cut out of mirrored card stock. Can you see 
the dog?  She looked like she is a great poodle person.

The inside background is made the same as the front.  I 
purchased a die on Temu and ran some dotted vellum through
my Gemini Jr.  Back it with black to make it show up.

You can't see it but this is the back.  

That is what I made for the first birthday card.  I have one more done so only 8 more to go.  

So from my heart to yours, 

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know you are blessed.

Happy Easter

Penny's challenge #592 Anything using paper.

 Well hello everyone.  I have a short but sweet post this fortnight.  Let's Get Started. 

Rachelle Anne Miller

Patties Creations

What a great couple of sponsors.  Go visit, look around and fall in love with an image.  They will greatly appreciate it.  Oh Oh don't forget to say a thank you!

I am working with an image from Patties Creations called thinking-of-you.  This is what I came up with.

What a fun image to color.  Bright pinks and purples for a 
sunflower.  A monarch butterfly.  This can only mean one thing.
I think the flower is a Gerbera Daisy and the monarch butterfly
is going south.  Spring is right around the corner.  The card
base is black.  Purple paper is from a book called Pretty Posies.
Gold brads are Anna Griffin.  Thinking of you is cut on 
purple mirror.  

I just love this quote.  

So no envelope yet.  It will be created when the card is going to be mailed.  Thank you so much for visiting.  I'll see you in two weeks.

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