Guest Designer for Crafting by Designs

Hello everyone!

I'm so excited to have been asked to be a guest designer at the Crafting by Designs blog.  Today their challenge is FRIENDS/FRIENDSHIP and here's the card I've created.

I thought I'd play around with stencils and inks today since I knew I wanted to make this sentiment my focus.  I've really enjoyed creating backgrounds with stencils ... so easy and fun.  I'm so hooked on dies these days that my poor stamps have been neglected terribly.  SO I grabbed an old favorite .. SU 'botanical blooms' to add a little 'floral pizazz' to my sentiment panel.  I used the same sponging colors as my stenciled background for the edge but used Spectrum Noir alcohol markers for the coloring on the flowers.

Truth be told ... I was doing a little 'clean up' while creating this card by using a few die cuts that were laying on my work table from previous projects.  (i.e. Garden Green border die, Purple butterfly, Ivory floral wreath)    It just seemed like the right thing to do and I'm happy with the outcome!  Hope you like it to!

A few other challenges to share in:

A Random Fan Challenge #9 - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge #78 - Wings
Artistic Inspirations Challenge - Anything Goes Punches and/or Dies (2nd entry)

Thanks SO MUCH for stopping by today ... it's always so nice to hear what you have to say!

Hope you're having a fabulous week!

As always ...

Recipe:

Papers:  White cs, Ivory cs, Garden Green cs, Lavender cs

Inks:  SU River Rock, SU More Mustard, Memento Bamboo Leaves

Accessories:  Cheery Lynn Designs B132 Flower Chain Border, Cheery Lynn Designs DL113 Exotic Butterflies, Memory Box #98189 Catalina Wreath, Memory Box #88523 Stencil, Large sponge daubers, pop dots

Guest Designer for Tamara

I am so excited!

Tamara over at the Sketches by {tamara} blog has asked me to be Guest Designer this week. I've been doing her sketches for several months now and each Saturday they honor one of the participants! I know it's not a call to be on a Design Team, (I'm currently working on that one too), but at least I know there are folks out there that appreciate my work and I am honored! Here is the card I made for the Guest Designer posting. This is a pretty basic sketch, but I sometimes need to come back to a more basic design and I really like how this came out.