Bee Crafty #59 - Good-Bye

Hi everyone,

It is with great sadness that this is my last post for Bee Crafty.  Bee herself has decided that the challenges needs to stop.  With a toddler and a new baby bee on the way, time is a commodity for her and as she put it, she just can't give the attention to the blog right now.  Who can blame her!?

I do hope that you'll join us for the last Bee Crafty challenge - this month's challenge:

Good-Bye

My card features my most favorite stamp in the Bee Crafty.  This is Whimsical Girl and I know you've seen me feature her many times before.

I love the natural appearance to my card.  I drew inspiration from one of my sister's favorite challenge blogs.  The sketch is from CASual Fridays.  I definitely see why Theresa likes their challenges so much, I had a lot of fun!

Supplies:
Image: Whimiscal Girl
Stamps/Ink: Sentiment (Stamping Bella), Serene Silhouettes (SNSS)
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Kraft
Paper: Zach's Life Collection (Little Yellow Bicycle)
Copics: C5, C7, C8, E000, E00, E02, E34, E37, G28, R27, R29, RV91, RV93, RV95
Tools: Scallop border punch (Fiskars)

Bee Crafty #58 - Celebrate!

Hi everyone!  I am a bit late on my post today.  It's been a busy weekend.  But Happy New Year and welcome to the first post of the year on my blog.

The challenge this month at Bee Crafty is to create a celebration card.  Here's mine...

This card features a sweet little bear holding his balloon.  I did create this card with a fabulous sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch.  I did a lot of embossing and then a lot of it got covered up.  Not what I had in mind, but it's still cute.

Supplies:
Image:  Bear with Balloon
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest. Bashful Blue, So Saffron
Paper:  Glitter matstack (DCWV)
Copics:  BG10, BG15, E29, E33, E34, E37
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Happy Birthday embossing Folder, Just My Type embossing border, circle cutter (CM)
Embellishments:  green satin ribbon (Offray)

Bee Crafty #57 - Christmas

Hello!  Happy Friday everyone.  I completely forgot to post my adorable tags that I made for Bee Crafty's challenge this month.  It's Christmas time, so we have a Christmas theme.  Here's what I made featuring the Wish Fairies - Christmas images.

I love my tag set!  I even made the matching clear box.  That was a little tricky to figure out, but I after about 3 or 4 tries, I got it figured out.

Here's the close up of the tags.

Supplies:
Image: Wish Fairies - Christmas
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Very Vanilla, Old Olive
Paper: Holiday Thyme (SU!), Transparency
Copics: B000, E00, E02, E34, E37, R27, R29, YG63, YG67
Tools: Cricut, SCAL, scallop border punch (Fiskars), Scor-Pal, gold gel pen

Head on over to Bee Crafty to play along with us.

Bee Crafty #55 - Bling

Good Morning friends!  I hope your weekend is going well.  Mine?  So far so good.  I am sitting at my crafting table this morning with the hopes that I'll get much done to share with you this week.

Today's card is for the October challenge at Bee Crafty.  This month, we're playing with BLING!

My card features Whimsical Girl, one of my favorite Bee Crafty images.  It also features rhinestones and a silver metallic pen for stitching.

My card also fits the challenges at Papertake Weekly (sketch) and Dutch Dare who are playing bingo.  This is the only bingo game I'm any good at.  I did the diagonal with paper piecing, flowers and bling.

Supplies:
Image: Whimsical Girl

Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Night of Navy, Regal Rose
Paper: Just the Girls - Skylar digi paper (ACOT)
Copics: BV02, BV05, E00, E02, E29, E34, E37, W-3
Tools: Cuttlebug, Frills & Just My Type embossing borders
Embellishments: Rhinestones (Recollections), silver metalic marker (Elementz)

Thank you for stopping by today.  Enjoy your Sunday!

Bee Crafty #53 - Doing the digi Chop

** Please scroll down for Paper Pretties post **

Hello again,

This is my 2nd post of the day.  It's August 1st so that means it's time for a new monthly challenge at Bee Crafty and this month we're asking you to find another way to use a digi - chop it up, find another element in the image to focus on.  Take a look...

Here's the image that I started with...

And here's my card....

As you can see, I focused in on the basket.  I did this by importing Whimsical Girl Heart Garden into my photo editing software (I use paint dot net).  I drew a crop box around the basket and then with the white paint brush I "erased" what I didn't want.  Then did a save as, naming it the same name with altered behind it.  Now, just a word on altering digi images.  I'm sure everyone knows better, but please respect the artist.  If you alter their image, give credit back to the artist and do not attempt to sell this as your own image.  As I said, I know you know better - but still needed to be mentioned.

Supplies:
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Lovely Lilac, Mellow Moss, Turquoise
Paper: Striped (unk)
Copics: B23, BG01, BG05, E34, E37, YG03, YG06
Tools: Oval Cutter (CM), Scalloped Oval (Nesties), Scallop border punch (SU!)
Embellishments: white grosgrain ribbon (Offray)
Stamps/Ink: Sentiment from Springtime Cocoa (SNSS), Tuxedo Black (Momento)

Speaking of giving credit where credit is due - I used a fabulous sketch from Card Patterns to create this card.

Thanks for visiting again!

Bee Crafty #50 - Birthday for Little Ones

Good Morning!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  Mine was busy but a good one.  I spent a glorious morning outside in a park with some friends.  The company, conversation and food was wonderful!

I know I usually share a card at the beginning of each month for the Bee Crafty challenge, but I thought I'd hang onto this card and share it mid-month to give a little mid-challenge inspiration.  Here's my card using Toy Box.

I hope to see you join us over at Bee Crafty and although you're not required to use Bee Crafty images, we'd love to see what you do with them!

Enjoy your Monday!

Bee Crafty #48 - Spring Florals

Good Morning!  It's the beginning of another month so that means there is a new challenge over at Bee Crafty.  This month we're celebrating the coming Spring so pull out your favorite digis - if you have any Bee Crafty images, we'd love to them and your prettiest flowers and have fun!

Now I know I probably went with hot Summer colors, but this would be Spring in Florida.  LOL!!  This is Little Lady Skipping Rope - such a sweet little image.  The layout for this card came from Sunday Sketch & Stamp.

Supplies:

Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Green Galore, Pumpkin Pie

Paper:  Hippie Chic Matstack (DCWV)

Copics:  BG05, C8, E00, E02, E29, E57, G05, Y06, Y15, YG03, YR09, YR16, YR20, YR61

Tools:  Border punch (Martha Stewart), Scallop Circle Nesties, Cuttlebug

Embellishments:  Flowers (Creative Treasures)

I hope you join us - you have lots of time play along.  Have a super fun day!

Bee Crafty #47 - Hearts

Good Morning!  It's February 1st - well 2nd, but the new challenge is up at Bee Crafty and it's all about the hearts.  So here's my card, I used Wedding Bay Tree.

I did use the sketch from Wee Memories Challenge which is a really easy and fun sketch.  I had a hard time coloring the tree and avoiding the flowers so I ended up adding little flower brads to the tree and I really like the added dimension the brads gave.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Sahara Sand
Paper:  Garden Party mat stack (DCWV)
Copics:  B05, E37, E57, RV000, RV02, V04, V06, YG63, YG67, YR16, YR23
Tools:  Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars), oval cutter (CM)
Embellishments:  flower brads (Making Memories), satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you like my card and that you'll join us over Bee Crafty.  You have all month to join in the fun.

Bee Crafty #44 - Rough Around the Edges

Good Morning!  This fortnight's challenge over at Bee Crafty is called Rough Around the Edges... in other words, distress your edges.  This is actually a real challenge for me, distressing is not something I'm very good at.  So with the help from a great sketch from Friday Sketchers and some awesome digi paper, my card is really kinda cute.

I used Whimsical Girl Heart Garden which is a really sweet image.  And as I said yesterday, although I am in the midst of Christmas preparations, I need a break from Christmas cards, so this Spring-y card was a great diversion.

I love these colors, too!  I found a great digi set of papers called Just the Girls by Becky Kress available at A Cherry on Top.  I really scored on this - regularly over $15 worth of digi paper for 6 digi paper packs, I got this for like $3!!  Printed out on Whisper White card stock, the colors are vibrant and gorgeous!

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Whisper White (SU!)
Paper:  Just the Girls Lola (ACOT)
Copics:  E00, E02, E29, E33, E37, E57, G02, RV06, YR20, YR23
Tools:  Oval punch, Tag punch (SU!)

I hope you join us at Bee Crafty, you have two weeks which is plenty of time to even wait to see if Santa brings you some new crafting tools to play with.  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Winter at Bee Crafty

Good Morning everyone!!  This fortnight's theme over at Bee Crafty is Winter.  How fitting is this?  I've heard that some of our friends are digging out of anywhere between 14" to 36" inches of snow in upstate New York and here in sunny Florida, temps are dipping down to the 30s for the lows.  I actually saw frost on the grass on my way to work yesterday.  Brendan said yesterday as he was heading out to catch the bus, "I hate being cold, that's why we moved here.... and its cold!"  LOL

Alright so this week's theme is to create a winter card - so the obvious is to pick an image that is all about snow, snowflakes, snowmen - that makes it pretty simple, right?  Well, I decided to challenge myself a little further and see if I could create a winter card out of an image that is probably more fitting for Spring/Summer.

So here is Whimsical Girl all dressed in her winter gear holding some flowers.  I embossed the image with the Swiss Dots embossing folder after I colored the image to create the snow falling down.  I highlighted some of the snow that is falling on her with a white gel pen.  I did flatten out the embossing on her face so she didn't look like she had mumps and I really could've flattened other dots randomly so that the snow didn't look so uniform, but I still love how this looks!

Then I set out to find the perfect sentiment.  I chose a quote by J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan.  It says "God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Taken with Teal, Real Red (SU!)
Paper:  Winterime (Echo Park)
Copics:  B00, B000, BG05, BG09, E00, E02, E29, E33, R11, R27, R29
Tools:  Scallop Square Nesties (Spellbinders), Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots embossing folder, white gel pen, Scallop Border punch (SU!)
Embellishments:  brads (Basic Grey), brown grosgrain ribbon (Offray)

By the way, a word about the layout of the card.  I used a Mojo Monday sketch that is from their 2009 pdf sketch booklet.  I love this and will be referring to it often.

Now head on over to Bee Crafty to play along with us.  And you have got to see Joni's card - it is totally fabulous!  No surprise there, right?  Also, leave a little love for our sweet Deanne who is quite under the weather.  Have a fabulous weekend.... we're off to prepare for the Christmas parade that Hollyanne's dance school is in.

Bee Crafty #43 - We're Hiding Something

Good Morning!  I hope you're having a great weekend so far.  It's a little quiet around here.  My kids were off in different directions but it's time to go gather them up.  Saturdays are always so busy around here.

Anyway, we have a great challenge for you over at Bee Crafty.  We're hiding something.  LOL  The challenge is create a card or project with a hidden element.  Here's my take on the challenge...

My card is featuring the Bee Crafty digi image called Little Lady Skipping and she is just adorable with her flower covered jump rope!  I went with a pretty easy design.  I did try to embellish it a bit, but no matter what I tried, it simply looked like I was hiding mistakes and that was not part of the challenge.

I made an envelope to go behind the focal image from a 6 x 4 1/2 inch piece of decorative paper to pop up the image.  The envelope is the perfect size for a gift card.  Just pull on the ribbons and the card slides right out.  This is great for gift giving since it's a gift card holder and card all in one.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum (SU!)
Paper:  Unknown (Queen's Ink)
Copics:  C10, B63, E00, E02, E29, E57, V91, V93, V95, Y06, Y11, YG63, YG67, YR16, YR23
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Textile embossing folder, corner rounder (CM), slot punch (SU), Scor-Pal
Embellishments:  Plum satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you like my card and that it inspires you for easy gift giving.  Please join us for this fortnight's challenge, head on over to Bee Crafty to find out how to play along.  Enjoy your Saturday!!

Bee Crafty #42 - Christmas

Hi Everyone!  I hope your Saturday is going well.  Mine has been a bit of a busy one, but I'm looking forward to an evening of pajamas, a glass of wine and my crafting table.  My evening will be spent doing what I like best.

I'm a little late posting today, but here I am to share with you the 2nd Christmas challenge from Bee Crafty.  I really love how this card turned out.  I found a great (past) sketch from Mojo Monday that was originally featured on 8/18/09.

I love the rich colors that I used which were inspired by the beautiful paper that I used.  This is Floating Angel Fairy and she's perfect for paper piecing.

Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy
Paper:  Sparkle Paper: Joyful (Colorbok)
Copics:  B00, B000, E00, E02, E34, E37
Tools:  Lace border punch (Martha Stewart)
Embellishments:  dark green satin ribbon

I hope you enjoy my card and that you'll join us at Bee Crafty.  You have two weeks!  Have a great weekend.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #64

Good Morning!  I hope you're week is off to a great start.  I have a really fun sketch to share with over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I do hope that you'll join us this week.  We're being sponsored by Bee Crafty and I know that you've seen her adorable digi images around and here on my blog.  I also added the twist to THINK PINK - October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.

This card was little tricky for me to do all that I wanted to do with it, but I managed.  It's definitely full of pink and hearts but I just wanted to convey the love that I have for my sister who is celebrating her 3rd year of being cancer free. 

I did alter the image from Bee Crafty just a little.  The sweet little lady actually has a birthday hat on, so I removed that in my photo editing software and then drew a line to finish her head as best I could.  I also found an Awareness Ribbon somewhere on the internet (I should've written it down to give proper credit) that was in .gif format so it's transparent and "laid over top" the balloon nicely.

Supplies:

Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette (SU)

Paper:  Unknown (it's been in my stash for a long time!)

Images:  Little Lady Birthday (Bee Crafty), Awareness Ribbon (internet)

Copics:  B000, E00, E02, E34, E37, RV000, RV02, RV10, RV13, YR20

Tools:  Scor-Pal, Heart border punch (Martha Stewart), Glossy Glaze, corner rounder punch

Embellishments:  heart brads (my stash)

I would also like to challenge you, whether or not you play along with us, that you create a card and send it to a special woman in your life that may be affected by this horrible disease to encourage her through her battle or perhaps to someone to encourage them to do their self-exams and have their yearly check-ups. Early detection is key.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I do hope you join us this week.  Remember to Think Pink and Fight Like a Girl!!

Bee Crafty #40 - Halloween

Good Morning everyone!  I haven't been around much this week because of... let's just say, circumstances.  But today I have a really cute project to share with you.  This fortnight's challenge at Bee Crafty is Halloween!  And you can really have fun with this - you can create cards or 3D projects.  Here's mine...

I made a mini themed album.  This was so much fun to do and really very simple!  I started with a clean frozen pizza box, my Cricut w/deep cut blade, and a fantastic SVG file from my friend Penny Duncan!  I imported in the largest size of her Pumpkin shaplies and cut out four pumpkins from the pizza box.  Then I cut the decorative paper to cover the shapes, you have to do this twice for both sides of the shape.

Time to dress it up.  I cut out a smaller size of the shaplie to create the dark night behind my images.  I typed out the title using Matisse font and then cut it so it looked like an old wood sign.  Then distressing it by inking it with Going Grey and Tuxedo Black.  I did that for the moon, too.

Using the super adorable Halloween set from Bee Crafty, I printed out all the images that comes in the set.  For the bats, I imported in one and sized it to the desired size.  Then I copy/pasted it so I had another bat.  I made that one smaller and flipped it.

These other images you see are the sweet little monster and his matching digi paper.  This is going to be a fun little album to add some sweet pictures of trick-or-treaters.  I gave it to my Mom.

Because I added the brads in the previous page after the cardboard was covered with paper, I needed to hide the prongs on the other side.  So using a CC Designs stamp, I stamped out the word BOO and added it to my design using pop dots.  I then left a nice sized mat for a photo.

Here's the next page for another photo.  I really love this pumpkin image that comes in the set.  It's just lovely!

And here's my last page.  When I was cutting this image out, I accidentally cut the skeleton ghost off and then that turned out to be a happy accident because I was able to fit it better on the page.  Then I added a couple more spots for pictures.

Then to finish it off, I stacked the pages and using my Crop-a-dile I punched a hole in the stem of the pumpkin, added a binder ring and some ribbons.  Viola!  Mom can now add some pictures of this Halloween's festivities.

I am also entering this into the Fussy and Fancy Friday challenge (Halloween projects) and Charisma Cardz challenge (Autumn colors).

I hope you enjoy my project and that you give it a try!  Shaped mini albums are so much fun!  Happy Saturday to you and thanks for stopping by.  Mom, the children and I are off to Sea World today.

Bee Crafty #39 - Fluffy and Furry

Hi there!  This is my 2nd post of the day.  If you're here for my Sweet n Sassy Digis post, please scroll down.  But if you're here for the newest Bee Crafty challenge, you're in the right spot.

This fortnights theme is 'Furry / Fluffy Friends.' Use images of furry and fluffy creatures - think bunnies, bears and all things cuddly! - We'd love to see you go a bit further and add fur and fluff to your images and cards.  As usual you must use a DIGI IMAGE (this doesn't have to be a Bee Crafty one although we always love to see how you use Bee Crafty images, so do check out the shop, we have some great furry fluffy images to choose from).

I created this card using the sketch from  Fussy & Fancy Friday challenge.  I used the Bunny Trio image from Bee Crafty and I really had a lot of fun with this.  I made my own flocking by cutting and cutting and cutting and then cutting some more a piece of pink felt.  After I got done, it reminded of me dryer lint.  Ha!  I placed my homemade flocking on the bunny ears with just a bit of Tacky glue.  Then I cut pieces of the felt for the tummies.

Here's a close up of the bunnies.  This was a really easy way to dress up these bunnies and I think they turned out so cute.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Certainly Celery (SU)
Paper:  Certainly Celery Designer paper (SU)
Stamps/Ink:  Mini-Messages, Limitless Labels (PTI), Tuxedo Black (Memento), Certainly Celery (SU)
Copics:  B000, R11, RV13
Tools:  Word Window punch (SU), Threading Water (Fiskars), paper piercer/mat (SU)
Embellishments:  felt, Prima flowers, Jolee flowers, white satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you like my card and that you join us.  You have plenty of time to play along, all entries are due by midday (UK) Saturday, October 9th.  Enjoy the rest of your Saturday.

Bee Crafty #38 - Fall in Fashion

Good Afternoon!  Thanks for coming by again - this is my 2nd post for today.  Scroll down for my Sweet n Sassy Digis post.

This fortnight's challenge over at Bee Crafty is Fall into Fashion.  I hope you join us!

The card is on the simple side but it went together so quickly.  Gotta love that, right?!  Using a few challenges, besides Bee Crafty, for inspiration this card was pretty fun to do.  I did print out some really awesome digi paper from a pack called Cinnamon Roll from A Cherry on Top.  I love the colors in this pack.  The other challenges are:  Eat Sleep Stamp (sketch), Cute Card Thursday (play on words), Raise the Bar (orange, brown and green), Truly Scrumptious (Tie a Knot).

I hope you like my card and that you'll join us over at Bee Crafty.  Enjoy your Saturday!

Bee Crafty #37 - Anything Goes

Hi again!  If you're here to see my card for The Sweet Stop, please scroll down.  But if you're here for Bee Crafty, then you're in the right spot.  This week's challenge is an easy one... Anything Goes!  How fun is that?  I chose a clean and simple Back to School theme.

Lots of clean white space with a little embossing really showcases the adorable Fluffy Bunny {and book} image.  Doesn't he look like nothin' can tear him away from that book?  He must be reading The Tortoise and the Hare.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest
Paper:  School Papers by Becki Kress (ACOT)
Copics:  B000, RV02, YG63, YG67
Tools:  Scor-Pal

This was a really easy card to put together and could easily be mass produced in very little time.  I think this would be a perfect card for a teacher to give to her students to encourage them to read or as recognition for reading accomplishments.

Not only does this card work for Bee Crafty, but I am also submitting it for Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge who has a Back to School theme.

Thanks for stopping by again today.  I love it when you visit more than once a day!  Enjoy your Saturday.

Bee Crafty #36 - Ribbons and Bows

Hi there!  If you're here for The Sweet Stop challenge, please scroll down.  This is my second post today.

This week's Bee Crafty challenge is Ribbon and Bows.  You all know how I LOVE my ribbon, so this challenge was really fun for me and I am certain it will be for you, too.  You also have two weeks to participate so that's plenty of time to really find your inner ribbon artist.

Here's what I made...

A few nights ago, as I was drifting off to sleep I start envisioning a SVG frame that I could weave ribbon in.  But, of course, I don't know how to create SVG files so I emailed the very sweet Penny Duncan and she made my dream come true.  Isn't that a great frame!  Well, it's a nested Shaplie, so it comes in all sorts of sizes.  This was just what I was looking for.

Then the corners looked unfinished to me so I started playing with my ribbon to try to make roses.  Well, I failed miserably so I found a great tutorial for the easiest roses ever!  You can find this tutorial here.  The more I made, the better they started looking.

I think I made a card that is pretty worthy of the adorable Whimsical Girl Heart Garden.  She's so sweet.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Pink Pirouette (SU)
Copics:  BV00, BV02, E00, E02, E33, E37, E53, E57, RV02, RV10, YG00, YG03, YR20
Embellishments:  satin ribbon (Offray)
Tools:  SCAL, Cricut, SVG by Penny Duncan

I hope that you join us at Bee Crafty!  Again, have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by.

Bee Crafty #35 - It's all about the Image

Good Morning!  Happy Saturday to you.  My post is going to be a quick post because I am actually getting a day to myself.  I don't want that to sound like I am trying to get rid of my kids or anything - it's not that at all, just sometimes we Moms need a little break once in awhile.  So I'm off to see what sort of crafty stores are around - not that I get to buy anything, I still haven't found a job, but just to go window shopping.

So, it's time for another challenge over at Bee Crafty and this is a fun one.  It's called All About the Image - which means do something really different with your digi stamps!  Paper piecing, coloring them digitally, you name it!  Unfortunately, my creative juices only come to me as a trickle every now and then lately, so I fell back on paper piecing.  But I really love paper piecing with digis because I can move the paper how I want it to appear in the final project.  What do you think?.....

I used Whimsical Girl and kept her a bit large.  I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with my card so I started with coloring and piecing first.  I remembered that Fussy & Fancy Friday challenge had a color challenge for pink and black, so that put me in the color direction.  Then I went over to SCS to find a card I could do to bring this all together.

I created a gatefold card which was so easy on the Scor-Pal. Awhile back, I made a trade; one of my Xyron machines for a Scor-Pal. I was so excited! And then last night while on SCS I found out that there are special markings on the Scor-Pal that is just for gatefolds. LOL What fun. I think now I'll be making them a bit more often.

Here's a better view of the image itself.  If you look at the pictures above you'll see that the paper design is very vertical - nothing random.  So, I printed the image on plain paper first.  Then I cut scraps of the designer paper and using a light behind it and lots of temporary adhesive, I positioned the dp over the plain image the way I wanted the dp to look in the finished image. So I achieved getting the daisies to line the bottom of her dress and hat.  It's really easy.  If you haven't seen my tutorial on digi paper piecing, click here.  It needs to be updated as I am improved my methods, but you get the general idea.

Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Black (Recollections)
Paper:  Unknown (Queen's Ink)
Copics:  C8, C10, E00, E02, E33, E37, R11, RV13, YG03, YR61
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Scallop retange and circle (Nestabilities), 1 1/4" circle punch (EK Success), white gel pen,
   Scor-Pal
Embellishments:  Ribbon (Offray)

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I'm off to find somewhere to go today.  Enjoy your Saturday.

Bee Crafty #34 - Let's Hit the Beach!

Good Morning!  Happy Saturday to you.  It's time for another Bee Crafty challenge and this one is definitely what I love about summer.  I grew up in Denver, CO and the closest thing we ever had to a beach was Chatfield Reservoir.  I don't even know why it was there, but there was a huge dam and "they" brought in sand and we had a man-made beach.  In my early 20s I was in California for a little while and that was the first time I had actually seen the ocean.  I spent quite a bit of time on Venice Beach and walked the pier and I LOVED it!!

Since moving to Florida almost 4 weeks ago, I've been to Clearwater beach and New Smyrna Beach in Daytona.  Beautiful!!  I love the beach!  So I was really excited when I found out this week's challenge was going to the beach.  Here's my version of that challenge.

I really love taking real photographs and incorporating them into my stamping.  I want to send this card to someone very close to me - I'm sure it'll get the message across.  Anyway, the background is a photo I took of New Smyrna Beach in Daytona.  It's only about 40 minutes from my house and it's glorious!  I imported the photo into a word program and then sized it to the dimensions I wanted.  Then I added a text box over it, added the sentiment and then changed the font color to white.  I was trying to figure out how to rotate it and pick a font that looked like writing in the sand, but I didn't quite make it.  This looks good anyway.

Supplies:
Image:  Whimsical Girl w/Ice Cream Cone (Bee Crafty)
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Sea Blue (Recollections)
Copics:  BG01, BG05, E00, E02, E33, E37, RV02, RV10, W-3, YG00, YG03, YR20
Tools:  White Gel pen
Photograph by Melissa Craig
Embellishments:  Seashells (God)

I hope to see you over at Bee Crafty - it's a fun challenge!  And you have lots of time to participant as the challenges are every two weeks.  Thank you so much for stopping by.  Enjoy your weekend.