Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #91

Hi, Crafters! Today starts a new week with a new challenge of Anything Goes! And this week we have 2 sponsors!

Our sponsors this week are:

Rick St. Dennis

Prize: 2 Digital Images

"Rick St. Dennis, MFA has been an artist, designer, stage designer and instructor for over 45 years. You can find his full Bio here. His digital stamp images can be found on Zibbet or Etsy . Inspiration projects from the Rick St. Dennis Elite

 Design Team can be found on the Sparkle and Glitter blog, or for the darker images on the Airless Chambers blog.

Rick also has a personal blog  and on Facebook there is the Rick St.dennis Digi fans and friends group, showcase your cards and other projects using RSD images there to be eligible to win prizes."

The Stamping Boutique

Prize: $12 Gift Certificate

"Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor at CRAFTY GALS CORNER CHALLENGE. We at TSB are very proud to offer original digital images and artwork to you. Thank you for giving us a few minutes of your valuable time to look over the store  Good luck in the challenge and we hope to see you over at our store.  Good luck to all in the challenge and we can't wait to see your creations.

Tracey Malnofski

Now onto my project! I chose to do Alice in Wonderland from the Stamping Boutique. Isn't she cute!

As always, I started off with the coloring of my digi. And, having a new Silhouette Portrait, I thought I'd try my hand at coloring her that way. Wow! Who knew the colors would work so great? I will say, however, that I won't always do it that way, as I miss working with my Prismacolors. But it will come in handy if I'm in a hurry for a project one day, I'm sure! 

I also colored and cut out the sentiment with the Silhouette. I then placed her onto some blue corrugated paper, which then I placed onto a pink cardstock for my foundation. I embellished her with laces from Cindy's Facebook page, Lighthouse stop n' shop.  I added flowers and also some butterflies I colored and made from Paper Temptress. Best vellum paper ever!

I hope you come join us over at Crafty Gals Challenges blog! Show us what you create! 

I've entered this card into the following challenges:
Color Throwdown - CTD#412
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Three Muses - Butterflies
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes 
Creates and Makes - A/G optional use a die (my butterflies)

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Scrapbooking with M.E. GDT project

Hey, my fellow crafty peeps! I was asked to be a Guest Designer over at the Scrapbooking with M.E. Boutique on their Facebook page, and of course I said Yes!! I got my kit in last Thursday, which was the Simple Stories Bloom and Grow. This kit was the September kit from the boutique. The October kit will be available very soon!

Instead of doing 1 project, I decided to go ahead and do 2. Here is my first project:

I did a scrapbooking layout page using a lot of die cuts and the 3 burlap flowers in the kit. The only thing that wasn't from the kit was the white cardstock I used for a fence. I found the perfect picture for this layout....my 2 youngest grandchildren taken a few years ago. Wow, how lucky was that! I mounted the photo onto the burlap sheet that was in the kit, then mounted that onto a sheet of the printed cardstock, and in turn onto a 12x12 sheet of the cardstock. I then embellished the page with some of the die cuts from the kit. Now on to my 2nd project:

3-D Wheelbarrow

Close-up

Now, this one was a bit tricky at first. I was thinking this would make a great Fall centerpiece, but I just wasn't sure how I was going to do it. A friend of mine suggested the wheelbarrow idea. So I used one from the Silhouette. The fence is also from Silhouette. I had a wooden piece that was just laying around waiting for me to do something with it (insert wink here). I decided to use that as a base and spread texture paste on the bottom of it, spray it with green mist, and layer it with "grass", pushing it down so it would dry together. I then hot glued some of that after it was dried, to further keep it in place. I then put a fence around it. Before I went any further, I decorated my wheelbarrow by putting some of the grass into it and hot gluing the flowers inside. The sentiment pieces didn't have a "stem" to them, so I hot glued stems onto each one, then hot glued that inside the wheelbarrow. 

I then proceeded to put die cuts in front of the wheelbarrow, using the same "stems" in order to hot glue them onto the base. I glued more die cuts onto the fence. It took about 2 days to do this, as I wanted to be sure the texture paste had dried properly.

I hope you stop by the Scrapbooking with M.E. boutique! Every month there is a new kit, but you might want to order quickly, as these go fast! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings! Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Outlawz Color Challenge Sept 27th!

Hello again, everyone! Today starts a new week of the Color Challenge over at the Outlawz! And I want to share with you my project. But first, let me show you the inspiration for the project I did:

Isn't this a gorgeous photo inspiration?? I love it! I chose the lavender, gold, and green for my project. The prize for this month is a free online subscription to Through the Craft Room Door. I've had the honor and privilege of being published there this year! :-)  

The digital is from Faery Ink. Lahla Tiger Lily Fae. Isn't she cute? Amanda offered it as a one day giveaway and I was privileged enough to get her for my project. I started out with a burlap canvas, which I was going to keep as a focus, but then I got "inspired", shall we say, and colored it with blues in the background and when the color dried, I spread Liquitex Glass Beads over the canvas area. I then sprinkled in purple and diamond glass glitter from Reneabouquets. After I let that dry over night, I added my laces and appliques from Cindy's Lighthouse Stop n' Shop Facebook page, plus the butterfly applique done by Kimberly's shop.

I then added a lot of flowers and further embellishments, some of which are from Gone Artsy. Most of my items I get from these wonderful ladies. So, there you have it! I hope you like her. Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Crafty Gals Corner #90

A new challenge over at the Crafty Gals Corner has begun! 

This week the challenge is Critters!

Our sponsors this week are:

STAMPlorations

Prize: $10 Gift Certificate 

Eureka Stamps

Prize: 3 Digital Images

Beccy's Place

Prize: 3 Digital Images/ 1 Digital Set

My goodness! This year is just flying by! We're already into September...and it's over halfway done! Before the rest of the year sneaks up on me, I want to share with you this week's DT project I did for Crafty Gals Corner. 

CAT - STAMPlorations Digital

As you can see, my critter for this challenge is a Cat...better known as a Kitty in my family. Lol. I do love cats, and I thought this one was perfect. And honestly, when I saw her, she was already black and white, so I thought I'd do a CAS black and white card, simply coloring in her eyes and a touch of pink in her ears. She's such an adorable digi! 

I went to work cutting out a black and white swirly frame for her (on my NEW Silhouette Portrait...yay!). I then cut a piece of white cardstock out and embossed it. I layered the frame and Miss Kitty on top of that. A piece of black cardstock was my foundation. I put a few pearls on the top right, some lace on the left, and a Thank You sentiment on the bottom right. And I was done!

I hope you enjoy my little card, and that you will join us for this week's challenge.
I've entered my CAS card in the following challenges:
Fresh Brewed Blog - Animals
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes
STAMPlorations Blog - CAS
Sunny Day Crafting - Anything Goes

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Outlawz Color Challenge - September 20th

Hello, crafty peeps! We started a new C O L O R Challenge over at the Outlawz! I sure hope you join along with us! We have an awesome prize in store for our winners...a year's subscription for the online magazine Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) are sponsoring us this month!

Now let me show you inspiration for this week's challenge:

So what do you see in this picture? I see a lot of round objects and lots of colors. With that in mind, I went with lots of circles and of course a variety of colors. Here's my project:

See the center circle with the pearls around it? I used a circle stencil and colored it with Prima Water Soluble Oil Pastels. I rubbed each of the colors onto my glass mat, added water, and used a sponge to get into the circles there. After it dried, I cut it out with a circle template. I had some Creative Memories paper that had circles on it, so I made that as the base front for my card. I cut out 2 sentiments with my circle punch, added 3 pearls at the top and bottom, added a flower that had a circular look to it, and I added round pearls around the perimeter of the stenciled paper.

I enjoyed working with the oil pastels. Truly fun! I hope you can join us over at the Outlawz Color Challenge! 

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Vellum Butterfly Tutorial - Paper Temptress

Hi, crafty peeps! Today I want to share with you a tutorial using the Paper Temptress heavy duty vellum. Love that paper! I have linked the picture below to the tutorial....Please enjoy! Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

Crafty Gals Corner #89 Freestyle Challenge!

Yes, it's time for another challenge over at the 

Crafty Gals Corner Challenges Blog!

This week the challenge is Freestyle!

And we have 2 great sponsors this week  who are:

My Besties Shop / Etsy Bestie Store

Prize: 3 digital images below

Star Stampz

Prize: 3 Digital Images

I want to share with you my project. I used an image from My Besties. She's such a cutie! You'll need to look closely at her hair...there's a little something hidden there. ;-) So, here she is....

I used Kraft paper for the foundation of the card and covered the front with My Mind's Eye "Happy Day".  I was going to link the paper up, but couldn't find it. After I had colored her with my Prismacolors, I placed her in my Big Shots machine and cut a shape around her and placed her on the Happy Day paper. I off-centered her so I could leave space on the left side for embellishments. On top of that, I placed some overlay from Paper Temptress. I placed a small die cut from the same paper line on the bottom right and put a rhinestone sticker on top of it and above my image too. I had been gifted some pearl lace so I placed it on the left side, glued some flowers (3 layers) in the middle of that, and she was done. Oh, I did distress all the edges and in the white of the image, also. 

I hope you can join us this week over at Craft Gals! There's always a chance to win some great images from our sponsors!

Blessings, Jeanie Ellis - Scrapbookingmamaw

I have entered this card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes

Chocolate Baroque Challenge - Color Inspiration

Creative Moments - Fall Colors

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes #103

Digi Choosday - Ribbons/Lace