Courting Caleb...

I must say that I have a growing appreciation for Digi Darla's stamps.  They are cute, easy to work with and she gives some of them away free.  This is one of the free digi's.  I wanted to try out some digital stamps to see if I could get the hang of downloading, printing and coloring them.  I'm finding that it's not that difficult.

I like this little guy.  He's a bit bashful looking, don't you think?  But he has his bouquet and he's off to see his girl even if it is raining.  I'm entering this little guy in the Simon Says challenge, 'April Showers Bring Spring Flowers' and ABC Design Team challenge 'anything goes'.

I used plain white card stock for the base of the card and layered on some navy blue which I dry embossed using my Big Shot and a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  I then layered a sky blue marbled paper on to a deep red card stock panel.  Using a silver gel pen I drew on my rendition of raindrops.  I added some red grosgrain ribbon and 3 gold tone brads.  I cut the prongs off the brads and just glued them on with tacky glue to cut down on some of the bulk.  I glued a swirly paper clip to the top right corner to hold the sentiment. It just says 'Hi' cause he doesn't know what else to say.   Last, but not least, I added my love sick little guy standing on a grassy knoll in a bed of flowers.

Thanks for visiting my blog and have a great week!
Reny

'Thanks' to my Silhouette...

The Perfect Sentiments challenge this week is to create a card with 'Thank You' as the sentiment.  The twist?..distress some edges.  Well, I had to do some research to find out about distressing.  I had heard of it,  used it at times, but didn't know know exactly what I was doing.  After researching I decided to  distress the edges of some of my components with my scissors.  In the video I watched the card stock showed a nice light colored center after distressing.  My card stock is evidently colored all the way through, so all I ended up with were roughed up edges.

I cut the sentiment out with my silhouette and attached it with ribbon and dimensional adhesives, added some pale lavender and yellow flowers, some scalloped trim with pearls and a bow.  I used brads as my flower centers and also to hold my double bow together.  The blue panel is embossed with dots and the base of the card is craft card stock.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.

Simon Says bingo challenge (brads, tags, ribbon/twine)
Creative Inspirations anything goes challenge #155
Perfect Sentiments PSC#24 distressed thank you
Cute Card Thursday challenge 209 anything goes