Gotta love sparkles...

Hello, and brrr.....

Hope this finds you enjoying the weekend.  It's a gorgeous weekend here.  We had 82 degrees on Thursday and 41 degrees on Friday...lol.  A bit warmer today!

 PaperCraftPlanet had a wonderful sketch challenge this week, and I used the sketch for creating my card.

They also have a simpler version of the sketch shown below, if you want to play along using it!

So, meet one of the new cuties from The Digi Garden.  This sweet image is simply called Elf with Object.  In this case, the object is a beautiful, sparkly, Christmas ornament, that Elf is on her way to hang on the town's ginormous tree.  That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!

Image: Elf with Object, from The Digi Garden, Icicles: CC Cutter Die from All That Scraps, Snowflakes: DieNamic Dies from My Favorite Things, Tree: Marianne Die, Glitter, Torn Paper, Bazzill 'Believe' DP, World Win CS, Bling from my stash, Copic Markers, Perfect Layers Rulers

Hope you will head over to PaperCraftPlanet and join in the sketch challenge.  Also, hop over to The Digi Garden, and check out all of their darling digi images!

Thanks for stopping in today!

Blessings,

Patti J.

Happy Birthday Raccoon

Good morning!

Hope this finds you all well!
It's a new Designer's Choice Challenge today, at Repeat Impressions!

Today's challenge, from Makiko, is to use an outdoor/wildlife theme.
I chose to use the Racoon and some wild violets.

Repeat Impressions 4219-W Racoon,  1706-W Wild Violets, Marianne Tree Dies, Perfect Layers Tools, Simple Stories DP, Bazzill CS, White CS, Dimensional Squares, Copic Markers, Post it Note, Button from stash, Baker's Twine from Really Reasonable Ribbon

The main image, Racoon (#4219-J), was stamped in the middle of the panel, and stamped again on a post-it note, which I cut out, creating a mask.  I applied the masked racoon directly over the stamped image, and stamped Wild Violets (#1706-I) on the left and right of the racoon.  I removed the mask and colored the scene with Copic Markers.  The sky and grass were created by stippling on blue and green distress inks.

The card base is 6 x 6 Bazzill Basics, topped with a 5.75 x 5.75 piece of Simple Stories DP.  

Two trees were cut from green scraps using my Marianne Tree Die, and adhered to the DP.  

The main focal image was matted in green, then a scrap of brown Amuse CS, 

and adhered with dimensional foam.  

The sentiment is from the Simple Stories DP pad, the button is from my stash, and the Baker's 

Twine is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  

All of my wonderfully straight borders were cut using a craft knife and my Perfect Layers Tools.  You can use any rotary cutter or craft knife with Perfect Layers Tools, and you can watch a video tutorial on their website!

Thanks for stopping by today!  

Hope you'll stop by my fellow Rockstar's blogs to see what they have created using Makiko's challenge!

Cheri     Dawn     Joy     Karen     Kecia     Lynette     Makiko

Full challenge details can be found on the RI blog, The House That Stamps Built.

Have a great week!

Patti J.