Autumn Time...

I did this card using an image from Designed 2 Delight. I love this Autumn image! Again colored with Copics, used my scraps and "popped" the image up on pop dots.I did some distressing the pumpkin background with Tim Holtz distress inks. This will be sent to a family member as a "thinking of you" card.
I am entering this in the following challenges:
Charisma- Anything Goes
A Spoonful of Sugar- Anything Goes
Stamp Something - Fall Colors
Tuesday Taggers- Autumn
Craftalicious challenges - Autumn
Mark's Finest Papers - Pumpkin

I Did It Challenge # 23 !

The challenge this week over at I Did It Challenge blog is for creating a ATC...an Artist Trading Card for those who don't know the lingo! ATC are usually a universal size as they are like "calling cards" for artists. ( I guess I am finally an artist if I have my own ATC!) Anyway, here are the particulars: they are generally 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. This is the size of playing cards and other trading cards. Because they are the size of other standard trading cards, most will fit in trading card sleeves. ATCs should be as unique as the artists who create them, so enjoy the selection. Start a collection of atc's and try to get as many as you can!




Now on to my ATC: I used three different papers from Toucan Scraps
which can also be found at the I Did It Creations store. My 3D items were just randomly chosen by me from a horde of little "goodies" that I have collected over the years. I just wanted my love of travel to show here! As the kids say today..."that's how I roll" lol! Have a great Sunday and make sure that you go over to I Did It Challenge blog an check out the other DT's creations. Why not show us your ATC?

Pics to Share

I wanted to share some photos that I took in Pennsylvania which were shot Labor Day weekend. My sister, brother in law, husband and I went to visit the ruins of an old dam in Austin that broke in 1926. It was standing for not even a year before it broke! This dam was built for a textile company and many lives were taken and the mill washed away when the dam gave way.


When the dam gave way, the last section of it was actually pushed sideways. The first photo shows the results of that force of water from mother nature. I was able to get the reflection of a fly fisherman in the photo! Can you see him?
(P.S. If you click on each photo it will become bigger for viewing!)


This next photo is one of my sister standing in the middle section of the dam that gave away. The size of the dam really amazed me! When this dam was built, it was all done by hand. No modern machinery like we have now!



The next photo is the same section of dam just at a farther away angle.


When the dam gave way, the last section of it was actually pushed sideways!




I hope you enjoyed these photos. I certainly loved being there and taking them! Have a great Saturday everyone! I will be posting a new challenge tomorrow from I Did It Challenge blog, so be sure to come back and check it out!

Anything Goes at AiF!

This week our theme is Anything Goes and we were given really cute images that all had to do with a circus! I thought I would try to give my creation the feel of being "under the big top" hence the ribbon and bow. I thought it would give the feel of a tent! ( What do you think?...) My images are colored with Copic markers.My dp is from a stack of Designer papers I found at Big Lot's. My red paper is from my stash!
Feel free to meander over to AiFactory Challenge blog and check out what the other DT members have done. While you are there; why not enter in the fun?! Have a great Wednesday everyone!

D2D Pumpkin Fun!

This week Faith sent this cute image of a cat with a pumpkin. Here is what I did with it...


My dp is from the $1 spot at Target(last year!).My card stock is all from my scrap pile. I am really trying to whittle it down....I even spent time sorting my scraps into size piles! I have a lot of different sizes and a promise to self to try and use these scraps! If I don't use them by the new year I will donate them to an after school group where I work so the kids can use them!!! My sentiment is from an old SU stamp set called Boogley Eyes (I think that was the name of it...) Go on over and check out the challenge at D2D. There is another challenge at Double Delight this week to do cards for Operation Write Home that I want to enter also. The deadline for Halloween cards is past so I will need to make another card tomorrow for that one! Go and check out that one too! You will receive a snowman image just for entering and sending your entry into OWH to be mailed to our servicemen for their use!

A Doodle for you!

Here is a sweet image done by Laurie over at Doodle Pantry. Isn't it the sweetest? I needed to make a card for my sister and this one was perfect for the fall weather we are starting to receive! I think my sis will get a kick out of it as she now lives in sunny Florida and will probably remember those crisp fall mornings "up North"!
Have a great Tuesday everyone, and leave me some lovin'

I Did It Challenge..."Keep It Simple"

I have been super charged waiting to let you all know that I am now a DT for I Did It Creations Challenge Blog! Our first challenge (or should I say my first challenge) is sponsored by Trees Award Digital Images. We were able to go and pick out what digital image we wanted to use for the challenge! I chose this one with the "Congo line" entitled Party Animals! I loved working with this image! I used Quick Quotes DP for my background paper. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the blue card stock. The image is colored with Copic markers.I used some blue ink to distress around the edges of the image and then placed it on the pale yellow card stock. The sentiment is from the $1 spot at Michael's. A Christmas tree ornament hook is attached to the lower right side with a Prima flower.
After I did this card for the challenge, I added a few flowers to the blue background. I stamped a flower on a scrap of designer paper, cut it out and added a prima and brad to finish them off. Then added another xmas tree ornament clip to the left upper corner of the image.. So... see how you can always "take it up a notch" just by adding a few embellishments.




Why not go on over to the I Did It Creations Challenge Blog and check out the challenge? You can also choose one image as used by any of the DT as a freebie to use in the challenge! Just email jeanette_wtrs@yahoo.com and she will send it to you!You have the chance to win a free image and $5 gift certificate.
You can right click on the DT listed on the right under the I Did It logo to see what they have created for you. Have fun!