School Daze

Whew!  I wasn't sure that I would make it in time....but I did!  This is my GD card for this week's  challenge at Sassy Studio Designs.  Can you guess the theme?  Yep...it's a back to school theme.  Now, not everyone is so excited by the idea, but if I remember rightly, the first day back was always good....when you got to meet up with your friends again!!

This is a pretty simple design, with no DP.  I've used the Happy Teen image, colouring her with water colours and adding a border of stickles to the die cut edge.  Some faux stitching and alphabet stamps dress up the card blank, and a few gems and ribbons add a bit extra.  The school bag is another image, this time from The Stamping Boutique.

So why not give it a go, for your chance to win some of these designs for yourself.  We would love to see your entry this week.  Thanks for visiting!

Now, for some challenges where I will enter my card:

Sketchy Colors - #81 Shades of Blue!

The Crazy Challenge - #81 Back to School

2 Sisters Challenge - #53 Back to School

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - #16 Multiple Images

Deep Ocean Challenge - #6 Light Blue

Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog - #66 Back to School

Scrap-Creations - Back to School

Digital Tuesday Challenge - #125 Cute and Girly

Papercraft Star - #59 Back to School

PaperPlay Challenges - #34 Back to School

Blog Hop and New Release at SSD

It's the weekend, and here's wishing you a great one!  Now, it's time for a blog hop at Sassy Studio Designs, where you will get to view some amazing DT creations using the new release.  I'm the guest designer for the month of August, and it's been loads of fun playing with these new images!

Today, I've used the White Queen, but as you can see I have added some purple!  I've coloured with Prismacolor pencils and OMS, and this time used chalk for the background.  Cut and layered with my Nestie die, I then embossed and inked a background layer.  The raised border on the card blank was made using my Score-pal.  This was a nice easy card to make and has quite an elegant look.

So sit back and relax as you follow along on the hop.....and be sure to leave a comment at each stop for your chance to win!  There are two Sassy images up for grabs!

Here is the blog hop order:

Sassy Studio Designs

Kathy
Sara
Julie
Joyce GDT (that's me)
Regan
Rebecca

And now some challenges for my card:

Challenge up Your Life - #50 no patterned paper

Paper Crafting Journey - #17 Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy - #15 Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - No Sentiment

Allsorts Challenge - #117 You've Been Framed

Sneek Peak SSD

Just a quick post to give you a sneak peek at one of the new Sassy Studio Designs images to be released this weekend.  Head on over and leave a comment there, and you just might win this image!  In addition, this Saturday is the big hop and party chat!  Hope you can make it!

This little sweetie is called Esmeralda Honey.  She's been coloured with copics and prisma pencils, and then partially cut out with my Labels 16 Nestibilities die.

For my layout, I've followed the sketch at CLP, using lots of red and honey colours and just a bit of black to make it pop.

The DP is from Memory Box (Brioche), while the card blank has been sponged with scattered straw DI and then stamped with a flourish.

Here's a few fun challenges that I'll enter, be sure to check them out.

CLP Challenge -#39 Sketch

Emerald Faerie Garden - #7 Birthday

Crafty Sentiments - Punches and Die Cuts

Craft Your Days Away - #26 Birthdays

Card Makin' Mamas - #26 Birthday Cards

A Spoon Full of Sugar - #162 Happy Birthday

The Distressed Look...

Good morning!  Hope the sun is shining where you are, and here's wishing you a beautiful day!  But of course, if won't be that many more months until the snow is here again.

Today's card is my first as a guest designer for Sassy Studio Designs, and it's for their current challenge using a Distressed Theme.  You'll note that I've used a lot of grey DI on all the edges, and I've also used the same colour to stamp some flourishes on the blue DP.  For the layer behind the image, I've used a script stamp and then torn the paper, giving a nice distressed edge.  Lots of glamour dust highlites the snow and snow flakes, but hasn't really shown up well in the photo.

Image used:  First Snow (by Sassy Studio Designs)
Medium:  ProMarkers and Prismacolor pencils
Tools:  Nestibilities Labels 18 die
Other:  flower, ribbon and glitter peel-offs from my stash.

Thanks for visiting, and hope to see your entry in today's Dare to be Sassy challenge!

Some fun challenges for this card:

Fussy and Fancy - #42 Christmas in July

Aud Sentiments - #34 Merry Christmas

Do It With Digis - #16 Christmas in August

Totally Papercrafts - #78 Holidays

Fab & Funky Challenges - #85 It's Christmas