A Bit of Christmas Cheer from All Dressed Up Stamps

 

 The ole' Stomach Flu came recently and went from our house this year and kept me from posting this New Release from All Dressed Up Stamps.  It's called Feed the Birds and I just adore it!! 

Using some new background paper from HL by The Paper Studio which is stunning, my A6 card was all ready for the Star of the show, my ADU image.  My Mom and I LOVED Cardinal birds and always feed them so this was a perfect image. I paired it with a Merry Christmas banner die I cut from Kraft paper.  All were edged using Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

Pretty soon it will be time for the Dressy Team of
Designers to launch our December Monthly Challenge on the 15th.  We love to see all your inspiration and there are so many different images in the shop you could win! 

Please join us!

It's time to Garden over at ALL DRESSED UP STAMPS!! ATG Challenge

 

This is my latest DT creation for All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge using "Little Gardener"--Perfect for this time of year.  We have already planted most of our personal garden and the Iris and Daylillies are getting ready to pop.

With this image I chose to fancy cut it, using some braces on the back side for stability.  She has the most adorable puppy in the wheelbarrow.  I stamped the 6x6 card background using Horizon Lines-Reflection stamps from Sweet November Stamps, which gave me clouds, trees and shrubs.  The sentiment and sand/gravel are both from S/U.

The ADU Challenge will last for a month so be sure to make your creation with an ADU image  and enter the challenge.  The Design Team votes on the winners, no random number here and we can't wait to be inspired and new ideas!

Thanks for looking....Carolyn

 

All Dressed Up Stamps Monthly Challenge--using an ADU image

 

    It won't be long before the kids will be ready to camp in the back yard with all the night owls and lightening bugs!

    This image from All Dressed Up Stamps is called "Little Camp" and was such FUN to color with my copics.  Wendy Burns, our artist in residence, always gives us clean images with such detail!  Check them out in the ADU Shop here.  The heavy, gorgeous Teepee paper I used is from my LLS - perfect for the background! I used an eyelet style die for the image and a sentiment from a Carta Bella Flower Market paper pad.                                         

On the inside, I finished it with the print on the backside of the tent paper.  And again, the sentiment is from the paper pad previously used. 

We can't wait to see your creations and get inspired!  Please join us for a chance to win some of the neatest images of your choice from the shop!  You have until May 14th to get your entry in so don't dawdle! 

Hope you'll come back real soon!                    

All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge-ATG

Over at All Dressed Up Stamps, we have a month long challenge--Anything Goes w/ an ADU image.  Great prizes for the winners!  You have until March 14th to get your creation in for review-We can't wait to see your Beauties!

The image I chose to use on the DT is called "Home Sweet Home" and could apply to many situations~ Quarantined at home, staying home as a refuge, New home buying, Glad for the birds and flowers that are coming soon.  I will be glad to get out and about in our flower and vegetable gardens and am thankful every day that we live in the country where that's possible!

After coloring with Copics, I mounted the picture on pink polka dotted paper,placed another piece angled over the distressed wood paper underneath-I love the blues and yellows together. I added a small 2 loop bow made on a fork and 2 lace accents from my stash.  On the inside, I used a perky blue & white dotted paper and used a sentiment stamp again from my stash.

Come on over and join all of us for the Challenge, There's lots of free images in the store-AND you will love the choice of images when you win!  And we want to get inspired!!  Can't wait to see your entry~

 

Hang In There

I'm sure your home is affected, as is mine, with this Covid 19 virus that is spreading across our wonderful Country.  At the digital stamp company All Dressed Up, our artist in residence, Wendy Burns, decided to give us some uplifting images to work with for the New Release this month.  I think we all needed them!
The image I used is call "Hang in There" and can be found in the ADU Shop.  Cute little elephant floating away into the clouds, leaving all his cares behind him.  I added some cloud die cuts for dimension and added a sheer white ribbon.
On the inside, I used a
design paper with lots of birds on it--thinking
he surely is going to meet up with birds on his
journey .  I used a sentiment straight from one of my 6x6 paper pads from Carta Bella-love them!

Please check out all the other new releases on our home page-they are inspiring for sure!  We have a new Challenge that starts on the 15th and we'd love to see your creations!  You could possibly win some images from the Shop.  If you would like to see more of the projects that I create, I would be thrilled if you would follow my Blog!

New Release Images over at All Dressed Up!

Are you ready for more gorgeous images from Wendy-This months new release images will possibly be your fav yet!! 

They are now available in the All Dressed Up Etsy Store -}here

Little Scottie Dog

Nap Time                                                              Sleepy Time 

 

And the Image that I'm using called Tweet Time.  I tried to make it look like Robins and used some muted design papers to make the colors pop a bit more.  There are some faceted flat beads in the image corner and I thoroughly enjoyed clustering some paper flowers that matched the card colors perfectly.  On the inside of the card, I again used the gray printed paper and a KKS stamp that says "Love you with all my Heart"  So many ways to use this card!  I hope you will come visit the ADU Store-the images are amazing.  And inspire us at our monthly Challenges!

I am sure you will agree that Wendy has produced another four absolutely stunning images this month

Remember to pop over and buy them from our Etsy store and don't forget we have two challenges running right now - 

Our August Blog Challenge

ending on the eve of the 14th 

 September Facebook Challenge 

ending on the last day on the month. 

The current theme is xxxx
***Please remember your creations must use an
 All Dressed Up Image***

Visit us again on the 15th for the new Challenge launch and there will be more fabulous makes from our Super-talented Design Team using these new releases right here on the 22nd.

 

Have you ever seen a heart shaped flower? Check out Paper Nest Dolls!

 Hello Ladies!

Wanted to share my latest creation for

Paper Nest Dolls!

 I made a 3/4 card front, which gave me a chance to used the decorative crocheted lace and to show the pretty bird paper peeking out from underneath!  Then I used purple sequins for the flower in the front as well as a vine ribbon for the stems-great find!  On the inside liner, I used the bird paper and used a stamped Sentiment from my stash.  You can find Christines' store here where there are tons of cute images for you to use!  Check it our and come join our Challenge!  
This image is called Ellie with Heart Flower.

                                        

                                                     

Using a Springtime Oriental Girl digital image from All Dressed Up!

I was so happy to get this new release from All Dressed Up -I love how graceful and dainty this Oriental Girl was drawn by Wendy Burns, our artist in residence!  I instantly started thinking about every little bit of scrap in my embellishment stash that would go with her~
I absolutely love the shine and glossy look that Asian women's' hair has and tried to duplicate it with this image.  I wanted her finished look to softly stand out from the flowered paper so I edged the paper with some Tim Holtz Distressed ink.  Then I used a laser cut bird house along with some additional bird cut outs to accent the Cherry Blossom branches that I hot glued on the card.  And how appropriate that the Cherry Blossoms are blooming this week in Washington DC!

On the inside, I repeated with the flower paper and also used the extra wording that paper manufacturers often add to the sheets-there were bonus ones on this paper-front and back, bonus!!  We hope that you will stop by our All Dressed Up site and start following it!  There's always a new release every month of 4 images and of course, our Challenge.  We'd love to see you there!

A Little Birdie told me all about LOVE on Valentine's Day over at All Dressed Up!

Hello everyone and welcome to a brand new challenge. 
Thank you for all the fabulous entries last month and we are very happy to have so many! The winners and Top Three will be announced on the 29th as chosen by our DT.

As always the theme for our Blog Challenge is -

Anything Goes 

but you must use a All Dressed Up Image.

Not got any? There are some gorgeous freebies -} here. 

But please respect the rules! 

 Or you can buy any of Wendy's fab images from the All Dressed Up store -} here. 

Now what could be easier than that?  

We will randomly pick a winner to receive 3 images of your choice, and our DT will chose their top 3 creations. 

We do hope you will find the time to play along - You have a full month (until the evening of the 14th) to enter your creations using the link below.

And don't forget the challenge on our Facebook Page starting on the 1st of each month running throughout the complete month with a theme. This month the theme is "Creations using the color Red or Hearts or Romance" - why not play along for the chance to win even more gorgeous All Dressed Up images?

And don't forget to visit our Etsy Store to see all of Wendy's fabulous images. 

We can't wait to see what you all make!
See you again soon

Reminder there's a Christmas-ATG Challenge over at Color It Create It Show It Off

With this little cutie, I'd like to remind you that right now there is a Challenge going on over at Color It Create It Show It Off.
 We welcome you to use whatever medium you wish and whatever image you wish. We the design team create with our sponsors image My Besties, but you are welcome to use anything. Our new Challenge for this month is Christmas/Anything Goes.
I'm using Mr. Snow man Scan 0046    and I love all the little details on him!  To bring out the red accents on him, I matted it with a Christmas stripe and then used as a background a shiny paper that looks like some of the white has been scratched off down to the shiny silver-I love it!  I added some white flower soft for the snow drifts on the bottom.  The different accent on the card is some light blue jewels that are hanging like melting snow, like on the pot handle, glove...can you spy the other places?  Well, you've got lots of time to show us your creations at our challenge-we can't wait to see them!

Help us Celebrate National Grandparent's Day over at Come and Get It!

 It's Grandparents Day around the world, so it's a perfect time to let them know just how much they're loved.  Here at Come and Get It Challenges, we are fortunate to be Sponsored by Paper Nest Dolls for this Special Day.
Because of my Mom's love of "critters", we've always loved Owls.  So when offered a choice of images, I was thrilled to use this one "Owl Always Love You".  I colored her up with Copics and used this reversible paper from Echo Park and Bella Blvd.  Using a small oval die cut from a friend, I stamped the most appropriate sentiment from KKS!  On the inside I used scraps to give it some interest and used one of my rubber stamps for a special person.
We'd love to see your creations in our challenge-we get SO inspired by your creations!  Great chance to win images also!
Entering in PND Anyhing Goes Challenge

A Day for Daisies is sponsoring "Things With Wings" at Come and Get It Challenge!

 I had such fun with this Come And Get It challenge and the image I used from A Day for Daisies is titled "Birds for Bree".  The images at this site are so whimsical and "clean/elegant" that it makes them very easy to color!  The THEME for this Challenge is Things With Wings!
I kept the coloring simple, Summery.  I love blue birds and gave their wings a coating of blue Wink of Stella.  I matted the image with kraft and then peach dp.  The Stamp is from a great set at KKS and says "You Lift Me Up". I had this Great paper with bird houses, birds, nests, and tree limbs all over it and placed her matted image on a branch so to speak.  I used this unique Vine "ribbon" from my local SBS- it's made from woven material with veined leaves-glued down with Zig 2-way glue.  On that ribbon, I placed several nature embellies: Owl, dragonfly and ladybug--see if you spot them!  On the inside liner, I used the peach speckled paper and then a draft label die cut from my stash.  The stamp on the inside page is a friendship stamp from my collection.  We hope that you will want to stop in and play with us for this Challenge.  We can't wait to see your creations!

Entering this card in the following challenge:

Kitty Bee Designs-Things with Wings 
Making Memories Crafting Challenge-Add Some Layers 
Pattie's Creations Challenge- Things with Wings

Bingo Challenge over at Crafting When We Can

As this post is after the Thanksgiving Holiday (in the States that is), I hope all my friends had a great Turkey Day with your family and friends.
It's sort-of the launch into the Christmas season and with that in mind, I'm using an image from Devil Cait Designs and the image is called Tracy.  With this Crafting When We Can Challenge, we are to use a Bingo Board.  I'm using Buttons, Animal, and Snowflakes (on the paper).  In addition, I colored her glasses like candy canes, a Cardinal (my fav bird), and accented with striped Graphic 45 papers.  The red velvet ribbon is SO Christmas and the shiny gold ribbon slide really shows it off. On the inside liner, I've used the coordinating textured Cardinal paper and a Christmas sentiment.
Come on over and join in our Challenge.  We'd love to see your creations!

New Release time at All Dressed Up-Hard to choose just one Favorite!

 I've got another opportunity to display some of Wendy Burn's great digital images for All Dressed Up.  This one is called Little Birdie and I'm so thrilled to show it to you as one of the newest DT members of the Blog Team.  Today we are focusing on Wendy's newest released images!  This happens twice a month-how lucky are WE!!
One of my favorite color combinations is green and blue and this little birdie made me think of the "Blue Bird of Happiness"...that's my state of mind lately!  Used this great plaid paper from Lawn Fawn, a mat finish cardstock in green and textured denim blue mat from my stash.  I need to do more redheads 'cause I love the way this turned out!  I put some clear Wink of Stella on the bluebird.  Perfect that I had this wonderful woven green center daisy ribbon (it also comes in yellow and pink!) and placed it at the bottom of the image.  Used a great heavy cardstock Hello sticker and placed a matching blue epoxy dot on it and anchoring the bottom corner.  On the inside, I used 2 "fishtail" banners is coordinating colors then stamped a friendship message on the inside.  I hope this will entice you to go check out Wendy's packed shop and find some adorable images for YOUR creations!  Bet you can't choose just one!

Sami Stamps is sponsoring our Challenge at Crafting When We Can.."Things with Wings"

Well, I fell head over heals in love with this image from Sami Stamps!  This image is called "Bird on my Toes" and is one I used for the CWWC Challenge.  It's so modern and fresh and really reminds me of my daughter and her love of Gardening and Animals.
I used Copics for the coloring-sorry for the photo fading the effect of the sky-it's full of fluffy white clouds!  I used a strip of wide burlap ribbon with the edges frayed out to run behind the image.  I distressed the edge of patterned paper with my Tim Holtz tool and added a stamped sentiment from KKS on the front as well as the inside.  The field of grass looked a bit bare so I added sprigs of grass and "flower stems" around her and then added some flower Bling!  We are so blessed to be able to use fine sponsors such as Sami Stamps.We'd love to see your entry so come over for a visit!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenge:

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps- Wonderful Wednesday Challenge

A Day For Daisies is sponsoring Craft Your Passion--Anything Goes!

 It's A DAY FOR DAISIES here on this Monday as they are our sponsor this week at Craft Your Passion!  Please join in our Challenge and the winner will win a $12 Gift Card to spend in their Store!
The gorgeous image that I'm using today is called Pearls in my Hair and I love the simplicity of the image but it has so many intricate parts!  I knew I had the perfect paper for it with little blue birds on it.  On the inside, I've got a complimentary blue mat just waiting for a special sentiment.  Unusual for me not to "finish" it up when making it but, there were so many possibilities/events to use it for, I couldn't decide.  I also used some white die cuts from a friend with a button in the center.
Can't wait to see what you have to show us at the Challenge-we get so inspired by your creations!  See you there!