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 Hello and Happy Holidays my crafty friends! It's time for another anythings goes challenge over on the LeAnn's World 101 Challenge blog and this month I chose Daisy which features a fun Christmas scene with which I decided to create a filler card for my December Daily. I colored her up and with alcohol markers to look like me and colored her presents to look like the papers I'm going to be wrapping my presents with this year I fussy cut her out and created a card for her with scraps from my stash that matched her outfit. After that I grabbed a tag and stamped "Get Your Glow On" from an Ali Edwards stamp set. To finish it off, I added some shimmer with a glitter gel pen to her dress, eyes, and the lights and star on the tree. Head over to the blog to see more inspiration and enter your projects!

 Aloha Crafties! The November challenge on the Aloha Friday Blog is Food & Drink so I decided to break out this adorable lil turkey die I bought from Walmart of all places!  I used some papers from my stash, layering The leaf pattern paper on top of kraft, then a stitched rectangle diecut on top of that. I wanted to add something to go across, but ribbon seem to feminine, so I went with three strips of a scrap piece of foresty green. My sentiment is stamped on a kraft square diecut from a set by everyday explorers stamped in brown. I think it turned out adorable and totally puts me in a Thanksgiving mood. I hope you're having a blessed and grateful November.  Jump on over to the Aloha blog to enter your project!

 Hello crafty friends! It's time for another Progressive Challenge over here in the LeAnn's World Facebook Group and this month's image does not disappoint! Autumn Blessings   set you up to make a rally fun scene, and I wanted to make them look like they were at a big city park! I colored my images up using alcohol markers, flicking the greens up to create grass. Dotting my grays to create the stone wall, and taking dark grays with the chisel side of my marker to just make rectangles creating the skyline . I made my card into a postcard die cutting the same postage stamp shape two more times and gluing all three pieces together. I then stamped my sentiments on the front and back, and added detailed to my people and buildings using white, black, and sparkly gel pens. I hope this has inspired you to create something nice and cozy with this month's image and hold in the Leanne's World Facebook group to join in the fun!

Hello crafty people ! I'm back with some inspiration for Leanne's World 101 Challenge blog! This month I created a card using the Bringing Gifts digital stamp and sketch number 11 from Kendra's card challenge as a jumping off point to create my project. I colored my little guy up to match Christmas papers from my stash in red and green. Then I fussy cut him out and added detail with black white and sparkly gel pens. I I did not adhere to the sketch exactly but used it more as inspiration cutting my papers roughly to the same sizes. I omitted the second rectangle and added blending in my sentiment to the left. It can be challenging finding stamps featuring boys but LeAnn's World 101 has tons of them! Check out the shop and remember to enter your projects into the Anything Goes Challenge over on the Blog!

 Aloha Crafty friends! I hope your Spooky Month is going magically! The challenge theme over on the Aloha Friday blog this month is Halloween or Fall, so you knoooow what way I went with it! I created this Halloween card using a Frankenstein digital stamp from Oddball Art Co, which is unfortunately no longer around. I colored him up with alcohol markers to match some fun patterned papers I had in my stash. I know I say it about every card but I uuuuhh🧟‍♂️dore the way this one turned out! I'm dying to see what you do with this month's theme so make sure to enter your projects on the Aloha Friday Blog!

Why hello there crafty friend! This month's challenge image over on the LeAnn's World Facebook Group Progressive Challenge is another über cute Halloween image: Witches Brew! I printed her in draft mode so I could colour her up "no line" style with alcohol markers. Then I added some shine and sparkle with white and glitter gel pens. I inked up my card with carved pumpkin distress oxide ink and then stamped over it with rested hinge distress oxide and a black office ink from my stash. Then I layered a couple of papers on top. Next I grabbed a purply tissue paper from my stash and ripped off a strip, crumpling it to give it texture and gluing it down as an anchor for my image. Then I pop down my witches brew on top with craft foam propping her up. To finish the card off I stand a sentiment from the PSL stamp set from ink road stamps. Head on over to Leanne's world Facebook group to join in the fun!

 Hey Hey crafty ghouls! Another anything goes challenge is kicking off on the Leanne's world 101 challenge blog but of course because it is spooky season I made another Halloween card!  The Halloween party image pack is full of super cute digies so I colored up the witch on tombstones with alcohol markers. I layered up my card with a paper and a spiderweb doily from my stash and splattered in with black shimmer spray. My sentiment is stamped from a Tim Holtz stamp set and I made sure my rhinestones matched perfectly by using the same alcohol marker on clear rhinestones as I did in my lil witchy's dress! I hope I've inspired you to join tin the fun and enter your card in LeAnn's Challenge !

Happy Friday crafty friends! It's time for another challenge over on the Aloha Friday Challenge Blog and this month's theme is Back to School and Books, perfectly fitting August's release from Artful Angel Stamps!  I used the girl from the You Rule set from Artful Angel and colored her up with alcohol markers. After I fussy cut her out I created my own faux binder paper with blue and red markers, a corner rounder punch and a border punch to make it look like it was pulled out of a notebook. I inked the corner with Wilted Violet and Faded Jeans Distress Oxides and splattered in with water to lift a bit of color. I wanted a little bit of texture and so I crunched it up with my hands and rolled up the inked corner. I then added a couple of staples, and sprinkled rhinestones, pearls and stars around. My sentiment is a die from ErinCreative.com (I think it's out of stock now but she's got a ton of awesome word dies.) Thanks so much for checking out my card today! Make s...

 Hello crafty friends! September's progressive challenge over on the LeAnn's World Facebook Group features the super cute Trick or Treat Trudy and of course I colored her up to look like me!  I wanted to do a little something different though, so I made her hair white and sparkly! I think it came out spooky cute and I'd love to see how you create with Trick or Treat Trudy so jump over to the LeAnn's World Facebook Group to join in he fun!

 Hey hey crafts friends! It's time for a new challenge over on the LeAnn's World 101 Challenge Blog! As always it's an "Anything Goes Challenge" and I my brain is in full Fall Mode so of course I created a Halloween card! I used the Witchy Boy on the Moon image from the Halloween Party set and colored him up using alcohol markers. I'm over the moon 😉 with how my moon turned out! I used 3 different greys, choosing one with blue tones and went with a really splotchy, patchy and overlapping application. I made sure to go back and forth between the colors, really thinking about how I was building up my craters. Then it was on to create my card. I started with a standard side fold A2 card and cut the front panel diagonally. Then I took a second side fold card and cut in in half, using it as my  inside rectangle panel. After I had my bases, it was just about finding papers to compliment my image and adding little bits of detail with black, white, and sparkly gel p...

 Hello there crafty friends! This month's challenge theme over on the Aloha Challenge Blog is "Vacation Mode" and at first I was thinking of doing a beach themed or pool themed card. But when I thought back to childhood vacations, most of the time my family was camping or we ended up in the desert some where.  So with those memories inspiring me I created this card using Brandon Fishing from LeAnn's World 101. After printing and diecutting him out, I colored Brandon with alcohol markers and and used then to draw his background. I popped the diecut panel onto craft foam and mounted it into a patterned paper from my stash that reminded me of a camping blanket. I added a couple of rhinestones and highlights to his eyes with a gel pen to finish it off. I love this masculine card and I hope it inspires you to join the Aloha Challenge this month! Can wait you see what you create in "Vacation Mode"! 

Hey there crafty friends! It's time for another fun Progressive Challenge over on the LeAnn's World Facebook Group. This month's image is the adorable Dog Walker Annie. I wanted to put Annie in a little scene so I grabbed a pattered paper with a neighborhood scene on it from my stash and colored her in complimentary colors. Then I ran the front of my card through an embossing folder.  I stamped my sentiment on a piece of white paper, fussy cut it out, and popped it up on foam. I added some sparkly enamel dots to finish it off and added sparkles to Annie's eyes with a gel pen. If you'd like to participate in this month's challenge go on over to the LeAnn's World 101 Facebook Group and create your own project with Dog Walker Annie!

 Hello hello! It's the 3rd of the month and that means it's time for another challenge over on LeAnn's World 101 Challenge Blog! This month I used Sweets and paired her up with some paper in my stash that reminded me of confetti.  After I colored my image with alcohol markers and fussy cut her out I popped her on a die cut piece of paper and wrapped my background paper in twine. My sentiment is fussy cut from a cut apart by all Jen Hadfield's Live and Let Grow. Head over to the LeAnn's World Challenge Blog and enter your projects!

 Hey there fellow makers! LeAnn's World Challenge Blog and Store are back aling with the Progressive Challenge over in the LeAnn's World Facebook Group! This month's image is Chelsea which prompts us for a little bit of Christmas in July crafting 🎄👙 I colored my Chelsea up with Arteza Alcohol Markers and grabbed a couple patterned papers from my Christmas stash. I cut 2 panels at 4 x5¼ and then cut them diagonally together so they would have the exact same angle. I glued both to a craft cardstock panel that I cut at 4⅛x 5⅜ and sewed around the edge with gold and black threads. I stamped out my sentiment from a lawn fawn set in brown onto a round label and scrap strip of red cardstock. To add a little bit more interest to the card I scored down the middle of the front flap and folded it outward. I then glued my phone panel to the front little flap making a z-fold card. The finishing touch was a couple of white stars stand on the front and inside craft sections of the car...

Hey there, Crafty Soul! LeAnn has decided to keep the digi shop and challenges going until May so here's what I created for March's Challenge using Daisy Easter from the LeAnn World 101 digi shop, First I diecut out my image with a postage stamp die from my stash. I then started off coloring it by blending the edges with Speckled Egg, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans, and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide inks. I then went to my new set of skin tone alcohol markers that I got off Amazon. To be honest they were the cheapest pack, but I am loving how they color! After I had my image colored up with alcohol markers I went to a set of eyeshadows that have started crumbling on me and I used them to add shine to her little dress. I also used a paint stick from Daiso to add some more detail to her skirt. I also added some sparkle to her necklace and bracelets with a sparkly gel pen. Next, I grabbed a patterned paper from my stash, popped it up on foam tape, wrapped a piece of burlap twine arou...