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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...