Some Challenge Projects

Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope you all are having a great weekend. Yesterday was a BEAUTIFUL, yet cold, day in Connecticut. It was so nice to see the sun so I will take the cold any day. Today is gray AGAIN, and it is so depressing.

My first card was inspired by a lot of different challenges.

I have had this stamp and die set FOREVER. In fact, I don't have a clue who even made it.  However, I pulled it out of my Christmas stamp pile and did some coloring on my stamps with Tombow markers.

It was kind of fun getting back to one of the first techniques I learned with my rubber stamps years ago.

I created the background by blending Distress Inks and doing the toothbrush splattering with watered down white acrylic paint.

I am entering this into CASE this Sketch #347, which was the sketch that originally inspired me to pull out this stamp set. I am also going to enter this into the Retro Rubber Challenges #123 as my stamp is really, really old. I am also entering this into two Happy Little Stampers November Challenges-Anything Goes with Dies AND Tis the Season.  I am also going to enter this into the November 2019 30 day Coloring Challenge. I TRIED so hard to do this every day but just got too busy to do so.

  

 

So for my NEXT card I used two challenges as my starting point.

I used a BUNCH of snow flake dies, as well as a Spellbinders Snowman for my card.

I had so much fun making this card, using TONS of scraps. All the die cutting was done with scrap pieces of paper.

The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp "Inside Christmas Greetings."

I am entering in this into this weeks Freshly Made Sketches #410, Christmas Kickstart Challenge #23-Snow and a new to me challenge, Pixie's Playground Snippets Challenge #365-using scraps.

 

My last challenge that I am entering today is the 25 Days of Christmas Tags. I was inspired by Svitlana Shayevich's tags. She used products from Altenew but I didn't have these. However, I used similar items that I had on hand.

The tag was created with a Paper Trey Ink Bookmark die and cut from a scrap. The snowflake is by Simon Says Stamp and the sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

I added some Studio Katia pearls to my snowflake to make it a little more elegant.

An update about my dog. He is doing better. He is coughing less and has been his old, naughty self. Yesterday he was well enough to go to the groomers.

The workers said that he was so mellow and friendly with them and the other dogs. He never has been curious about dogs in the past unless it is to dominate. I guess he wanted to play with the other dogs at the groomers!!!

On another note, I want to post a couple of the projects that I was able to color this week.

The top are Hello Bluebird stamps and the second are tags that I will finish this weekend are are Sunny Studios.

Well that is all from me today. I thank you for stopping by. I hope you all have a FABULOUS day!!!