New Digis at Shelly's Images and Mo's Make a Wish Card

Happy Tuesday! Be sure to stop by over at Shelly's Images Blog today and check out the tutorial for Technique Tuesday. It's a really cute Side Step Card. Shelly has also released 2 new images you'll want to grab at the store.

                

On to my card... My image today is the Make a Wish fundraiser image from Mo's Digital Pencil. One of the challenges that I am entering this in is "Girls with Curls" from the Cheerful Stamp Pad. As some of you may know, having curly hair can really define your life in ways. It has certainly defined mine. I can't tell you how many times I wished, begged and pleaded with God to straighten my hair! Curly hair can be quite traumatic for a young girl unless she was lucky enough to grow up in the eighties or knew how to take care of her hair. I only learned how to take care of mine well into adulthood - after years of straightening it. I've come to embrace my curliness and I want to hear a shout out from all the curlies out there! If you've not found this site yet, you need to visit www.naturallycurly.com. A great community with some great resources. OK, off my soapbox...

I once again used digital papers from Sherry K Designs. I really love these paper packs and the way they coordinate so easily. I added three brown mini buttons from Pizzazz Aplenty. My stitching this time was done using the Sew Easy tool. I love it, however, it does not pierce deeply. It was fine piercing through a single sheet of paper and through a single sheet of cardstock, but I don't think it will penetrate layers as easily. It sure beats piercing single holes by hand and I think I will really enjoy it as I use it more.

I made this flower using the same Mel Stampz tutorial as a couple of days ago. This was actually the first flower I made with the tutorial, but it was too big for the card I was making at the time. I distressed the edges and added chalk. I embossed the pink cardstock with the Tim Holtz Checkerboard embossing folder.

ProMarkers: Baby Pink, Blue Pearl, China Blue, Blush, Ivory, Cocoa, Cinnamon

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Stampavie: Pearls
Scrapbook Sisters: Distress
Crafts & Me: Vintage/Distress
Paper Romance: Summer
Digi Doodle Shop's Best: Anything Goes
Delightful Sketches: Distressing
Color Create: Pink, Blue & Brown
Mo's Challenge Blog: Pink & Girlie
4 Crafty Chicks: Distressing
Paper Cutz: Anything Goes
Mami Doodles: Let's Get Girly
Just Add Ink: Just Add a Flower
Totally Gorjuss: 123 (1 Flower, 2 DP's, 3 Buttons)
Sugar Creek Hollow: Embossing
Shannon's Sentiments: Handmade Embellishments
One Stop Crafts: In Stitches
Bugaboo: May Flowers and Pastel Colors
Sparkles Forum: Anything Goes
Scrappy Frogs: Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time: Embossing
Dream Valley Challenges: Flowers
The Cheerful Stamp Pad: Little Girls With Curls
One by One the Flamingos are Stealing my Sanity: May Flowers
Emerald Fairies: Anything Goes
Design Dollies: May Colors - Chocolate Brown, White, Mid-Pink, Dark Blue
Cupcake Craft Challenge: Something that begins with C - Cotton Candy
Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes
There She Goes: 3D Flower
Pollycraft: Anything Goes
Make It Monday
Kaboodle Doodles: It's in the B's Knees (Buttons, Brad)
House of Gilli: Lots of Layers and Faux or Real Stitching
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday: Open Challenge

Here's your FTR11 recipe:

• Pattern Paper – stripes, flourishes, leaves, polka-dots
• Colors – yellow, green, white, and kraft
• Stamps and Stickers – flowers/daisies, bicycles, leaves
• Color Mediums – Brown ink, Tombow and Copic markers (I used ProMarkers)
• Embellishments – ribbon, stickers, glitter/Stickles
• Tools – die cuts, Bind-It-All
• Techniques – Make a matching stationery set, embellished notebook and/or matching envelopes
• Theme – "Just a Note" or all occasion cards

Sweet Sunday Sketch: Sketch