Anything Goes at the Outlawz Greetings Challernge

Welcome to a new challenge at the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge. This week offers my favorite kind of challenge--Anything Goes! And so, I created my DT make, a personalized candle with which to gift my new neighbor who just moved  in.

Have you decorated a candle using a stamped or digital image yet? It is fun and easy. Color up your image first. Mine is from this week's guest sponsor, QKR Stampede, and is called Smiling Flowers. 

To make your image a part of your candle, place it flat onto the candle and cover it with a piece of wax paper long enough to go all the way around your candle. Keep it evenly tight and use your heat gun on it. The wax from the wax paper will melt a layer on  top of the image as if the candle was purchased with that image on it.
For my candle, I embellished simply with a bit of ric rac adhered to its bottom.
Of course, this challenge is called the GREETINGS challenge, so I made a "chalkboard" gift tag for my candle.

And here is my total project, ready for me to walk it over to my neighbor this week. 

Now it's your turn! The sky's the limit with an Anything Goes challenge, so grab your Muse by the hand and create. But don't forget to link up your project at the Outlawz Monday Greetings for your chance to win this week's prize of five digis from QKR Stampede! Good luck and happy crafting!

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion - ANything Goes

Anything Goes at the Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge

Good morning, crafters! It's Anything Goes at the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge and this week Rick St Dennis is our very generous sponsor, offering 2 digi images to a winner. I colored up an image called Sister Jubilata, then inked the edges of my image and let it sit on my craft desk for a couple days.
Time did its trick and when I came back to my Copic-colored image, I knew I wanted to use it on a recyclable container headed out the door. I rescued it and covered it with patterned paper and sprayed the cover with gloss Black spray paint.

I pulled out boxes and drawers of embellishments for this Blessings Jar featuring Sister Jubilata. Leftover die-cut, flowers, jeweled flourishes and trim went onto my jar. Then I added glue and glitter to make it shimmer and sparkle.

I finished off my project with a leftover flower on top of my lid. Any guesses as to what my Blessings Jar started out as? (I'm really proud of this upcycle project)
Meanwhile, grab your craft supplies and join us in our monthly Anything Goes challenge that starts today! And as always, crafters, have fun!

Use Purple & Green at the Oultawz Monday Greetings This Week

It's a Color Challenge this week at the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge, and those colors are PURPLE and GREEN. This week's sponsor is Crafty Sentiments

 and the digital image I chose to use is called Just Relax 2 on a calendar page.

I snagged a "perpetual" calendar whose four sides are clear acrylic pockets in which I can place each month's calendar page. I created a page for August and placed birthday-themed picks in the center of my calendar. I did that because my youngest grandson, Jonny, turns ONE this month. Last year I was staying with my son's family as the due date neared. I was lucky in that my hubby and daughter came up to drive me home and we all ended up being there for his birth.
Come join the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge this week. Remember to follow the color theme of Purple and Green, and to make sure you have a greeting or sentiment on your project.

Let's Go Fly a Kite with Kitty Bee Designs

Today brings a new challenge to the Outlawz Monday Greetings. This week's sponsor is Kitty Bee Designs, and I got to play with this cutie called Panda with Kite. I say play because after coloring it with Copics, I popped it onto a scene I created in Photoshop. The theme this week is "Let There Be Sky."
My card uses:
Image from Kitty Bee Designs (Panda with Kite)
Papers from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Glitterati Paper Kit (gold) and Chasing Rainbows Patterned Paper Pack (sea)
Elements:  Fence from Rucola Designs Our House Elements 1, Shell from Rucola Designs Summertime Freebie, Boat and Glitter overlay #9 from Krysty Scrap Designs
Sentiment created in Word from the song "Let's Go Fly a Kite" from the movie Mary Poppins using Speedball #3NF

Just What the Doctor Ordered at the Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge

Now that we are in full swing with winter temps, there have been lots of calls in from parents saying their kids won't be in class because they're sick. So I decided that now would be a good time to create a few get well cards..
And just in time for the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge starting today!! The guest sponsor this week is Di's Digi Stamps, and I got to play with this pre-colored digi image called Get Well Mice. I printed it three times, cutting the image out to build up a few layers for dimension.
In keeping with my promise to use up my stash, I pulled embossed,  machine-stitched and patterned papers to complete my card. What do you do with the leftovers from a project? If you keep pieces of paper, how small do they have to be to chuck them? I have a definite problem getting rid of the smallest strips and squares of paper!Maybe if I used some guidelines, I could control the urge to save every last bit of paper left over on my desk when the day is  done!
Well, how ever you control the stash dilemna, I hope you get time to create something this week. And I hope I see it over at the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge! Have fun, crafters!

Challenges I am Entering:

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes/Cute & Cuddly

Can't Wait for Christmas in 3 PP & a Die-cut

Christmas is coming!! I can hardly wait, can you? This little girl can hardly wait. in fact, that what the image is called "Can't Hardly Wait," from Creative Bug Digital Snapshots. The Outlawz Greetings blog has a new challenge starting today, and Creative Bug is this week's sponsor.
The new challenge theme is to "Use 3 patterns & at least 1 die-cut" on your card or project. My card is so full of patterns that I used a couple solid color die-cut scalloped circles to keep my image and Christmas tree from getting lost on it!!
I have a problem. I can't seem to throw away paper. Not even the smallest strips!! I need to get ruthless and toss them, but I can make tags with them or place them on cards along with their other-colored friends...well, you know how it goes.
But today my paper hoarding came in handy, and I hope you have your own stash of papers to use for the Outlawz Monday Greetings this week.

Challenges I am Entering:

Where the Heart Is - Christmas Colors

The Crazy Challenge blog - Christmas

Not Just Cards - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers & More - 'twas the Night before Christmas

Pop Open a Good Book

Good evening, crafters! I'm a little late in showcasing my DT make for the Outlaw Greetings challenge that started this morning. The guest sponsor this week is Crafty Sentiments

and I got to play with this cute digi image called "Daydreaming." I decided to make a bookmark after coloring and fussy-cutting my guy. After all, reading opens up a lot of ideas for daydreams!

I used red & white striped paper to make my popcorn box, and a magazine pic for the boy's background before putting it altogether on a green base. My sentiment (a necessity for any challenge at the Outlaw Monday Greetings) is inspired by the popcorn, and I used a brad to form the letter O in POP. A paper clip and ribbon finish off my project and now it's your turn.

The challenge this week is ANYTHING GOES!!

Mulitple Sponsors at the Outlawz Monday Greetings this Week

Here's another DT card I created for this week's Monday Greetings challenge at the Outlawz. We have multiple sponsors, and I got to play with an image from each--yay, me!
Today I showcased a couple images from Melonheadz: Campfire and Marshmallow. I created this card for my hubby. We just celebrated our wedding anniversary in September, but I felt a little nudge reminding him how happy I am would be nice.
I also love a good punny card...
Check out the inspiration and the sponsor prizes this week at the Outlawz Monday Greetings challenge this week.
Happy crafting!

First Attempt at Acrylic Album Using Angie's Digi Stamps

Hello, crafty peeps! I decided to stretch my comfort zone by attempting an acrylic album, and have created my first page. I have about five of these blank "pages" with which to create, and couldn't resist playing with this image from Angie's Digi Stamps called Kitty in Flowers.
Playing with acrylic pages is different than regular album pages. I have to always remember that what I place on one side shows up on the opposite, only the flip sides of everything. So I have to think "see through" I have to match up with the opposite side, and if I can't the first side has to show a pretty "back side."
Back to my image. I colored this purr-fect little guy with Copics, then rubbed in some Tim Holtz Distress ink on the edges and in toward the image. I framed him with patterned paper and let a few acrylic sticker circles and jewels to frolic along with him.
Do you like my sentiment? I thought this was purr-fect as well, and found it on the Quotegraden.com, printing it in Microsoft Word and punching it out with my circle punch.
Now it's your turn to try something new. The Outlawz Greetings challenge has an Anything Goes theme this week, perfect for trying your wings in a different medium, a new image, a challenging technique.
Other Challenges I am Entering:
Artistic Inspiration - Flowers
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenges - Hop into Spring (cats are known to hop!)

Happy Anniversary to my Knight in Shining Armor

Another Monday with the Outlawz Greetings Challenges!
 This week is Anything Goes, my fave kind of challenge. I decided to make an anniversary card for my sweet hubby of 38 years. He truly is my Knight in Shining Armor, which also happens to be the name of the digital image I used from one of this month's sponsors, A DAY FOR DAISIES.
After coloring my hero with Copics, I fussy-cut him out, changed out his frame for a patterned paper one and popped him on some shiny silver foil paper (after punching the edges with a Martha Stewart set of hand-helds). Then came the jeweled flourishes, the hearts, the pearls and the sentiment (K&Co). Don't you love that patterned paper I used in the background? It's from CTMH.
I went all out on my card, even adding m'lady's (my) scarf at the end of his lance, as well as adding a feather (ahem) I mean plume, to his helmet. And my valiant knight is off to win his true love's heart. Silly boy, he should know he has it by now! He's much better off sneaking in to his lady's bedchambers and...oops, never mind. Some things are best left unsaid. LOL
My inspiration for this card came from a few sources:

We Do Dobadoo - Romance Challenge #2 

Open-minded Crafting for their "Inspired by a Movie" challenge (First Knight & Camelot)

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for their brilliant alphabetical challenge (I chose "I for Iconic-call him Lancelot, King Arthur-any guy on a horse wearing a tin can holding a long stick is easily identifiable as an icon)

Other challenges I am entering:

Left of Center Challenges - Layer It Up
Glitter n Sparkle - Pearls & Swirls
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Love and/or Valentine

Outlawz Are Going Non-Traditional this Christmas

Hello my holiday peeps! Time for the last few cards to show off before the big day! This one showcases a lovely image from Digital Delights called Holiday Flippity Felicia and non-traditional Christmas colors. That's the new theme at the Outlawz Greetings challenge. nd Digital Delights is this week's sponsor!
After coloring Felicia, I fussy-cut her and popped her onto a royal blue piece of cardstock. I added lace, ribbon, pearls and snowflake buttons, along with some burgundy colored branches to embellish the heck out of my card.
I think it turned out well!
She's going to my blue-eyed blonde haired granddaughter, whose presents are lying under the Christmas tree as I write. She is he youngest of my five grandkids and they are all the loves of my life.
Need some "me time" during the hectic holiday preparations? I find peace and balance in my craft room. If you like to craft to keep your sanity, play along with the Outlawz Greetings challenge this week. Remember, make a Christmas card with non-traditional colors! See you there!

New Challenge at the Outlawz Greetings This Week

Copics dried up? No sharpener for your colored pencils? No worries! Outlawz Greetings challenge this week is for Black-and-White, no coloring on your card!
I thought it was going to be difficult, but it's easy because you don't have to pull out all your papers and inks and embellies to make sure they match or coordinate with each other. Just black and white for a simple yet elegant look!
I used a digi image called "Chubby Snowman" from the Outlawz Greetings Challenge sponsor this week, The Stamping Boutique.
 
I printed my image and colored a few spots with black Copic markers and gave it sparkle with white diamond Stickles. Then I framed it and my sentiment with black cardstock. My patterned papers are from the Paper Studio. I added a few musical notes, snowflakes and a pretty organza bow and mt card is finished. It literally only took about two minutes!
If you haven't tried to create a black-and-white only card yet, try your hand at it. Don't forget to post it on the Outlawz Greetings challenge for your chance to win prizes from our monthly sponsors!

Challenges I am Entering:
Corrosive Challenge Blog - Happy Everything

Anything Goes at the Outlawz Greetings Challenge

It's the last challenge of the month at the Outlawz Greetings challenge, and you know what that means!  ANYTHING GOES!!

Our sponsor this time around is the fabulous Rick St. Dennis.

 

I got to play with this awesome holiday image. It's called Starry Night Santa. I love the details in this image. I can just imagine Santa holding a star aloft and all the elves at the North pole oohing and aahing, and then cheering as he lets the star go and it rises high in the dark sky to light Santa's once a year sleigh ride (He's got to have more magic up his sleeves than a few flying reindeer).

After coloring my Red Man with Copics, I distressed with Tim Holtz Ink, matted it and popped him on some leftover patterned Christmas paper. A bit of K&Co Holiday border lines the bottom edge of my card, and I cut a few extra stars to frame Santa. 

I finished off my card with a DCWV cardstock sentiment sticker, and a leftover floral sticker. To add a little detail, I used my white gel pen to highlight some of Santa's cape, as well as put in some hand-sewn (faux) stitches to keep the stars in their places.

I hope you like my card, and I know you'll like the images that Rick St. Dennis offers at his shop. I hope my card inspires you to start your Christmas cards, entering the Outlawz Greetings Challenge in the meantime. Don't forget, you don't necessarily need a colored image, nor does it have to be a card, but it MUST have a sentiment on the front.

 

I'm entering my card using 2012 Starry Night Santa from Rick St Dennis to his Facebook page, where the theme is: ANYTHING GOES

 

I'm entering my card in the Corrosive Challenge blog where the theme is: HAPPY ANYTHING

 

 

 

 

 

 







Outlawz Challenges You to Show Off Your Fall Colors

They say that April showers bring May flowers, but Autumn showers bring crunchy carpets that color our world with crimson, gold and orange paths on which we walk quickly before it all blows away into winter. To show off those gorgeous colors, this week’s Outlawz Greetings Challenge is to create with FALL COLORS.

There are two sponsors for this week's challenge:
Whoopsy Daisy

and Sweet n Sassy.

Today my card features a digital image from Whoopsy Daisy Sheet 463. I think she showcases Autumn in all its glorious color so very well. I can almost feel the crisp wind she faces as she walks home in the early afternoon.
I used a leftover piece of patterned paper for my card face, which became my inspiration for coloring my image with Copics. Some Tim Holtz ink distressed the edges before I frame it and place it just under a ribbon border where my sentiment resides.
Of course, with a sentiment like that, there was only one embellishment to finish off my cards. I used metallic leaf brads and a couple chipboard die-cuts. The pearls add a smidgen of bling.
Quick, before the leaves all blow away, show your Fall colors and play in this week's Outlawz Greetings Challenge.
Other challenges I am entering:
xDivas by Design - Anything Goes
xMarkerPOP Challenges - Anything Goes
xWhoopsidaisy - Add a Sentiment
xPpinky Dolls - Anything Goes or Add Bling
xNot Just Cards CHallenges - Anything Goes
xCraft Your Passion - Bright & Sparkly

Anything Goes at the Outlawz Greetings Challenge This Week

I love an Anything Goes challenge. The Outlawz Greetings offers an Anything Goes theme on the last Monday of every month. This week, Inky Impressions is the guest sponsor.

My digi image is called Angelica's Giant Pumpkin. Isn't she cute? I colored her with Copics, distressed her with inks, then popped her onto a die-cut frame. My sentiment is a leftover from my stash-last one! I embellished with sparkling leaves and pearls. But my card is not your usual one-fold card!

I made a Z-fold card so it stands up and makes an awesome presentation. Z-fold cards are super easy to make. Just fold your paper as you would for a regular card, then fold back the front face of your card. Stand it up and look at it from above-it should look like a backwards Z!
Here's another view of my card.

So what's not to love about the Outlawz Greetings new challenge? It's Anything Goes, and to a crafter, the sky's the limit! Come join us!

Challenges I am Entering:
Love to Create - More Than One Fold
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Fall colors
Paper Makeup Stamps - Pumpkins