Imagine That! Digis by Kris at Your Scrapbook Place

This month Imagine That! Digis by Kris sponsors Your Scrapbook Place. I adore Kris' sets, especially this one,called Bambi and Max. The set comes with 2 colored images, 2 black line  images and 3 sentiments!

I decided to use the colored image today for my DT make, putting the card together with the following elements:

• Pixel Scrapper Amanda Brown's Cashmere Cocoa Red Patterned Paper
• Pixel Scrapper Jan Clark's ITP Papers 18 & 27
• Pixel Scrapper Marisa Lerin's Our Special Day Cluster 6
• Pixel Scrapper Sheila Reed's Butterfly w/gems & Yellow Polka dot Grunge Paint
• Pixel Scrapper Pauline Thompson's Brishti Pearl 5
• Sentiment: Grasshopper
• Imagine That! Digis by Kris' Bambi & Max Stamp Set 

Don't forget to link up your project at Your Scrapbook Place for your chance to win free digis at the Imagine That! Store.

Shades of Yellow on the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog This Month

What kinds of thoughts and feelings do you have of when you think about the color yellow? For some, the different colors of yellow bring thoughts of warmth, light, happiness, remembrance and hope. Did you know that the sunflower is the official symbol of ALS? After my husband passed away, my daughter got a sunflower tattoo on her ankle in her dad's memory.

For others, the color yellow can evoke thoughts of sickness, weakness or jealousy. Too much yellow disturbs calmness in others, especially babies. Infants cry more in rooms painted yellow (weird but true).

Yellow gemstones are believed to boost confidence and clarity in making decisions. I'll have to remember that the next time someone wants to buy me a diamond ring (make it a yellow one, honey).

Today I get to show how shades of yellow inspire me by creating a birthday card. I think yellow is a bright and cheerful color to celebrate a birthday. I've used a pre-colored image from Imagine That's "Giraffe with Butterflies" set. The background is a photo my gf's daughter took while doing missionary work in Cambodia. See that bridge behind my image? She helped build that! 

Imagine That is one of two sponsors for the Path of Positivity challenge blog, whose optional theme this month is SHADES OF YELLOW. If you follow this theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that you are included in the draw for the prize for Most Inspirational. They'd also love to find out how this month's color makes you feel. What kinds of feelings does the color YELLOW evoke in you? Simply leave a comment on the challenge post at the Path of Positivity, or mention it in your own post.

Of course, in order to be considered eligible for any prizes, ALL creations must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. You don't need to follow the optional theme if you simply want to have a chance at the Random Draw prize of a $10 gift certificate from Limited Runs, the other guest sponsor this month. You only need to follow the theme if you want a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to Imagine That Store for the project chosen as Most Inspiring.

And Mercy Maud, don't forget to link up your fabulous creation with the main blog! I want to see what you created! Happy crafting!

Have a Beary Sweet Christmas at the 12 Months of Christmas Challenge Blog

I remember my first teddy bear. It was cinnamon-colored, and half my height (at the time). I was four, and I promptly named her Cinnamon, Cindy for short (very original, huh?). My bear and I had many adventures together, sharing secrets and laughing and sometimes crying, but always hugging each other. And one day, she was just another stuffed animal, and I had grown on to other things, other friends, other adventures. But I still have the fondest memories of my Cindy bear, which inspired me to create my DT card today for the 12 Months of Christmas Challenge blog..

My card features images from an Imagine That! DigiStamps Set called Beary Merry Christmas. One of my images is Copic-colored, and the other two are pre-colored. Can you tell which one? LOL

I used some lovely papers from Decosse's Dynamite Designs, including the set of papers made especially for this month's challenge: A Beary Sweet Christmas Paper Kit, Christmas Bear w/sock; It's Ornamental Paper Kit, Green Balls patterned paper; Glitterati Paper Kit in Gold; Heartland Paper Kit, Green Hearts; December Delights Paper Kit, Deck the Halls 1

I added the following element from Decosse's as well: Mommie Dearest Mini Kit, Bow 3 and Red Brad (?).
Both are sponsors for this challenge:

Sponsor and Prize Info for this challenge:  

• Guest Sponsor:  Imagine That Digistamp (ITD)
• Guest Sponsor bio: 

Imagine That Digistamp is a 'family-friendly' shop that caters to card-makers and scrapbookers alike! All stamp sets that include an outline for you to color also include a digitally pre-colored version for quick & easy crafting. We also offer many digital paper packs, kits/bundles, Word Art, Alphabets, Chalkboard Art, and free Blogwear. What will YOU imagine?

We also invite you to join in our monthly Creative Link-Up! If you use an image from Imagine That Digistamp on your project (and follow the other rules), you earn a featured set for the month. All entries following the rules* earn a chance at a $10 gift certificate to the store! We'd love for you to come over and join us!    

• Main Blog: http://imaginethatdigistamp.blogspot.com/
• Store: http://www.imaginethatdigistamp.com/index.html
• Private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/imaginethatdigis/

*In order to have a chance to win the prize from our guest sponsor, we want you to create a card that has a BEAR as the focal point. You can choose to use any kind of bear image--whether real, cartooned or of the teddy bear variety. If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that we include you in the draw for the prize.
BUT, that you don't need to follow the theme to link up your cards and earn a free paper each month or for a chance to win the featured paper set. You only need to follow the theme if you want a chance to win this month's sponsored prize of...

 a $10 gift certificate to the Imagine That Digistamp store.

• Additional Sponsor: Décosse's Dynamite Doodles
• Prize being offered: One free digital paper to everyone who links up a minimum of two cards to the challenge. Cards can be anything goes for this prize, they only have to follow the theme if they want a chance at the sponsor's prize. The mini set of six digital papers called A Beary Sweet Christmas, will also be offered up as a prize to one random winner.
• Link:  As I don't have a store, you can simply link to my personal blog--http://decossesdynamitedoodles.blogspot.ca

That's all for now! I can't wait to see what you've created when I check out the links at the 12 Months of Christmas Challenge blog! Have a beary crafty time!

Challenges I am Entering:

Surround Yourself with Music at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog

Today I have TWO projects to showcase for my DT make for the Path of Positivity. When the optional challenge has to do with MUSIC, I can get easily inspired. For the first:

Pat here with scrapbook layout for this month's Surround Yourself with Music challenge theme over at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. I've been on a leave of absence, but managed to create one of several pages for my 25th Anniversary layout (better late than never).
I was inspired to (finally) create my layout because of the beautiful music I fell in love with while vacationing in the Islands. It's funny how just one song can bring back a thousand memories. That's why music is so important in my life, especially now. I recently lost my hubby, so when a "slack key guitar song" pops up on my iPod, I am flooded with memories of our dream vacation together. I can almost feel the ocean breezes caressing my cheeks and hear the waves lapping at the shore, while Bill and I walked hand in hand along the beaches.
So, of course I played my Hawaiian music while creating the first of several scrapbook pages using digi images from one of this month's sponsors, Imagine That! Digis by Kris. The images include Hula Girl and the Aloha sentient from the Hula Girl set and Peacock Spread from the Pretty Peacocks set.

Challenges I am entering:

Love to Scrap - ANything Goes

On to the SECOND:

I love this digi image from POP's second guest sponsor, Limited Runs. It's called Juggling Snowman. As for me, I can't juggle to save my life, but I've always dreamed I could. My snowman here is a pro, and is showing off on my card. I colored him with Copics, and popped him onto a beautiful background paper from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles from her Snowfest Paper Kit. The sentiment is also from DDD.

All the challenges at the Path of Positivity are Anything Goes, but we also offer an optional theme. This month we want to know, "How does MUSIC influence your life or inspire your art?"

If you would like a chance to win the prize for the Most Inspirational Creation, Choose a song that inspires positivity in you and share the song (or music genre) and the inspired project with us! We can't wait to feel the upbeat vibes you have to share with us!

If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that we include you in the draw for the prize. We also ask that you please leave a comment letting us know how your creation relates to the concept of music and what you learned about yourself along the way, if it isn't clearly written somewhere else in your post. 

In order to be considered eligible for this month's prizes, ALL creations must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. You don't need to follow the optional theme if you simply want to have a chance at the Random Draw prize of a $10 gift certificate from Imagine That Digistamp, one of our sponsors this month. You only need to follow the theme if you want a chance to win this month's sponsored prize of a $10 gift certificate from Limited Runs, provided by the second of our guest sponsors this month.

Challenges I am Entering:

Crafting with Dragonflies - Non-traditional Christmas colors

Dragonfly Dreams - Winter

Fabrika Fantasy - Winter

Have a Furry, Fluffy, Feathery & Finny Christmas at 12 Months of Christmas Blog

What would Christmas be like without our furry, fluffy, feathery or finned companions in our lives?! Since Wilson, our rescue Silkie Terrier, came into our lives, I can't imagine Christmas morning without his sniffing around the packages, giving me those sad brown eyes over breakfast, and jumping in excitement from one person to another as presents are unwrapped. Wilson adds an extra helping of joy to our Christmases. That is why the 12 Months of Christmas wants to see Christmas cards that features an animal that one might have as a household pet. Dog lover, cat lover or somewhere in between, what will your focus be?

My digital Christmas card features a digi image from Imagine That! Digis from Kris called Happy Howl-i-days. The sentiment is also from Imagine That Digis. And I couldn't resist popping Wilson in there! I also used the following digital goodies:

 Decosse's Dynamite Doodles' It's Ornamental Paper Kit Green Balls PP and A Grungy Christmas Green & Burgundy Textured papers; Snow Much Fun Glitter Snowflakes Kit Red Snowflake

Sometimes I like to send Christmas cards via email to my international friends who live in Australia, Canada, Greece, Germany and elsewhere. Sometimes I like to print them up and send them to my neighbors, just to remind them that we are all part of a community.

So, In order to have a chance this month to win the prize from our wonderful guest sponsor, Imagine That! Digis by Kris, make sure that your Christmas card has an image of a household pet as the focal point (cat, dog, bird, mouse, rabbit, hedgehog, ferret, fish, turtle, etc.) If you do follow the optional theme, be sure to add FT after your name so that you are included in the draw for this month's sponsored prize prize of a $10 gift certificate to the Imagine That! Digistamp store.

As always, you don't need to follow the theme to earn a free paper each month from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles, and have your name thrown into the year-end draw for some extra digital goodies.

Whatever you choose, however you craft, just have fun knowing that when the Christmas season rolls around, your stash of cards will be ready to mail and give out!! No stress, no worry, no running to the store. Done and done!

Happy Crafting! 

Find LOVE at the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog

Welcome to the midway point of the February challenge at the Path of Positivity challenge blog. While it's always ANYTHING GOES, the optional theme is Expressions of Love. Our sponsors for this challenge are:

AND

My card today is for my sister Dee, whose support and love have carried me through some tough times this month. I thought she would like this card because, like me, she loves puns! The digi image I used is called "Love You 2 Pizzas" and is offered in the Imagine That! store.

SPONSOR & PRIZE INFORMATION: 

• $10 gift certificate from Imagine That! Digistamp for the post or project that is deemed most inspiring of the bunch. To be eligible for this prize, you must follow the optional theme of Expressions of Love.
• The same three digis used by team members, provided by Mari Digis for a person chosen in a random draw based on all entrants.  To be eligible for this prize, entry must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature.
• One digital image from Creative Bug Digital SnapShots for each person chosen as a DT Delight.

Whether you choose to express love for someone in a birthday card, a sympathy card, a scrapbook layout, or other media, be sure to link it up at the Path of Positivity Challenge blog for your chance to win prizes!

Challenges I am Entering:

Crafty Calendar Challenges - Love is in the Air

Crafty Cardmakers - Add Some Texture

Get Creative Challenges - Use Red + Another Color

*Anything Goes Theme*

Crafting from the Heart

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

Imagine That

Anything Goes at Your Scrapbook Place

Have you been to Your Scrapbook Place challenge blog this month? Their sponsor is Imagine That and the DT has created some inspiring art. I used a digi image called      . After coloring her with Copics, I framed her with a paper doily that I colored with homemade shimmer mists.
 I folded a large K&Co tag in half as my card base, and embellished with sparkly trim, a ribbon bow, flowers and a butterfly.
My card was super easy and quick to create. My secret is that I have most supplies within arm's length, so I can grab paper from my left, as well as my markers; embellishments are sorted and labeled in a workshop unit, the kind my hubby would use for screws, nails, washers and such; my tape gun is on a shelf above my table. I snagged a shadowbox from last summer's rummage sale and hubby put it up over my table. Now I have all my sprays, powders, specialty markers and pens, distress inks, etc., up off my table but readily accessible.
It sure sounds like I have a designer craft area, but NOTHING in my room matches. I have no budget for my crafting, so when I see a piece of furniture or storage supplies on clearance (or lying on the side of the road LOL) I decide if I can use it and it makes its home in my area. So my crafting den is organized but not pretty! And that is why you don't see photos of it!!
Back to the challenge. Your Scrapbook Place is a challenge blog for ALL crafters, not just scrapbookers. Their challenges are always Anything Goes, and run monthly. They would love to see what you have created this month, so hop on over there!!
And as always, crafters, have fun today!

Challenges I am Entering:

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w/optional Let's Celebrate!

Stamping Sensations - May Flowers

Crafting by Design - Flowers

Warm Fuzzies Coming Your Way at Your Scrapbook Place

A new month means a new challenge at Your Scrapbook place, where all challenges are Anything Goes. This month's sponsor is Imagine That, and I got to play with a digi set called Pandas. This set includes
  - 2 panda bears in color & outline JPG & PNG (+ a shadow version)
  - 2 fuzzy word art, color JPG & PNG
  - 1 bamboo word art, color & outline JPG & PNG
  - 5 digi papers, (6"x6", high quality 300 ppi)
  - 5 solid sentiments, JPG & PNG

I colored my pandas with Copics and fussy-cut them out to place on my card base. Keeping to my promise to use papers from the box on my table and my stash of embellies, I created my base with patterned paper, a die-cut frame, some ephemera from China, and a few pearls. Isn't that sentiment fun?

Who doesn't like an Anything Goes challenge? Come play at Your Scrapbook place challenge blog this month. Prizes are from Imagine That for a random winner.

And as always, crafters, have fun!

Other Challenges I am Entering:

Digi Choosday challenges - Anything Goes

Clear It Out challenges - Anything Goes-must use stash

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Cards in Envy - When Nature Calls

Marker POP challenges - Anything Goes
Mema's Crafts challenges - Anything Goes 
Muse challenge #116 - Inspiration card (I pulled the color combo of black, white, green & blue from the inspiration card)

Be Crafty & Craft - Anything Goes
Card Mania challenges - Pearls & Swirls
Craft & Smash challenges - Animals
Crafting Musketeers - Use a Die-cut 
Natalie & Amy challenges - Animals
Naughty or Nice - Friends (nice)
Imagine That! - Anything Goes w/Imagine That image