Baseball a Family Passion

We are a baseball family. Our two boys played Little League and for school teams. We took them to Mets and Yankee games and even to spring training after we moved from New York to Florida. So, I was very happy to find a wonderful baseball image at Deedees Digis. It's part of a very nice bundle called Catching Flies. Deedees Digis is currently sponsoring the Creative Lady Birds Challenge.

I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils and Odorless Mineral Spirits. The colored images were merged with backgrounds from digikits in Craft Artist 2.

I do hope you will join us in the challenge over at Creative Lady Birds Challenge, as always it's "Anything Goes." Sponsored by  Deedee's Digis.

Good Morning, Sunshine!

I'm sending you some Florida sunshine. Rory Daisy Love is a Lacy Sunshine digital stamp and was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and a Prismacolor Blender Marker. The Dandelions digital stamp by Make it Crafty was also colored with Prismacolor Pencils. The two images were merged in the Craft Artist 2 program, where I added bits and pieces from a variety of digikits for the background.

I am entering this card in the Bi-weekly anything goes challenge at:
 http://lacysunshine.blogspot.com/

Crazy for Craftin'

She's So Colorful, a digital stamp, was designed by Karleigh Sue, the sponsor for this current challenge at Crafting from the Heart. This young lady is living up to her name, with lots of color! She's on her way to her crafting class with a bag full of markers!

She's So Colorful was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and merged with a background from various digikits in Craft Artist 2.

I hope you will join us in this challenge at Crafting from the Heart. As always it's "Anything Goes." Sponsored by Karleigh Sue.

Come back and see what's next!

Lemonade Stand - A Happy Memory

The latest challenge at Simply Papercraft is sponsored by Deedee's Digis. I used Lemonade Stand with the little boy designed by this sponsor. It is part of a set which included the 2 lemon papers and also a little girl with a lemonade stand. I used Prismacolor Pencils and odorless mineral spirits to color the stand and boy. The stand and papers along with various bits and pieces were merged in Craft Artist 2.

This card brings back a happy memory of when my younger son went into the lemonade business. Cars pulled up to the curve in front of our house, when my son offered car hop service! He did very well. He also found a $10 bill under the table and went to the house of the person, who had dropped it, earning a reward. I guess food service was in his future even then. He runs a great restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida now!
Sponsor Deedee's Digis.

I Dream of Jeannie!

Jeannie's visit to Arabia

 While coloring Jeannie by Francesca Lopez for Cute as a Button, I remembered dressing like this in 2007, while performing in a local production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat." I had two costumes for that show. One covered me from head to toe as Joseph's Jewish traditional family. The other was that of an Arab belly dancer. I had a second dancer costume to wear to a masquerade party that same month. Here are a couple of fun pictures from those days.

A seam had popped on my costume and my friend Vicki was doing her best to fix it!

Yup, that's me at home in my belly dance costume!

 

 

I used Prismacolor Pencils and a Prismacolor Blender to color Jeannie. Jeannie and my husband's color sketched background were merged in the Craft Artist 2 program.

I hope my work has inspired you to work on your card and maybe reminded you of some fun memories!

The Perfect Beach Day!

This Beach Day digi stamp from Cute as a Button, is the perfect teen girl to explore your local shoreline or a vacation resort. She is colored with Prismacolor Pencils and a blender marker. She is merged into a color sketch by my husband Sandy, using the Craft artist 2 program.

Do You Croquet?

Do you remember playing croquet a a child? I played it. It's still a sport, which involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops called "wickets" here in the states, embedded in  a grass playing court. The game got started in the mid-19th century and today there are a number of adult croquet associations. This little girl is about to try her luck at the game! Chloe Croquet is a digital stamp by Cute as a Button artist Francesca Lopez.
This sweetie was colored using Prismacolor Pencils and odorless mineral spirits and merged with a background in Craft Artist 2.
Come and share your card at Cute as a Button.

Practice, Practice, Practice

I recently became a member of the Cute as a Button design team. I am honored to be on the team with artist Francesca Lopez. She creates lovely images.

The digital stamp I chose for my first card as a team member is "Dance Unto the Lord." It's the perfect stamp for me to use. My 14 year old granddaughter dances with the local dance studio competition team. This month she is busy with several competitions and we will be watching her perform at the studio's recital, always an exciting time.

Just like my granddaughter, "Dance Unto the Lord," believes in practice, practice, practice. She is colored in Prismacolor Pencils and Prismacolor Blender Marker. The hand colored images were merged with background pieces in the Craft Artist 2 program.

I hope my card has inspired you to participate in the challenges at Cute as a Button.

Ready for a Road Trip!

Hi there, My name is Carla and I recently became a member of the Cute as a Button Design Team. I chose Road Trip for my first DT card. I love the digital image Road Trip by Artist Francesca Lopez, for Cute as a Button, because it has three parts making it an easy composition to work with. It was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and a blender marker. The background scenery is from the Natural Landscapes digikit and merged in the Craft Artist 2 program.
 I do hope my work on this beautiful image will inspire you to join the contest here. I look forward to seeing your efforts at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CuteAsAButtonDigiStamps/

Slugger Sam, Plays Ball!!

Slugger Sam is a digital stamp designed by Dr. Digi. Dr. Digi is the sponsor of the latest challenge at Crafty Girlz Challenges. Come and try your luck at winning a digi stamp or two!

Slugger Sam was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and merged with a color sketch by my husband Sandy in the Craft Artist 2 program.

I hope you will join us in the challenge at Crafty Girlz Challenges. You have a choice of following the them or doing your own thing. Sponsored by Dr. Digi.

Izzybella Boo in the Garden

We are also having a blog hop at Creative Ladybirds Creations

Our Sponsors for the blog hop are:

Enchanted Design Studio 
Ikes Art

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

You should have arrived here by Kandis. The next lady to visit is Lena. Here is a list of the design team involved in the blog hop in case you get lost on the way.

Fiona 
Kandis 
Carla - YOU ARE HERE
Lena 
Chris 
Kaylee 
Lynne 
Anne
Rachel 
Carol 
Susan
Helen

 Let me introduce to you Izzybella Boo a digital stamp designed by Lacy Sunshine. Izzybella was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and Prismacolor Blends and then enlarged and cut out. Scrapbook paper was glued to a 12" x 12" canvas and Izzybella was glued in the middle of the paper. A variety of buttons were then adhered to the paper creating a 3D look.

It was a fun project created for a contest at the Lacy Sunshine Group on Face Book. Check out the half month challenge at:  http://creativeladybirdscreations.blogspot.co.uk/

Vanessa, First Day of School

Vanessa was designed by artist Zuri, the sponsor of this challenge at Crafting From the Heart. I used Prismacolor Pencils and odorless mineral spirits to color Vanessa. I had some fun designing her plaid print dress. The bus is from a digital stamp designed by Deedees Digies, which I altered, putting children in the windows from assorted digikits. The scenery is also from  an assortment of digikits.    All the parts were merged in the Craft Artist 2 program.

I hope you will join us at Crafting From the Heart for the challenge, which as always is "Anything Goes." Sponsored by Zuri.

Come and visit again soon!

Coastal Florida at Marineland

                                                            
                                                         
                                                         

Bugaboo Stamps.com is sponsoring the latest challenge at the Simply Papercraft Challenge Blog. I hope you will visit and join in. Michael Sitter was designed by Bugaboo Brats stamp. He is colored with Prismacolor Pencils and odorless mineral spirits. He is sitting on rocks along the coast of Florida right outside of Marineland. The background is a color sketch by my husband Sandy. The background and Michael were merged using the Craft Artist 2 program.

I look forward to seeing your work at Simply Papercraft, where challenges are your choice of either freestyle or by the suggested theme.

Come back again and see what I will do next time!

That Shy Little Fairy

This month's card for the Crafting With an Attitude Design Team was made with Fairy a design by That Craft Place Ltd. This lovely shy little fairy was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and Odorless Mineral Spirits. The background on this card is from the Natural Landscapes digikit. It was merged with the Fairy in Craft Artist 2.

I hope you will join us in this challenge over at Crafting With an Attitude, as always "Anything Goes." Sponsored by That Craft Place Ltd.