in the garden plus freebies!

as some of us welcome spring a lot of folks are thinking about getting in the garden.  so that is our new two week challenge at the cheerful stamp pad.  create something involving gardening, flowers, seeds, veggies and any of those good kinds of things.  my first DT piece features a digital image graciously provided by our challenge sponsor stitchy bear digital stamps, the digital image was created by artist bb kakes.

i printed the digital image onto one of the victorian garden papers by gecko galz and then colored it with pencils.  i cut that out and arranged it on card stock, adding brightly colored laces and a butterfly.

our challenge sponsor is stitchy bear so a randomly selected winner will get a prize from that company.  please join us!

also, FREEBIE ALERT!!! over at lunagirl moonbeams the challenge is fruits and flowers/vintage botanicals until friday and there are freebies here and here which would fit both themes at the cheerful stamp pad and at lunagirl!  get your freebies folks!

love to all.

too hot!

for week two of the "weekend activities" challenge at the cheerful stamp pad i chose a summery digital image by designer bb kakes from our challenge sponsor stitchy bear digital outlet. i guess her activity is trying to cool off!

i colored the digi with colored pencils and cut her out to arrange her on a die cut with coordinating cardstock.  i added a sun and a word which tells the story -- it is so hot she has to sit on ice, drink lemonade and use a little hand-held fan!  i can relate.

link up your weekend activity inspired piece for a chance to win shopping credit at stitchy bear.  i hope you will play along.

i'm linking this piece to the "anything goes" challenge at artbymiran challenge blog, the only requirement being that your image be hand-colored.

love to all.

gardening on the weekend

new challenge time at the cheerful stamp pad!  the challenge theme is "weekend activities" and our sponsor is stitchy bear digitals.  a randomly selected challenge winner will get shopping credit with our sponsor.  for this challenge our DT was given some images by digi designer bb kakes.  i chose a sweet little gardener girl for my card.

i colored this little cutie with colored pencils and cut her out to place her on some pretty sky paper and place her on cardstock.  i chose a variety of other little images to create the garden scene.

for this challenge you can depict whatever weekend activity you love and then link your new creation up at the cheerful stamp pad!

love to all.

cute cupid

one more week to link up a valentine or love themed creation at the cheerful stamp pad for our "love/valentine" challenge.  our sponsor is stitchy bear stamps and this week i've used a digital from our sponsor by bb kakes called "cutesy cupid."

cupid is both cute and sly and i think someone is about to be struck with a lotta love!
i hope you'll join our challenge.
love to all.