summer holidays and such

our theme this week at tag tuesday is summer holiday.  as many know who stop by here much, my idea of a wonderful summer holiday is definitely time at the beach.  so that is the focus of my tag.

the vintage bathing beauty, the carte postale and the lovely sea-leafy background paper are all from gecko galz. there is some vellum script border from alphastamps.  the wings on my bathing beauty are from lunagirl. i finished the piece with some distressing, some fun stickers and ribbon.

i'm linking this up to several challenges:
summer fiesta at unruly paper arts
bright sunny colors at tagalong challenge
sun, surf and sand at bombshell stamps challenge blog
things with wings at try it on tuesday
things with wings and ribbon at really reasonable ribbon.

i also have an update on the gecko galz blog and a chance for you to win products from with wild abandon.  go to the blog and vote for your favorite DT creation using both gecko galz and with wild abandon products.  you'll be entered for a chance to win some goodies from with wild abandon -- and their products are stunning!  deadline july 31 -- i hope you'll participate!

have a beautiful week; love to all.

some beautiful inspiration for the cheerful stamp pad challenge

it is week two for the cheerful stamp pad "your choice" challenge.  link up whatever goodie you are making for a chance to win a prize from our challenge sponsor bombshell stamps, a purveyor of fun images of both the rubber and digital varieties.  i stayed with the "bombshell" theme for my week 2 creation but this week my source for images is lunagirl moonbeams.

this image from the lunagirl "beauties #2" sheet is such a stunner.  i paired her with some pink background paper which was a design created by lunagirl owner karen and made available for FREE on her website. behind that is some nice script paper from seven gypsies which i've been using a lot of lately.  i recently bought some wonderful new rolls of paper tape from cavallini and i used a strip of it here.  this card was relatively quick to make once i decided which elements to use and in the end i pretty much love it.

link up what you love to our challenge!
love to all.

artist's choice at cheerful stamp pad...

the new challenge at the cheerful stamp pad is "your choice" but our challenge sponsor is the fabulous bombshell stamps so i made my first DT creation using several digital images from our sponsor. bombshell has digis and rubber stamps in all kinds of fun, classy and humorous styles.

by signing up for the bombshell stamps newsletter i got access to a lot of freebies and one was the "wanted poster" frame.  the frame was a perfect match for the cowgirl riding a pig which is sold in the digital images section. i figured she is in big trouble for rustling up a pig instead of riding a horse to rustle up some cattle!

the cowgirl (pig girl?) and the sheriff stars were all from the same sheet of images and i colored those as well as the wanted frame with promarkers.  i had some DP that made me think of a a wooden saloon wall where this poster might be displayed so i covered my tag with that paper.  i really hope she doesn't get caught.  why not ride a pig?  she's just an unconventional thinker!

make something new and fun and ink it up to the challenge!

love to all.