BKRS Glittery Snowy Village

Hello, my dear friends! 
It's time to share a project for Blue Knight Rubber Stamps.
This month, we are focusing on the winter holidays.

For my projects this month, I will be using
Heidi's Tree, Snowy Village, and Come Let Us Adore Him.

Today I am using Snowy Village.
along with card stock and papers from LCI Paper.

This card uses an interesting technique called the Dryer Sheet Technique.
Color your image with vivid colors. I used Chameleon Color Tone Pens for this one. 
Run your image, face down, through a Xyron machine so the image side will be sticky.
Place a used dryer sheet on top and flatten down.
Sprinkle with fine glitter and rub it into the dryer sheet.
Tap off excess glitter and complete the card.

So sparkly!

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See you next Friday! 
kReN@afourthlife

We're Cruisin'

Hello, Friends! It's a wonderful Wednesday!

Today I am a Glitter Groupie! 

 I'm wearing a GDT hat today

for a wonderful Florida-based company,

Sparkle N Sprinkle..

I am using a new release stamp called New Cruisin'.

Supplies Used:
New Cruising Stamp Set
Designer Papers from stash
Die Cut 

Visit us!

Sparkle N Sprinkle

SNS Creative Challenges Blog

Sparkle N Sprinkle Facebook Group

A Little Hello-ween

Hello, Friends. 

 It's time to share some Halloween fun.  

Hope it brings you a smile!

I will share at:

JFF Stamps

2 Crafty Critter Crazies

Through the Craftroom Door

Back to School Tag

Hello, Friends!  

It's time for another Craftaholics R Us Challenge.
New format announcement.  

We're moving to a monthly challenge of
TAGS! TAGS! TAGS!

To inspire you to join us, I have created this project. 

Won't you join us this week?

I will share my project at:
JFF Rubber Stamps

You Are a Treasure

Hello, Friends!  

It's time for a Crafty Creations Challenges .  
I'm putting on my DT hat for the first time.  

It's anything goes and today the sponsor we are featuring is

A Day for Daisies and we have a prize for you.
I used an image called Garden Chair Gathering.

Here is a project to inspire you to join us.
I repeated the image for background paper, 
printed a larger, central image on vellum 
and colored on the back, and then die cut a series of frames.
I love this color combination and hope you do too!
Join us at the Crafty Creations Challenges this week!

I will share my project with these fun challenges:  

613 Avenue Create;  Lil Patch of Crafty Friends; Jo's Scrap Shack;  Crafty Catz;  Polkadoodles;  QKR Stampede;  Aloha Friday - (Kitty Bee Designs);  WordArt Wednesdays;   ;  Classic Design Team Open Challenge; CropStop Challenge;  Crafting With Friends;  Creative Fingers;   Simply Papercraft;   Take It, Make It; The Corrosive Challenges ;   World Wide Open Design Team Challenge;  We Love 2 Create ;   Crafting With An Attitude;  Little Miss Muffet Challenges;   Creative Moments;  Scrapy Land Challenges;  Lemon Shortbread ; ;   Classic Design Team Open Challenge ;  Through The Craft Room Door; A Perfect Time To Craft;   Classic Design Team Open Challenge;  Happy Little Stampers;   Not Just Cards ;   Stempelsonnen Challenge (hand colored);  World Wide Open Design Team Challenge;  

My Sunshine This Summer

Hello, Friends.  We could use a little more sunshine here in the mountains.  It seems to rain every day and the sunshine is elusive.  So what do you do when you don't have sunshine?  You make a card full of sunshine!  How cute are these critters?  Some MFT Stamps and that cute Gerda Steiner Designs giraffe.  Happy sunshine to you!

I am honored to share my project with these challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Open, MF, E3, T3, RW - 1st & 3rd Sun; Jo's Scrap Shack (Funday Friday) Open, E3, RW;  Crafty Catz - Open, E3, T3, SW W;  Polkadoodles Open. OE9, T2 SW - W;  QKR Stampede - CU double entry, MF, E3, T5, RW - W ;  Aloha Friday - (Kitty Bee Designs) -CU double entry, E2, OE9, T3, RW, T3 - W ;  WordArt Wednesdays - 2W, 5E, scriptural word art freebie;    Classic Design Team Open Challenge M, P1, E3, Must be a DT creation; Crafting With Friends - Open, MF, E3, UOE, SW, DT Fave -;  Creative Fingers - Open, E1, RW - July ;   Simply Papercraft - Open, E3, MF, T3, JFF - July / August - (last Fri of Month);   Take It, Make It - Open, MU Stamping, E3,  T3, RW, SW (Prize detailed on blog) Also used in Publication of Craft Stamper Magazine; The Corrosive Challenges - M, 3E;   World Wide Open Design Team Challenge M, P15, E3, F, must be on DT;  Send a Smile 4 Kids - Must Be For Children, T3, SW;  Crafty Animals (M P1, must have animals);  StarsStampz--wings and or tails; TuesdayThrowdown

You're the Best!

Hello, Friends.  I am here to inspire you 

to join us at the Pause Dream Enjoy Link Challenge. 
Join us here:  
https://pdelinkyparty.blogspot.com 

This week our theme is "stitched dies."

Here is my card using a favorite retired image

and layer after layer of wonky stitched dies.

Amazing on Kraft

Hello, Friends. 

 Bugaboo has a challenge today 

and the theme is kraft with pop of color. 

 Here's my entry.

PIP #1806 Patchwork Puppy

Hello, Friends.  It's time for a PIP Challenge and today I'm featuring an image called Patchwork Puppy from All Dressed Up.  



I just fell in love with this frolicking puppy.  Guess some of you think he should be romping in the snow, but I live in Florida.  No flowers here but we do have sunshine.

Visit All Dressed Up to see more cute images!

IT Lighthouse

Hello, friends.  Today I have on my GDT sun hat!  Summer is a time for beach and nautical cards.  Today I have a nautical card for you using Lighthouse from Imagine That Digistamp.  I hand-colored the image with Chameleon markers and used papers from a recent magazine bumper.  Who can resist polka dots?  Not me!  Hope you enjoy it!

Blog:   https://imaginethatdigistamp.blogspot.com

Store:  http://www.imaginethatdigistamp.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

Super Stampendous

Hello, Friends.  I love flowers;  I love mason jars;  I love flowers in mason jars.  Go figure that I would fall in love with stamp sets that have mason jars with flowers.  I can't seem to get enough of them to the point that I am afraid I am bordering on addiction.  Along comes Stampendous with these great sets with mason jars!  Thanks, Fran!  

You can expect to see more cards made with these sets soon, but here is my first one using Bouquet for You. I love to add the SSS hugs die cut to many of my cards because they seem to fit every occasion these days. Hugs seems to say it all!  As they say, choose your paper and then let your colors follow its lead so I chose a spring plaid.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Flourishes Thistle Make You Smile For Sure

Hello, Friends!  It's Kren here and I'm sharing a new release image from Flourisheslc.com. This set is all about puns and thistles.  I challenged myself to use one layer and to go "all digital" with the card.  Using the digital images allowed me to do some easy mirror stamping with the images. I was able to flip images horizontally and vertically to get the effect I wanted to achieve.  I just sneaked in the sentiments where I thought they would be eye-catching.  The card ended up being a 5" x 5" card, another unusual feature for me. Tell me what you think.  It was so much fun to experiment!  Be sure to click on my team's links in the sidebar to see all their gorgeous projects!

Winter Bouquet

Hello, Friends!  It's Kren here with a card to share using a set called Winter Bouquet.  I challenged the Friends Design Team members to use "shimmer and shine."   The metallic embossed paper is satin finish and adds a soft glow to the card.  Because I love the look of vellum colored with alcohol markers, I applied the brighter colors on the back of the vellum and the colors soften a bit more for a special look.  Adding a slightly larger flower frame shape adds more to the bouquet theme.  The sentiment on vellum creates another soft layer and a few sequins continue the shimmer and shine theme.

Supplies:  Flourishes lc Winter Bouquet

Other supplies:  DCWV Metallic Stack, sequins, 

Now it's time to visit the Friends DT blogs and see what they have created with the "shimmer and shine" theme:  Davi, Gloria, Kren (That's me), Shirley, Toni, Vickie

Do you follow me?  Have you become a follower of the Flourishes site?  Now is the time!

Winter Bouquet