A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words

Or so they say!  This one is worth one, hope.  As in hope you're having a great week, or whatever it is you're hoping for today.

I made this card for Sassy Cheryl's current Black & White Photo Look challenge. I used Better Than A Thousand Words from the Sassy Sally collection because I love this image and I thought it would look great as a black & white picture.  I used my photo editing program to give it the feel of an old picture and then colored the image using C1, C3 and C7 of my Copics.  I love the simplicity of this card but I really had to resist the urge to gussy it up and add a pop of color. All in all, I think I like it just the way it is!

I'm off to do some more creating.  I have a little more than a week left before school starts back up and I have to head back to work.  I want to squeeze in as much craftiness as I can.

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,
Becky G

Other challenges I've entered this card:

2 Sisters-Favorite Embellishment (ribbon)
Make It Monday-Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time-Use A Digi
Paper Crafting Journey-Distressed/Vintage
Pile It On-Outdoors
Whimsy Stamps-Clean &Simple

Enjoy Life

Summer is slipping away quickly and soon I'll be heading back to work but until then, I'm just going to enjoy every day I have left doing what I love.  You know what that means don't you?!!  Lots of card making and blog challenges.

That's exactly what I did today!  I popped over to Sassy Cheryl's blog to see what this weeks challenge was all about!  Yippee!  It's all about Polka Dots!  This is gonna be fun!

Now it's been really hot this week and I would love to be sitting in a float on the water so it was easy to decide which image I was gonna use for my card.  Sassy Sally In Her Inner Tube!  Here's my card.

I colored the image using my copic markers and sponged the clouds using sky blue ink.  The card stock is lime and sun textured from colorbok.  The designer papers are Echo Parks Hello Summer (bubbles & you've been flagged) and some of my CTMH stash (green stripes & polka dots).  Die cuts used were spellbinders standard circles & label one.  I fussy cut the flags, punched holes and threaded bakers twine to make the banner. 

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges-Stitching Faux or Real (Banner)

Whimsy Stamps-Summer Fun

The Pink Elephant-Summer

Simon Says-Anything Goes

Scrap Creations-Water

Digi Stamps 4 Joy-Polka Dots & Stripes
Hiding In My Craftroom-Let's See Those Layers
Love To Create-Spots & Dots

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Summer Fun & Friends

It's a great day today!  The weather is nice outside.  My youngest daughter is back home with us and I got to spend some time coloring.  I'm telling you, it doesn't get much better than that in my book!

Do you wanna see what I colored?  I hope you said yes cause I'm getting ready to show you!

It's Sassy Cheryl's Sassy Sally & Bella Head To The Beach (try saying that three times fast, lol)!  I picked it up in her shop today and couldn't wait to put some color to it!  Here's the card I made for her current Summer Fun challenge using it!

I colored the image using copic markers and prismacolor pencils.  I also picked up this cool new embossing folder for my cuttlebug from Michael's yesterday.  It's called pinking stitch.  The polka dot paper is from the paper studio's black & white pack.  The red and blue card stock is Bazzill basics.  While sorting through some of my papers I came across this fun typewriter alphabet paper from HOTP.  I'm pretty sure I've had it for a while.  I punched the letters out using my 3/4 inch punch!  I would have called it done there but I had a slight mishap with some glue and needed something to hide the spot it left.  Hmmmm....I'm thinking twine will do quite nicely to hide that!  LOL

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes
Digi Doodles Best-Summertime
One Stitch At A Time-Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey-Summer
Pile It On-Kick Back And Relax
Scrap Creations-Use Something New (within the last two months)

That's all for today!  Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Putting On My Thinking Cap

 I should be studying for my drivers test but I was having a little memory block so I decided to step away from it for a few and clear my head!  What's better to clear your head than paper and markers, I ask?!!  So I put my book down and headed to my computer to check out the current challenge at Sassy Cheryl's.  Awesome, it's an Anything Goes challenge (my favorite kind) so the next stop on my internet journey was over to check out Jen's current sketch challenge at I heart 2 stamp.  I was all set so I headed to my craft area (aka the dining room which has now become BECKY'S CRAFT SPACE, and cranked out this little number.  Hope you like it!  I used  Sassy Sally Sits In Wonder for my image choice.  She's so cute!

 I colored the image using a combo of Copic markers (iSally) and Prismacolor pencils (background).  I used my Spellbinders circle and lacey circles dies for the main panel.  I used papers from Recollections, Bazzill, and the paper studio.  I could have stopped there, but if you know me, you know I love my  buttons and bakers twine so I added them to finish it off.

I'm also posting this for the following challenges:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes

Well now that I've had a nice crafty break, I think I'll get back to studying!  Y'all have a great day!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Fun In The Sun

I'm so excited!  I won last weeks challenge over at Sassy Cheryl's so I got to do a little shopping today!  I love her fun images and had a hard time choosing which ones I wanted.  Hmmm. how am I gonna pick?  After thinking it over I decided to pick a couple of images that fit this weeks challenge to make a  SUMMER card!  This is a card I made with one of the super cute and fun images I chose.  She's Callie's Swim Dance and she sure is enjoying her summer!

I colored the image using copic markers and watercolor pencils.  I pulled out some blue designer papers (Recollections) and card stock (Bazzil) and away I went.  The sun was cut using my Cricut & Graphically Speaking Cart,  The sun rays and swirls were cut using my Cuttlebug & Fancy Tag die cut.  I just cut away the parts that I needed and pieced them.  The face on the sun was punched from some designer paper in my scrap pile.  I think it was from CTMH.  

Other challenges I've entered this card in:

2 Sister Challenge-Anything Goes

Incy Wincy-Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays- Anything Goes

Make It Monday- Anything Goes

Phindy's Place-Gingham Or Plaid

Pile It On-Make Your Own Embellishment (Wavy Tag)

The Paper Shelter- Punches and/or Dies

Totally Gorjuss-Something Yellow

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs, 

Becky

Hooray For The Red, White And Blue

I had a little FREE time today, so I thought I would do the current challenge at Sassy Cheryl's challenge blog!  It's a red, white and blue challenge in honor of the upcoming holiday!  What fun I had making this card  using her Avery  May Flowers image!  It's not really a 4th of July type image but by coloring it using the theme colors, I think it fits just fine!

I colored the image using a combo of Copic markers and Prismacolor Pencils. The papers I used are from Recollections and Bazzill Basics.  I used my Cricut and George cart for the die cuts. Add a few buttons, ribbon and some twine and the festivities are ready to start!

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes

Pile It On-Make Your Own Embellishment (Banner)

Divas By Design-To Die For

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky