Digi Release Day!

It's digi release day at Clear Dollar Stamps and there are fun things to see today!  The set that I got to work with is called "I Love You BeeCause".  I used the heart image and layered "...just BeeCause" over the top, then colored the image with copics.  See the leaves on the heart?  I colored the heart with E41 and then drew in some leaves with my YG95 copic to mimic the leaves on the background paper... which is one of my last scraps from the Capella Paper Kit that I got from Clear Dollar.

I used the Truly Scrumptious sketch for my card and used two words in my sentiment which is the Aud Sentiments challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Be sure to check out Lori's blog for more sets!

Blessings!

Tricia

Design Recipe...
CDS Digi Used:  I Love You BeeCause Digi
Papers:  Kraft, Cosmo Cricket DP, Capella Paper Kit,
Markers:  Copics - E31, E41, R20, R22, G00, YG11, YG63, YG95, Y21, B00
Accessories:  Pink Ribbon, Scallop Scissor, Classic and Scalloped Rectangle Nesties, Pink Half Pearls

Help for Katie

Some of you may know that our dear design team leader from Clear Dollar Stamps - Katie Renz - was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Gastric Cancer.  Today one of her blogging friends - Jak Heath - is offering a huge collection of digi sets donated by digi artists all across the blogosphere to help raise money for Katie and her family as they face the medical expenses that will accompany her treatment.   I do hope you'll drop by Jak's website and see, and perhaps even make a donation yourself, if you are able.  I know it would be such a blessing!!

My cards today are from two of the sets donated by Clear Dollar Stamps.  The first set is called "Sending Love".  Don't you just love this balloon and the clouds?  It's so easy to resize digi stamps, and I was able to put smaller clouds in the background and pop up some larger clouds for dimension.   I figure that this will be good for a non-traditional valentine for my husband or son.

The next set is called Sew Grateful.  It's chock full of sewing notions and sweet sentiments.  I combined a few of the images to make my focal grouping.  And, of course, I had to add some stitching to the card!! :-)

I do hope that you'll drop by Jak's website to see the other sets being offered as a "thank you" for your donation.  I know that my heart has been so heavy for Katie and her family as they face a new year of uncertainty.  Let's do all that we can to help!

Blessings!

Tricia

Have a Gouda Day!

It's digi day over at Clear Dollar Stamps!

My card uses the new Gouda Day digi set.  I've combined a few of the images to make a little scene with the mice and the cheese.  This is such a fun set.  The mice are *so* cute!  I used some dp that has been in my stash forever.  I think it was from SU about 5 years ago!!  LOL!  I think I need to stop hoarding paper...

Be sure to visit the other designers! There are lots of sets to see!!

Blessings!  Tricia

What a Pane

Hello all! Today is a new digital release day over at Clear Dollar Stamps! I have a fun set to show you today. It's called "What a Pane" and has four cute images along with 4 sentiments. It's perfect for birthday cards, friendship cards and autumn cards. I'm sure you'll love it!

I colored my image with light copics and then shaded with prismacolor pencils and oms. I tried to darken the colors a little with my photo editing program, but then my rust button turned bright red, so I decided to leave it. :-)

Be sure to stop by Lori's blog to see all of the sets being released today!!

Blessings!

Tricia

CDS STAMPS USED: What A Pane Digi
CS/PAPERS: Olive, Toasted Almond (CDS), River Rock
MARKERS: YR02, Y21, E51, E41, E33, YG91 (I shaded with prismacolors)
ACCENTS/TOOLS: MS Doily Punch, Ribbon, Button, Scrapper's Floss, Scalloped Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
COLORING: Copic markers

New Digis!

CDS Digital Set Used: Turtle Greetings

Paper: CDS Worn Parchment, Turquoise Gem, Bubble Gum, Lime Juice

Copics: 0, E34, E31, E55, BG10, B02, B05, RV13, RV34, YG03, YG11, YG23

Tools: Sewing Machine, PopDots, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder

I have a card today made with a new digital release from Clear Dollar Stamps called Turtle Greetings. I think this little turtle is adorable and he comes in lots of great poses, with a number of sentiments to choose from. After I printed my turtle out, I colored him with copics and then (tried) to follow this week's sketch from Card Positioning Systems. I printed out my sentiment a little large, but I was too lazy... err... busy to reprint it smaller, so I made it into a tag and stapled it to my focal image. I used my sewing machine to stitch around the edge of the card and added a little faux stitching to the tag.

Be *sure* to hop over to Lori's blog to check out the new sets, and then do a little blog surfing to see the other designers' work with the digis being released today. I hear that there is even a "free with purchase" set available!!

Here's the list...

Sarah * Linda * Vicki * Laurie * Cassie * Lisa * Trudy * and Me! :-)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Blessings!

Tricia

CDS Day 3 - Farm Fun, Skating & News!!

Hay, everyone! :-) It's day three of the Clear Dollar Stamps April countdown and I have a gob of things to show you today!! First off, I have an adorable set by Wendy Hall to show you called Fun at the Farm. I used the cute horse and the haystacks for my first card and practiced my masking technique, so it looks like the horse is sitting in front of the hay. The animals in this set are just *so* much fun to color! Check out the chicken on the next card...

Isn't that a great saying? I colored the chicken with a ProMarker that I picked up at Ben Franklin and then added her feathers with an E37 Copic. The ProMarkers don't come in as many colors as Copics and they are a little harder to use because they have a bullet tip (think Sharpie pen) instead of the brush nib like the Copics. BUT they are under $3 each, and they blend just fine. I'm not sure if I'll get a lot of them, but it was definitely worth a try!

The next set that I'm previewing today is called Graceful Skater. I immediately thought of the Winter Olympics when I saw this set, so I pulled out a piece of "Frosted" paper and some premade snowflake doodads and made a quick and easy card.

Now... are you ready for some news??? Clear Dollar Stamps is releasing some digital images this month!!! Really! I have two of them to show you today that I know you'll **just love**!!

This first image is just so "deer"!! It has wonderful sayings with it, like Special Delivery, Sending Holiday Wishes and this birthday greeting. I just love it! There are a few nice things about digis. They cost less and they take up less room. It's hard to go wrong when you can get a set of 4 digi stamps for $3.00! :-)

All right, in my opinion I saved the best for last. Not only is this my very most favorite CDS Stamp of the Month set *ever*, made into a digi stamp set, but, I also got to use Clear Dollar's new Clearly Coordinating cardstock and ribbon!!! YAY!!! It's much lighterweight than I'm used to, and I wasn't sure how I would like it, but I do! In fact I really, really like it! I can layer and layer and still not have a "top heavy" card. It embosses beautifully, too!! And the colors! The ones I used were Lime Juice, Bubble Gum, Tickled Pink and Bee Pollen. Aren't they fun names?I can't wait to see the whole color lineup as it is released. *And* getting all this for an affordable price... Ahhhh. It makes me smile!!

Well, that's it for today! Tomorrow is the last day of sneaks and then you'll be able to start shopping!

Remember to visit the other gals on the Clear Dollar Stamps Preview Team for more inspiration!

Lori
Trudy
Linda A
Katie
Sarah
Cassie
Stacy
Laurie
Tori
Kim
Angela
Tricia
Linda

Thanks for stopping by!

Tricia

CDS STAMPS USED: Fun at the Farm
CS/PAPERS: White, Soft Suede, Aqua, River Rock CS, October Afternoon DP
INK: Memento tuxedo black, Soft Suede
MARKERS: R02, E34, E31, E37, E49, Y17, Y26, E43, YG91, YG03, YG63, Y21
ACCENTS/TOOLS: Scallop Border Punch, Word Window Punch, 1/2" circle punch, brads, sewing machine, sponge
COLORING: Copic Markers

CDS STAMPS USED: Fun at the Farm
CS/PAPERS: Vanilla, brown cs, SU and K&Co DP
INK: Memento tuxedo black
MARKERS: R37, E37, E00, TerraCotta Promarker
ACCENTS/TOOLS: Scallop & Regular Circle Punches, Sewing Machine
COLORING: Copic and Pro Markers

CDS STAMPS USED: Graceful Skater
CS/PAPERS: Light Blue, Burgundy, Pink CS, Pink Paislee dp
INK: Memento tuxedo black, Baroque Burgundy
ACCENTS/TOOLS: Premade Snowflake Embellishments, Sewing Machine

You're Giraffe-ic!

I've had this little digi giraffe and sentiment by Sweet & Sassy Stamps colored up for a while now, but just hadn't gotten around to putting him on a card, so I did some challenge jumping to get my creative juices flowing and here's what happened! :-)

I stopped off at The Sweet Stop Sketch challenge to find the sketch... which is there, although Mrs. Giraffe is kind of in the way... and added a few flowers for the twist. Then - with the colors and flowers and saying, I decided that it would be a perfect Mother's Day card for the Digital Tuesday challenge as well! It's nice as a Mom to be told that you are terrific - ummm.... I mean Giraffe-ic!! :-)

Here's the card in full...

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you'll be able to swing by again tomorrow!

Blessings!

Tricia

Hoppy Birthday!

I found a fun challenge and sketch to play along with this weekend! The challenge was the Sweet & Sassy Digi Day Challenge over on PCP, to use a frog or princess image. That was hard! I have an extreme lack of frogs and princesses in my collection, LOL!! I finally found this little guy from the December Stamp of the Month by Clear Dollar Stamps and paired him up with the Cupcake from the CDS set Birthday Celebrations. I paper pieced the bottom of the cupcake and did some creative inking and stamping to change "happy birthday" into "hoppy birthday". A super fine line marker like my Zig .01 Millennium pen comes in really handy some days!! ;-)

One of the fun things about the digi day challenge is that you get a free (really cute) digi stamp. My friend, Laurie, said that she prints out a page of digi images at a time, just like we might stamp a page of images for a friend to color later. I really liked that idea. I have a few really cute digi-stamps on my computer that are just begging to be used, but I forget about them because I don't see them. I think I'll try out her suggestion!!

The sketch that I followed was from the "Sweet Stop" - also by Sweet & Sassy. And I'm very proud of myself because I used flowers on my card and I haven't done that for quite awhile. I seem to get in ruts and have to challenge myself to change things up every once and awhile. :-) How about you? What have you found that you just don't use anymore?? It's amazing how fun it can be to pull out some of those gems!

Thanks for stopping by! There is LOTS going on here this week!! Tonight is the PaperTrey blog hop, Clear Dollar Sneak Peeks go from Thursday through Sunday and there is both a Clearly Inspired Challenge and Paper Garden Fifth Friday Challenge on Friday! Be sure to subscribe or follow my blog so you don't miss anything!! :-)

Blessings!

Tricia