Path of Positivity: Every Dream Begins with a Wish

 

 

Hello

Welcome to the midway post for the Path of Positivity Challenge.

Our challenge is always Anything Goes with an optional theme. We have decided that our overall theme for 2024 will be THE POWER OF WORDS.

This month's option is to design a project that is inspired by quotes about Dreams.

Here are this month's quotes, but you can choose your own:

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” — George Bernard Shaw

 

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ― C.S. Lewis

“No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” ― Anonymus

 

“Goals are dreams brought to life.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree  

Honours and Prizes include:

• $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
• A badge for the following honours: Top Pick, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

Here is my midway DT project.

I chose Lavinia Stamps and a Lavinia Laurel stencil to make my fairy wish card.

The background is a gel print made with Distress Oxide inks and the Laurel stencil. I added extra Peacock Feather ink around the edges and along a landscape mask to show the ground. I ink blended around a circle mask to replicate the sun. 

The Lavinia stamps used were: Moments Like These, one of the Large Wild Hares, the Fairy Charms, Foliage set, Mystic Swirl and the Every Dream sentiment stamp.

I added watercolour pencil to the fairy wings and some sparkle with Glimmer Dust glitter.

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That's all for now.

We would love to see your creations! 

Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!

 

The link up is here: Challenge #122 Path of Positivity.

Many thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring the challenge.

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in a couple of weeks time.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo 

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

* Vera Lane Studio: Beauty and the Beak

 Hello

A warm welcome to Mervi Leikas my new follower.

It is Monday, so it's my Vera Lane Studio DT day. 

I used the digi set called Beauty and the Beak for my project. 

I adore this older style 'Vera Lane Studio' girl - I think she's cute and cuddly and this sentiment is one of my all time favourites. It's true, I do love bird chirping weather, but I enjoy listening to the bird song so much more.

I used Copic markers for colouring the images. I found this acrylic gelli print in my stash (an AALL & Create stencil was used in the process of making it) and I added some stamping and heat embossing, using AALL & Create stamps, along with lots of white splatters. I borrowed a cloud from the My Vespa digi set and I cut the legs off two of the reverse printed birds so that they appear to be flying. I added a doodle border.

I only realised once I had finished colouring that I had printed my digis in draft form, so the lines are not as crisp as they should be.

Here is a close up of the lovely girl:

Beauty and the Beak

My Vespa 

That's all for now.

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane. It's such a friendly, fun place to be!

  

Here's all the info you need:

Vera Lane Studio Blog

***Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group***

Vera Lane Studio You Tube Channel

Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop

AALL & Create carry Janet's clear stamp sets, stencils and Washi Tape. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Allsorts Challenge #732 AG 16/06 TOP 5

* Pammies Inky Pinkies #2323 AG 18/06

* A Perfect Time to Craft June AG 28/06

* Classic Design Challenge June AG 27/06

* Crafting Happiness Challenges #143 AG 30/06

* 613 Avenue Create June Good Old Summer Time 30/06 Top Rocker

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

*Path of Positivity: Bright Eyes

Hello

Welcome to the April Path of Positivity Challenge.

Our challenge is always Anything Goes with an optional theme.

This month's option is to design a project that is inspired by literature.

Honours and Prizes include:

• $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
• A badge for the following honours: Top Pick, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

Where to start with literature?  

I love a good book whether it be fact or fictional and my house is a 'little bit' brimming over with them. For my first DT project I've gone with my love of rabbits in literature, mainly because I came across a lovely stamp that I've had for at least a couple of years and not yet used.. 

As a child I would read about the naughty (and now politically incorrect) Br'er Rabbit, Peter Rabbit, the Flopsy Bunnies and Benjamin Bunny from the Beatrix Potter stories , the White Rabbit and March Hare in Alice in Wonderland and, in my teens, Hazel and Fiver and their families in Watership Down.

I love this quirky 'Bunny' stamp by Melina Dahl. 

I stamped her onto card that was smooshed in Distress Oxide inks. Her collar was also stamped onto smooth white card and coloured with Copics so that it could be decoupaged. I used Posca pen to add white to the ears and eyes.

The background is a monoprint using Oxide inks on an acrylic block spritzed with water and stamped onto card. I added some background stamping and plenty paint splatters. The border and sentiment are part of the stamp set - I stamped the scalloped border onto a gelli print, fussy cut it and added to the edges of the card. I love the big 'Smile' sentiment!

That's all for now.

We would love to see your creations! 
Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!
The link up is here: Challenge #111 Path of Positivity.

 

That's all for today! 

Many thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring the challenge.

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in a couple of weeks time.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo

                                                                                                                                            

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Krafty Chicks #657 AG 05/04

* As You Like It People or Critters 05/04

Critters - love bunnies and bunny stories (see above) 

* Allsorts Challenge #722/723 In the Spring Garden 14/04

* Critter Crazy #73 AG 25/04

* Challenge Up Your Life Cute Animals 27/04

* Pearly Sparkles All Creatures Great and Small 27/04

* Crafty Animals #71 AG 27/04

* A Perfect Time to Craft April AG 28/04

* A Place to Start April AG 30/04

* We Love Stamping April Birds/Animals 30/04 TOP PICK

Stamping Sensations AG 30/04 TOP 3

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

Vera Lane Studio: Sweet Life

 

Hello

Welcome to two new followers - Pam Tiedtke and Margreet Burger. Thank you for having interest in my blog :)

It's Monday and my DT day at Vera Lane Studio. 

Today there is a new digi set release called Sweet Life. It features two girl digis and two sentiments and is perfect for occasion cards and journal pages.

I made a small card and a decorated box of chocolates:

My digis are coloured with Copic markers and the background is a gelli print made with acrylic paints and a stencil. 

I deconstructed a jumbo match box so that I could put an acetate window in the front and cover with the patterned card.

The chocolates are some of my favourites, a brand called Lily O'Brien's ...

Sweet Life

That's all for now.

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane. It's such a friendly, fun place to be!

  

Here's all the info you need:

Vera Lane Studio Blog

***Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group***

Vera Lane Studio You Tube Channel

Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop

AALL & Create carry Janet's clear stamp sets, stencils and Washi Tape. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge #1 AG 20/01

* Pammies Inky Pinkies #2302 AG 22/01

A Perfect Time to Craft #1 AG 27/01 

Pearly Sparkles Challenge #80 No Design Paper 27/01

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #198 28/01

613 Avenue Create Jan AG 31/01 TOP ROCKER

A Place to Start Jan AG 31/01 Rising Star

Corrosive Challenges #1 AG 31/01

Through the Purple Haze #200 AG 31/01

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

* Path of Positivity: Special Kind of Crazy

 Hello

Welcome to the midway reminder for the June Path of Positivity Challenge.

Our challenge is always Anything Goes with an optional theme.

This month's option is to design a project that focuses on celebrating something special about your hero or someone you look up to.

Honours and Prizes include:

• $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
• A badge for the following honours: Top Pick, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

I have always admired people who do their own thing, who throw convention to the winds, regardless of what others think. This is probably because I am beset by anxiety and self-consciousness and prefer to blend in rather than stand out in a crowd.  

I used a lovely Elena ZinskiArt digi stamp for my card. She's called Doodle Girl and I coloured her with Copic markers, adding some white Posca pen highlights here and there. I gave her mermaid hair as that is something that I wish I could carry off :)

Her background is a gelli print with a 'stamped' stencil layer on top. Some black stamping was added around the edges and some white paint splatters. The quote is from Elena's 150 Quotes and Sentiments set. Crazy in this sense means different, unique, or zany. Brooke Hampton once said "Take being called crazy as a compliment. It means you've found the courage to be yourself when so many others have not." 

We would love to see your creations! 
Just make sure that your entry is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some way!
The link up is here: Challenge #102 Path of Positivity.

 

That's all for today! 

Many thanks to Scribbles Designs for sponsoring the challenge.

I'll be back with a another Path of Positivity project in a couple of weeks time.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo

                                                                                                                                            

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Dream Valley Challenges #272 Add a Sentiment 25/06

* Classic Design Challenge June AG 26/06

* A Perfect Time to Craft June AG 28/06

* Crafting Happiness June 29/06

Creatalicious Challenges #237 AG Use a Stencil 29/06

* Your Scrapbook Place June AG 30/06

* 613 Avenue Create June AG 30/06 TOP ROCKER & WINNER

 

* Ally's Angels June AG 07/07

* Creative Crafters #53 AG 08/07

* Worldwide Open DT Challenge June AG 12/07 DT Favourite

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

Vera Lane Studio: Kayak

 

Hello

Today, for my Vera Lane Studio DT project, I have a card to share featuring the Kayak digi set. This set has a boy and a girl in a kayak along with 3 sentiments. For some reason I always sway towards the girl images :)

I coloured the image with Copics and Polychromos, adding some white Posca pen highlights and dots here and there. The background is a gelli print using acrylic paints. I added some white embossing and stamping using some of Janet's Background Noise stamps.

Kayak

That's all for now.

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane. It's such a friendly, fun place to be!

  

Here's all the info you need:

Vera Lane Studio Blog

***Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group***

Vera Lane Studio You Tube Channel

Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop

AALL & Create carry Janet's clear stamp sets, stencils and Washi Tape. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

This is me and Casey - a personalised digital stamp from Janet Klein. 

Order yours here.

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Classic Design Challenge #5 AG 28/05

Scrapping 4 Fun #212 AG 28/05

A Perfect Time to Craft #5 AG 28/05

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #182 AG 30/05

613 Avenue Create May AG 03/06

Ally's Angels #58 AG 07/06

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge #5 AG 12/06

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo