* Path of Positivity: The Sea

 

Hello

Welcome to the August 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 the sea.

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 decided to use Rubber Dance "Textured Sea Creatures" stamps for my project:

I heat embossed the stamps onto white card and used Brushos to colour them, adding water first then sprinkling in the crystals. I love the variegated colours that this gives. I enhanced the colours with Inktense watercolour pencils. The stamps were fussy cut popped up on foam onto the background.

The background has the sand dollar stamp from "Textured Sea Creatures" and some seaweed from "Mixed Media Borders" heat embossed in the background. Some green and blue Brushos powders were sprinkled over and spritzed with water. I also added some Iridescent Sprinkle It and a tiny amount of gold. I used Inktense pencils to add shade around the sand dollars. White paint was splattered over the background.

I used some cheesecloth and some dried flowers behind the shell stamps for some texture and finished off with three clear gems.

Here are the lovely sea horses:

This shows the dimension and texture:

And here is the turtle:

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 #114 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:

* All Sorts Challenge 739/740 Anything but square 11/08

* Pammies Inky Pinkies #2331 AG 13/08

* Dream Valley #299 Add gems/pearls 19/08  

                                                                             * Aloha Challenges #1 Vacation Mode 28/08 

* We Love Stamping  Aug Masculine 30/08  TOP 5

* Stamping Sensations  Aug AG 30/08

*A Place to Start  Aug AG 31/08

 

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

xoxo

* Vera Lane Studio: Hair Bows

Hello

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

Today I made a project with  a lovely digi set released a short while ago called Hair Bows:

There are two lovely girls in this set with three separate hair bows for mixing and matching. I used one of the cute dogs from Live, Love, Bark set as well. 

I coloured the images with Copics and popped them on a smooshed Distress Oxide background which was stamped and heat embossed with AALL & Create stamps. I added some tone on tone stamping, some white spatters and some black stamping around the edges. I used AALL & Create washi tape for grounding the images.

Here is a close up:

And here is the cute doggie with her oversized bow:

Hair Bows                      Live, Love, Bark

   

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 #739/40 Anything but square 11/08

* A Gem of a Challenge #16 AG 18/08

* Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #211 AG 19/08 TOP 5

* We Love 2 Create #7 AG 26/08

613.Avenue Create Aug AG 31/08 Top Rocker

* Corrosive Challenges #8 AG 02/09

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Gecko Galz: Beach Babes

 Hello

A very warm welcome to my new follower, Carmelle Fahey - I'm so happy to have you here. 

August is here and we have a new customer challenge over at the Gecko Galz blog.  

The theme this month is Beach Babes.

As always, we also have the monthly card challeng.e, the monthly Christmas Image Challenge, the monthly Stamp Challenge, an ATC challenge, a Steampunk challenge and a Gothic Challenge on the blog, as well as 4 Facebook challenges. These can be accessed by the tabs at the top of the main blog page.

And, new for this year, we have a new challenge, the quarterly challenge.. This quarter the challenge is to make an altered mason jar.

We hope you can find some time to join in the fun.

The winner of the Customer challenge will get a $25 Gecko Galz Etsy Store voucher and the runner up a $12 voucher. There are plenty of free Gecko Galz images if you don't already own any. Each blog post has a free image to collect and, if you sign up for the monthly newsletter, there is the chance to claim a free collage set each month.  Also if you make any purchase of $2 or more you receive a free image.

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I made a retro style card:

I love this lady - she is from the Poolside collage set. I fussy cut her away from the background and chose an ocean scene background from the Surfing Safari Kit. I added some white heat embossed hearts to the ocean and some glitter to the sun's rays. The lady was popped up on foam tape for dimension and the whole image was matted on a piece of card that was smooshed in oxide various blue oxide inks. I found the sentiment online. 

Poolside                                                   Surfing Safari Kit

  

That's all for now!

I hope you'll join our Beach Babes challenge where the winner will get a $25 shopping spree at the Gecko Galz shop.

The only rule is that you must use at least one Gecko Galz product (this can be one of the freebies or, of course, you can buy at the Etsy store!) Also if you sign up for the Gecko Galz newsletter, you'll be able to claim a free collage sheet each month.

Please pop over to the Gecko Galz blog to see the fabulous designs by the very talented DT.

We also have a friendly Facebook Group where there are 4 monthly challenges, each with a bespoke digita prize. 

Do come and join us!

I'll be back on the 20th August with more Gecko Galz projects.

Here's all the info you need:

Gecko Galz blog

Current Gecko Galz Challenge : "Beach Babes"

Gecko Galz Etsy Shop

Gecko Galz Facebook group

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:

* Pammies Inky Pinkies #2330 Happy Summer 06/08

* Fab n Funky Challenge #578 Summer Fun 08/08

* Creative Crafters #66 AG 08/08

Creatalicious Challenges #264 AG 14/08

* Girlz Creative Crafts #39 Maritime 14/08

A Perfect Time to Craft July AG 28/08

Paper Funday #56 AG Great Outdoors (1) 03/09

Bastel-traum Vacation 30/08

I'd really love some feedback :)      

I read and appreciate all your comments. 

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Crafts Galore Encore: Rory's Kitty

  Hello

Today sees that start of a new challenge at Crafts Galore Encore. 

The theme is always 'Anything Goes' and you can enter up to 3 different projects.  The challenge runs all month until mid day (GMT) 30th August.

This month's challenge is kindly sponsored by Heather Valentin from Colour of Love.

I used Rory's Kitty to make a birthday card.

I coloured the image with Polychromo pencils and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die.

The background was stamped with a stencil using various blue Distress Oxides. I made an inked mat for the image and die cut some flowers and flourishes from card brayered with acrylic paints. The sentiment is a shop bought one.

Many thanks to Heather from Colour of Love for her generous prize for our random winner.

Please pop over to Crafts Galore Encore to see the DT's wonderful designs and to enter our challenge. 

We'd love to see your creations.

Remember the challenge is always 'Anything Goes' and so you can create any type of project - it doesn't have to be a card and you can enter up to 3 times.

Thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo

                                                                

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

Vera Lane Studio: Butterfly Girl

 

Hello

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

Today we have a new digi set in the Etsy shop called Butterfly Girl and I made a project with her:

I coloured the digis with Copics and fussy cut them. 

The background was mop up card from stamping with a stencil. I added some extra splashes of Oxide inks and some white splatters. I also heat embossed and stamped with  stamps from Janet's 'Background Noise' stamp set from AALL & Create.

I borrowed a cloud (Beach Love) and a bird (Bright Day) from some older sets.

Butterfly Girl

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:

I Love ProMarkers #540 AG 06/08

* Pammies Inky Pinkies #2330 Happy Summer 06/08

Creative Crafters #66 AG 08/08

Papercraft Challenges #96 Summer Fun 14/08

Love to Craft #75 AG 15/08

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

* Vera Lane Studio: Aloha

Hello

Once more it is Monday and so it's my Vera Lane Studio DT day. 

Today I have a project using an older digi set called 'Maui': 

How cute are these two squishies enjoying their beach holiday :)

I coloured them with Copics and pencils and made their background from stencils and smooshing, using different colours and textures to simulate a beach background. I added white embossing, some black stamping and loads of paint splatters. There was a lot of fussy cutting, so it's good job I don't mind that! 

Here are squishy close ups:

Maui

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:

* Mirtillamente Challenge July AG 27/07

* Daisy Chain Challenge #76 Summertime 28/07

* Lets Create and Craft #197 Add Flowers 31/07

* Rabisco Challenge 47 AG 31/07 Top 3

*The Crafting Challenge Summertime 31/07

* A Place to Start July Life's A Beach 03/08 Top Sprout

* Creative Crafters #66 AG 08/08

* Papercraft Challenges #96 Summer Fun 14/08

* Love to Craft #75 AG 15/08

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo