For Boys

I thought I would make some cards for boys to send to SAS4KIDS. Its easy to make cards for girls. They like the frilly things and butterflies and flowers.  Boys like the sports things cars and monsters. When I saw that the challenge at SAS4KIDS was For The Boys, I thought "perfect timing" something I seldom have lol.

I have 3 cards I would like to enter in this challenge.  The first 2 are from digi sets from Doodle Panty. I love her artwork and colors !  I don't color as much as I use to, I think my eyes play tricks on me when I have to do the detailed coloring and I hate coloring over the line.  I used 6 different sets for my first card.  What a Hoot, (fence and owl), Teeny Butterflies(butterfly), Hot Air Balloon Birdie, Kid Toys (monster truck) and Spring Trimmings(flowers and dragon fly). The sentiment is from the What a Hoot set . I used a cloud template for the clouds and colored them with blue stickles. The background paper is also from the What a Hoot set.

My second card was made using the Cotton Candy Ants from Doodle Pantry.  I used one of the colored images for the cotton candy. The background paper is also from this set.  The ants on the bottom are from another set I had purchased.. I added digital dark purple ribbon in the middle and made some highlights on the cotton candy with blue stickles.  The sentiment is also from the Cotton Candy Ants.

 

I used  one of the digital stamps from the magazine Crafter's Inspiration.   You get so much for the price with this magazine!  Not only do you get the magazine with loads of inspiration,but you also get a cutting die, clear stamps, an embossing folder and a stencil. Plus you get 1 dvd with lessons on different techniques and a cd with stamps and background papers and more.!  The image is from the Scruffy Little Kitten collection. I used one of the background papers from the cd as well.  I colored the sword, star and the star on the bow with gold stickles. I added a digital bow and a star in the middle and colored the ground with a brown copics marker.  I added digital ric rack to the top and bottom of the card. 

None of these cards have any loose embellishments on them and I plan on sending them to Janet Bailey at SAS 4 KIDS for her hospital that request no embellishments. 

Have a great weekend everyone! Thanks for looking at my blog :)
Diane

 

spring color

Its been a while since I have posted anything to my blog.  I have been busy making spring and Easter cards to send to SAS4KIDS. I also made some birthday cards and general cards.  For the card below I used the Doddle Pantry Easter Egg Ants.  I used the colored image from the set and mounted it on water color background paper. The colors picked up the color in the egg and seemed perfect for this image.  The sentiment if also from the Easter Egg Ants set. I would like to enter this card into the SAS4KIDS Spring colors for Kids challenge.

I also made other cards using the Doddle Pantry Digital  Doodles.  I love this site! I have many sets from here and I know I will be purchasing more. lol.  I like to mix and match the sets. I use My Craft Studio to design  a lot of my cards. This is such a great program! You can resize, change colors and  much more with this program. I have only seen it on sites from the UK.  Shipping is fast though, faster then some of the sites I purchase from in the US.   It's easy to use and there are videos on You Tube that show you how to use it. ( I didn't know this until I taught myself how to use it by trial and error.) lol  But I did learn some new things watching the videos. There are several CD's you can purchase that include, images, toppers, boxes, stationary and more.  The CD's come with 2 editing programs, but I only use the Standard one.  The Elite is something like Photo Shop I believe and I only have a limited version of that and I dont understand most of  THAT. lol

This card was made using the Doodle Pantry  Birthday Accessories Color Plus. I changed the color on some of the balloons and used the scroll from the Easter Egg Ants for the string on 2 of the balloons and the curvy words from the free Teeny Butterfly set.  I die cut the clouds and added stickles to them. The background is cloud background paper I have on my computer.