The Digi Shack NEW Design Team

Hello everyone! Happy Memorial Day!

We have a new design team over at The Digi Shack and I was fortunate enough to be chosen as one of the senior design team members! WooHoo!

Here's a new image (which was drawn by our very own Marlene) that you can get on June 5th for a low, low, low price of $2. She has drawn a few of these , so check them out!

This image reminds me a lot of my grandfather! He wore those "wife beater" T-Shirts all the time, but would never be caught in boxers, let alone any with hearts on them!!! LOL!

He's colored with Copic's and the background is done with a retired heart BG stamp from The Angel Company. It's stamped in Palette fresh snow and then embossed with clear embossing powder.

A fancy label from spell binders in used behind the image - cut it apart and taped it on the back to make it fit! Black rhinestones from Kaisercraft used in the corners after punching them with the ticket stub punch.

So, without further ado - here is the new design team for The Digi Shack! A Big Welcome to the new ladies on the team!!!

Toni (owner)

Lelia (senior DT member)

Marlene (senior DT member)

Laurie (ME): (senior DT member)

Ramona

Beth

Margie

Heather

Leeann

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful week!

Small things

Hey everyone! Here's another card I did with my new TAC stamps.


This set is called "Found Joy" and has a lot of versatility! The flowers, grass and butterfly are all stamped in Versamagic chalk ink. The sentiment is stamped in Palette Noir and cut out using labels 2 nestabilities. I figured I needed to finally use this set of labels - it's not one that see's a lot of use from me!! ;-)

I did the little panel on the bottom to balance the card out. I just love that little bow! If you don't have a Bow Easy, I highly recommend that you get one! It makes tying bows a breeze!

Green cardstock is from Bazzill.

I'll be back on Monday with some exciting news! I hope everyone has a relaxing Memorial Day weekend! Enjoy your time with family and friends!

TDS Wednesday Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone! Happy Hump Day! Here is this weeks TDS sketch challenge.


Here is my take on it.

I used the top note die on dark brown cardstock from American Crafts and then added the oval in the center to be different. Flowers are from The Digi Shack and are colored with Copic's. I made them into cone flowers this time around with a brown center. The polka dot paper in the back is from PTI.

I didn't add a sentiment in the lower left hand corner since the top note die took up so much room. I did add a few yellow self adhesive pearls from Kaisercraft, though. Otherwise, not a lot of bling on this one!

Check out The Digi Shack site to see what the other design team members came up with. We would love it if you would participate in this challenge too! You don't have to use TDS images, any image or stamp design will work! Add you link and play along!

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Blue Bells

Hello everyone! I just got my new Year in Flowers set from Papertrey Ink and had to play with it right away! Here is what I came up with!

It's called Lily of the Valley, but I made them into Blue Bells instead.


Colored with Copic's and cut out with square nestabilities. Enchanted evening cardstock is used to layer. I decided to use one of the same colors of Copic markers that I used on the Blue Bells to color some white satin ribbon for the top. I have some enchanted evening grosgrain I could have used but it was just too dark in my opinion. So, went with something lighter and thinner in width.

I scored two lines down the center of the card so that the blue bells had something to anchor them down. Sentiment is stamped in Palette Noir.

That's it - clean and simple!

I hope you are having a super weekend! Thanks for stopping by and letting me know what you think!

Blue

Hello! I hope everyone had a great week! I'm so looking forward to this weekend! I named this new card "Blue" - because I was stuck on what to really call it. I would really appreciate some suggestions! I guess I just ran out of creativity when coming up with a name on this one!

Designer paper is from Basic Grey Wisteria paper pad. The Blues within the flowers matched so closely with the Copic marker I picked to color the butterfly. Circle nesties used to cut it out and I popped it up with foam tape on the black scalloped circle.

The big scallops along the bottom are cut out with cookie cutter dies from Quickutz. Blue self adhesive pearls from Kaisercraft added to the give it some bling!

As you can tell, I added a white scalloped liner to the inside of the black card base. I did stamp another butterfly and added a birthday sentiment to the inside, but didn't take a picture for you to see. All stamps are from The Angel Company.

Have a wonderfully creative weekend!

TDS Wednesday Sketch Challenge

Hello all! It's hump day and that means another TDS sketch challenge.

Here's my take on it!

I think I need to break out of my green color mode here! But at least this one has some brown and black in it! The Owl is from The Digi Shack and the sentiment is from Victorine Originals. The brown back ground panel is made with a paper bag and some vintage photo distress ink. I crumbled up the paper bag and then swiped the distress ink over it, spritzed it with water and let it run/soak up a bit. Then I hit it with my heat gun.

The Owl is colored with Copic Markers and I also dabbed on a bit of rubbing alcohol to his wings to resemble feathers - not sure if I like the effect or not. Added some yellow self adhesive pearls for his eyes and three small gold studs on the left hand side as was called out in the sketch below.

The cuttlebug leaf embossing folder was used on the green cardstock (Bazzill) and I used the cornice edge punch (MS) to make the tag.

Thanks for stopping by and drop in to The Digi Shack see what the other DT members did with this sketch!

TAC Masculine Blog Hop

Hello all! A bunch of Angels over at Paper Wings are doing a Masculine Blog hop - since Father's Day is right around the corner this works well! Here are my cards.

This one is a CAS quick one. The tree image was retired some time ago. I stamped it in two different colored inks. Versamagic tea leaves and Memento Bamboo leaves. So, using a chalk ink and a dye ink worked really well for this. Isn't it kind of ironic that the ink names end in leaves?

I used my scor-pal to create some score lines. Paper pierced some holes and added four self adhesive gold pearls. Green card stock is from Bazzill.

This next layout is pretty simple too...

Bird is colored with Copic's. The textured kraft paper is actually packing paper from some shipment that I received years ago that I have hoarded. It's great to be able to recycle and be creative at the same time. Brown card stocks by Bazzill and had to finish it off by adding some gold pearls.

Here are the Angels participating in the blog hop. I was last on the list so you should have already seen all of these blogs, if not the links are below! Please stop by each of their blogs and see what they have come up with, and don't forget to leave some blog love! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

-Rita W

-Heidi

-Julie

-Carol

-Shirley

-Teresa