Eyes Wide Open Arts
Cardmaking, Scrapbooking, Photography, Mixed Media Arts
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Flowers for Mom
This Month's Challenge Theme is:
Friday, April 15, 2022
Spring Floral Couture
Monday, April 4, 2022
Mile High Cupcakes
Monday, March 7, 2022
Grow Our Friendship
Hey hey! I have another Stampers Delights awesome digi stamp design. I'm sharing over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. We're thinking Spring all month long.
- The challenge runs from all month
- Please read the challenge rules for more details.
- Our mandatory theme for this month is HELLO SPRING.
- We would love to see you use our OPTIONAL color palette YELLOW, ORANGE, PEACH, LIGHT GREEN, AND PINK, but its not mandatory to qualify for our prize.
- Have fun creating & use the link up below to enter your creation!!!
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Foxy Spring Kisses
Hey hey! It's the first day of March and a chilly one here in the Tampa Bay area. We're kicking off the month at the Clever Dexter Challenge with a Hello Spring theme and a lovely sponsor, Stampers Delights.
- The challenge runs from all month
- Please read the challenge rules for more details.
- Our mandatory theme for this month is HELLO SPRING.
- We would love to see you use our OPTIONAL color palette YELLOW, ORANGE, PEACH, LIGHT GREEN, AND PINK, but its not mandatory to qualify for our prize.
- Have fun creating & use the link up below to enter your creation!!!
Monday, February 7, 2022
You Wonderful Sunflower

Once again, the super sweet sponsor, Alex Syberia Design, sent some absolutely awesome digital stamps for us to use month as inspiration. I couldn't pass up this giant sunflower called Hello Summer...it's my actual favorite flower IRL (in real life) :) This card has a combination of two techniques I love, I hope that's not cheating lol. First: making my own backgrounds using stencils, spray inks, paints...pretty much all mediums. I used two stencils, a few red, yellow, and orange spray inks, a mica powder, and ink blending to create the brick wall background and to color the sunflower.
Second: layering for dimension. This sunflower has all of these luscious petals that I knew would be great to fussy cut some out, pop up the layer with foam adhesive, and layer a duplicate panel behind it.
Check out all of my supplies and colors below.
There's also a prize!
Friday, January 7, 2022
Dream Catching You
Hey hey! I'm up at the Clever Dexter Challenge today. We're keeping the theme going all month: SOMETHING NEW.
Our awesome sponsor, Joy Clair Deigns, has some truly lovely images to use for your cards and craft projects. This dream catcher was too beautiful to pass up. I knew I would be using some watercolors, so I made sure to use my craft iron to really dry and set the ink. I did use a little photo editing to create the center banner by copying and pasting some of the images from the digital stamp along side the sentiment.
TIP: Use the same markers you're using to color your image and color a strip of paper for a perfect match. That's my secret for the 2 green borders around my sentiment :)
Prize from Our Sponsor:
The challenge runs from January 1 to January 31
Please read the challenge rules for more details.
Our mandatory theme for this month is SOMETHING NEW (whatever that means to you)
We would love to see you use our OPTIONAL color palette (shown below) but its not mandatory to qualify for our prize.
White, Blue, Yellow, Orange, and Green
Thanks for stopping by and hope to see your creation in our gallery this month! Don't forget to tag us in your Instagram posts so we can check out your awesomeness! #cleverdexter, #cleverdexterchallenge, @cleverdexter
xoxo Deidre
Copic markers: YR02, YR04, YR07, B00, B02, Y00, Y02, Y06, Y08, G43, G46, Y13, Y15, Y17
Watercolor: Lindy's Stamp - Gang Blue Hawaiian Blue
Sequins: Simon Says Stamp - Assorted Moonshine
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Something New with Clever Dexter
WHEN: The challenge runs from January 1 to January 31
WHERE: Use the link-up at the bottom of our January 1st post to upload your entries
WHAT: Our theme for January is SOMETHING NEW
Our OPTIONAL color palette is White, Blue, Yellow, Orange, and Green
Thanks for stopping by!
xoxo Deidre :)
Monday, December 13, 2021
Zero Stamping Christmas Card with Polkadoodles and Clever Dexter
I've had the chance to be a guest designer this month over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. It's been awesome using some of Polkadoodles winter and holiday digital stamps! For this card, I did ZERO, yep ZERO stamping :) Check it out below.
Friday, August 13, 2021
Out of This World with Clever Dexter
Hey Clever Dexter crafties! I'm wrapping up my month of designs today at Clever Dexter Challenge using that fun little astronaut and rocketship. You have to be a lunar-tic to not like these digital images from our amazing sponsor - La Casetta Di Chicca! Did you get the pun there LOL; a friend helped me with it :)
- The challenge runs from August 1st to August 31st
- Please read the challenge rules for more details.
- Our mandatory theme for this month is USE A STENCIL.
- We would love to see you use our OPTIONAL color palette White, Navy, Dusty Blue, Fuchsia, Sand, but its not mandatory to qualify for our prize.
- Have fun creating & use the link up below to enter your creation!!!