Layered Digi Scrapbook with Oddball Stamps

Happy June everyone! I'm sharing an inspiration for the ANYTHING GOES challenge this month over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. With sunny days and vacation time, what a great way to start scrapbooking your photos, but digitally! Yep, check out the 12 x 12 page I created.

I had a blast using the Bee Happy Spring Flowers Bees and Sentiment and the Creepy Cute Sentiments Banners and Badges images from Oddball Art Co.! I imported them into my photoediting software and created layers of paper the same way I would do a regular scrapbook page. I also used the same software to color the flowers and heart images.

TIP: Use PNG image files if you can find them. They have transparent areas that make layering super easy! JPEGs work too, but you may have to clean up the overlap areas with the eraser tool for a seamless look.

 I hope you give digital scrapbooking a try and this is the perfect challenge to test your skill!

Clever Dexter Challenge #30
JUNE 2022

THEME -  Anything Goes (whatever that means to you)

OPTIONAL COLOR PALETTE -  Sky Blue, Yellow, Peach, Flamingo Pink, Tangerine (optional)
SPONSOR - Oddball Stamps

Hope to see your creation in the gallery! Tag me if you're on Instagram so that I can what you created.

xoxo Deidre

Spring Floral Couture

Thanks for popping in today! I'm sharing a card I made using a fabulous digi stamp from Polkadoodles over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. 

Sometimes I know exactly what I want to do with a card...and sometimes I surprise myself LOL. I knew that I wanted to used watercolors (our theme this month) and some of our optional palette colors for the flowers, the rest of it just came together. I'd love to hear in the comments below what your process is like!

This gorgeous digi stamp is from Polkadoodles and is named Primrose, The Darling Buds. When I saw they had provided this beautiful image, I couldn't wait to play up the flowers. All I did was flip the orientation so she faced right. I did copy and resize some of the flowers to use separately on the corner of the card. Then the real magic happened with my Peerless watercolors. If you haven't used these before, they're totally worth it and last forever! And they're portable because they're sheets of paper color instead of tubes or bottles of paint. A few Stickle dots for shine in the center of the flowers and on her dress, and this card was another one for the books :)

TIP: Want to leave something white, but play with just a hint of dimension, use the oh-so-faintest shadowing of light gray. It makes the white look whiter. I used a C1 Copic marker and softened the edge with the Colorless Blender 0. Check it out on my Instagram page.

I hope you want you to join us! 

PRIZE FROM OUR SPONSOR

Polkadoodles

Don't forget to check out the sparkles on my Instagram page. Thanks for stopping by! 

I'm also playing along at The Card Concept.

I was inspired by the colors and the flowers.

xoxo Deidre :)

Supplies

Peerless Watercolors: Robin's Egg Blue, Olive Green, Geranium Pink, Jacqueminot Pink, Daffodil Yellow

Distress Ink: Citron

Dress (Copics): C1, Colorless Blender 0

Hair (Copics): C9, C7, C5

Skin (Copics): E11, E13, E15

Sentiment: Doodlebuds (by WPlus9)

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.

I used a technique called "paper piecing" where you use different decorative papers (or plain) for different parts of your images and glue them down.

I picked out the little girl's hat, the mistletoe and berries, and the bear's scarf as my focal points. I printed the image 4 times, twice on white paper - one for the actual design and the other to color for the mistletoe and berries, and then two more times on the decorative paper I was using. After doing all of my coloring, I glued those fussy-cut pieces into place. 

With lots of coloring, tracing with a fine tip black pen to make the lines pop, and fussy cutting, I created a card I'm really happy to gift this Christmas. 

Craft Design Tips: Don't be overwhelmed with lots of small images. Pick out some focal points and give lots of color and interest to those. And don't be afraid to add some personality! I believe representation matters, so my little fairy is curly-haired and brown-skinned :)

You can join the fun and maybe win a prize at the challenge blog!

This Month's Theme Challenge is:

EVERYTHING HOLIDAY

  With our Optional Color Palette:

Red, Green, White, Blue, Gold

Thanks for stopping by!

 xoxo Deidre