Shine Bright like a Diamond

Hello everyone! Hope you had a great Mother's day if it applies to you. I may not have any children yet but I am a Godmother to two beautiful girls, an aunt to two nieces and a nephew. I am also a fur mommy to my Tabby. I can tell you Mother's day was not easy for me it was the first one being away from my mom since I moved to Pittsburgh in Aug from Philadelphia. I did volunteer to work it so my other co-workers could spend the day with their moms. So I was off Saturday and I want to show you the card I finished.

This card features a digital stamp from "The East Wind", they have such beautiful digis to chose from! The digi I used for this card is Lucy Loo Close Up. I am trying to better my coloring technique and I see improvement with each one I do so that has me very excited. Well Here is some snapshots of this card and please feel free to give me any input or suggestions on improving my skill.

I absolutely love the color scheme I used for this card. Her eyes are so neat looking. I also tried to get the hair right with different tones and highlights. Ok I want to show you a close up of her eyes.

I used my Sakura Gelly Roll pen in Clear Star to bling out her lashes, and her earring. In the other photos you can see I also used it on her ring.

 

  In this photo I wanted to show you how I has her raised off the card front along with the corner pieces. I really love how this turned out and am in love with this card. Hope you enjoyed the photos.

I am going to enter this into a challenge over at Crafting By Designs for the Anything Goes Challenge.

Oh and before I forget I am vendor in a giveaway over on Facebook. Here is the link should you want to join in the fun: Az Jewelry 2K Giveaway 
the giveaway ends on May 17th. I will also be part of a round robin that starts on May 16th it is only a 24 hr one so look for me on Facebook and follow me so you can join in that fun. 


Ok goodbye for now, I am off this coming weekend so will be working on some pieces and I will let you know what fun adventures I go on. Maybe I will share some pictures. : )
Coll

Challenge from The East Wind blog

Hi everyone, I am posting the card that I entered into the The East Wind Blog Challenge it was a die cut or punch challenge using a Mother's day Digi. I love how the coloring turned out on the digi. I decided to go with the die cut, I used my Cricut machine and the Wild Card cartridge. Here are pictures of the card. 
 

I really love how the lavender and lime green look together



 Like the flower embellishment on it. I also love distressing the verse piece on my cards
 


                        Here is a close-up of the coloring of the digital stamp.

I really enjoy using The East Wind digis the look is so different, I have a few of her pieces already and she is becoming one of my favorites to use. 
Here is the link to the Etsy shop if you would like to give them a try: The East Wind Etsy Shop

Thanks for taking the time to read this post and be on the look out for a few more challenges I am going to enter.
The one I am going to start working on tonight is one with All Dressed Up called ~ It's a guy thing ~ male themed or male colors to be used.

Ok catch up with you soon,
Colleen

Winner of a giveaway on Facebook and a challenge given to me today

Giveaway

So I was involved in a giveaway on Facebook and my winner is Tina Anderson, she is going to have five custom designed greeting cards made by me sent to her. I will post pictures of them as I am working on them. I am looking forward in making them. C of Beads was the host of this awesome giveaway. I gained over 100 new followers to my card's Facebook page.
And now that I have this blog I will post the next two giveaways that I am going to be doing so you can enter. They are both in this month one of them starts next week. 

Challenge Question

OK my challenge was presented to me when I posted the link to this blog. A friend commented to the link:

Lindsay: I just thought of something that might be a good question for you to blog about, as a card maker. They make invitations for weddings, bridal showers, baby showers, retirement parties, graduation parties, anniversary parties, but nobody makes a "Come See My Art" invitation. What about all of the big life events that come with living outside of a traditional life plan?

 And to that I feel the answer is why not. With all the digital stamps and rubber stamps out there, we could make a card or an invention to any type of occasion or need. Don't you think? I know she is a playwright so I am going to do a sample card for her as an invitation to go to see her performance / play. I will also post pictures of the invitation for you to see that ANYTHING is possible. 

And now my challenge for you

What normal life happenings would you like to see cards for? Give me some reasons for cards. Comment your ideas, I will work thru them and post them for all to see.

Looking forward to see what you come up with,
Colleen