Welcome back to my blog.

Today starts a new challenge at Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge blog, and our sponsors are Jan’s Digi Store and Dr. Digi’s House of Stamps and they are each giving away prizes at the end of the challenge. Take your inspiration here and over at the blog and share your creations with us!

For this challenge, I got a chance to work with Jan’s Digi store using this Toyland Bear stamp. I wanted to try and make the bear look as toy-ish as I could, so I used colored pencils to give the fur look. for the rest of the image, I used Arteza brush pens. After coloring it in, I fussy cut the image.

As you can see in the picture, I used two layers as the background. I have a pile of card bases that I have tried in the past and not used, hoping to use them as backgrounds for future cards. The white marble look was actually made using plastic food wrap with color in it. A while back, I was invited to be a part of Waffle Flower’s challenge blog as a Guest Designer ( you can click on the link in the side column if you are interested). I had to make something using a kitchen item, and I was experimenting different projects. This one got shelved, and today I thought this would make a perfect background along with this Gina Marie designs circles die. I used Picked Raspberry DI for the top and Aged Mahogany DO at the bottom half.

I assembled all of them and added a few yellow circles randomly in the background and a Hello Baby sticker from Paper House Productions.

Challenge Entries:

• http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ – Let’s Hear it For the boys #627
• http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/ – #226 Anything Goes
• http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/ – #427 Anything Goes
• http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/ – Anything Goes
• http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/ – Anything Goes

Thank you for being here. See you soon 🙂