Love To Craft! Challenge Blog #23: Fetching the Garter

Hello crafty friends!  They say June is the most popular month to get married, well, now as of 2017 they are saying it is one of 3 of the most popular months.  This is my post for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, where it's also "Anything Goes".

I have 4 posts today, make sure you checked them out.

I was asked by my dad to create a wedding card for a spunky gal.  It just happens, I went to school with this gal and her newly husband.  My dad and this young lady, did volunteer work at the same place, that's how they knew each other.  They are always joking around with each other, so he wanted a funny card for her big spunky personality.  He picked out this image from Redonkoodles called Fetching the Garter (it's a tradition here in the states and can be quite humorous, like the groom pulling out different objects from under the bride's dress. Like everything. but the kitchen sink)  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.

My dad was always teasing the groom, that he needed to run...and fast.  This sentiment for the inside seemed to fit perfectly.

On the back of the card, I decided to add a quote.  Marriage is not perfect, nor are you or the person that stands by your side.  It's just accepting each other in their imperfections.

Here's the card with the envelope.  Yup, I stamped another quote.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge: E=Ebony
• Brown Sugar Challenge: #279 Wedding or Party
• Crafty Catz: #419 Anything Goes with optional Black & White
• Scrap From The Heart: #22 Wedding
• The Creative Crafters: #4 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT: #5 Anything Goes

stamps: Redonkoodles: Fetching the Garter, Stampin'Up: Well Scripted, MFT: about Anniversaries
paper: Recollections: handmade white paper, the Paper Studio: black, white & B&W Intricate Swirls
die-cut: MFT: Fishtail Flag Stax
embellishment: Wild Orchid: lace

Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #18: Parenthood

Happy New Year crafty friends!  It's hard to believe a New Year is here already!  May each one of you have a blessed and joyful new year in 2018.

Since it's a new month, I have 3 wonderful posts for you to enjoy today.

This month for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog...always "Anything Goes", I'm sharing another commission card I created.  This cute and funny image is from Redonkadoodles, called Welcome to Parenthood.  Even though this family has 2 girls already, they were adding a little boy to had to their collection.  I know they are in for another whole world with this little guy.  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Always Fun Challenges: #39 Something New
• Colour Crazy Challenge: #51 Anything Goes
• Naughty or Nice Challenges: #47 It's A Celebration 
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Something New

stamps: Redonkadoodles: Welcome to Parenthood, SU: Something to celebrate & Curvy verses
paper: Bazzill, the Paper Studio: blue baby boy with stars, K & Company: Itsy Bitsy baby boy
die-cuts: Spellbinders: Marvelous squares, replender rectangles
embellishments: 3GJ: lace, Recollections: brads, Craftin Desert Divas: rockA-Bye

Mix It Up #6: Watercoloring

Hello crafty friends!  Today is a new month and that means you get 3 times the post, yup 3 posts to start your month off right.  Love to Craft, Love to Scrap & Mix It Up challenge blogs all go live today with new challenges.

This month at Mix It Up Challenge Blog it's Anything Goes + option of Watercoloring.

I decided to get my watercolor pencils out for this challenge.  There are many different techniques to do watercoloring on images.  Sometimes I color the image with the waterpencils and come back through with my water brush.  Then, I do the water brush to the pencil to get some areas deeper in colors.  I think the brush to pencil works the best at times.  You can also get the pencil wet and then color, then take a water brush over the area.  It's really a preference.  The image is from Redonkadoodles called Floral Heart Sentiment, it comes with 14 different sentiments inside the heart.

Here's the inside in which I used a Stampin' Up sentiment.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Redonkadoodles: Floral Heart Sentiment Package, Stampin' Up: God's Blessings
paper: Bazzill, the Paper Studio