Santa Stop Here

Santa greetings everyone. Borqna is on a roll these days, informing me of contests to enter.

Thanks, Borqna. What fun.

Here is my next card I am going to enter. Yippeee!

I opted to send it to Pollycraft Monday Challenge. I've noticed there are tons of other cards entered. Some crafters have entered more than once. Me? I'm sticking to one per contest (reason? It's all I have time for-grin).

If you haven't noticed by now, a lot of my cards are using unusual Christmas colors. Don't ask me why, but the urge to do so has been fairly strong this year.

My snowman is another CuddlyBuddly digi stamp. The back ground paper is from DCWV Christmas & Winter 180 Stack. Copics were used for the coloring, except for his hat. I did a little digi-ing on it to make it look darker. The snowflakes were from punches: Martha Stewart's Alpine Snowflake and Marvy Uchida's small Snowflake. The bling I think I got from a local craft store.

Until next time...Happy Crafting.
Lady E

EEK!

Gotta admit. The past two days, I've been mentally dragging. Air conditioner went out and it got kinda warm inside. I figured if the dogs had to stick it out by staying home then so should I. (Actually, it was more like...waiting for the repairman to show...no set time when he'd arrive.)

Yes...Virginia...it's still hot in in the land of sunny desert.
Autumn does not exist.

BUT...I did manage to finish a card I started before my world turned HOT. I opted to use a colored digi from an online Halloween Kit titled, "Kimberly's Boo Add On #1" The designer is Kimberly Stewart from Scrapbook-Elements. This is another of my favorite sites to get digital graphics.

Here's the card I made.

This is the inside of the card.

I thought maybe you'd like to have the word art I made to go with my card.

For the front of the card. I left it plain so you could decide how you wanted it.
I opted to use an outer yellow glow to enhance the word.

PNG File



JPG File

For the inside of the card I uploaded the entire section, minus the back paper so you could choose your own. You can use orange for the color behind the text, or with your graphic program, change the inner color something other than orange.

PNG File


Included below is the sentiment without any background.
(Saved as a PNG File.)


I've added the Happy Halloween sentiment in black and white
in case you prefer no color.
(Saved as a PNG File)

That's it for now...got errands to run.

Until next time...Happy Crafting

Ghostly Greetings

It took me more than a few days, but I managed to get another card done.

This time I used Elizabeth O. Dulena's color page, "Pumpkin Ghost". I thought it was such a cute graphic and wanted to expand on it. I love the expressions on the pumpkins and the happy face on the ghost.

When I first saw this graphic, I had the image of the little guy popping out unexpectedly from pumpkin and wishing everyone ghostly greetings.

Ergo...the reason for my word art of the day.

The materials I used for the card were:
Background paper and the paper for the circle around the word art: 3Scrapateers' "Halloween Hoot" by WinksArtGraphics

Note: 3Scrapateers.com has some nice material on their site. WinksArtGraphic website has lots of goodies, graphics, and digital files to choose from.

The Bling came from Michaels, Recollection series.
The pumpkin background was cut with one of Spellbinders, pumpkin dies.

A special thanks goes to Elizabeth O. Dulena for giving us such a cute graphic.

Here are the choices you have for word art to download:

PNG (small printout with black background)

PNG (Large black background to cut with a die)

PNG (with just word art, no background)

I also made the word art with a red outline and an orange outline. All the files are saved as JPGs as well. If you'd like to have those, shoot me an e-mail and I will send them to you.

I still have to learn how attach a zip file to my posts. I expect it's not hard, just haven't spent time trying to figure it out.

Until next time...Happy Crafting

Autumn Greetings

Today's freebie is the word art "Autumn Greetings". I designed it several days ago but did nothing with it until I could make up my mind which graphic to use. Last night I decided upon The Sherlocks Home free digi graphic "Alyssa Raking Leaves". You can find under the date posted August 26, 2011.

The thing is...I first decided to color Alyssa's skin just a normal skin tone...then...I got the brilliant idea to make her look like she's been out in the cold, you know, red nose and cheeks kind of thing? Ha! Now she looks like she's have a massive sunburn. SIGH.

Anyhoo...here's the card...the before (too much sun)

Here she is with her winter nose and cheeks.

Okay...you all can stop laughing now.

I told you skin tone and I have a long...long way to go. One of these days I'll get the hang of it. (Thinking positive here.) How many of you noticed, I gave Alyssa a sweater vest to wear instead of just a shirt? (snarky grin)

Enough of that...

Here is the word art. Enjoy.
The first version is a PNG.

JPG Version




PNG Version


JPG Version


I thought you might like to have the graphic as well...
to add your own word art to if you needed something Autumn like.


This graphic is a PNG version only

For those of you experiencing the Autumn season already, I hope you'll put my gift. to good use For those of us who will have to wait a few more months, or miss an Autumn season completely...pretend there's Autumn.

All the best.
Lady E.

I am so excited...Borqna used my word art for one of her cards. Here's it is. I just love Ugg. He certainly has a mission in mind. Grin.

Take some time and visit Borqna's blog. She is from Bulgaria and she has some wonderful cards to view. Thanks Borqna.