DS4J New Realse

There are even more fun things happening at DS4J today! Not only is there a new challenge but there is also a New Release and a New Progresive Freebie Challenge!

First up New Release!

So here's my new release card featuring Ankle Deep.

I'm really proud of how this one came out and I did it all using my chamelon pens! I havent' been using them much lately and really want to practice with them. And well this came out great!

Stamps: DS4J Ankle Deep
Inks: Chemelon Pens BR2, BL3, BV4, R04, Y03, OR4
Paper: Stash

Challenges
Lemon Shortbread Challenge #14 Anything Goes
Throught the Craftroom Door Anything Goes
2 Creative Chicks #9 Anything Else

And here's the card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge! Which I put with the New Realse because she's aloso a new release image!

Stamps: Tutu Tammy
Inks: Chamelon NU3, PK3, BR5
Papers: The paper Cut, The Stash, Coredinations

Challenges:
Craft Your Passion Challenge 309 Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends Challenge 19 Anything Goes

DS4J May Challenge Anything Goes with add ribbion twist

I can not believe it's May already! How did that happen!!! Anyway, a new month means a new challenge at Digi Stamps 4 Joy! This month we have Anything goes with an add a ribbon twist!

And here's my creation!

I actually did something really cool on this card. See that ribbon on the bottom! Shh.... Don't tell anyone but it's not purple... But Sam it's purple I can see it in the picture and it's clearly purple! Well Ok, it is purple now... But it wasn't alway purple! It was white and I colored it purple cuz I didn't have any purple ribbon I liked for this project!


Stamp: DS4J Stained Glass Roses
Ink: Copic V15, V17, and Chameleon Y63,VR04, V04
Papers: purple from the stash, Green polka dots from multi-craft

Friday Video

Remember this card from earlier in the week.

Well, today I have the video!

Feel free to check out the blog post here.

Happy Birthday

Hello! It's Sunday and we are half way through our Birthday Challenge at Crafting When We Can. And I've decided to make an extra card this week. So at Crafting When We Can you can use any image you want so instead of using a sponsor image on this one I decided to use a different image like you might if you were to enter the challenge. This will also be the card featured in Friday's video.

Stamps: DS4J Annabella Quinn
Inks: Versa magic Spring Posy, Copic; R89,Y15,R20,E000,E0000,B04,E57,E00,E11,V15
Papers: The Stash, Hobby Lobby, Core'dinations

DS4J New Relese.

Alright Crafty Friends were heading into the end of this little hiatus break thing that I've been on. Expect a mostly return for Craft Space Tuesday (Yes.... I know I missed last week because I didn't have my stuff together....) but I will for sure be here with a Scrapbook Expo Recap! (Which I'm probably sleeping and trying to recover from when this goes live) Anyway that's not why were here.


IT'S NEW RELEASE DAY!!!!!

There are some absolutely beautiful new floral designs available at DS4J today.This is the one I chose to work with.

One of my favorite things about this stamp is that you can use it in so many different directions and it still looks beautiful. Make sure you go check out everyone's wonderful creations.

My First Guest Desgin!

I'm really excited to say that I'm the Guest Designer at Outlawz Monday Greeting Challenge! I've never been a Guest Designer before and I'm really excited!

This challenge is sponsored by Margy who is the owner of Digi Stamps for Joy. For my guest design I created this lovely card.

Stamps: Bashful Beary from DS4J
Inks: Copic, My Favorite Things Black Licorice Hybrid Ink
Paper: The Stash, DCWV Animal Print Stack
Accessories: American Crafts Ribbion

DS4J New Realese Day

Hello and welcome to another DS4J New Release post.

As always I have some lovely new digi's to show off!


First up we have Little Jill with her teddy bear

 Challenges for Lil Jill
Crafting With an Attitude
Creative Knockouts
Crimbo Crackers

Next we have card that features not 1 but 2 DS4J stamps! The first one being the NEW Arum Lilly border! 

 Challenges: 

Crafty Girls Creations
Digital Delights  
Little Miss Muffet 

DigiStamps4Jpy April Challenge Anything Goes with Add Butterflies Twist

Hi Everyone!


I can't believe it's April already! This year is just flying by! A new month means a new challenge at DS4J! This month is Anything Goes as always but the optional twist is wonderfully springy and is Butterflies!

I got to try some new fun stuff for this card!!

First off I normally never resize digi's to be smaller then a focal image for a card. But I've been seeing a lot of my fellow DT members resizing their digi's to be more accent pieces or embellishments instead of the focal image and I felt this butterfly challenge really gave me the chance to try it.

So the Digi featured on this card is Art Deco Beauty I cut out 2 of them and simply glued them on. To make the card base part I cut out this free SVG file with my SNC. Last year I took a class from Sparkle N Sprinkle at Scrapbook Expo. It was all about how to use their Tear-iffic tape. Which is one of my favorite dry adhesives and of course I'm out but Scrapbook expo is only 2 weeks away and I'll be able to stock up. Anyway I got off topic. At this class one of the techniques we learned was to take a border punch and cover it with the tearific tape and then add glitter to it. I took this idea with this deep edge cut card. I used to 2 inch tape to cover the whole thing and glittered both sides of the tape! I just adds a little something!

I hope you'll come join us this month.

Challenges:

Jade's Sparkling Butterflies

4 Crafty Chicks

Cards 4 Galz

DS4J New Release Day!

Good Morning.

I hope you don't mind that I took a few days off from my blog... I normally don't like to do that but I didn't have any cards done and just didn't get around to it. But I do have 2 posts today!

First up is the Digi Stamps 4 Joy New Release. I have to say that when I first saw the stamps this was my favorite.

 This one is made using Phantasi 5 and paper from DCWV Once Upon a Time Stack. And colored with copics!

And it was my favorite until I made this one!

I'm not sure whats going on with the line where the colors shift a little... At first I thought it was a little mistake in the card until I edited another photo and they same thing happened so I'm not sure whats up with that.  Anyway in this one the background is water colored and the rest is colored with colored pencils. The paper is from the stash and the twine is American Crafts I believe. And features Juice Break from the new release.

Challenges for Phantsi 5:
Art by Miran
Crafting With Friends
Creative Fingers Challenge

Challenges for Juice Break
PDE Linky Party
Outlawz Twisted Thursday

Digi Stamps for Joy Progressive Challenge

Hello!!!

So over on Facebook Digi Stamps for Joy has created a new group which you can join here. (And while your over there you can like my page here)

On the new group page we've started up a progressive challenge! If you don't know what that is basically you get digi stamp (this month's is free for this month only if you join the group) and then create a project using that stamp. Enter in the card you created and then you'll receive the next digi free! This is a Facebook group exclusive challenge so you do have to be a part of the Facebook group!

This months digi is a super cute butterfly!

Stamp: Digi Stamps for Joy
Ink: distress
Accessories: Colored pencils
Challenges:
Crafting with Dragonflies
Allsorts Challenge Blog
A Gem of A Challenge
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog
Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge
Scrapper's Delights Challenge
Let's color linky party!

DS4J Release

Today is New Release Day at DS4J and who doesn't love some new stuff!  This week wasn't one of my required weeks but I always like to play along and this week I didn't get my project done in time to post on the DS4J blog but still wanted to share here!!! I'm actually kind of in love this weeks images! Here's the one I chose to show off this week.

 I've been wanting to branch out in my skin tones. And I've recently discovered an artist named Baylee on youtube who does a lot of copic coloring and I was inspired by her video this past Friday to finally take the plunge and branch out!

Stamps: Phantsi 3 by DS4J, Geometric Swirls background stamp
Ink: Copic and Versamagic in the background
Paper: The stash.


Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Blog
Crafting with Dragonflies
Let's Color Linky Party

Beautiful Butterfly

Today I have one more butterfly card!

This is a DS4J buterfly image that I cut out on my SNC. I then colored it up with some colored pencils and all the paper is from The Paper Studio!


Challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge: Make a Card
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
Die Cut Divas: Something Spring

Digi Stamps 4 Joy March Challenge

Woohoo!! It's time for my first Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge! This months theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist of add an animal.

So I made this little cutie!

February 20th was National Love Your Pet Day! I don't have a pet right now so I sent this little card to my friends dog! He's a pug so he dosen't look like this puppy but I bet he still liked it! My friend and I joke that he's my doggy nephew.

1.  First I cut the background with my card creator dies (And ripped the paper :P)
2. I cut the green square by just trimming it up (And then used it to cover up the ripped spot)
3. I cut the heart on my SNC and then went over it with some salty ocean distress ink.
4. Little Barney has too many open lines to cut on the SNC So I cut him out with my Gyro Cut. I colored him with copics!
5. I cut the banner piece on my SNC. Then used 2 puppy brads from Eyelet Outlet!
5. I glued it all together and then did something really cool on the inside (OK actually I did this first)

6. I used my SNC to write Happy Love Your Pet Day and then used a dog stamp set I have to stamp the border along the bottom in Salty Ocean Distress Ink. I forgot to take the picture before I wrote the message so that's all the smudge on their...


I hope you'll join us for this month's challenge!


Challenges:

Critters and Creatures Linky Party
Craft Your Passion
Crafting From The Heart

Last Day :(

Today is the last day of the DS4J party. It's been a great and fun few days seeing everyone's creations! Today we have one last freebie and I think this might be my favorite card of mine that I made for the party!

The Digi stamp is today's freebie and I colored it with copics stamped the happy birthday in Ladybug red ink and added the 3 stars in the bottom which are old creative memories stickers!

Challenges:

Digital Delights
Outlawz Twisted Thursday

Freebie 2 for the BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!

Look at this super cute little Birthday Turtle!!!

I'm actually really glad all this birthday stuff came up. I'm heading into Birthday season and these will be great to have on hand! And this turtle is just adorable!


Mr. Turtle is colored with copics and then cut on my SNC the orengeish paper is from an animal set from DCW and the green is from the stash!

That's it!

MY FIRST RELEASE DAY!!!! And a PARTY!!!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! IT'S MY FIRST DS4J RELEASE POST!!!!
Unfortunately I have a bit of a cold so this is not my best work or my best blog post... (Although hopefully I'm better by the time this goes live!)
OK now that I have that out of the way... Take a look at these.

This card features Fruit Fairy-Banana

Challenges for Fruit Fairy-Bananna:
 Glitter N Sparkle Challenge: Anything Goes 
Coloring without boundaries
Lacy Sunshine: Anything Goes 

And this one is Annabella Quinn!

Challenges for Annabella Quinn:
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: Anything Goes




Here's another fun thing happening at DS4J this week!

DID YOU HEAR? Digistamps4Joy is 4 years old today, and YOU are invited to our party!

It's time to CELEBRATE 4 years under Margy's ownership of Digistamps4Joy (https://www.facebook.com/DS4Joy).

To thank you, Margy has invited Conie Fong to join us, and both these ladies are giving away OODLES of prizes from 23-29 February. Come back each morning to see our fun challenges/games and the prizes you can put yourself in line to win.

Here's a taste of what's to come:
Free digistamps, Discount Vouchers, and lots of fun.

So, don't pass "GO" and don't go HOME until you have joined our PARTY.

See you there!

Best Friends Part 2

Here is the other best friends card I made and this one features a super cute DS4J image.

I thought i used my card creator dies on this one too but now that I look at it again, I don't think I did.

1. First I cut all my paper.The black is from the stash

2. Then I colored in the girls and cut them on my SNC. You can find the image here.

3. I glued it all together!

Challenges:

Atlantich Hearts Sketch Challenge: Just a Note

Hello I'm back today with another DT card for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!
But first let's get some other DT business out of the way but I promise you'll like it!




DID YOU HEAR? Digistamps4Joy is 4 years old today, and YOU are invited to our party!

It's time to CELEBRATE 4 years under Margy's ownership of Digistamps4Joy (https://www.facebook.com/DS4Joy).

To thank you, Margy has invited Conie Fong to join us, and both these ladies are giving away OODLES of prizes from 23-29 February. Come back each morning to see our fun challenges/games and the prizes you can put yourself in line to win.

Here's a taste of what's to come:
Free digistamps, Discount Vouchers, and lots of fun.

So, don't pass "GO" and don't go HOME until you have joined our PARTY.

See you there!

Margy and Conie


Doesn't that sound like fun! I mean who doesn't like prizes! Stay tuned for a special birthday project from me! Today is also the midway point of the DS4J monthly challenge!












I was really excited when I saw this sketch and while it's not the best card I've made. It's not normally something I would do so I really liked it!!!

Not everything came out super straight but I like it.

1. I made this card a little bigger, it's 4.75x6.5.
2.Then I cut out the black piece.
3. I grabed a bunch of my spellbinders dies in small squares and rectangles The paper with words on it is from DCWV and the purple is from Cricut.
4. Then I stamped my sentiment which is from a unknown stamp set. The ink is memento rosebud.
5.  The purple flowers are from Eyelet Outlet that we bought at last years scrapbook expo. I paper pierced the wholes then stuck the brads in which I believe are also from eyelet outlet.

Another Design Team!!!

That's right not only was I accepted to the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge but also the Digi Stamps 4 Joy Design Team! I'm so excited to be able to design with these wonderful digi's! And to clebrate here's a card I've created with one of there beautiful digi's!

I absolutely love this card and the Digi Stamp!

1. I printed out the Digi which is called Dream then I colored her in with copics like this.

            Skin: Ell,E00,E000
            Hair: E39,E35,E33
            Pink: RV21,RV23,RV25
            Purple: V12,V15,V17
            Green, G05
2. Then I cut her our on my Scan N Cut. Now it cut out most of it but not all of it, it got the outline sure but it missed a lot of the in between spots . So I went in with my Gyro Cutter to get those little inside parts. I'll be doing a small product review post on that tomorrow.

3. Then it was paper time. The black I used to just back the other papers (it was a think my friend did one day when I was at her house and we had a craft day that I really liked so I stole it. Hi Chelsea! if your reading) is from the stash. The pink paper in the front is from Cricut and the first layer paper is from DCWV.

4. Then I added the bling which is by Kaiser Krafts


I am so excited to see what great things I can create with DS4J products!


Challenges:
Inspiration Destination: Anything Goes
Petal Lu Challenge: Anything Goes Challenge #9
Ruby's Rainbow #122: Anything Goes