Saturday, October 8, 2011

A Yippee Skippee Day

 Do you know what this little banner means!? I get to be part of the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge Design Team for the next few months. You might have already gathered that I love challenges and that is just what a "SPARK" is, a piece of inspiration that should spark a creative idea. 
 This is the newest Paper Smooches Spark challenge and of course, I wanted to play along. 
 I thought the way the little images were scattered on the page, it looked like leaves falling.  I used the newest FREE digital images at Paper Smooches.  One thing that is cool about a digital image is that you can print it out in pretty much any size.  All I did was open a Microsoft Word document and inserted the leaves, one by one.  I resized the leaf a few times and printed them on plain white cardstock and a piece of red patterned paper and a piece of  yellow patterned paper.  For the white cardstock I used the x-Press Copic Marker paper.  Not only does this paper would amazingly well with the Copic markers for coloring and blending but the computer prints wonderfully on it. 
 I printed the digital sentiment directly on the white cardstock.  The leaves were cut out and then placed on the white cardstock that I had sprayed a couple colors of the Smooch Spritz by Clearsnap.  The white leaves were colored with Copic markers. 
 Another reason for a happy post is that The Cat's Pajamas stamps was the sponsor this last week at Card Positioning Systems blog.  Is this guy the cutest?
After I colored the stamped image, I sprayed the entire piece with a Smooch Spritz in a shiny silver color. It really made a nice finish to the image. 
And for a couple photos...

We got a huge downpour of rain this last week and the sky the day after was nothing but big, fluffy clouds.  I had to take photos, of course.  I used my Hipstamatic app on my phone.

And, this beauty is in my garden. I so love fuchias.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

14 comments:

  1. Congratulations!!!!!!!! I LOVED your Sparks entry last week and am so glad you are on the DT!!!

    Love the leaves!!!!

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  2. Awesome cards and congrats dearie!!!

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  3. Loveeeeeee the cards!! I loveeeee those leaves and misting on the first one!! And your photos are GORGEOUS! :):):):):):):):):):):)

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  4. Fantabulous cards and pics!!! LOVE them!!!

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  5. What a beautiful Paper Smooches card, and that bunny on the second card is so cute! TFS =)

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  6. Yippee! Congratulations on the Paper Smooches team, Linda! So excited for you! LOVE your cards. Those leaves are gorgeous. Love the misting, too. Such a great take on that photo. And love the CPS card. That image is just the cutest thing ever!

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  7. Super card - love the autumnal inspiration and the colours and then your photos are beautiful, love the sky and the fuschia is gorgeous.

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  8. Beautiful cards but that fuchia is stunning!! Awesome photography!

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  9. Gorgeous cards, Linda! I especially love the misting on your Paper Smooches card.

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  10. Your cards are just gorgeous - I love the 'falling leaves' and that bunny is soooo cute x x

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  11. Love your card, I hadn't seen thos digi, really fun!

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  12. Beautiful cards! LOVE that first one--great layers and I LOVE the misting! Thanks so much for joining in the fun and playing along with us over at the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge:)

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