Challenge #158 - Summer Sweet Treats

Hello! Heather here for this week's challenge: Summer Sweet Treats. While I know that some parts of the continent are already going back to school, in the Pacific Northwest, we still have about two more weeks of summer! Share with us anything sweet or treat-like: candies, ice cream, snacks, pictures of adorable kiddos with frosting on their faces, whatever you think is sweet!

Heather

For this challenge, I've been saving this super adorable stamp set from Avery Elle. I watercolored each of the images with bright colors, and paired each of the images with some fun things from my stash.

I love using things from my stash, and adding stamped and colored images along with those is an easy way to create fun and easy cards.

The last touches I added were clear gems, Spectrum Noir sparkle paint on the ice cream, and some glossy accents on the popsicle.

Brittany

I documented our visit to our neighborhood ice cream truck; this old paper line from My Minds Eye couldn't be a better fit for the event!

And now...congratulations to the winner of Challenge #157:

Theresa Pollack

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  

We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge158 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.

Challenge #157 - Paint It!

Hello everyone! It's Erica hosting the challenge this week. I decided it was time to break out the paints and inks this week. I can't help it, I like to get a little messy now and again so this challenge is Paint it! I like to paint with many different mediums so go ahead and use whatever you have: watercolors, ink, acrylic just at that painted vibe.

Now, we would like to introduce you to Billie Anderson. She is our fabulous guest designer this week!

My name is Billie and I have been a crafter all my life. My husband is very supportive of my craft and childhood sweetheart. We have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We live out in the country in SW Washington state. We have two 4 legged small rescue kids.

With the theme being “Paint it” I knew what I wanted to create. I used a digi I won a few month back from Beccy’s place. I stamped the dinosaur image and colored him with Copics. I then fussy cut him out.  I laid the image on the a piece of water color paper and sketched out a scene. Using my Mission gold water colors I painted the scene. I thought the scene needed a volcano so I added one and used stickles for the  glow. I used black colored pencils to add depth around the rocks, then added foam dots behind the dinosaur to add him to the card along with the sentiment.

Please visit my blog at: http://stampinwithinkonmyfingers.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much, Billie!

Now, here is more inspiration from our design team:

Erica

I splatted my background paper with alcohol inks and stamped the whale and water colored it with ink.

Michele

I stamped the hexagon images an then painted them with watercolors.

Kristy

I used watercolors to create the background for this butterfly to land on.

Cathryn

I painted the background with watercolour.

And now...congratulations to the winner of Challenge #156:

Vicki R!

Please send an e-mail to papergirlschallengeblog@gmail.com within the next two weeks and we'll send you details!!!  

We want to encourage all of our challenge participants to refer our rules and prize structure here: http://thepapergirlschallenge.blogspot.com/p/how-to-play.html. 

Also, follow us on our new Instagram account for more chances to win! For this challenge use #PGCBchallenge157 and tag us @papergirlschallengeblog for an extra entry.