5th and final entry for Round 6 of the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challange (cdacpc6)

Okie dokie!  Here I am again... back with my last entry for the 6th round of the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge.  This one, which also happens to be my favorite, is a very traditional image by Daisy Doodles of Christmas candles.  I have always had a candle fetish so it's not surprising that I liked this image best even though every one of the ones we received was a lot of fun to color, traditional and non-traditional alike.  Of course I had to use traditional colors on this one.

Ta da!  That's it for this round unless I manage to color the bonus image and get a card made with it before the challenge closes this weekend.  I seem to either be suffering from a severe allergy to mountain cedar or I have contracted a head and chest cold.  Either way, I am feeling rather crummy and I'm not really in a crafting mood.  I already have a couple of projects ready for my first design team post for Joy's Life that I'll put up on Wednesday morning.  I'm not sure yet which one I'll use so you'll just have to come check it out and see! :o)

I've had enough for one day so I think I'm going to turn in early and try to get some extra rest in hopes that it will help with whatever this crud is.  Have a wonderful Tuesday and until next time...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Fourth entry for CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge - Round 6 (cdacpc6)

Hello again!  If you were here earlier to see the two mermaids I made for my guest designer spot on CMC Classroom Challenge, I am back again with my 4th entry for the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge. I showed you the first 3 entries yesterday but in case you missed them, you should be able to scroll down to see them if you want to.  All of the images we received this round are related to the Christmas holidays although a couple of them could be used for any occasion.  This adorable elephant girl, which was provided by Inked Treasures, has obviously been shopping for gifts.  She has gift bags in both hands and is still holding her credit card with her trunk! LOL  I colored this cute girl with non-tradional colors for Christmas as I just felt they better suited her personality.

I'll be right back with the 5th and final entry for round 6.

Anniebee

Project #3 for the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge - Round 6 (cdacpc6)

(Please note that this is my third post for today.  Please scroll down to see the other two posts.)

Hello again!  I'm back with my third (and the last one for today) project for round 6 of CDAC's Progressive Freebies Challenge.  This card features an image created by Ginger Loft.  This scene reminded me very much of rural Louisiana where my ex-husband's family lives so I colored it to look like one of the thousands of country homesteads that litter the highways and byways of that state.  It rarely snows there around Christmas so I didn't put snow on the ground, which is very sandy.  The area where they lived, close to Lake Charles, is known for its lumber industry and there are huge pine trees everywhere.  In fact, that area of East Texas and western Louisiana is known as the Piney Woods.  The shack, or shed as they are called in Louisiana, is also a familiar sight so how could I had to call this one "A Louisiana Christmas".  My mother-in-law loved to quilt and the dp I used looks very much like some of the old traditional quilt patterns.  I also made my greeting resemble quilt blocks with patterned paper that reminds me of quilt fabric and faux stitching around the edges of the "blocks" and letters, which spell NOEL.

Well, here... have a look for yourselves.

So there you have it!  I hope you have enjoyed this eclectic collection of Christmas projects.  As I said earlier, I'll be back tomorrow with a couple more.  This is the last round of this particular progressive challenge at CDAC but I think they have plans of starting another round as soon as this one is finished.  So if you like free digi stamps and enjoy coloring with Copics, I encourage you to give it a try.

Aside from the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:

TBD

So until next time, my friends...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

New Projects for Round 6 of the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge (cdacpc6)

Good Sunday morning to you all!  In two days we'll be at the mid-point of November and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Right on its heels comes Christmas and New Years so we are already at the beginning of the busiest time of year. With that in mind, some of the awesome digital artists have given CDAC images for the participants in their Progressive Freebies Challenge to use in making Christmas cards and other projects this round. If you recall, in the last round we had some Thanksgiving and some Christmas images and they were all really cute! But I like the set of images even more than the last ones. I enjoy making my own Christmas cards so this challenge suited me to a tee! As I have done before, I will post 3 projects today and two tomorrow.  My posts will be short (after this one!) and I won't list the materials and supplies I used on each card so save you from having to scroll through it each time.  As always, if you have any questions regarding a card, just leave me a comment with your question included and I will get back to you with the information you need.

To start things off, I am going to show you  a cute little gift bag I made with the image by Designed 2 Delight.  It's an adorable polar bear sliding down a snow hill on his/her rump!  So cute!  I colored the image with Copics and used it to decorate a gift bag.  I thought it turned out really cute.

I am going to get some tissue paper that matches the pretty pale turquoise of the ribbon but I haven't had a chance to shop for it yet. The front of the bag as well as the snowflake charm are covered completely in silver glitter and the circles on the bow are white iridescent glitter so this little bag, which measures approximately 10" by 7", really sparkles in the light.

Okay, Project 1 complete!  Please stand by for Project 2... I'll be back in a flash!

Aside from the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:

TBD

Anniebee

5th and final entry for Round 5 of the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challange

Please scroll down to see my project for this post but I wanted to make sure to include the following so everyone would know which of my projects was chosen for this award by my bloggie friend, the very talented Linda of Lindy's Maid Wid [Heart].  Linda and I served on my first design team at Amber's Crafts and Stuff, which was a challenge blog that didn't last very long but we had a lot of fun creating inspirational projects for Amber's readers.  If you have never visited Linda's blog, you owe it to yourself to do so.  She makes some awesome cards and other things and is a very sweet person too.  Thank you so much, Lin!  I'll gladly pass this award on to 5 other deserving crafters over the next few days.

Hello again! I'm back again with the my last entry for the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge. In keeping with the food theme, this card features some yummy chocolate chip cookies. I got so hungry making this card! I wasn't sure that I would be able to color this image, which is from Digidrawn, but once I got started, I couldn't stop until I finished it. I think it looks surprisingly realistic! Looking at it again, I'm getting hungry again (I haven't had breakfast yet)!

I thought this would make a festive holiday card so I used red and green holiday paper from a stack I bought at Hobby Lobby a couple of years ago. It doesn't have a name on it so I'm not sure who the manufacturer was.

I don't know if you can read it in the photos but the little tag on the bow says "From my kitchen to yours" and on the inside I included Neiman Marcus' chocolate chip cookie recipe.  This is not the one used in the urban legend that originated several years ago about a woman who was charged a large sum of money for the recipe but is their actual recipe that anyone can obtain from their web site for free.  I thought it was a cute touch and worked very well with the image on the front of the card.  I'm planning to try the recipe this holiday season to see if it is worthy of the Neiman Marcus brand name.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing these final entries for the challenge.  I'll have a whole new set of images for the last round next week.  I'll be back a little later with a post for my newest scrapbook layout that I created for the Quick Quotes Friday Challenge.  It's a lot more whimsical than my last one, which I'm thrilled to say was selected by the Quick Quotes design team as one of their Top 3!  It also took two other Top 3 prizes and was the winner at If The Shoe Fits, Scrap It! last week!!!  I was tickled to death because, as my regular readers know, scrapbooking is not really my forte.  Maybe it should be! LOL  Thanks for stopping by today and please stop back later if you have a chance to see my other post.

Until then...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Last 2 entries for the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge

Good day, all! As promised, I am posting the last of my entries in the 5th round of the CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge. This post will be the 4th entry and the next one will be for the 5th. I'm also posting a layout today. So watch for my third post a little later.

Okay, there is a theme of sorts for these last 2 cards... they both have to do with food! LOL! The first card is a turkey and is really cute for a Thanksgiving project.  He has a pie too! This image was available with and without the pie and I could have made a card for each one but I really had no interest in coloring the turkey again as I had other things I wanted to work on. I think he turned out really cute though and I liked him much better after I colored him than I did before.

Isn't he one of the cutest turkeys you ever saw? He was created by Sew Many Cards and I colored him with Copics. I love his pilgrim hat and shoes and the heart shapes at the ends of his tail feathers. I decided that his pie should be cherry as it's my favorite kind! I created the sentiment in MS Word and cut it out to fit the tag. All the cardstock is from DCWV and the DP is from one of their newest Halloween and Fall 180 sheet stacks. I love those big stacks even though the paper isn't as heavy as their regular stacks. I have made all of my Halloween and Thanksgiving cards with that one stack and will be making some Thanksgiving layouts with it too.  

That's it for this entry.  I'll be right back with the other one....

Anniebee

CARD # 3 for CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge

Back again with my third entry for round 5 of the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge.  This cute little character reminds me a lot of the Pokemon characters that my granddaughter was crazy about when she was a little girl.  She's now 16 and has outgrown such things but she had tons of the collectors cards and many of them looked similar to this image, which was created by Phooka.  Again, I colored him with Copics.  I am planning to attach a tiny white pom pom to the ball of his hat but I have to find them in my stash and haven't had time to look for them yet.

The sentiment was cut on my Cricut E at 1" from red foil cardstock using the Storybook font cartridge and the little square medallion was made with a Sizzix die on my Cuttlebug and the rhinestone glued to the center.  Cardstock is Paper Studio  and the DP is some I bought at Hobby Lobby in 2009, I think.

I don't know how well you can tell from my photos but I attached the little guy to the card face with an Action Wobble.  This first picture shows him in motion and that's why he looks a bit blurry.

Well, that's it for today.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing these cute cards, even if they are not in my usual style.  I do like to get out of my box occasionally so I enjoyed coloring these images and making these cards for the challenge.  I hope you'll drop by tomorrow for the last 2 of my entries for this round.  Have a wonderful week.  My wish for you is that you find time to do something creative.  Until next time...

Happy crafting!

Anniebee

CARD # 2 for CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge

Hi!  I'm back with my second entry for the 5th round of CDAC's Progressive Freebies Challenge.  The image I used for this card is by Just Some Lines.  I wasn't really crazy about this one either until I got it colored up and put on a card.  Now I really like it!  This cute little bear (I have made it a girl bear thus the pink coloring. The actual color I used is V000 however) is perfect for a new baby card and that's how I used it.

The image was colored with Copics and I drew the cloud on which I stamped the sentiment.  I used Stickles on both clouds to make them sparkle and the moon and stars were some old rub ons I had left over from a couple of years ago.  Both types of blue cardstock and dp are DCWV.  The silver foil cardstock is from American Crafts.

Two down and one to go for today.  I'll be right back with card #3.

(To be continued)

Anniebee

Bonus Entry for CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge (cdacpc4)

Hello again!  I finished making a card with the bonus image I received a couple of days ago from JenLee at CDAC for posting at least 3 projects with the current set of free images. The image is adorable! To me, she looks like a young witch-in-training.  So I'll get right to it.

Isn't she a cutie patootie?  There are two more rounds of the Progressive Challenge to go and I am very anxious to see the next set of images.  It was a bit of a task getting all 7 of the images, including this one,  colored and made into something but it sure was a lot of fun!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge - Bonus entry

As I mentioned earlier, tonight I'll be posting the new challenge for the Paper a la Mode team at The Outlawz so I hope you'll visit me again tomorrow to see my new project for that.  Until then...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Sixth and final entry for round 4 of the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge (cdacpc4)

Hello again! Thanks so much for your patience (and persistence) if you're still with me. This will be my last post for today and my final entry for round 4 of the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge. This is the only image we were given that is not related to Halloween. This beautiful mandala is one of my favorites and I have already colored it 3 times using a different set of colors each time. Because the patterns repeat all the way around the circle it puts me in an almost meditative state when I color it. Very relaxing. I'm only showing one of the variations because I am posting another one tomorrow for JustWordz Design Team Friday. It's funny how different this design looks with just a few changes in the color scheme or even just changing where the colors are placed.  The good thing is that they require very little of any one color of ink. If you use Copics, you know that the ink isn't cheap especially if you color as much as I do. In fact, several of my markers have run dry or are about to run dry and I can only afford the refill inks a bottle or two at a time until I find a new job. Just as a side note, I had an interview Tuesday and I'm feeling fairly positive about it. I am one of four finalists for the position and one of the finalists is an internal candidate so they probably have an advantage in that respect.  I have my fingers crossed but I'm not overly hopeful because I don't want to be hugely disappointed if I'm not hired. At any rate, all prayers and positive thoughts on my behalf are greatly appreciated!

On to the card now! Here is one version of the gorgeous mandala created by Daisy Doodles Digital Stamps. In comparison to most of the other entries using this image, I have colored mine very differently.  You'll just have to visit CDAC to see what I mean. I really like the way the other interpretations but as I am a huge fan of vivid colors, I chose a different approach.

You may have noticed that the way in which I colored some sections of the mandala, which means "circle" in Sanskrit, it has an almost 3-dimensional appearance instead of a flat 2D image. I used Imaginisce i-Rock to embellish my mandala with tiny rhinestones and green metal dots (I can't remember what they are called).  The "Celebrate" was cut on my Silhouette SD.

I imagine that if you're still here, you're about to lose interest so again, I am not going to post all of the details concerning the materials and supplies I used on these 3 cards but if you have any questions, feel free to post them in a comment and I will definitely get back to you with an answer. Thank you so much for stopping by and looking at my projects.

In addition to CDAC's Progressive Freebies Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:

TBD

As I stated earlier, I'll be back tomorrow with another project for JustWordz and Saturday will be the start of a new Paper a la Mode challenge at The Outlawz.  Have a great day and until next time...

Happy crafting!
Anniebee

Fifth entry for CDAC's Progressive Freebies Challenge (cdacpc4)

I'm baaaaaaaack!  And I have my fifth entry for the CDAC challenge.  This one is called McGonagal, I'm assuming after Professor McGonagal of Harry Potter fame. This chick is a little wild-looking in my opinion but as long as she's having fun, so am I!  The image is from Simply Betty Stamps and I colored it with Copics.  As with my other Halloween-themed cards, the sentiment stamp is from Crafty Sprouts' Totally Witchin stamp set.  Have I said how much I love these stamps???

As with many of my cards, I have not put a verse of any kind on the inside yet.  If I sell this one, I'll let the customer decide what kind of sentiment or verse they would like and if I use it myself, I will decide when I know who the recipient will be.  Okay, only one more card for today so please stand by again and I'll be right back with my 6th and final entry for this round.  I did receive a bonus image yesterday that I have colored already but I have not put on a project as yet.  So I may post that some time this coming weekend after my JustWordz and Outlawz projects have been posted.  I'll be right back!

In addition to the CDAC Progressive Freebies Challenge, I am entering this card in the following challenges:

TBD

To be continued...