Layered Digi Scrapbook with Oddball Stamps

Happy June everyone! I'm sharing an inspiration for the ANYTHING GOES challenge this month over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. With sunny days and vacation time, what a great way to start scrapbooking your photos, but digitally! Yep, check out the 12 x 12 page I created.

I had a blast using the Bee Happy Spring Flowers Bees and Sentiment and the Creepy Cute Sentiments Banners and Badges images from Oddball Art Co.! I imported them into my photoediting software and created layers of paper the same way I would do a regular scrapbook page. I also used the same software to color the flowers and heart images.

TIP: Use PNG image files if you can find them. They have transparent areas that make layering super easy! JPEGs work too, but you may have to clean up the overlap areas with the eraser tool for a seamless look.

 I hope you give digital scrapbooking a try and this is the perfect challenge to test your skill!

Clever Dexter Challenge #30
JUNE 2022

THEME -  Anything Goes (whatever that means to you)

OPTIONAL COLOR PALETTE -  Sky Blue, Yellow, Peach, Flamingo Pink, Tangerine (optional)
SPONSOR - Oddball Stamps

Hope to see your creation in the gallery! Tag me if you're on Instagram so that I can what you created.

xoxo Deidre

Flowers for Mom

Happy May 1st! We've arrived at the "...brings May flowers" part of the saying :)

To open up our Clever Dexter Challenge for the month, I've brought a little flower power.

Distress Inks are literally my favorite blending inks! I used Shaded Lilac and Salty Ocean to match up with our optional color palette this month. I did use a little photo editing (no surprise there LOL) to duplicate and rotate the blossoms.  A little swipe of Wild Honey ink for the centers of the flowers and some Stickles for shine were all this lovely digital stamp from Alex Syberia Design needed :)

This Month's Challenge Theme is:

INK BLENDING

We are so thrilled to have AlexSyberiaDesign as our Sponsor this month and she will be providing the Prize for this challenge. I hope you'll join us again this month and share some of your amazing, wonderful, and beautiful projects.  We love it when you use our sponsor's digital image, however, it's not a must in order to qualify as our Grand Prize Winner.

Clever Dexter Challenge #29

MAY 2022

THEME -  INK BLENDING (whatever that means to you)

OPTIONAL COLOR PALETTE -  Honey Yellow, Ocean Blue, Apricot, Pale Green, Lilac (optional)

SPONSOR - Alex Syberia Design

Thanks for stopping by :)

Deidre

Spring Floral Couture

Thanks for popping in today! I'm sharing a card I made using a fabulous digi stamp from Polkadoodles over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. 

Sometimes I know exactly what I want to do with a card...and sometimes I surprise myself LOL. I knew that I wanted to used watercolors (our theme this month) and some of our optional palette colors for the flowers, the rest of it just came together. I'd love to hear in the comments below what your process is like!

This gorgeous digi stamp is from Polkadoodles and is named Primrose, The Darling Buds. When I saw they had provided this beautiful image, I couldn't wait to play up the flowers. All I did was flip the orientation so she faced right. I did copy and resize some of the flowers to use separately on the corner of the card. Then the real magic happened with my Peerless watercolors. If you haven't used these before, they're totally worth it and last forever! And they're portable because they're sheets of paper color instead of tubes or bottles of paint. A few Stickle dots for shine in the center of the flowers and on her dress, and this card was another one for the books :)

TIP: Want to leave something white, but play with just a hint of dimension, use the oh-so-faintest shadowing of light gray. It makes the white look whiter. I used a C1 Copic marker and softened the edge with the Colorless Blender 0. Check it out on my Instagram page.

I hope you want you to join us! 

PRIZE FROM OUR SPONSOR

Polkadoodles

Don't forget to check out the sparkles on my Instagram page. Thanks for stopping by! 

I'm also playing along at The Card Concept.

I was inspired by the colors and the flowers.

xoxo Deidre :)

Supplies

Peerless Watercolors: Robin's Egg Blue, Olive Green, Geranium Pink, Jacqueminot Pink, Daffodil Yellow

Distress Ink: Citron

Dress (Copics): C1, Colorless Blender 0

Hair (Copics): C9, C7, C5

Skin (Copics): E11, E13, E15

Sentiment: Doodlebuds (by WPlus9)

Mile High Cupcakes

Thanks for popping in today! I'm sharing a birthday-perfect card using a digi stamp from Polkadoodles over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. You've heard the saying, "April showers...blah blah blah", so we've chosen "USE WATERCOLORS" as a theme this month.

I'll admit, I may have forgotten a birthday or two and needed something special to send. Ohhh the shame. These cupcakes really stack up...see what I did there :) It's called Cherry Cream Cupcake from Polkadoodles. I used my photo editing software to layer and flip the cupcakes to make a tall card. I was inspired by the watercolor dots on the the decorative background cardstock I found and used Copic colors to match.  The real pop of fun was layering sparkly Stickles on the cherries!

I hope you want you to join us! Check out how to play along below and be sure to share in the gallery before April 30th.

PRIZE FROM OUR SPONSOR

Polkadoodles

Don't forget to check out the sparkles on my Instagram page. Thanks for stopping by! 

xoxo Deidre :)

Supplies

Cupcakes: E29 & E59; E21 & E23

Frosting: V15, V06, RV66; E01, E93, YR02; BV02, BV13, BV04; R81, R83, R85; BG11, BG23, BG13

Cherry: R29, Diamond Stickles

Wrapper: C1, C3

Sentiment: Word Salad (by Paper Smooches)

Grow Our Friendship

Hey hey! I have another Stampers Delights awesome digi stamp design. I'm sharing over at the Clever Dexter Challenge blog. We're thinking Spring all month long.

This sweet spring set, called Chibi Friendships Grow, was provided to us for this month's challenge and it's so cute. I wanted to play up the "grow" part of the sentiment, so I used my photo editing software to create a stack of pots and tilted the watering can. The curly hair is always done by hand when I color :)

If you'd like to see videos of my photo editing, please drop a comment below!

We want you to join us! Check out how to play along below and be sure to share in the gallery before March 31st. I can't wait to see what you create!

Don't forget the theme this month is: HELLO SPRING

Cleverly Concocted Challenge Rules

1. The challenge runs from all month
2. Please read the challenge rules for more details.
3. Our mandatory theme for this month is HELLO SPRING.
4. We would love to see you use our OPTIONAL color palette YELLOW, ORANGE, PEACH, LIGHT GREEN, AND PINK, but its not mandatory to qualify for our prize.