Sweet November Digi / Leia Underwater Mermaid

If you know me, you know I am a HUGE Star Wars fan.

Sweet November Stamps inspire me so much, below meet 

"Rey" 

a Star Wars character. 

Sharing one of Sweet November's Digi that I just had to use. 😉 

Dr Digi Mermay Challenge - May 2026

On June 1, 2026 I was notified that I won the 

Mermay Challenge.

I joined in on the challenge by creating this piece using 2 separate images.  Aside from the images that I colored using Copic markers.  

 The fishes and the turtle were fussy cut from a leftover underwater scene.  For the underwater colorful grass I used Liquid Pearls.  

APTTC - January-Sponsor Conie Fong (2 images)

 I volunteered to design a second image for the January challenge which is happening over at 

A Perfect Time To Craft.

    Our sponsor is Conie Fong.  I chose to go with 2 Conie images one is Bamboo Pandas and the second is Balloon Bears.  

On the Panda Balloon image I used my TH distress inks, crushed olives & peeled paint.  I printed and minimized the images to fit an ATC card and colored them w/ copic markers. 

I created a small slit beneath the panda to insert part of him into it

and cut some slivers of card stock that I colored to represent grass.

 

I also hand drew and colored the bamboo sticks some on card stock and some on frosted vellum paper.  Below are some samples of how I created and painted them.

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Balloon Bear

I began with prepping the ATC using my Salty Ocean and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Inks.  Setting the ATC aside and printed out the Balloon Bear image and began coloring with my Copic markers.

Liquid Applique was used to form the clouds, I used a heat gun to make it puff up.  For the string on the balloons I used thin metal wire,  this photo does not do it justice.

If you like, hop on over to 

A Perfect Time To Craft.

to join in on the Anything Goes challenge before the end of the month.

These images were entered on the following challenges listed below.

            Love to Challenge Blog

              Cardmaking Tutorial, Support & Inspiration

               Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Craft Challenge

               Classic Design Team Challenge

               Polkadoodles Challenge

               Colour Crazy Challenge

               Morgans Art World Challenge

               Cards Galore Challenge

               Creative Lady Bird Creatives Challenge

               Crafty Gals Challenge

               Crafty Sentiments Challenge

               Crafting By Design Challenge

                      Hope you have been inspired.   

                                                            Ivette        

APTTC - DEC. SPONSOR DR. DIGI

                      Hello and welcome to my blog.  For the month of December I am the Guest Designer for the challenge happening over at 

A Perfect Time To Craft.

    Our sponsor this month is Dr. Digi and I am using the Hi-Fi-Hugh.

 As soon as I saw the image I knew right away what I was going to create.  The image was downloaded onto my printer and uploaded it to Canva where I downsized the image to the ATC size I wanted.

The entire image was colored with Copic markers.

The background was 2 1/2" X 3 1/2" white card stock pressed through the Switch machine using a Tim Holtz small brick embossing folder.  I then used my Distress Inks, barn door, fired brick and finished around the borders with black soot.       

   The blue graffiti splatter with the word "ART" was hand drawn.

  I colored the entire image with my Copic markers.

The background was created using white card stock pressed through the Switch machine using a Tim Holtz small Brick embossing folder.  I then used my Distress Inks, Barn Door, Fired Brick and finished around the edges with Black Soot.       

   The blue graffiti splatter with the word "ART" was hand drawn.

The blue graffiti splatter with the word "ART" was hand drawn and colored with Copic marker.

                 Hop on over to A Perfect Time To Craft and join the challenge with your own creation, it can be anything such as cards, paintings, knitting, etc.  It's always anything goes!

I will be sharing this image on the following challenges:

                 Cardmaking Tutorial, Support & Inspiration

               Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Craft Challenge

               Classic Design Team Challenge

               Polkadoodles Challenge

               The Crafty Addicts Challenge

                Friendship Challenge Blog

                Morgans Art World Challenge

                Crafty Creations Challenge 

                Crafting with Friends Challenge

                Crealicious Challenge

                Altered Eclectic Challenge

                Cards Galore Challenge

                Creative Lady Bird Creatives Challenge

                Crafty Gals Challenge

                Crafty Sentiments Challenge

                Crafting By Design Challenge

                Carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/

                Dianamlarson.blogspot.com

Janet Klein-Vera Lane - Starry Night Joy Ride

One of my favorite ATC creations. The car is from AALL & Create and the passengers are from different Vera Lane collections that I threw together.  

Everything else was hand drawn.

TH distress inks, spiced marmalade, salty ocean, uncharted mariner and black soot inks.

I cut out the 3 window panels to see through them, that took a while and a very sharp exacto knife.  A white pen for the stars and  copic markers. 

Another fun task, btw, my table is a mess. 😜

Stay humble and safe.

Ivette (Ivy)

 

Janet Klein-Vera Lane - Emily Anne - Autumn

Sharing my Emily Anne Autumn image from 

Vera Lane Studios Digitals.

Here I share a mixed media ATC featuring one of the many Emily Anne images.  I began with a blank ATC.   

A Leaf stencil by Studio Light.  I used Ranger texture paste, allowed it to dry.  TH distress ink spiced marmalade throughout the card.

Emily Anne was painted with copic markers. 

        A Martha Stewart maple leaf stamp was used for the larger leaves, each one was distressed.  Some elements from the AALL & Create EP-86 package (lamp post & foreground stones).

Hope you enjoy and thanks for passing by.

Ivette (Ivy)

Janet Klein-January 👒

 Hello everyone, back with another image by Janet Klein from Vera Lane Studios.

This image is titled “January Hats”  I began with lightly coloring the background with distress inks Salty Ocean.  

For the foreground I used clear crackle from Tim Holtz which is hard to see (I will try and post a close up).  The snow drifts were created by tearing pieces of frosted vellum and inking the edges with distress inks Salty Ocean.  I colored the images with my Copic markers, the igloo was hand drawn and not part of the collection, there is a small bird which I didn’t include only because I forgot about it. 🫢

Thanks for swinging by and I hope I inspired you.