Kathy's Lily Pad Palette for April

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It's Color Challenge time again at Lily Pad Cards and Kathy has chosen a particularly bright palette for April. 

And the challenge is sponsored by my wonderful friends at Lawn Fawn!! Bright colors and whimsical Lawn Fawn stamps are made for each other, throw in some Bright Side paper and this card practically made itself!

This adorable flamingo is in the Gnome Sweet Gnome set. I love this set, it includes everything you'd find in the backyard. 

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Make sure you check out the challenge post at Lily Pad Cards, there will be some Lawn Fawn goodness for the winner of this challenge.

blessings,
nancy

Lily Pad Cards Color Challenge

It's another Kathy's Lily Pad Palette color challenge at Lily Pad Cards! Our sponsor for this challenge is Purple Onion Designs and I had some fun with the Heart Flower and Homegrown Sentiments stamps.

Patterned Paper- Echo Park Country Drive; Lawn Fawn Kraft paper Upbeat
Purple Onion Designs Stamps: Heart Flower; Homegrown Sentiments
ArtPrint Brown ink-Tsukineko

blessings,
nancy

Color Challenge Time at Lily Pad Cards

I was thinking Spring with a love theme when I saw the color palette for the new Kathy's Lily Pad Palette challenge.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Stamps and I had a pretty digital stamp to work with called "with love".

I started by opening the image in Microsoft Publisher along with a digital paper by Sande Krieger called Grapefruit from the Farmers Market Digital set. I layered the image over the paper and changed the image color from black to white. Then I re-sized it and printed it out on white card stock. Next I trimmed the image (it had another outline), rounded the corners and layered it on a piece of the brand new Lawn Fawn patterned paper. After punching a hole and tying the twine I set it aside and created the background with another piece of Lawn Fawn paper. I wrote out a Bible verse (1 John 4:7-8) several times in messy script using a white gel pen.  I made a top folded 4.25x5.5 card base and wrote the same verse on it with green pencil then distressed and added color with a blending tool and Shabby Shutters Distress ink. The flower border is a strip of LF paper. Once all the pieces were layered I finished the card with some pink and red gems.
Make sure to head over to Lily Pad Cards to see the rest of the cards by the Design Team...they are pretty awesome if you ask me. I hope you'll join us in this new color challenge.

My CHA 2012 adventure continues- Day One:

Sunday I spent the day with Ivy. We explored all the new products, took notes, did make n takes, met new friends and got some great ideas to share with the Stamp Fever Design Team. Sunday night I took a workshop with instructor Donna Downey using Faber-Castell Gelatos on Canvas. Unfortunately I have no photos because as soon as we got started my fingers were covered with glue and paint. Suffice it to say I had a great time and came home with a whole set of Gelatos to play with at home.

The Stamp Fever team stopped by the Hero Arts booth first thing so we could meet Karen Rider (born2scrap775 on Flickr). From left- Karen, Jennifer, Ivy, Shari, Gina, Sally, me and Linda.

I met Kim Hughes, the creator of Paper Smooches. She's so sweet and her stamp designs are so fun and playful. They will be fun to use on cards and layouts for Uriah.

 Next we did a make n take with Jill Foster at the Faber-Castell booth. I love Jill, she's such a genuinely lovely person and such a talent too!

Ivy snagged some "Tim Time".

Then it was back to Lawn Fawn land where Chari was holding court at the make n take table with Vera. They are 2 of the sweetest people...love them both!

Ivy and I found lots of fun products and ideas; we'll be using them in some upcoming classes.

blessings,

nancy

Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge

I'm so glad to be back in the challenge mode for Lily Pad Cards! I love the color combos that Kathy has given us, there are two different palettes and you can choose which one you'd like to use (or maybe try both).

Our sponsor for this challenge is Our Craft Lounge; I used their Vintage Traveler stamp set.

To get those rich saturated colors I used Ranger alcohol inks in Wild Plum and Stream. I also used Hero Hues Chalk ink in Cerulean. The background is a page from a vintage French book. I added a sentiment in French from an older Hero Arts set called "Love Many Ways".

blessings,
nancy

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Kathy's Lily Pad Palette for November

Lily Pad Cards has teamed up with Clear Dollar Stamps to bring you another fabulous color challenge:

I made another digital hybrid card using Clear Dollar Stamps Pumpkin Pie Digi Set. I loved that they had a pre-colored image in the set. As you are all well aware my coloring skills leave a lot to be desired so having the option to use a beautiful image that's ready to go totally appealed to me. It also allowed me to make a really quick card.

The background is made up of digital papers (a free set at Two Peas; see links below) that were formatted and sized in Publisher. Then I layered the Pumpkin pie digi image and the sentiment on top before printing . A punched card stock border, rustic jute twine, a button and vellum die cut complete the card.

I also used this set to design my 2011 Thanksgiving Place cards. I created them on two 8.5 x 11 sheets that I will print out and layer onto card stock for the place cards.

This is my working design and it will most likely change many times before I'm happy enough with it to print out and assemble the place cards.

I had to make a card for my honey...my very own Pie Man (he loves pie and bakes them often).

I hope you join in the color challenge fun at Lily Pad Cards; there is always a great prize and so much inspiration in the gallery. Check out what the Design Team has created with this wonderful Fall color palette.

~ Philippians 4:8 ~

Fix your thoughts on what is true,  

and honorable, and right, and pure,

and lovely, and admirable.

Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

blessings,

nancy

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Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Color Challenge

I love a good color challenge and when you throw in a fabulous Tiffany Doodles Digital Image, the fun really begins!

Here's Kathy's color palette for this month:

In a previous life (career) I taught 1st through 8th grade computer classes at a Christian school. One of my favorite things to teach was Microsoft Publisher. And I still use my 2003 version of Publisher to do all of my digital crafting. I have Photoshop but I just don't use it much so I never got very proficient with it.
I'm not sure if anyone still has this older version of Publisher and I wonder if the newer versions still look and work the same, but I've included a short photo tutorial in case you'd like to give it a try. (Most everything can be done in Word or Powerpoint also). I also throw in some re-coloring in Paint just to prove how old school I am.
Now, on to the card using THIS golf cart image by Tiffany Doodles:

I started with a 5.5x4.25 inch top folded card base. I inked around the edges with Spiced Marmalade Distress ink, then stamped Paisley Outline by Penny Black using Stormy Sky Distress ink.

Next I opened the Golf Cart image in Paint. I added color to the background and saved it as Golf Cart-white.

Then I opened Publisher and searched for Clipart for the background:

I created a 4 x 5.25 inch rectangle, cropping and resizing the clipart pics to fit. Then I added the Golf Cart image and formatted it by "setting transparent background". This takes the purple color away but leaves the interior of the golf cart white. If I didn't do this step the whole image would be transparent and the background would show through the golf cart. It wasn't critical for this project, since I paper-pieced over it, but it allows me to leave it white if I want. I resized the golf cart to fit my background, then I did a copy/paste so my extra golf cart would be the right size.

Next I needed to recolor the background to match the Color Palette:

I chose a dark teal to match the palette color, then lightened it a bit.
The last step in Publisher was to add a text box and type in my golf cart quote.
Once everything was positioned how I wanted it, I printed this page on Neenah Tiara White Cardstock.
I added some detail to the golf clubs and the hub caps with a Faber-Castell PITT Artist pen in silver.
I trimmed the panel, matted it with a black cs then added it to my prepared card base using dimensional foam adhesive.

Next I colored the extra golf cart with Copic markers, no shading just getting color down.

and then added some texture and pattern with the Paisley Outline stamp using Stormy Sky ink.

The colored parts of the image were cut out and paper pieced onto the finished panel using glue dots for just a bit of dimension.

This seems like it was a lot of work, but it took longer to put this blog post together than it did to complete the card. I plan to make a bunch of these using different quotes and varying the backgrounds to have on hand for giving to all the golfers in my life. Maybe I will even adapt the backgrounds and colors and make Christmas cards! I can see it now...a little holly garland on the cart and mistletoe hanging from the clubs!

Thanks for sticking with this long post. I hope you try this method to add backgrounds to your Digital Images.  Now don't forget to visit the Lily Pad Cards blog to see all the Tiffany Doodles gorgeous-ness by the Design Team.

~ Romans 3:23-26 ~

"For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.

Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous.

He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins.

For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin.

People are made right with God when they believe

that Jesus sacrificed His life, shedding His blood.....

God did this to demonstrate His righteousness

for He Himself is fair and just

and He declares sinners to be right in His sight when they believe in Jesus."

blessings,

nancy

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