Let's Celebrate

Happy Sunday everyone. I have a new card I made for my husbands birthday and a couple of challenges. The gnome image is by MelonHeadz and I colored him in with Copic markers. I'm not really very good with shading but I like to color when I have free time and want to relax for a bit. I Googled gnome images and this one was the best for the marker colors that I own. 

Once I colored him in I die cut him and the next size rectangle out with my Spellbinders dies.  The sequins are recycled from an old dance costume and the stars, Recollections cardstock, is a die cut by Quickutz/Life Style Crafts/We R Memory Keepers. The sentiment is by Paper Smooches. I stamped it with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with red Ranger embossing powder. 

For my background paper I took some white Studio G cardstock and rubbed Dizzy powdered chalk by Stamp N Plus over it with a cosmetic wedge. I was going to dry emboss the cardstock but thought it looked great as is. 

Thanks for taking a look and stopping by today.

Challenges:

http://chalk-ah-lot.blogspot.com/- Recycle with chalk

Mark's Finest Paper- Sketch with something in a garden

http://www.lisasomerville.com/ Bling on it {Sequins}

http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://cardmakinmamas.blogspot.com/ Recycled sequins

http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.com/-Use some scraps {sentiment paper and red cs}

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/ Birthday

http://getinkychallenge.blogspot.com/ Die cut designs

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/ Stack em up 2 or more layers

http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.com/ Lots of layers

http://thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/ Birthday

http://www.4craftychicks.blogspot.com/ Embossing {sentiment}

http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Recycled sequins becuz I like to get some use out of the old dance costumes since I paid a small fortune for them back in the day [and they're trendy right now:)}

http://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://www.dreamweaverstencils.blogspot.com/ What inspires you? I would have to say the sketch and the twist of something from your garden is what inspired this card. Nothing like a sketch to get the old brain moving.

http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup Birthday

http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com/ Birthday

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ No DP

http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://ditziedigidesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ Say it with words

http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com/ Use a die cut or punch