National Earth Day

Hello Everyone and Welcome! We are kicking off another Festive Friday's Challenge at the Outlawz.ning.com this week. We have four fun and Festive Holiday's we chose as our Theme's for this weeks Challenge You can chose one or more of these theme's for inspiration on your project. The Holiday Theme's are National Earth Day, National Hug a Plummer Day, National Penguin Day, National Secretary's Day. I hope you get a chance to stop by and see the Design Team's inspirational projects. I can't wait to see what you create.

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This is a My Besties image and her name is Gardenia. I thought she was perfect for Earth Day. I water colored the image. I added Star Dust Stickles to her eyes and the ribbon on her boot.  I bought a new Die Set. Its the Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms Die Set. After I cut the flowers out I rolled them and added a hint of pink to the edges of the petals. I'm so happy with this Die Set. I bought it from Gina Marie Design Dies and I think it was only $11 (I've added a link to the product for your convenience). The roses are just darling and will save me a heap of money because I no longer have to buy them already made. YAY!! Hopefully, I've inspired you to create your own project and enter it in the Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge.

Oh How Lovely

Good Monday Morning Everyone. I hope you had a great weekend! Do you have a farm in your past? Or, maybe you live on a farm right now? Did you raise chickens and other farm animals? Were you involved in the 4H Club? What Life lessons did you learn from all of this? My Neighbors have decided to raise chickens and I'm so excited about it! I used to help my Grandma collect eggs and feed the chickens on the farm when I was a young girl. Seeing these baby chicks has brought back such fond memories. We live in a Suburb and we weren't allowed to raise chickens until recently. It has become very popular lately. Some of them raise the chickens for the pet quality and a piece from their past on a farm. Others are raising them for show and get involved in the fairs. They are teaching their children through the 4H Clubs and allowing them to understand the importance of team work and responsibilities for another life. Whatever the reason I'm all for it! Spending so much time on the farm as a child taught me so many life long lesson's. With all of this on my mind this weekend I felt this image was perfect for my card today.

The image was provided by Cute As A Button for a Progressive Facebook Challenge.

• I painted the image using water colors and Distress Inks. 
• The image is outlined with a light blue marker so that it had a more finished fresh look.
• I painted parts of a second image for her fingers and the watermelon. I fussy cut it out and adhered it to the image with foam tape for dimension. 
• I added Glossy Accents to the watermelon for a little bit of detail.
• The Die is a Rectangle Die set from Gina Marie Designs. 
• I adhered everything to my background and onto a A2 size card.
• The sentiment is a tag from my stash. I added Jems for some sparkle.
• The slice of watermelon in the corner of the card is from a cupcake. I cut the stem off and adhered it to the card.

I hope you like the card! I encourage you to visit Cute As A Button with the link above. Her images a so cute and she takes the time to add a lot of detail to her images. I love reading your comments so please feel free to let me know what you think in the boxes below. Have a Great Day! HUgz

I will be entering this in the following Challenges:

Cute As A Button Facebook Progressive Challenge
joy clair march-challenge