One of those days!

Not for me today actually....happy mood again!

This is just the theme of today's card.....I've certainly had a few days like this believe me!

The current challenge over on the Saturated Canary Challenge Blog is April Showers, so as this little lady has been coloured and sitting very patiently on my desk, waiting for you know who to finally put her on a card, I thought I'd better.
It's time to 'Cheer Up'..........

As the title suggests, the name of this digi is 'One of those days', and you can find her as also previously mentioned, over at Saturated Canary.

She's coloured with Copic markers and I've added a little distress ink around the image too..........

Papers are some of my favourites right now from the Authentique 'Gathering' collection, and the card layout is inspired by a previous sketch from The Deconstructed Sketch.  I've added a little bakers twine together with a couple of delicate tea roses ($1.50 bargain from Michael's!).

There's also a bargain butterfly (Dollarama) which I blinged a little with tiny pearls, and some machine stitching.  I'm not sure if you can catch it in this shot, but I forgot to mention there's Glossy Accents added to the raindrops in the image too.

That's it for today, so have yourself a good one and I'll be back on Friday.
Take care,
Jayne.x.
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Challenges entered:
Saturated Canary - #15 April Showers
Rubber Redneck - #69 Colour Roundup
Stars and Stamps - Colour Challenge
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog - Use a Digi
Scrap-Creations - April Showers
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Stitching real or faux
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - #23 Ribbon or Twine
Incy Wincy Designs - #142 Digi's Only
Karen's Doodles Challenge Blog - #102 Something Spring
Lollipop Crafts - #76 Spring Fling
The Hybrid Chick - #17 Spring
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - April Showers
Delicious Doodles - #17 Loads of Layers

April Showers......

I figure the title is pretty apt. today! 18 degrees outside and rain boots required........I'll take the rain if I can keep the temperature! So let's embrace the theme and get to a card. Another sweet Puddle Jumper image today, from By LORI Designs. Here's Ella's Umbrella............

Couldn't resist adding that cute 'rain boot' paper.

I'll share a little story with you about this image........a conversation I had with my youngest daughter, which of course made me smile, they usually do! I must have subconsciously coloured Ella, with some striking resemblances to her, because when I'd finished, they really did look alike. So I said to her "Oh my goodness......this could be you, she looks just like you". After she'd studied it for a moment, she said " No.........I don't have a frog!" The joy of 4 year old wisdom.........keeps me sane...........when it's not driving me insane! LOL

So Ella is coloured with Copic's and papers are from 3 Bugs In A Rug. I kept things fairly simple by adding a 'Nestie', some white satin ribbon and a stick pin, but I did add a fair bit of Glossy Accents to the puddle and the polka dots on the umbrella.

Sweet!

Have a great day and I'll see you later in the week

Jayne.x.

OSAAT Challenge.

So, yesterday was 'sneak peak' challenge day over at the OSAAT challenge blog, and this was the sneaky little snippet I left you with...........

Well, like I said, I really didn't think anyone would guess from my image alone, as the challenge for this week is......(drum roll!)........."Anything Goes"! Yep, they definitely put the 'sneak' in the 'peak' this week. So here's the rest of my card........ Something a little different for me because guess what? No Prisma pencils! (gasp!) Nope, this cute little furry friend, from Beary Dust Stamps (which you can find at Stitchy Bear Stamps), was coloured strictly with Copic's. I have to say, I think I'm a little out of my comfort zone there now, as I seem to have settled in with the pencils. I paper pieced the umbrella, covered a heart shaped piece of chipboard with embossed card stock, added ribbon and a charm to a homemade tag and printed the sentiment from Word. I also added epoxy heart stickers and doodled the raindrop patterns.

The sponsor for this weeks challenge is 'Crop Stop' and they are offering a $15 gift voucher. You can check them out here.....

If you'd like to join in with the challenge this week, for your chance of winning......remember....'Anything Goes', which covers pretty much.......'anything', then hop on over to the OSAAT blog and check out the other inspiring offerings from the rest of the DT. Remember to share some love, or should I say "shower' some love!

This cutie qualifies for quite a number of challenges this week, so here's the list he'll puddle jump into:

Pollycraft Monday Challenge - #62 Cute and Cuddly

Tuesday Taggers - It Takes All Sorts

Papertake Weekly - Animal Magic

A Spoon Full Of Sugar - #122 Anything Goes

Cooking It Up With Katie - Recipe.....use some ribbon, add a little metal, make it something sweet

Charisma Cards - #38 Anything Goes

Stampin' For The Weekend - #47 Tag it

Bee Crafty - #39 Furry/Fluffy friends

Elephantastic Cards & Crafts - #13 So Charming

Stamp It Crazy - #7 Free for all

Pheeeeew, time for coffee now! Catch ya later.