Another Earth Day Challenge!!

Welcome to another Whimsie Wednesday!

Thanh is the host over at Whimsie Doodle's Paper Craft Planet for this week's challenge.   April 22 is Earth Day and she has challenged us to create a project to promote saving the Earth.

What does Earth Day mean to you? 

How are you reducing your ecological foot print?

Things you could do are:

• use a recycled item on your project from around your house
• have a reduce, reuse, recycle message
• incorporate a save Earth message (using the WD stamp - see below)
• paint or stamp with household objects
• make a project with only scraps and as many scraps as you can using earthy stuff
• use earthy colors
• incorporate all of the above into one!

At Whimsie Doodles, we believe in reducing our ecological footprint hence why most of our images are digi! To help spread the message, we're going to be giving away our Save Earth digi for a limited time.

Please click HERE for your download.

For my challenge card today I used the above stamp and sentiment to create a card.  I enlarged the cupcake so it was roughly 4" x 5" and printed it so the the left side would overlap the fold and become the hinge for the card!

I used Copics to color my image and also paper pieced the cupcake wrapper using October Afternoon DP.  The heart and bow are layered and also colored with Copics.  The button is from Clear and Simple Stamps.

Here is the inside of the card!!  I thought I might offer this one to my son to bring to his girlfriend at school for Earth Day tomorrow along with a handful of chocolate kisses!!  If you decide to get this free image while it lasts, we sure would love to see what you do with it!  Head on over to the PCP Whimsie Doodles forum and play along with our challenge!  If you upload your creation to any online galleries, be sure to use the keywords whimsiedoodles and WWC28.

Have a wonderful, whimsical Wednesday and may your bucket overflow with ideas to help save our earth and minimize the footprint we leave on it!

Sweet Santa!

Happy Wednesday!!

I just love my Wednesdays because it is that time of the week that I get to share with you the card I made for the new Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch that is just released on the SSW blog! This week we are up to sketch number 14!!

The exciting news is that The Digi Shack is sponsoring this week's sketch which means that a prize is in store for one lucky winner who participates in today's challenge!! Can I get a woot woot???? For more details and to see how to enter, please visit the Sweet Sketch Wednesday Blog!

So on to today's sketch...

And here is the card that I made (I know it's a little early for Christmas already, but you have to understand that I am a Santa Clause freak and couldn't pass this digi up!!)

The Santa digi image that I used can be found HERE! The "ho ho ho" sentiment is from a cheap dollar bin set that I think I picked up at Michael's. To make the belt buckle I used one of the letters that is designed to go through a ribbon from Joann's but just made sure that I covered up the letter so all you could see was the frame. The red dotted paper is from K&Co and if you look closely, you can see that I trimmed out the card with tiny strips of gold that are made from Flower Soft and come with adhesive already on them.

Four gold brads were added as accents to the four corners of the image panel and I used my Tiny Mosaic texture plate in my cuttlebug to make the belt have a leather look to it. My circle and scalloped nesties were used to fram the image.

If you look closely you can see that I added white fluff to santa's hat trim and ball and colored his glasses with a gold opaque pen. The rest of him was colored with my Copic markers. Around the beard all I did was add light shades of gray and let the white CS do the rest!

This one is going into my slowly growing collection of Christmas cards that will be sent out this year. I have so many more to do... I better be getting busy very soon!!

Have a really sweet Wednesday and be sure to visit the SSW blog to see all the other Digi Shack creations made using this week's sketch! And may your bucket overflow with sweet things all day!