The Early Bird Gets The Worm!

WHEW...these long weekends make me tired! You try and try to cram everything into it and then you end up doing nothing! LOL Lucky me I have tomorrow off to accomplish all I did not get done today!

I finally finished my project for the first CDAC Progressive Challenge of September. The theme was back to school and the images were adorable. I chose to use the bookworm image by Jens Digi Stamps. I thought he was so cute. I duplicated him a few times and added a saying and made it into a bookmark! I am forever losing my bookmarks...kinda like one sock every time you do laundry...I don't know where it goes but it is gone!

ANYWHO here is my little project!

I used Copics to color my little guys and just tied a ribbon on the top! I may laminate it...not sure yet!

I am going to enter this into the CDAC Progressive Challenge! (of course) and here are a few others I would like to enter:

Critter Sketch Challenge Blog--Anything Goes
Paper Pretties--Primary Colors

Scrapper's Delights Dragonfly!

Janice at Scrapper's Delights has made a beautiful new kit called "Dragonfly". DO NOT just stop when you see the actual kit.....check out all the extras you can get that go so well with it. I added the kits: Petra, Twiggy, and Mavinda...because you cannot just have Celina all on her own! Fairy's travel in packs! LOL

Look at the vibrancy, the detail, and the quality of what you get when you purchase one of these kits. 

The first time I ordered anything, I was truly surprised at the quantity! 

You do not get one pose, you get several. AND the prices really cannot be beat. 

And I am not just saying that because I am on the DT...

I have bought before and since I became a member!

So you want to see what I made with this kit?????

OK here it is:

I bought several glass candle holders and wanted to decorate them....so I made a candle wrap!

In this picture You can see Celina...there is also a butterfly in the tree but I could not get it to show up very well....Hard to get it all in the picture on a round glass!

Here is Petra:

Now because of paper size I could not get it to fit exactly to over lap...so I came up with what I call a corset close. I punched my holes and laced some skinny black ribbon through it! No glue and no mess!

I have not found the right size candle yet....I want to add some sand to the bottom and use a skinny candle. Well I really hope you like it!

Used PSP to crop and add my characters. 

Challenges I would like to enter:

I will add them later.

Vintage Candy Giveaway!

Amy at Papertrails Leaver is having a wonderful blog candy giveaway! You have to check it out...but of course being the mean person I am....I hope I win! LOL Amy went on a European vacation and came back with some major goodies...

Fingers crossed! There is some beautiful things in this candy!

You Gotta Go Back To School!

To enter this challenge anyway!

Back To School is the next challenge at Guylou's Inimitability!

Our wonderful host is none other than Guylou herself! And she has chosen to do a Back to School 

themed challenge with a bit of a twist...you must have an apple on your project!

Now G came up with several images that are perfect for this challenge...

check them all out in her store here.

AND check this out!!!!

So even if you don't win the challenge you can get some images for a heck of a great price!!

OK I couldn't decide which one to use, so I made two projects! 

Can I be honest here? I actually made two other cards (with the same image) 

but was not happy with how they turned out...and then 

I realize that time is running out. ARGGGG So I got my head on straight and said to myself

no matter if I like it or not, third time's the charm and I will post that card! LOL So here it is!

I used "Teacher Leah", paper from "Antiquities" by DCWV, ruler tape, mosaic tiles (that I colored over...they were initially silver) and the apple back ground is from Scrapper's Delights.

Now I typed I did two projects...so here is my second attempt! 

I used the image "1 + 1". I colored it with Paint Shop Pro, printed it on shrinky dink paper, 

cut it out using label 1 from nestabilities and viola my tag for Jenna's backpack!

It is way too dark! I know. And I burned the one edge...but hey

it's the first time I have made a shrinky dink in years! LOL

It's a great idea to make tags this way (if you are better at it than me)...

I got the idea from the wonderful Gina! Another DT member! Check it outon  her blog.

While you are looking at that make sure you see her take on this challenge, as well all the other DT members (they are listed to the left!)

Our Guest Designer is Kimberly  http://scrap-it-girl.blogspot.com/

Well now comes the part about the rules!

You will find them here.

You have from today until September 15th!

So get on it!