Happy Friday! I've Scored With A Bug!!!

Yay...It's Friday!! And I can now finally tell you that me, myself, and little I, (little??) have all been invited to join Bugaboo as a Guest Designer for August and September!!
Yay! I'll stop jigging now, coz I've gone a bit giddy! (Ohoo ice cream head ache!)

So!! Here's my very First Card For Bugaboo Stamps using today's fab Friday Freebie!

AKV-Girls-Soccer-7

You can download her all week from the Store where you can also buy the rest of her team mates!! So get your boots on, get over there, download her, colour her up and join in with some of the challenges over on Bugaboo, or even the many Challenges they sponsor.

My Card. First, of course, I did my normal trick of edging the pearl card with a black Promarker. Then I coloured a PNG AKV-Girls-Soccer-7 in PaintNet, saved her to 'My Craft Studio' added my own stripy paper and the Fluffy Clouds paper (PinkPetticoat) resized everything, putting the fluffy clouds over the striped papers and the Soccer Girl over the Fluffy Clouds... easy! (although if you've gone cross eyed at this point...or your brain has frozen over, I'll understand...)

Then copied Soccer Girl again so I had two of her, for a little bit of 3D-ing... printed it all out....and oops...she had green hair...but it suits her, don't you think!?! I like the green hair...it's very now, and will be, until I get more ink for my printer!

I cut a slice off the stripy paper, put in another line of black Promarker down the card, fixed it all onto the front of the card, scribbled round the edges with a fine black pen, cut the other soccer girls legs off... her pony tail and her arms then fixed her body, head, knees, boots and ball, back over the other image using silicone glue.

Finished by adding a bit of glitter to her pony-tail clip, the foam flowers, (coz they aren't so 'girlie' as other flowers) and the green gems. (Silicone glue and a Quickie Glue Pen)

The foam flowers I cut out using a punch and a die-cut. Had them scattered about my worktop most of the week as a little 'hint' as to what was coming... along with the soccer girl papers inside the card. (There was a tiny square of these papers in my WOYWW photo) If you're not sure how to do this there's a 'How to make Your Own Papers' Tutorial over at Bugaboo HERE by Min.
I coloured the digi in PaintNet first, saved as a PGN and then just copied and pasted on to a new Word page and continued to copy and paste until I had enough, turning them every which way.
I also 'tiled' her. (In My Craft Studio) Once printed and cut out, I coloured the strip with a yellow Promarker.
As you can see by the picture, one side of the inside of the card has a pocket, so you can add a gift token or birthday money! (any family watching, it won't be that much...)
The Font is a freebie it's called Dragline BTN dm and you can download that HERE
I have a few Challenges I'd love to enter this little Soccer girl into... Hope you like her! Thank you for stopping by!!!

Challenges

Paper Play - Sports-Olympics
SJ Paper Crafts - Olympics
Pause dream enjoy -sports hobbies
Come and get it-Bingo anyone (I've used: Gems, Die cuts, flowers
Stamptacular Challenge - to die for (some of the flowers)
Crafts and me challenges-anything goes
Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Inspire me Friday - Anything Goes
The Poodles Parlour-Anything Goes
Crazy Amigo Challenge-free theme
Digi doodle shops best- stripes

Sneaky Stripes Freebie Papers

Raggedy Stripes

Sneaky Stripes

Tiled Stripes

I know, you're getting bored with stripes... but I like 'em coz they're easy to do. Just use the chisel end of your Promarkers. (and then have a 'play' on your computer) I have used the middle stripes on a card but I can't show it to you for ages yet. (Up Date, Yes I can, it's HERE) Hope these are useful. Comment if you can. Have a crafty week!

Arffy Burfday Sue From The 'Boys'

Hellloo yoou guuuys! (sung in true Goonie style) I've been dog sitting! (ah, is that where you've been, Lyn in the dog house..?) better known by their owners as, 'The Boys!' And this week, or rather last week, it was the doggie's mum's birthday, so seeing their 'dad' had a doggie card last month I thought it would be nice to do a matching pair, same but different, just like the dogs, same...but different.

So here it is.

First picture of the year taken out side in the sunshine... about 9 0'clock this morning. I've used, a blank pearl card, edged with an Azure blue Promarker. (Love that colour) Digi image by Dustin Pike of course, freebie found here. (leave some love)
The Papers were made by me using four different Promarker colours. Azure, Poppy, Grass, Tulip Yellow (I've scanned it in, so will add it as a freebie below this post, it might come in handy..or just do your own, it's easy!) one doggie brad, and the border down the side punched with a paw print punch by Woodware, a bit of black card and loads of photo and gel glue... and I take it back what I said last week, I CAN'T get that glue into the syringe! (and I was doing sooo well too!) Squirted all over the place so, I now have (Doone, of many talents) ) two pairs of very sticky stuck up scissors! (Not that they're snobby or anything...just stuck up)
There's about seven layers to this card in all. The image I played with in My Craft Studio. The freebie version I received from a Crafty Magazine Crafts Beautiful ? ages and ages ago, just very basic, but plenty for my small brain to cope with! Then, once I put the dogs together in the way I wanted them, I printed them out quite a few times, so they'd all be the same size to decoupage, then coloured them in. I've added about four layers of 'dog'. I have also edged with TH ink, but it doesn't show.
No fonts used this time, just my own hand writing, the untidiness I can say, I was writing for the dogs! (personally I think they'd do better)

The Digi images (joined) on the inside where 'stretched' a little bit, as I was going to make a tent style card (opening from the bottom outwards) but changed my mind, mainly because cards that open from the bottom quite often slip open and fall flat with the weight of the image on the front.
Here's the card I made before, just in case you missed it! (My hidden freebie is still there too and a link to the papers I used) Papers I used for this card are HERE
New Followers! Hi and a big ((wave))) to Betsy@ My Salvaged Treasures, Mercieschild,TwinkleToes2day, pamsmailbox and out the back and in the dark Joanna Estrada, all with no links, but I might find some later. That's it for now, thank you for stopping by. I'd love to enter this card into a few...

Challenges
Paper Pretties - bright colours

One stitch at a time-red,white and blue

Papertake Weekly - Red, White and Blue

Willow Sketchie Challenge - Red, White and Blue

Craft Your Days Away - Red, White and Blue

The Crafty Pad Challenge - Colours of your Countries Flag &/or sketch
Pile it on-two or more folds (I'm hoping the inside of my card will count, as it pops out)
Creative Card Crew- dimension
Penny's Paper Crafty-Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet - Anything Goes
Jackson's Digitals - anything goes
The squirrel and the fox- Best Friends(George and Rufus are definitely best friends!)
Totally Papercrafts - Animals

More Stripples & Swirles Freebie Papers

Bit 'ruff' around the edges, these are the papers I used on the card in the post above. Just right click and save to your computer...and believe it or not........these came out of the same papers after I added a white boarder and 'played'! Not sure what this one will print out like. Haven't tried it yet. But have a go. Just Use your Promarkers to make your papers, and then 'play' with them!

Quirky Dotty About Spots, Stripes & Ribbons!

Ok, It's that Quirky Time again, well it will be if Mr Blogger's timer has worked! It's my turn to set the challenge and I want to see... Dots, Spots, Stripes and Ribbon!

I've made an easel card. I've used a digi image from our sponsors Robyn's Fetish called Friends Forever and... this is the good bit~ I made my own backing papers.
I couldn't find a blue to match the blue I'd smudged around the edge of the topper, so I thought, (bit painful) why not, dab a bit of the blue colour on some paper, scan it in, open it in PaintNet and, Bob's your uncle!
Well, for those who don't know Bob, what I did was, clicked on the little dipper thingy (Photoshop, or any programme like that) and the colour box will come up with a match for that colour. Then all I had to do was have a 'play' with dots and stripes. Watch out for them in the next post, I'll add them as an
always freebie.
Back to the card. I covered a blank card with red card, and then the Dotty spotties papers. Printed the image out twice, with the sentiment curving round one of them (did all that in Word) Coloured with Promarkers, cut out an extra duck...no, not a duck, hasn't got webbed feet...not really a chicken either... anyway, cut round his body and did a bit of 3D-ing. Added more red card and Streaky Stripes paper, some ribbon, buttons, brads, card candi.
Used an Xcut boarder punch and made a sort of edge, a strip folded so it stays up to hold the easel in place, using red card and the backing paper, added another one to the top of the card to match.
The font is a freebie. It's called Jeffrey PrintJK Download it HERE There is a smidging of glitter too. Love the digi, definitely going to use it again! That's my make, now it's your turn!
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Challenges

Here come the boys-birthday easel cards
Crazy4challenges-Birthday

Creationsbygillm.-stripes and spots (monthly)

The pink elephant-Dots & Stripes
OSAAT-Anything Goes