What color are your stripes?! A New Release & Challenge at Paper Pretties!

Hi, everyone!

It's Monday, so it's time for a New Release of Digi Stamps at Paper Pretties, and their new challenge for this week! Be sure to enter for your chance to win some Paper Pretties Digis!

The Paper Pretties Challenge Theme this week is :

STRIPES!

Here's my card for the challenge:

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I chose to use the new Zebadiah the Zebra image for my card. I really like the animal characters that ARTish has been drawing, don't you?! They're so fun to color, and have so many possibilities! I adore the Dr. Seuss quote that was one of the included sentiments with this image, so I used it.

My plaid is a little bit of a stretch for stripes, but it IS made up of stripes, right?! I hope........:0) If you don't agree, I could always argue that the Zebra is striped! lol! ;0)

My papers are by Sizzix, some old Sizzlits pads I have in my stash. I made the large 'Z' and it's layers with my eClips machine. The zebra image is fussy-cut.A couple of silver punched embellishes and some tiny blue rhinestones finish him off.

Every Monday, Paper Pretties has a digital image release and a new challenge. They release two new images, complete with sentiments! Check out these two cuties!

Zebadiah the Zebra

Tirell the Tiger

You can hop on over to the Paper Pretties Store to pick up these cute new releases, and then head on over to the challenge blog to enter your card! 

You could win three 

Paper Pretties Digis of your choice!

Make sure to check out the rest of the wonderful design team members of Paper Pretties, and

don't forget to stop by the store to pick up one of the new releases! The DT blog links are located in myleft sidebar for you!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Ciao for now!! :0)

This card has been entered into the following challenges:

Creative Mondays - Anything Goes

Digi Makeover Challenge - Critters

Simon Says Stamp & Show - Anything Goes

Paper Cupcakes - Kids Birthday

Crafting When We Can - Animals

OSAAT - Use a Digi

Finally some creations!

Hi, everyone!
I finally managed to finish some things! I had this Gus image, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored in PSE and printed, sitting on my desk, waiting for a home on a card, for two days! My dad's birthday is in Mid-March, and for the last few years I have managed to completely forget to send his cards out! (I know.....BAD daughter!). So, I am ahead of schedule this year - this is for him.  The inside of the card reads, "Growing up is optional! It's nice to see you're exercising your options!" He should get a kick out of it - he's a pretty funny dude for a dad. :0)

Card Recipe

Card Stock - Cool Carribean, Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White (all Stampin Up)

Digistamp - Gus Birthday (Bugaboo Stamps)

Nestabilities - Ovals

Punches - Oval, Scalloped Oval, Word Window (Stampin' Up), Bubble Border (EK Success)

Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots (Cuttlebug)

Embellishes - Earth Elements Brads (Stampin' Up)

Aleene's Paper Glaze (for the headlights and glasses)

DP - Magnolia (My Minds Eye)

One other card I finished is for my son. He's a senior in high school. We've been consumed with all things "college" for the past two months, filling out papers, making phone calls and interview dates, setting up tours of campuses. Fun stuff! It's exciting, but he is a bit overwhelmed, anxious to be done in high school and "move on", and has had some rotten days, lately. So, this is a bit of a reminder to be patient and keep his eye on the prize; something I think we all need to be reminded of once in a while. This "instant gratification" age we live in sure can beat us down sometimes!

I picked up this digi image over on Operation Write Homes site. It is by Eric Dull, of Broken Road Creative Studios. I thought this image was great to impress patience in a visual way! The chinese proverb reads, "One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life."

Card Recipe

Card Stock - Kraft, Night of Navy, Whisper White (Stampin' Up)

DP - Muirfield (Stampin' Up)

Coloring and text were created in PSE.