Happy Sunday!  I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!  We’ve been busy here, but that’s not an unusual condition at our house.  The primary event for Nadya and I involved a birthday party for one of her friends – Nadya wanted the gift packaging to be “special”… so of course, I attempted to meet her request.  We opted to combine the card and package – much easier for a preschooler to carry on her own!  Nadya chose one of the precious Birthday Birdie images from Doodle Pantry and wanted a pink theme – so I went to “work” in Photoshop using various  SuperBladePro filters combined with pattern files and my favorite Chalkies styles to color the birdie body, birthday hat, and cupcake liner. After printing, I added shadows and additional coloring with my Copic and Bic markers, then finished off with glitter glue for dimension and sparkle. I created the box in Make The Cut then cut the top from DCWV Glitter CS and the bottom from Echo Park’s Little Girl line – I wanted a double-sided CS so that when the package was opened I didn’t need a separate liner.  If you want the box files (MTC and SVG) you can download them here. Please don’t share my files – send your friends to visit me instead.

Since I haven’t “played” in awhile, I’m entering this challenge:

• Catered Crop – Recipe (I used stickles, digital stamps, copics and pinks)

On a personal note – the party was held at one of the local gymnastics studios – which meant Nadya had a blast!!!  I had this fabulous new storyboard template (complete with sharpening and resizing Photoshop action) from Paint the Moon; I couldn’t resist sharing a few of the snapshots. Check her Facebook Page for a special freebie.Coach Rick is great with the kids and we’ve always known our little one was part Monkey!

Have a fabulous day!

Happy Monday! I have another Doodle Pantry creation to share with you today – a simple birthday card featuring the Mini Rose Pot digital stamp set.

My husband requested a birthday card and prefers the clean and simple look, so I printed the roses and sentiment and then colored them with my Copic markers with a bit of sparkle sponged on using Pebbles shimmer chalks. The card base is from DCWV and inspired the purple throughout. For added interest I diecut both the image and the card with my nesties. 

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring the current Stamptacular Sunday Challenge – the theme is fancy folds.  Laurie put together a darling and oh-so-creative card/gift container for the occasion – check it out on the Doodle Pantry blog. While we’re on the subject of challenges, there’s still time to join us for DPDC15 – deadline is August 18th. We’d love to have you come join us for either of these challenges.

We start preschool tomorrow – but this year Nadya is attending in the afternoons – we thought that might be easier with the baby coming. We’ll see how it goes.

Have a fabulous week!

Is exactly what Quirky Skunk, one of the new releases from Doodle Pantry, is.  Laurie invited her previous DT members to do 1-month guest spots so this month I get to play along with the Doodle Pantry DT again.

Nadya is very interested in animals – skunks being one of her new favorites (thank you Critter Time @ Clinton Public library). She was super excited to see this image and immediately insisted I use Pink and Purple as my focal colors and a pink and purple skunk wouldn’t be complete without sparkle!

As this is the 1st release of the month, it’s time for a new Doodle Pantry challenge. We’d love to have you join us – the theme is to use a Doodle Pantry image. Everyone who plays along by midnight EST August 18th will receive this fabulous combo: just in time for school to resume! In addition, 1 winner will be selected to receive a $15 Doodle Pantry gift coupon for the Doodle Pantry store. So what are you waiting for?!?!?!

Have a FABULOUS Friday!