Tuesday Throwdown Challenge 372 - Anything Goes

It's Tuesday and time for a new throwdown! Okay, it's really time for a new Tuesday Throwdown challenge and this week it's anything goes. Our wonderful sponsor is Sparkle N Sprinkle. They've been in business for 20 years so you know they're doing something right! They kindly allowed me to pick the image for today's post. Honestly , I can say I got so side tracked looking at all their offerings that 2 hours disappeared from my day. Please check them out along with the TT design team's creations

The image I picked was Christmas Spirit Fairy Digital Set. This set contains black and white images (jpg and png), colored images, 4 sentiments and a cutting file. Bargin!

I printed off a black and white image as needed some coloring therapy. The color palette is from a paper pad my friend Legs sent me and my intent was to use a sheet as background. Didn't happen because I loved how the colors looked on the fairy and didn't want them to compete. She's colored with Copics. The background is Twinkling H2O's. Of course, I twisted my own arm and worked in just a bit of glitter...

The card is so beautiful in person; soft colors, shimmery background and sparkly wings, dress and snowflake. The card blank has a wonderful color shift from pearly blue to silvery gray (which I've discovered is extremely hard to photograph) and a ribbon texture. I'm loading the best I could capture.

Attempts at close ups:

Card Blank

Sparkle

Shimmer

 Promise me you'll check out Sparkle N Sprinkle and create some goodies to enter in the Tuesday Throwdown challenge.

PIP Challenge 1750 December 11, Bugaboo Stamps

I've had my thinking cap on all weekend trying to find a new way to say it's time for a new PIP challenge. Only thing I came away with is a really bad hairdo. So, guess what. It's time for a new PIP challenge,  #1750. Once again our sponsor is Bugaboo Digi Stamps. Love her images!

The digi I am using is Puppy - enough reindeer.
This stamp is an entire card by itself! Gotta love that! The fact that it's cute is like ice cream with cake, perfection!

Quickly colored with Copics, some glitter, a little blue applied for sky with a sponge and mounted to a red-brown card blank to which I also glued a piece of seam binding leftover from my ornament making days.

  He's what I like to call "stinkin cute" .

Give yourself an early Christmas gift and check out Bugaboo Digi Stamps where you are sure to find something you like. Then pop on over to the PIP challenge, check out the talented design team's creativity. And for the love of Pete, don't forget to enter a couple of cards for a chance to win.