Dressed to be blessed!

Greetings!

Okay, I have mentioned before how I love to discover new digi stamp stores.  Well, recently I came across another store thanks to Tammy Ortiz (awesome challenge site). :-)  I was in awe when I visited Jackson's Digital Expressions.  I immediately made a purchase and as soon as I got home from work I printed them off, colored them up and will share one of them with you today.  I instantly connected with these digis and had so much fun adding color to them.

Oh did I mention that they have a challenge blog as well?  Well, they do.  I used the color combo they offered (as a twist) to their Anything Goes challenge to design my card.  I have to admit that when I first saw this color combo, I thought it would be a true challenge.  However, once I sat down and started pulling the papers, embellishments, and cardstock together it took on a life of its own.

Here's the inspiration...

Jackson's Digital Expression Challenge

Here's my card...

Sunday Hat III

As I stated before, I didn't know where to start with this challenge.  So, I colored up my image using Copics.  Once I was happy with her look, I moved on to SU Chocolate cardstock for my card base.  I then added some Bazzill Yellow cardstock.  The dp I used is from Bo Bunny's Zoology 6x6 paperpack.  It was a nice little find as I was going through my paperpacks.  I mounted my image on a Spellbinder's diecut and used a Circle diecut to cut out the image.  I used several different kinds of embellishments on this card, starting with the leaves which are cut from Cheery Lynn flourish diecut.  I also used the two corner decos from Spellbinders.  I finished it off with some flowers from Wild Orchids as well as a little Stickles (my FAV) here and there.  I created the sentiment on my computer and used SU punches to punch it out.

I dedicate this card to all the ladies of my church.  I can remember sitting behind several church ladies when I was younger and imagining that an animal would crawl out of thier huge hats with lots of feathers, flowers and or bows.  My head is waaaaayyy to big to wear a hat (lol), but I do love the look of them with a nice suit and matching purse and heels.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Now get to creating...

Remember:  There are no mistakes in cardmaking, only opportunities for creativity!