Whiff of Joy Tutorial: Coloring Black and White images

 Hi everyone! I hope that you're having a good week so far :)

I would just like to point you all to the Whiff of Joy Inspiration blog for a tutorial that I created on how to use distress inks to color black and white images.  I've used Graduation Willow, which is part of the new City Girls II Collection that released on the 25th.  This card uses the sketch at KL Stampin N Scrappin Challenge.

Here's my finished card:

Stamp: Whiff of Joy Graduation Willow; Medium: Distress Inks; Paper: BasicGrey Ambrosia; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, pearls, Prima flowers, MS leaf punch, Spritz Concrete

Sentimental Sundays #9: Lift Someone's Spirits

Even though the days are longer, the Sundays seem to get here so quickly!  Welcome, everyone, to another Sentimental Sunday.  This week at Sentimental Sunday, our theme is: encouragement and support.

Have I mentioned how lucky I am to be able to be surrounded by the gals at Sentimental Sundays?  We have challenges there every week, but I am only asking them to create for two challenges out of the month, but guess what? They all created something for this week's challenge! They really are a great bunch :)  Make sure to head over to the Sentimental Sundays Challenge Blog to see the fantastic creations by the design team and to grab the freebie.

For this week's challenge, I've created two cards.  The first card is for the Crafty Creations Challenge (We want to see you shine) and the Allsorts Challenge (Embossing).  The second card is for the CAS-tastic Challenge (yellow, blue, neutral) and the Papertake Weekly Challenge (sketch).  The lighting was bad and the DP on the second card really is blue!! It just seems to be showing up as black : /

Both of them use sentiments from the "Amongst the Stars" digital sentiment set that will be released on July 1, 2010 at the Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection Store.  Make sure to tune in for some sneak peaks of the new images by the Whimsy Stamps design team starting June 28th!

Sentiments: Whimsy Stamps Amongst the Stars Digital Sentiments set (releasing July 1); Paper: BasicGrey; Accessories/tools: Cuttlebug, Pendant die, Stickles

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Kimberly's Sentiments
Click here to go to the blog
A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

Prairie Fairy Friday: Summer Vacation

Are you ready for summer? I'm not, but since it's coming anyway, might as well enjoy it :)

Today at the Prairie Fairy Fridays Challenge Blog, we have a new challenge for you: summer vacation! It's time to break out those fun, colorful  papers and images.  This card features two new images from Prairie Fairy: Lewis at the Beach, and Gillian at the Beach.  Actually, I think of the new, little Lewis as big Lewis' brother :)

Make sure to head to the blog to see the fun creations that the Prairie Fairy team came up with and to join the challenge!

Image: Prairie Fairy Lewis, Lewis at the Beach, and Gillian at the Beach; Medium: Distress Inks; Paper: Cosmo Cricket

This card is for a few challenges:

1. Stamp with Fun - Sketch
2. KL Stampin N Scrappin - Shabby
3. Little Paper Shop - Bright and Colorful 
4. The Crazy Challenge - All Things Spotty
5. Tellen's Place - Summertime
6. Delightful Sketches - It's All About Summer
7. CCEE Stampers - Summertime
8. Hand Full of Stamps - Joys of Summer
9. Stampin' B's Design Team - Summer Fun
10. Crafty Catz - Digital