CDAC's progressive challenge. April - June

Our Progressive Sponsors are:

Nana Vics (That would be me) and BackToPaper

We have a very special treat for you!

We will have FOUR images/image sets for you to use for this challenge which runs April-June. You must enter the inlinkz with your creation before requesting the next image or image set. This is the image line up order.

Image#1

Card made by Vickie

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Image#2 (Set of 6)

Card made by Linda

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Image#3 (set of 4)

Card made by Vickie

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Image#4

Card made by Linda

To receive your first Free Image and to get started...

Please Click Here to read how.

Spread the word contest!

Spread the word contest! Just copy and past the below wording to your blog and link your direct blog post on the main page Here under the #4 inlinkz to enter this contest!!!

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CDAC and Petaloo are teaming up for some FANTASTIC
Easter/Spring Challenges & Contest BONANZA'S!!!

March 17th is the start to a bunch of awesome challenges and contests on CDAC..It will run through the end of the month!! Lots of prizes will be awarded at the end of the month so, don't miss out! There are crafting challenges, a "LIKE" Facebook contest and even a simple "spread the word" Contest. Along with some wonderful Gift Certificates from some wonderful Digi Artists, Petaloo is offering some AMAZING prizes. Petaloo International, is one of the largest floral manufacturing companies in the crafting world and is your source for floral & specialty embellishments. With exclusive factories in
China, India & Thailand, along with over 20 years experience in floral & craft products.They offer customers fun & innovative products at factory direct pricing. Here is just a "sample" of "some" of the prizes that will be awarded. Plus, Petaloo has a WHOLE NEW LINE of flowers coming out on April 1st that will also be part of these prizes. Don't miss out on being the "first on your block" to own some of these fabulous flowers!!!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE FUN!!

Angel card

The very generous Shelly has supplied us with this gorgeous Angel digital stamp and sentiment for this round of the NEW CDAC Progressive FREEBIE Challenge. I had lots of fun making this birthday card, as I got to play with all the new dies and make some pretty paper flowers. I'm not happy with how bright the skin of the angel is as I'm a little rusty with the copic colouring and feel that it should have been tones lighter. Next time.

It maybe a little difficult to read the verse inside the card as I printed it out on paper that had a glossy texture to it and the ink seemed to bead. As I was going for a vintage feel, I let it be and thought it added character.

Card Details:
Stamp and Sentiment - Shelly's Images
Kaisercraft - Paper (Sweet Nothing Collection) and Ink (Vintage)
Die-namics - Leafy Florish Small, Flower Trio and Leaf Trio, Mini Royal Roses
Copics - E 000, 01, 84, 95   YR 24, 31   R 02, 22   B 000, 00, 93    G  43
The rest of the embellishments from my stash.

Challenges I am entering this Angel Card into are:
CDAC Progressive FREEBIE Challenge.

Baby Shower Card

I'm the luckiest Nana in the whole world with 5 healthy grand babies to date and 2 new baby grand daughters arriving this year. The first one is due in about 5 weeks and the next one end of May. Alyssa is celebrating tomorrow with a baby shower and this is the card I made for her. The digital stamp was inspired by the theme of her nursery, Woodland. This is their first little girl so I wanted to make it all pink and pretty.

Card Details:

Digital Stamp - Woodland Baby and Word Art from Baby Set 2 (coming soon)

Kaiser Craft rubon SB554 -White flower border

Studio 18 Acrylic Gems - Autumn Days

eksuccess Jolee's Boutique - Dimensional Stickers (the white ones with gems in center)

Dew Drop ink - cosmic copper and coffee bean.

Everything else came from my stash with names and details long forgotten.

The inside has a beautiful verse which I thought was so nice for a new baby girl.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Lady Anne's Challenges - Anything Goes

Lady Anne's Challenges - Use a Stamp

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom - Anything Goes

House of Gilli - Anything Goes Pink and Bling

Love to Create - Let's Celebrate

Thank you for stopping by and wishing you a blessed and happy week.

Digital Stamp Bird Cage Roses and blog hop

Digistamps4Joy's New Beginnings Blog Hop has just began. You start at DigitalStamp4joy original site and continue through until you end up at their new DigitalStamps4joy site. There is 8 fabulous sites to explore inbetween, all of them offering a blog hop prize, just for leaving a comment and becoming a follower. How easy is that?

You'll be able to pick up one of my own vouchers at one of the participating blog site. Now to find out which one has my voucher, you will have to join in the blog hop. Have Fun!!!

Introducing my new digital stamp called 'Bird Cage Roses' that will be available in my store soon. For now if your quick you'll be able to pick it up for free in the current round of the progressive challenges at Crafters Digital Arts Center. Details below. I designed this digital for my eldest daughter which adores all thing shabby chic. It was a little tricky to create the card without her seeing, but she took off early on the morning of her birthday and I was able to put it together before she returned.

The image was coloured with copic pens. I used a mask to create the white scroll in the background and sponged over it with lolly pink stamping ink. I also added the same sponging to one corner of the main image so that the stick on 'Happy Birthday' would stand out. The doily under the pretty little flower arrangement was lightly stained as well. I made a little stick pin for her and the butterfly was silver but I used a yellow/gold copic pen to give it the appearance of gold. Worked really well. The finishing touches are the simple bow with the long ends and the little group of pearls in 2 of the corners.

 

The inside was keep very simple with the paper I used doing most of the work for me. After scanning the front image I used it again inside on the side of the card where I placed a birthday verse.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to pick up the digital stamp 'Bird Cage Roses' and while your there join my own forum / group and if you going to check out the blog hop you'll want to join in Digital Stamps 4 Joys forum / group as well.

********************************************************************************* How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work? The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge. *********************************************************************************

Say it with flowers New Digital

Here’s my second design for the new digistamp drawing challenge at CDAC. Priscilla asked us to think outside the box and this is what I came up with. Many of us will never see the spectacular colours that can be found growing in the biggest garden on earth, so I thought I'd bring just a small section to the surface. I hope you'll enjoy my 'Coral Garden' and I was thinking that even the guys could appreciate this digital stamp. Let your imagination run free with what colours you choose.

The theme for March is "Say it with flowers" and include a sentiment. I have to admit that it did take me sometime to find a sentiment for this one but after I found it, I couldn't have been more pleased. I hope you'll agree!

Digital drawing challenge Gumnuts

Here’s my first design for the new digistamp drawing challenge at CDAC. I've no idea how many times I've painted gumnuts in flower over the years and I thought it about time that I shared one as a digital stamp. The digital gumnut stamp set that will be available in store soon, includes 3 slightly different gumnut digitals, an oval frame with gumnuts blank and with the senitment already in place and lastly a precoloured blank oval.

The theme for March is "Say it with flowers" and include a sentiment.

Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 card 3

This is my second card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 with a theme: "Spring is Coming"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers and splattering the background.
Digital image provided by: Pattie's Creations
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 card 2

This is my second card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 with a theme: "Spring is Coming"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers and splattering the background.
Digital image provided by Lia Stampz
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 card 1

This is my first card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 with a theme: "Spring is Coming"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers done in a feathering technique.
Digital image provided by: Glitterbabe
Sketch provided by: Midnight Madness Challenge #136
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Progressive Freebie Challenge #12

This is my first card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #12 with a theme: "Green, Great and Gorgeous"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers, Water Colouring Pencils and Glitter Pens 'atyouspica' clear and chocolate.
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Santa's on Holiday - Digital Drawing Challenge

Here’s my first design for the new digistamp drawing challenge at CDAC. So far it's been a great weekend and the creative mojo is heading for a major overload with all the things that I have on the go. *Laughs*

The theme for February is "Critter Comedy or Crazy Characters ". 'Santa's Holiday' will be available in the store very soon, along with a new word art sheet with an Australian feel. Keep your eye out for the upcoming announcement.

Progressive Challenge Round 11

How much can just $1 buy you today? The answer is a lot if you need to buy your way back into the progressive challenge that is held each fortnight up at the wonderful site Crafter's Digital Arts Center (CDAC). As I have been guilty of dropping of the planet for awhile and I hadn't kept up with the challenges for just $1 I was able to buy my way back into the fun.

Round 11 gives you 6 wonderful digital stamps to play with and the first one I chose was provided by Whimsy and Stars Studio and is this cute little house. I have a special friend that has just relocated her whole family and I thought this image would be perfect for her.

I did digitally colour in the image in a paper piecing technique. I then took each section one step further by adding a special effects to bevel the area so that it looks puffy. It is printed out on photo paper, unfortunately my camera didn't like the glossy shine and it was difficult to get a clear shot of it.

I was inspired by the challenge over at Patti's Creation that requires you to have embossing on your project. The embossing folder I used was D'vine Swirls and I lightly coated over the top with Blue Patina perfect pearls to enhance the swirls. I used photo corners to adhere the digital image over the top, made a layered punched out flower to embellish one corner and lastly added my sentiment with a silver chain and a pretty bow.

I need to hurry up and get my post over to Patties site as it closes tomorrow. Nothing like leaving it to the last minute. Please consider joining us this round at CDAC (closes 13th Feb) or check out what Patti's new challenge is going to be.

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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Progressive Challenge Round 7

For this round (cdacpc7), the theme is What's Cooking?.
The "Apple" digital was provided by Leah fromHeart Song Designs and was a delightful image to colour with my copics. The apple design I used on the tags which perfect as I had an outside order to make up two teacher's gifts. The tags were made out of card stock, scrap pieces of paper layered, the thank you (clear stamp) was pop dotted up along with the apple and lastly what teacher wouldn't like their very own gold star.

The plaque consists of 3 wooden cutouts a school house, a blue heart that is personalized with the child's message and an apple. Each piece was lightly washed with watered down acrylics so that the natural grain of the timber still showed through. I used the string out of a new mop to join the pieces together and to create the bow on the wire at the top.

Close up of the tag.

I used normal lunch bags to wrap their gifts and a staple to attach the tags to the front.


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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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CDAC Progressive Challenge cdacpc4 Second Entry

For this round (cdacpc4), the theme is Halloween or Mystical.
Bailey in Witch Hat Digital Stamp was provided by Sew Many Cards and was a delightful image to colour with my copics. I hope that is little cutie doesn't get a tummy ache from all the candy. The card is made out of handmade paper and the stamping didn't turn out to clearly as the paper soaked up the ink. The pumpkin was a button, ribbon from stash and the leaves were punched (Thanks Sharon, I'm using them sparingly). *Smiles*

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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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