Say Cheese!

Good afternoon friends and hope you're well.

I still seem to be hopelessly behind with all my DT makes, so I apologise if this becomes a bit of a post-fest from me in your reading list! I'm gradually getting my crafty time back however, and a huge thank you to all my DT colleagues and team leaders for being so understanding over the last couple of months! It's half term next week here at Casa Mia, so I'm planning to get myself ahead with my makes and posts, and try to stay that way too 😉

It's new challenge time at All Dressed Up and, as usual, it's Anything Goes with an All Dressed Up Image. Wendy has plenty of gorgeous images available in the All Dressed Up Esty Store. Haven't got any All Dressed Up images (and why not?) Wendy has very generously provided some freebies here - please make sure you adhere to the terms of use if you're saving these though, to make sure they're available for other crafters to share!




And here's my card for your inspiration this month:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Card base - is Snow White Silver Centura Pearl which I have cut, scored and folded to make a 15cm square card base
• Mat - is Core'dinations Card in this lovely shade of pink from the Roy G. Biv pack.
  
• Embossed layer - is a further square of Snow White Silver Centura Pearl which I have embossed using my Embossalicious Birthday Text folder
• Image - is Smile It's Your Birthday by Wendy at All Dressed Up Digital Stamps. I've brought this arty girl to life using my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers in the listed shades before fussy cutting her out. I've used another Kit and Clowder lesson from the Skin and Hair Class to create streaked hair. If you're an eagle eyed member of the K&C Facebook page, you will have seen this cutie shielded by a post-it not as I entered her into the "Streaked Hair Challenge" last week - here she is now revealed in her full beauty!
• Skin - FS2, FS3, FS4, TN4,  FS8 (Blush)
• Hair - BT3, BT5, JG6, TN3, EB3, EB8, Silver Gel Pen
• Top - IG1, IG2, IG3
• Jacket and Shoes - PP3, PP5, PP6
• Trousers - TB2, TB3
• Camera - IG5, IG7, IG9, Clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen, Silver Gel Pen
• Sentiment - is part of the Smile It's Your Birthday image, which I've inserted behind a film strip frame, from a kit at Pixel Scrapper by Sheila Reid called The Best is Yet to Come. A couple of sparkly gems finished this off.

I hope I've inspired you to play along with this challenge but if you're in need of further inspiration, please do head over to the Challenge Blog and check out the other wonderful creations by my ever-so-talented teamies. Then come back and show us your creations. Don't forget that the Facebook Dressy Girls have their monthly challenge too and the theme is Romance and/or Red.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Challenge #4 - Add a Sentiment at Sweet Stampers Challenge
• Challenge #182 - Add Some Texture at Crafty Cardmakers
• Challenge #71 - One for the Girls at Crafting With Dragonflies
• W2CB #38 - Celebrations at Words 2 Craft By
• Challenge #19 - Anything Goes at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge

In the meantime, have a lovely evening.

Hugs, Helen x