2 PAPERS CHALLENGE AT DIGI CHOOSDAY and SOME GOOD NEWS!!

Hello and welcome back!!  I am so excited to announce that I have been offered a spot on the permanent DT over at Digi Choosday Challenge Blog!  I have continued to do a ton of shopping at Polkadoodles Shop - Nikky's images are such fun to color and I love how the sets include papers, sentiments, embellies, etc - so great to be able to do one stop shopping!

As you know, Digi Choosday Challenge Blog features a New Challenge each Tues. and you have 2 weeks to play along, so we have our new challenge beginning today and running until September 8, but you also still have another week to play in last week's All About The Men  (ends September 1), so hope you will come play along with both!

Today's New Challenge is 2 PAPERS.  Make sure you read the rules on the right sidebar at Digi Choosday Challenge Blog so that you can play along.  Also, a new DIGI CHOOSDAY DISCOUNT is available for 24 hrs. once the new challenge posts at 8am BST, so make sure you take advantage of that!!

For my creation, I chose to make something a little different than my "typical" creations, so I created a bookmark card and used a sentiment rather than an image for the main front panel of my card.   I was also inspired by the fact that my kids start back to school today, so I picked the image and sentiment to encourage them to continue to pursue their goals and dreams.

 I chose 2 Patterned Papers from Twiggy and Toots Owl Digital Download Collection.  I also used one of the digi images - Cupcake on a pile of books - from the same Twiggy and Toots collection, it is also available as a single image HERE.  For the frame on the front, I chose one of the frames found in the Twiggy and Toots Owl Digital Download Collection and combined it with one of the sentiments from the same Twiggy and Toots collection using GIMP editing program.  I changed the color of the sentiment from black to pink to match closer with the papers.  Frame is printed out twice and cut out by hand and then layered on top of each other to create more depth to the card.  Additionally, I added bling from Bo Bunny and pearl flourish from Zva Creative.

The right panel of the card is scored using a Scor-bug tool that makes perforation marks so that the bookmark separates nicely from the card.  I colored the image with Copics, with Stickles added, and cut with Sizzix die, brown tag cut with Little Bs die and ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

I sure hope you will come play along with us at Digi Choosday Challenge Blog.  Don't forget also to check out all the fabulous DT projects.  

Additionally, there's fun to be had and much inspiration to be gained over at Digi Choosday Facebook Group and Polkadoodles Facebook Group, so hope you will join both places if you haven't already, and if you have, pop by for a visit and come share your Polkadoodles creations!

Enjoy your day!  Many hugs!!

Additional Challenges entered:

Artistic Inspirations - anything goes
Crafting from the Heart - anything goes
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Love to Scrap - anything goes
MarkerPOP Challenge - anything goes (using Copics)
Not Just Cards - anything goes
Path of Positivity - opportunity
613 Avenue Create - anything goes
Great Impressions - add a sentiment
Robyn`s Fetish- use a digi