JULY WEEK 3 DIGI DOODLE SHOP GUEST DESIGNER

ANYTHING GOES.  I can't believe it's been three weeks already.  What a great experience it has been to work with the Digi Doodle Shops versatile and fun Images and their great design team.  Thank you ladies for the warm welcome.  I love antiques and Digi Doodle has a fabulous selection of antique images--and that is just for  starters.  They have a wonderful selection of everything.  For my card this week I selected this garden water pump.  I couldn't resist since I have an antique water pump that looks like it hanging on my guest room wall.  The color for this card was an easy choice too since I'd been playing around with these handmade flowers just the day before and was anxious to use them. This image was colored with Copics, cut out, debossed, and layerred with foam tape for a 3-D effect
The area to the right of the water pump was intentionally left bare so I can add the appropriate sentiment when the time comes.  There is room for GET WELL, THANK YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SYMPATHY etc.  I often do this so I always have a card ready when the occassion calls for it
Be sure and check out this great image  found here. And while you're at it, check out all the rest of their images.  You're gonna love them.

CARD RECIPE:
IMAGE: Digi Doodle Shop
CORNER DIE CUTS: Cuttlebug
SPELLBINDERS DIE CUTS:  Labels 10
FOLIAGE & FLOWER PUNCHES: Martha  Stewart.
BRADS, BEADS, RIBBON
Images colored with COPICS

CHALLENGES:
PAPER PLAYTIME: Flower Power
ALLSORTS CHALLENGE : Summer Days
CREATIVE CRAFT WORLD : Holiday: Summer: nothing speaks summer to me more than Marigolds.
ONE STITCH AT A TIME: Use Digital Image
PAPER SUNDAES: #27 Make your own Flowers
STAMPIN SISTERS IN CHRIST: Include something requiring plans to build or construct.  It seems to me it would take a set of instructions or plans to design and assemble a water pump.
A CRAFTY LITTLE PLACE: #48 Sketch Challenge
KAH-WINK-E-DINK: In The Garden
BELLI CHALLENGE : #96 Something that moves (pump handle) Somthing old from Stash (black beads)
CAS-TASTIC CHALLENGE: Inspired by summer
CREATIVE COTTAGE: Touchy Feely-Texture-Lots of texture here with the ribbon treatment and the handmade flowers.
FAB-N-FUNKY: reuse/recycle:  I used the little white corner thingys, left over from a prior project.  Also the black beads were crushed and reused to create the small flower centers
LITTLE RED WAGON:  Case or copy:  I copied the background of the central image on the following card  by Lorelie Kim, by dividing it into four equal sections.   I hope this is what you mean and that it counts.
CRAFTY CATZ CHALLENGE: #42 Summertime
STAMP SOMETHING: Flowery
CRITTER SKETCH CHALLENGE:  Sketch
CRAFTY CREATIONS: Summery