Mocking Bird

Hatching Season.
2 kinds of birds are found nesting and hatching around my area. The white tipped doves and the mocking bird. The doves laid their eggs in oak tree well above the eye level but these mockingbirds!
Well let me warn you. These try to build their nest wherever! Before  the eggs hatch not much of a problem -  but oh boy! when they hatched- Flying squads!!The parent birds attack!!  Even my dogs could not go outside and do their business in peace. For about 2-3 weeks we had to keep a broom and take it with us fend them off. When I shared this with our vet she said yep they do that and asked us next time to remove the nest before they lay eggs as they are notorious for this.
Oh but the young are so cute.
I could only take pictures with my cell or lumix as no way could I stand there with my dslr and take pics safely lol!

Here's the bush/shrub of climbing roses and jasmine amongst which the nest was built.
I don't know how the mom got them out as they had to move to another place to start flying. Too thorny! But it did offer a good protection from other predators and the fence gave a good support during the heavy wind and rain. Guess that's why it was chosen.

Here they are through their stages.
3 eggs

Nature is a Miracle isn't it?

Dream where

Dream where troubles melt like lemon drops

Hi
This is Pam from http://papillondigitaldesigns.com/  and http://www.thebugbytes.com/. Today I am a designer at http://shesasassylady.blogspot.com/. Thanks Sheila for giving me this opportunity.
I love stamps and love coloring. I prefer digi stamps as I can resize them and even cut them on my silhouette cutting machine. For card making especially for print and cut I use my sd.
Recently I discovered the Hammermill Digital cover paper 80lb. They do fantastically well with copic coloring and are so economical. And they cut so well with silhouette too.
Today's card is an easel card using an image from Mos's digital pencil Spring Fairy Aleta.
I have used both copics and the spica pens to color.
Sorry for the picture quality as I did not have my regular camera with me.

I have used silhouette images and tweaked and created my own for the rest. I had to make 3 files all   print and cut files with the registration marks.
Here is the view of the files

1st file

same file with cut lines shown. I made a score line in the front circle so that I could fold up for the easel effect. (note the images get dulled and the red lines show up when in cut window so that we can see what is getting cut)

The 2nd file

And the 3rd file

Hope you liked the card.
The plain scalloped easel card is available for download under the silhouette tab in my blog (http://papillondigitaldesigns.com/2006/11/silhouette-studio-files.html). You can add suitable pattern paper and sentiment to it and also a stamped or digi image of your choice measuring about 3inches to it
Thank you for reading and thanks Sheila once again for giving us this opportunity every month to design on your blog.

Big Boots to Fill

My 2nd card commission :). My sons liked my cards and asked me to make a father's day card

The images is Big Boots to Fill from Phindy's Place. The sentiment "for you father" is from Anna Griffin's. The big star and the label is nestability and the small star and stamp is from paper trey inc tiny tags. The card stock is coredinations sugar something and the pattern paper is from me and my big ideas I think. I just pulled out a random card stack and ruffled for a yellow/orange paper pattern and tore out one I liked. Totally winging it and still not using an electronic machine :)

Fill this Day with Joy

I decided to do a card for Mo's challenge this week. The theme is At the park. I love this image - Telling it the dog so decided to color it. The sentiment is from paper trey ink Every day button bits - cut using nestability  Grommet tag. The border around the image is from the simple memories set from close to my heart which I got from my friend Sheila. You can find her online shop here - http://sassylady.ctmh.com/

The paper pattern (colored clouds) is from walmart coloring book. at the center I used ribbon from Micheals. The button border (blue strip) is a cookie cutter border die - Buttons from scrapyland. I then embossed some clear buttons with yellow zing powder. A couple of butterfly buttons from hobby lobby, a cake doily - small and 2 Candi completed the card

There's a Nap for that

I love Art Impression stamps.
I had picked up a couple from Archiver's but had not paid much attention to the company name until my friend Michelle was looking for one particular one. Then I googled and realised that hey it's much cheaper when you get from the company direct :). So of course I got a bunch more. I find that digi stamps from bugaboo are also similar and so are some from I Brake for Stamps.
This one was so appealing especially nowadays when we hoard so many apps on our phones :)

The main stamp is Asleep on the Job and the sentiment "There's a nap for that"  came free with the order

The sentiment on the inside of the card is from paper trey ink. The flowers are made using ek success punch. I have also used MS punch for the border edge. The pattern paper is from DCWV posies.

Berrylicious

It's been a busy month. I have not done much crafting. Thought I would catch up on it. I did color a couple of images and so decided to make it into a card. Lately all my machines have been sleeping. I use silhouette SD sometimes but even that is taking a rest. I did use the cuttlebug though for dry embossing and nestability cutting and some punches.
Here's the quick card

Sorry for the picture quality.

The image is from Strawberry Girl mo's digital pencil. The sentiment is pink stamper - (from fruit puns I think)
The pattern paper is from DCWV posies and the card stock is coredinations. I embossed it with cuttlebug folder and sandpapered the top to reveal the core. I colored some dew drops (these ones are the ones got from Michael's flower department . I think they are called acrylic drops or something). The tag is a nestability. I also added a pink acrylic flower.

Simple Things, Small Joys

Hi There!
This is Pam from The BugBytes and Papillon Digital Designs today with you on Shes a SassyLady. Thanks Sheila for having me as a Sassy designer.
School year is coming to and end and holidays are here. It's a busy time isn't it?

Today I have a card to show you.
Recently I got an brother embroidery/sewing machine and decided to try it out. It was a bit intimidating so I chose a one color simple project to start with - a butterfly.
I embroidered this with a stabiliser on a cloth but soon I am going to try it on paper too.

The base of the card is light bluish violet and not white. I used that to make a simple envelope from scratch too. The paper flower , paper butterflies and envelope edge punching are from Ek success punch and Martha Stewart punches.

The sentiment on the inside of the card is from paper trey ink.

Simple Simple card.
Hope you liked it.
Thanks for reading and thanks Sheila for having me here on your blog.