The Kitchen Table Crafter

Monday, August 22, 2011

Free Digi Sketch: Dandelion in the Wind

Good morning friends! It's Monday and I have another Digi Sketch to share with you today!

This sketch is a dandelion with its seeds blowing in the wind (gardeners rejoice...haha).

File is in .jpg format

You are welcome to use these sketches for your projects, but all I ask is that

1) You do not try to pass off my artwork as your own and

2) Please link back to me on your posts or projects. Images are still copyright to me, Kathryn Ritter. 3) I would love to see your projects as well; please come back and link them up so that we can all see YOUR work! :)

Also, when you are telling others about my free sketches, please use the watermarked image below for display and provide a link back to the main Digi Sketch page--THANK YOU!

As I add more sketches to the collection, you'll be able to find them using the tab at the top of the page. I hope you will keep checking back or follow so you won't miss any new sketches as I make them available. My goal is to share with my fellow crafters so the more the merrier! :)

Have a great day!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Free Digi Sketch: Lacewing Butterfly

Good morning friends! I apologize for the lateness of your free Monday digi sketch / stamp!

Here it is... a day late, but at least not a dollar short :)
This sketch is a lacewing butterfly. I've done him in profile so that you can easily add a flower or leaf underneath if you choose.

File is in .jpg format

You are welcome to use these sketches for your projects, but all I ask is that

1) You do not try to pass off my artwork as your own and

Also, when you are telling others about my free sketches, please use the watermarked image below for display and provide a link back to the main Digi Sketch page--THANK YOU!

Have a great day!

Monday, August 8, 2011

Woodland Anemones and A Quiet Life

Here is my third entry for the Moxie Fab World "Fanatical about Botanical" challenge. I don't usually wait until the last minute on things like this, but both our boys are going through brain growth spurts and are figuring out how to positively run me ragged in new and creative ways every day. I finally photographed all my entries for the MFW and other challenges and Etsy orders today during naptime.

I love the botanical images from 100 proof press. I was in a huge toss up over whether to use their
Carnations image for this challenge or the
Anemones. As you can see, the Anemones finally won out:

The quote is from William Drummond: "What sweet delights a quiet life affords."

While I made this card I thought about the tranquility of a woodland anemone growing in the forest, perhaps passed every so often by a chipmunk or a little red fox. I wondered if her neighbor might be a birch tree, or a blackberry vine.

And then I thought of what I would do with a "quiet life" (sigh!) for just a day or so.... and I daydreamed of how lovely it would be to sit and READ again--to get so very deeply buried in a book that nothing could stir you until you were through. As a young Mom I have to drop any and every activity at least once before it's finished.... so reading is one of those pleasures that has to wait for now. As I was thinking about it though, it just seemed so natural to use some vintage book paper and a dictionary backgrounder stamp...

Words.... such a sweet delight.

Also one other challenge in mind:

Sentimental Sundays #67 "Flowers"

Materials Used on this Card:

Cardstock {Papertrey Ink}

Stamps {100 Proof Press, Flourishes, Hampton Art}

Ink {Ranger, Tsukineko}

Vintage book paper

Circle punches {EK Success}

Scalloped circle Nestabilities die {Spellbinders}

Gold metallic pen {Hybrid Gel Grip DX}

Butcher's twine

Sewing machine

Thank you for your visit and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Botanical Dictionary Poppy

This is my second entry for the Moxie Fab World "Fanatical about Botanical" challenge.

I have always loved images that look like they came from a botanical illustration text or an old book of Redoute paintings. Maybe it's because as I grew up my mom and I would take our flower identification books with us on hikes through the woods.