Trio of Tags

Happy December 1st!!  It's time for a new challenge on the Critter Crazy Challenge blog!  As always, it is a month long challenge: Anything Goes as long as you feature a creature.  Here is my card for your inspiration:

Thanks for stopping by!  Hop on over to the Critter Crazy blog and check out the details and the rest of the projects from the Design Team.

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Dies: 

Challenges:

Jar of Flowers

Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Fun Folds

Here is my card for your inspiration:

This is the birthday card for my youngest daughter.  She loves plants and flowers and has been growing dahlias the last couple summers.  So, I wanted to make her a card with a bouquet of dahlias.  I sized and printed out a whole bunch of blooms, leaves and buds to created this card.  I colored them and fussy cut them all out and then layered them together in the jar as if I was really creating a little bouquet.  I had to add some stamped stems as the digi set I used didn't have any stems with the flowers (other than with the buds).  I tied some twine around the jar and added some clear dewdrops to look like . . . dew drops!

Then I had some fun creating this fun fold card.  I have a die set that makes it nice and easy.  The hardest part is figuring out what colors you are going to use!  I stamped a second sentiment behind the sliding portion for a special surprise.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "jar"; Fred She Said "Dahlia Garden Digi set" (I used most of the images in the set); Verve "Be Blessed" outside sentiment; Papertrey Ink "Just Sentiments: Birthday"

Dies: My Favorite Things "Slider Surprise" and "Blueprints 13" stitched banner

Challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms #35--anything goes with optional mood board

A Gem of A Challenge--anything goes

Creative Creases #109--anything goes with a fun fold

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #266--anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #727--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Penny's Challenge #610--anything goes

Sweet Stampin'--birthdays

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Sending a little sparkle

Hello, everyone!  It's time for the mid-month reminder for the challenge from the Creative Moments Challenge blog.  The theme is Add Some Sparkle.  I am using an image from our fabulous sponsor: Polkadoodles.

 Here is my card:

I went very sparkly on this one, even adding the word "Sparkle" die cut from black glitter paper.  I also used a bit of recycled gold glitter ribbon and added gold sparkle and shine on the unicorn's wings, spots, horn and in her main and tail.  You can see all the sparkle a bit better in the photo below.

I also added a sprinkling of pink gems in case I needed some more sparkle!

You have all month to play along.  So, get inky and link up your creation; I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies:

Stamps: Polkadoodles "I am so fluffy unicorn" digi; Papertrey Ink "Sparkle and Shine: Holiday"

Dies: PaperTrey Ink "Sparkle and Shine"

Challenges: 

Cards Galore #141--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #236--anything goes

Die Cut Divas--critters

Penny's Challenge #610--anything goes

Di's Digi Designs--wings/horns/tails (I have used them all)

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Creative Fingers #312--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #266--anything goes

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #656--sketch

Fab n' Funky #626--all that glitters

Little Red Wagon #834--Let's Fly!

Happy Cake Day

Happy Friday!!!  (Actually, I'm a couple days late--we had a big birthday weekend and I didn't have time to get this posted before Sunday!)  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Your Favorite Color

Here is my card for your inspiration:

I bet you can't guess what my favorite color is!  Yep, it is blue!  Blue also happens to be my daughter's favorite color and this is her birthday card.  She and her twin sister turned 17 this past week.  She loves monkeys, so of course, I had to add this super cute little guy and her favorite cake (mine, too) is called Death by Chocolate by one of our local restaurants.  It is a dark chocolate cake (so moist!) with a dark chocolate ganache type frosting  and the sides are studded with mini chocolate chips.  Soooooo good.  Anyway, I made the cake to look like that cake and added some die cut numbers to look like candles.  And of course added a fun sentiment that fit with that yummy cake!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Mama Elephant "Lunar Animals"; Cardz TV "Sugar Rush" sentiment

Dies: MFT cake (including candle flames); PaperTrey Ink "By the Numbers" border die numbers; unbranded circle die from Amazon

Challenges:

Creative Fingers #312--anything goes

Shopping Our Stash #364--A few of my favorite things (blue, ribbon, cake, rhinestones and patterned paper!!)

Cards Galore #141--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #236--anything goes

Die Cut Divas--critters

Cheerful Sketches--sketch

 

Penny's Challenge #609--anything goes

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Snowflakes

Hello, everyone!  It's time for a new challenge from the Creative Moments Challenge blog.  The theme is: Add Some Sparkle.  I am using an image from our fabulous sponsor: Polkadoodles.

 Here is my card:

What better occasion for which to use sparkle than Christmas??  So, I chose to use this adorable winter fox with his winter hat and scarf.  I added ultrafine diamond glitter to his pom pom and hat trim and also to the snowflake he is holding.  The glue I was using came out too thick on the snowflake, so after I added the glitter I didn't like it and ended up scraping it all off.  For a fun twist, it left a very thin layer of glitter on the snowflake.  I also added some red glitter paper behind the fox to separate him from the background and backed that with a bunch of die cut snowflakes.  The picture below shows the sparkle a little bit better.

You have all month to play along.  So, get inky and link up your creation; I can't wait to see what you create!

Supplies:

Stamps: Polkadoodles "Snowflake Freddy Fox"

Dies: unbranded circle die from Amazon; PaperTrey snowflake dies

Challenges:

Creative Fingers #311--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #265--anything goes

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #178--festive wear

Cards Galore #141--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #236--anything goes

Unicorn #115--Christmas/winter

Crafter's Cafe #324--anything goes with the optional twist: Christmas

Die Cut Divas--critters

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #315--sketch

Creative Inspirations--wrapped up in winter

Craft Rocket #131--Christmas/winter

Paper Funday #625--anything goes with the optional twist: Merry & bright

Penny's Challenge #609--anything goes

CRAFT #767--Christmas

Sweet Stampin--use red for Remembrance Day

Colorful Options--red or rainbow

Love Those Pretty Papers--anything goes with the optional twist: forest critters

Under the weather

Happy November 1st!!  It's time for a new challenge on the Critter Crazy Challenge blog!  As always, it is a month long challenge: Anything Goes as long as you feature a creature.  Here is my card for your inspiration:

Thanks for stopping by!  Hop on over to the Critter Crazy blog and check out the details and the rest of the projects from the Design Team.

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Besotted "Under the Weather"; Verve "Joyful Blooms" and "To the Moon" trio of hearts

Dies: MFT Stamps "Blueprints 13" banner 

Challenges:

Pattie's Creations Challenge #235--anything goes

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #313--sketch

Love Those Pretty Papers--anything goes with the optional twist: woodland critters

Word Art Wednesday #723--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #608--anything goes

Crafty Catz #703--anything goes with the optional twist: halloween (I did not use the twist)

Snippets Playground #518--anything goes with snippets (all of the patterned paper were scraps or cut from scraps.)

 

Thankful

Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Thankful, Grateful, Blessed

Here is my card for your inspiration:

October is traditionally Pastor Appreciation month--a time for church congregations to shower their pastors with appreciation.  They work hard guiding, teaching, leading, etc. and so it is a good time to show them that we appreciate them.  This card is actually not for one of our pastors but for a man who has filled in for our church several times when we have been between pastors and is also teaching a class that my husband and I are taking.  So, I decided to give him a card as well as the four pastors at our church.  We gave them each a gift card to Dunkin' Donuts because, here, in Rhode Island, no one can live without their coffee!!!  (Except me, I don't drink coffee.)  Since I was including a coffee gift card with this card, I decided to continue that theme over onto the card front with the little travel coffee cup.  I thought I had a larger one in stamp form, but after thinking about where that would be, I decided it was most likely in digital form and I didn't have time to search it out, so little it is.

I embossed the front of the card base with a really pretty leaf embossing folder.  Then I added two different die cut maple leaves (I just love the shape of them the best!) cut from a really bright, rather hideous orange card stock.  After inking the edges with red ink, I think they turn into the most beautiful leaves!  I stamped, colored and die cut the travel cup and adhered it on top of the leaves and then die cut the word "thankful" from gold matte card stock and stuck it on the top of the pile.  I finished it all off with some tiny yellow rhinestones.  I didn't want anything too flashy as this is a masculine card, but I think the rhinestones are a good touch.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: PaperTrey Ink "Heart to Heart #2" coffee cup

Dies: Papertrey Ink large maple leaf; unbranded set from Amazon including the smaller leaf and sentiment

Park Lane embossing folder

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations--autumn/something spooky

Creatalicious Challenge #293--anything goes with the optional twist: fall colours or Halloween

Can You Handle the Pressure--anything goes with the optional twist: pumpkins or orange (I have orange leaves)

Creative Knockouts #557--Halloween OR fall

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #264--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #608--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday--add some texture (texture from the embossing folder, the rhinestones and the layered elements)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Crafty Chicks #792--anything goes