Love / love you / xoxoxo - Aud Sentiments #196

Thursday February 1-12, 2018

 

Hello and hope your February is off to a great start. It's time for a new challenge at Aud Sentiments #196 our theme for this two weeks is

 "LOVE / VALENTINES + SENTIMENT"

 

This is my card.. I had an extra background from the 2018 Calendar page I made so instead of saving it for a rainy day I used it now.. How easy that was since our theme is LOVE / VALENTINES and the sentiment is all built into the background. Score on my part.. The background is created by using kraft card stock and Stampin Up large wheel with this love sentiment and I repeated rolling it across the paper using Versa mark ink then I covered with clear embossing powder and heated. I stamped the Gerda Steiner heart with Simon Says red ink and masked it and then stamped the hedge hog so it looks like the cutie is holding the heart. I colored the image with copics and added white gel pen dots. I went around the heart with a black pen. I used a Stampin up heart die and went around the edges with Quick Quote chalk ink and adhered the image to the card background. Then added a few Nuvo drops.

Challenges:
The daily marker day 18
Sweet stampin - Valentines or love
Hiding in my craftroom #337 - any holiday
Crafting from the heart #192 - anything goes
The crazy challenge #267 - love
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Die cuttin divas #354 - anything goes
Shopping our stash #339 - he loves me he loves me not
Tuesday throwdown #377 - favorite colors (tag/brown and teal)
Word art Wednesday wk. 320-321 - anything goes
Cute card Thursday #515 - anything goes
Craft rocket #45 - love
Moving along with the times  #64 - love/st. valentines/wedding/engagement
A bit more time to craft #61 - anything goesCreatalicious #132 - anything goes /opt: love/anniversary/thinking of you
Creatalicious #132 - anything goes /opt: love/anniversary/thinking of you

Happy Birthday - Always Happy Birthday #2

Thursday February 1-28, 2018

 

Always Happy Birthday #2 is back with a new challenge and theme.. Theme is CAS.. (clean and simple) and happy birthday

I hope you're having fun playing and that this challenge will having you play along.

 

 

I used some plaid design paper and then a gray card stock and heat embossed the Paper Trey Ink sentiment. I used Simon Says scallop border die.  Then added a Martha Stewart flower.. (it's very old)

Challenges:
Simon Wednesday anything goes
Cute card Thursday #515 - anything goes
Crafty girls creations #44 - anything goes
As you like it - favorite way to add stitching (when the card is simple and you need a little added interest this is a great way with out having to add more elements to the card.)
A bit more time to craft #61 - anything goes
Creatalicious #132 - anything goes /opt: love/anniversary/thinking of you

Friendship has its perks - Inspiration Destination #143

Wednesday January 31, 2018

 

Welcome to another challenge at Inspiration Destination #144 and our theme is Anything Goes

 

 

It's calendar page time again. Over the past years I have been with a group of ladies where we create calendar pages and we have 12 different pages from these various ladies to enjoy for the month..

Well times have changed so now I am with a group that is from my own state of WA. in fact my own county.. So I was lucky enough to be given Feb. as my page. So I needed to make 12 pages that are all the same and then all the other 11 ladies do the same with their month. These are given to my friend Karen and she uses my binding machine and makes up the 12 calendars for each of us.. 

Now I have a 2018 calendar with 12 awesome pages to enjoy each month.  These ladies are awesome on their creations. This is my page. I knew it was a "love" month and so I used a Stampin up large wheel and Versa Mark and ran it over 3 - 8.5 X 11 Kraft and clear embossed. I then cut the sheets into 4  - 4.25 X 5.5 pieces. I took Stampin up card stock and cut the red dot paper so it kinda looked like a table cloth. I turned the dp over and used the scraps for the calendar backing.  I then stamped 12 Simon Says coffee cups onto Stampin up designer paper and using red Stampin up ink I added the heart. I fussy cut out each coffee cup and using foam dots added this to the page.  I used brown copic and
Wink of Stella for the coffee. I stamped 12 Simon Says sentiments and used My Favorite Things banner die and went around the edges with Quick Quote chalk ink I also added foam dots to this piece.  I like the homey feeling this card gives and I get to enjoy my page for the whole month.. even if this is a short month...

 

Challenges:
Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes
QKR stampede #280 - anything goes
The crazy challenge #267 - love
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Crafty catz #401 - anything goes /opt. something new
Creative fingers #142 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #192 - anything goes

Wild Thing - Sunny Day Crafting #5

Wednesday January 31, 201

 

The YELLOW team is back with a new challenge at

 Sunny Day Crafting #5 Our theme for this challenge is

"E" for ELEPHANT

 

 

This is my "E" for Elephant card. I used the Simon Says stamp set and colored with copics and die cut them out. I used the Simon Says speech bubble. The background is embossed with large dots and Quick Quote ink to distress the edges. The designer paper is from Stampin up.. I used both sides of the paper. I also used My Favorite Things die for the side border and under the elephant. I added Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on the hearts. I wanted the jungle look to the card.

Challenges:
The daily marker day 17
Word art Wednesday wk. 320-321 - anything goes
Through the craft room door - anything goes
Creative moments #135 - anything goes
Penny's paper-crafty #364 - anything goes
Crafty catz #401 - anything goes /opt. something new
Creative fingers #142 - anything goes
Color crazy wk. 4 - anyth-ng goes
Sweet stampin - Valentines or love
heARTful stamping - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #192 - anything goes
The crazy challenge #267 - love
Die cuttin divas #354 - anything goes
Shopping our stash #339 - he loves me he loves me not
Simon Wednesday anything goes

Believe in the magic - The Merry Christmas challenge #5

Wednesday January 31, 2018

 

The Holly and Ivy team is back with another challenge at

The Merry Christmas challenge #5

as always the theme is: ANYTYING GOES + CHRISTMAS

 

This is my Christmas card. It's really CAS. The image and sentiment is from Your next stamp. I used Prisma colored pencils and added some glossy accents to the bells on the collar and eyes.

 

 

challenges:

The daily marker day17

QKR stampede #280 - anything goes

Crafty catz #401 - anything goes /opt. something new

Creative fingers #142 - anything goes
Color crazy wk. 4 - anything goes
Hiding in my craftroom #337 - any holiday
Crafty Hazelnut #370 - Christmas opt. no sentiment
heARTful stamping - anything goes
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 320-321 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday anything goes
Fab 'n' funky # 379 - Christmas

 

Be mine - Catch the bug / Bugaboo new release

Tuesday January 30, 2018

 

Welcome back to my blog.. Today is Tuesday so that means Catch the bug and Bugaboo New Release

 

 

This is Clyde be mine.. the New Release image. He's got your heart.. I colored the image with copics and using My favorite things stitch die cut him and the sentiment out. I ran the Kraft card stock through and embossing folder. I then added everything to the card front and added a small twine bow. I went over the heart with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

Challenges:
The daily marker day 16
Through the craft room door - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 4 - anything goes
Crafty creations #359 - anything goes
Creative moments #135 - anything goes
Crafting by designs - button or bows
Simon Wednesday - layer it up
Penny's paper-crafting #364 - anything goes
4 crafty chicks #387 - anything goes/opt. watercolor background
QKR stampede #280 - anything goes
Sweet stampin - Valentines or love
The crazy challenge #267 - love
Shopping our stash #339 - he loves me he loves me not

will you be my valentine? - Bugaboo Free Friday

Friday January 26, 2018

 

Bugaboo is back with another Free Friday.. Check out the design teams fun creations over at Catch the bug using the free Friday image.

 

 

This is the fun image Mildred exercise chocolate..  I decided to make my card a valentine card. I also kinda made the chocolate look more like a mocha with foam on top. I embossed the kraft background and distressed the edges with Ranger ink.. I then took a small scrap on Quick Quote paper and heat embossed the Simon Says sentiment and tore around the sentiment.. I colored Mildred with copics and fussy cut her out and added her to the card and added a few Simon Says die cut hearts. I went over the hearts and glasses lens with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

  

Challenges:
The daily marker day 12
Scrapping 4 fun #107 - anything goes
A bit more time to craft #60 - anything goes
Dragonfly journeys #110 - power of red
Tuesday throwdown #376 - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 4 - anything goes
Crafty creations #359 - anything goes
Creative moments #135 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday - layer it up
Penny's paper-crafting #364 - anything goes
4 crafty chicks #387 - anything goes/opt. watercolor background

Let's do lunch - Pause Dream Enjoy #4

Wednesday January 24, 2018

 

Hello and welcome back to a new challenge at

Pause Dream Enjoy #4 and the Orange team has a new challenge for you.. The theme is MOUSE..

I can't wait to see your creations.. I had a blast and laughed while I made my card..

 

 

I don't know why but when I saw the MOUSE theme I just knew what I wanted to create.. I used the Tim Holtz crazy bird that was painted summer of 17... with Mission paints. I have a mouse stamp and it's on a wood block but that was when you mounted un-mounted stamps on block after cutting them out.. boy I think I still have dents in my fingers from cutting those red rubber stamps out.. Any how I fussy cut the mouse out and colored with Zig markers. I didn't have a stamp with what I wanted to say so I took My Favorite Things alphabet letters and stamped the words out and then cut them in strips and ran a marker around the edges. I used a Simon Says circle die and added the bird on the circle with the mouse in his beak. I added orange Nuvo drops to represent cheese.. Now can you see why I laughed making my card?? or are you grossed out??

Challenges:
The daily marker day 10
As you like it - favorite die and why (any die that cuts out the image so you don't have to fussy cut them and get a cleaner card image)
Moving along with the times #63 - CAS
QKR stampede #279 - anything goes
Crafty catz #400 - anything goes / opt. male bd
Scrapping 4 fun #107 - anything goes
Color crazy wk. 3 - anything goes
Just us girls #424 - color week
A bit more time to craft #60 - anything goes
HeARTful stamping - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes
Tuesday throwdown #376 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday - layer it up
Penny's paper-crafting #364 - anything goes

Hello sweet friend - Craftaholics R Us #4

January 24, 2018

 

The Green team is back with another challenge for you..

are you excited??

The Craftaholics R Us #4  theme is RIBBON

 

 

For this card I took an unused Paper Trey ink phone and stamped the phone base to the card base. I then stamped the receiver on a piece of scrap. I used Stampin up ink. I die cut from Tech. Tuesday Hello. I used the PTI sweet friend to stamp below the hello. I love how stamps can be interchanged. I fussy cut the receiver out and sent around it with a blue copic and spectrum noir glitter pen. I then took a heart stencil and Ranger ink and added the hearts. I added the ribbon along the bottom under the phone and then used foam an added the receiver. I used foam and added the circle hello and added a ribbon and brad at the top. I didn't stamp the inside of the dial part so I added a rhinestone bling to the center.

Challenges:
Love to scrap #105 - anything goes
Moving along with the times #63 - CAS
Scrapping 4 fun #107 - anything goes
Just us girls #424 - color week
A bit more time to craft #60 - anything goes
Dragonfly journeys #110 - power of red
HeARTful stamping - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday - layer it up

I hope your day is - Catch the bug New Release

Tuesday January 23, 2018

 

It's Tuesday and so it's new release day at Bugaboo  and you can see the design teams creations over at Catch the bug.

 

This image is part of the Birthday bash winning prize ... We just had our 8th year birthday bash and I hope you all had a great time playing along. I used one of the images that was in the set.  I colored the unicorn hair blue and purple and  fun rainbow colors for his hat.  I used My favorite things stitch die and then embossed the blue behind the image with a fun embossing folder. bummer you can hardly see the embossing. But I didn't want to cut the already stitched die down.

Challenges:
Cute card Thursday #513 - something fun
The daily marker  day 9
As you like it - favorite die and why (stitched dies. they give slight interest to the card so it's not just a plain edge although that is fine to. I do like having the stitched edge on CAS cards.
Moving along with the times #63 - CAS
QKR stampede #279 - anything goes
Crafty catz #400 - anything goes / opt. male bd
Polkadoodles wk. 3- winter birthday
Scrapping 4 fun #107 - anything goes
Color crazy wk. 3 - anything goes
A bit more time to craft #60 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes
City crafters wk. 396 - balloons
Shopping our stash #338 - birthday

Day 7 Catch the bug Birthday Bash

Friday January 19, 2018

 

Today we are at the end of our 8th Birthday Bash at Catch the bug  

 

Today is Day 7 and it's Free Friday and you can find the image at the Bugaboo store. or at Catch the bug

 

We have a color challenge for you.. and add SPARKLES

 

Use the colors below and add SPARKLES
Our theme is Birds, Butterflies and Birthday Wishes

 

This is my take on the color challenge using the

Free image Birthday bird 01..

I cut strips of color and added them to the green background. I had this frame laying around from when I cut the inside out for another project last year. It was perfect. I colored the image with Copics and cut  the image out with My Favorite Thing stitch die. I added a Simon Says sentiment.  I added the SPARKLES using Nuvo drops and glitter. Notice I gave her sparkle /glitter eye liner??  cute huh. I added glitter to the fork, candle, her little feather at the top of her head and the heart. 

Challenges:
Artistic inspirations #192 - anything goes

Creatalicious #131 - anything goes
The daily marker - day 5 

Simon Wednesday - add sentiment
Fab n funky - girly
Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes
Crafty gals corner #157 - anything goes
Cute card Thursday #513 - something fun
As you like it - favorite die and why (banner dies - great for adding a greeting or can die with different dp and put different banners off the image area, can string them to make a row of banners. so many options using the banner die)
QKR stampede #279 - anything goes
Crafty catz #400 - anything goes / opt. male bd
Polkadoodles wk. 3 - winter birthday
  

Day 6 Catch the bug Birthday Bash

Thursday January 18, 2018

 

Welcome to Day 6 of our 8th birthday bash at Catch the bug

 

Thursday is Oldie but Goodie.. and our theme for today is a recipe:

KRAFT, RIBBON AND BOLD COLORS

 

This is my card using the image Birthday Penguin Tall Cake. (to me the cupcake is at the top) I used Kraft for the base and found this awesome multi color dp. I also have this bright orange/yellow and red/orange ribbon. It's really bright..
I colored the image with copics and cut the image out. I added a small piece of ribbon for the penguin to stand on. I used an old thick tag die from Tim Holtz and cut out this small tag. I stamped the Simon Says sentiment and added some twine and attached it to the ribbon. I then added Nuvo drops in different colors.

Challenges:
My time to craft #362 - something new (birthday year)
Artistic inspirations #192 - anything goes
Creatalicious #131 - anything goes
The daily marker - day 4
Cute card Thursday #513 - something fun

Get Well - Aud Sentiments #195

Thursday January 18-29, 2018

 

Welcome back to another great 2 week challenge at

 Aud Sentiments #195 and our theme is ANYTHING GOES

 

 

We have a new.. to us.. sponsor We are 3 digi shop

 

I am using the image called HEART AND HOME.. we had some sentiments to chose from so I chose Get Well.. The sign came with HOME on it but I just cut out a similar plaque and colored it so it looked like wood and when I printed out the Get Well. I made sure it was small and then I cut around it and adhered it to the wood plaque.  I colored the bird with copics and colored pencils. A added my clouds and cut the image out with a My Favorite Things stitch die. I added some twine and Stampin up leaves and a pearl. I added glossy accents to the eyes and heart.

Challenges:
Artistic inspirations #192 - anything goes
Creatalicious #131 - anything goes
The daily marker - day 4
Simon Wednesday - add sentiment

Digi choosday wk. 3 - anything goes

Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes
Crafty gals corner #157 - anything goes

Day 5 Catch the bug Birthday Bash

Wednesday January 17, 2018

 

Welcome to Day 5 of our 8th Birthday Bash at Catch the bug..

 

Today's theme is HUMOR ME WITH CUPCAKES

create a funny card that includes cupcakes

 

 

This is my funny card and sentiment.. I used the image Sweet Bird  I colored the image with copics  and added some grass and since it was a tall thin image I decided to add some clouds I used a Taylored Expressions and My Favorite Things cloud dies. I thought about cutting them off but once I laid it down on the card base I liked having them fill in that empty space.. Before I put the image down I used Ranger ink and added just a hint of color so the base wasn't so stark white.  I looked through my chicken stamps and found this sentiment from Paper Pretties so I stamped it and cut the Happy and Birthday apart once it was stamped so it would be a better fit.

Challenges:
Crazy 4 challenges #417 - duck/turkey/chicken/bird etc.
Sweet stampin - lots of layers
My time to craft #362 - something new (birthday year)
Artistic inspirations #192 - anything goes
Creatalicious #131 - anything goes
The daily marker - day 3

Love - Inspiration Destination #142

Wednesday January 17-30, 2018

 

Welcome to 2018. We're a couple weeks into the new year and I  hope it is still bringing all that is good into your life. The stamp I chose today on my card is so I can remember these positive thoughts and have it bring that into my life.. It's a very large background stamp so some of the words are cut off but there are still enough for you to see and understand why I love it. 

 

We have a new challenge at Inspiration Destination  #142

Wet or Dry Embossing

 

So break out those holiday craft items and put them to use. I am sure there's new embossing powder/stamps/folders somewhere in you hands reach.. LOL

I got this stamp a few months back but haven't used it yet so broke I it out cause I love when the background is all embossed words. I embossed with white powder. Since it's about what I love about you I added the "Love" die and layered it four times to make it sturdy. I added a couple flat sequins and it's done.. Really a quick and easy card to make. The products are Simon Says.  I really like the black and white look.. well the Love is a very light silver shimmer..

Challenges:
Artistic inspirations #192 - anything goes
Cards in envy - black and white
A bit more time to craft #60 - anything goes
Creatalicious #131 - anything goes
Shopping our stash #337 - getting sentimental
Simon Wednesday - add sentiment
Word art Wednesday wk. 318-319 - anything goes