You make everything Buttah! Catch the bug Free Friday

Friday February 10, 2017

 

Free Friday at Catch the bug

 

It's time for a fun image for you to pick up. Head over to the Bugaboo store and get this freeby while it's free..

 

This image is called Kitchen Chicken... I took a lot of my kitchen stamps from Taylored Expressions and stamped them all over. Then found some small Simon Says stamps to fill in with hearts and flowers. I colored in the images with copics and went over some of the bird with Spectrum Noir to give some glitter touch. I embossed the sentiment also from Taylored Expressions and die cut the measuring spoons to add next to the sentiment. Fun card. Sure is colorful.

Challenges:

Crazy 4 challenges #371 - animals
CCC digi #66 - add a heart
Creatalicious #108 - anything goes/opt. heart
Simon says Monday - young at heart
Use your stuff #250 - add a heart
Crafting from the heart #145 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #172 - anything goes
The paper girls #121 - with heart
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday - cute
The sisterhood - red
Jo's scrap shack #175 - anything goes
QKR stampede #230 - anything goes (embossing-sentiment)
PDE Linky #159 - cards
Polkadoodles wk. 6 - anything goes
Colour crazy wk. 6 - anything goes

Will you be my Valentine? - Aud Sentiments #173

Thursday February 9-20, 2017

 

It's time for a new challenge at Aud Sentiments #173

 

This challenge is VALENTINES/LOVE + SENTIMENT

 

Ok so I am really loving making watercolor backgrounds. I seem to be doing this a lot and love that each comes out so different. Also learning what colors work and what don't, you just end up with a muddy mess. Glad there's two sides to papers.. lol.. I first stamped the sentiment in Lipstick red glitter embossing powder and then used three Ranger inks to create my background. Once it was dry and how I wanted it I noticed the red sentiment did not show very well. So thanks to the MISTI I re-stamped in black and had a little of the glitter show through. I have been waiting to use my crazy dogs from Tim Holtz and thought this would work.  The little bones are like chocolate offerings.. with dog's not being able to eat chocolate this is their offering.. LOL. I added some Simon Says hearts with Spectrum Noir on them and a few drops of Nivo in a couple corners.

 

Challenges:
Scrapping 4 fun #83 - friends, love, wedding, Valentines
Colour crazy wk. 5 - anything goes
QKR stampede #229 - Valentines card
Crazy 4 challenges #371 - animals
Just us girls # 379 - dogs
Little scrap pieces - animal
Sweet stampin - love is in the air
Pile it on #126 - hearts on fire
Come and get it - Valentines card
Dragonfly journeys #85 - love is in the air
heARTful stamping - for a special someone
Addicted to stamps #141 - love
CCC digi #66 - add a heart
Creatalicious #108 - anything goes/opt. heart
Simon says Monday - young at heart
Use your stuff #250 - add a heart
Artistic inspirations #172 - anything goes
Cards in envy -  be my Valentine
Make my Monday #39 - shimmer and shine (stickles in two corners)
The paper girls #121 - with heart
Crazy 4 guyz #156 - love you
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Crafting by designs - love and romance
Simon Wednesday - cute
The house that stamps built #871 - tic tac( valentine/watercolor/die cut)
Creative moments #111 - love is in the air
The sisterhood - red
Craft rocket #32 - it's a love thing
Art impressions 201 wk. 2  lot's of love
4 crafty chicks #337 - love 

 

Ta-Dah! you are Tu-Tu- cute - Humor Wed. Catch the bug

Wednesday February 8, 2017

 

Wednesday is Humor Wed. at Catch the bug..  and the image is at the Bugaboo Store. 

 

Yesterday Feb. 7th was Ballet Day.. So since we post on Wednesday.. this is my card. Using the fun AKV dance trio image... I have this cute sentiment from My Favorite Things and it goes perfect with the theme. I colored the cute little girls with Copics and added stickles to the little Tu-Tu's .  I used some fun papers and a small scallop die from Simon Says.  Really cute feminine card.

 

Challenges:
Alphabet challenge  "X" marks the spot
Creative fingers #124 - anything goes
Jo's scrap shack #174 - anything goes
PDE linky party #158 - anything goes
Creatalicious #108 - anything goes/opt. heart
Simon says Monday - young at heart
Use your stuff #250 - add a heart
Crafting from the heart #145 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #172 - anything goes
Make my Monday #39 - shimmer and shine (stickles)
The paper girls #121 - with heart
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 6 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Simon Wednesday - cute

With all my heart - Stampavie and More #280

Wednesday February 8, 2017

 

I have joined another Design Team.. Oh I am so glad I am retired.. (This is #5 teams that I am on and then Monika and I will be starting up a once a month challenge between just her and me.. But that aside.. Let me get to the new team I am on)..

 

 It's Stampavie and More.. They're in Norway.. It's a stamp design team so make sure you stamp something on your card and follow the theme.

 

We have new challenges every two weeks..

Stampavie and More #280

HEARTS / LOVE

 

 

This is my card. I used different heart stamps. The larger one is Magenta, the other hearts are from different Simon Say stamp sets. I stamped them on Strathmore Bristol paper and embossed with glitter white embossing powder. I then took different Ranger inks and blended them over the hearts. I wiped down the card to clean off the ink that got on the hearts. I then used some vellum and die cut the chain of hearts from Tech. Tuesday. When they were added they did not stand out so I took some liquid pearl and went over the hearts and added dots to the die cut My Favorite Thing die. I then cut out the sentiment out of some silver paper and layered it four times and adhered it to the card. I added a piece of black to help pop the colors.

 

Challenges:
Creative fingers #124 - anything goes
Scrapping 4 fun #83 - friends, love, wedding, Valentines
Jo's scrap shack #174 - anything goes
QKR stampede #229 - Valentines card
PDE linky party #158 - anything goes
Sweet stampin - love is in the air
Glitter n sparkle #225 - red and white
Pile it on #126 - hearts on fire
Come and get it - Valentines card
Dragonfly journeys #85 - love is in the air
heARTful stamping - for a special someone
Addicted to stamps #141 - love
AAA cards #83 - shape your love
CCC digi #66 - add a heart
Creatalicious #108 - anything goes/opt. heart
Simon says Monday - young at heart
Use your stuff #250 - add a heart
Artistic inspirations #172 - anything goes
Cards in envy -  be my Valentine
Make my Monday #39 - shimmer and shine (liquid pearls, silver shinny paper and glitter sparkle embossing powder)
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Crazy 4 guyz #156 - love you
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Crafting by designs - love and romance
The house that stamps built #871 - tic tac( valentine/embossing/red)
Creative moments #111 - love is in the air
The sisterhood - red
Craft rocket #32 - it's a love thing

Hope you're feeling Frisky soon - Catch the bug New Release

Tuesday February 7, 2017

 

Welcome to Catch the bug New Release..

Kidlet vet..  Fun cute image perfect card for that special vet in your life or as a get well card as I made for a friend who is sick..

 

You can find the New Release in the Bugaboo store and lot's of other awesome images.

I did some hefty craft room cleaning over the weekend.. I have a large craft-room and two big walk in closets so lots of room for crap.. plus under my craft table which is 4x8 foot I have 4 cabinets so more room for stuff and each short end of the table there are shelves.. Well I filled our recycle bins, burn containers, garbage bins and give away/donate piles. My room is for sure lighter. I can actually see things and feel good about what I got rid of.  So that brings me to this card. I found a box of papers I did from a Gelli plate I made quite awhile ago.. When I made the papers I really wasn't that thrilled about them.. funny how now that I have unearthed the box I LOVE them.. I cut them down to 4 1/4 X 5 1/2  and smaller and they are on top of my craft table in a fun container I also found. So they are in sight all the time.. I plan to use them more and more and might have to make more and hide for a year or more.. LOL
I chose one of the fun prints. To the left  I used bubble wrap and it gave the awesome circle design. The black to the right is made using hot glue on a piece of cardboard. It looks like they are layered but no it's one piece of paper. When I stamped on the gelli plate the cardboard hot glue had different shapes so it looks like it's layered. Weird huh.
  I didn't want to lose too much of the background so I fussy cut out the Bugaboo image. Kidlet vet. I thought this would be a fun card for that special vet or for someone who is sick.  That is what I plan to do with my card.. The sentiment is from Your next stamp and went perfect with the Bugaboo image. I used a Stampin up punch and added some Nuvo drops and colored the image with Copics and added a little white gel pen.

 

 

Challenges:
Just us girls #379 - dogs
Creatalicious #108 - anything goes /opt. hearts
Crafting from the heart #145 - anything goes
Artistic inspirations #172 - anything goes
Make my Monday #39 - shimmer and shine (stickles )
Crafty sentiments - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 6 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Alphabet challenge  "X" marks the spot

it is definitely time for a vacation - Catch the bug Free Friday

February 3, 2017

 

It's February.. Hope all are doing great in the new year and you're having fun crafting or vacationing. I just made a card that would be great for that person going on a vacation or wants to.. Using the Free Friday image..

 

Catch the bug Free Friday  .. You can see how the design team used the image and you can find the images over at the Bugaboo Store

 

 

This is the card. I used Ranger inks and just painted the inks on some Bristol paper. I used three colors of blue and I first squished the ink pad on my craft sheet and then spritzed with water. Ran my brush through it to get some color and dropped it on the paper and moved it around and repeated till I got the effect I wanted. I did the same with the image using a lighter blue. Once done I used a white pen and did it seems like thousands and thousands of dots to represent snow.. I  colored the Winter Bird with copics and cut it out of Simon Says stitched circle die. I added G-rated sentiment and punched with my Stampin up punch. I added some bakers twine and a Stampin up brad.  I thought with Christmas gone and it's still kinda winter and so many ski or go on ski vacations or just because you want to cheer someone up this would be perfect..

Challenges:
Inkspirational #127 - polka dots
AAA cards CAS #82 - winter chill
Addicted to stamps #140 - baby it's cold outside
Simon Says Monday - pet corner
Use your stuff #249 - use an animal
Crafting from the heart #145 - anything goes
Crafty sentiments - lace or ribbon
Cards 4 guyz #155 - something beginning with "C"
Die cuttin divas #302 - anything goes
Deep ocean #147 - winter wonderland
Cards und more #177 - pets and or other furry friends
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps and more #227 - make your mark(copics colored and Ranger inks paint background)
Crafting by design - Feb. anything goes
Creative fingers #124 - anything goes
Alphabet challenge  "X" marks the spot
Your next stamp #57 - color challenge
Jo's scrap shack #174 - anything goes
PDE linky party #158 - anything goes

Mystery card at Klompen Stampers

Thursday February 2, 2017

 

Monday Jan. 30th I took part in a Facebook Mystery card with

 Klompen Stampers.

 

Jackie Bolhuis had a fun half hour card making where it was a mystery and it was all done at your own home and on facebook.  you could be in your grub cloths and not comb your hair (which is part of what I looked like LOL). She is on the east coast so I was 3 hours ahead of her but it all worked out great time wise and it's only half of an hour.

 

 We are asked to pick a stamp set (I chose "Know what I love?") and if it did not have a sentiment in it we could chose a sentiment. Pick your card base (I used elegant eggplant) and either Whisper white or Very vanilla to stamp your image on. I chose whisper white. (I don't know if you had to use Stampin up products but she is a Stampin up demonstrator and my products were all Stampin Up - as my best friend Karen is a Stampin up demonstrator so I have a bunch of their products) We were given 7 clues and they were spaced apart so you did not know what the out come was till you got to the end. We could chose a ribbon or twine. (I used elegant eggplant ribbon) and there was to be a banner strip but it just didn't work so I chose Stampin up stitched circle.

 

I will tell you it was fun but boy next time I will not chose a two or three stamp technique set and will figure a different sentiment set.. The YOU really does not belong at the top it should of been at the bottom lower left and the one at the lower left should of been the banner one.. But it is what it is and I do like it..

 

Challenges:
Crafty sentiments - lace or ribbon
Tuesday throw down #328 - love notes
Inky chicks #78 - clean and simple
Creative craft cottage #80 - must use flowers
Word art Wednesday wk. 268-269 - anything goes
Crafting by designs - Feb. anything goes
Simon Says Wednesday - the color of love
4 crafty chicks #336 - anniversary
Cute card Thursday #463 - be my valentine
Craft rocket #32 - it's a love thing
Art impressions - lots of love