Graduation Celebrations - Happy Thoughts

Hi again - I'm back with a second post for the day.

We had a whopping six graduates this year between our

family and friends.  I was wayyyy behind remembering

that this was coming up (and honestly kind of shocked

because I still can't believe that some of these young

people are "old" enough to be graduating) and hadn't made

the cards yet.  So I started with some fun themed papers 

and looked for some sketch inspiration that would help

me keep the design fairly quick and easy to replicate.  

Here are two of the cards I made - both using the 

currently weekly sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, 

papers from my stash and two awesome stamp sets 

by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps called YOU'RE A HOOT

and HAPPY THOUGHTS (sentiments).  

I've included a close up of each card too

I'm entering these cards in the following challenges:

little red wagon Challenge #552 - Patterned Paper or Make 

Your Own Patterned Paper.   Mine is of course

the actual kind pulled from my embarrassing large

patterned paper stash.  I bought several sheets of this 

6 years ago and am now down to two 12 x 12 sheets left. 

and Freshly Made Sketches #438 where I found

my inspiration for the design. 

Thanks for letting me share with you again today! 

Hope the rest of your week(end) is lovely. D

Catch the Bug Challenges - Anything but a Card Monday

Happy Monday crafty peeps!

Did you get  your taxes done?

I was up until 2 am working on ours - ugh!

Thus the late post today - I totally spaced updating

my blog for the ANYTHING BUT A CARD

project at CATCH THE BUG CHALLENGES.

We have a couple graduations coming up in our

family so I decided to make a tag and a little 

pillow gift box that's perfect for tucking 

some cash for the graduate in.  

I've used Ava grad diploma on the tag

The best part about this project today is that

it uses up lots of bits and parts of things from my

stash - love when that happens!  

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create #172 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenges - Let's do the Polka
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenges - April Anyhing Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenges - Tags

Off to my day job I go for now!  I think

I'll be drinking lots of coffee today to

stay awake and focused.  

 Have a wonderful Monday and thanks

so much for stopping in to visit me!

Hugs D

Sketch Saturday #387

Hello friends - so happy you're here to visit me!

 It's time for another weekly sketch challenge

 at Sketch Saturday.  

Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp!

The Sketch Challenge Prize is a super generous 

$25.00 to spend in the 

Simon Says Stamp Store

 

Here is sketch #387:

 and here is my card to share with you today

Digital image from Bugaboo Stamps - "Kidz Graduate Boy"

My cousin's son has just finished his last college course 

and is on to the next phase of his life.  We will be celebrating

with him tonight :o)  I remember what an awesome feeling

that was (and a bit scary) to be done with college. 

I hope that you will go visit the rest of our talented team

at Sketch Saturday and see what they've made this week too.

Then...maybe you'll play along too with your own

fabulous creation??!  

Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Krafty Scrappin' August Challenge - Life Event

Hello all!  I'm happy that you're here to visit me today as it's time for 
another month of Krafty Scrappin!!!  This challenge is a little different from 
our normal challenges at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.  For this challenge you can 
create  ANYthing as long as it's NOT A CARD!  We want to see your calendars,
bookmarks, pocket pages or traditional scrap pages.  
Come play along with us each month and let's get some of those photo's 
out of boxes and on to something creative and fun!!  This is a month long 
challenge so you have plenty of time to play along and you can play
as many times as you like!   Here are a few things to remember...

THIS MONTH'S THEME: LIFE EVENT!!
such as Birthdays, Holidays, Graduation, Weddings, New Baby or other First's. 
ANYthing that is a "life event" to YOU!!

1.  Create ANY scrap page, Project Life Layout or pocket page cards, 
altered item, etc.  JUST NOT A CARD!
2.  MUST use Kraftin Kimmie stamps to be entered in to the drawing.
3.  You have a month to play, enter AS MANY TIMES as you'd like!
4.  PRIZES?!?  Of course there are prizes!!  To kick of our brand new challenge, 
for every 10 entries Kimmie will draw one random player for a PRIZE!
5.  You have until Monday, September 21st @ 9:00 pm EST to get your entries in.
6.  Be sure to also share your creations on our Krafty Friends FB page 
so we can all drool and OOOOH and AHHHHHH!  

I'm loving these challenges as it gives me a solid excuse to pull out 

my stacks of photos and get caught up on my scrapbooks.  My life event

for this month is son's graduation in 2012 (I told ya...I'm a tad behind). 

 It's a little hard to see all together so here is the left page

and here is the right page

Can you spot all those fabulous Scrapbook Essential stamps that 

I used on these pages?  They are so fun for scrapbooking! Here's a close 

up of one of them.  How many more can you spot?  Leave me a comment

on how many you see and I'll choose one lucky winner who will get a special

prize next month from me. 

Thanks for stopping by to visit me. Please go visit the other Krafty Girls 

who also have a lovely creation to share with you too.  I hope you

will join us this month!!! Hugs D

Catch the Bug Challenges - Anything Goes

Hi again - I'm so glad that you are here to visit me!
It's going to be a busy weekend on my blog with 4 cards today
for the various design teams I'm on right now. I hope you enjoy
what you see and get some inspiration as well.

This post is for the newest CATCH THE BUG Challenge
which is "Anything Goes" - always a fan favorite.
There is also a BIG BIG SALE going on at Bugaboo Digis
where the entire store of digital images is 50% during
the month of July!! Wow!! What a great way to stock
up on your inventory of awesome images!

Today I'm sharing another graduation card I made
for one of seven friends and family that were graduating.
The digital image is called "Kidz - Graduate Girl"
and she is just adorable - take a look:


I'd like to enter this card in the following chalenges:
Crafty Catz #286 - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper July Challenge - A.G.

Crafting from the Heart #66 - Anything Goes

 I've been crafting like crazy each night to get ready for this weekend

 and a couple of really FUN events that will be happening next week,

like this one.....

Mark your calendars and plan to join us each day of
the week for a new theme and challenge to help you
get your Christmas cards/projects started  (boy do I need
this as I am wayyyy behind!!  It's gonna be FUN (oh - I
think I already said that - sorry old age you know - LOL).

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today!
Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Catch the Bug "Oldie but Goodie" Thursday

Hello friends! Happy Thursday!

I'm enjoying my term as a Guest Designer 

for Bugaboo Digi Stamps very much. 

Thursdays are "Oldie But Goodie" days at 

Catch the Bug Challenge blog and today 

I have the opportunity to share a graduation card

that I made for my cousin's daughter using an 

Oldie But Goodie digital image called "Ava grad dipolma".

I chose this image because it reminded me of the graduate

with her long dark hair and sweet face.  Fortunately she

loved it and it has a place of honor on her table for a while :o)

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

The Alphabet Challenges - H is for Hats and/or Handbags

The Crafter's Cafe #120 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today to visit me! Hugs D

MOJO Monday #400

Hello friends and followers - so happy you are here to visit me today!

I mentioned a few posts back that I have several graduation cards to make

for family and friends.  I used the MOJO Monday #400 sketch this week

to help me get one of my cards done - take a look:

I love how quickly this card came together (bonus)!

I printed off a digital stamp from Stampin' Up and used

an oval die cut for the shape (cutting off the overhang on the bottom).

I had scraps of left over paper from 3 years ago with the felt mortar

boards (graduation caps) that I snipped out as an additional embellishment

and added a few candy dots.  Viola - done! Well... except for the gift :o)

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges as well:

Alphabet Challenge Blog - "H" is for Hats and/or Handbags

Clear it Out Challenges: Theme/Anything Goes and Stash/You Choose

(my stash is the cap from the paper scraps and the candy dots)

4 Crafty Chicks #249 - Graduation

The Crafter's Cafe - #119: School's Out/Graduation

So off I go to enjoy my weekend and do a little more crafting!

Still have 4 cards to finish for the parties we are going to over the next week.

Better get busy! Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Sketch Saturday #361 - Another Graduation Card

Happy Saturday friends!!

I'm still making Graduation cards for the 7 grads (now)

of our family and friends this year.  

I'm using the awesome new sketch at 

SKETCH SATURDAY #361

to make this one  - take a look:

I used some new Doodlebug papers and a digital image & sentiment
that's been in my stash for quite a long time. 

Don't ya love all the different shoes? I would be the one in the 

fancy high heels. Well maybe wayyyy back when - now I'd probably

break my neck if I tried to walk across a stage in them - LOL!

Back with us this week as our wonderful sponsor 

Bunny Zoe's Crafts

 and here's Sketch #361 (which you can see I 

rotated for my DT card above).

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
The Friday Mashup Challenge #209 - It's all about the Grads

I hope that you will decide to join us this week and share
your gorgeous work in our gallery with us!!
Til next time...hugs and happy craftin'! D

Sketch Saturday #360

Good Morning friends! 

 It's time for another weekly sketch challenge 

at Sketch Saturday.

Back with us this week is our amazing sponsor... 

Simon Says Stamp! 

The prize is a $25 gift certificate - whoot whoot!

Here is sketch #360:

Isn't it amazing how fast the weeks fly by?

Here it is Mother's Day already and very soon lots

of people will be graduating from high school and/or college.

We have 6 family and friends that are graduating from 

high school next month (hard to believe these babies are that old)

so I decided to make a graduation card with the sketch - take a look:

This card uses the school colors of one of our grads. 

She's a sporty gal so I didn't make it really feminine but 

used lots of bling with the paper and the stars to match her

sparkling personality.  Hope she likes it! 

I hope that you will decide to join us this week for 

Sketch Saturday #360.  You can flip the sketch,

make a square instead of rectangle and/or substitute the 

oval shape just as long as we can still make out the main sketch.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Stampin' Royalty #276 - Graduations

The Outlawz - Friday Coloring Challenge - Celebration (any occassion)

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D

Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #46 - Anything Goes

Oh boy it's time for the most popular challenge each month at Addicted to Stamps and More! - Challenge #46 "Anything Goes". Whoo Hoo.  My Anything Goes this week is driven by the fact that we got two graduation notices in the mail last week.  I used the Stampin Up! My Digital Studio program for the owl image and made it larger to fit on these cards (the original image is about 1 1/2" tall and these are 3 1/4" tall).  I colored each with my copic markers. The Report card papers are ones I've had in my paper stash pile for awhile (probably had some scrapbooking idea that I've long forgotten) and I thought they'de be perfect for this theme.  The orange and black card is actually one of the girl's school colors.  I don't know the other one's colors so I stuck to a neutral grey base with the green report card.   One of the cards is 6' square and the other is 5 x7 leaving lots of room to tuck in a check or gift card before I mail.  Did you notice the google eyes on one of the owls?

So... what will you make this week for the ATS&M Anything Goes challenge?  This is always a fun one for the DT members as we get to see some amazing creations - cards, boxes, scrapbook pages, other 3D projects, jewelry using stamped images, etc.  We aren't fussy at all about what type of creation you make - but we do want to see stamping somewhere on your project (after all we are Addicted to Stamps you know :o) ).  My fellow DT members have made some gorgeous creations for your inspiration - you can go see them by clicking here.  

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit me today - I'm sure glad that you did.  Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D