Crazy4Challenges C4C351 "Holiday"

Hello and happy weekend!

Today is the last week of my 

Guest Designer month at 

CRAZY4CHALLENGES.

It's been such a fun month and

I'd like to thank the ladies for 

having me with them! 

The theme for C4C351 and the last Saturday

of  August 2016 is "Upcoming Holiday". 

We'd like to see your cards for one of 

the many holidays coming up soon.  

What holiday is your favorite to craft for?

I love both Halloween and Christmas.

I've been pressed for time this week so I went with a
quick design that uses a piece of patterned paper
and a large sentiment stamp.  Then I added some
ink distressing around the edges.
Viola!  A quick halloween card done!

Supplies: patterned paper (retired Stampin' Up!)

Sentiment from Spook-Tacular Sentiments

by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps.

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

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #208 - Holiday

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenges - Aug A.G.

4 Crafty Chicks Challenges #313 "Let's Get Sentimental"

Stamping Sensations August Challenge - Anything Goes

Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges #346 - Vintage or Distressed

Thanks for popping in to visit me today!

Go see what the lovely gals at Crazy 4 Challenges 

have made to share with you and then come play 

along with us too!  Hugs! D

Humor Me Wednesday "National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day" - Catch the Bug Challenges

Oh hello! Thanks for being here to visit me today!

It's hump day and Humor Me Wednesday
at Catch The Bug Challenges as well.

This week has lots of fun holidays that you might 

not be aware of.  For example did you know there

is a National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day?
No? Well it was Monday May 15th. 

I didn't know but I'm super excited for a reason to

celebrate this holiday because I love, love, love

chocolate chip cookies!  Really I LOVE cookies

of all kinds but I especially love chocolate chip ones! 

In fact they are my all time favorite dessert! 

I used a sweet digital image, sentiment  

and matching digital paper from
Card Kit - KIDZ Cookie 

for my card today - take a look:

Thanks for stopping in to visit me today!

Go have a chocolate chip cookie when you get a

chance!  I know I will :o)  Hugs! D

2015 Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - Kraftin' Kimmie Sponsor

Oh hello there!  Hope you've been having a wonderful 

and not too hectic December so far!  I can't believe how fast

the time is whooshing by! It's crazy that soon it will

be a new year again.  Yikes!

Before that happens my favorite thing to do is find time

to have a cup of coffee with my friends and just celebrate

being together.  My son will be home for Christmas soon 

and he is a HUGE coffee fan (I started him quite early in 

life - accidentally of course).  I am looking forward to having 

a visit with him in our favorite coffee shop together and enjoying

one of their custom crafted and delicious latte creations!  

My heart beats happier just thinking about it! 

You might know that I am fortunate to be a Krafty Girl and design

for Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps who is one of the fabulous sponsors of the

2015 Winter/Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. 

I made a card to share with you that celebrates my love of coffee

 and my son using ONE CUP AT A TIME from Kraftin' Kimmie

for the hop.  Take a look - I hope you like!

I stamped and colored the main image on a piece of 

kraft paper using copic markers and a white sharpie pen. 

The papers are by My Mind's Eye - Sleigh Ride

the snowflakes and dots are from Stampin' Up!

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

Craft Your Passion Challenges #292 Always Anything Goes

Fab n Funky Challenges #282 - Snowflakes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenges #259 anything goes Christmas

CAS-ual Chic Challenges #6 - Snowflakes

Holly Jolly Christmas challenges - Merry Christmas

Fusion Challenges - Season's Greetings

(my inspiration was from the photo colors mainly

but also the sketch - but loosely)

I'm off to see what others have made in the

Coffee Lovers Hop. Thanks so much for stopping by 

to visit me.  Merry, Merry Christmas and may

your cup always be full of good cheer.  

Hugs! D

ATSM Challenge #98 Holiday

Hello friends!  Welcome to my newest follower - so happy to have you join me.

Time for another fun challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More!

This week ATSM Challenge #98 is Holiday.  We want to see your holiday creations

for Christmas, Spring Break, Grandparent's Day, Father's Day, 4th of July, a holiday vacation, etc.

We have a fabulous sponsor for this challenge

 who is offering our TOP ADDICT a wonderful prize.

My DT card is for Thanksgiving and uses a digi by Kathryne called "Autumn Delight".

I went a little banner crazy as I just got my new die in the mail a few days ago.  

I've seen this on lots of projects and felt that I just had to have it too :o)

I also got these fun new papers by Doodlebug at the same time.

I used my Stampin' Up Blendabilities for everything except the shoes and fence.

Really happy with how this turned out. Hope you like it too. 

I am also entering my card in the following challenges:
The Corrosive Challenge Blog #200  Celebration - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Challenge #233 Anything Goes
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge #31 - Layer it Up
The Outlawz Challenges - Twisted Thursday - Twist Anything Goes

My lovely ATSM DT pals have made some awesome holiday creations

to inspire you to play along this week.  Please go visit them and say "hi".
I hope to see your card in our gallery and come visiting you soon!

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

Life Doesn't Have to Be Perfect - and - Flowers for Mother's Day

Hello friends - hope each an every one of you is doing well.

I have a couple of cards to share with you today.
The challenges I'm entering are listed below each card.

The first one was made for a hostess club where we did stenciling  - take a look:

I'm entering this card in two challenges:

Crafty Catz Challenge #230 - Black/White and One Other Color

Fusion - Sketch and/or Photo (Black/White/Yellow or Flowers )

My second card is a card-in-a-box that I made for my Mom for Mother's Day.

Here's a second look at some of the details:

I love these box cards. Such a wow factor for the recipient when they open them :o).

What was fun about this card for me was that I used up a lot of extra bits & pieces

 that were on my craft table (the flowers, the leaves, the grass, the scalloped oval shape).

My Mom loved it! That was the best part about making it. 

I'm entering my box card in the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper May Challenge

Suzy B's Bloomin' Challenges #28 - Flowers

Inky Impressions #159 - Flower Power

Simon Says Wednesday Challenges - Die Crazy (the yellow flowers are from dies).

Thanks so much for stopping by - I'm sure glad that you did. 

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

ATS&M Challenge #89 - CAS

Hello friends and followers - so nice to have you stop by today to visit my blog.

Oh gosh - here it is a new month already.  March came in and out like a lion here.

Now I guess we will be looking forward to April showers and spring flowers. 

Time for another weekly challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More! 

ATS&M Challenge #89 is CAS.

You can pick any theme or color to use as long as it's Clean and Simple.

CAS means little or no embellishments, limited layers 

and open space around the main image  (generally called white space 

- but it doesn't have to be "white" - just uncluttered and not too busy for the eye).  

Here's my DT card to share with you this week:

The darling image on my card is by our ATS&M Sponsor this week, Kathryne from StampArt Design

there is a prize of 5 digis up for grabs to our Top Addict this week.

Will it be you?  It's kind of like winning the lottery - you can't win if you don't play.

That's what my husband tells me each week as he buys his tickets.  

But so far I still have to go to work each week.  I'm just saying...

He might have better luck at entering handmade cards in some challenges - LOL.

Oh well - I don't talk about his buying lotto tickets and he doesn't talk about

the boxes that get left on our door step quite often with my newest treasures :o)

Someday he might actually win & I can make cards all day long & get lots of boxes - hehe.

But I digress... back to the ATS&M Challenge #89 CAS details.

We have a new guest designer for the next couple of challenges - 

the sweet and uber-talented Bonnie Klass from Stamping with Klass.  

Please go check out the inspiration from the rest of our lovely DT this week .  

While you are visiting them leave a little love if you are so inclined.  

We love to hear from you! 

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create #65 - "Anything Goes" w/optional twist Create you Own Color Challenge

I didn't see my color combo listed so not sure if I meet the option part - blue, coral and green.

and

Simply Create Too Challenge #58 - "Easter or use Bunnies"

Hope to see your cards/creations in the ATS&M gallery this week. 

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

H is for Happy...Spring and Easter

Hello friends and followers - hope you are having a great day!  I've been taking some much needed personal time from work this week and enjoying some time with my darling daughter who is on spring break.  We've had lunch, gone shopping and had pedicures together (very relaxing).  I've also been catching up on lots of little (and not so little) projects as well which hasn't left me as much time for crafting as I'd hoped  - 

but I have managed to make a few cards that I'd like to share with you.  

Today I have an Easter card.  It's nice that Easter is a bit later this year -  more time to get my cards together for family and friends.  Plus, maybe by then the snow will be gone and we will really be experiencing some spring weather and flowers.  Ahhh... a lovely thought.

 Here's my card:

This cute digital image was a recent Friday Freebie at Bugaboo Stamps called "Bunny Chic Topper" - absolutely couldn't pass it up!  Did you notice the cute little chickies in the paper?  I thought it was perfect for this image.  

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
                   Stella Says Sketch Challenge #206 at the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog.  
                                                                       Here's the sketch

Creative Card Crew Challenge#58 - Animals

613 Avenue Create - Challenge #64 Anything Goes/optional twist "Birds of a Feather"

Digi Galore - Anything Goes

Sister Act Challenges #49 - Anything Goes

4 Crafty Chicks Challenges #187 - Spring 

Thanks so much for popping in to visit me today.  I hope to be back again today with another card to share with you.  Til next time friends....hugs and happy crafting! D

Easter Wishes - ATS&M Challenge #88 - Holiday

Hello friends! Time for another weekly challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More!  This time the challenge is our Holiday Challenge.  That means you can make any holiday themed card or project.  

We have the wonderfully creative Anni as our guest designer again this week. 

Check out her blog - you'll be glad that you did. 

Here's my DT card to share with you for ATSM Challenge #88 - Holiday.

This is a CASE of a card that a friend of mine, Marlene (whom I also affectionately call ET) had made using the watercoloring technique.  I embossed the stamped image prior to putting on the watercolor so that I would know where I wanted each color to go.  I had so much fun making this card and am really pleased with how all the colors turned out!  Isn't it fun to be inspired by others?  I hope that I've now inspired you to play along with us this week at ATS&M Challenge #88 Holiday.  The rest of our lovely DT members have made some wonderful creations to share with and inspire you as well.  Please go visit and say "hi".

Thanks once again to our wonderful challenge sponsor Shery from STAMPlorations who is offering a prize to our challenge winner this week.

  
I am also entering my card in these challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges 228 (C4C228) Shake your Thing (Free for All)
4CC - Challenge #186 - No Patterned Paper

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

ATS&M Challenge #87 - Make Your Mark

Hello lovely friends and followers!  Time for a new weekly challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More! 
But before I tell you about the challenge I'd like to say a big WELCOME to our guest designer for the next two challenges - Anni.  Love, love, love her fresh fun style, and I think you will too.

Now, back to the challenge at hand.  ATS&M Challenge #87 is "Make Your Mark".  For those of you who are just finding our challenge - Make Your Mark means we want to see you use some sort of coloring medium (other than just an ink pad) such as alcohol ink markers, gelattos, watercoloring, crayons, colored pencils, chalks, etc.   I have made a springy creation to share with you using one of my favorite forms of coloring, markers applied directly to a stamp to create different sections of color
 - and I added a new twist and did a little watercoloring on it as well.
Take a look please:

This is a long and skinny card - measures 3 1/2" x 6".   I've been playing around with different watercolor techniques the last couple of weeks to teach my card class.  I colored my stamp with markers and then spritzed with water before stamping on the watercolor paper.  I repeated this several times, as you can see, to create the flow of flowers across the card. I used two different colors of both the peach (Calypso Coral and Peach Parfait) and the green (Lucky Limeade and Gumball Green)  On the stamp the sentiment is actually right next to the bottom of the stem  on the flower bunch.  I inked it up separately with a marker and put it at the top of the card instead.  I was nervous about spritzing too much so I used a light touch and then went over the edges of the image after stamping it with a watercolor pen every so lightly as well to pull a little more of the ink out and create the watercolor effect. Really pleased with how it turned out :o).

This week at ATS&M, we have a fabulous sponsor - STAMPlorations.  

I don't currently have any of their stamps, but after seeing what some of my fellow DT members have made (for this challenge and at the STAMPlorations challenge site) I don't think it will be long before I'm the proud owner of a few - hehehe.  The STAMPlorations March Challenge is Stamps and Spring.  Since my card fits perfectly into that category, I'm going to join the fun over there too :o).

I hope that you will decide to join us this week at ATS&M for Challenge #87 - Make your Mark.  My wonderfully creative design teamies have made some amazing creations to share with and inspire you as well.  Please go visit them and say "hi".
Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting! D

Happy Easter Every Bunny - ATSM #83 Holiday

Hello friends! Hope you had a restful weekend. I was fortunate enough to have a 3 day weekend which I really needed to try and kick this cold that just doesn't want to go away :o(.  I think it's because of our crazy weather (warm one day, cold and snowing the next - constant wind either way) that many people are having a hard time getting completely healthy, including me.

Oh well...enough of my woes.  Let's talk about the new challenge starting today at Addicted to Stamps and More! Oh...and before I do that, allow me to welcome Cathy from Cathy's Card Spot as our guest designer for the next two challenges.  She does such lovely work! Please go visit her and take a look at her creations.

Now back to the challenge at hand.  ATSM #83 is our Holiday challenge.  You can make any holiday card or project to share with us.  I chose Easter and I used a digi from our sponsor this week

Here's my DT card:

Details: Cardstock - whisper white, basic grey and smoky slate (all Stampin Up)

Designer paper - Watercolor Wonder (Stampin Up)

Sizzlit Framelit Dies - Starburst (Stampin Up)

Digital image - by Kathryn at Stamp Art Design and colored with copic markers and spicas.

Sentiment: from "Every Bunny" (Stampin Up - retired)

Extras - sequins and Stickles in yellow. 1/8" ribbon in Daffodil Delight (SU).

Last week in our Make Your Mark Challenge (ATSM82) I saw a card in our gallery #24 by Valerie Ward that I just knew I had to case.  I had to improvise a bit on my layers as there wasn't an in-between level for either of the starburst dies.  I decided to keep all the other colors neutral so that the image really pops.   Finished card size is 5 1/2" square.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Just Us Girls #228 Color (I used orange, yellow and purple plus neutrals)

and

Make it Monday #179

Hope you like this card and will decide to join us this week at ATS&M for Challenge #83 Holiday.  The rest of our lovely DT members have made some really wonderful creations to share with you as well so please go visit them and say "Hi".  Til next time friends...hugs and happy crafting! D

LOVE Never Melts - ATSM#78 Holiday, Unscripted Sketches #238

Hi and thanks so much for stopping by!  This week we have a challenge for you that gives you lots of room to be choosy - you get to choose any Holiday to make a card for.  ATSM Challenge #78 is our newest challenge theme called Holiday - Father's day, Easter, Christmas, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, St. Patty's Day, Valentine's day - I'm guessing you got it by now so I'll stop rambling :o)

Once again our fabulous sponsor for this challenge is Deedee's Digis who is offering our Top Addict their choice of 3 sets of digis (so nice!).

I've used one of the chilly sponsor images and turned it a card that will warm someone's heart for Valentine's Day.  Take a look:

I used the sketch from Unscripted Sketches #238 so am entering my card in that challenge. 

What holiday will you choose this week?  I hope you will decide to play along with ATSM#78 - Holiday.  Please go check out the wonderful holiday creations that the rest of the DT have made to share with and inspire.  I promise that you'll be glad that you did :o)  

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

ATS&M# - Addicted to Holidays - Challenge #73

Hello friends.  Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I can't wait for the turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. YUM!  Going to try a new brussel sprout recipe on the family this year.  There's also a couple movies that start this weekend that I want to see.  Not taking any extra time off from work though so I can save up my time for when my son is home from college for Christmas break (can't wait!).  What's your favorite Thanksgiving meal, tradition or activity? I'd love to hear.

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More! ATS&M Challenge #73 is our new HOLIDAY challenge. The Holiday challenge means we want to see your creations for any Holiday - Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, 4th of July... you get the idea :o).

You might think that I would have chosen Thanksgiving with it being just around the corner, but I just couldn't resist using this darling digital image from our challenge sponsor this week- Deedee's Digis to make a Christmas card.

The other lovely ladies on the ATS&M DT have made some wonderful creations to share with and inspire  you as well.  Please go visit them and say "hi".  I hope that you'll join us this week for ATS&M #73.  Our Top Addict will win a fabulous prize from Deedee's Digis this week.

Updated to add the following challenges I am also entering:

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 187 - Snow White (where white is the main color).

Christmas Cards All Year Round - November Challenge - winter wonderland (snow themed)

'ABC' Challenges - Red, White and Blue {Celebrate the 4th of July}

Hello dear friends and followers so glad that you are here visiting me today!  This is the last Monday of the month of June (oh my goodness how time flies) so that means that just around the corner is the 4th of July.  The DT at 'ABC' Challenges has picked a terrific color challenge for you this week that works perfectly with the holiday coming up soon.   Fourth of July cards not your style? That's okay - make a card using those colors for any other reason.  How about a masculine birthday card, or a nautical themed card? Or... you fill in the blank :o)  I can't wait to see what you make this week.  

I only send one or two 4th of July cards out typically but I still choose this theme for my card as I had this darling digital image that I just couldn't resist using.  I resisted using other colors as much as possible to stay to true to the main colors in the challenge (neutrals are okay though to add  - grey, black, brown, and skin tones).  So without further ado - please allow me to share my card with you this week.  Here is my Red/White and Blue(s) card:

Aren't they just the cutest pair? My daughter said "a blue elephant?"  Yeah I guess I went a bit overboard with the blue theme (I used 4 different shades of blue) and probably should have used the traditional grey for my elephant - but I really wanted to keep the neutral color as an accent and not as one of the main colors. I still like him - he's an original :o).  Hope you do too!  

The other lovely ladies have prepared some beautiful cards to share with you this week as well.  To see them all you have to do is click here - or go visit 'ABC' Challenges.

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