It’s Tuesday!!! Time for a New Challenge at CIOT!!!

I know you have a favourite theme and stash item and this week it is ANYTHING GOES at Clear it Out Tuesday. The stash item is also anything goes.  We have a new sponsor too, Sami Stamps Shop. Check them out, they have some great digis. I picked a digi of flowers for my DT card and since we are having a lot of dull weather here in SWO I coloured it in a very bright yellow. Looking at the sea of white snow out the window we sure need some colour. A couple of feet Sunday night and I heard more is supposed to be coming.

I sized the image quite large, I was worried it wouldn’t fit on an A2 base but it managed quite well. I embossed the background with a butterfly folder and added some rickrack from my stash. 

The sizzix top note was used again for the inside sentiment and I added the rickrack to it.
Thanks for spending some time here today and since this is your favourite challenge theme get your project done and enter it to the main blog, don’t forget to check out the rules and see the awesome cards the design team has for your inspiration.

What’s great about Mondays? A Challenge!!!

The Cheerful Stamp Pad’s challenge #104 is “SPRING” we are so looking forward to spring here in Southern Ontario as Sunday it started to snow and it’s a real mess out there and way too cold for me it might be a snow day for the schools. Since I have nothing important to go out for I get a snow day too and will get some fun stuff done.  As I said the Theme is “Spring” it’s whatever it means to you. The sponsor is Sweet Peas Stamps and they have a great group of artists that design for them. I picked Awareness Ribbon Angel by Charmaine Flannery. I chose to design it in pink for breast cancer awareness and for Spring.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches I thought the sketch was perfect for my image,  I used three scraps of patterned paper for the banners and put star dust stickles on the wings.

I finished the inside with one of my favouite sentiments .
I would like to enter this in:
Freshly Made Sketch #171 ends Monday 12.00 pst.
 
Thanks for stopping by today and stay safe from the weather.

Another Winter Card? Yes!! Catch the Bug want to see ‘em.

When I saw the January Picture Inspiration I knew I wanted to play along, it has taken me a while to get things organized, I have had the image printed for at least a week but finally got colouring last weekend. The challenge ends soon so I need to get this posted. Almost everything was in my “odd” box, it’s the place where I put my leftovers from die cutting, so I just added some patterned paper and the Merry Christmas, voila’ it was done. The sentiment was also in the scrap box and the red on in inside also.

I added some snowflakes and red rhinestones and white opal liquid pearl to the hats.

Close-up of the super cute birds

I used a leftover scrap of patterned paper and a strip of red to the Top Note die cut for the inside sentiment.

I would like to enter this in

Catch The Bug January Photo Inspiration Challenge

Thanks for checking out my blog today and you still have a day to get your project in for the challenge,

Let it Snow!!!

Well we don’t have a lot of snow but I understand it will be arriving tomorrow, that is if the meteorologist is right, but the challenge over at Meljen’s Designs is “Let it SNOW”, it has been a while since I made a ‘winter” card so it wasn’t too hard, the image was already printed in my “already printed box” so I coloured it up and this is what I designed.

The white layer is embossed with a cuttlebug snowflake folder. The sketch came to my in-box this morning from Tuesday Morning Sketches and I knew it was perfect for the image.

This is Sketch #285

Here is the simple inside of the card, the sentiment is from High Hopes.
I would like to enter this in:
Tuesday Morning Sketches #285
Meljen’s Designs #244 Let it Snow
Thanks for stopping by today and come back again soon.

Love, Love Me Do….Challenge #184 at SOS

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Shopping our Stash want you to make a Love/Valentine card, Valentines day is only a couple of weeks away and you need to make your Honey a card so I hope you will join us for the fun,  My card fold is almost a total case of a Christmas card I received from snarky sister Lee. I  left the length but made the card so it fit in an A2 envelope. Have a look………

My image is a House Mouse Designs stamp, The flourish has been in my scrap box for at least a year, the pearls and lace are years old too and the buckle is probably 5 years old even the cardstock is  about 13 years old, it’s a 12 X 12 paper pad I bought at our old Wal-mart before they built a super store and moved. Now that is shopping my stash to the limit.

Detailed picture of the buckle embellishment.

Left over part of the flourish
The inside for the sentiment.


The measurements for the fold are 4 1/4 X 11 7/8 Score at 4 1/2 and 9 7/8. the buckle I used is fairly heavy to hold the flap down., the 2 inch flap is on the right and the left flap goes on top of it.
I would like to put this in the following Challenges:
Hiding in My Craft Room  #186 Any Holiday
Glitter N Sparkle #121 Pearls & Swirls 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Have a Heart (the buckle has hearts on it)
Eureka Stamps challenge # 125 Hearts (the buckle has hearts on it.)
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can find some time to make a Love Love me do project.

It’s Challenge Time again at Clear it Out Tuesday!!!

Hello family, friends and followers, if you live on the Eastern seaboard I hope you have battened down the hatches, looks like a good storm approaching. Now you will have time to join us at Clear it Out Tuesday for our NEW challenge, the theme is Thank you and the stash item is Stitching real or faux. the sponsor for the challenge is Melonheadz Illustrating.  I chose the girl in the polka dot dress for my project and I hunted down my sewing machine  to do a feather stitch around the image and the patterned paper layer. The most difficult part was threading the needle oh yes finding the box of thread spools.  Here is my finished card.

I used the sketch from Cheerful Sketches which ends later today.

This shows the real stitching on both pieces.

The flowers on the corner are from my stash and added the green rhinestones both flowers and gems are ancient.
I would like to add this to this challenge:
Cheerful Sketches (ends today)
Thanks for stopping by today and stay warm and safe.

Week2 of Valentines continues at The Cheerful Stamp Pad

I don’t send a lot of Valentines and I didn’t make a traditional “red” heart valentine but did make the flowers pink. I’m still looking for the few valentine stamps I have so I just added a cute strip of candy hearts to the sentiment spot. The sponsor is Sweet Pea Stamps,  I like to go surfing to see what they have to offer.  There are rubber stamps as well as digital ones, and quite  few different artists. This week I chose Blossom by Theresa Sherman. It is a beautiful image with lots of flowers and a butterfly.

I made an easel card using Labels 8 spellbinder dies and Decorative Labels 8, I added some spica glitter pens to the flowers and bracelet but it really doesn’t show in the picture.

There is the base and the candy hearts

Here is the card standing up.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to The Cheerful Stamp Pad and check out what the rest of the design team have for your inspiration. Hope to see your Valentines soon.