Life Is Good

can you see the starfish charm?  click to enlarge the photo.

Any day that you can go to the beach and make a sand castle is a good day.  My card for this week's Paper Pretties color challenge PWC160 to use red, yellow orange and a neutral  is made with Paper Pretties "Life is Good - Cooper". 

This is a great summer image for a birthday or note card.  AND it's a good boy's image, most of us can use a few more of them.

I'm sad to announce that this is my last week as a member of the Paper Pretties design team.  It has been a great time for me and I'm very grateful to Rachel for the opportunity to represent her company.  But just because I'm no longer on the design team doesn't mean that you won't be seeing cards with the great Paper Pretties images.  I'll be playing along with you in the challenges so keep stopping by to see what I make with them. 

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Life Is Good- Cooper"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Memory Box Beach dp (available in the Paper Pretties store); Neenah Classic Crest Natural White cs; MFT "Red Hot" cs; Kraft card base
miscellaneous - copics; mini brads, ribbon; twine; starfish charm, sewing machine; nesties

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC160 - colors - red, yellow, orange and a neutral
Crazy For Challenges C4C93 - sketch
My Time To Craft #146 - Yes, Here Comes Summer

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy making a card for the Paper Pretties challenge to use red, yellow, orange and a neutral.  You can find all the challenge details, the linkey thingey and the rest of the DT samples by clicking here.

Happy 4th!

One of the highlights of summer is 4th of July fireworks.  I always look forward to seeing them.  Down here in Florida if you make the trip to Orlando you can fireworks any day of the year and I was in Orlando just a few days ago and did see some fireworks but I'm still looking forward to the 4th.  It's also the  my hubby's birthday and my good friend Eileen's too so there's lots of reasons for me to celebrate.  That also means I need a couple birthday cards, guess I'm half way there and I better get hopping with the other half.


Here's the deets:
stamp - Taylored Expressions "A Year of Sweets 2"
ink - Versamark and Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - MFT "Sweet Tooth", "Sno Cone" and "Red Hot" cs; Stampin' Up Subtle dsp; black scrap
miscellaneous - copics; gold, red and blue embossing powder; SU ribbon; dew drops; burlap twine; stickles

Here's the challenges:
Taylored Expressions TESC141 - sketch
Delightful Inspirations - Red, White and Blue and/or Christmas too
Secret Crafter #140 - Embossing
Polka Doodles - week 25 - Stashbox stamps, Red, White and Blue
Fairy Tale #18 - America
Moving Along With the Times - #104 - Clean and Simple
Craft Us Crazy #11 - Red, White and Blue and/or Summer Fun
I Heart Ribbon #5 - linen thread and hemp
Terrifically Thrilling Thursday - Stars and Stripes
Paper Variety - Summer
Fab N Funky - Summer Loving

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.

A Pile of Circles

I just love the ladybug charm!

All good things must come to an end and so my time as a guest designer for the Pile It On challenge is ending today.  This has been a lot of fun for me, I hope you've enjoyed viewing my cards and playing along. 
A big thank you and lots of hugs to Dalis and everyone at PIO, this has been a fun month and I enjoyed every week. 
This week the challenge is "Circles, Circles and More Circles" and for Pile It On the idea is that you have to add at least one other challenge, but the fun is to find lots of challenges you can play in.  If you don't know a lot of challenges you can find plenty of them on the PIO site and over on my left sidebar there's a few listed.
This week I've had house guests, I've had a great time having them here but I've been limiting my crafting and computer time so I am going to get right down to business.

Here's the deets:
stamp - My Favorite Things "Ladybug"
ink - Memento Tuxedo black
paper - Reminisce black checked dp; GCD Chianti Collection red dps; unmarked red, black and white cs
miscellaneous - copics; My Favorite Things "Dizzy Doily" die-namics; Superior Stick Pin; baker's twine; ladybug sheer ribbon; Nesties circle dies; ladybug charm; sewing machine; brads and mini brads

Here's the challenges:
Pile It On #26 - Circles, Circles and More Circles

OCC - Your Style (I like to use lots of layer, die cuts, copics, stitching and charms - I also like to distress but I didn't to it on this card)

Creative Inspirations #62 - Stitching

Crafty Catz #88 - Add a Charm

Simply Create #46 - Fly With Us

Nadia's #9 - Kid's Cards

Ladybug Crafts Ink #33 - Use Red

Creative Belli #120 - the letter g (girl)
Crafts and Me - We Are In Stitches

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy making a card with circles, circles and more circles so you can play along in the Pile It On challenge.

Do Not Do Doughnuts...





CIC117 inspiration photo

 or words to that effect...  those were the unkindest words I'd ever heard uttered.  It was actually worse, it was "You cannot eat sugar for the rest of your life".  Can you imagine?  Mean, just mean.  It's a good thing I really, really like this doctor and that she wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know.  But I digress...
Aren't these patriotic cupcakes yummy looking.  I don't even mind that they have blue icing on them.  I usually don't care for blue on my foods but I'd make an exception for these.  Those are the inspiration for this week's Cupcake Inspirations challenge #117.   This week the sponsor is Glitterbabe.  The winner will receive a $10 gift certificate to use in the Glitterbabe store.  Nice, very nice.  You will have fun shopping there.  You can pick up a few digis with that cash in your pocket. 
The design team was given our choice of images for this challenge so I picked the fun "coffee N donuts" digi. Heck, just cause I can't eat 'em doesn't mean I can't color 'em.  I used pink and brown copics covered with Ranger "Glossy Accents" to simulate my old favorite glazed donuts. 

 I have no idea why I used a phone charm,
 must have seemed like a good idea at the time


Here's the deets:
stamp - Glitterbabe digi "coffee N  donuts"
ink - hp printer
paper - Georgia Pacific white cs; Stampin' Up Kraft cs; October Afternoon "Thrift Shop" dp
miscellaneous - copics; Ranger Glossy Accents; telephone charm; baker's twine; nesties stars die; star brads; sewing machine





don't forget the inside


Here's the challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations CIC117 - photo
Kaboodle Doodle #72 - Food and/or Drink
Crafts and Me - We are In Stitches
CCEE1125 - National Pink Day
PalsPaper Arts PPA99 - CAS elements of style - Stars

Now it's time for you to get busy making a card for our challenge.  Stop over at the Cupcake Inspirations blog so you can see what the rest of the Sweeties have come up with, I'm sure you'll get more inspiration from them.  You'll also find all the challenge rules (not very many or very strict), and the the linkey tool so you can post your finished creation for us to see.  Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again. 

A Minute to Spare

My poor neglected blog, woe is it.  We've had house guests this week so there hasn't been a lot of time for crafting or posting.  During the week I snuck a little time in over a couple days and made this card.  It's for my strawberry friend's birthday. 
I didn't have a plan.  I started out with the image and the ribbon and went from there.  I couldn't find a sketch I liked so I played around till I couldn't stand it anymore and decided it wasn't going to get any better.  Now that it's been sitting on my desk for a couple days it's starting to grow on me.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Teddy Bo digi
ink - hp printer and Ranger "Scattered Straw" for distressing the edges
paper - Wausau "Sand" cs; October Afternoon "Fly a Kite" and "Thrift Shop" dp; Georgia Pacific white cs for the image
miscellaneous - copics; Crystazzi bling; burlap twine; strawberry button; gingham ribbon; eyelet lace; Nesties oval, scalloped oval and doily dies; sewing machine

Here's the challenges:
Teddy Bo #12 - Bling It On
Craft Your Days Away #23 - Vintage
Totally Gorjuss #86 - Ribbons and Lace
Sugar Creek Hollow - Tic Tac Toe (Lace, Buttons, Die Cuts)
Creative Inspirations #62 - Stitching
Daring Cardmakers - Something Old, Something New (old - button and gingham ribbon, new -image, rest of the stuff is neither old nor new)
Sweet Stampin' - Something Old, Something New (old - button and gingham ribbon, new -image, rest of the stuff is neither old nor new)...is there an echo in here
Delightful - Fun In the Sun
I Heart ribbon #5 - Linen thread or hemp
Shabby Tea Room  #67 - Classic Patterns (and photo)
Creative Belli #120 - the letter G (gingham)
Fab N Funky - Summer Loving
Paper Variety - Summer

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.

My Favorite Things

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens... " those were Maria's favorite things in the Sound of Music. 
This week at Stampin' for the Weekend the challenge is "My Favorite Things" and I thought it would be fun to write some new crafter friendly lyrics

Dew drops on card stock and glue dots on chip board
Bright patterned papers and embossing folders
Kraft paper panels dressed up with bling
These are a few of my favorite things.

My favorite technique is paper piecing, so for my card I pieced Sophia's dress.  I love die cuts, punches, bling, charms, baker's twine and machine stitching.  What are your favorite things?  I love seeing your work so don't forget to link it up to the challenge.  You can find all the details, the linkey thingey and the rest of the design teams work by clicking on this link.



don't forget the inside

 Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Give Thanks Sophia"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Lasting Impressions "Smooth Sailing Dots" dp; Stacy Claire Boyd "Spring has Sprung" dp; MFT "Sno Cone" and "Pink Lemonade" cs;
miscellaneous - copics; Nesties labels 13; brads; mini brads; ZVA crystals bling; sewing machine; SU oval, scalloped oval and photo corner punches; baker's twine; charm

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy making a card with your favorite things and link it up on the Stampin' for the Weekend challenge blog.  I can't wait to see your creations. 

White on White

For an elegant looking card you can't beat white on white.   They work especially well for wedding cards, sympathy card and get well cards.  All you need is an embossing folder to jazz up the layers or even a scoring tool.  Toss in some bling or favored embellishments and you've got a classic.  For my card I chose to work with one of the Irish Blessings stamps.  It's stamped in Versamark with silver embossing paper. Silver looks great on a white on white card.  I thought I'd shabby it up a little so I used some Ranger "Antique Linen" around the edges.  Sentiment cards work up very fast, I'll be using this design forcards that I need in a pinch. 

This week the challenge PWC159 at Paper Pretties is to make a white on white card.  You can color or your image but your paper layers have to be white.  You don't have to use a Paper Pretties image to play along but if you have them we'd like to see what you do with them.  Feel a little skittish about this one, well hop over to the blog and get some more inspiration from the rest of the design team.  You'll also find all the rules and the linkey thingey there.

Here's the deets:

stamp - Paper Pretties "Irish Blessings"

ink - Versamark; Ranger "Antique Linen"

paper - white cs

miscellaneous - Nesties die; pleated ribbon; lace; embossing folder

Here's the challenges:

Paper Pretties PWC159 - white on white

Paper Players #52 - Clean andd Simple

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy and make a white on white card and don't forget to link it up on the Paper Pretties blog so that we can see it.

Boy or Girl

Let's get cooking.  Not in the kitchen, but at the drafting table.  This week's challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie is to make a yellow birthday card using a sketch, and the sponsor is the Stamping Dragon.

What do you think about this cute dragon couple?  Are they a boy and his dad dragon, a mom and her daughter, maybe brothers and sisters?  I think that's one of the great things about this image.  You can use it to make a card for anyone. 

A nice cheery yellow card can be for a boy or girl too.  Of course you can make the dragon pink and purple if that's your favorite color, I think it the dragons would look fabulous in any color.

This week I have house guests so I am keeping this post short and sweet so that I can spend time with them.  We're having a great time.  So far we've spent a day at the pool and a day at the beach and we've got a trip to Sea World planned for tomorrow which will actually be yesterday when you read this.  Ah the wonders of technology...

Here's the deets:
stamp - digi image by Stamping Dragon
ink - hp printer
paper - Paper Pizazz dp for the base and scraps for the rest
miscellaneous -copics;  buttons, twine, floss; Nesties  circle and inverted scalloped circle dies

Here's the challenges:
Cooking It Up With Katie #67 - yellow, birthday, use a sketch
Sweet Sunday Sketch #122 - sketch
Wee Memories #60 - Party Time
Polka Doodles week 24 - All of a Flutter - Things with Wings
If the Shoe Fits #83- For the Men
One Stitch at a Time #67 - Things with Wings

Thanks for visiting, I hope you come back again.  Now go get busy making a yellow birthday card!

Piling It On Some More

I've been making sentiment cards lately.  It took forever for me to feel comfortable with them but now that I've got a few under my belt I find that I want to make them.  I wonder if this means that they are going out of fashion?

This week is my third week as a guest designer for the Pile It On challenge.  The challenge is to "Show us Some Metal" and the sponsor is Simon Says.  Great Sponsor, they've got everything you want and need.  For metal, I used some bards that you can see and some die cuts that you can't see.  At least you should be able to see the brads on the card, they're painted but they're metal.  

don't forget the inside



For Pile It On, all you have to do is combine one other challenge with their challenge, but the more challenges the merrier.  Why not join in the fun, you could win a little shopping at the Simon Says store, who can't use that?

Here's the deets:

stamp - My Favorite Things "Clearly Sentimental About Vacations"

ink - Close To My Heart "Olive" for sentiment; Ranger "Vintage Photo" for distressing

paper - Stampin' Up "Soft Suede" cs; Wausau "Celason" cs; K & C "Life's Journey" dp

miscellaneous - My Favorite Things die-namics; square brads; mini brads; lace; pleated ribbon; Stampin' Up pearl; sewing machine

Here's the challenges:

Pile It On #25 - Show Us Some Metal

My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club MFTWSC24 - sketch

Stamp Something - Pretty Paper

Southern Girls #21- Anything Goes

Simon Say - Bingo (Flowers, brads and sentiments)

Top Tip #38 - open challenge

Paper Variety #38 - 2 or more text types

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Distressed Torn Edges
Shabby Tea Room - pink, green, neutral, flowers

Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy making a card for Father's Day, it's not too late.

Sweet Things



CIC116

 How sweet are these cupcakes!  Week after week the inspiration cupcakes just keep getting cuter and cuter.
This week the Cupcake Inspirations challenge CIC116 is sponsored by Amber Ink and she came up with some images and papers to go with the inspiration photo, how cool is that!  AND, the papers and images are just as cute, maybe even cuter.

Can you see the ladybug charm, click to enlarge the photo

The striped black and white paper is supposed to be red but for more contrast I printed it in black and white.  The ladybug images were both facing the same direction.  I wanted them to face each other, to look like they are getting ready to kiss so I flipped one of the images.  I never did this before but it was really easy.  I did a google search for "mirror image" and found out how to do it.  Import the image to Picassa and hit "control, shift and H".  Easy!
That's a neat thing you can do with a digi image that you can't do with a stamp.

Here's the deets:
stamp - digi image by Amber Ink
paper - digi paper by Amber Ink; black and white cs
ink - hp printer
miscellaneous - copics; stickles; ladybug ribbon; gingham ribbon; baker's twine; charm; mini brads; nesties heart and scalloped heart; sewing machine

Here's the challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations CIC116 - photo
Digital Tuesday #115 - Get Out the Gingham
Stampin' Royalty - #76 - Pink and Grey
My Time to Craft #145 - Xtra Images
Stamp Something - Something with Pretty Papers
Polka Doodles week 24 - All of a Flutter - Things with Wings

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy and make a card or project based on the inspiration photo and post it with the linkey thingey on the Cupcake Inspirations challenge blog.  You'll find all the challenge details, the linkey thingey and more inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Bling It On

"Bling It On!"  Now that's a  challenge I can relate to.  That's the current challenge on the Teddy Bo blog. 

I love Teddy Bo, I love bling, I guess I gotta play.

Even though I intended this to be a man's card there is lots of bling  applied.  Some men I know wear more bling than I do.  Some of them wish they had the guts to wear all the bling they want to wear.  Bottom line, men like bling too.  Even birdies like the shiny stuff.  Maybe I need to get more bling.  Now that's an idea I like.  But I digress...

Here's the deets:
stamp - digi from Teddy Bo
ink - hp printer
paper - DCWV neutral cs; Georgia Pacific white cs; October Afternoon dp
miscellaneous - copics; Nesties circle and scalloped circle dies; buttons; charm; twill ribbon; burlap twine; embroidery floss; Heidi Swapp bling; brads; Martha Stewart grass border punch; EK Success trees border punch; sewing machine

Here's the challenges:
Teddy Bo #12 - Bling It On
Mojo Monday MOJO195 - sketch
If the Shoe Fits FF#83 - For the Men
Sew Many #57 - Punch It
Totally Papercrafts #71 - die cuts and punches
Stampin' B #115 - Use a Border punch
For Fun - Summer Fun
Party Time Tuesday PTT#20 - Father's Day
Papertake Weekly - Dads and Lads
Craft Us Crazy #10 - Father's Day/Masculine
L'il Red Wagon #85 - For Dad
Crafts and Me #39 - Bling It On
2 Sisters #44 - For a Guy

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.

I'm Only the Messenger

charm, little heart with  flower, is hiding under the twine

Okay stampers, are you ready for a real challenge?  This week the Paper Pretties challenge is a doozey.  PWC158 is to make a single layer card.  Whoa!  That's what I call a challenge.  I spent more time fretting over this challenge than making my card.  Once I finally bit the bullet and sat down to make something it wasn't difficult. 

Of course the first step was deciding on a stamp.  I chose "Everyday Lily" and after that the only biggest decision I had to make was what colors to use. 

On a single layer card one of the things you can do to jazz it up a little is to tie a ribbon around it.  Well, I have this gorgeous ribbon.   I've gone through 3 spools of it already.   If  you're drooling over it and haven't seen it before, well, (enabler alert!) I picked it up at Walmart.  

Here's a tip, if you color your image with copics, work with the card open so the ink won't bleed through to the inside.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Everyday Lily"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - just a white card blank
miscellaneous - ribbon, twine, charm, bling

Here's the challenges:
Paper Pretties PWC158 - single layer
CR84FN31 - Light Pink, Medium Green, Neutral
Shabby Tea Room #66 - Pink Lemonade - Pink, green, neutral and flowers
Stampin ' B - 1 layer, 2 stamps, 3 colors

Well, can you handle this!  I bet you can.  Need more inspiration?  Visit the Paper Pretties challenge blog and see what the rest of the DT has created, you'll find all the info about the challenge there as well as the linkey thingey.  I can't wait to see what you create.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you'll come back again.

Cupcake Party

These cuppies are just too too cute having a party.  Even the mocha twins came.  The party's for Taylored Expressions sketch challenge TESC140.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Taylored Expressions "Sweet Celebration"
ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black" and Close To My Heart "Ocean"
paper - Doodlebug "Cake and Ice Cream", Bazzill "Frosted Teal" and "Intense Kiwi"

miscellaneous - copics; Baby Safari sticker buttons (they're nakey cause they come with glue dots already on the back); Stampin' Up Hodgepodge Hardware; white glitter; stickles; sewing machine; Stampin' Up corner punch on inside



don't forget the inside

Here's the challenges:
Taylored Expressions TESC140 - sketch
Top Tip #38 - Open Challenge
My Time To Craft #145 - Xtra Images
Going Grey - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin' - Food Glorious Food
Stampin' B - 1 layer, 2 stamps, 3 colors
DYSU #23 - Birthday

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you'll come back again.

What a Girl Wants

 notice the purse charm?  click to enlarge the photo

A pair of fun and funky shoes, a nice purse and lots of bling, that's what most girls want.  A nice ride is usually on the list too, but that's a different stamp.  And yes I do have a couple different stamps of convertible cars, I realize most of you aren't surprised by that but there are probably a couple of readers who don't know me that well yet...

While I was traipsing thru the arts and crafts store, this time because daughter dearest wanted some supplies I passed by this hot pink zebra paper.  I was appalled by the price of one sheet but as you can see I'm not the type to be easily intimidated by over priced crafting supplies.  I just limited myself to one sheet instead of three!

 You probably can't tell from this photo that when the shoe was stamped it was covered with clear embossing powder to give it a little more pizazz.   Also it's difficult to see that on the inside the shoe was stamped again, but in a very pale pink.  It just looks better in real life.


don't forget the inside



 Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Sassy Shoes"
ink - Stampin' Up "Rose Red" and "Pretty in Pink"; Memento "Tuxedo Black"
paper - Recollections "Hot Pink Zebra" dp; Stampin' Up "black" and "Melon Mambo" cs
miscellaneous - Recollections flourish; button; Nesties circle and inverted scalloped circle dies; ribbon; twine; charm; bling; embossing powder; sewing machine

Here's the challenges:
Jen Del Muro's A Sketch For You To Try - June
Paper Cutz #95 - Anything Goes with the color twist - you can only use pink, black and white
Paper Sundaes #73 - Girly Girl
Nadia #8 - Black and White plus one
Emerald Fairies #2 - Lots of Bling
Shabby Tea Room #65 - Embossing (the shoe is embossed but it doesn't show very well in the photo)

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.

Yummy Time



CIC115 - inspiration photo

 Don't you just love these cupcakes?  They are so colorful, and there's so many little designs in the frosting that you're bound to be inspired.  At least that's what we're expecting.  These are the inspiration for this week's Cupcake Inspirations CIC115 challenge.  This week the sponsor is Prairie Fairy offering a prize of 5 single images of the winner's choice.  Now that's a great prize!

The "sweeties" (the Cupcake's DT) were given our choice of images for playing this week.  There are so many great images it was hard to choose.  In fact I started out thinking I was going to use the "daisy fairy" but when I saw this "Birthday Gilly" well I just had to have her because her cake reminded me of the cupcakes in the photo.  I used the colors in the photo to color my image and to pull my papers.  How are you inspired?  We can't wait to see what you make.  It can be a card or any king of project.  Need more inspiration?  Check out the Cupcake Inspirations challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team did.  You'll find all the challenge deets and of course, the linkey thingy.

By the way, I didn't forget to finish the inside of my card but I did forget to take a photo of it.

Here's the deets:
stamp - digi "Birthday Gilly" Prairie Fairy
ink - hp printer
paper - Bazzill "Intense Amythyst" and "Frosted Teal" cs; October Afternoon "Ducks In a Row" dp
miscellaneous - copics; lace; twine; Prisma flowers; charm; sewing machine; stickles; Hero Arts pearls; mini brads; Recollections flower brad; Nesties circle and lacey circles dies

Here's the challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations CIC115 - photo inspiration
Card Positioning #221 - sketch (this challenge already closed but it's where I got the sketch)
Terrifically Thrilling  Thursday - Show Us What You Got
DYSU #23 - Birthday
Party Time Tuesday PTT#19 - Summer birthdays
Truly Scrumptious - Summer Sparkle

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go get busy making something inspired by the photo.

Wonky



oops! I forgot to add the charm

  
Wonky. 

I just like that word.  Wonky.

It kept coming to mind as I worked on this card for this weeks guest designer spot on the Pile It On challenge.   This week the challenge is "Crooked Angles";  no squares or rectangles for your mats or card.   The sponsor is Just Some Lines. 

don't forget the inside

The idea behind the Pile It On challenge is to make a card or project for the the PIO weekly theme and then to combine it with at least one other challenge.  The blog has lots of challenges listed on the sidebar to help you out.  Plus all the designers list the challenges for their cards.  (HINT - that's where I find most of the challenges I enter).  I am amazed at the number of challenges that are out there.  It seems like new ones are created daily.

With Father's Day fast approaching it seems like every other challenge is looking for a Father's Day or man's card.  So, I went with the men's theme and used one of my favorite Paper Pretties. stamp sets - "Handy Man".  So perfect for the guys.  I've noticed that the "blue ribbon" medallions are showing up all over the craft stores and blogland so I added my home made version using the Cat's Pajamas cutup "Rosette" die for the flared part.  I punched out the sentiment and glued it to the front and then glued some ribbon to the back.  It looks as good as anything you could by and by making it myself I got the colors I wanted.  Easy Peasy.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Handy Man"
ink - Memento "tuxedo black" for image, "Ladybug" for sentiment
paper - Recollection "Kraft" card base; Stampin' Up green and kraft cs for mats; Cosmo Cricket "the Boyfriend" dp; Neenah Classic Crest Natural White cs for image
miscellaneous - copics; Recollections brads; the Cat's Pajama's "Rosette" cutup; ribbon;  Stampin' Up corner punch; Nesties oval die

 Here's the challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C91 - Masculine card
Secret Crafter #138 - Male Card
One Stop Craft #135 - Father's Day
Creative Inspirations - Father's Day
Polka Doodles week 23 - Something for Dad
Fussy N Fancy - Man Cards
Sew Many Challenges #56 - Father's Day
Simply Create #45 - All About You Dad
Stamp Something - Something Punched
Paper Play week 23 - Father's Day/Man's Card
CRAFT #106 - Father's Day
Craft Us Crazy #10 - Father's Day
Delightful Challenges - Father's Day
Ladybug Crafts Ink #31 - It's All About the Males
Crazy #70 - Father's Day
Fab N Funky #76 - Magnificent Men
Paper Variety - For the Guys
Sisterhood of Crafters - Celebrating Dad/Men
Stampin' Royalty #75 - Let's Celebrate Dad
Critter Challenge #68 - Let's Get Krafty


Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now go make something.

Finally!



click to enlarge and see the palette charm.

 This card was a long time in the making.  I started it over a week ago but things just kept conspiring to keep me from it.  But I believe that everything happens for a reason, even though we may not know what that reason is. 

This card uses the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club sketch challenge #23. 


Here's the deets:
stamp - My Favorite Things "You Color My World"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Neenah classic Crest Natural White; Basic Grey "Phoebe" dp and mats
miscellaneous - copics; twine, charm; raspberry candy dots; nail heads; lace; sewing machine; Nesties circle and floral doily dies



don't forget the inside




Here's the challenges:
My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club MFTWSC23 - sketch
Dream Valley #8 Stamp Something
Craft Your Passion #61 Anything Goes
Crafts and Me #38 - Stamp something
DYSU #23 - Birthday
Charisma #23 - How Old?

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Monkey, Monkey, Monkey

don't you love the sock monkey charm - killer, huh?

It's the weekend, so let's get on with the Stampin' for the Weekend challenge.

If you are one of the few people who saw the Broadway play "the Drowsy Chaperon" then you know the song with the "...monkey, monkey, monkey..." lyrics.   It's a very silly song and whenever I hear it I get a giggle.

I took my daughter to see this show.  One of the souvenirs they were selling was a sock monkey.  Guess who had to have one?  I'll give you three trys... Too bad it's packed away or I'd take a picture of it with the card.  Well there'll be more sock monkey cards in my future, after the hopefully last in a long time move, I'll be sure to get it into a photo for you all.

So it's Friday, the weekend's here, whatcha gonna do?  I hope you're going to join us at Stampin' For the Weekend and make a card for our challenge.  It's a simple color combo with bling.  Make a lemon and lime card and add some bling.  Adding bling should be part of every card!  Even masculine cards can have bling.   This was made for a little boy and I'm sure he's going to love pulling each and every piece of bling off.  Boys, go figure...

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Sock Monkey"
ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
paper - Basic Grey "Origins"; Wausau "Terra Green" cs for mats; MFT "Banana Split" cs for base
and mats
miscellaneous- copics; brads; sewing machine; charm (from Oriental Trading); nesties circle and inverted scalloped circle; rick rack

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again (if you like the charm come back tomorrow).  Now go get busy making a card for the Stampin' for the Weekend challenge #10 to make a yellow and green card with bling.  Stop by the SFTW blog for some more inspiration.  The design team has been busy making samples to get you psyched up.

My Mojo Rainbow

Rainbows are gorgeous, aren't they?  It's a shame you rarely get to see them.  So I've created my little rainbow card for your viewing pleasure.  I never learned the order for the colors of the rainbow.  I must have been absent the day they taught it!  But my darling daughter gave me this line up based on the limited number of colors I chose. 

This is my mojo card.  It uses one of the Paper Pretties sentiment stamps.  I'm just starting to get the hang of this style card.  They are fun to make and work up fast.  I'll be making more of these.  Stay tuned...




don't forget the inside







Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Fun Quotes"; Waltzing Mouse "Vintage Label 10"
ink - Memento "Ladybug" and "Dandelion"
paper - Bazzill "African Daisy" cs; Recollections Basics "Red Dot", "Orange Small Dots", "Green Pinstripe" and "Blue Gingham" dp; Georgia Pacific white cs
miscellaneous - sewing machine; orange ribbon; red gingham ribbon; baker's twine; orange button; Nestie's Label 10

Here's the challenges:
Mojo Monday MOJO194 - sketch
Crafty Creations #122 - Over the Rainbow
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Corrosive #119 - Summer Colors
Sentimental Sundays #58 - Inspired by a Song (Somewhere Over the Rainbow)

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Paper Pretties Hop

The Paper Pretties June release is here.  As of 12:00 AM the store is stocked and waiting for you to shop.  Before you run over there to fill your basket go on the blog hop so you can see all the new stamp sets being used by the design team, there's always lots of inspiration along the hop.

If you got to this stop from Amber's blog you're in the right place.  If you just popped in here on your own you can go back to the Paper Pretties blog where the hop begins.  There's a list of all the participants with links to their blogs so if you need to take a break or get lost you can always go back there to get your bearings. 

When you finish up here the next stop is Domi's Mephisto's Blog

Today is also Wednesday which means it's time for another challenge.  This week's challenge PWC157 is to use summer as your inspiration.  It's such a fun time of year, you can find your inspiration in many things - the beach (that's what I chose), picnics and bar-b-ques, sports, summer holidays, and camping are a few ideas.  So make something with summer as your inspiration, it doesn't have to be a card, and you don't have to use Paper Pretties products to play along but if you have them we'd love to see them.  After you've made your card or project link them up on the Paper Pretties blog so we can see what you've done.  You can click here to find all the challenge details and the linkey thingey.

Here's the deets:
stamp - Paper Pretties "Birthday Setiments"
paper - Me and My Big Ideas "Destination Paradise" dp;DCWV neutrals cs; scraps of white cs; Memory Box pink card baseink - Ranger "Spiced Marmalade";miscellaneous - Nesties circle and inverted scalloped circle dies; baker's twine; charm; mini brads; sewing machine


Thanks for stopping by, I hope you'll come back again.  Now hop on over to Domi's blog you'll be glad you did.