Somebirdy Loves You

It's challenge time, again, at Catch The Bug! This week, we are asking you to create a project using red velvet hues! That's right, show us the colors in a red velvet cake! (Yummy!) If you need some inspiration and encouragement to participate, head over to Catch The Bug and check out all the awesome creations from the DT! Play along and you could win digi images from Bugaboo Stamps! Hurry up and get creating! You don't want to miss out on your chance to win!

For my project today, I made yet another Valentine's Day/Love Card! (I know, I know! I'm n a roll with them, lately! I've used the image and sentiment, Birdy Greetings - Birdy Love You, by Bugaboo Stamps. The image is colored with Promarkers and attached with foam mounting tape for dimension and 3D effect. The gemstone bling is from my stash. Oval and scalloped oval punches were used for the sentiment. Most of the he papers are from a new paper tablet by Stampin Up.

I made this card for my friend Dan, for Valentine's Day.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Anything Goes at Bizzy Becs
Challenge #46 Use The Word Love at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #75 Hearts at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #57 What's New Pussycat at Crafty Ann's (Papers)
Anything Goes at The Crafty Purple Frog
Valentines/Love at The Poodles Parlour
Full of Love at Craft us Crazy
New News (New Love) at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #71 Valentine's/Love at Wags -n Whiskers
Challenge #33 At The Movie(1996 Movie Title - Love Birds) at Fairy Tale Challenge
Challenge #2 Anything Goes at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #78 Circles at Sew Many Cards Challenges
Challenge #77 New Things (Papers) at My Sheri Crafts
Challenge #148 Seeing Spots at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #141 I (Heart) You at Corrosive
Challenge #97 Round and Round (Circles on DP) at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #154 Something for The Boys at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #28 New Crafty Goodies (Papers) at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #24 Animals at Dream Valley Challenges
Challenge #91 Love at I Did It Creations
Red and White + 1 (Gray) at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #58 Celebratory (Valentine's Day) at Bee Crafty
Challenge #20 Love Is In The Air at Crafter's Companion Monthly
TPE132 Photo Inspiration at The Pink Elephant
Challenge #176 All You Need Is Love at Cupcake Craft Challenges
Challenge #124 Warm Colors at Pollycraft
For The Men at Totally Stampalicious
TSG140 Love Is In The Air at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Challenge #64 Wings (birds) At Lollipop Crafts
PPMC23 Valentine's at Paper Pretties
Inspired By A Song Title (On The Wings Of Love) at Crafty Boots
CAS at Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog
Challenge #144 New Beginnings (New Love) at Digital Tuesdays
Challenge #177 Swirls (on Gray DP) at Everybody-Art
Challenge #24 Die Cuts at The Stamping Boutique
Valentine's at The Craft-Room
Include An Animal at Stamp-n-Doodle
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Heart You at Inky Impressions
Challenge #105 Love/Kisses at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #72 Something Forgotten (Gemstones) at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #16 Polka Dots at Little Darlings
Something Old (gemstones) at Cark Makin' Mamas)
Valentine's Day/Show Us Some Love At The Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #24 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #35 One For The Boys at Digistamps4Joy
Clean and Simple at Crafts 4 Eternity
Valentine's Day at Di's Digi Designs
Challenge #37 Valentines at Let's Craft And Create
One Or More Hearts at Allsorts
Anything Goes at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle
Challenge #92 Four or More Layers at Speedy The Fox and Friends
Challenge #55 Polka Dots at Fussy and Fancy
All Loved Up at Squiggle Stamps

Text Me While I'm Thinking Of You

Thanks so much to all of you for all of your fabulous entries in last week's challenge at Craft Your Passion! We have another fun challenge for you today! Our theme this week is "Text me." We want to see some text, sentiment, etc, somewhere on your project! Fun and easy challenge this time, so be sure you play along!

Our sponsors this week are Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo. Play along this week for your chance to win digi images from one or both!

For my project, I chose to alter this cute birdhouse. The birdhouse was painted with Adirondack paint daubers and then stamped with a background stamp, on the roof of the birdhouse. The front and sides are stamped with a flower stamp, and pearls added to the centers of the flowers. The bird on the front is a digi image by CocoDingo. The image is colored using Promarkers and attached with foam mounting tape for dimension. All stamping on this project was done using paints, instead of ink.

This was a fun project to do! I hope you were able to get some inspiration out of it!


I am entering this altered birdhouse in the following challenges:


Summer Flowers at Scrappy Frogs
Things With Wings at By The Cute and Girly
Anything Goes at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #32 At Least Two Words at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #87 Anything But A Card at Fun With Shapes and More
Favorite Things (Paint, stamps, pearls) at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #28 Things With Wings at Paper Play
Challenge #32 At Least Two Words at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #45 Coloring at Sarah Hurley
Challenge #87 Anything But A Card at Fun With Shapes and More
Birds Eye View at The Poodles Parlour
Challenge #26 Glitter or Bling at Pattie's Creations
Week 112 Free and Easy at All Sorts
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Things With Wings at Little Claire
Challenge #11 Summer at Dream Valley
Challenge #120 Animal Antics at Stamptacular Sunday
Animals at I Did It Creations
Challenge #5 All Things Nice at Emerald Faerie Garden
Challenge #50 Summer at Paper Playtime
Challenge #102 Summer Fun at Pollycraft
DDH10 Summer at Digi Design House
Anything Goes at House of Gilli

Birds Of A Feather

Yay! It's Monday, and that means a new challenge at Craft Your Passion! Our theme this week is Paper Piecing. We have a fabulous sponsor for you this week! We're being sponsored by the wonderful folks at AI Factory, who are giving away a digi prize to one lucky winner!

The generous folks over at AI Factory have given the DT a couple of adorable image sets to play with this week, too! Thank you, AI Factory!

We hope you will join us at Craft Your Passion for our Paper Piecing challenge this week! You know you'd love to win the digi prize from AI Factory! And while you're visiting us at Craft Your Passion, check out the other wonderful creations by the DT and leave them some love!

For my project this week, I decided to try and make a corner bookmark. I hadn't ever made one before, so I was a little nervous about it. While it didn't turn out perfect, I'm happy with the results, for my first attempt! I used scraps of papers from my stash. The birdies are paper pieced and are from the Little Birdie Told Me set from AI Factory. I used a tea green Promarker to outline around the white parts of the birds. I wanted those parts to be white, but find that the white often gets lost in everything, if it isnt highlighted. The tea green Promarker is very light and works well to highlight white spaces. I used the branch punch by Martha Stewart to make sprigs of greenery for the birdies to nest in, and to nest the heart in. The heart is punched with a punch by Creative Memories, and is attached with foam mounting tape for dimension. The border is also punched using a Martha Stewart Punch.


I am entering this corner bookmark in the following challenges:


Let The Paper Piecing Begin at Clear It Out
Challenge #51 Put A Little Song In Your Heart (Birds Of A Feather) at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Deep Ocean
Anything Goes at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #119 Branches at Creative Belli Blog
HSC5 Laser Cut Details at The Hotspot Studio 313
Anything But A Card at Divas By Design
Challenge #18 Punches And Dies at The Paper Shelter
Challenge #42 No Sentiment at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #103 Inspired By A Song (Birds Of A Feather) at Moving Along With The Times
In The Garden at Hanna And Friends
Favorite Things (Bookmarks and Reading) at Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #85 Tags or Bookmarks at Fun With Shapes And More
Challenge #12 Animal Magic at Do It With Digi's
PCJ#12 Our Feathered Friends at Paper Crafting Journey
Something With Pretty Papers at Stamp Something
Challenge #71 Die Cuts And Punches at Totally Papercrafts
Things With Wings at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #30 Things That Flutter at Delicious Doodles
In The Garden at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #8 Photo Inspiration (colors) at Jay Gee's Nook
Things With Wings at Sweet Stampin
Photo Inspiration (colors) at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Challenge #67 Things With Wings at One Stitch At A Time
Anything Goes at Mygrafico
Something Old (Punch), Something New (Patterned Paper) at Totally Stampalicious
In The Garden at By The Cute And Girly

Look, it's Dino!

Look, it's Dino from the Flintstones cartoon! Okay, well it really isn't, but I colored this image to look like Dino, because he reminded me of him. (I think Dino was a him...wasn't he? I can't remember) This is a new image from Stamping Dragon Designs. As part of Stamping Dragon's DT, I was asked to create a card using this cutie, for a new challenge at Crafter's Digital Art Center (CDAC). If you haven't checked out the site, you definitely need to, if you love Digi stamps! It is the place to be for all things Digi! Lots of free digi images and great challenges! While over there, join us at Stamping Dragon's CDAC group, too!

As I mentioned before, this card is for a challenge being hosted by Stamping Dragon Designs, over at CDAC. The challenge is a recipe: 1 border, 2 patterned Papers and 3 embellishments. You can check out the challenge at CDAC, here. Stamping Dragon Designs has this cute Dinosaur there as a freebie for you, too. Stop on over at CDAC and play along. Hopefully you will like us enough to join our CDAC group, too!

For this card, I used cardstock from my stash,and some cute new gingham DP that I got recently in a new tablet I bought from Hobby Lobby. The image, from Stamping Dragon Designs, is colored with Promarkers. (I just love gingham for some reason and have been using it a lot, lately.) The flowers are from Flor-A-Doodle and bought on clearance awhile back, at Meijer. I finished the card by adding faux stitching with a white opaque pen by Inksentials.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #42 Stitching at Dare You To Digi Stamp
Something Flowery at Stamp Something
Vibrant Colors at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #7 Anything Goes at Miami Doodles
Week #30 Flowers at Create4Fun
Challenge #76 All Creatures Great and Small at RosieD's
C4C47 Photo Inspiration (I used purple, pink, white) at Crazy 4 Challenges
Digi's at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up!
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Creative Inspirations
Girlie Girl at Scrappy Frogs
Twisted Cards #017 at Twisted Sketches
Challenge #69 Dazzle Me at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #12 3D at Creatalicious
Challenge #71 Animals at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #30 Something With A Tail at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #060 Seeing Spots (on Dino)& Dots at Treehouse Stamps
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle
Inspiration Station at Stamping Vacation

You Have To Kiss A Lot of Frogs

I think someone kissed this little frog and the only prince they ended up getting is a frog prince! He is adorable, though! This cute little fella is a freebie from Inktegrity. For some reason I've always loved frogs.... Well images of frogs... not real frogs!

For the card layout, I used the sketch TMS#2 at Tuesday Morning. Background papers are all scraps from my stash. The image is colored with promarkers, with sparkle added to the frog's crown with a clearstar gelly roll pen. The butterfly button and round buttons are from my stash.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Something Digital at Stamp Something
Challenge #99 Butterfly Bliss at My Time To Craft
Hip To Be Square at Crazy Challenge
Challenge #12 3D at Creatalicious
Challenge #27 Triple Play (3 round orange buttons) at The Pixie Cottage
Week #60 Animals at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #59 Babies or Children at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #16 Use Those Scraps at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Lots of Layers at Shelly 's Images
Challenge #6 No Sentiment at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #7 Anything Goes at Miami Doodles
Vibrant Colors at Whoopsi Daisy
C4C46 Buttons at Crazy Challenge
Animals at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays
2 Patterned Papers at Whimsical Ink Sorority
Challenge #12 Button at Lucy's Cards
CCW July challenge Holidays at Creative Craft world
Challenge #113 at Flutterby Wednesdays
Challenge #22 Digi Madness at One Stitch At A Time (OSAAT)

It's A Dragon Wedding!

It's time for a new challenge at Stamping With The Dragon. Whoo Hoo! This time, we want you to make an easel card, with the them of Love or Marriage. Here's my card to provide you with some creative inspiration. Stop by the challenge site to check out the other creative goodness from the Stamping Dragon Design Team, then get to work on your own card so you can play along with us. There is a great prize, this time! You could win an image of your choice from Stamping Dragon Designs, and a set of Promarkers! That's right, a set of Promarkers! Whooo Hoo! How's that for a prize! You know you want to play along with us now, so Come On Over!

For this card, I used the sketch at Creatalicious. This is a brand new image Janette created just for us to use for our DT inspiration this week. It's called "Rupert's Wedding," from Stamping Dragon Designs , and is available now, in their store. The background papers are from my stash, as is the ribbon. I bought these cute heart shaped ribbon sliders at Hobby Lobby just for use on this card. (My first time using ribbon sliders and I love them!)I added some skittles dyed with alcohol inks,for extra dimension and bling. The scalloped heart borders was created with a Martha Stewart PATP punch. The sentiment is from Stampin Up and says, "Heart to Heart, Hand to Hand." It is matted on white cardstock embossed with the dots cuttlebug folder. (Sorry I cant remember the offical name of the folder, right now) The faux stitching was added with a purple marker from Creative Memories. I used a clearstar gelly roll pen to add sparkle to the card, to give it that glitter and glitz look, though its very hard to see in the pic, because of the angle of the card.

Purple is my favorite color and I love how this turned out. It looks much better in person!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

H is for Hearts at Alphabet Challenge
Challenge #17 Embossing at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #13 Monochormatic With Wings at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #18 Monotone at Craftalicious
Challenge #88 Weddings at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #16 Something Old at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #31 Clean & Simple at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #35 Sugar & Spice at Totally Gorjuss
Speedy Cat's Challenge #8 Embossing at Mark's Finest Papers
Challenge #6 Mostly Monochromatic at Sundays With Crissy
Anything Goes Blog Hop Challenge at Cowgirl Up
Challenge #30 Summer at Quirky Crafts
Challenge #36 Monochrome at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #8 Your Favorite Sentiment at Sentimental Sundays
Wedding at Creative Craft World
June challenge: Embossing at Caardvarks
Challenge #1 Nice N Girly at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Summertime at Daisy Doodles
Challenge #53 Easel Card at Creative Card Crew
TT#5 Embossing at Tuesday Throwdown
Free For All at Kah Wink E Dink
All Things Spotty at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #8 Anything Goes at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #11 Sketch at Creatalicious
Challenge #19 Patterned Ribbon at Your Next Stamp
X is For Xtra Dimension at ABC
It's All About Summer at Delightful Sketches
Challenge #73 We Want To See You Shine at Crafty Creations
Summertime at Tellen's Place
Challenge #29 Sew & Sew at Fab N Funky
Challenge #19 Unique Folds at Wild Flower Patch
Summertime at CCEE Stampers
Challenge #10 Emboss It at I Love Digi
Challenge #62 Something New at S2G
Challenge #13 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
TT Thursday: Rule of 3 at Shelly's Images
Make It Shimmer at Some Odd Girl
Challenge #19 Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges

It's Time To Say

Another Of my cards for the Stamping Dragon Design Team. I loved the digi images of the clocks when I seen them, and thought they would go perfect with the love image, to make one card. Both images are from Stamping Dragon Designs. I found myself singing the song "Time In A Bottle" while I was putting this card together. I get inspirations from the strangest things sometimes!

This card is perfect for that special guy in your life.

For this card, I decided to go with a white card with red, black and silver. I love this color combo. I used Pro markers to add red highlights to the clock. The Love Image is colored with promarkers as well. (I absolutely love my new promarkers! They're one of my favorite tools! I love them as much as I love punches!) I added some old silver glitter from my stash,to the clocks to add sparkle and added glitter to the Love image as well. The sentiment is computer generated. The letters I and U are from a Martha Stewart Alphabet set. The Love image, the sentiment and the letters are all pop doted for a 3D effect.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #16 Something Old at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #17 Celebrations at OSAAT
Glitter or Flocking at Practical Scrappers
Challenge #34 For The Boys at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #95 One For The Boys at Cupcake Crafts
Challenge #48 Let's Have A Sing Song at Pollycraft
Challenge #45 One For The Guys at Incy Wincy
Challenge #23 Cards For Men at Crafty Cardmakers
Week #9 I Could Not Ask For More at Scrap It With A Song
Challenge #95 Xtra Special at My Time To Craft
Challenge #43 One For The Boys at A Crafty Little Place
Challenge #65 One For The Boys at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #27 Red, Black, White And/or Silver at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #24 All About Bling at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #23 What A Special Guy at Raise The Bar
Twisted Thursday #61 Something Old at S2G
Challenge #47 Mad As Hatters at Colour Create
Masculine Card at Shelly's Images
Week #24 Something Old at Paper Play
Challenge #4 Make It Shimmer at Some Odd Girl
Challange #54 Tool Time at Treehouse Stamps

My Dad, My Hero

I just got this new digital image from Whiff of Joy. Isn't he cute?! I just had to make a card with it! It is called Spider Henry. To me, Retro means something from my past, or some kind of funky color combo like from the 60's. LOL. I love this little guy! He reminds me of the old TV cartoon (and movie) Spiderman! I loved to watch that red & blue web slinger when I was a kid!

Little Spider Henry seems to have caught something in his web! This card is done in the trendy red, white & blue color combo.

The newsprint background paper and blue ribbon are from my stash. If you look closely you can see that he is slinging a web. The web is made with the net covering from a package of Honeysuckle White turkey breast, and adhered with glue dots. The image of the legs inside the net is a rubber stamp. I'm not sure which company, since the name is rubbed off the side of the wood. The oval and circle are punched with punches by Stampin Up!. The white white strips for the sentiments are punched with the word window punch by Stampin Up! Both sentiments are pop dotted for dimension.

Be sure and check out the Tuesday Taggers challenge blog, this week! They are giving away a great prize from Tanda Stamps!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #73 Male card at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #15 Use Something New at One Stitch At A Time
Challange #20 Use Punches at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #4 Layers at Sundays With Crissy
Challange #1 Masculine with ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon
TV Show Inspiration at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #61 Let's Get Trendy at Digital Tuesday
Retro at Doodle Palace
Touchy Feely Texture at Tuesday Taggers
Male Card at Simon Says Stamp
Another Challenge-Texture at Delightful Sketches
Challenge #13 Father's Day at Creative Cottage
Male card at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #8 For Dad at I Love Digi
Challenge #39 Red, White & Blue at Dare You To Digi Stamp
Challenge #106 Faces at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #53 Newsprint at C.R.A.F.T
Digi Day Challenge at Stamp Something
HFOS #30 Hats Off To You/Father's Day at Hand Full of Stamps
Anything Goes at Daisy Doodles
Challenge #29 Boys and thier Toys at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #25 Punch It Out at Pixie Dust Studios
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at AI Factory
Challenge #5 Anything Goes at Busy Beauties
Challenge #1 New at Craftalicious

Without You, There's No Color In My Life

This card was inspired by the sketch and challenge at Twisted Sketches.

I was driving down the road one night, on my way to work, thinking about card ideas, when the sentiment came to me...."Without you, there is no color in my life." (It's so strange sometimes, the things we are doing, when a creative idea comes to us!) The next morning, I stopped on my way home from work and bought some black & white paper, and this card came out of my head and onto paper. I love the elegant look of black and white cards, and the sentiment seemed to fit perfectly.

All Items to create the card are from my stash, except the new paper. The rose image is from Birds Cards. The rose in the center is pop dotted to add dimension.


I have entered this card in the following challenges:

Twisted Cards #007 Black & White with sketch at Twisted Sketches
Patterned Paper at Practical Scrappers
Challenge #17 You're On My Mind at Simple Doodles
Challenge #18 Make It Pop At Doodle Palace
Challenge #35 Pick Two or More at Inky Impressions
Challange #95 Flower Power at Stampavie
Unused Stash at ABC
Challenge #31 Monochromatic at Kaboodle Doodles
Challenge #20 3D at Charisma Cardz
April Showers Bring May Flowers at ClearlyIStamp
Week #30 Something New challenge at Bee Crafty