A Flowery Thanks

Happy Saturday! It's time for a new challenge at Catch The Bug! Whoo Hoo! Our theme, this week, is your favorite and mine - Anything Goes! We want all of you to come over and join us this week - It's a wide open theme, so you have no excuse not to play along!  There are lots of prizes up for grabs, so hurry and link up!

Today I made a thank you card, which uses a flower image from the Mini Set - Izzy Flowers, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. I used all papers from my stash and used some of them to create a fun set of banners, behind the image. Blue sheer ribbon runs across the bottom of the card, topped with a handmade ribbon bow. I layered diffierent colors and shapes of flowers at the top of the card. Blue dew drop pearls have been used as the flower centers and to embellish the card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #310 Springtime at Cute Card Thursday
R#165 Texture at Crafts4Eternity
CMC #41 Use A Sentiment at Card Mania
Challenge #72 Just For A Girl at Deep Ocean
Challenge #64 Something Spooled at The Squirrel and The Fox

Oh Fabulous! It's Your Birthday!

Are you ready to show us what you got?! We hope you are, because that's the theme for our new challenge, today, at Shelly's Images! What does that mean exactly, you ask?! That means "Anything Goes!" We want to see anything and everything you create, and there is no limit to how many times you can enter, so you have no reason not to play along with us this week! No Excuses! Join us at Shelly's Images and Show Us What You Got! You could win a prize from the Shelly's Images Store!


Wow, I really stepped out of my comfort zone this time. Not only did I push myself to do a non-traditional birthday card, but I also did double paper piecing on the same image! This was my first time trying it and I love the effect! I think it turned out fabulous! I'm using this week's featured image, Glass Slipper. I paper pieced the pillow of the image in a black and white floral print, and then paper pieced the glass slipper in a red and white polka dot print. All papers are new and were bought specifically for this card. It was so much fun mixing all the patterns, and I love this black white and red combo! The sentiment is punched with a trio label punch by EK Success. The flowers and red dew drops are from my stash. I used some blingy, sparkly flourish stickers to add that extra special touch to the card. Faux stitching has been added with an opaque white pen by Inksentials.

The sentiment inside says, "May Your Birthday Be As Fabulous As You Are!"

This fun card for my cousin's birthday and put it in the mail to her this morning. She's going to love it since she's really into shoes and being girly!

I used Sketch #18 From the Sketch Catalog at Sketch N Stash. (See pic below)





I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Challenge #70 Free Choice Sketch (I used Sketch #18) at Sketch N Stash
Stitching at Some Odd Girl
Challenge #49 Make Yourself Uncomfortable at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #91 What You Want at Fun With Shapes and More
Challenge #16 Favorite Embellishments (Flowers) at Craft us Crazy
Something To Say Goodbye/Anything Goes at Stamp Something
Challenge #30 Girlie Things at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #72 Stripes at Phindy's Place
Challenge #16 Add Flowers at Card Mad Fairy's
Pass it On at Jellypark Friends
Let's Get Punchy at Catch The Bug
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Di's Digi Designs
Challenge #120 Flowers and Swirls at All Sorts
Calling All Teenagers at Sweet Stampin'
Challenge #151 Inspired By A Song (Red High Heels by Kellie Pickler) at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #72 Use A Punch at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #56 Black and White +1 (Red) at 2 Sisters
Challenge #79 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #37 Layer It at Pile It On
Challenge #72 Anything Goes at I Did It Creations
Challenge #7 Spring (Flowers) at Hooked on Crafts
The F Word (Flowers) at Craft Your Passion
Birthday and Blog Hop at Southern Girls Challenge
CCH#84 Birthdays at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #51 Birthday at Top Tip Tuesdays
Challenge #7 Birthday at Crafting For All Seasons
Challenge #159 Flowers at Everybody-Art
FBC #63 Something New (Papers) at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #37 Flowers at Ladybug Crafts Ink
Spots and Stripes at Crafty Sentiments
Sing It/Or Film Title (Red High Heels By Kellie Pickler) at Simon Says Stamp
IIC#24 Dresss To Impress at Inky Impressions
Challenge #7 For Someone Special at Kelley Kids
Challenge #51 Stickers (Blinged flourishes are a sticker) at The Paper Variety
Girly Girl at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #87 Fussy and Fancy at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #116 Sparkle at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #90 Stripes and Polka Dots at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Creatalicious

Private Ryan Postcard

Daisy's Doodles has a fun new challenge for you, today! A Post Card Challenge! Doesn't that sound like fun?! We're challenging you to make a postcard, or include a postcard on your project! (This is a great time to enter those scrapbook layouts, ladies!)


Be sure to play along with us, for your chance to win a fabulous prize from Daisy's Doodles!

I've created this adorable postcard for you, today, using Private Ryan from Daisy's Doodles. He is colored with Promarkers. The wonderful camo papers are also from Daisy's Doodles. THe sheer green ribbon is from my stash as are the green hand dyed skittles (dew drops) in the upper left corner.


You can find Private Ryan and these fun camo papers available for purchase in the Daisy Doodles Store. Perfect for creating a card for the military man or woman in your life.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


HSC7 Pantone's Fall Colors at The Hotspot
Anything Goes at AI Factory
Challenge #1 Ribbons and Bows at Whimsy Stamps Inspirations
FF#88 Show Us Your Green at If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #93 Round and Round (dew drops) at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #18 Sports and Hobbies (camping) at My Mum's Craft Shop
Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #18 One For The Boys at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Cards For Men
Challenge #53 Anything Goes at Paper Playtime
CCH#80 Movies (Saving Private Ryan) at The Crazy Challenge
Anything Goes at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #44 Green, Brown and Ivory at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #106 Recipe (3 dew drops, 2 papers, 1 image) at Incy Wincy
Challenge #5 Digi + The Color Green at Kich N Bleus

Swimming By To Say Hi

I'm swimming by to say hi, today, because it's time for Marvelous Monday at Shelly's Images!

Since we've just celebrated Father's Day, I've been creating a lot of male inspired cards, lately! I have another fun masculine card for you today, using today's featured image, called bad Day Fishing. You can get this fun image today only, for a special price, in Shelly's Store

This image reminds me of going fishing with my dad when I was younger. I remember one time, I went to cast my line into the water and got it hooked in my hair! Poor dad had to sit and untangle it! The things we put our dads (And moms!) through! LOL


My card layout follows the sketch at Ellephantastic. I'm using the Bad Day Fishing and the Hook Line and Sinker images, from Shelly's Images. The images are colored with Promarkers. I cut out the Hook Line and Sinker three times, to use as an embellishment for the bottom left corner in the matted image. I used foam mounting tape to attach them, so they have the 3D effect of fish jumping out of the water. The cute fish ticket says "Swimming By To Say Hi" and is from When The Scrap Hits The Fun. I added hand dyed dew drops above the fishy ticket, to simulate bubbles. The green patterned paper is a digi paper from Bearly Mine Designs. The other patterned papers are scraps from my stash. I used a Clearstar Gelly Roll pen to add some sparkle to the water in the image.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #56 One For The Boys at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #41 Inspired By A Song (Fishing In The Dark) at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #28 Card For A Boy Or Man at Mami Doodles
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Hooked On Crafts
Dad and Lads at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #38 Open at Top Tip Tuesday
Challenge #51 Put A Little Song In Your Heart (Fishing In The Dark) at Fresh Brewed Designs
June Sketch Challenge at Ellephantastic
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Deep Ocean
Challenge #38 Mixed Alpha's (Two Types of Text on Fish Ticket) at The Paper Variety
Challenge #103 Inspired By A Song (Fishing In The Dark) at Moving Along With The Times
Summer Fun at AI Factory
Challenge #117 For The Boys at Dutch Dare
Challenge #61 Summer at Alota Rubber Stamps
Favorite Things (dewdrops) at Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #10 Masculine at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #12 Animal Magic at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #77 Sparkle and Shine at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #83 For The Men at If The Shoe Fits... Scrap It!
Under The Sea (Fish) At Cardmadfairy's Digi Day Challenge
Challenge #12 Anything Goes (used a square of their digi paper) at Bearly Mine Challenges
Challenge #1 For The Men at Paper Creator's Crafts
Sparkle Power at Fairy Knoll
It's A Man's World at Catch The Bug
Challenge #9 Cards For Men at Little Claire's
Challenge #44 For A Guy at 2 Sisters
Anything Goes at Mygrafico
Challenge #116 Fun In The Sun at Stamptacular Sunday
Sparkly or Summery at Sentimental Sundays
Summer at Crafty Ann's
Something Old (Paper Scraps), Something New (Fish Ticket) at Totally Stampalicious
Masculine and No Flowers at Stamp-n-Doodle

Christmas Noel

I know, I know, you're probably all tired of seeing Christmas cards by now! I promise this is my last one for the year! LOL

We have a new challenge at Craft Your Passion. Christmas is this week, so we just had to ask you to see your Christmas cards, this week! I know many of you are still doing those last minute cards, so this is your chance to show off those last minute Christmas cards before you put them in the mail, or hand deliver them. We hope you'll stop by Craft Your Passion, this week, and play along with us for a chance to win an image of your choice from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo.


My card layout is the sketch at The Pixie Cottage. I just had to use it for my card layout when I seen it. This sketch made a fantastic card and was so much fun to use! My image is from CocoDingo and is colored with Promarkers. Of course, I had to add glitter and sparkle using my clearstar gelly roll pen, since it's a Christmas card! All papers and ribbon are from my stash. The Christmas ticket is by Stitchy Bear Stamps, and is mounted with foam mounting tape, for dimension. I've used the branch punch by Martha Stewart, to make branches of greenery for the upper left corner of the image. I finished the corner of the image with a few skittles (or Dew Drops) dyed with Cranberry color alcohol Ink.

I love the way this card turned out!

I made this card especially for my close friend, Dan, who I met online years ago. We've been friends for about 8 years.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #89 Sparkling Christmas Plus Digi at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #27 Merry Christmas at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #49 Sketch at The Pixie Cottage
Anything Goes at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #14 Christmas Inspired at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #133 Christmas Cards at Spoon Full of Sugar
Challenge #44 Merry Christmas at Penny's Paper Crafty
Christmas at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #106 Christmas at Creative Belli Blog
Christmas or Winter at Fairy Knoll
SHC4 Sparkle and Bling at Studio 313 Hotspot
Challenge #63 Your Choice-I chose #60-Christmas at Crafty Catz Weekly
AIF061 Anything Goes at AI Factory
SISC39 Holiday Card at Stamp Insanity
DDCC#93 Winter at Dutch Dare
Challenge #49 Bling It On At Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #75 Just A Little Christmas at Hanna and Friends
It's Christmas at The Crafty Purple Frog
Anything Goes at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #53 Christmas at Stampin For The Weekend
Day #295 Ad Inspired (colors, candle) at 365 Cards
Anything Goes at I Did It Creations
Challenge #11 Anything Christmas at Digi's With Attitude
Challenge #9 Punch or Punches at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #34 Inspired By A Song (Candle In The Wind) at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #83 Anything Goes at All Sorts
Celebrations at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #18 Christmas at 2 Sisters
Challenge #10 Punch It Out at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
ASC31 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at The Crafty pad
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
TD07 Christmas at Tiffany's Doodles
Challenge #61 Someone Special (my Friend, Dan) at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #36 Colors of The Season at Wee Memories
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #45 Anything Christmas
Challenge #30 Christmas at Paper Playtime
Challenge #90 Christmas at Cupcake Inspirations
Something With A Tag or Pocket at Stamp Something
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts