Froggy Drink Mug

It's ABC Monday at Catch The Bug! Don't you just love seeing all those other projects you can do, with digital images, other than cards?! Gotta love how versatile digi images are! Want more ABC inspiration?! Then come on over to Catch The Bug and see the fabulous ABC creations from the design team!

I found this great drink cup and altered it with papers from my stash. I used the image Hoppy Occasions - Groom, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. The stars were punched with a star punch by Recollections.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #84 Anything Goes at Artistic Inspirations
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Aurora Wings Challenge Blog
Monochrome at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Challenge #28 Punches or Dies at Fitztown Challenge Blog
Challenge #112 Punches and Dies at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #204 Anything But A Card at Robyn's Fetish
Animal Antics at Crafty Calender

Share The Birthday Humor

Good Morning Bloggers!

Are you ready for more birthday fun at Catch The Bug?! Remember, all week long, we are celebrating Bugaboo Stamps third birthday, with a challenge and prizes - every day! Plus, don't forget, our blog hop is still going on! You still have time to hop and link up with us for your chance to win!

Today's birthday challenge theme is to make a humorous birthday card. Check out Catch The Bug for more humorous birthday inspiration and link up with us while you're there! Fun and prizes await you!

My humorous birthday card uses the image Hoppy Occasions - Birthday, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers, I went with a monochrome color scheme in greens for the card, with just a little color in the image, since it IS all about partying! The sentiment is punched with oval and scalloped oval punches. I decided not to do a lot of embellishing on this card, in case I want to use it for a guy.  It makes a great card for a male!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Favorite Things (Bright Colors) at Natalie and Amy's Challenge Blog
Challenge #5 Spark Your Creativity/Anything Goes and Pin And Tack
Challenge #81 Anything Goes at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #143 Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Challenge #61 Anything Goes at Let's Craft and Create
>Challenge #23 Anything Goes at Platypus Creek Digitals
Challenge #58 Animals (Monkey) and Pets at Fairy Tale Challenge
Anything Goes at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #14 Clean and Simple at Hotshot Crafts
Challenge #166 Spotty at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #126 Celebrations (Birthday) at 2 Sisters
Anything Goes at Mayzy Art
Challenge #146 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #2 Funny Birthday at Pile It On
Challenge #165 Out With The Old (papers) at Corrosive Challenge
Inspired By: Your Favorite Stamp (Hoppy Occasions - Birthday) at Creative Inspirations Paint

Your Pad Or Mine?

Time for my first project for Shelly's Images! Whoo Hoo! I am soooooo excited to be part of this talented group of ladies! Thanks so much for having me, ladies!

My card features the awesome image, My Pad, from Shelly's Images. I love this image because of its versatility, and darn it he is just cute! Wouldn't you just love to find him floating in your pond? He is available, right now, and on sale for a limited time, so pop on over and grab him for your very own! you can find him, and lots of other fantastic images at Shelly's Images store. Keep coming back and browsing the store, too, because there are lots more wonderful images being released.

I went with birthday for this card, because my cousin has a special birthday coming up and she absolutely loves frogs! Since its a frog, I went with a mostly monochromatic color theme, with some pink thrown in, and another little splash of colors in the ribbon. The layout is a combination of sketches from Sunda Sketch & Stamp and Sketch #79 from Card Patterns. I got creative with the one from Card Patterns and moved the elements all around to fit on my lattice cut card. For the card base, I used white cardstock with a lattice pattern cut into one side. The patterned paper is from my stash. After adding the paper, I decided to fill in the rest of the white space by sponging it with a green ink pad. (This is a new technique for me.) The image is colored with Promarkers and then cut out and mounted with foam mounting tape, for dimension. The ribbon is from my stash. The sentiment is from Stampin UP and is punched using the oval and scalloped oval punches. Lots of fancy cutting on this card! I added pink flowers for dimension and to give the card that little extra something that it seemed to be missing, without them. I love the look of the scrunched pink flowers.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #73 Cool It at Digital Tuesday
Recipe Time at Papertake Weekly (3 flowers, 2 pieces of ribbon, 1 sentiment)
Birthday at Kah Wink E Dink
Challenge #22 Birthday at Meljen's Designs
Challenge #36 Pink & Green at Penny's Paper Crafty
Ribbon or Lace at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #34 Hot! Hot! Hot! (Frog on lily pad reminds me of summer)at Charisma Cardz
C.R.A.F.T 65 Milestone Birthdays at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Thoughtful Thursday 0024 Something That Starts With An A (Animal) at Other Lovelies
Challenge #6 Monochrome at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Challenge #31 Keep It Plain and Simple at Totally Papercrafts
Week #67 Park Inspiration (Frog & Flowers) at All Sorts
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Bee Crafty
Challenge C4C52 Lattice at Crazy4Challenges
AS24 Pretty In Pink at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Try A New Technique at Whimiscal Ink Sorority
Sketch #79 At Card Patterns
Challenge #20 In The Forest, at Wee Memories
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #28 Girly at One Stitch At A Time
Flower Power at Cowgirl Up
Challenge #18 Fussy Cutting at Just Scraps
Challenge #35 Sketch at Sunday Sketch & Stamp
TD03 Flower Power at Tiffany's Doodles
Challenge #18 Clean & Simple at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #33 Summer Inspiration at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #74 Photo Inspiration (colors) at Cupcake Inspiration
SMC#24 Happy Birthday at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #106 Something Digital at Cupcake Crafts
Challenge #59 Add A Little Nature (frog & flowers) at Pollycraft
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Daisy Doodles

Froggy Birthday

It's Time for a new challenge over at Craft Your Passion! This time, we have a color challenge. We want to see the colors: Red, Green & black on your project. It does not have to be a card... It could be almost anything you can craft! This challenge is perfect for Christmas creations, being your images will be stamped or printed in black most likely and Red and Green are such popular Christmas colors. Create a project and play along with us, for your chance to win an image each from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo. As a bonus, if you use one of their images and win, you will get a bonus image of your choice, from one of those wonderful ladies!

This image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and is colored with Promarkers. (Yes, yes, I love these things!) All Papers are from my Stash. The sentiment is from the Warmest Regards set from Stampin Up and punched with their oval and scalloped oval punches. The sentiment is pop dotted for dimension.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Spotlight Challenge: Punches at Crafty Cardmakers
The Primaries at Kah Wink E Dink
Sing It Baby at Simon Says Stamp (Happy Birthday)
Challenge #22 Birthdays at your Next Stamp
Challenge #119 Clean & Simple at Meljen's Designs
Challenge #35 Anything Goes at Penny's Paper-Crafty
A Is For August at The ABC Challenge
Circles, Circles, Circles at Little Red Wagon
Midweek Throwdown: Patterned Papers from Stash at OWH Stars & Stamps
Week #42 Something Old Something New at Crafty Angels
Twisted Thursday #68 Back To School or Red at S2G
Birthdays at Stamp N Doodle
Celebrate Life at Frosted Designs
Challenge #17 Open House at Just Scraps
Challenge #15 Anything Goes at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #8 Primary Colors at Crafty Ho's
Animal Applause at Stamping Vacation

Happy Frog Day

Happy Frog Day! And Happy New Challenge day, at Stamping With The Dragon! Today we have a new challenge for you, and this time it is a color challenge: Use Blue, Green & Yellow on your project. Easy challenge, so get out your inks and get busy so you can play along with us! The prize is 5 digi images of your choice from the oh so cute Whimsy Stamps!

You can check out the challenge and play along with us here.

Ohhhh darn it! I just posted my card pic and looked at the post and realized I forgot to put any yellow in my card and used some pink and purple in the paper LOL. Oooopsie sorry Janette. I think my brain was on vacation when I did my card! I think everyone is just being nice to me by not pointing out my oopsie!

I kept my card clean & simple this time. All papers are from my stash, as is the cute frog ribbon. I've had this ribbon forever and had been waiting to find the right use for it. The image is from Whimsy Stamps, and is colored with Promarkers. The flowers are by Prima. I used crystal stickles to add sparkle, and pearls for the centers.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Watch This (Three's Company-3 pearls) at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #91 Patterns at One Stop Crafts
Clean & Simple at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Animal Applause at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Creative Inspirations
Week #42 Something Old Something New at Crafty Angels
Challenge #4 Green at Donna's Den of Crafts
Animal Antics at Creative Crafts
Sing It Baby at Simon Says Stamp (Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog)
Challenge #119 Clean & Simple at Meljen's Designs
Challenge #35 Anything Goes at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Midweek Throwdown: Patterned Papers from Stash at OWH Stars & Stamps
Lots of Paper At Stamping Vacation (Paper with large flowers)
A Is For August at The ABC Challenge