Seeing Red at Craft Your Passion

It's challenge time, again, at Craft Your Passion. This time, we want to see the color red on your project! This is an easy one, folks, so there is no reason not to join us this week! Be sure you link up a project and play along with us for your chance to win some goodies from our featured sponsors,Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo!


For my project, I did an altered notecard holder. Actually, you can use it to hold most any kind of paper, recipe card, photo, etc. I plan to use it in my kitchen to hold recipe cards when I try new recipes. I found the notecard holder in the clearance bin at Michael's and decided to alter it. It was a fun project and very easy to do! The image is flower boot by Lauretta's Digital Stamps and is colored with Promarkers.


I am entering this altered notecard holder in the following challenges:


Simply Red at Scrappy Frogs
Anything Goes at Mygrafico
Challenge #116 Favorite Ice Cream Combos (Pistachio and chocolate with strawberries) at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #147 Anything Goes at Everybody-Art
All About Keeping it Simple at Clear It Out
Challenge #71 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #41 Anything Goes at Scrapbook Sisters
Something Old (Image), Something New (Note Card Clip) at Sweet Stampin
In The Garden at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #42 Anything But Square at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #29 Heavy Metal (metal notecard clip) at Mami Doodles

Iris Says Punch It

Wow, I can't beleive how quickly my DT term is coming to an end at Iris' Spot?! This is me second to last card for Iris, and I have had so much fun being a part of her DT.

We have another new challenge for you, today at Iris' Spot. Our theme this week is to use punches. This week, we are being sponsored at Iris' Spot by the wonderful Lauretta, from Lauretta's Digital Stamps! Be sure you play along with us for your chance to win!

This theme was an easy one for me, because I am a self-proclaimed punch addict! I love love love punches! I decided to try and do something funky and different with the punches this time. I'm not sure if I succeeded, but I wanted to experiment. The image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and is colored with Promarkers. I used the large flower punch by Stampin Up and made bunch of them in solids and patterns. I arranged the solids in all sorts of ways behind my image. Then trimmed piece of the patterned punched flowers to fit on the solids. It has a cool effect with the funky flowered DP. Speaking of the DP, that funkiness is from my stash, as is the funky glittered ribbon and the glittered flower by Prima. A pretty pink adhesive pearl is the finishing touch for the flower center. I added glitter the heart image and to the flower centers on the DP.



I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #23 Use A Punch Or Die Cut at Mami Doodles
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
CAS at Some Odd Girl
CHallenge #38 Raise A Smile at Crafty Ann's
April Showers Bring May Flowers at Crafty Calendar
Punches or Dies and Ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Four Or More Layers at Catch The Bug
Clean and Simple at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Challenge #15 Say It In Style at Pile it On
Challenge #23 Use A Punch Or Die Cut at Mami Doodles
Challenge #89 Flower Frenzy at Incy Wincy
Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #34 All Girl at Lollipop Crafts
Girly at Stamp-n-doodle

Red Green & Cream at Craft Your Passion

This week's challenge at Craft Your Passion is a color challenge. We want to see you use the colors red, green & cream, together. This is a simple challenge, this time around,so, what are you waiting for?!! Come on over to Passion and play in our color challenge for a chance to win some cute digis from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps.

This cute winter girl image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps for my card. I have colored her in red, green & cream, with Promarkers. It is hard to tell, but I colored the background of the image, to make it a cream like color. The Gingham DP was originally red and white, but I used a Promarker to color in each white square, to add the cream color to the DP. The card base is cream colored. The Scalloped circle is punched using a 3" scalloped circle punch by EK Success. Glitter and sparkle has been added to the image, with a clearstar gelly roll pen. (Yes, yes, I love that thing! I admit it!)

This card is for my friend, Mary, who loves Winter!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #90 Winter Wonderland at The Pink Elephant
Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
AIF061 Anything Goes at AI Factory
Winter and Sparkle at Stamp-n-Doodle
Challenge #30 Anything Goes at Crafty Ann's
H is for Hats at Alphabet Challenge
Challenge #83 Anything Goes at All Sorts
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 #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
Anything Goes at Creative Craft Challenges
Challenge #46 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Digistamps4Joy
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Anything Goes at For Fun Challenges
Anything Goes at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Sew Many Cards
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Winter Sparkle at Stamp-n-Doodle
To Who (Someone who loves winter) at Stamping Vacation
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle, at The Character Cafe
Challenge #36 Colors of the Season at Wee Memories
CCH47 Punch It at The Crazy Challenge

Let's Go Monochrome

Happy Monday, everyone! You know what Monday means, right?! Monday means a new challenge at Craft Your Passion. We have a fun theme for you this week--Monochrome! I love making Monochrome cards, so I was thrilled to see this as our theme for the week.

Come on over and play along with us at Craft Your Passion and link up your project with the wonderful Mr Linky! Just a reminder of the standard rules--No backlinking of projects, please. Your creation must be new, created on or after the challenge date, and before the challenge ends. Any backlinked projects will not be in the prize drawing. You don't want to miss out on your chance to win images of your choice from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps, so please please please don't backlink. We really don't like to have to exclude anyone from winning.

I have to admit, my card for this theme is quite busy, with lots going on. I'm not quite sure what possessed me to add so many embellishments to it! LOL Part of me thinks it's a bit over the top... Then another part of me thinks it looks nice the way it is. But, I'll let you all decide for yourselves.

I went with all pink, again. I'm not much for wearing pink, but I love creating with this color. The image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and colored with Promarkers. I punched the circle and scalloped circle with punches by EK Success. I found this yummy scrummy pink velvet ribbon in the sewing section of Walmart and before I know it, it jumped into my cart and followed me home! The pink sparkly trim with the dangling crystals is actually mini Christmas tree trim from Hobby Lobby. I finished the card off with some gemstone flourishes and adhesive gemstones in two corners of the image.

And there you have it -- Monochrome with lots and lots of bling!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Cut It Out at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #118 Use Shapes at Everybody Art
Challenge #42 Anything Goes (Sparkle optional) at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #34 Punches and Die Cuts at Artful Inkables
Challenge #11 Layer Upon Layer at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #131 Anything Goes at A Spoon Full of Sugar
Challenge #50 Going With The Flow at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #97 Old & New (Old paper, New xmas tree trim) at Passion For Promarkers
Clean & Simple at Paper Pretties
Challenge #105 Anything R (Ribbon) at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #24 Anything Goes at Inktegrity
Challenge #47 One For The Girls at Charisma Cardz
Thoughtful Thursday 0036 M Is For (Monochrome) at Other Lovelies
Challenge #4 Anything Goes at Hodge Podge Shop
Color Inspiration at The Town Scrapper
Challenge #69 Anything Goes at Paper Cutz
Challenge #31 Surprise Me at I Did It Creations
Week #80 Monochrome at All Sorts
Challenge #9 Texture (Crystals and Rhinestones) at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #41 Bling It Up at One Stitch At A Time
Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
Let's Get All Girly at Whoopsi Daisy
Anything Goes at Paper Cupcakes
Challenge #16 Sparkle & Digi at Karber Weekly Challenge

Just What I've Been Waiting For! Bugaboo Is Having A DT Call!

Whooo Hooo! I'm so excited! Bugaboo Stamps is having a Design Team Call! I've been waiting for this, because I love Jodie's images, and I've always wanted a chance to be on the Bugaboo DT. Stella is my favorite Bugaboo persona but I absolutely love them all. To apply, we are being asked to submit three projects. One using a Bugaboo image, and two others.

I chose this card as my Bugaboo submission. It features Stella, my favorite Bugaboo lady. She cracks me up. I made this card back in August for a back to school challenge. All of Jodie's images are fun to work with.




My second card is another of my favorites, and my first attempt at a side step card. Halloween is one of my my favorite holidays and I had so much fun creating this card. I ended up doing two side step cards for Halloween, because they turned out so cute. The images for this card are by Stamping Dragon Designs, except for the skull--Which is a preprinted piece of acetate.





My last card is a favorite because of the striking color scheme and the overall elegance. The piano image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps.





Now, I just have to keep my fingers crossed, and hope that Jodie will email me (lunalayercakemall@yahoo.com) and tell me I made it through to round 2.

What A Color Combo

Monday is challenge day at Craft Your Passion, and this time we have a fun color combo challenge for you. We want to see you use a combination of purple, orange and black on your project. I'm sure it reminds you of Halloween colors, but think outside the box. It doesnt have to be a halloween project. There are so many ways you can use this awesome color combo. Play along with us at Craft Your Passion for your chance to win digi images of your choice from laureatta's Digital Stamps and Cocodingo.

For my card, I used papers from my stash. The image is from Lauretta's Digital Stamps, and is colored with Promarkers. I sponged the edges of the image with purple ink then used black ribbon with orange polka dots, also from my stash. The flowers were stamped and then punched out and mounted with glue dots. I love how this card turned out. My card fits the sketch at Stamps R Us, though I've changed up the sketch a bit.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Three Of A Kind (3 DP -one is the top layer of the flowers) at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #19 Purple & Black at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #3 Four Layers of DP (Two under image, 1 for bottom layer of flower, 1 for top layer of flower) at Southern Girls Challenge
F Is For Flowers at The ABC Challenge
Challenge #6 Flower Power at Scrapbook Sisters
Hump Day Inspiration #18 Halloween or Fall at Inktegrity
SISC31 Live Free & DIE CUT at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #16 Stamped (or Digi) Project at Just Inspirational Challenges
Challenge #13 Coloring at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Challenge #63 Anything Goes at Paper Cutz
Challenge #25 Girl Of My Dreams at IDIC CHallenge Blog
Challenge #15 Black & Orange at Something Completely Different
Challenge #25 Digi and your favorite coloring medium at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #35 Embellish It at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #22 Free For All at Pear Tree Designs
No! No! Challenge at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #7 Sketch at Stamps R Us

CAR-AZY about You!

It's sketch time for our new challenge at Craft Your Passion. I love sketches for creating my card layouts. It encourages me to think outside of my box. We have a fun sketch this week, so get busy creating and play along with us. You could win images of your choice from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo.

For my card, I am using an image by CocoDingo and decided to go with a male card. THe song, "Cars" by Gary Numan is my song inspiration. I always have trouble creating a card for a guy, but I feel like I am slowly getting better at it. I created this card for my hubby and used a blue and brown combo. I really like how it turned out. The image is colored with my Promarkers. All papers are from my stash. This is my first time using the blue striped paper--I think it is perfect for a make card.
The scalloped circle is punched using a punch by EK Success.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #43 Use A Digi Image at Fab N Funky
Challenge #39 Circles (scalloped circle) at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #14 Something For A Teenager at Crafts And Me
Unused Stash at For Fun
Two Patterned Papers at Tellen's Place
Challenge #25 Digi and your favorite coloring medium at Crafty Ann's
Week #73 Inspiration From Song Title (Cars by Gary Numan) at All Sorts
Something Punchy at Stamp Something
Week 41 Use A Digi Stamp at Create4Fun
Challenge #24 Stripes at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #15 Anything Goes at Ellephantastic
Challenge #34 Use Your Digi Stamps at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at Craftalicious
No! No! Challenge at Stamping Vacation

She's Been Framed!

Well, here we are, again. Challenge time at Craft Your Passion. This week,we are challenging you to use crumpled paper on your project. This was my first time trying this technique, and I have to admit--It was really fun! Of course, I won't admit how much ink I had all over me by the time I was done creating my project! We'd love for you to get out your paper, crumple it up, create something fabulous with it, and then join us in our Challenge. Come on over to Craft Your Passion and link up your new crumpled paper project! Just a reminder of the standard rules--No backlinking of projects, please. Your creation must be new, created on or after the challenge date, and before the challenge ends. Any backlinked projects will not be in the prize drawing. You don't want to miss out on your chance to win images of your choice from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps, so please please please don't backlink. We really don't like to have to exclude anyone from winning.

Now that the formalities are out of the way, here is my project for this week's crumpled paper challenge.

I've used an image by Lauretta's Digital Stamps, and created a frame with chipboard. I'm hanging this on the wall in my scraproom. (I plan to create another later, for use on another project!) The image is colored with Promarkers then cut out and mounted on crumpled paper that I distressed with ink. I used foam mounting tape to mount the image to the crumpled paper, to give it a 3D effect. The flower at the bottom is from Recollections. I used red stickles to highlight the flower and add sparkle and bling.

I am entering this frame in the following challenges:

What A Glamour Puss at Creative Craft Challenges
Bloomin Marvelous at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #14 Something For A Teenager at Crafts And Me
Challenge #42 Is It Black or Is It White at Fab N Funky
Challenge #24 Bling It On at The Creative Cottage
Week #71 Vintage at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #70 Fancy Floral at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #27 3D It at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #069 Grid (DP) at Treehouse Stamps
Anything Goes at Stamp N Doodle
Challenge #24 Anything But A Card
Challenge #8 Go Digital at Karber Weekly Challenge
Challenge #64 Anything Goes at Pollycraft
Challenge #62 Sparkly Glitter at Incy Wincy
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Open theme at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Anything But A Card at Whimsical Ink Sorority
Challenge #6 Get Ahead, Get A hat at Crafty Emma's
Vintage at Lots To Do
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up
Challenge #3 All That Glitters at Gingerloft

Feeling Sketchy at Craft Your Passion

It's sketch time at Craft Your Passion, this week. Come on over and play along with us, for your chance to win an image of your choice from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps.

Here is my DT submission for this week's sketch challenge. I used the new Santa image from Lauretta's Digital Stamps. I used the sketch at Craft Your Passion. Santa is colored with Promarkers.

I love this combination of the three different patterned papers. All of which are from my stash. I used a scalloped border punch from Fiskars, for the border. I punched a snowflake and mounted it on a punched circle, pop dotted for dimension. Mr Santa's beard is sparkly as is the snowflake, compliments of my clearstar gelly roll pen.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #17 Clean & Simple at Daisy Doodles
WFWC32 Stripes at The Wildflower Patch
Glitter Glitter Glitter at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #64 Christmas at Moving Along With The Times
Challenge #12 Christmas at Just Inspirational Challenges
Thoughtful Thursday 0026 at Other Lovelies
Challenge #9 Polka Dots & Circles at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Digi Day at Stamp Something
U For Unused Stash at Alphabet Challenge
CHallenge #19 Christmas Colors at Fussy and Fancy
Week #70 At Least Three Punches (circle, scallop border, snowflake) at Allsorts
Challenge #101 Anything Goes at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #11 Borders at Timbroscrapmania
JUGS 51 Green, Red & Black at Just Us Girls
Challenge #77 Grid at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #82 Clean Up The Dust at Corrosive
Challenge #77 Photo challenge (Colors) at Cupcake Inspirations
ASC25 Sparkle and Glitter at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #22 Keep It Simple at I did it Creations/Robyns Fetish

Musical Elegance with Craft Your Passion

It is challenge day over at Passion. This week, the recipe is to use lace and at least one flower on your project. It doesn't have to be a card, it can be any type of craft project. Play along with us, for your chance to win an image of your choice from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo. They have some cute images to choose from!

I decided to go with black and white + one other color, for my color combo. I love this color combo and it is perfect for this image. I'm using the Piano image from Lauretta. I colored the piano with a black Promarker and then added highlights using a white Prismacolor colored pencil. This is my first time at coloring an all black image, so I was very nervous about it, at first. While its not perfect, it came out better than I thought, and I'm pleased with the overall effect. My card layout is based on the sketch from Paper Pretties, 2 Sketches 4 You,and from the sketch at Kgiron. The striped DP is from my stash, and I used one piece of it flipped the opposite direction, for some added contrast. The red flowers are a recent purchase and its my first time using them. (I love them!) The flowers are by recollections and give the card 3D dimension. This ribbon is new also. I found it at Michael's and it struck my fancy. I had no idea when I bought it, what I would use it for... But then when I seen this piano image, I new this ribbon would go perfectly. (I love the silver blingy gems on this ribbon, and the sparkle!) I purchased the lace from Joanne's specifically for this project.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Sketch at Paper Pretties
Just The One (One piece of lace) at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #105 In The Garden (Flowers) at My Time To Craft
Challenge #23 Stripes at Meljen's Designs
Gems & Sparkle at Crafts and Me
Challenge #38 Living In A Material World at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #35 Inspired By A Song (Piano Man) at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at Just Inspirational Challenges
Challenge #4 Musical at The Stamp Man
Challenge #7 3D at Sarah Hurley Challenges
Something Cute at Stamp Something
Color photo inspiration challenge (White, red, green) at Frosted Designs
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at Bee Crafty
Challenge #99 Clean & Simple at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #22 Flower Power at Lexi's Creations
Shine and Sparkle at Oh! Alice
Pile On The Flowers at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #10 Free Theme at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #2 Floral Frenzy
Flowers at Really Reasonable ribbon
Challenge #9 Sparkle and Shine at Sundays With Crissy
Challenge #29 Blooms, Butterflies Or Bling at One Stitch At A Time
Anything Goes at Cowgirl Up
Challenge #84 Sweet Sketch Sunday at Kgiron
Challenge #35 Pile On The Layers at Pile It On
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at GIngerloft
Challenge #14 Anything Goes at Scrappekammert
Challenge #62 Stripes at OLLCB
Paper Flowers at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Daisy Doodles
Sketch #60 at 2 Sketches 4 You
Challenge #29 Clean & Simple at Crafty Cardmakers
Challenge #6 at Pocket Full of Posies
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Just Inspirational challenges

Challenge #20 Make Your Own Flowers at CYP

Wow, we had over 100 entries for our "anything goes" challenge over at Craft Your Passion! Whoo Hoo! It was wonderful to have so many participating and to be able to hop over to your blogs and see all the wonderful creativity and leave you all some love. GO check it out, to see if you were the lucky winner for last week!

Now, for our new challenge over at Craft Your Passion. This week's theme is, Make Your Own Flowers." Come on over and play along! You could win your choice of images from CocoDingo and Lauretta's Digital Stamps. As an extra bonus, if you use one of their images on your project, you will win an extra image of your choice! Stop on over and play along,and while you are there, check out more creative inspiration by the rest of our design team.

For my card, I chose an image from Lauretta's Digital Stamps. I love this fairy. She looks like she is blowing kisses. I went with a blue color theme this time, with a sprinkle of other colors, here and there. I used the sketch at 2 sisters. The cardstock and DP are scraps from my stash. I colored the image with Promarkers. The DP and the ribbon are all from my stash. My flowers were made by punching blue cardstock with the 5 petal flower punch from Stampin up, then I folded the flowers in half and added foam mounting tape under the fold, to make them stand out, before attaching them to my card. I used a white opaque pen by Inksentials to add the lines and centers to the flowers. (I know I know.. I could have done a better job. The lighting wasn't very bright and i miseed some spots, not to mention got a little crooked. I wasn't drinking, I swear! LOL

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #72 Use Your Scraps at Digital Tuesday
CCCB Week #18 Isn't She Lovely at City Crafter
Challenge #104 In The Garden at Everybody-Art
B is For Blue at ABC Challenge
Challenge #36 Flower Power at Fab N Funky
SDC13: Wing,s Wings, Wings at Stampotique Designers Challenge
Challenge #65 Winter Blue at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #33 Die Cuts at Charisma Cardz
Challenge #21 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Digi Day at Stamp Something
Week #33 Punch It at Prairie Fairy
Challenge #55 Anything Goes at Paper Cutz
August Challenge (Blue & Green) at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #30 Diva at Drunken Stampers
Challenge #5 Sketch at 2 sisters
Challenge #2 With Wings at Craft Your Days Away
Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Crafty Ho's
Challenge #105 Blue & Green
Challenge #61 Elegant Ladies at OLLCB
Challenge #73 Card For A Girl at Stamp With Fun
Challenge #36 Ribbons & Bows at Bee Crafty
Inspiration Station Challenge at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #3 Flowers at Magical Monday Challenges
TD03 Flower Power at Tiffany's Doodles