Sail Away with Clyde

Hi  everyone! Today is Tuesday, so that means new release day at Bugaboo Stamps! Are you ready for new cuties?! I hope you said yes, because we surely do have some new cuties for you! There's lots of creative goodness to show off one of one of the new images - Clyde Hot Air Balloon, over at Catch The Bug, so go check out the wonderful creations from the rest of the DT! You're going to love them!

Here's my card, featuring one of today's new release images, Clyde Hot Air Balloon, from Bugaboo Stamps. Clyde is flying up up and away, today - Is he coming to visit YOU? He's colored with Promarkers. I paper pieced the hot air balloon and the basket he's riding in.  All papers are by Recollections and are from my stash. I doodled two clouds by hand and cut them out, then outlined them with Promarkers and blended them, then matted them with an aqua colored paper. The image is attached with foam mounting tape for dimension, so he'll look like he's sailing through the clouds.

My card layout uses the sketch from Sunday Sketch And Stamp.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #158 Sketch at Sunday Sketch and Stamp
Challenge #21 All Creatures Great and Small at Songbird Challenges
Challenge #45 3,2,1 Recipe ( three patterned panels, two clouds, one image) at The Cutie Pie Challenge
Challenge #21 All Creatures Great and Small at Songbird Challenge
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Lacy Sunshine Challenge Blog
Challenge #71 Things With Wings at Let's Craft and Create
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #68 Oh To Be Young Again at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #3 One For The Girls at Crafting With Dragonflies
Challenge #7 Blooming Lovely and Rhedd and Rosie's Challenge Blog
Challenge #172 Scene at Hanna and Friends
Load On The Flowers at Milk Coffee Challenges
Challenge #126 The Same Letter - B (Basket, Blooms, Balloon) at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #186 Anything Goes With Flowers at Totally Gorjuss
Winged Things at Di's Digi Designs
Challenge #7 Flowers/Roses at Hobby Cutz Challenges
Challenge #22 Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #82 Summertime at A Gem of A Challenge
Anything Goes For Kids at Send A Smile 4 Kids
Challenge #166 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #22 Stripes And/Or Plaid at Pile It On
Challenge #162 Use A Digi at I Did It Creations
Challenge #45 Summer at The Squirrel And The Fox
Anything With Wings at Eclectic Ellapu
Favorite Color Combo (Red, Aqua, Yellow) at House of Gilli
TSG210 CAS at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Bring On Spring at Incy Wincy
Challenge #245 Summer Scene at Cupcake Crafts
MIM #143 Anything Goes at Make It Monday
Challenge $65 Anything Goes Plus Texture (Raised Image for Dimension) at Tammy's Scrappin Corner
Summer Fun at One Crazy Stamper
Anything Goes (Celebrate Summer) at Mema's Crafts
Challenge #186 Flowers at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #108 Summer Feeling at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #89 Dies And/Or Punches at Bearly Mine Designs
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Things With Wings at Crafty Calender
Summer Fun at One Crazy Stamper

Let's Get In Shape

Hey Hey Hey! It's Tuesday, folks! Tuesdays mean new release day, at Bugaboo Stamps! Today's new release being featured is Critter Sign It - Bear. I love this one, because it could be used as a tag, a card front, or even a shaped card - Like I've done, here.

Come over to Catch The Bug and see all the creative ways the DT has found to show off today's featured new release!

I've made a shaped card, using Critter Sign It - Bear, from Bugaboo Stamps. I printed the image, attached it to folded cardstock and hand cut around it, to create the shaped card. I used the paper piecing technique to add pink swirly patterned paper to the sign. The sentiment is punched with a circle punch and attached with foam mounting tape, for dimension.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #73 Anything Goes at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge #3 Make It Cute at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #27 Dont Be Square at Cardmad Fairy's Digi Days
Challenge #80 Anything Goes at 2 Sisters
It's Your Choice at All Sorts
Challenge #39 Paper Piecing at Craft Your Days Away
Inspired By: Paper Piecing at Creative Inspirations Paint
Challenge #21 Anything Goes at Crafter's Companion Monthly
Challenge #77 Shaped at Alota Rubber Stamps
CIC46 Let's Get Shapely at Clearly Inspired
GL34 It's A Zoo at Gingerloft
Challenge #39 Less Is More at Let's Craft and Create
Challenge #74 All Creatures Great and Small
Challenge #52 Add A Sentiment at The Paper Shelter
Linky Party #78 at Make It Monday
Challenge #19 Favorite Techniques (Paper Piecing) at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #2 Anything Goes at Always Crafting
CCH #108 Anything Goes at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #83 Let's Punch It (Circle) at Sew Many Cards
Challenge #99 Paper Piecing at Craft Your Passion
Shaped But Not Square at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #27 Shaped Cards at The Stamping Boutique
Paper Piecing at Paper And Such Online

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

When Bears Go Camo

Let's celebrate those wonderful military personnel who serve our country. This cute little bear is a Dustin Pike Image (Doodle Dragon Studios. I wanted to make the bear different, so I printed him onto camo patterned paper and then paper pieced the heart with a white cardstock heart colored with a pastel yellow promarker. The army green star patterned paper was cut out using nestabilities. The textured paper behind the image is some old paper from my stash, that I am trying to get rid of. I've had it since I started card making and I don't like it, so I've kept putting off using it. Card layout was made by using the sketch at Doodle Dragon Studio's challenge blog.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #21 Military at One Stitch At A Time
Lots of Layers at Shelly's Images
Challenge #3 Cute at Craftalicious
Who's Ready For A Sketch at Doodle Dragon Studios
Challenge #11 Punch It at Speedy The cat's Friends
Challenge #38 Oldest Thing In your Stash at Creative Inspirations
GCA#96 at Ann's Creative Nook
Challenge #26 use 2 patterned papers at Crafty Sentiments
TSG63: Photo Inspiration at TSG
Challenge #3 It's A Man's World at Donna's Den
To Die For at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at 2 Sisters
Your Favorite Coloring Technique at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #102 Anything Goes at Stamp With Sarah Kay
Lots of Layer at Shelly's Images