Hugs And Kisses

Wow! Can you believe Valentine's Day is just around the corner?! Seems like the perfect time for a love themed challenge doesn't it?! I hope you think so, because that is exactly our theme, this week, over at Catch The Bug! We want to see your love themed creations, so  start creating and come over to Catch The Bug and enter for your chance to win digi prize packs from Bugaboo Stamps.

My card today uses the image, Skye's Alexis - xoxo, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. All papers are from my stash. I used some new Valentine ribbon from Michaels. The heart shaped buttons are from Hobby Lobby and are threaded with with red and white twine. I used red ribbon to make a handmade bow and added it to the bottom left corner of the card.

This is my version of a cute male valentine card. It made especially for my friend Snippy. I hope he loves it!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Anything Goes at Rhedd and Rosie's Challenge
Challenge #189 Hearts at Hanna And Friends
Valentines/Love at Milk Coffee Challenges
Challenge #68 More Than Two Colors at Fairy Tale Challenge
Lots of Love at Jellypark Friends
Love or Valentine's at Di's Digi Designs
All you Need Is Love at A Gem Of A Challenge
Challenge # 192 Feel The Love at Corrosive Challenge
Challenge #75 Hearts at Addicted To Stamps
Challenge #6 Use Red at Crafting From The Heart
CCH #144 Love Is In The Air at The Crazy Challenge
Bingo (Buttons, Stamp and White) at Crafty Boots
Challenge #109 Love/Valentines at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #62 My Cutie Valentine at The Cutie Pie Challenge
Valentine's/Love at Melonheadz Friends
Hearts at Artistic Inspirations
Challenge #68 Be My Valentine at The Ribbon Reel
Love Is In The Air at Crafty Sentiments
Valentine at Oldie But A Goodie Challenge
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
PWC #296 Valentine's/Love at Paper Pretties
Have A Heart at Simon Says Stamp
CHallenge #99 Sharing The Love at Aud Sentiments
IIC #145 Someone Special at Inky Impressions
Challenge #163 Old (Papers) and New (Ribbon) at Penny's Paper Crafty
Challenge #70 Show Us Some Romance at Crafting For All Seasons
Challenge #85 Hearts at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #58 Red Pink and White at Lia Stampz
Valentine at The Male Room
February Monthly Challenge - Anything Goes at Crafting By Designs
Challenge #15 Anything Goes at The Stamping Chef
Challenge #75 Anything Goes at Crafty Ribbons
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at 4 Krafty Girlz
Challenge #307 Lots of Love at Cute Card Thursday
R#162 With Love at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #74 Love at Delicious Doodles
Challenge #107 Be My Valentine at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #85 Use The Color Red IN Your Image at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #58 Valentines/Love at Craftitude
Challenge #6 Valentines/Love at Get Inky
Love is All Around at Crafty Calender
Anything Goes at One Crazy Stamper
VSC #20 Red, Pink and White at V's Sweet Ideas
Challenge #126 Valentine at My Sheri Crafts
Challenge #58 Hearts at Pumpkin Spice
Anything Goes at Craft-Dee Bowz

Lets Get Patriotic!

Happy Summer and Happy 4th of July Weekend! It's time for my next design team card for Stamping Dragon Designs, and I decided to do this one in honor of Independence Day. Yay for stars & Stripes and the red white & blue! You have to love this cute image of Rupert from Stamping Dragon Designs waving the flag!

This reminds me of how we used to have big fireworks celebrations at the lake near our house every summer on the 4th. Followed by a cook out, of course. It was always one of my favorite summer activities.

For this card, I used the sketch at Critter Challenge. The papers for this card are from my Stash. The patriotic paper came from an old summer stack from DCWV. I added sparkle to the dragon's tummy and to his wings, with a clearstar gelly roll pen. I used red, white and blue skittles for embellishing. The image was colored using Promarkers.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #20 Sketch at Critter Challenge
Chapter 19: Twinkling, Glittery or Sparkly at Oh! Alice
Challenge #7 Summer at Timbroscrapmania
Challenge #65 Stars & Stripes at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #19 Stars & Stripes at One Stitch At A Time
Summer Loving at Pear Tree Designs
Challenge #57 Simply Summer Ooh La La
Challenge #48 Things With Wings at Incy Wincy
Challenge #2 Summer at Iris
Challenge #65 Summer Time at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #110 Animals at Spoon Full Of Sugar
Make It In An Hour at Crazy Challenge
Challenge #9 Fireworks at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #21 Stripes at I love ProMarkers
Challenge #14 Red, White & Blue at Meljen's Designs
X Is For Xtra Dimension at ABC Challenge
All About Summer at Delightful Sketches
Challenge #17 Summer at Creative Cottage
Patriotic at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #101 Sparkling at Stampavie and More
Challenge #2 Red, White & Blue at Papercraft Star
Challenge #29 Red, White & Blue at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #42 Red, White & Blue at AI Factory
Grand Opening Challenge: Make It Sparkly at Glitterbabe
Day 122: Shades of Blue at 365 Cards
Day 122: Shades of Red at 365 Cards
Challenge #25: Colors of Your Flag at Raise The Bar
Twisted Thursday #63 Sparkle at S2G
Anything Goes With A Celebration at Shelly's Images
Patriotic at Stamp N Doodle
SISC16: Red White & Blue at Stamp Insanity
Red White & Blue Stars & Stripes at Frosted Designs
Colors of your Flag at Stamp Something
FF#40 Spread Your Wings at If The Shoe Fits
Week #26 Anything Goes at Prairie Fairy
Challenge #3 Cute at Craftalicious
Challenge #10 Summer at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #48 at Paper Cutz
Challenge #16 Summer at Easy Craft projects
No Ribbon at Stamping Vacation
Clear As Mud At Stamping Vacation

Get Well & Encouragement

Whooo Hoo! I finally have new outlets and new lighting in my scrap room, so I can start cleaning it up and organizing it now! This has me all motivated, so I cleaned off two work tables/desks and finished things that were lying on the desk undone. All this excitement got me all motivated for making cards, too!

Today I decided to do a get well/encouragement card, but I wanted to try a new fold... a Z fold card. Plus, I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could make a sketch work on a Z fold card. I used the sketch (clean and simple one) from Priscilla's Styles and from Day 119 at 365 Cards. (I'm not sure if this qualifies in their opinion, but I feel like it does, since it resembles the sketch when the card is closed) I love the look of it, and it was very simple to do!

For this card, I used a new (to me) image by C. C. Designs. Isn't she just too cute?! How could she not make anyone feel better?

I went with red and white for this card, and used three different shades of red. The background paper is all from my scrap box. I used red ribbon with a string of tiny pearls stitched in. The flowers are from Prima, with skittles added for the centers.

The inside of the card says:

Take Each Day As It Comes And Live It In Peace.
The Good Thoughts Of All Who Love You Will Keep You Warm.
Rest Easy, For Everything Will Take Care of Itself...
And Each New Tomorrow Will Find You Feeling Better.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #19 Unique Fold at The Wildflower Patch
X Is For Xtra Dimension at ABC Challenge
Twisted Thursday #62 Something New at S2G
Challenge #13 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #19 Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #47 Mad As Hatters at Colour Create
Rule Of 3 at Shelly's Images
Challenge #13 Monochormatic With Wings at Fussy and Fancy
Red & White At Town Scrapper
Day 122: Shades of Red at 365 Cards
Day 119: Sketch at 365 Cards (My card fits the sketch when closed)
Challenge #2 Monotone at Craftalicious
Challenge #89 Strawberries & Cream at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #17 Layers at Lexi's Creations
ASC20 Flower Power at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #9 use 3 Flowers at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #6 Mostly Monochromatic at Sundays With Crissy
Challenge #70 Flowers at Corrosive
Challenge #31 Ribbon at Quirky Crafts
Challenge #18 Flower Power at Magical Crafts
Challenge #14 Make Mine A Double Double (2+ flowers on the card)
Challenge #5 Ribbon at Hidden Treasures
Challenge #1 Nice N Girly at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Challenge #48 Things With Wings at Incy Wincy
Midnight Madness #60 (Pick One) Sketch at Priscilla's Styles (mine follows the clean Simple sketch)
Make It In An Hour at Crazy Challenge
Challenge #1: One For The Girls at Pocket Full of Posies

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