Happy Birthday Dude!

Happy Spring!Are you enjoying the wonderful weather we've been having? Is it making you feel creative and crafty?! Well if it is, then you came to the right place! I'm here to tell you that It's time for a new challenge at Catch The Bug! The theme is Anything Goes, so you may create anything your little heart desires and enter it in this week's challenge! We hope all of you will come 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!

I went with a masculine birthday card, this time. My card uses the image, Johnny - Guitar, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. I used scraps of paper from my stash. Don't you just love it when you can create a card entirely from scraps?! I used tiny blue gemstones to embellish the card, as well as the addition of a gold metal music note charm. The sentiment is Hand Stamped and is punched with oval and scalloped oval punches. The image and sentiments are both mounted with foam mounting tape for added dimension.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #32 Anything Goes at Fitztown Challenge Blog
Challenge #91 Punches or Dies at Let's Craft and Create
Challenge #90 Cute Only at Fairy Tale Challenge
Scrappy Cards at Creative Romance
Birthdays at Di's Digi Designs
Challenge #9 Sports And Activities (Music) at Open Minded Crafting
Birthday at Eclectic Ellapu
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Crafting From The Heart
Anything Goes at My Craft Creations
Challenge #115 For The Boy/Man In Your Life at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #40 Anything Goes + A Sentiment at Scrapbook Stamp Society
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at The Paper Nest Dolls
Hand Colored Image at Whoopsi Daisy
Anything Goes at Crafty Sentiments
TTCRD April 29 - May 5 at Through the Craft Room Door
Add Dimension at Delightful Challenges
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #105 Birthday Sentiment at Aud Sentiments
IIC #157 Anything Goes at Inky Impressions
Challenge #76 Lots of Layers at Crafting For All Seasons
Give Us A Giggle at The Male Room
May Anything Goes at Crafting By Designs
Challenge #27 Anything Goes at The Stamping Chef
Challenge #84 Anything Goes at Little Miss Muffet Stamps
Challenge #17 Anything Goes at Crafty girls Challenges
Challenge #90 Cute Only at Fairytale Challenges
R#174 Stamp It at Crafts4Eternity
RCC#91 Party Time at The Ribbon Carousel

It's Your Birthday, Girlie!

Here we area, again, folks, with new sponsorship news! Bugaboo Stamps is sponsoring
Sisterhood of Crafters! Are you excited, yet?! You should be, because you have  a chance to win if you play along in thier new challenge! The theme is "Diamonds, Pearls and Lace."  Calm down, don't get worried - You don't have to use them all on your project - You just have to use one.  Simple enough, isn't it? Now hurry over to Sisterhood of Crafters and play along for your chance to win images from Bugaboo Stamps!

Need some inspiration for your "Diamonds, Pearls, And Lace" project?  How about this cute card?

My card uses the image, AKV Ballerina - Ballerina 1, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers. I used these fun plaid and spotted papers from my stash.  To keep with the theme, I used both lace and diamond like gems on my project.  The gems and swirls are from my stash.  The ruffly, girly pink lace is from Hobby Lobby.  I used a small piece of the lace and formed it to make a flower, and added a gem in the middle for the flower center.  The sentiment is by Sentiments 4 You and is punched with circle punches.  My card layout uses the Sketch at Sketch And Stash. I used a clearstar gelly roll pen to add glitter and sparkle to the ballerina's crown.

Gotta love this girly birthday card!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #81 Circles at Top Tip Tuesday
Challenge #92 Sketch At Sketch And Stash
Challenge #26 Swirls And Lace at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Challenge #117 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #150 We're Celebrating at Hannah And Friends
Round And Round We Go - Circles (Polka Dots) at Milk Coffee Challenges
Challenge #81 Crazy Circles at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #52 Sizzlin' Summer Colors (With Lace) at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Let's Party at Incy Wincy
Day 145: Overlapped at 365 Cards
Linky Party #99 Anything Goes at Make It Monday
Take Inspiration (Colors) at Oldie But A Goodie Challenge
Make Your Own (Made A Flower Using A Scrap Of Lace) at Papertake Weekly
Royal Digi Challenge #10: Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
PWC216 Birthday Cards at Paper Pretties
Challenge #67 Birthday Girls at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #94 Anything Goes at Crafts And Me
Challenge #45 Happy Birthday at Divas By Design
Challenge #28 Flourishes and Swirls at Emerald Faeries
Challenge #50 Recipe (1 image, 2 papers, 3 embellishments) at Card Makin' Mamas Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Jackson's Digital Expressions

Have Yourself A Rockin' Christmas

Happy Christmas in July!  Have you all been playing along with the Christmas In july mini challenges at Catch The Bug?! I hope so, because there are some awesome prizes up for grabs! If you haven't been playing along, you still have time!  And don't forget, we're having a blog hop, too! So be sure you stop by so you can have a chance at the fabulous prizes from Bugaboo Stamps!

We have a new mini challenge for you, today, at Catch The Bug.  We want to see you make a Christmas card using an image that isn't usually for Christmas.  Oh, c'mon now, don't moan and groan! It's much easier than it sounds, really! You can make most anything work for a Christmas card! Go ahead, give it a try! You'll be surprised how easy it is!

As a matter of fact, I've done just that, using the image, Lil Dude - Guitar, from Bugaboo Stamps.  He's colored with Promarkers. I wanted to incorporate music into this one, and make it a masculine Christmas card, so I went with shades of brown and blue. My papers are patterned with glittered snowflakes, music notes, and stripes.  I decided not to use any embellishments on this one, since its totally masculine.  My card layout uses the Sketch at Sketches By Carly.


See! It's easy to use a non Christmas image to make a Christmas card! Now, come play in the challenge with us, and show us your creation!



I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #60 Sketch at Sketches By Carly
Challenge #22 Christmas In July at Hooked On Craft Challenges
Challenge #153 Sentimentally Yours at Corrosive Challenge
Royal Digi Challenge #10: Anything Goes at The Scrapbooking Queen
Christmas in July at Can You Digi It
Hands Full Of Love at Stamps and Create
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at The Crafty Bloggers Network
Challenge #26 Ho Ho Ho Christmas at Crafter's Companion Monthly
CCH#24 Christmas In July at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #80 One For The Men at Top Tip Tuesday
Challenge #11 For Men at Always Crafting
One Stamp at Scrapbook Sisters
Challenge #43 Christmas In July at Divas By Design
Let's Hear It For The Boys at Sisterhood of Crafters
4CCC-98 Stripes at 4 Crafty Chicks
Challenge #28 Music at Paper Play Challenges
Challenge #36 Christmas In July at Creataliicous
Same Old Song And Dance at Guylou's Inimitability
Challenge #125 Lots of Layers at Totally Papercrafts Christmas In July at Send A Smile For Kids
It's Christmas at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #100 Christmas In July at 2 Sisters
Challenge #122 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #22 Kids Or Babies at The Squirrel And The Fox
TSG165 Christmas In July at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Dust It Off (Papers) at Incy Wincy
Christmas In July at Cards For Men
Challenge #24 Three Of Something (Three colors: Blue, brown, white) at Love To Create
Linky Party #98 at Make It Monday
Christmas In July at Totally Stampalicious

What An Angel

I'm back with another card for you, today! Still working on those Christmas cards! While I'm here, I want to tell you about the new challenge starting today, at Daisy's Doodles. The challenge this fortnight is "Aww What An Angel/Something sweet, with a sketch, which I've followed on today's card. Sketch challenges are my favorite, because they show me different ways to lay out my cards, that I may not have thought of before! Come on over to Daisy's Doodles
and play along with us for your chance to win some awesome digi images!

For today's project I'm using this fortnight's challenge sketch, and this adorable angel image from
Daisy's Doodles. She's colored with Promarkers. All papers are scraps from my stash. The angel has had glitter and sparkle added with a clearstar gelly rollpen. I printed the angel three times then did fussy cutting around each one and layered them on the card with foam mounting tape for dimension.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #28 Christmas With Sparkle at Creatalicious
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Challenge #68 Snow Angels at Wags 'n Whiskers
Challenge #34 Christmas at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #29 Christmas at Fairy Tale challenge
Anything Goes Christmas at Stamping With The Dragon
For Someone Special at Crafty Purple Frog
Christmas at The Poodles Parlour
GL30 Christmas and Winter at Gingerloft
Challenge #14 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Jay Gee's Nook
Challenge #21 Sparkle at Dream Valley Challenges
Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge #3 Christmas and Winter Wonderland at The Scrapbooking Queen
Challenge #44 Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesdays
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Divas By Design
Challenge #42 Anything Goes at The Paper Shelter
Challenge #33 Merry Christmas (No Animals) at Digi Stamps 4 Joy
Challenge #85 Lots of Sparkle at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #181 Christmas Carols (Hark The Herald Angels Sing) at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #101 Christmas With Sparkle at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #51 Photo Inspiration at Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge
Challenge #86 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas at Raise The Bar
Challenge #1 Celebrate (christmas)at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards
Challenge #163 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at The Secret Crafter
Challenge #138 CASE A DT Member (Linda – Christmas Theme) at Corrosive
Christmas/Holiday at One Crazy Stamper
Challenge #57 Christmas at Bee-Crafty
Christmas at Bizzy Becs
Challenge #139 Go Green at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #146 Photo Inspiration at Crafty Creations
Challenge #33 Merry Christmas (No Animals) at Digi Stamps 4 Joy
Holiday Card at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Music at Frosted Designs
Challenge #139 Photo Inspiration (Christmas) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #39 Make It Shine (Glitter) at Mami Doodles
Challenge #91 Be Square at One Stitch At A Time
Week #91 The Magic of Christmas at The Shabby Tea Room
Challenge #14 Cut It Out at Paper Make Up Stamps

Music Speaks What Cannot Be Expressed

Whooo Hoo! It's Marvelous Monday at Shelly's Images and you know what that means! Time for a new featured image that is on sale, today only, for a special price! Today's image is Clarinet, from Shelly's Images.You can pick up this fantastic image in store today only for a special sale price! Check out her other fabulous images, too, while you're there!

For my project today, I have used today's featured image, Clarinet, colored with Promarkers. I went on a search and find mission, to get these musical designer papers, specicically to use with this image, and finally found them at Hobby Lobby. The image is punched out using ascalloped circle punch from EK success, and the matted on black. I used a decorative corner punch, to punch corners of the white musical DP. The red and black spotted paper is from my stash. I've used red roses by recollections, and a gray pearled trinket pin by Maya Road. The sentiment is computer generated and then punched using a tag punch by Stampin Up. The ribbon on the tag is from my stash. I added glitter and sparkle to the clarinet image and to the red roses using a clearstar gelly roll pen.

The Tag sentiment says:

Music Speaks What Cannot Be Expressed,
Soothes The Mind and Gives It Rest,
Heals The Heart and Makes It Whole,
Flows From Heaven To The Soul.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Anything Goes at Creative Card Crew
Digi Day at Stamp Something
Challenge #34 Punches or Die Cuts at Artful Inkables
Challenge #28 Clean & Simple at Tuesday Throwdown
Sparkle & Shine at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #13 use Ribbon at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #48 Sparkle & Shine at The Pixie Cottage
SDC#21 Punches & Die Cuts at Stampotique
Week #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
Punches at Paper Pretties
Challenge #76 Lots of Spots at Moving Along With The Times
Make It Uber Girlie at Some Odd Girl
SISC38 It's All About Me, Me, Me at Stamp Insanity
Thoughtful Thursday 0037 Starts With N (notes) at other Lovelies
Challenge #28 Heavy Metal (Trinket Pin) at Paper Romance
Fabulous Friday: Use Ribbon at Frosted Designs
FF#58 Texture at If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #16 Anything Goes at Mami Doodles
Glitter, Glitter, Glitter at The Character Cafe
G Is For Glitter at Alphabet Challenge
Challenge #110 Anything Goes at Digi's With Attitude
Challenge #8 Color Inspiration at Pattie's Creations
Recipe at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #35 Case your Favorite (I used the colors from Jinny) at Wee Memories
Challenge #10 Punch It Out at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #16 Anything But A Christmas Card at CES Challenges
Challenge #43 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #2 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Jay Gee's Nook
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
Challenge #11 Show Us Your Best at Making It With Meslyn
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Clean & Simple at Totally Stampalicious
TSG85 Use Your Stash at There She Goes Clear Stamps
Challenge #45 Use At Least 3 DP at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Karber Weekly Challenge
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Stamps R Us
Challenge #29 Glitter & Pearls at Lexi's Creations
SHC4 Sparkle and Bling at Studio 313 Hotspot
Extra Extra (Red Thread) at Stamping Vacation

Anything And Everything At Craft Your Passion

I'm so excited to tell you about our new challenge at Craft Your Passion! It's time for another, "Anything Goes" challenge! Whoo Hoo! And this time, not only can you win images of your choice from Lauretta's Digital Stamps and CocoDingo, but we have a sponsor! We are being sponsored by the wonderful Judy, from Pizazz Aplenty, and she's giving our winner a yummy package of goodies from her store! If you haven't checked out Pizazz Aplenty, you better rush over to their store and check it out! Judy has fast service, and there is still time to place an order for Christmas!

Judy, from Pizazz Aplenty, has been kind enough to send our Design Team some goodies to work with! How cool is that?! Most of our Design Team are using products from Pizazz Aplenty on thier creations this week! Head over to the Craft Your Passion challenge blog and check out the scrumptious creations from the rest of the Design Team!

For my card, I used this fabulous guitar image by CocoDingo. I love this image, because it's perfect for a male card, and I can still add bling! I went with a blue and brown combo for my card. The DP is from my stash. I used a clearstar gelly roll pen to add glitter and more sparkle to the image. All bling used on my card, is from Pizazz Aplenty. I've used three 7mm blue rimstones in the top left corner, three 4mm shiny gold gemstones in the bottom right corner, and four 4mm shiny gold gemstones for the corners of the image. The guitar image has several of the beautiful sparkly 3mm clear gemstones along the music staff. I am sooooo loving all this bling from Pizazz Aplenty! My card fits the sketches at Simon Says Stamp and The Pixie Cottage.

This card was so much fun to make, and I really enjoyed playing with all the goodies Judy sent us! Thanks so much Judy!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #12 Anything Goes at Tip Top Tuesday
Challenge #77 Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Sketch at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #47 Sketch at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #79 Old & New (Old papers, new bling) at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #105 Starts With R (Rimstones-Blue-In upper right corner) at Creative Belli Blog
All That Glitters at Fairy Knoll
SHC4 Sparkle & Bling at Studio 313
Thoughtful Thursday 0037 Starts With N (notes-Music Notes) at Other Lovelies
Bling at The Town Scrapper
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Card Makin Mamas
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #9 Texture at Craft Your Days Away
Challenge #42 Old Stash New Stash At One Stitch At A Time
Anything Goes at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #2 Anything Goes at Creative Cowgirls
Anything Goes at Sugar Sweet Paper Treats
TSG84 Bring On The Bling at There She Goes Clear Stamps

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