Get Sketchy And Be Naughty For Christmas In July

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas In July, everyone! It's day two of our Christmas in July celebration at Catch The Bug and we have another fun filled challenge for you. For today, we want to see you follow the sketch we've provided for you.  Remember, you have until the end of our Christmas In July celebration, to complete all of the challenges, so you still have time to play along in all of them, if you wish! (And we hope you will!) Plus, our blog hop is still going on, so be sure you play along with that, too.  Lots of awesome prizes up for grabs, this week, at Bugaboo Stamps! Come visit us at Catch The Bug to get the party started!

My card, today, of course, uses our provided sketch. I've used the image and sentiment set, Stella Christmas - Sled, from Bugaboo Stamps, colored with Promarkers.  All papers are from my stash.  I love these papers, because they're so funky and fun. The image has been punched with circle punches.  I used rhinestones to bling up two of the corners.  My sentiment is punched with oval and scalloped oval circles.

I am entering this Christmas card in the following challenges:

Challenge #215 Christmas at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #185 Christmas in July at Sassy Studio Designs
Challenge #10 On The Fringe (Scallops around Sentiment) at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #138 Anything Goes at Crafts And Me
CHNC July at CraftyHazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra
Christmas Outdoors at holly Jolly Christmas
Challenge #88 Spots, Stripes or Both at A Gem of A Challenge
Challenge #28 Anything Goes at 613 Avenue Create
Challenge #36 Christmas In July at Platypus Creek Digital Stamps

Sweet Christmas Fairy

Good Morning, everyone!It's Terrifically Thrilling Thursday at Shelly's Images! Are you ready for a new challenge!

This week's challenge is to use red and green on your project. Now, I know that makes most of you think Christmas, and if you want to make a Christmas project, that's great, but its not a necessity! You can make anything, as long as it has red and green in it. There are prizes to be had, so be sure you play along!

My card is done in reds and greens, using scraps from my stash. I'm using today's featured image, Christmas Fairy, from Shelly's Images. She is colored with Promarkers. I distressed the edges of the plaid paper with my Tonic distressing tool and then inked the edges with green ink. (I'm loving the distressing technique, lately!) I added a couple of sparkly flourishes to bling it up. I love the color of the bling, it goes beautifully with the card and I love the overall effect. This card has somewhat of a vintage feel to it, to me. (But then, maybe I'm crazy. I never have been good at the vintage effect) Either way, I'm happy with how it turned out.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #37 Show Us Your Beary Best at The Beary Scrap
Circles at Bizzy Bec's
Holiday/Winter at The Stamping Boutique
Challenge #8 Christmas Cards at Floweret
Challenge #15 Red, White and Green at Here Come The Boys
Bling It On at Stamps R Us
Challenge #71 Anything Goes at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #28 Christmas With Sparkle at Creatalicious
Challenge #75 Lots of Circles at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #70 Christmas With Vintage at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #71 Dots at Alota Rubber Stamps
Challenge #82 Christmas Cards at Phindy's Place
Challenge #107 Swirly Whirly at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #66 Let It Sparkle at Two Sisters
Challenge #89 Anything Goes at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #148 Red, Green and Silver (flourishes) at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #25 Vintage Christmas at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #38 Fairy Tales are Real at Mami Doodles
Challenge #120 Christmas Fun at Pollycraft
Free For All At Creative Craft Challenges
Use Those Scraps at Magical Monday
Challenge #13 Christmas Theme at Paper Creations Ink
Fantasy at Crafty Boots
Challenge #47 Anything With A "P" (Plaid,, Present) at Pile It On
Challenge #181 Open at Flutterby Wednesdays
Christmas Crackers at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #169 Christmas Card at Everybody-Art
Challenge #138 Sparkle And Shine at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #62 Vintage at Crafts And Me
Red And Green at Delightful Challenges
Challenge #93 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #121 Red And Another Color (Green) at Hanna and Friends
Challenge #21 Flourishes at House of Gilli
Challenge #68 Snow Angels at Wags 'n Whiskers
For Someone Special at Crafty Purple Frog
Challenge #13 C as (Christmas,Circles) at Deep Ocean
Challenge #4 Photo Inspiration) at Truly Madly Crafty

Gotta Love That Mug!

It's Thursday! That means its always a Thrilling Thursday, at Shelly's Images, because it is time for a new challenge!

Our challenge theme this week is Something Sweet. This could be sweets to eat, or just something sweet to look at. Be creative and interpret the theme any way you like, just think sweet!

Have you heard about the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals we give out at Shelly's Images?! These are basically the DT's Top 3, and each winner receives a buy one image get one free coupon for the Shelly's Images Store! We also have our random winner, called our Top Hat winner, who wins an image of their choice from the Shelly's Images Store! Several chances to win!

Come on! You know you want to play along with us!

Hurry over and play along at Shelly's Images!


For my something sweet card, I am using this yummy mug of Hot Chocolate from the Mug Set available in the Shelly's Images Store. I've colored the image with Promarkers. This is breast cancer awareness week, so I just had to use some pink in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness and Survivors. Of course, the Image Has chocolate and marshmallows, so when we throw those in, we have a Pink, Brown and Cream color combo. For my card layout, I used the sketches at Creative Craft Challenges and at The Pixie Cottage. I've used three different designer papers, all from my stash. I used two decorated inchies in each corner. (If you haven't tried these, they are so much fun to make!) The image and one of the inchies have had glitter and sparkle added with a clearstar gelly roll pen. The sentiment is by Stampin Up and is punched with the word window and modern label punches. The inchies are decorated with a cupcake, flower, sparkly rhinestones and a hand stamped background. I've used foam mounting tape to attach the image, the inchies and the sentiment, to give the card a 3D effect.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Sketch at Creative Craft Challenges
Challenge #20 Die Cuts or Punches at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Creatalicious
Challenge #94 Book Or Movie Title (Movie - Like Water For Chocolate) at Pixie Dust Studio
Fussy Ctting at Frosted Designs
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Crafts 4 Eternity
Challenge #10 Punches or Dies at The Emerald Faerie Garden
Challenge #99 Pink, Brown and Cream at Die Cut Dreams
Challenge #32 Sweets and Treats at My Partner In Crafting Crime
Challenge #75 Polka Dots at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #123 Five Or More Flowers at All Sorts
Challenge #82 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #21 Something Sparkly at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #20 3xDP at Bearly Mine Challenges
CC#87 Think Pink at The Crazy Challenge
Challenge #50 Pink For Boobies at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #46 Anything Goes at Woodware USA
Make it Dimensional at Delightful Challenges
Think Pink at Dude Time Doodles
Challenge #78 Fabulous Fun + Any Other F Word (Flowers) at Cooking It Up With Katie
Challenge #90 Sketch at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #55 Use A Digi At Crafts And Me
Sparkle and Bling at Simon Says Stamp
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #70 Think Pink at My Sheri Crafts
Photo Inspiration (Colors: Pink & Brown) at Scrap Affair
Challenge #40 Brown at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Heartsong Inspirations

Catch A Falling Star

Whooo Hoo! Guess what, everyone?! I'm a Guest Designer this week at Penny's Paper-Crafty! I'm so excited to get to join this awesome team for a guest spot this week! And for such a fun theme, too! The theme at Penny's Paper-Crafty this time is Anything Goes! Wow! Talk about freedom to create! You can create anything your little heart desires, to play along with us this week! Our challenge runs for two weeks, so that gives you lots and lots of time to play along with us! There's a fabulous sponsor, too, as always! The sponsor this round is Some Odd Girl! Their stamps are awesome! (Wish I could play for a chance to win!) You don't want to miss out on your chance to win this fantastic prize, so hurry on over to Penny's Paper-Crafty and join us! Remember, this time, Anything Goes!





For my card layout, I am using the sketch at Fetch A Sketch. I've used the photo inspiration at Some Odd Girl for my color scheme, as well as some colors from the Sugared Spectrum color palette from Design Seeds. (Color Palette Shown Above) Of course, I just had to use a Some Odd Girl image! This is Star Bright Tia and she is just too cute! I've colored her with Promakers and added glitter and sparkle to her with the Clearstar Gelly Roll pen. The banner is punched using the new Banner punch by Stampin Up. I used some multicolored fiber in shades of pink to trim the top of the banner. All papers are from my stash. The new ruffled ribbon is from Stampin Up. The rhinestone bling is from Recollections. The image is popped up from the card with foam mounting tape.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #129 Photo Inspirations (Colors) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #12 Photo Inspiration at Jay Gee's Nook
Challenge #21 Something That Sparkles (Glitter, rhinestones) at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #7 Sketch at Fetch A Sketch
Anything Goes at Sweet Stampin'
Challenge #122 Keep It Simple at Allsorts
Favorite Colors (Pink, Blue and Green)at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle
Photo Inspiration at Some Odd Girl
Challenge #17 What A Cutie at Stampin For The Weekend
ASC Add A bow at Aly's Snday Challenge
Challenge #66 Clean and Simple at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Creatalicious
Challenge #49 Card For A Child at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #10 Glitter at Bows And Berries
Challenge #9 Buttons or Bows at Paper Creations Ink
Challenge #17 Ribbon at heart Song Inspirations
Challenge #84 Anything Goes at Critter Challenge
Punches or Cuts (triangles for banner) at Paper Cupcakes
Challenge #50 Anything Goes at Lollipop Crafts
Let's Hear It For Girl Power at Jen's Digi Stamps
PTT#35 Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesdays
Banners/Bunting/Flags at Crafty Sentiments
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #89 Pop It Up at The Pixie Cottage
Challenge #137 Clean and Simple at Crafty Creations
IIC#26 Punches or Dies at Inky Impressions
Challenge #33 For The Girls at The Paper Shelter
Finding Inspiration at Design Seeds at Jellypark Friends

We're Doing It In Purple And Black

Here we are, again, with a new challenge at Stamp Insanity. We've combined into one wild and crazy ward, and challenges will now last for two weeks. That's more time for you to create and play along in each challenge! Whoo Hoo!

My project today uses the image, Morgan, from the Morgan's Spell set, by Stamp Insanity. She's colored with Promarkers. I'm using one of my favorite new supplies... A New Felt Die Cut Spiderweb. Isn't it Cool?! Two corners of the card are blinged up with black shiny gemstones.


I am entering this card in the following challenge:


Anything Goes at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #36 For A Girl at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #16 Favorite Embellishments (Die Cuts) at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #91 What You Want at Fun With Shapes and More
Digi Days at Stamp Something
Challenge #28 Going Digital at Card Makin Mamas
Challenge #1 Fresh Start (New Felt Die Cut Spiderweb) at Delicious Doodles
Anything But Birthday at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #7 Halloween at Floweret
Challenge #127 The Sky's The Limit at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #78 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #126 Photo Inspiration (Color purple) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #36 B Is For... (Black, Bling) at Pile It On
Challenge #71 Girly Girls at I Did It Creations
Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Challenge #42 Anything Goes at Woodware USA
Anything Goes at Stamp-n-Doodle
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #61 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at Penny's Paper Crafty
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Layer It Up at My Mum's Craft Shop
Bling It at Delightful Challenges
Halloween at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #75 Circles at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challeng3 #36 Texture (Felt Spiderweb Die Cut) at Do You Stack Up
Spooky at Squiggles and Giggles

You Little Devil

It's another Tableau Tuesday at Daisy's Doodles and we have more wonderful eye candy to show you! Remember that all the images used by the DT are available for purchase in the Daisy Doodles Store.

My card today uses the Cheeky Devil image by Daisy's Doodles. It makes a perfect Halloween card in non traditional colors. I used a pink and black combo and colored the image with Promarkers. I used some new sticky blingy flourishes to emebellish my card. I think this one turned out great with the layout I used!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Time For Some Bling at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #27 Pink at Card Makin' Mamas
Challenge #60 Inspired By A Book (Pretty Little Devils) at Prairie Fairy
Anything Goes at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #81 Anything Goes at I Love Promarkers
Challenge #115 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
Favorite Image at Whimsie Doodles
Boo To you! At Delightful Sketches
1,2,3 It's Easy As.... (1 image, 2 flourishes, 3 different papers) at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #29 Anything Goes at The Paper Shelter
Challenge #36 For A Girl at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #16 Favorite Embellishments (Bling/Flourishes) at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #73 Make A Pink Blingy Sticker
Digi Days at Stamp Something
Flourishes at Frosted Designs
Challenge #28 Going Digital at Card Makin Mamas
Challenge #1 Fresh Start (New Felt Die Cut Spiderweb) at Delicious Doodles
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #71 Bring On The Bling at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #64 Rocked Up Pink at Truly Scrumptious
Challenge #7 Halloween at Floweret
Challenge #127 The Sky's The Limit at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #78 Use A Digi at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #126 Photo Inspiration (Color pink) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #36 B Is For... (Black, Bling) at Pile It On
Let's Bling It at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #83 Spots And/Or Stripes at The Crazy Challenge
Anything Goes at Crafty Boots
Challenge #42 Anything Goes at Woodware USA
Anything Goes at Stamp-n-Doodle
Anything Goes at Papertake Weekly
FBC #63 Something New (New black flourishes) at Fresh Brewed Designs
Spooky at Squiggles and Giggles
CIC35 Patterned Paper at Clearly I Stamp

Grandma Gertie Is One Hot Mama!

Darn blogger! Wow, so many issues with it lately, and has caused everything to be behind! Finally, its back up and running and I can get my card posted.

Have you checked out the new Digi's With Attitude Store?! If not, hurry over and take a look! All the new releases for May are loaded and ready for purchase! Grab your new releasese, now, so you can play along in this week's challenge!

That means its time for a new challenge at Digi's With Attitude! This week, we have a fun sketch for you. I always love sketch challenges because they push me to think outside the box that my brain is in! LOL

Come on over to Digi's With Attitude! and play along in our sketch challenge. We are being sponsored this week by Mygrafico, who's giving one lucky winner a digi paper pack of their choice! Of course, that's not all the prizes up for grabs! Digi's With Attitude! is giving away a $10 gift certificate to their awesome new store! One winner for every 25 entries! Whoo Hoo! You also have a chance at being named Honorable Mention and/or Card of the Month!

My card uses the sketch for our challenge this week at Digi's With Attitude! I'm using the new release from the Wrinkled Attitude! line. Her name is Grandma Gertie and she is one hot mama! She's available In the Store, here! I've colored her with Promarkers and sponged around the image. The papers are from K & C company and are from my stash. I love the foil accents on the blue paper, and the glitter on the flowered paper adds a nice texture to the card. The squares are punched using a punch by Creative Memories, and are mounted with foam mounting tape for dimension. I added rhinestones to the squares, as well as on the corners of the image, for extra bling.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #52 For The Girls at Prairie Fairy
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #35 Favorite Color Combo at Crafty Emma's
Anything Goes at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #59 Glitzy and Bling at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #93 Mother's Day/Girlie at Incy Wincy
May Flowers at Creative Card Crew
Fancy A Punch At Paptertake Weekly
Challenge #53 Anything Goes at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge #118 Anything Goes at Crafty Creations
PWC153 Add Texture (rhinestones, pop dotted squares) at Paper Pretties
Challenge #117 The Letter S (Squares) at Creative Belli Blog
Anything Goes at Mygrafico
Challenge #8 Something New and All Our Favorites (glitter) at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #10 Sassy & Sparkly at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #74 Make It Shiny at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #53 Anything Goes at Sew Many Challenges
Challenge #28 No Sentiment at Aud Sentiments
Anything Goes at Stamp Something
Challenge #25 Inspired By (Bling) at Delicious Doodles
Anything Goes at Paper Play
Anything Goes at The Emerald Faerie Garden
No! No! No Embossing at Stamping Vacation

Bling Is A Girl's Best Friend at Shelly's Images

Wow, Darn blogger had issues and wiped out my post! Grrr and I just noticed! Okay, let me start over! LOL

Today is Terrificially Thrilling Thursday at Shelly's Images! Do you know what that means?! That's right! Time for a new challenge! This week, we want to see you Bling it Up, because Bling Is A Girl's Best Friend! Whooo Hooo! We all love our bling, so this is the perfect time to show it off! Hurry over to Shelly's Images and link up your blingy projects for a chance to win!

My card today is for a friend who's going through some personal issues right now, and I wanted to remind her that I am thinking of her. I am using this gorgeous rose image from Shelly's Images, colored with Promarkers. The mint green panel is embossed with the Swiss Dots folder and the darker green panels are embossed with a leafy vine patter.The ovals around the image are cut and embossed with Nestabilities by Spellbinders. I've added pink rhinestones around the oval frame, to "bling it up." Both the white and black and white polka dotted ribbons are from my stash. I purchased this fabulous butterfly back in March at the scrapbook convention. My sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You and is punches with oval punches from Stampin Up, then mounted with foam mounting tape for dimension.


Card layout uses the sketch at Little Claire's Designs.



I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #6 Sketch at Little Claire's Designs
Anything Goes at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #65 Flower Power at Raise The Bar
Week #118 Show Us your Style at Paper Play
Challenge #39 Butterflies/Things With Wings at Sarah Hurley
Let's Hear It For The Girls at Southern Girls
Challenge #1 Anything Goes at Divas By Design
Digi Day at Stamp Something
FF#78 May Goes Green at If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #52 For The Girls at Prairie Fairy
Challenge #54 Embossing at Phindy's Place
May Day at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #133 Dust Off Your Stash at Saturday Challenge
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #35 Favorite Color Combo at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #9 May Flowers at Send A Smile 4 Kids
Challenge #54 Anything Goes at Sentimental Sundays
Challenge #110 Photo Inspiration (Flowers) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #23 Double Dutch (Use Two Ribbons - White and polka dots) at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Flowers at Card Cupids
Challenge #59 Glitzy and Bling at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #54 Anything Goes at Sentimental Sundays
Let's Get Girly at Mami Doodles
Challenge #23 Double Dutch (use Two ribbons) at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #93 Mother's Day/Girlie at Incy Wincy
May Flowers at Creative Card Crew
Fancy A Punch at Papertake Weekly
Challenge #110 Thinking Of You at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #48 Die Cuts at Tuesday Throwdown
Challenge #141 Flowers at Everybody Art
Challenge #81 Butterflies at Claudia and Company
Challenge #33 Flower Frenzy at Top Tip Tuesday
Ribbon or Trim at Clear It Out
Challenge #53 Anything Goes at Penny's Paper-Crafty
TD12 Flower Power at Tiffany's Doodles
Challenge #34 Punches at Crafts And Me
Challenge #118 Anything Goes at Crafty Creations
PWC153 Add Texture (rhinestones, embossing, butterfly) at Paper Pretties
Challenge #117 The Letter S (Scallops, Sentiment) at Creative Belli Blog
Challenge #5 To Die For at My Mum's Craft Shop
Anything Goes at Mygrafico
Challenge #8 Something New and All Our Favorites (Rhinestones) at Craft Us Crazy
Challenge #52 Let's Feel It at Rainbow Lady's Challenges
Anything Goes at The Emerald Faerie Garden

Anything Goes for The End of The Term

Iris' Spot has a fun new challenge for you, today! Anything Goes! Whoo Hoo! I know everyone loves this kind of challenge! You can make anything you want! Anything at all! How cool is that?! We can't wait to see what you come up with for this one! The challenge at Iris' Spot is being sponsored by the oh so cool Stef Hughes of Glitterbabe's Digis! Hurry over to Iris' Spot and play along for your chance to win a fabulous digi prize!

Wow! Time has flown by and its already the end of my term for the DT at Iris' Spot. I've had so much fun working with this spunky little lady! I'm sad to be posting my last DT card, but I know she'll be bringing in another fabulous DT for the new term and I wish her all the best with her new DT.

For my card today, I've used this adorable fairy image from Glitterbabe's Digis. This little cutie is cut out using nestabilities, colored with Promarkers, and glitter added for sparkle and shine. She is matted on a gold metallic cardstock printed with gold metallic stars and cut out with nesties. After all, what is a fairy without sparkle and glitter?! Both DP are from my stash. The pink paper has a quilted look, with faux stitching. I used pink mulberry paper flowers I found on clearance at meijer. The sprigs of leaves are punched with a punch by Martha Stewart. I added some pink rhinestone swirls/flourishes that I bought at the Scrapbook Expo last month. The sentiment is from Sentiments 4 You and is punched with the oval and scalloped oval punches by Stampin Up, then mounted with foam mounting tape, for dimension.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Challenge #24 Wings at Beary Scrap
Challenge #25 Photo Inspiration (Colors) at My Partner In Crafting Crime
Challenge #43 Shine With Lots of Sparkle at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #80 Clean and Simple at Claudia & Company
Challenge #31 Pink and Sweet at Crafts And Me
PWC#150 Pink, Green and Neutral at Paper Pretties
Challenge #2 Glitter at My Mum's Craft Shop
Challenge #55 Glitter and Glitz at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #79 Children's Cards at Crafty Catz
Challenge #58 Show Me A Pink Flowery Lady at Cooking It Up With Katie
Challenge #99 Flowers at C.R.A.F.T
Challenge #77 Flowers In Bloom at AI Factory
Challenge #8 Fairies, Pixies and Elves at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #51 April Showers Bring May Flowers at Prairie Fairy
April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers at Crafty Calendar
Challenge #19 Spring Colors at Card Makin Mamas
Challenge #22 Anything Goes at Delicious Doodles
Challenge #77 Bling It On at Totally Gorjuss
Challenge #32 Spring Colors at Crafty Emma's
Challenge #107 Pretty Punches at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #46 Colorful at Pear Tree Designs
Challenge #52 Let's Get Punchy at Sentimental Sunday
Recipe Challenge (1 Image, 2 printed Papers and 3 embellishments – Flowers, swirls, leaves) at I Did It Creations
Challenge #44 Digi Monday - Friend - at Paper Playtime
Fairies at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #108 Pile It On! (5 layers counting white card base) at Stamptacular Sunday
Challenge #58 Digi Day at Creative Inspirations
Use A Punch At Card Cupids
Challenge #10 Anything Goes at Sparkles Forum
Layers and Stitching (Faux stitching on Pink DP) at House of Gilli
Challenge #4 Bold and Bright at Bows and Berries

Grow Some Attitude!

Are you all enjoying the fabulous Spring weather?! The DT at Digi's With Attitude! are all thinking Spring for this week's challenge

That's right, it's challenge time, again! and we have a fun new theme for you. This week, our theme is "Spring Has Sprung!" We'd love for you to come on over and share your Spring projects with us! We're being sponsored this week by Robyn's Fetish, who's giving our sponsor winner 2 digi paper packs of their choice! Plus, Digi's With Attitude! is giving away a $10 gift certificate to fabulous new store! Not to mention, you'll be in the running for Honorable Mention and Card of the Month!

My project today features one of the fabulous April releases, Gardening Tween, at Digi's With Attitude! She's the perfect image for this time of year! I've colored her with Promarkers, and used the sketch at Sketches By Carly, for my card layout. The border is punched with a border punch by Martha Stewart. This pretty flowered DP is from my stash and is by K & C Company. The photo corners are punched with an EK Success corner punch. Flowers are by Bazzil and Prima, with a pink rhinestone in the center.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Challenge #89 Flower Frenzy at Incy Wincy
Anything Goes at Totally Stampalicious
Anything Goes at MyGrafico
Truly Dimensional at Papertake Weekly
Spring at Creative Card Crew
Challenge #106 Little Women at Digital Tuesday
Challenge #42 Cute and Sweet at Fresh Brewed Designs
Challenge #29 Spring Has Sprung at Top Tip Tuesday
PWC#149 At Least Two Patterned Papers at Paper Pretties
Challenge #5 My Favorite Things (Punches) at Amber's Crafts and Stuff
Challenge #38 Raise A Smile at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #26 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #46 Paper Flowers at Paper Romance
Challenge #15 Scallops at Do You Stack Up
Challenge #62 Springtime at Totally Papercrafts
Challenge #50 Favorite Nursery Rhyme (Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How does your Garden Grow?) at Prairie Fairy
April Showers Bring May Flowers at Crafty Calendar
Inspiration Challenge (colors-Greens) at InStyle Stamps
Special Month - April (Spring or Easter) at Stamping Vacation

Give Me An Attitude, Because Anything Goes!

Whoo Hoo! It's 2011 and this is a super exciting day at Craft Your Passion! As you all hopefully know by now, our first challenge of the month is "Anything Goes" challenge! And we know how you all love those challenges! But, there is more big excitement....

For 2011, Passion will be having sponsors, so you will get chances to win awesome prizes from some fabulous companies like Aplenty, Letraset many more! Whoo Hoo! How awesome is that?!

Here is even more big news! Starting with this challenge, the first week of every month is our "Anything Goes" challenge, and these weeks will feature multiple sponsors! That's right! You will have a chance to win prizes from at least two companies, in our Anything Goes challenges! If you haven't yet become a follower, you might want to do that so that you don't miss out! We have some wonderful goodies lined up to give away!

This week, our theme is "Anything Goes," and we have three awesome sponsors for you, today!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 wonderful prices! Our second sponsor is the fabulous Digi's With Attitude! If you have attitude or even just like attitude, these are the digi stamps for you! Cindy Lynn has created some fantastic images for us all to enjoy! The Grumpy Gretchen series is my favorite! If you haven't checked out her images, you really need to! They're awesome! Our third sponsor this week is Digi's By Phooka. Myriam has created lots of adorable images and they are just too cute for words! They are a newer digi company and could really use our support. Please jump on over to Myriam's store and take a look. If you love cutesy, these are right up your alley!

Now that I have rambled on for what seems like forever, and practically written a book, let me tell you about my card.

I have done two cards for this challenge, because I want to make sure all images that the sponsors provided to us, get some exposure. So, I've done one by Digi's By Phooka, and one from Digi's With Attitude, but will put them in separate posts.

This post, I am featuring my card with the Grumpy Gretchen Mechanic image, by Digi's With Attitude. I had so much fun creating with this image, and I couldn't help myself with the sentiment! LOL. I've colored Grumpy Gretchen with Promarkers. (she has some sparkle added, too, with my trusty clearstar gelly roll pen). The background paper reminds me of checkered flags, so I felt it was perfect for this image. I've used red Jezebel lace, and black Gabrielle lace from Pizzazz Aplenty. The 3mm clear rhinestones on her clothes and on the scalloped oval are also from Pizzazz Aplenty. I used black cardstock, and made lines to create a road, using a white primsacolor pencil. Then, I added a red button and a checkered flag button from the Start Your Engine series of Dress It Up Buttons. These are new- I bought them specifically to use on this card, because they are perfect for this image! The sentiment/quote is supposed to say, "If It Has Tires or Testicles, It's Going To Give You Trouble!. Unfortunately, I realized after I took the pic, that I made a typo. I have fixed it, but did not have time to take a new pic before my card went up. (Too much family stuff to day with the family yesterday and last night! Phew!) I punched the sentiment with the oval and scalloped oval punches, by Stampin Up, and attached it with foam mounting tape for dimension.


I made this card for my cousin who just broke up with her boyfriend and is making a "New beginning" by moving into her own place and being newly single again.


I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #80 Anything Goes at Passion For Promarkers
Challenge #53 Quick and Easy Does It at Fab 'n' Funky
Challenge #61 Someone Special at Totally Gorjuss
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
Challenge #91 Anything Goes at Digital Tuesday
Anything Goes at Digistamps4Joy
Challenge #7 Sparkle & Shine at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
Challenge #15 Embellishments at Tip Top Tuesday
"Ring" (Gemstones) In The New Year at Paper Pretties
Anything Goes at Fairy Knoll
Challenge #55 Happy New Year (Silver Gemstones) at Pixie Dust Studio
Challenge #39 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best
Challenge #18 Anything Goes at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #51 Pearls and Lace at Charisma Cardz
New (buttons) at Stamp-n-Doodle
SISC40 Sparkle at Stamp Insanity
Challenge #9 Anything Goes at Southern Girls
Something With Glitter at Stamp Something
Use A Quote (Mine has a typo in it, but you get the point) at Frosted Designs
Challenge #60 Red At If The Shoe Fits
Challenge #43 New Beginnings at Prairie Fairy
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle at Character Cafe
Challenge #112 New Beginnings at One Stop Craft Challenge
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Challenge #36 Something New (buttons) at Speedy The Cat's Friends
Challenge #11 New Beginnings (End of Relationship & Newly Single) at Quirky Crafts
Anything Goes Card Challenge at Creative Craft World
Sentimental at Scrappy Frogs
Challenge #92 Photo Inspiration (colors: Red, White & Black) at Cupcake Inspirations
Challenge #1 Brand Spankin' New (Card for someone Newly Single) at Pile It On
ASC32 Anything Goes at Aly's Sunday Challenge
Challenge #4 Something New (Newly Single) at Creative Cowgirls
Challenge #46 Sketch at Critter Challenge
CCH#48 All Things New (Newly Single) at The Crazy Challenge
Free And Easy at Whoopsi Daisy
Challenge #2 New Things (car & flag buttons) at Sparkles Forum
Challenge #15 Something New (buttons) plus ribbon, lace or trim at Really Reasonable Ribbon
January Pick 3 (red Paper, Punch, Glitter) at Stamping Vacation