Give Thanks

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built and this week it is a fan favorite: Anything Goes!! And here is the card I created for your inspiration:

It was to be quick and easy because I had a really crazy week and didn't have a lot of time.  But, as simple as it is, I really, really like it!  I started by stamping the "thanks" and then adding the "give" in the empty space.  I used my stamp positioner to add the falling leaves "randomly" around the sentiment and colored them with colored pencils.  I finished everything off with some gold and red nuvo drops.  Annnnd done!  I think it actually took me less than half an hour which is really good for me!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the House blog to see the rest of the DT's creations and then get inky and play along with us.  And if you need any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your ENTIRE order coupon code over in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Thanks Cling Set" and "Falling Leaves"

Challenges:

Unicorn Challenge #60--anything goes

Crafts Galore--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #52--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Creatalicious #198--anything goes with the optional twist: autumn/thanksgiving

Paper Funday #23--anything goes with the optional twist: give thanks/thanksgiving/frateful

Dare 2 B Artzy--thankful

Kat Scrappiness--give thanks

Crafty Gals #213--thankful

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #146--anything goes

Double Trouble #71--All the trimmings (Thing #1: tic tac toe--I chose the center column: leaves, free, digi or stamp; Thing #3: sentimental and Thing #2: play along with the Paper Funday challenge)

The Paper Girls #212--thankful/grateful

Word Art Wednesday #467--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Snowy presents

It's Saturday!!  That means it's time for another challenge from Di's Digi Designs.

The challenge this time is: Emboss it (Wet or Dry)
And here is my card for your inspiration:

I printed out the image, colored it and fussy cut it leaving the part below the snow line intact. I embossed my card base with my favorite snowflake embossing folder.  I then attached a strip of my patterned paper scraps along the bottom.  I adhered a thin line of gold glitter paper to the bottom of my image panel, stamped the sentiment and adhered the whole thing to the embossed background.  I finished it all off with some red Nuvo drops.  I added clear Wink of Stella to the fluff on the penguin's hat, the red bow and the snow.  It's hard to see in the photo, but you can see it a little, tiny bit in the picture below.

I hope you will get a chance to play along with us; I can't wait to see what you create.  And make sure you hop over to the Di's Digital Designs blog to see what the rest of the team has made for this challenge.

Supplies: 

Stamps: Di's Digi Stamps "Penguins Presents Tower" digi; Verve "Ornamental Christmas" sentiment

Challenges:

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #118--gold or silver or glitter (I used gold glitter paper, gold pen accents on my image and Wink of Stella glitter pen)

Cards Galore--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #176--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Power Poppy Creative Confetti--winter time

Sheepski Designs #44--Christmas and/or sparkle

ABC Christmas--W is for winter wonderland

Creative Inspirations--winter wonderland

Creative Craft Cottage #135--Christmas/winter

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #44--anything goes

CRAFT Rockets #76--Christmas/winter

Merry Little Christmas #28--anything goes

Winter Wonderland--festive things with wings (penguins do have wings)

Artsy Stamper #28--critters

Crafty Creations #415--anything goes

Let's Squash It #2--Christmas embossing folder + Stamps

Sugar Pea Meant to Be Sent--Happy Holidays

Penny's Challenge #484--anything goes

Aud Sentiments #264--Christmas/winter animals

Sweet Stampers #50--Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Monday--Happy Holidays

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

The Paper Shelter #450--digi image

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--Christmas

C.R.A.F.T. #577--Christmas

Friend for all seasons

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week we have a beautiful inspiration photo for you:

And here is the card I created:

As you can see, I was inspired by the leaves and the colors of the photo.  I had the large leaf die cut in my bits and pieces stash and it was the perfect size for embossing the sentiment.  I also added some frantage embossing powder around the edges of the leaf.  It's a little hard to see the sentiment in that photo, so the one below shows it a whole lot better.  It also shows the faux stitching along the bottom of the card.

I think this will probably just be a thinking of you card, or something similar, so I didn't add a sentiment to the inside.  But I did want to dress it up a little so I added some falling leaves and a couple acorns with a light gray ink in the bottom corner.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Tree FLIP set" sentiment, "Acorn" and "Falling Leaves"
Dies: Papertrey Ink leaf die; MFT stitching die

Challenges:

Sketch Saturday #636--sketch

Creative Fingers #197--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #484--anything goes

Make My Monday #135--elegant fall/autumn

Cardz TV #127--anything goes

Crafty Creations #415--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #52--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Through The Purple Haze #173--tic tac toe (I actually used the entire board except the center square: buttons)

Marvelous

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  This week we have a fun Tic Tac Toe board for you:

 

Here is what I created for your inspiration:

(I used the left diagonal: sponging, autumn colors and leaves.  I also completed the bottom row: off the edge (my top left leaf hangs off the edge of the card), text background and leaves)

I lucked out on this one!  My mother-in-law has borrowed my small leaf dies, so I don't have them on hand to use.  Luckily, a couple years ago, I had die cut a bunch of leaves for a card project I did with the kids in our Sunday School.  They were not die cut out of the prettiest card stock (if you know what I mean . . .), but with a little ink sponging around the edges, they turned out beautifully!  I inked on some orange ink on the yellow leaves and red ink onto the orange Maple leaves.  I happened to have some pretty plaid paper that matched perfectly!  I stamped, colored and fussy cut out the acorns and attached them to my leaves with a little tiny twine bow.  I did a little sponging around the edge of my sentiment circle with some Antique Linen Distress ink before stamping my sentiment and finishing it all off with some little, tiny, orange rhinestones.  I love how the leaves pop!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "In All Things" and "Acorn"

Dies: MFT "Small Leaves" and "Blueprints 14" stitched circle

Challenges:

Through the Purple Haze #173--tic, tac, toe (I used the top row: twine/lace/ribbon, leaves, sentiment)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #52--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Crafty Creations #415--anything goes

Double Trouble #70--stitch it up (Thing #1: stitch it up--my stitched circle die cut, Thing #2: play along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge)

Atlantic Hearts #394--sketch

Word Art Wednesday #465--anything goes

Creative Moments #202--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #532--stamp act

Cardz TV #27--anything goes

Pink Gem Challenge--anything goes

Make My Monday #135--elegant fall/autumn

Cupcake Inspirations #506--red, orange, yellow

Birthday Wishes

It's Saturday!!  That means it's time for another challenge from Di's Digi Designs.

The challenge this time is: Use a Digi
And here is my card for your inspiration:

I saw this sketch and I just HAD to use it!!  I created a template for my stamped circles by tracing two circle dies onto a piece of scrap paper.  I layered the piece of vellum over top where I wanted it and taped it down with some washi tape.  Then I laid my clear stamping block over the traced circles, using them to place my sentiment in the proper curve.  Then I alternated between stamping the sentiment and a little heart all around the circle.  I had to readjust for the smaller circle; luckily I remembered before I started stamping the second circle.  I added pearls in the corner of the vellum both for embellishment and as a place to adhere the vellum.

I hope you will get a chance to play along with us; I can't wait to see what you create.  And make sure you hop over to the Di's Digital Designs blog to see what the rest of the team has made for this challenge.

Supplies: 

Stams: Di's Digi Stamps "Candy 1920's" digi; Verve sentiment

Challenges:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #145--anything goes

Unicorn Challenge #60--anything goes

Crafts Galore--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #176--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Feeling Sketchy #248--sketch

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

Lil' Red Wagon #574--colour me happy

As You Like It--favorite: His or Hers birthday (I definitely prefer Hers!  Love girly images and pearls and flowers and pretty patterned papers!)

Thinking of You

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week is a Designer's Choice Challenge and it's MY turn to choose.  I chose: Pumpkins

And here is the card I created:

All of the patterned papers I used were sitting on my desk from other projects I created recently (you may recognize the pumpkin paper from two weeks ago and and the houndstooth paper from last week).  They were all pretty much the right size, too, I just needed to trim them a bit.  I embossed the background with a plaid embossing folder I had yet to use; it adds such a great texture!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Round Pumpkin" and "Thinking"

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 14" stitched rectangle and "Stitched Scalloped Trio"; Spellbinders "That's the Ticket"

Tim Holtz plaid embossing folder

Challenges:

Creative Fingers #196--anything goes

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #390--anything goes with snippets (my patterned papers are all snippets and the die cuts are all from scraps, too)

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #145--anything goes

Craft-Dee Bow Z--anything goes with handmade bow

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Double Trouble #70--Stitch it Up (Thing #1: stitch it up--I used a stitched circle and a stitched scalloped border dies)

Mojo Monday #549--sketch

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

Crafter's Cafe #254--anything goes

Unicorn Challenge #60--anything goes