Worry about nothing

 Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This one might be a bit of a challenge: Clean and Simple 1 layer card

                                                            And here is the card I created:

One layer cards can be really difficult.  You either have to be really good OR add a lot of details so it looks much more interesting.  As you can see, I went with the second option.  I started with a flower stencil.  I inked it using Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxides around the edges.  I stamped the frame image with Black Soot Distress Oxide and stamped the sentiment with the same ink.

For some beautiful sparkle, I added some gold shimmer Spectrum Noir ink to all the petals outside the frame.  You can see it in the photo above.  The sparkle is fabulous in real life!!  I finished it off with some sequins to which I added some silver stickles for even more sparkle!!  I added some stitched detail around the edges with a stitched rectangle die.  

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 challenge.  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 "Dotted Rectangle Frame, large" and "Worry About Nothing"

Dies: MFT Stamps "Blueprints 25" stitched rectangle

STAMPlorations Stencil: Peony Number Two

Challenges:

Unicorn Challenge #69--add sparkle

Die Cut Divas--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #62--anything goes

STAMPlorations--summer anything goes challenge

CASology #395--one (I have one layer and/or one flower)

Creative Fingers #215--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #166--anything goes

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

Creative Moments #223--anything goes

Time Out Challenge #197--Quote inspiration "In Joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends" (I used a flower)

Alphabet Challenge--M is for Motivational/encouraging sentiment

Cardz TV #150--anything goes

Double Trouble #93--something, anything, everything (Thing #1: anything goes

Crafting Happiness #115--anything goes

Sketch Saturday #679--sketch (I turned it on its side)

Clean and Simple Genius

 This is my entry into My Favorite Thing's Clean and Simple Genius challenge for Design Superstar.  I used my favorite sweet, little dragon.  I just love the look on his face!

I stamped him on the stitched rectangle panel and then created a mask for him so I could stencil the brick background onto the panel as well.  I colored up the image and then stamped the sentiment.  I added a little bit of Spectrum Noir gold sparkle pen to his wings.  You can see the sparkle in the photo below:

Supplies:

Stamps: My Favorite Things "Magical Dragons" and "Anything But Basic Birthday Wishes"

Dies: My Favorite Things "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle

Stencil: My Favorite Things "Brick Wall"

The very best stories

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week is a fun one: Outdoor Fun (any outdoor activity).

And here is the card I created:

I created this sweet little card as an anniversary card for my in-laws--45 years!!  I started by stamping and coloring the birdbath and two little birdies.  Then I added the grass and stamped the sentiment.  It still needed something, so I decided to stencil some hearts in the background.  I was using a light gray ink, but I guess when I used the stencil the last time I forgot to clean it off.  There was some red/pink ink still on the stencil and it transferred to the card base.  Oops, but no one needs to know that it wasn't supposed to be that way!  Then I die cut a little red heart and adhered it between the two lovebirds.

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 challenge.  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 "Tiny Bird (front)", "Tiny Bird (flight)", "Birdbath", and "The very best . . ."

Stencil: MFT hearts

Dies: Marianne Designs heart

Challenges:

Cutie Pie Challenge #163--cute celebrations

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #62--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

I Love Chocolate Baroque--anything goes with the optional twist: celebrations

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #54--anything goes

Crafty Creations #425--anything goes

Cardz TV #149--anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #510--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Creative Fingers #215--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #166--anything goes

Crafting Happiness #114--anything goes

Make a Wish

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

The challenge this time is: Use your favorite color or favorite color combination
And here is my card for your inspiration:

My favorite color combination for cards is pink and green.  I think it is so fresh and perfect for floral cards.  I've got a lot going on this weekend, so it had to be a quick and easy card this time.  I added some patterned paper on the bottom of the card, and die cut the white panel with a scalloped die, using the out of the box technique to have it cut around the sweet little bear.  I colored him up and adhered the panel to the top of the card.  Then I stamped the sentiment using my mini MISTI so I could stamp it multiple times to get a nice dark impression.  Then I finished it off with several pink pearls.

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 "Rosie Bear" digi; Papertrey Ink "Just Sentiments: Birthday mini" sentiment

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 25" stitched rectangle and "Stitched Scallop Basic Edges"

Challenges:

Pattie's Creations #186--anything goes

Cutie Pie Challenge #163--cute celebrations (the are celebrating their 10th anniversary!!)

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

Die Cut Divas--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies--anything goes

Crafty Creations #425--anything goes

Cute Card Thursday #692--anything goes with the optional twist: birthdays

Incy Wincy Designs--dots and/or stripes and/or checks

Aud Sentiments #283--birthday sentiment

Cardz TV #149--anything goes

Sweet Stampers #60--stripes and/or dots

Pink Gem--anything goes

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

The Paper Shelter #483--animals

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week is a recipe challenge: 1 stamp, 2 patterned papers, 3 embellishments.

And here is the card I created:

The sentiment is one stamp, already curved just like this!  I've had it for a while and haven't used it before, but now that I have, I might use this design a LOT!!  I love the size and how perfectly a die cut or a small image would fit inside the circle.  I die cut it with a Spellbinders circle die and it is a perfect fit!  I used two patterned papers, a red pattern and a green pattern from the same paper pack.  For my three embellishments, I used a die cut snowflake (I die cut it three times and glued them all together for some amazing dimension, then spritzed it with a glitter spray), a bit of red ribbon and some red pearls.  Rather simple, but I think it turned out really pretty!  I heat embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder.  You can see the shine on the sentiment and the sparkle on the snowflake in the photo below:

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 challenge.  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 "Merry/Happy Frame"

Dies: PTI "Fancy Snowflakes"; Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"

Challenges:

Unicorn Challenge #69--add sparkle

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round--something that begins with Q and/or R (I used red and ribbon)

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

Die Cut Divas--anything goes

Cheerful Sketches--sketch

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

ABC Christmas--S is for Stencil, T is for Two (I have two patterned papers)

Craft Rocket #85--ribbons, bows or buttons (I used a ribbon)

Merry Little Christmas #38--anything goes

Crafty Creations #425--anything goes

Creative Fingers #214--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #165--anything goes

Creative Moments #222--anything goes

Cardz TV #149--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #559--anything goes with the optional twist: use patterned paper

Crafting Happiness #113--anything goes

Plaid Christmas

 Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week it is: Show us your Sparkle and Shine.

And here is the card I created:

To give credit where credit is due--I was looking through some challenge blogs for ideas and came across the CAS Christmas Card Challenge whose challenge this month is to use plaid.  That got my mind thinking and I scrolled down to see what the designers had done with it.  I saw this card and just HAD to CASE it!

I LOVE those adorable plaid mittens and the simple layout!!  So, it reminded me that I have a mitten stamp from Repeat Impressions and I'm not even sure I have used it before.  It was time to pull it out and get to work!

I went over to my (very giant) stack of patterned papers to look for a suitable plaid and came across a bunch of embossed panels that I had won a long time ago as part of a prize.  The one on top was this beautiful winter/snowflake pattern--it was perfect!  All I had to do was die cut it with a stitched rectangle die.  Then I got to work on my mittens.  The stamp is only one mitten and it has a pattern on it, which I didn't want because I wanted the plaid paper without added pattern.  So, I had to get a little creative to make my pair of mittens.  I started out by stamping the image two times on scrap white card stock and then fussy cut them out.  Then I used a black marker to put ink only on the outline of the image before stamping it on the plaid paper.  I had to do this a couple times to get a good impression as I was being very careful not to get any ink on the inside of the image.  I did have to fill in lines a little bit with a black pen to finish it off.  Then, because I wanted a pair of mittens, I needed a mirror image of the first one.  But, it's too much work for me to do that and I really don't have good turn out usually with that technique, so I stamped the image on the BACK of the plaid paper for my second mitten.  Then I fussy cut out both plaid mittens.  For the one I had stamped on the back of the paper, I just took my black pen and carefully drew around the outline on the patterned side of the paper to make it look like the other one.  Then I flipped over one of the original white mittens and adhered the plaid mittens in place.  Voila!! A mirrored pair of mittens!  I added a little bit of jute twine to hold them together (no one likes lost mittens!!) and finished the card off with a sparkly die cut "Merry Christmas" and a few red pearls.  You can see the red glittery sentiment better in the photo below:

                                                       

I realized that the card really didn't show off much of the Mitten image itself, so I decided to use it on the inside to decorate the sentiment.  Here you can see how the image actually looks with it's pattern.

I stamped the mitten twice just how it is.  You can see that the don't mirror each other here, but it didn't really matter as they weren't the focal point and I don't think you would even notice.

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 challenge.  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 "Mitten" and "May the miracle . . ."

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle

Challenges:

Crafter's Cafe #273--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #504--anything goes

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round--something that starts with Q and/or R (I used Red)

Pattie's Creations #186--anything goes

ABC Christmas--S is for stencil, T is for two (I used 2 mittens and 2 words in my sentiment)

CAS Christmas Card--plaid

Merry Little Christmas #38--anything goes

CRAFT #610--Christmas

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #558--anything goes with the optional twist: something beginning with S (I have snowflakes in my embossed background and a Sparkly die cut sentiment)

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #165--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday--stamp it

Birthday Bear

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

The challenge this time is: Use 2 or more patterned papers
And here is my card for your inspiration:

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 "Party Boy Bear" digi; MFT "Adorable Elephants" sentiment

Dies: MFT "Stars STAX"; Sizzix/Stamps of Life star

Challenges:

Time Out Challenge #195--use a colored card base

Cut It Up #233--use any sketch (I used the MFT sketch below)

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Use Your Stuff #430--anything goes

Crafter's Cafe #273--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #504--anything goes

MFT #557--sketch

Pattie's Creations--anything goes

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

2 Crafty Critter Crazies--anything goes

You are amazing

 A new month has arrived and that means a new challenge from the Love To Scrap Challenge Blog.  This month's challenge is Anything Goes.

And here is the card I created:

For a couple months now, I've been working on a one sheet wonder template, I now have 4 cards left to make.  I love these cute little elephants from MFT!  The patterned paper was already cut (from the template) and I had the elephant colored and cut out.  I only had to die cut the border pieces and the "amazing" (I used gold glitter paper) and heat emboss the rest of the sentiment onto some dark blue card stock.  Then I finished it all off with some blue gems.  I nestled the cutie little elephant underneath the sentiment to make it look like it was sitting there.    You can see the sparkle and shine in the sentiment in the photo below.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Head on over to the LTSCB blog to see what the rest of the team has created and to get the full details of the challenge.  Then get inky and play along with us; I can't wait to see what you create.

Supplies:

Stamps: MFT "Adorable Elephants"

Dies: STAMPlorations "amazing"; PaperTrey Ink loopy border die

Challenges:

Sweet Stampers #59--dies and/or punches

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #164--anything goes

Incy Wincy Designs--use a card fold tutorial and/or animals (I used the animal)

ART Impressions #310-lions, tigers, bears, oh my!

Creative Moments #221--anything goes

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

Time Out Challenge #195--colored card base with the optional twist: use embellishments

Cardz TV #148--anything goes

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday--glimmer & sparkle

Use Your Stuff #430--anything goes

Crafting Happiness #111--anything goes

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes

Matching envelope

 Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week is a little different: Stamp on your Envelope.

And here is what I created:

I made the card for my Pick of the Week post for The House That Stamps Built on Monday.  While I was making the card, I decided to stamp the envelope to go along with it.  This is an anniversary card for my brother and sister-in-law, so the envelope will look pretty arriving in the mail.

Since I had to make some masks to create my card, I was also able to use them here on the envelope. I stamped and colored the images and then added a little bit of gold paint pen to the centers of the flowers.  This is a very quick and easy way to make happy mail even more happy!!

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 challenge.  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 "Flower Power Separates: Large Daisy Outline, Small Daisy Outline, Stem Outline and Small Leaf Outline"

Challenges:

Creative Craft Cottage #143--no patterned paper

Creative Moments #221--anything goes

Cardz TV #148--anything goes

Addicted to CAS #205--nature

Use Your Stuff #430--anything goes

Crafting Happiness #111--anything goes