Sweet little boy

Friends of ours just had a little boy (Easter Sunday, in fact).  So, this little CAS card is for them.  So cute!  I just love the piercing around the rectangle.

Challenges:
Raisin Boat #22--Moms and Dads (not for my mom or dad, but it is for a special mom & dad)
Love To Scrap #28--scrap lift 3 or more elements from this layout (I chose blue, green, circles, and letters {words})

Sugar Pea Designs #4--CAS
Word Art Wednesday #129--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
The Paper Shelter #155--for the boys
Art Impressions #134--masculine
Sentimental Sundays #204--CAS (with a sentiment)
Creative Knockouts #34--anything goes

Supplies:
Stamps: Verve "To The Moon" sentiment
Dies: sizzix star die; spellbinders A2 Matting Basics
Paper: DCWV Christmas pack (from a couple years ago)

Christmas Carols

Happy Friday!  Time for another challenge from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long.  This week, it could be easy OR hard, depends on your cardmaking style. : )  Anyway, the challenge is: use ribbon as your only embellishment.  The sponsor this week is Broken Box Stock and I got to use this cute image called "Caroling Toodles".  Here's my card:

I went with a rather untraditional color scheme again this week.  It was inspired by the piece of green paper on the card base.  It was the only piece big enough to cover a card base. : ) At least in the stack of paper I was working with.  So, I went with it.  And I even managed to use a bit of ribbon from my bits and pieces stash: the green on the right side of the main panel.  I've been slacking off on using up that stash, so I was happy to be able to work something in this time.  Now it's time to hop on over to the CSAYL blog, check out the rest of the DT projects and then play along.

Challenges:

Twisted Tuesdays #74--I need your Paperwork (use at least 3 dps and the twist: writing or doodling--I doodled the black line around my image and added some little "snowflakes" to the image)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #173--use a hat

Wags 'n' Whiskers #127--lots of layers

Christmas @ Sweet Stamping--glitter, glitter everywhere (the green paper has glitter around the blue circles, I used glitter pen on different parts of my image and the small snowflake in the bottom corner is covered with glitter)

The Squirrel & The Fox #68--use die cuts or punches

Scrap Creations--anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown #192--lots of sparkle

Party Time Tuesdays #169--anything goes

Christmas Challenges with Sketches #120--sketch (they ask for the sketch not to be posted)

The Crafter's Cafe #60--add glitter

Supplies:

Stamps: Broken Box Stock "Caroling Toodles"; Verve "Ornamental Christmas" sentiment

Dies: Spellbinders standard circles, large; Sweet 'n' Sassy snowflake die

Little Tree

I can't believe it, but it is Friday again, already!  Time for another challenge from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long and this week, it is a sketch:

I love sketches; in fact, I almost always start my cards with a sketch and go from there.  I just wasn't feeling this one, though.  It took a while to figure out how I wanted to dress it up a bit.  I used some unusual colors for a Christmas card, but in the end, I think I like it. : )  It's tough to tell in the photo, but several of those little metal "candies" have cute little patterns on them: chevrons, dots, hearts, etc.

I would love to see your take on this sketch.  Everyone always interprets sketches in different ways.  So come on and play along.  Go to the CSAYL blog for all the details.

Challenges:
Crafts Galore Challenge--creating with color: use your favorite (pink and green is my favorite color combo for card making, and I added a bit of blue which is MY favorite color)
Southern Girls #89--Earn Your Stripes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #172--make it square, or use a square
Creative Inspirations #261--lots of layers
ABC Christmas Challenge--H is for Home (decorating the tree is always the first thing I do for Christmas)

Supplies:
Stamps: Tiffany Doodles "Christmas Star Tree #1) digi

Prayers

A quick little card I made for some friends.  Another card using my new favorite "The Sweet Life" stamp set.  Love those gorgeous roses!

 Here's the inside:

Challenges:
Crafty Ribbons #85--anything goes
Mod Squad Challenges--spring colors: pick at least three of the following (I used the three greens, the dark blue and the lavender--on the pearls)

Crafter's Cafe #59--CAS
Seems a Little Sketchy #62--sketch

Make it Monday #160--heat embossing on a die cut and/or two step stamps (I heat embossed my frame on the frame die cut and it was much easier the way the video showed!)

Supplies:
Stamps: PTI "Boutique Borders: Sympathy" frame and sentiment, "The Sweet Life" flowers and "Turing a new Leaf" leaves; Sweet n' Sassy Stamps "The Future" inside sentiment
Dies: PTI "Boutique Borders: Sympathy", "Turning a New Leaf" and "The Sweet Life"
Ribbon: PTI Ocean Tides dotted satin
Inks: PTI "Aqua Mist", "Ocean Tides"; SU! "Night of Navy"

Easter Blessings

I wasn't going to make an Easter cards.  I usually don't; I don't think too many people send them out anymore.  Anyway, there were so many Easter challenges out there in blog land, AND I remembered I had this stunning cross image from Eureka Stamps, so I decided to give it a go.

Challenges:
Milk Coffee Challenges--Easter
Sentimental Sundays #202--Embossing (dry or wet)
Eureka Stamps #85--Happy Easter
Our Daily Bread Designs #198--He is risen with pastels
Sweet Stamps--anything goes: embossing
Loves Rubberstamps #99--Easter or spring
Cuttin' And Stampin' #15--Easter
Word Art Wednesday #128--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
Crafty Creations #261--white plus one other color
Digi Stamps 4 Joy #90--Easter or spring
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2--sketch

Treasured Times Rubber Stamps Challenge--Easter

Supplies:
Stamps: Eureka Stamps "Draped Cross with Thorns"; Flourishes "Easter Blessings" sentiment
Dies/embossing folders: Spellbinders "Radiant Rectangles"; PTI "Boutique Borders: Sympathy" die; Sizzix "Botanicals" embossing folder

One lone tree

Though the weather is finally warming up here in Southern New England, it is time for some mid-month inspiration from the Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra for the month of April.  And that means another Christmas card from me.  As I am always running behind, I chose to go very CAS for this one .  The card blank already had the oval cutout, so all I had to do was stamp the sentiment and the tree, add some silver stickles to the tree, rim the cut out in silver and add the rhinestones.  Oh yeah, I also added a bit of black paper to the back of the card to give it a little more contrast.  Quick and easy.

This picture shows off the stickles a bit better.

Have you started on your Christmas cards, yet?  There's still plenty of time to play in this month's challenge.  It's easy: Anything Christmas Goes!

Challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays--ovals

Crafty Musketeers #12--monochrome

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #39--inspired by a Christmas carol or song (Silent Night)

CRAFT Challenge #254--Christmas

Sister Act Card Challenge #52--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #170--make it square (or use a square)

Wags 'n' Whiskers #126--CAS

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! "Lovely as a Tree"; Verve "Star of Wonder"

Magical Birthday

This is a birthday card for my sister.  We kind of have a bit of a joke about unicorns, so I think she is going to love it.  Plus, it's girly and sparkly and magical; what girl wouldn't love that?!  I forgot to take a picture of the inside--which isn't that interesting anyway.--but the sentiment reads "Wishing you a Magical Birthday".

Challenges:
The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #8--anything goes
One Stitch At a Time #208--use a digi
Lacy Sunshine Challenge #31--Make it Feminine
Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge #24--anything goes
Sister Act Card Challenge #52--anything goes
Time Out Challenge #3--Happy Birthday with the optional twist of making it masculine (I did not go masculine!)
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2--sketch

The Stamping Chef #24--anything goes

Supplies:
Stamps: The Paper Shelter "The Princess and Her Unicorn" digi
Dies: Spellbinders Fleur De Lis squares, Labels 4, Radiant Rectangles; Sizzix star die; Fiskars flower punch