Happiness is a Warm Puppy

The challenge on the Words 2 Craft By blog is to craft with the "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" theme.  October is adopt a shelter dog month.  You can see my shelter rescue dog "Ghost" over on the right side of my blog.  Ghost is a Weimeraner and came to us from the Mile High Weimeraner Rescue.  He is seventh in a long line of rescue Weims we had as our best friends throughout the years.  This challenge required that I break out my precious Graphic 45 "Raining Cats and Dogs" Designer Paper.

Link up your Doggie crafts over on the Words 2 Craft by blog

Happy Crafting!

Donna.

Playing along with a few challenges

After recovering from a three week vacation in a travel trailer all the way to New Hampshire and back (to visit my husband's son), I finally have some time to play on a few challenges. The Words to Craft by blog had this challenge for August/September.

 The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.  ~~ Lao-Tzu

Here's my take on the challenge.

The sentiment is Impression Obsession but the rest of the cards is from the Club Scrap Navigation kit.  I am also entering this in Darnell's NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) challenge #7 since I have had this sentiment for a long time but this is the first time it has seen ink.  

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Silver Linings W2CB#28 #rrcb36

I had some time today to squeeze in a card for two challenges.  

I designed this card for the Retro Rubber Challenge.  The water puddles stamp at the bottom of the card is from the Club Scrap Serenity Kit September 2012.  The heart raining clouds stamp is a Hostess Stamp Hello Love from Stampin'Up from their 2014 catalog.  The sentiment is from the Stampin'Up Sprinkles of Life in their current catalog.  Hard to see but the dark clouds are cut from silver foil with the Memory Box Puffy Clouds die. 

I also want to enter this in the Words 2 Craft by challenge.

Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns

and shadow of April showers.   Byron Caldwell Smith

I think my showers fit well with their theme too.

Happy Crafting!
Donna

12 Tags as a Card

I wanted to see how I could translate Tim Holtz April's 12 Tags into a card rather than a tag. (I did the tag in my last post HERE.)   I also wanted to play along at Words 2 Scrap By's challenge of "Shine Bright like a Diamond."   I also wanted to enter The Card Concept Challenge "Use a Butterfly Theme" in their Shabby and Vintage category.  Here's what I came up with.

Instead of using the Trellis die I used my Lifestyle Crafts Diamonds die. I then filled in the empty spaces with a Ranger Foil Cardstock diamond and some bits and scraps left over from a previous project.  The background is the same as what Tim used for his tag.  Here's the rest of the products I used for this:

Ranger Manila Cardstock

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape

Distressed Paint in Bundled Sage

Distressed Ink in Vintage Photo

Stamper's Anonymous Simple Sayings

Ideology Paper Stash Kraft Resist

Ideology Salvage Stickers (Butterfly)

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Prima Flowers

Diamond Bling from my stash.

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Two-fer Challenges

I managed to squeeze two challenges into one card today.  The Operation Write Home Sketch #216 and the Words 2 Scrap By Challenge #3:  And the Oscars go to. . .  The Words 2 Scrap By Challenge had four quotes from famous movies to choose from.  I chose "The stuff that dreams are made of."  (The Maltese Falcon, 1941). 

I used a retired Stampin'Up! set called Dreams du jour.   All ink and paper are Stampin'Up!

Here is the OWH Sketch I used.  

The Words 2 Scrap By Challenge ends on 21 March and there is a nice prize for the winner of the challenge.  The OWH Sketch is open for posting anytime.  

Happy Crafting!

Donna