Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #674

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 

 Here is the sketch for this week:

 

 

 

 And here is my card:

These papers are from CTMH.

The dies are from Spellbinders, Altenew and I.O.

and the beautiful sentiment stamp is from Penny Black.
 

Today I'm entering these fun challenges: 

Krafty Chicks Challenge Week #627 -  Stamp Act (sentiment is stamped)

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #180 - 3 of anything (3 die cut bows)

Festive Friday Challenge Week #FF0117 - I used flower, die cuts, Thinking of You sentiment.

We Love Stamping September Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamping (sentiment is stamped)

Stamping Sensations September Challenge - Feminine

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Stamp It

Crafting Happiness Challenge #131 Card - Add a Sentiment

Through the Craft Room Door August 30th Challenge - Always Anything Goes

 

 

 

I hope you'll have time to play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Debbie 

Donna

Melissa

Patti

Raechelle

Tammy

Tangii

 

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting

 

 

Outlawz June Progressive Challenge

 Time is running out for this month's  Outlawz June Progressive Freebie Challenge.

 

Last month's participants received the darling 

Sharing Is Caring digi from The Paper Shelter.

Thank you! 

I decided to use the colored version and some of the matching background paper on my card.

 I can't wait to see what freebie will be distributed for July!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #603

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 

 Here is the sketch for this week

and my card.

 

How simple is that! 

I hope you'll have time to play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches #601

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 

 

 

 This is the first card I made for Andrea's sketch.  Sketches are basically a great starting point.  When I posted this card below the TMS sketch, I felt I missed one of the key points, the 3 shapes.  I was going to put a seagull at the bottom for my third element, but he obviously flew off.  I know not where.  

I decided to make another card, now that I'm back in PA and have my entire stash at hand.

I am much happier with this version.

Since the card is a mini slimline, 3.5"x6", I decided to make and decorate an envelope, too.

 

 

I hope you'll have time to play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches. 

 Occasionally we have prizes and this week

Andrea is donating a prize: 6 assorted colored mini slimline envelopes from Taylored Expressions. 

 

 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

  Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

 

Challenges:

Heart 2 Heart Challenge - What's Your Angle (patterned paper, Artistry Cricut Tag, gold flower centers are CTMH) ; Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #144 - Slimline Card; Crafty Catz Challenge #546 - AG; Taylormade Cards 4 U Challenge - Serendipity; Inkspirational Challenge #236 - Grow;  Stamplorations April Stencil Challenge - AG (used Dots All Over stencil)

 

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #354 with My Grafico

My Grafico, 

where you can find a variety of clipart, graphics, printable templates, digital papers, stamps and much more,  

is sponsoring this week's theme challenge at

  Tuesday Throwdown.

For the current Tuesday Throwdown challenge, 

we'd like to see projects that are Out of This World.

This sweet little astronaut is of the images from the Digital Stamp Set Space Art from My Grafico

  I hope you'll pop over to the Tuesday Throwdown blog to see what my very talented teammates have made for your inspiration.  Then be sure to join in the fun at Tuesday Throwdown this week.  We just love seeing your crafty cards and projects and visiting all your blogs.

Challenges: 
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #170 - Anything Goes
Cutie Pie Challenge #113 - Here come the girls
Just Us Girls Challenge #404 - Wild Card Week : Something Old and/or New
  Everything is old and from my stash with the exception of the digi image, which is new.

May heARTful stamping Challenge

Close to My Heart just released a new Seasonal Expressions Catalog.  Personally, I'm more excited about the Live Beautifully products that are only available for the month of May.

I fell in love with the paper featuring gorgeous peonies in shades of red, white and pink, and fully intended to make something with it  for my heARTful stamping May Challenge design team post.

Then I saw the reverse side, and knew the white peonies would  make a beautiful card for a wedding.  And I just happen to have one on our calendar.

Isn't the flip side underneath my card pretty, too?

 The glitter frame is a cut from the Artistry CTMH Cartridge backed with sea glass card stock.  The strip next to the ribbon is from the edge of one of the papers. The strips on these papers are so pretty!

The challenge at heARTful stamping is open all month.  

Won't you join us?

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First Valentine of 2017

According to her mother, my grandniece keeps the cards I send under her pillow.  I hope she has enough room for this valentine.

This cute bunny is a Gerda Steiner digi image. 

Patterned papers are from CTMH.

Challenges: 
Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Valentines/Love Cards 4 Kids
Pattie's Creations Challenge #130 - Use an animal image 
Crafting When We Can Challenge #135 - Anything Goes 
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #132 - ATG + All About Love 
Polkadoodles Challenge Week 1 - Anything Goes 
In the Pink Challenge #110 - Anything Goes 
Gerda Steiner Share Your Design Challenge #28 - use a GSD digi

See you tomorrow for Mojo Monday!

and be sure to stop by on Tuesday for the January 

Close to My Heart Joyful Stars Blog Hop.

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #317 with Conie Fong Art

Simply Add a Border to a card and you can enter it in this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  

We have a new sponsor this week, Conie Fong Art and Design.  Tuesday Throwdown's Team B was given a few digi images and they are adorable.  

I used Feeling Fabulous for this card:

with a striped fabric border under the image 

and at the bottom of the card.

  You really need to head on over to the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Blog to see what my teammates created with

Sally and Snowball

and

Joy to the World.

 I'm sure you'll want to give some of the 

Conie Fong Art and Design images a try.

I am entering this card in a these fun challenges:
Through the Purple Haze Challenge #111 - Favorite Color Combination (Browns and Reds)
Crafty Catz Challenge #343 - Anything Goes + optional twist: embossing
Crafting with Friends Challenge #30 - Anything Goes 
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge week 24 - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Favorite Colour Combo (Browns and Reds)
Love to Scrap Challenge #88 - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge #335 - Always Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #133 - Always Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #166 - Anything Goes

 

One Layer Valentine?

Does a ribbon count as a layer?  What about bling?  Does a one layer card mean one layer of paper plus the card base?  Or is the card base the only layer?

Would you consider this a one layer card?

(Stamps and ribbon are CTMH products.  Everything is stamped directly on the card base.  The perimeter was masked before stamping.  Then I used a stylus to score around the card to making it appear to have multiple layers.)

Challenges:

613 Avenue Create Challenge #162 - Anything Goes w/ option One Layer

Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #106 - Love/Valentine

Creative Card Crew Challenge #106 - Love 

Fan-tastic Tuesday Challenge #123 - Anything Goes w/ option So In Love

Inky Chicks Challenge #62 - Love (letters) and/or Hearts

Unicorn Challenge #6 - Lots of Love

Cards in Envy Challenge - From the Heart

Get Creative Challenge #32 - Hearts

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Love is in the Air

Love to Scrap Challenge #71 - Have a Heart

Where the Heart Is Challenge #6 - Love

CAS on Sunday Challenge #76 - Valentine

Blessings Ink Amusing Challenge - Hearts

A Gem of a Challenge #162 - Love is in the Air

Allsorts Challenge 349 -  Clean and Simple

Craft Rocket Challenge #8 - Valentine/Love

No Flies on Mojo Monday

Wow! It's already the last Mojo Monday Sketch Contest of the month.   
I really wasn't looking forward to today's sketch because I thought it would be a tall & skinny design.  But it wasn't!  Then I remembered Julie saves that design for the 5th Monday of the month and got busy making this card....

All the papers, stamps, and the embellishment are from La Vie En Rose Scrapbook Kit by Close to My Heart.

Today I am entering these challenges:

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge # 432 -

613 Avenue Create Challenge - Anything Goes with no twist this week

PDE Linky Party - Always Anything Goes

DLArt January Linky Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #96 - Always Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #296 - Always Anything Goes

Love to Scrap Challenge #70 - Anything Goes

Where the heART is Challenge #5 - Anything Goes

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When my son was in cub/boy scouts, the boys would divide into 2 groups, face each other and one group would say to the other: 

There ain't no flies on us!

There ain't no flies on us!

There might be flies on some of YOU guys,

But there ain't no flies on us!

The second group would respond, a bit louder:

There ain't no flies on us!

There ain't no flies on us!

There might be flies on some of YOU guys,

But there ain't no flies on us!

 The first group would reply, even louder:

There ain't no flies on us!

There ain't no flies on us!

There might be flies on some of YOU guys,

But there ain't no flies on us!

and on and on it would go until the boys had no more voice and were ready to quiet down to get to other activities.

The weather of the last few days reminded me of this little exercise.  And to all my buds in Pennsylvania, digging out from 2 foot of snow, I'd just like to say....

There ain't no snow on us!!!!!!

There ain't no snow on us!!!!!!

 There might be snow on all of you guys,

 There ain't no snow on us!!!!!!

************** 

Stay safe, my friends!

Man oh man....

....does my DH love donuts, especially chocolate ones.  We just finished off a box of Entemann's Chocolate Donuts the other evening.  I taught my son (and daughter) to love donuts at a fairly age, also.  Every Friday morning, before dropping my little ones off at day care, we'd stop at the local farmer's market for fresh donuts.  They always order the French crullers, although, they called them creepy crawlers.  And now, my son has carried on the tradition with his two boys, stopping for a donut before heading to school on Fridays.  And in the spirit of that tradition, I have made this card because I do not know what I'd do without any of the men in my life!

(All CTMH products.)

This card is my entry for the Heart 2 Heart Man Oh Man Challenge.

and these fun challenges, too:

Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge June 17-30 - Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #233 - Anything Goes 

Simon's Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Kraftin Kimmie Wonderful Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #189 - Anything Goes

Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #76 - Use a die or punch 

(I used a punch for the corners of the sentiment piece.)

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #207 - For the Boys

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #141 - For a Man or Boys

Eureka Stamps Challenge #146 - Paper Piecing 

(I paper pieced the icing onto the donut.  

I did not paper piece the jimmies.  Those I colored with a marker!)

That's it for today.  Mom and I are going shopping!

Have a good one!

and

Thanks for stopping by!!

MM + AHSC

Going for some simple cards today. 

First, a tall & skinny Mojo Monday card suitable for a wedding:

Normally, I would be complaining about the tall & skinny sketch at Mojo Monday.  But I really like the way this turned out!  (3.5 x 5.5)

and, second,  a sympathy card for today's 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge:

Yeah, I kind of just used some things floating around on my craft table.  Didn't have enough mojo to look for pattern papers, etc.  There is way too much stuff on the table right now, anyway.  Plus - it needs a good cleaning, so I don't have to sponge the next card I make because it got dirty during construction.

All the stamps used are CTMH.  I love the pussywillow branches stamp, one of the first signs of spring. 

Challenges:

Card #1 - Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge # 391

 

613 Avenue Create Challenge #117 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #128 - Anything Goes + Sentiment

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge March 25th - Anything Goes

Card #2 - Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge # 101

 

 Color My Heart Color Dare #135 - Champagne (base) & Chocolate (ink)

Wags n Whiskers Challenge #150 - Monochromatic

Stop back tomorrow for a new Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Design Team Card.

and

Wednesday I have an eggsrta special surprise!

Look what I found!

(Love you stamp is CTMH.)

This is the card I should have posted for February's From the Heart Progressive Challenge using the digital set Loves Me Birdbrain.  Somehow, I forgot to post it.  Guess that makes me a bit of a "birdbrain".  

I won't be making that mistake again this month!  

Here's my card for the March From the Heart Progressive Challenge using the set Easter Trio:

The cute framed images just screamed "waterfall card" to me.  I sized the digital sentiment to match and hand drew a frame around it, too.  Then there's room on the bottom piece for a personal note.  I chose this glittery striped paper for the springy colors, added butterfly brads and new oregano skittles, then used an aqua blue card base to finish off the card.

I'm also entering this card in the following:

Creative Moments Challenge 63 - Anything Goes/Spring Greens 

DoubleClick Skittles Challenge #17 - Use Green

Animal Friends March Challenge #23 - Easter

Creative Craft Cottage Challenge - All that Glitters

Bunny Zoe's March Challenge - Spring Colours

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Get Creative Challenge #10 - Must have green
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Ribbons and Brads 
Allsorts Challenge week 301 - Spring is in the Air

Iris Folding Heart

The iris folding pattern for this heart was so unique and  interesting, I just had to try it.

Of course, I made it a bit more difficult by choosing a  directional dp, but I really like how it turned out.  The background paper is a shiny holographic heart pattern.  I can't believe I managed to capture it so well in the photo.  Love that super shiny look.

I used a CTMH Hugs and Kisses stamp, cutting out only the HUGS to mount in the center of the heart.

Challenges for this card include:

QKR Stampede Challenge #104 - Hearts 

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #231 - Anything Goes

As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Matt or Shiny and Why (I love shiny.  I love the way light reflects off shiny surfaces.  It's like a sheet of bling!)

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #296 - Valentines Day/Love

Southern Girls Challenge - Sparkle and Shine

The Paper Shelter Challenge #188 - Lots of Layers

Inky Chicks Challenge #45 - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #186 - Love Me Do

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Jan 27-Feb2 - Always Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #75 - Love is in the Air

Checkered origami heart

There are so many different origami fold patterns which create hearts.  The checkered heart really piqued my interest and I just had to give it a try.  You start out with a square piece of paper (I used double sided CTMH DP.) which you fold into 64 smaller squares.  Then with just a few folds you have a beautiful checkered heart.

The "LOVE" stamp is just one word cut out after stamping a larger CTMH sentiment stamp.

I've followed the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches # 171 for my card layout and will be submitting this card to their challenge,

 

and also to:

Fairy Tale Challenge - Something with a Heart

Frosty Designs Friday Challenge - Direction

QKR Stampede Challenge #124 - Hearts 

Simply Create Too Challenge #178 - Valentine's Day or Hearts

Sister Act Card Challenge #91 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #124 - Valentine or Love

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #296 - Valentines Day/Love