Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #765

 Welcome to my blog, where I have

a new card to share with you each week for

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches turns 15 this month!  We will be celebrating with old sketches (from 2014), and we'll have small prizes all month long.

 

Here is the sketch for this week:

 

and here is my card:

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. 

The Design Team invites you to stop by

 and visit their blogs, too.

Debbie 

Donna

Melissa

Patti

 

         You can be sure that one of us will be visiting you.

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #713

 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:

 

Here's the kid friendly card I made

using a set of Lawn Fawn stamps:

 

 

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

Debbie 

Donna

Melissa

Patti

Tammy

Tangii

 

  You can be sure that one of us will be visiting you.

 

As usual, I made a second card using the scraps from the first one.

 

Send a Smile 4 Kids August Challenge #228

 

The theme for the August Challenge at

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is 

Thank You.

 

Anything Goes for kids is always acceptable, too.

 

 Here's my card for August:

 

 

 These cute fussy cut critters are Gerda Steiner Designs Stamps, the sentiment and leftover paper scraps are from CTMH.

 

 It would be great if you joined the fun at the

Send A Smile 4 Kids 

August Challenge.

(Cards only, please. And they need not be donated.)

 

Please take some time and visit the fabulous blogs of my teammates.  They work so hard and are very creative! 

Bobbi

Sybrina

Mary

Karen 

April 

Celeste

Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #659

 

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

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 Here is this week's sketch:

 

 

Schools in our area will soon be dismissing for the summer.  It's always nice to thank those who have helped your child this past school year, be it the teacher, the bus driver, the janitor who gets those kick balls off the roof, the crossing guard, the school secretary, the lunch ladies or gents, et al.

With that in mind I used this week's sketch to make a school themed thank you card.

 Here's another card I made using the same sketch.

 

 

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 you!

 

September Progressive Challenges

Today I am sharing the cards I made for two progressive challenges.  Each month you play, using their digi, you receive a new digi for the following month. 

My first 2 cards are for the September DOTM Challenge at Imagine That!.  The Meerkat digis are so cute I just couldn't make meerly one card! 

I am also entering this second card in the Something, Anything, Everything Challenge #93 at Double Trouble. I've included a pumpkin as my harvest element and am also entering the Dies R Us Challenge #177.  The scalloped circle dies are from Spellbinders, the brown circle die is from Sizzix, and the foliage dies are from Impression Obsession.

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The second progressive challenge in which I always like to participate is at The Outlawz.  This month Hettie Clare Art has gifted us with a really cute image called The Little Ballerina.

 Here is my submission for the September Progressive Challenge:

 

Candlewick Ovals by Spellbinders frame the digi image, which is partially colored and also paper pieced.  I know my niece will love receiving this for her birthday.

Thanks so much for visiting!

 

 

Send A smile 4 Kids August Challenge

 

 The theme for the August Challenge at 

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is Thank You

or Anything Goes 4 Kids.

 

The "thanks" is a die cut from My Favorite Things.  

The VW and sentiment are stamps from Taylored Expressions.

I used a lot of leftover cs strips to make the background for this card.  Once I had glued them together and cut it to size, I popped it in an embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug for a bit of texture.

 

 It would be great if you joined the fun at the

Send A Smile 4 Kids 

August Challenge.

(Cards only, please. And they need not be donated.)

 

Please take some time and visit the fabulous blogs of my teammates.  They work so hard and are very creative! 

Bobbi

Sybrina

Mary

Karen 

April 

Celeste

 

 

 

Challenges:

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #321 - Masculine

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday August Challenge - Boys or Men

Creative Knockouts Challenge #413 - AG

Aud Sentiments Challenge #280 - AG + a sentiment

Cut It Up Challenge #231 - Make Your Own Background (thanks is a die cut from MFT)

Crafters' Cafe Challenge #271 - AG

A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge 8-2021 - AG

A Bit More Time to Craft July Challenge - AG

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #612

 

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

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

Once again Melissa Craig has supplied a wonderful sketch to get our creativity started.  Thanks, Melissa.

 

And here's my take on the sketch.

 

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!

 

Nurses Appreciation Week

 Yesterday was the beginning of Nurses Appreciation Week.  

I've used a cute stamp set from My Favorite Things to make a couple cards for the occasion.  These will be great to mail off to Send A Smile 4 Kids.  Thankfully, some of the children's hospitals are beginning to accept card donations once again. 

This first card follows the sketch at  

My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #540. 

 

 

And the second card follows the sketch at 

Try Stampin' on Tuesday Challenge #505.

TSOT had an optional theme to use pastel colors, so I chose my papers accordingly.
Both images were hand colored with a combination of markers and pencils.

Flowers for Double Trouble

 I knew I was forgetting something.

Double Trouble started a new challenge last week 

and I never made a card.   

This week's theme, compliments of Thing #1, is Flowers in celebration of Spring.  Thing #2 encourages you to also enter your card in the Make the Cards Challenge.  But, in order to enter that challenge, Thing #3 reminds you to use these colors:

 

This is what I put together for Double Trouble Challenge # 82 and Make the Cards Challenge #13. 

The stamp is by Honey Doo Crafts and the die is by Momenta.

I borrowed the grandkid's water paints to make the random flecks of color and added a few sequins at the last minute.

 

Have a great day everyone!

 

Imagine That! March Digi of the Month Challenge

The new Honey Bear digis for the March Imagine That! Progressive Challenge are so sweet, I couldn't wait to use them.

First I made a slim line all occasion card.

 

And then I made a Thank You card.

 

I colored both images with a combination of markers, pencils, and watercolor.

Additional challenges I am entering:

Dream Valley Challenge #242 - Hand Colored Image; Crafty Animals Challenge #48 - AG with an animal; 2 Crafty Critter Crazies March Challenge - AG with a critter; Digi Choosday Challenge week 9 - AG; Crafty Sentiments Challenge - AG; Polkadoodle Challenge Week 9 - AG; Gem of a Challenge #5 - AG

My Favorite Things Challenges

Taking a break from making Christmas cards, today I worked on cards for the challenges at My Favorite Things.

First I made a Thank You card for their Sketch Challenge, using one if their stamp sets called Super Hero in Scrubs.

Papers are from Bo Bunny and heart dies from CTMH.

This is the sketch I was following.
 

My second card could be used for just about anything.

This time I was following the colors for the MFT Color Challenge #154. 

 

The background was made using a MFT Stencil called Radiating Rays.  The Heart Tree die cut is also from MFT and so is the sentiment.
 

Challenges for the first card:

My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #517 - see above for sketch; Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #213 - Thankful; Aud Sentiments Challenge #265 - AG with a sentiment; Just Add Ink Challenge #533 - Just add 's'; The nurse is wearing scrubs, I used stitched dies, There are tiny snowflakes in the dotted paper, and I followed a sketch.; Fab n Funky Challenge #504 - Thank You/Thanksgiving; Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #258 - Thank You/Thanksgiving; Make My Monday Challenge #136 - Thankful; Die Cut Divas November Challenge - Thanks/Thanksgiving

 

Challenges for the second card: 

MFT Color Challenge #154 - see above; Sparkles Forum Challenge - Use a Stencil; Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG; Krafty Chicks Challenge # 535- All Occasions;  Stamplorations November Stencil Challenge - AG;

 

 

Thanks for visiting.  Hope you are having a wonderful day.