June ODBD challenge

It's the second-to-last June ODBD challenge for Operation Write Home, so I had to join in, especially because it was for Missing You cards.  I wanted to make this one masculine, so I used the Deer stamp and papers that have been patiently waiting for me to use them.  Here's what I came up with:

 

The stamp is from Stamps of Life and those are thin buttons - no thick ones for OWH!  I'm also entering this into the Words 2 Scrap By June challenge - It's a Man's World . 

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your weekend was a nice one!

Rainbow happiness

This week has been a gloomy one - not a day with sunshine, so I've been dreaming about brighter things, like rainbows.  This month's challenge at Words 2 Scrap by  is "Out like a lion, in like a lamb" which relates to the March weather.  The card I made for this challenge uses a rainbow that I made on my Silhouette and the Bold & Bright Double dot paper from BoBunny:

The card sketch is #192, from Operation Write Home:

 

 

I hope this card brightens your day.  Thank you to Bobbi and Sybrina for letting me join in with the I-team over at Words 2 Scrap By.  Join in this month's challenge!

Happy New Year!

I'm enjoying a long weekend to start 2015, fitting in some organizing time, as well as crafting.  One of my monthly goals is to join in the Our Daily Bread challenge at Operation Write Home.  Lately, I've been one of the last card makers to get my card in, so in January, I'm going to be one of the first!

 

Our challenge is to make an AnyHero card.  I looked through my stash of cards and realized that I had no Thank You cards!  Horrors!  I decided not to go with a red/white/blue theme and made this funky card:

Yeah - it's got that 70's vibe, right?  I'm thinking it will be the bright spot in some hero's day when they read it.

 

I made another thank you card with a newer trend on it for this month's You choose the words challenge at Words Scrap By.  I recently joined Instagram, so I get the hashtag craziness, but I had a hard time coming up with just one word to use on a card, so I went with "Thx":

I wanted a masculine card, so I kept it simple and added a few Pearl Pen dots.  The images for both cards today were made using my Silhouette.  I use my Silhouette so much that it needs a new blade and I'm going to take the plunge and switch that out today.

 

The football playoffs are starting today and I'm cheering for the Carolina Panthers! 

 

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by! 



Purrfection

I was thrilled to win the August challenge at Words 2 Scrap By and was invited to be a guest designer for the October challenge.  The words to inspire us this month are: The road to my heart is paved with paw prints.  I've got two cats who have printed their paws on my heart!  Both were strays that we adopted and now couldn't live without.

For my card, I had to use a cat stamp (I've got quite a few!) This kitten is from the Chubby Chums set by Paper Smooches:

The papers and ribbon are from my stash.  There are many animals that could inspire a card for this challenge and I hope that you'll join us this month!

I'm entering this card into the Cardz TV challenge: Polka dots and stripes

Thanks for stopping by!

Love ya to the stars

Happy hot Sunday to ya!  It's not only hot here in the deep South, but it's also very humid.  We're expected to hit 100 degrees on Wednesday!  Ouch!  I can't complain, though, because we've really had a mild summer -I  knew those hot days would come to visit us sometime!

I'm officially an empty-nester now that my son moved in to his college dorm this weekend.  Yeah!  I found time to make cards and catch up on some challenges.

My first card is inspired by Kristina Werner's galaxy card.  It was fun to play with acrylic paints and Distress Inks to create a sky for the Lawn Fawn sentiment:

I'm entering this card into the August Words 2 Scrap By challenge - From darkness to light

My next two cards are for Operation Write Home challenges.  I used Penny Black Critters stamps and colored them with Distress Inks.

My thank you card is for the Mid-month throwdown challenge - Gratitude

My final card is for the latest sketch challenge - #236:

Those little critters are so adorable!  I couldn't pass this stamp set by when I bought it at Absolutely Everything in Massachusetts.  There's other images too that I can't wait to color.

Well now I'm off to work on making a Kaper Chart for my Daisy Girl Scout troop.

Thanks for stopping by!

Father's Day cards

Saturdays go by way too fast, don't ya think?  Today I got a lot of things done around the house and fit in some time to make some Father's Day cards.

 

My first one uses an SVG file that I got years ago from the blog Just Yolie .  I paired it behind some diamond pattern paper and used a diamond border cut file to add some gold to the card:

I made 6 cards from this one design!  Yeah!  I'm entering this card into this month's diamond challenge at Words 2 Scrap by.

 

My next card uses SVG files from Doodlepantry.   In addition to making wonderful digital images, they also make cut files.  I bought this set of files:

I used the fish and bear for two cards:

I've got many more masculine images that I can use on Father's Day cards and I can't wait to print and cut them out.  I'm entering my bear card in this month's Doodlepantry challenge.

 

Hope you're enjoying your weekend.  Thanks for stopping by!

 



Challenges for Saturday

Hello!  I'm entering a few card challenges today - a good way to keep that creativity flowing. 

 

The first is a new card challenge blog started by two OWH bloggers - Words 2 Scrap by.  The challenges take their inspiration from words and this month's challenge is to use a lyric from "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.  I listened to the song and chose the words - "wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings" and imagined geese flying against a setting sun.

 

Here's my card:

 

First I made a circle mask for the moon and put it onto the watercolor paper.  Then, I used Distress Inks to create the sunset background, which I misted over with Perfect Pearls.  The geese are from the Silhouette store (#5442), stamp from Technique Tuesday. 

 

This challenge pushed me to try a new technique and that's always a good thing.

 

The second challenge is the monthly Our Daily Bread Designs challenge at OWH , which is stripes.  Here's my card:

I used three Memento Dew Drop inks and made a simple design, pulling the colors from the striped paper.  I used OWH sketch #201 for this card design:

 

I'm still looking over the many cards posted in the OWH Top 13 of 2013 blog hop and writing down cards that I want to CASE.  There's so much inspiration in the blog world.

 

Hope you have a chance to enter these challenges in between the football playoffs, that is!