What was this for?

Did you ever find something in your stash 

that made you scratch your head?

When going through some images the other day,

I came across 4 pieces of dp all cut to the same size 

and 4 matching scalloped borders???

I had no memory of what I had intended to do 

with these mystery pieces. 

This is what I decided to make (x4):

Challenges:

Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenge #28 - AG 

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #71 - AG

Always Fun Challenge #66  - AG

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #215 - Dies and/or Punches (I used 1 of each)

Unstampabelles Challenge #81 - Fancy Frame or Borders

Thanks for stopping by!

Joyful Stars Close to My Heart July Blog Hop

Welcome to the July

Close to My Heart Joyful Stars Blog Hop.

 

 

Have some fun hopping between the blogs of this group of talented Close to My Heart consultants, and me, where we share creative projects using CTMH products.

And, there's a new girl in town!

We are welcoming CTMH consultant Joyce Gough to our monthly hop.

 This card uses CTMH Beautiful Friendship papers and stamps from the Festive Birthday Workshop Your Way.  The design is also from the workshop kit, although I made a few minor changes.

This card will be one of the 4 that I make with my Red Hat friends later this month.

I stamped a dozen of those tiny 3/4" cupcakes, fussy cut and assembled them.

But, when I put the individual kits together I was missing one.

I can't find it anywhere.

Don't you just hate when that happens?  

And then you find it in the strangest place.

Now, since this is a blog hop,

you might have arrived here from  Andrea Sherman's blog.

Your next stop is Marie Flayer's blog.  

The hop is circular.  If you are just starting here, simply continue hopping until you find your way back,

making the full circle.

If you get lost, the complete list of participants is on

Joyce's blog.

Challenges:

Creative Knockouts Challenge #253 - Birthday Wishes

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #410 - Birthday

Love to Scrap Challenge #111 - AG

Always Happy Birthday July Challenge -  Birthday AG

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - AG 4 Kids

Fashionable Stamping Challenge #137 - Use those inks any way you want

Dare 2B Artzy July Challenge - Birthday

Double Trouble #4 Card 2

Thank you for stopping by to check out the Thank You card I made for the Double Trouble Recipe Challenge:

 3 colors; a 2 word sentiment; and 1 image

 I chose Bashful, Pacifica and Mink as my 3 colors, so I can also enter the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge.

 

At the request of the Twisted Sister, the tea cup and flower were heat embossed in clear and the bashful square and pacifica banner were dry embossed, although I'm using the debossed side.

And, I'm also using Sketch # 272 from the 

  Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

 

Additional Challenges I am entering:

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #214 - AG

Always Fun Challenges #66 - AG

Through the Craft Room Door Week of July 3rd - AG

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #71 - AG

Aud Sentiments Challenge - Flowers + a Sentiment (on the tea cup and embossed square)

CASual Fridays Challenge #203 - heat embossing (tea cup outline  and flowers)

Heart 2 Heart Challenge - AG

My next post will be for the July Close to My Heart Blog Hop. 

 I hope you'll come back.

 

One Thing Leads to Another

I started out making this card for my niece.

and ended up making a few more cards..... 

 The Mickey Mouse background for my niece's card was originally part of  a magazine advertisement.  Since Jenny is a big Mickey Mouse fan, I put it aside for her birthday card.

The sentiment is a Rubbernecker stamp and matching die, which I popped using a piece of craft foam also cut with the die. 

Sparkles of various colors finished off the card.

I am entering it in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Bright Colors 

Everybody Art Challenge 428 - Birthday

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #410 - Birthday

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Anything Goes

To make the eight card grouping, I used every bit of 1 sheet of double sided patterned paper.  Each card features the same Rubberneckers Happy Birthday Sentiment stamp, using both the positive and negatives of the die cut.  They all have one of Tim Holtz's Crazy Birds, complete with party hat, watercolored and fussy cut.

These will go on the pile for Send a Smile 4 Kids.  

I think they will make great teen cards. 

Embossing folder scavenger hunt!

 

 

This very pretty card was on Pinterest

and I have spent hours trying to locate the embossing folder. There was no link on Pinterest to whomever made the card.  Has anyone ever seen this embossing folder?  Do you think it is one folder?  

I took a much needed break from scouring ebay and Amazon for the phantom folder and decided to use up some embossed squares that had taken up residence on the corner of my craft mat.  They were leftovers from one project or another.  

Challenges:

Dies R Us Challenge #100 - Anything Goes with a Die carried by DRU  (I've used the Fanciful Flourish Left by Cheery Lynn Designs.) 

Scrapy Land Challenge #93 - Anything Goes with a Die carried by SL (I've used the Fanciful Flourish Left by Cheery Lynn Designs.)

Simply Papercraft Challenge #59 - Anything Goes 

Happy 4th of July

Wishing everyone in the USA

a wonderful Independence Day.

Challenges:

Papercraft Challenge #15 - Red, White & Blue

Through the Craft Room Door Week of July 3rd - AG

Cards in Envy Challenge - Stars

Cute and Crafty Challenge #4 - 4th of July

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Red, White & Blue

Creative With Stamps Challenge #28 - Flag

Dragonfly Challenge #121 - Stars and Stripes

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - AG or Cards 4 Teens

AI Challenge #235 - Patriotic Colors

DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #231 - Red, White & Blue

(I've used a CTMH stamp and SU die.)

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #399 with My Grafico

Many thanks to

My Grafico, 

who is sponsoring this week's theme challenge, 
 The Great Outdoors, 
at  Tuesday Throwdown.

  Today I've used the tent and fire from the Camping Out digital stamp set from My Grafico and the bear from the Jungle Animal Faces digital stamp set.

When my son was younger, he went to Boy Scout Camp every year.  Even before he left home, I began sending him little notes so he would be certain to receive one every day.  He looked forward to the mail and it is something I'm glad I did for him all those years ago.
Making memories is so important.

I hope you'll join in the fun at Tuesday Throwdown this week.  We just love seeing your crafty cards and projects and visiting all your blogs.  And don't forget to check out the My Grafico store,

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

Challenges I am entering:

Di's Digi Design Challenge - Try Something New (I used a new set of tree dies.)

Alphabet Challenge - G is for the Great Outdoors 

A Perfect Time to Craft Challenge #07 - AG

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #71 - AG

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #16 - AG with a critter