Sedentary Saturday

Just a quick post for you, my crafty friends, 

and for a few favorite challenges.

This card features a bird from the Hey Chick set from the 

 Sale-a-bration Stampin Up catalog, 

These chicks are so darn cute!

Challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge #176 - Any sentiment except birthday 
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #343 - Punches or Dies 
Brown Sugar Challenge #243 - Anything Goes 
Crazy 4 Challenge #378 - Owl or any feathered creature
Crazy Friends Challenge #54 - "b" is for ............Bird 

 

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge # - Circle Card

Round and Round is this week's theme for Tuesday Throwdown Challenge # 285.  That means we are looking for circle cards.  Our fabulous sponsor this week is Lacy Sunshine Stamps, who generously supplied TT Design Team B with a variety of images to use.  I chose beautiful Emily - English Rose Melancholy Moppet.

Heather Valentin, designer of Lacy Sunshine Stamps,

has a wonderful collection digital stamps.  You must wander over and meet Eleanor and Pickles, all the Melancholy Moppets, 

 

Rory and the Sweet Urchins, The Boos, The Buggmee's, Sticky Wings, Stitches and so many more.  Also available on the site are links to the Blog, Lacy Sunshine Crafting Magazine, HV's Online Art Classes and Lacy Sunshine on FB.  The Lacy Sunshine Blog has bi-weekly challenges, featuring very talented designers who supply recipes for coloring the images they've used.  

In fact, I'm going to enter this card in the current Lacy Sunshine March 6th Anything Goes Challenge.  

I hope you'll take some time and visit Lacy Sunshine Stamps, the Lacy Sunshine Blog, and Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Blog.  My teammates have created fabulous circle cards to get your creativity rolling.  We can't wait to see your entries and visit your blogs.  The winner will be receiving their choice of Lacy Sunshine Images.

For my card I used the CTMH Artiste Cricut Cartridge to cut the circle card base.  I sized my digi image and used a La La Land stitched circle die to cut it and also cut a smaller stitched circle in blue.  The butterfly die, separated into 2 pieces on the card, was a freebie from recent craft magazine.  I used Spellbinders beaded circle dies for the yellow dp circles and a circle punch for the white circle.  The Lacy Sunshine digi image was colored with pencils and blended with gamsol.  The overskirt also has a layer of CTMH fine prisma color glitter.  The stamped sentiment, silver butterfly puffie, and clear gems are all CTMH products.

Finally, the assembled card (and my left hand) got a fine spray of Frost Shimmer Spritz.

I am submitting this card to these additional challenges:

Sparkle n Sprinkle March Challenge -  Anything Goes with Glitter, EP, or Flock

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge - Girly Cards

Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #36 - Die-cutting

Crazy 4 Challenges #347 - Circles and/or Pies

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Lots of Layers

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge

It's time to post my Design Team card for the

 Tuesday Throwdown challenge.  

This week we are having a fun Tic Tac Toe Challenge sponsored by Sami Stamps. 

For this challenge  I used this adorable image called Fancy Pillow which is available here at Sami Stamps.

I sized the digi in my "Paint" program and then printed it three times.  First on the pale green flowered DP, then on the yellow flowered DP, and finally on off white CS.  Using brown colored pencils, I colored just the cat on the CS and then fussy cut it and the yellow flowered pillow and paper pieced them both onto the light green flowered DP.  I added buttercup liquid pearls to the pillow fringe.  The cat received a diamond choker and earing.  The embossed card base has a very pretty pearlescent gloss.  I added a little decorative brown stitching in the upper right corner to attach the birdcage charm and 3 brown pearls.  Finally, I added a simple sentiment on a small die cut scalloped oval.  I tried to keep the bling to a minimum so the card would retain a CAS look.   It's kind of tough using both on the same card, but I think this works pretty well.  
Here's the Tic Tac Toe Board with which I was working  for this week's challenge:

Please take a moment to stop over at the Tuesday Throwdown Blog and see the wonderful cards my fellow teamies have created to inspire you and leave some love for all their hard work. 

(esp. for NC who just celebrated (?) a birthday)

We'd love to have you join the fun

at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #187.

I am entering this card in these other fun challenges:

Die Cut Divas March Challenge - Let's Emboss It

Digi Galore Challenge - Anything Goes using a digi

My Time to Craft Challenge #239 - Charming

One Stitch at a Time Challenge #204 - Use a Digi

Brown Sugar Challenge #85 - Paper Piecing

Simply Create Too Challenge #52 - Animals -entry #2