Movin' on Mojo Monday

Lots to do today.  The sun is out.  The weeds are growing.  Time to get the flower beds in shape for the annual mulching.  

Here's my card for Mojo Monday #444.

Everything on this card went together easily with coordinating CTMH Pemberly papers (now retired); the CTMH sentiment; and a couple OohLaLa stitched circle die cuts. 

And then I opened the card....

Thank heavens for my bottle of Un-Du! 

I managed to loosen the glue and spin the sentiment circle. Otherwise I would have cut the card in half and made it into an easel card.  So this is the actual finished card.

Challenges I am entering include:

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #444

 

Crafting From the Heart Challenge # 108 - Always Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #308 - Always Anything Goes

Love to Scrap Challenge #76 - Anything Goes

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #179 - Mother's Day Flowers 

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 14 - Floral Frenzy

 

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Saturday I spent a wonderful day with friends at a Crop benefitting their Relay for Life team.  I worked on favors for my Mother's Day luncheon.  It was a productive day.  I came home with all the baskets made and added the finishing touches yesterday.

Check out the shrinky dink charms I made.  Joyce came up  with the idea. This CTMH stamp worked perfectly.  

Thanks for visiting.  Have a wonderful day!

Dino Stickers for Mom & Dad

Going through my embellishment stash the other day, I came across a sheet of adorable 3 layer dinosaur stickers I picked up when my granddaughter became a mother 2 years ago.  This year they are going to find homes on Mother's Day and Father's Day cards for Send a Smile 4 Kids.

Sentiments are CTMH stamps.

The dp came from a magazine; die cut is Spellbinders; the embossing folder is CTMH; and the shimmer trim is also CTMH.

Challenges: 

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #18 - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge # 153 - Anything Goes
Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #20 - Use an Embossing Folder
Brown Sugar Challenge #194 - Anything Goes

That's it for today.  I am going to a crop tomorrow,  where I hope to get all my favors made for Mother's Day Lunch.   I have a bit of gathering to do so I am sure to take everything I need.

Share Joy Challenge

The new Share Joy Challenge caught my eye today.   I liked the sketch and the top row of the tic tac toe board.  I even pulled out a Taylored Expressions stamp set and matching die for the bug and sentiment.

(The CTMH Artistry Cricut Cartridge was used for the #1 Dad cut out on the tag.)

  

This card goes in the new box I've started to mail to Send a Smile 4 Kids. 

Challenges:

Share Joy Challenge #31 - sketch and tic tac toe (top row: ombre, enamel dots, no patterned paper)

Scrap Creations Challenge - Go Green

613 Avenue Create Challenge #171 - Anything Goes w/ option: masculine card 

Back tomorrow with more for the Father's Day box.

Switching Gears

Having mailed off a box of Mother's Day cards yesterday, it's time to pull out more masculine papers, stamps and doo dads to start making Father's Day cards.  

This Penny Black vintage car stamp is one of my favorites.

Would you believe I stopped at the craft store the other day and walked out with only 4 sheets of paper @ 40% off and 2 pkgs. of green enamel dots that were discounted?  This was one of the papers I purchased.  I thought it had great colors for masculine cards.

The sentiment is a CTMH stamp.  And the Triangle Studs are from CTMH, too.

I used the triple stamping technique, one of my favorites, so I could enter this card in Challenge #33 at The Male Room.  If you've never done it, there are great examples and instructions there.

Other challenges I am entering include: 

Frilly and Funky Challenge - Boy Oh Boy

Inky Impressions April Challenge - All About the Boys

Chocolate Baroque Color Challenge #21 - 

 

Bunny Zoe's April Craft Challenge - Traveling/Transport 

613 Avenue Create Challenge # 171 - Anything Goes w/ option of creating a masculine card 

Morgan's Art World Challenge #7 - For the Men 

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #99 - Layers 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper April Challenge - Anything Goes

Spaghetti tonight.  Time to get some water boiling. 

 

Nest Building with Sami Stamps

Yesterday was spent boxing up all the Mother's Day cards I have been making.  Earlier today I mailed them off to Send A Smile 4 Kids.  And, what did I just finish doing?  Making another Mother's Day Card.  But, I noticed I could still enter the current Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge, and one of the sponsors is Sami Stamps.  I checked my Sami Stamps digi file and found a wonderful Birdie Hearts digi.  Then a sentiment popped into my head.  Before I knew it, I had made another Mother's Day card.  (I'll set it aside for next year's box.) Sure was a lot more fun than scrubbing the shower!

(Notice I've used die cuts.  That's the theme for this week's challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.  Scroll down for more info and my DT card.)

Today's Challenges:

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - For Moms or Special Females from the Kids

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Anything Goes 

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #13 - Anything Goes

Paper Minutes Challenge #430 - Ribbons

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Passion for Promarkers Week 341 - Bingo (center column: ribbon, image, sentiment)
I used Letreset Promarkers Gold O555 and Red R666. 

Gee, I don't think I have enough time now to get that shower scrubbed before we leave for my grandson's baseball game.  As Scarlett would say, "tomorrow is another day".

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #289 with Sweet N Sassy

Welcome to my blog. 

Today I am sharing some inspiration for this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge, where the theme is Use Your Die Cuts.  Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

 

  Sweet'n Sassy Stamps is a small, family-owned, Christian company offering exclusive images,designs and sentiments in both clear and digital stamps. They also carry a small number of exclusive die designs, some of which coordinate with their stamps. A wonderful Bible Journaling line of stamps is also available.

 

This card features the Sweet 'n Sassy  Butterfly & Flower Digital Stamp and a sentiment from Birds & Roses Clear Stamp Set.  For this card, the digital image was printed twice.  I colored one image and just the wing of the other, then die cut the complete image using a Spellbinders Beaded Circle Die and fussy cut the butterfly wing.  I popped the second wing over the image at one end and glued it to the image at the other, securing it with a black pearl. 

 Finally I added those teeny, tiny black beads that roll everywhere.

Now it's your turn to Use Your Dies and enter this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  For more inspiration, my very talented teammates have invited you all to visit their blogs, too.  You'll find their names (with links to their blogs) and projects on the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge blog.

Challenges:
Coloring in Scrapland Challenge #10 - Tic Tac Toe (Diagonally: flower;pearl;die)

Cards in Envy Challenge - flowers and/or fantasy
Crafting From the Heart Challenge #107 - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge #307 - Always Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenge # 129 - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #89 - Anything Goes w/ option: flowers
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Whoopsie Daisy Challenge - Butterflies & Flowers
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Embossing

Mojo Monday #443

Not feeling all that witty this morning, so I'll get right to it.

Here's my card for Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #443.

 The paper was in one of the magazines to which I subscribe.  The stamps are from CTMH.   

Today's card is entered in these challenges: 

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #443 -

Cards in Envy Challenge - Flowers and/or Fantasy

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #107 - Always Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #307 - Always Anything Goes 

Crafty Boots Challenge - Use a Sentiment
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #89 - Anything Goes w/ option - Flowers
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - April Showers Bring May Flowers