Can't forget the boys

It's always seems easier to make cards for girls than for boys, especially when you need to have heart themed cards!  Here is one card I've made for the current card drive at Cards for Little Hearts, intended more for a boy.

Oh my, this computer is behaving badly today.

It is being just too testy to try and link this card into any challenges!

Very Pink Cards

These cards will soon be on their way to Ohio, 

and the Nationwide Children's Hospital.

You can find out about the Heart Themed Cards

for Little Hearts card drive here.

 Both cards feature digital images colored with pencils and markers, a CTMH sentiment stamp, die cuts, embossing, baker's twine and lots of pink.

Challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #82 - Embossing Folders 

Moving Along with the Times Challenge #62 - Flowers 

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 1 - Anything Goes 

Just Us Girls Challenge #442 - Anything Goes 

QKR Stampede Challenge #277 - Anything Goes 

As You Like It Challenge - Anything Goes  

Tweet Hello

Why didn't I get these double stitched rectangle dies sooner? 

 I love them!

They are from Our Daily Bread Designs.

It's time to make cards for the Cards for Little Hearts current card drive, to be distributed at Nationwide Children's Hospital in February for Heart Month.

Challenges:  

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #384 - Dies/Pinches 

As You Like It Challenge - Anything Goes 

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #511 - Anything Goes 

The House That Stamps Built DCC13 - Things with Wings 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Something New (dies) 

Die Cut Divas Challenge - Something New (dies)

The Alphabet Challenge - "U" Use 3 of something (3 frames)

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 1 - Anything Goes (the digi image was colored with pencils and blended with clear Wink of Stella pen) 

Ice Skating

Ice Skating is a winter activity that I have never tried.

But, gee, if this cute little mouse can do it.....

The closest I ever came to ice skating was... 

One day, when I was a teenager I was headed to the bus stop and slipped on our icy sidewalk, landing hard on my bottom.  My books took off, sliding across the front yard in multiple directions.  My younger brother went running into the house to tell my mother, not that I had fallen but that I had said a 4 letter word when I did.

Getting back to the card...

The cute Ice Skating Mouse is a digital image from Gerda Steiner Designs.  I colored him with markers and added some clear Wink of Stella on the ice.  The sentiment and papers are from CTMH.  

The die cut frames are from MFT.

Challenges:   

Gerda Steiner Share Your Designs January Challenge - AG with a GS stamp

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Winter Fun 4 Kids

Star Stampz Challenge - Winter

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #384 - Dies and/or Punches

Crafty Animals Challenge #10 - AG

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #10 - AG

Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenge #1 - Die Cuts

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #156 - AG

 

 

Cocoa with Marshmallows

I treated myself to two new stamp sets from Sweet n Sassy.  Yesterday, I shared two cards I made with the For the Birds stamp set.  Today, I'm sharing two cards featuring the Cup of Cocoa stamp set.

 This little guy was stamped, colored with markers and then fussy cut.  Two of the ladies in my Red Hat Chapter will find these cards in their mailboxes, which explains the red and purple color scheme.  Inside of each card is a simple stamped "Happy Birthday".

Challenges:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #10 - Anything with a Critter Goes
The Crafty Addicts Challenge #44 - Anything Goes (I decided not to use the option of blue)
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Something New (stamps)
Scrapy Land Challenge #81 - Anything Goes (I used Spellbinders and La La Land dies.)
Crafty Creations Challenge #357 - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs Challenge - January Edition - Anything Goes

Yesterday, I went to a card class here in Florida. 

Marlene Bovee designed these two cards for us to make:

1. a great masculine card

 and
2. a sweet Valentine

 

and Joan Fetterman designed the first card below which uses a 3 layered image.

 

I really like this sentiment.  And I also like the black and gold card base.  So when I got home, I cut off the card front and then die cut the sentiment and a frame from the inside and substituted a white card base.  Now I can use the remaining piece for something else.

For her second card, Jane turned us loose with some fabulous Anna Griffin card bases, inserts, sentiments and cuts out to make a Christmas card.  The choices made this card the hardest.

Wow! A Valentine, a masculine Birthday, an Anniversary, a Christmas card and great fun in The Villages!

Missed you Linda! 
and miss the girls back home, too!

Sweet n Sassy Warm Winter Hugs

These two cards feature a new stamp set, For the Birds, that I got at Sweet n Sassy stamps.  My intention was to use it to send greetings to my family and friends back in Pennsylvania where it is really cold, while we are vacationing in sunny Florida.  But, the joke is on me because this week isn't going to be warm or sunny here.

 

 
The stamped images were colored with pencils, then blended with a water brush before being fussy cut.  The sentiment was die cut and the edge faintly colored with marker before being positioned on a cricut cut piece of glitter paper.  Snowflakes are a cricut cut topped with a punch cut and a gem.

Challenges: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Something New (stamps)

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge week of Jan. 2nd - Anything Goes 

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 335 - Watercolor

Crafty Hazelnut's January Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes 

A Perfect Time to Craft January Challenge - Anything Goes 

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #59 - Anything Goes 

Happy New Year

I thought I'd start the new year by finishing up some things I didn't get done in 2017.  Posting this Christmas card is one of them.  Originally, I saw a similar card on Pinterest but had to adjust it for the stamps, punches and die cuts I own.  I only made two of these, for two special friends.  But, I was very happy with the results.

 The stamps are all from CTMH.  The stitched circles are La La Land die cuts.  The glitter paper snowflakes and hearts are from CTMH cricut cartridges.

Challenges:

The Merry Christmas Challenge #49 - Anything Goes + Christmas 
heARTful stamping challenge - Anything Goes + a stamp 
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #366 - Anything Christmas Goes + option of something beginning with an "S" (snowflakes, stamping)
QKR Stampede Challenge #276 - snowmen, snowflakes, or anything goes
Fussy and Fancy Challenge # 202 - Christmas 
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #448 - Anything Goes 

Happy New Year!