Double Trouble Challenge #50

Yowza!  The Double Trouble Challenge Theme is to make a tall and skinny card with an option to use the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday and a Twist to "Stack It Up".  

Here's my card:

 The stamps and scalloped border die are from CTMH.

I also made an easy card using Mojo Monday Sketch #531 and some Penny Black stamps.

 

I am entering the following challenges:

Card #1 - 

Double Trouble Challenge #50 - Tall & Skinny card; TSOT Sketch; Stacking

Try Stamping on Tuesdays Challenge #442 - see sketch above

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - 2 or more patterned papers

Crafty Catz Challenge #493 - AG

Alphabet Challenge - "W" Anything You Wish

Allsorts Challenge Week 449 - Dies and/or Punches

Gem of a Challenge Week 4 - AG

Card #2 - 

Mojo Monday Challenge #531 - see sketch above

Penny Black February Challenge - Animals, Birds and Butterflies

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge Feb 17-29 - AG

Make My Monday Challenge #116 - Critters 

Use Your Stuff Challenge #392 - Circles

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Frame

 

More Sketch Challenges

The other day I stamped and colored several flower bouquets from the February Close to My Heart Stamp of the Month set.   Realizing I needed to make several cards yesterday, I pulled out those bouquets and scoured the current sketch challenges to help get the job done.  

Here are the results.

For the Poetic Artistry Mojo Monday Sketch #530: 

 

For Freshly Made Sketches #420:

I missed the deadline on this challenge, but I like the layout anyway.

For Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge:

For the Stick It Down February Sketch:

And, just because I needed one more birthday card, one of my own design: 

Challenges:

Arty Divas Challenge #13 - ATG

Stamping Sensations February Challenge - Feminine 

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge - Floral Frenzy 

Through the Craft Room Door Feb 4th Challenge - AG 

Crafty Sentiments Design Challenge - AG 

Artsy Stamps Digital Challenge #9 - Hearts/Flowers

I have one more fancy fold card using the same bouquet stamp, but I'm saving it for the Joyful Stars Close To My Heart Blog Hop on February 9th. 

Double Trouble Challenge #48

My loyal followers know the Double Trouble is one of my favorite challenges.  The theme for Challenge #48 is "Say Cheese".  

I hope cream cheese frosting counts.

 The layout of the card is from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge # 352.

 

Hip "Hippo"ray

Here's a versatile card using a Bugaboo Image.

I made it to enter in the January Bugaboo Bingo Challenge. 

I've followed the diagonal row, Monochromatic, Bugaboo Image, and 3 Layers. 

Additional challenges entered:

As You Like It Challenge - AG 

Simply Create Too Challenge #156 - AG 

QKR Stampede Challenge #381- AG 

Brown Sugar Challenge #297 - AG

Crafty Friends Challenge #127 - AG

Crafter's Castle January Challenge - AG

 

Joyful Stars Close To My Heart August Blog Hop

Welcome to the August

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.

The new CTMH catalog debuts soon.

There are a lot of items being retired, 

so get them while you still can. 

This month I'm using papers from the True Love paper pack for some girly cards.

I added some of the Mix In papers for the second card.

The words are on the CTMH Artiste and Artbooking Cricut cartridges.

Now, since this is a blog hop,

you might have arrived here from  Marie Flayer's blog.

Your next stop is Krista Hershberger'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.

Meanwhile, I'm going to enter the following challenges:

DL.Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #246 - Birthdays

Seize the Birthday Challenge #171 - Flowers

Crafty Hazelnut's August Patterned Paper Challenge - AG 

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #233 - Feminine AG 

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Aug. 6th - AG 

Organizing paper pieces

Organizing my paper pieces is a never ending challenge, mostly because I hate to throw out paper.  I save the smallest pieces.  

A few days ago I found this little snack bag.

 In it were 4 ovals and 5 circles.

Just once I'd like to find one of these bags filled with m&m's or maybe money instead of little pieces of paper.

Where was I going to put these 4 lonely ovals and 5 circles?  

I decided using them was easiest option.

I also had the last 2 pieces (3"x4") of a CTMH paper pack to file. 

Now they are on a birthday card and in the SAS4K box with the 2 cards above.

I must admit, though, that organizing in this fashion takes a really  long time. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Leave a comment with your blog address and I'll return the visit.

 

Guest Designer at TTCRD

Through The Craft Room Door is one of the challenges I routinely enter.  Last month I entered the birthday card I made for my mother and was delighted when it won.  As a result of that win, I was asked to be a Guest Designer for this week's 

Through The Craft Room Door Challenge.

The theme is always Always Anything Goes. 

And this week's sponsor is 

SheepSki Designs, 

which created the beautiful digi image I have used 

on this double easel fold card.

It is called Hello.

The mermaid was colored with pencils, which I blended with clear Wink of Stella to also add a bit of glitter. 

But, I wanted more glitter.

So I heat embossed it with a powder from SNS called peppermint stick, which gave me shine and glitter.

I cut masks for both the mermaid and sea horses and then sponged the background with three colors of ink, before cutting the image with a stitched rectangle die.

The sea horses were fussy cut and popped.  They received a coating of CTMH liquid glass to give them that great clear shine.  Before die cutting the top layer of the 3 layer hello, I simply adhered a piece of gold foil to the purple paper.

Here are a two more photos from different angles.

 

The seaweed and anchor are cuts from the CTMH Flower Market Cricut cartridge.  The sentiment, heat embossed with eggplant EP, is from Whimsy Stamps. 

Finally, here is a peek at the inside of the card.

(I found this cute seahorse sticker in my stash 

and couldn't resist adding him to the inside 

along with a bit more seaweed.)

It was so nice of Through The Craft Room Door to invite me to share a card with you this week.

Thank you, Cara.

I hope you'll visit their blog and their facebook group, too.

You might want to check out the

 SheepSki Design Challenge Blog and facebook group, too.  

Challenges:

The Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge #007 - Glitter, Hello, Emboss

 

The Fairy and the Unicorn July Challenge - AG optional Mermaid

Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #113 - Vitamin Sea

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 30 -AG

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - AG

SheepSki Designs Challenge #38 - AG with a SheepSki Design/ option: favorite embellishment (I love the effect of adding the gold foil adhesive to papers and I also love using the little bubbles that look like glass as embellishments.  I have them in every color, and for the life of me can't remember their name.  That should keep me awake tonight!)

When in doubt....

... put a bird on it.

I was using up scraps again.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

Challenges:

Stinkin' Inkers Challenge - Stars and/or Stripes 

Through the Craft Room Door Week of July 16th - AG 

Simon Says Monday Challenge -  Animal Magic 

Dragonfly Dreams July Challenge - Things with wings 

Crafty Friends Challenge #114 - Use 2 or more patterned papers 

 

Fried Chickens

My friend told me that yesterday, July 6th, 

was National Fried Chicken Day.

Who knew?

Well, Bugaboo Stamps has a digi that is perfect for

National Fried Chicken Day. 

Here are a few challenges for these birds:

Card #1:

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #28 - AG

The Paper Shelter Challenge #390 - Digi Image

Crafty Girls Corner #195 - Summer Fun

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 27 - AG

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Bright Colors

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 26 - AG

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Sweet Summertime

Catch the Bug July Challenge - AG

Card #2:

Addicted to CAS Challenge #163 - heat 

Crafty Friends Challenge #113 - things beginning with "b" (bird, beach, blue)

Crazy 4 Challenges #491 - bird

DL.Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #245 - Summer 

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #176 -  Clean and Simple Summer Card

Double Trouble Challenge #31 Card 2 + CTMH Class 6/25/19

Adventure Awaits when it's summer and time to go on vacation.

 This card, following a sketch #322 at  

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, 

gives you a glimpse of the black and white patterned papers in the newest CTMH catalog. 

It is also my second entry for the current 

Double Trouble Challenge #31, Hit the Road - Dry/Heat Embossing and Pile It On Challenge #155, Transportion and/or Vacation theme.

(FYI: The sailboat is a cut from the CTMH Flower Market cricut cartridge. And the heart embossing folder is also by CTMH. My apologies to Twisted Sister for the absence of a road sign.)

 

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Here are the 4 cards we made at Joyce's CTMH class yesterday.

We celebrated 2 birthdays in the group, missed you Judie, by enjoying the yummiest white chocolate raspberry bundt cake with cream cheese frosting from Nothing Bundt Cakes. 

 

Saying Goodbye to More Scraps

These CTMH papers were one of my favorites.  

The last little bits are on the two cards below.

These stamps were in the Inkadinkadoo set I used yesterday.  

And these cards are now in the box I am sending to SAS4Kids.

Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge - Polka Dots,Stripes

The Paper Shelter Challenge #388 - Stripes/Dots
Words 2 Craft By Challenge #66 - Running Barefoot (How about a barefoot bear?)
Animal Friedns Challenge #75 - Bears
Creatilicious Challenge #165 - AG optional spots/stripes

Punny cards + CTMH Card Class 6/18/19

The box of cards for SAS4Kids is slowly filling up,

and I'm making all the cards from a shoe box full of scraps I uncovered the other day.

What do you do with a partial piece of cow paper?

It did give me pause.  Then I could picture the perfect stamp.

But was it a stamp I had? or one I had seen on a card? or one I had maybe seen in a store?  The search began.  Lo and behold, I actually found the cow stamp I was searching for.

 That's the end of the cow paper!

The stamp is by Inkadinkadoo. 

Challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #229 - AG with a sentiment 

Always Fun Challenges #115 - Punny 

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #398 - You're so Punny 

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #222 - Washi Tape 

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #346 - AG 

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It's been a while since I shared the cards from Joyce Houck's CTMH card group.  Here's what we made this week:

   

A Place to Start Challenge - June Midway Inspiration

If you saw my post a couple weeks ago, you may remember that I'm Guest Designing for  

A Place to Start June Challenge, 

Stencil Me In.

The month is quickly slipping by, but you still have time to grab your favorite stencil and join the fun.

For this card, I used a brass stencil to create the hummingbird and flowers image and sponged the colors.  The flowers and the bird's wings have a pretty shimmer from a coating of Wink of Stella.

The inside has a computer printed sympathy sentiment.

Challenges:
2 Sisters on the Blog Challenge #28 - Things with Wings
Through the Craft Room Door Week of June 11 - AG 
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #397 - Stencil Me This 
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - 3 B's, birds, bees and/or butterflies 
Daring Cardmakers Challenge - Come Fly With Me
A Gem of a Challenge Week #11 - AG