Just itching to show you....

the card I made for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.  

Actually, I'm just itchy, period. 

I was out earlier doing some yard work and that always leaves me feeling itchy.  Who knows if any creepy crawlies fell out of the trees onto my head, or are crawling up the inside of my pant legs?  And writing about it makes it worse because now my back itches! 

I have decided to distract myself by posting a card 

and entering some challenges.

Here is the card:

The image stamp is by Sarah Kay and was colored with pencils.  The sentiment is CTMH.

And here are the challenges:

Mojo Monday Challenge #536: sketch (I took a little liberty with the sketch, changing the circles to ovals.)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Use dies and/or punches (I used dies for the scalloped ovals and the green scalloped borders.) 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday May Challenge - Feminine

Krafty Chicks Challenge #506 - Stamp Act

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #555 - Birthday

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #121 - Birthday

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge # 358 with Freckled Fawn

 Our wonderful sponsor for this week's Masking Challenge at Tuesday Throwdown is Freckled Fawn.

Schools opened yesterday, a sure sign that Fall will soon be here.
Might as well get started on some Fall birthday cards. 

For this card, I cut out 3 maple leaves in 3 different sizes on my cricut.  Then I placed them on white cs, used a sponge pouncer to add various fall colors all over the paper.  Once the leaf cuts were removed the imprints remained, creating the background for this card.  I found some Freckled Fawn acetate letters, leaf and star sequins from the October 2016 Embellishment Kit in my stash, which I added to the card.

(challenges entered are at the bottom of this post.)

I actually made 2 more cards to inspire you to try some masking for this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge and to do a bit of shopping at Freckled Fawn's online store.

For this card I used some embossed white card stock.  

(Of course, you can always emboss the paper yourself.) 

I placed a piece of washi tape and a die cut oval shape, the masks,
across the middle of the paper.

  I sponged both halves and removed the masks.

 Then I finished off the card with a cork oval from my stash of Freckled Fawn products, a sentiment, flowers fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper, some black pearls, and a bow.

 One thing about Freckled Fawn that is super fun is the cute plastic pouch that your items arrive in when you purchase one of their fun kits.  Or, you can purchase individual items from the kit including the pouch.  I can't wait to see what will be in the upcoming September Kit.

My last card also uses a Freckled Fawn cork oval, 

star sequins, and a cute puffy house.

This is the first card I made for the challenge.  

I was super happy with it until I realized the challenge theme was Masking.  You would think I'd learn, because it is not the first time I've forgotten to follow the theme and had to start over.

 

 I hope to see a lot of wonderful masking projects in this week's Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.

I think I'll share my card with these equally fun challenges:

Come and Get It Challenge - 2 or more different embellishments (leaf and star sequins and baker's twine) 

Heart 2 Heart Challenge - Anything Goes CTMH Style (inks, and Happy Birthday sentiments are from CTMH.)

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #50 - Anything Goes 

Delicious Doodles August Challenge - Colours of Autumn 

Love to Craft Challenge #13 - Anything Goes 

Sparkles Forum Challenge #95 - Birthday 

and on the Freckled Fawn Fanatics FB Group.

 

SOTM card

This card is going in my stash.  I just felt like playing with this month's CTMH Stamp of the Month.  

With a sentiment of "Best Wishes", 

I'll be able to use this for a birthday, anniversary, wedding, etc.

(Hope you can see the 2nd generation stamping on the raised tag!)

Challenges: 

Gem of a Challenge #160 - Female Birthday 

Crafty Friends Challenge #23 - Anything Goes

My Time to Craft Challenge #313 - Tag It

Through the Purple Haze Challenge #93 - Anything Goes

Crafting by Designs Challenge - Seeing Red

Chocolate Baroque Challenge #18 - Inspiration Photo/Color Challenge

 

Craft-Dee Bowz January Challenge - Anything Goes with a handmade bow

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #132 - Looky What I Got (Everything is new)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #252

 

This week for the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Team B is using  digital images from Robyn's Fetish, our very generous sponsor.  There is a big summer sale at her shop right now, so it would be the perfect time to hop over to see her digital images and more. 

My DT card for Tuesday Throwdown # 252 features this cute digi called Choo Choo Charlie.  What you don't see on my card or on any of the design team's projects this week is patterned paper.

That's the theme of the challenge: No Patterned Paper

I substituted some embossing and paper piercing for patterned paper.  My teammates have used other techniques to give you some inspiration.  We'll be anxious to see what you make and enter in this week's No Patterned Paper Challenge.

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I am entering this card in these other challenges:

Eclectic Ellapu July Challenge - Pink Team: Travel 

Robyn's Fetish Challenge #271 - Anything Goes 

Crafty Catz Challenge #286 - Anything Goes 

Digitally Sweet Challenge #140 - Anything Goes 

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 27 - Embossing 

QKR Stampede Challenge #146 - For a Child 

Sister Act Card Challenge #113 - Anything Goes 

 

Truckin'

I'm going to try and make this a quick post because I have a closet intervention on my agenda today.
This particular closet is where my granddaughter and I kept the stacks of unfinished craft projects, leftovers from finished craft projects and other miscellaneous items we saved for crafting at Nana's. 
Granted I still have grandsons with whom I craft, but the boy stuff is elsewhere.  And as for my granddaughter, she has advanced to making a baby of her own.  That means I am going to be a Great Grandmother in March. 

OK - let's get truckin' or this won't be quick!

Get it now?  Truckin'  Card with a truck on it.  That's as witty as it's gonna get today.
I have been wanting to use that black polka dot paper for a while and thought it would be perfect with this old truck from My Grafico digital images steampunk set.  The paper has a really interesting texture to it.  I paired it with some barn red textured cardstock and barn red ink for the sentiment for just a bit of color.  As always, I printed the image twice then fussy cut the body of the truck and used 1/8" foam tape to raise it a bit (see the faint shadows?).  

This card was made for the following challenges:
Cards in Envy - Masculine Cards (that easily fit in an A2 envelope)
Digi Haven Challenge - Vintage or Old
PunkyyouGirl Challenge - Red and Black
Simply Create Too Challenge #45 - Vintage or Old
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge #62 - It's a Male Thing
Whimsy Stamps Challenge #63 - Masculine cards
Can You Digi It? Challenge #43 - Very Vintage
Digi Sketch Challenge - Vintage and/or Sketch
A Little Bit Crafty Challenge - Clean and Simple
Creatilicious Challenge #54 - For the Boys

Now I'm off to that closet! 
Have a great day!

Ouch, that hurt!

I whacked my little toe on the nightstand while making the bed yesterday morning!  Must be why I have back and blue on my mind.   It does make a pretty color combination for making cards.

This card follows the sketch and is my entry for the current Avery Elle AEI 'heart' U August Challenge.
 
The framed sentiment on this card is a free digi from Avery Elle which I printed and fussy cut.  After masking the inside oval, I used a dauber to color the outer frame.  To make the patterned background paper, I inked the inside of the embossing folder before inserting the paper and running it through my Cuttlebug.  I hope you can see the strip of black self-adhesive glitter tape I added to the embossed black strip.  It took me about 5 minutes to get the backing off that tape!

With the right inside sentiment, I'm thinking I'll use this as an Anniversary card.   But I think it would make a nice birthday card, too. 

I'm also submitting this to the following challenges:
ABC Challenge #41 - Lots of Layers
Make It Monday #154 - Always Anything Goes
Stamp and Create August Challenge - Glitter
Glitter and Sparkle Challenge #46 - Anything but Square
HobbyCutz Challenge #13 - Make your own background
Pile It On #33 - No Designer Paper
Robyn's Fetish #173 - Put a Frame around It

By the way, I added embossing and gems to yesterday's Mojo card.  What do you think?


Off to Joyce's card workshop today.  I'll post our cards tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by!