Turning 6

It is hard to believe that my sweet great granddaughter is turning 6 next week.  But she is.  There's no stopping it.  

Little ones grow up way too fast!

Every year I have been using digital images from Beccy's Quilted Numbers Digital Set for Laila's birthday card.

Here's her card for 2020.

Challenges:

Beccy's Place February Challenge - AG with a Beccy's Place image 

The Paper Girls Challenge #193 - Birthdays 

Digi Choosday Challenge Wk 6 - AG

Arty Divas Challenge #15 - AG 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Use 2 or more patterned papers 

Little Red Wagon Challenge #536 - Wild One 

 Happy Birthday, Laila!

 

Sketch Challenge

Today I thought I'd share a birthday card I made for the current sketch at Stella Says Sketch Challenge #803 and features a Bugaboo Stamp called Pig Birthday Present.

 

Additional Challenges:

AAA Birthday Card Challenge Game #10 - Cute 

Double Trouble Challenge #49 - Again and Again (3 blue dots) + Critter (pig)

Catch the Bug February Challenge - AG

The Paper Girls Challenge #193 - Birthdays

QKR Stampede Challenge #383 - AG

Polkadoodles Challenge Wk 5 - AG

 

Double Trouble Challenge # 49

There's a new box next to my craft desk.  This one is for Easter/Spring cards, which I will mail off to Send a Smile 4 Kids*.

It's also a new week and a new challenge at 

Double Trouble Challenge Blog. 

This month the theme is Again and Again (using something multiple times) with options of including a critter and also entering the Use Your Stuff  Challenge.  

I found the little bunnies dies at a used craft sale a few years ago. 

The frames are dies from My Favorite Things.

And for this cute Easter Bunny digi, which I colored with markers, hop over to Mo's Digital Pencil.

Challenges:

Double Trouble Challenge #49 - Again and Again (frames & bunnies), Old product and Critters (bunnies) 

Use Your Stuff Challenge #391 -  Critters

QKR Stampede Challenge #383- AG 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies February Challenge - AG with critters

Gem of a Challenge Wk 3 - AG 

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Die Cuts/Punches 

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #114 - Use Kraft Paper (The frames and bunnies are kraft paper.  The bunnies are from the same sheet but I colored them with marker so they would be a bit darker than the frames.)

 

*The February challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge is Easter/Spring cards.   I'd love to see your ideas there.

Send a Smile 4 Kids February 2020 Challenge

The theme for the February Challenge at 

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is Easter or Spring cards 4 Kids.

This month I've used a digi image from 

Scribbles Designs called Egg Truck. 

If you are interested in making and donating cards to SAS4K, you can find all the information you need right here.

 I hope you'll enter this month's SAS4K Challenge.  

And, if you aren't ready for Easter or Spring, that's okay.

Anything Goes cards are always welcome. 

We love to see your wonderful creations and visit your blogs.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG 

Through the Craft Room Door Jan. 29th Challenge - AG 

Digi Choosday Challenge wk 4 - AG 

The Paper Shelter Challenge #412 - Digital Image

Little Red Wagon Challenge #534 - Masculine 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #492 wk 5 - AG 

Aud Sentiments Challenge Wk 243 - AG + a sentiment 

Crafter's Castle February Challenge #26 - AG 

A Gem of a Challenge Wk 3 - AG 

 

Catch the Bug Photo Challenge

Bugaboo Stamps has some really cute penguin stamps,  which made it easy to create a card for their current photo inspiration challenge using one of their images.

The penguin image is printed directly on glitter paper.

I'm sorry I couldn't capture the great sparkle in the photo.

Challenges:

Catch the Bug January Photo Inspiration Challenge -

 

As You Like It Challenge - AG 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #491 - All Occasions

Double "D" Challenge - Fun with Balloons

I Love Promarkers Challenge #402 - AG

Ike's World Challenge #128 - "M" is for Male

Digi Chooseday Challenge wk 3 - AG

 

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.

 

Happy 7th Birthday to Scribbles Designs

Today I am sharing a Penguin themed birthday card made especially for 

the Scribbles Designs 7th Birthday Celebration.

I've used 4 digital images from Scribbles Designs:

 #262 Brrryce Party Hat

#260 Brrrnard Party Hat

# 156 Party Favor 

# 61 Happy Birthday 

I double printed the party hats, fussy cut them and popped them over the hats in the printed image.

The party favors were resized, colored, fussy cut and then inserted into a tiny slit in the penguins' beaks.  The sentiment was also fussy cut and glued to the cardstock on which the penguins were printed.  The cake, candles, and cake plate were all die cut.

Hope you like it!  

 

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

 

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 7

This is the last day of the 10th Annual Bugaboo Birthday Bash and they're having a Freebie Friday Photo Challenge.
 Hop over to their blog to pick up this fun freebie.

  Here's the inspiration photo Bugaboo supplied.

(It's not required that you use the freebie to join the challenge, but I just couldn't resist.)

 

Many thanks to Bugaboo for a fun week of challenges.

 

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 6

Today's challenge for the 10th Annual Bugaboo Birthday Bash 

is a color challenge.
Bugaboo generously posted a free digi image a couple days ago and I decided to use it on today's card.

You always finds cats down on the farm. 
Although, they are usually catching the mice.

 

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 5

I'm so happy I had the time today to catch up on the challenges at Bugaboo's 10th Annual Birthday Bash.

Hopefully, my card tickles someone's funny bone at Bugaboo because the challenge is to make them laugh.

 

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 4

Day 4's Challenge at Bugaboo's 10th Annual Birthday Bash uses a Bingo (three in a row) grid.  

Projects are still reflecting a Down on the Farm theme.  

 

I decided to use the center column: texture, Bugaboo image, and stitching.

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 3

The 10th Annual Bugaboo Birthday Bash 

is already on Day 5.

I'm still on Day 3, an ABC Challenge, Anything But a Card. 

For today's Down on the Farm Birthday event, I've made a Thank You which could easily be placed in a cupcake or stick out of a take home goodie bag.

 I printed the Bugaboo digi on glitter paper before coloring. 

Then I die cut it, glued it to the designer die cut, adhered the straw to the back and the banners to the side, and then added another designer die cut to the back to cover the ends. 

 Day 4 is a Bingo Challenge.  

Back to the craft table for me!

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 1

Here's my entry for the first day of the Bugaboo 10th Annual Birthday Bash.  

The Challenge is to create a farm themed project.

Perhaps I'll get caught up tomorrow.

Birthday Bash at Bugaboo Day 2

I have been so busy making Heart Cards for Cards for Little Hearts that I almost missed Bugaboo's 10th Annual Birthday Bash!

This card follows the Sketch Challenge for Day Two,

with a 90 degree flip of the sketch to the right.

 

Belated Birthday Sloth

First, I must apologize to my regular blog visitors for my unplanned brief hiatus from blogging.

I had a little mishap, while sharpening my carving knife, which required a few stitches in my thumb.  Ouch!  I'd say it was sharp!

That kind of limited my crafting.

Not to mention the fact that I had to turn my craft table back to a dining room table for Thanksgiving dinner.

Dinner is over and so are the leftovers. 

The stitches are out and I'm back to cardmaking.

My sister-in-law's birthday came and went, giving me the perfect excuse to use this adorable sloth from Mo's Pencil 

and a new die I recently purchased.  

You might think I sent her card late on purpose.  Hmmm... 

Challenges:

Art Impressions Challenge #271 - Animals 

Cute Card Thursday # 611 - AG

Through the Craft Room Door Challernge  Dec. - AG

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge - AG with a critter  

Drafty here

 I'm glad this penguin, a digi image by Connie Fong, is all bundled up because it has been in my draft folder.

Did you know that if you are writing a post and do not hit the orange Publish button when you are finished, the blog post is saved in your draft folder? 

I thought I had published this card, which was to be my entry in the Double Trouble Challenge #42, and in reality I never did.   

Senior Moment!

It's too late for that challenge but it will be perfect for the following challenges:

Beccy's Place November Holiday Card Challenge - Day 18 "P" Penguin

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Animals (The pretty white lacey layer was die cut on my Cuttlebug.) 

The Paper Shelter Challenge #407 - A Christmas Card

Crimbo Crackers Challenge #198 - Animals

Crafty Catz Challenge #484 - AG with option of spots and/or stripes

A Gem of a Challenge Week 23 - AG

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Christmas/Winter

Way Behind at Beccy's Place

Finding time to make a daily Christmas card for Beccy's Place November Holiday Card Challenge has been a little hard this year.  Consequently, I am way behind.  It's an alphabetical challenge but I'm skipping around.  Here's a card using a colored digital image (by Beccy) of an "I"ce skate inside a die cut frame.

 

Double Trouble Challenge #43 Card 2

   Somehow I missed making a card for DTC #42.   

Therefore, I've made a second card for DTC #43.

It has glitter, and a snowman and is also entered at 

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #483. 

The digi image is from Beccy's Place 

and the sentiment is a CTMH stamp.

Additional challenges I am entering:

As You Like It Challenge - Favorite way to add snow and why (I like the glitter brushes to add snow because it's a no mess way to get the glittery look.  This snowman has a good coating of clear Wink of Stella.  I also like to use glitter paper for die cut snowflakes.  I have a teeny die that made the 1/2" flakes on this card.  It's perfect to use on teeny glitter paper scraps.)

Crafty Catz Challenge #484 - AG with optional stripes (scarf) and spots (on the poinsettias) 

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #465 - AG Christmas with option of something beginning with an "R"  (Red) 

Beccy's Place November Holiday Cards Challenge - "S" for snowman. snowflakes, scarf, spotted poinsettias

 

 

Cat Lovers' Hop

The deadline for the annual Cards for Little Hearts Winter Theme and Holiday Card Drive is rapidly approaching.  I am furiously making cards to send.  I thought I'd share this one in the

 2019 Cat Lovers Hop.

 The image is a digi and the words are a cricut cut.

 

Additional Challenges:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #238 - For a Child + a sentiment

Challenge Up Your Life Challenge #116 -  Frames

Artsystamper Challenge #2 - Patterned Paper