Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #659

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 Here is this week's sketch:

 

 

Schools in our area will soon be dismissing for the summer.  It's always nice to thank those who have helped your child this past school year, be it the teacher, the bus driver, the janitor who gets those kick balls off the roof, the crossing guard, the school secretary, the lunch ladies or gents, et al.

With that in mind I used this week's sketch to make a school themed thank you card.

 Here's another card I made using the same sketch.

 

 

I hope you'll have time to play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

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Patti

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Tammy

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You can be sure that one of us will be visiting you!

 

Catch the Bug Saturday Challenge

 

What will this photo inspire you to make for this week's challenge at

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog?

 

Some schools are open in our area, some are partially open, and some are totally virtual.  The big yellow buses are out and about. Hopefully, by the time the leaves have turned, the schools may be back on a more normal schedule.  And when that happens, students, parents and teachers will all be yelling Hooray!

Here's what the photo inspired me to make using Bugaboo image Kidz School Bus:

 

The image was colored with markers and I did some paint smooshing to create the background paper before embossing and die cutting.

Hope you'll join the fun at this week's at 

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog's

 Inspiration Challenge

 They have a fabulous design team, displaying wonderful projects there for your enjoyment and inspiration. 

 

I have had a wonderful time being a Guest Designer for September.

Thanks, Bugaboo Stamps!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Today I will be participating in these Challenges:

DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #268 - Fall Colors; Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #211 - Fall Colors; Funky Junkie Challenge - Staying in the Background; Little Red Wagon Challenge #659 - Celebrate; Cuttlebug Mania Tuesday Challenge - AG (I used the cuttlebug for embossing and die cutting.); Shopping Our Stash Challenge #429 - Make a mess (paint smooshing); Dream Valley Challenge #233 - Make It Digital, no stamps; Allsorts Challenge Week 591 - Autumn Colors

Virtual Apples for Teacher

 With so many of the schools opening virtually this year, the teachers won't be collecting many apples.

Using one of my favorite digi images from Pattie's Creations, I made this back to school card.

Challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #567 - Back to School ;

 

Angie's Digital Stamps Challenge #45 - AG with optional fall colors ; Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Oh So Cute 

Speaking of cute.. My granddaughter and family stopped by to pick up the desk my father had made for me when I started school.  I am passing it on to my great granddaughter, Laila, who starts 1st grade this year.  I hadn't seen them since Christmas.  What a welcome visit!

I managed to get Laila to stand still for this picture:

 

But, Lahna, who is just a year and a half, was way too interested in the puzzle I had given her for her birthday to even look up.

Double Trouble Challenge #36

Wow! It's Friday already! In this area school starts next week. 

My great granddaughter starts kindergarten! 

Twisted Sister at Double Trouble Challenge has school on the brain, too, and requested school themed cards for this week's twist to go with the actual challenge theme:

Round and Round.  

 

 I think I'll give this to the little boy who just moved in next door for his first day of school.  He is starting kindergarten, too.

 I also decided to participate in the Joy of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge

 

and followed the diagonal from bottom left to upper right, Plaid, Animal, and Circle.

Here are a few more challenges I am entering: 

Mojo Monday Sketch #521 - 

 

House Mouse and Friends Challenge #298 - AG with option of dies 

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #525 - Back to School

Moving Along with the Times Challenge #104 - Back to School 

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #434 - Back to School (stitched circle die)

 

Another Craft Table Discovery

Monday I taught a card workshop for some of my Red Hat friends.  Today I finally got around to unpacking everything, putting things back where they belong, and straightening up my craft (dining room) table.   In the process, I found this House Mouse image, colored, die cut and ready to go on a card.  So I took a brief time out to make this card.

Papers, border, sequins, and twine are CTMH.  Dies are from MFT.  Words are com0puter generated.

I may have to save this card for next year because all my grandsons went back to school already.

Challenges: 

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Anything Goes for Kids

Make My Monday Challenge #29 - Back to School

Craft Your Passion Challenge #327 - Always Anything Goes 

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #125 - Always Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Always Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Scrapy Land Challenge #48 - Use an Image (The dies I used are by Die-namics)

The House That Stamps Built Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #87 - Anything Goes

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If you are wondering what was in all those purple paper bags at the top of this post, they contained all the supplies to make the 4 cards at the Red Hat cardmaking get together.  

Here are the samples....

 

I just fell in love with this flowered paper and bought just a few sheets.  But I managed to stretch just a few sheets into the makings for 4 dozen cards.  I even have a bit leftover.

Which do you like best?  The gals liked the circle card and the quilt pattern card the most.

I'll be back tomorrow with photos of the cards we made at 

Joyce's weekly CTMH card class yesterday.

Card for Ronin's first day of school

My great niece, Ronin, to whom I am affectionately known as 

Aunt Silly, will be starting kindergarten soon.  

This card is headed in her direction,

as soon as I write a silly poem for inside.

 It features a fussy cut, pencil colored digi image from 

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps

and a pencil, border and sentiment stamp from CTMH.

Challenges I am entering....

Polkadoodles Challenge Week #32 - Anything Goes 

Star Stampz Challenge - School Related

Crafty Creations Challenge - Words/Letters on the Background

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Back to School

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge - Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge # 114 - Make your own background (I used embossing)

Crazy 4 Challenges #349 - School

Fun Friday Challenge #152 at Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes 

Jo's looking to reach 500 followers and is almost there.  

Please hop over and help her reach her goal.  She's so close.

 

Teacher Birthday

This card actually serves as 3 cards in 1.  A certain young lady, who is in her 3rd year of teaching, went back to school,  on her birthday, and to a new position in a new school district, so I added a little congrats inside, too.

The image is from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.  Don't you just love the apple earrings?

I am entering this in the following challenges: 

Crafty Catz Challenge #291 - Anything Goes
Wags n Whiskers Challenge #161 - Back to School/For a Teacher 
Through the Purple Haze Challenge - Birthday 
Just Us Girls Challenge #309 - Word: Apple 
Catch the Bug September Challenge - Anything Goes
The Pencil Case Challenge Wk. 1 - Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu Challenge - Anything Goes
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #153 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #17 - Anything Goes

 

Back to School

Using a digital image from Fred She Said Designs, I am entering this quick and simple card in a bunch of Back to School Challenges

and just a few more....  

Allsorts Challenge Week 326 - Recycle, Upcycle (The red texture paper was from an advertisement that I received in the mail.)

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - School Days 

The Pencil Case Challenge #1 - Anything Goes (I used promarkers to color the image and added a touch of Wink of Stella Clear to add some glitter to the edges of the pages.)

Crafting with Friends Challenge #5 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge # 290 - Golden Oldie (I won this digi in a challenge in April, 2014)

Dragons Lair Design August Challenge - 3 of a Kind (I added 3 green staples to each side of the card.) 

The Stamping Boutique Challenge - Back to School

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #326 - Back to School

If You Gave a Crafter a Cookie Challenge #26 - Back to School

The Crafters' Cafe Challenge #131 - Back to School

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - School Time

{PIN}spirational Challenge #147 - School

 

Teachers Have Heart + CTMH Class 8/25/15

Once again, I am using Close to My Heart products and combining the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge  #122 and the  Heart 2 Heart Working 9 to 5 Challenge. 

 

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:
Inky Chicks Challenge #55 - Hearts
Through the Craft Room Door August 25-31 Challenge - Always Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #74 - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge # 276 - Always Anything Goes
Amusing Challenge - Back to School
Polkadoodles Challenge Week 33 - Use something new (The stamp set was brand spankin' new.)

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I spent the day at Joyce's for her Above & Beyond Club where Judie and I made this:

and then this afternoon the rest of the gals came and we made these cards using some of the new papers, the SOTM sets for August and September and a few cricut cuts from the newest CTMH cartridge, 

Artistry.

Now I'm going to take some Advil for my aching back (Vacuuming was on that darn To Do list yesterday.) , prop up my feet and look at the CardMaker magazine I bought on the way home and the Quick Cards magazine that appeared in the mailbox this afternoon.

All in all, it was a pretty good day. 

Moving on to Mojo Monday

Mojo Monday is the second thing on my To Do list for today.  I just love crossing off things on the To Do list, don't you?  Unfortunately, I have multiple To Do lists - daily, long term, DT, bucket, and those unrealistic pipe dreams.  Getting everything crossed off would be on the last list. 

So, here is a Back to School card for  Mojo Monday Sketch # 412.

(Stamps are CTMH)

Before going on to #3 on today's list, I am also entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #74 - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #276 - Always Anything Goes

Amusing Challenge - Back to School 

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #98 - Use a Sentiment 

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #260 - Distressing

Crafty Creations Challenge #296 - Back to School 

The Paper Shelter Challenge #215 - Back to School

Clear It Out Challenge - Back to School; stash item- office supplies

Thanks for stopping by.  

Mojo Monday on a Sunday

My grandson, age 8, says that school is the best thing that ever happened to him.  And, while he is enjoying his summer, he is looking forward to returning to school in just 2 short weeks.  This card was made with Matthew in mind,

(With the exception of the school bus paper and charm, all products and the stamp are CTMH.)

as well as these challenges:

Heart 2 Heart Challenges - Ticket to Ride 

Mojo Monday Challenge #410 - Sketch

Fantasy Stampers Challenge #43 - Boys Rule 

Brown Sugar Challenge #159 - School 

Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge #54 - School

Now, I'm off to try a tutorial I spotted on You-tube yesterday.  Until I make one, my mind won't concentrate on anything else.  

It is amazing I even slept last night!

Does that happen to you? 

It's  very annoying!!!

End of School Thank You #7

Using some vintage style paper and kraft CS, this thank you can go to just about anyone at school from the classroom teacher to the speech or trumpet teacher, the classroom aide, principal, even the poor janitor who gets the job of retrieving the kick balls off the roof.

The "Thanks" stamp is by CTMH and actually reads "Thanks a bunch".  I covered the part I didn't want to use with a piece of tape before inking, then removed the tape before stamping.  Easy Peasy.

Challenges:
DRS Designs Challenge #176 - Easy as 1-2-3 (1 star brad, 2 tags, 2 DP)
Always Playing with Paper Challenge #36 - Celebrating Teachers
Make My Monday Challenge - Use Kraft Card
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Thank You
One Stitch at a Time Challenge #237 - AG with Appreciation

Don't forget the school bus driver! Thank you card #6

It can't be easy concentrating on driving that big bus with 50 or so kids bouncing around in their seats behind you.  And they are yelling.  And sometimes they are throwing things.  And they might go on a little walk up the aisle for one reason or another.  Oh the poor driver!  He or she is not exactly transporting little angels with hands folded in their laps.

Today's card is for my grandsons' bus driver.

I really wanted to use this CTMH mustache stamp on one of the thank you cards.  I asked Matt if his or his brother's teacher was a man.  He said no.  So I asked if any of the woman teachers had a mustache.  Not exactly out of the realm of possibility.   The answer was still no.  I explained why I asked.  He thought for a minute and then, as if a light had turned on in his little 2nd grade head, he smiled and said the bus driver was a man.

Inside sentiment was computer generated; bus stamp is from a children's set of Melissa and Doug play stamps; gingham is a self sdhesive fabric tape; school bus dp was embossed; and red bling are candies.

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #146 - Anything Goes

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #118 - One for the Boys

Creative Moments Challenge #69 - Inside Out

Mod Squad Challenge - Masculine

Wonderful Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #185 - Anything Goes

Cards for Guys Challenge #72 - Checks/Gingham

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge May 26-June1- Anything Goes

Now we are off to see young Matthew portray Rudyard Kipling in the school's Wax Museum.  I believe he will be sporting a mustache himself.

It's Book Time & Show Time

This weekend is the Westminster, Maryland, Stamp Scrap Art Tour Show, which is why I spent the afternoon at Joyce's cutting paper, lots and lots of paper.  I'll be teaching make and takes both Saturday and Sunday at the Close to My Heart booth.  We will be using some of the new papers.  And there's another new Cricut cartridge which coordinates with the CTMH stamps.   We have 2 more shows scheduled for this fall;  York, PA, October 11th & 12th, and  Edison, New Jersey, November 1st & 2nd.  I hope some of you live close enough to come by and say hi!

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This digital image is from TLC Creations.  It might have been a freebie over a year ago.  I thought it worked well with this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #71 and a few Back to School Challenges. 

I have entered this card in  the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion Challenge #229 - Back to School

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #222 - Back to School

Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge #31 - School

Pumpkin Spice Challenge #81 - School

Sweet 7 Digital Designs Challenge #3 - Back to School

Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge - Use lots of layers

Wags and Whiskers Challenge #136 - Back to School/For Teacher

Milk Coffee Challenge - Back to School

Creative Moments Challenge #50 - Anything Goes/Back to School

Back to School

My grandsons go back to school next Monday.  My son(He's a principal.) went back to school last Monday.   And this cute Hedgie has his backpack on, an apple for the teacher and is headed in the same direction.  Thanks, Lyn, for this adorable digi image, Hedgie Back to School (available at Dragonsmoore with the rest of Lyn's fabulous Digi Doodles).

I am entering these challenges today:
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Back to School
Creative Moments Challenge #49 - Anything Goes/Animals
Whimsy Stamps Challenge #74 - Back to School

That's all for today.  I just saw something at Splitcoast Stampers that I must try.

Have a great day!

Polar Bear Digi by Pattie

   This adorable polar bear in a snow globe is a digi image by Pattie Gomez of Pattie's Creations and my entry for Challenge #81(Christmas Card) at Pattie's Creations Design Blog. 

   

    I printed the image on white CS and also on blue.  I removed the globe section from the blue CS with an exacto knife creating the aperture and stamped a few small snowflakes.  Then I secured a piece of clear acetate on the back over the opening. The base was easily paper-pieced with silver glitter paper. 

    After coloring the polar bear image on the white CS, I circled it with 1/8" foam tape.  Next I added some glitter.  Then I secured the blue piece over top creating a real snow globe for on my card.

    I added the sentiment and a few extra snowflakes to a piece of CTMH DP.

    To make the embossed snowflake background, I inked the raised portion of my embossing folder before running the CS through the Cuttlebug.  The ink goes into the debossed part of the snowflakes and gives it great dimension.  

    Then I finished off the card with a five loop bow of silver floss, since I couldn't find my skinny silver ribbon. 

I'll also enter this card in the following challenges:

Inky Impressions Challenge #137 - Winter/Snow

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge #287 - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge & Blog Hop

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Blue & White

LEJ Designs Challenge #82 - Christmas is Coming

Well, I better get this posted.  Pattie's Challenge ends shortly.