Try a Sketch on Tuesday Challenge #675

 Here are a two more cards for the Try a Sketch On Tuesday Challenge # 675.  (Scroll down to see a couple more).

  

It's a really cute sketch and I had some triangles of paper leftover from making cards for the Double Trouble Challenge.   And since I had pulled out some of my punny stamps, I decided to follow the DTC Recipe, too. 

 

 

 

I actually threaded a needle, no small feat, to sew the stitching up the side of the card by hand.
 

  Thanks for visiting my blog. 

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #642

 

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

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

The design team is taking turns choosing their favorite sketch from 2021.  This sketch is Patti's favorite and the sketch for this week.

 

 

Here's my card:

 

 

 This is Pinkles, a Bestie digi image from the My Besties Shop.  The actual image was called Ella and Pinkles Happy Day.  I decided to put Pinkles in the spotlight today.  Sorry, Ella.

 

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.

Andrea

Debbie 

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

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

Knead a Hug?

 That's the sentiment I decided to pair with this fun digi, Bertha's Bread Baking Bonanza, from Dr. Digi's House of Stamps for the Outlawz May Progressive Challenge.

I followed the sketch from the Wednesday Sketch Challenge at My Favorite Things, 

colored the image with markers, did a bit of distressing and added a bit of white flocking for flour.

If you played in the Outlawz April Progressive Challenge, you would have received this digi for free.   You can still pick it up here, join the May Challenge, and receive a free digi to play in June.

Additional Challenges:

Paperminutes Challenge #691 - Make a Scene

Allsorts Challenge #623 - Create a Landscape or Scene 

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #496 - AG 

Colour Crazy Challenge Week 18 - AG

 

Thank you for visiting! 

Double Trouble Challenge #78

 Yesterday I hosted a Zoom meeting with some of my Red Hat sisters in Pennsylvania.  Everyone looked so bundled up in their heavy sweaters and jackets.  It inspired me to make this card for the newest challenge at Double Trouble.  

The theme for Double Trouble Challenge #78 is the Wearin' of the Green.  I colored up this party going gator digi stamp from Imagine That! Digi Stamps and paired it with some plaid paper for the challenge.

Sentiment stamp is from Sweet n Sassy stamps.

 And I'll be sharing this card at the partner challenge,

 Use Your Stuff #417, where the theme is also Plaid/Checks.

 

 Wishing everyone a warm and crafty day!

 

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 Morning Sketch Challenge #553

Welcome!  

Are you ready to join the fun at Tuesday Morning Sketches? 

Melissa has created another great sketch for this week's challenge.  I started out making one card, but liked the sketch so much that I ended up making two.  Then I had to decide which to use as my DT card on the TMS blog.  So, I'm very glad you stopped by, because you get to see both of the cards I made.  

I'd love to know which you like best.

First, I made this card using a new digi stamp, Virtual Bear Hug, available from Sweet n Sassy Stamps.

 I printed the bear twice, once on kraft paper and once on white cs.  Then I colored the white heart and bow, fussy cut them and glued them onto the kraft bear before I fussy cut him.  The sentiment was also a digital stamp.

And then the sketch kept whispering shaker card in my ear, and I hadn't made one in a while, so that's exactly what I did for my second card.

 The digi image I used is called Shabby Chic Birdhouse, from Beccy's Place.  A few weeks ago I made another card using this image in the uncolored version.  At the time I printed a small precolored version of the digital birdhouse as a guide.  It was still sitting on my the work table and I thought it would work well on this card.

I almost forgot to show you Melissa's wonderful sketch.
 
Hope you'll play along with us this week
at  Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Now I'm off to enter a few challenges, too.

Challenges:

Card#1:
Make My Monday Challenge #121 - Use a Digital Stamp

Crafty Catz Challenge #504 - Hugs 
Digi Coosday Challenge Week 18 - AG
 

Card#2:

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of May 5th - AG

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - AG

Arty Divas Challenge #21 - AG

Beccy's Place May Challenge - AG with a Beccy's Place image (optional sketch)

Have an awesome day!

Octopus Hugs

Sent this card off to a friend a few days ago.  

I hope she has received it by now.

The octopus is a stamp from IO that I just couldn't resist! 

It was colored with markers and fussy cut.

The green glitter frame is from a CTMH cricut cartridge.

The inside sentiment is a digital from Creative Smiles.

Challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge Week 9 - AG

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #38 - AG with a critter

Crafty Catz Challenge #504 - AG/sending hugs

Sending Socially Distant Hugs

One of the things I miss the most right now is hugging.  

There's nothing like a good hug between friends.  

Oh well... here's a hug for all my friends and anyone else who needs one.

Challenges:

Double Trouble Challenge #53 - Something, Anything, Everything + link up to ....

Crafting Happiness Challenge #42 - AG

Through the Craft Room Door March 31st Challenge - AG 

A Gem of a Challenge Week 7 - AG

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #118 - Cute Animals

 

 

Double Trouble Challenge #20

This week's Double Trouble Challenge #20 is celebrating National Hugging Day, which is today - January 21st - with a "Love is in the Air" theme.

How about a few Hedgehugs? 

This card follows the color combo for the current Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #326, black, white with a splash of one other color; has a banner waving in the "Air"; and has Wink of Stella glitter in the hearts to make them "Sparkle and Shine" so the card can also be entered in The Paper Girls Challenge #168.