Double Trouble Challenge #198

 

Once again,  I've been asked to join the fun at Double Trouble Challenge as a Crazy Cousin. 

 

For this challenge #198, which runs from Aug. 18th - Aug. 31st,  the theme is "Mix It Up".

 

The 3-2-1 Challenge Recipe is below: 

 

I've made a Fan Fold Card using TSOT Sketch #677.  It looks super hard, which is why I've never made one before.   But it's really very easy.  It's all in the cutting. 

Here's the front, 

 and here's the inside.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog.

 

Now, make sure you pop over to the Double Trouble Challenge to see the wonderful cards made by the Trouble #1, Trouble #2, Trouble #3 and the talented Sneeches.  Then swing over to Try a Sketch on Tuesday  to see sketch #677, which posts on Aug. 19th, and gain extra chances in the DTC random drawing.

 

I really liked this design.  In fact, here are two more birthday cards.

 

 

This 3rd card was a winner!

 

Thanks again for stopping by.

Double Trouble Challenge #197

 Here's a switch!

A new Double Trouble Challenge is posted on Mondays, every other week and I regularly participate.  For this challenge #197, which runs from Aug. 4th - Aug. 17th,  I've been asked to join the fun as a Crazy Cousin. 

 

The 3-2-1 Challenge Recipe is below: 

 

 

Here's my "You're in the Spotlight" card:

using Pink, Green, and Yellow, a mat layer, a stamped layer plus a popped up circle of black glitter paper with the colored spotlighted layer on top.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Now, make sure you pop over to the Double Trouble Challenge to see the wonderful cards made by the Trouble #1, Trouble #2, Trouble #3 and the talented Sneeches.  Then swing over to Try a Sketch on Tuesday  to see sketch #676, which posts on Aug. 5th, and gain extra chances in the DTC random drawing.

 Here's the sketch from Try a Sketch on Tuesday Challenge: 

Their design team made some very pretty cards.  You might want to take a look and enter both challenges! 

 

Good luck! 

 

Send a Smile 4 Kids August 2025 Challenge

 

The theme for the August Challenge at

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is 

"Anything Goes".

 Anything Goes for kids is always acceptable.

We just want to see your wonderful creations

and hope you enjoy making and sharing them!

 

Do you save scraps?  I do.  Long skinny strips of paper are so useful.  I have a separate container just for them.  This card layout is perfect for 1/4" strips.  There are several versions of this card on Pinterest and Facebook and I have been wanting to try it.  

 

The cute little robot, gears, and sentiment are stamps from a 

SU Paper Pumpkin kit.  I think I'll make a few more of these with different shapes and stamps.  Super fun to make!

And I think it will put a smile on some child's face.  

 

It would be great if you joined the fun at the

Send A Smile 4 Kids .

(Cards only, please.)

Your cards need not be donated, but if you plan to do so, check the current needs of the volunteers and the deadlines on the Send A Smile 4 Kids Blog.

 

Please take some time and visit the fabulous blogs of my teammates.  They work so hard and are very creative! 

Jen

Mary

Celeste

 Melanie

Sybrina 

Oh, don't leave yet!

I have another card to share before I put it in the SAS4Kids box. 

 

Everything on this card was just cluttering up my work table. 

I think I have enough empty space to do some sewing now. 

 

Thanks for visiting!

Double Trouble Challenge #195

 It's been quite a while since I've played in the Double Trouble Challenge.  This week's 3-2-1 Recipe  "Inky Pinkies" looked like fun.

 

Servings - Unlimited Portions of Fun

3  Colors of your choice
2  Images - Must be hand-stamped
1  Sentiment

Here's my card:

 

 

I'll also enter it in the partner challenge,

Try a Sketch on Tuesday. 

 

 

To make my background, I smooshed a few colors onto an acrylic block and then lightly sprayed with Sheer Shimmer Sparkle.  It helped blend the colors.  Although it doesn't show in the photo, when stamped onto the paper, gave the whole piece a pretty shine just for Twisted Sister.

 Thanks for visiting my blog.

 

 

My Last 2 Cards

 It is with great sadness that I pack up all the crafty things I brought along to Florida for the winter.  But we are snowbirds, and it is time to head back north.  It has been so nice enjoying the warmer weather here and watching the snow on the news programs rather than shoveling any of it ourselves.  On the other hand, it will be wonderful to see our family in Pennsylvania and enjoy a piece of shoo fly pie.

I've had 2 cards in my head for a while now and decided to quickly make them before we leave.  

The first one is a fractured card.  

They seem to be very popular right now.

And the second is a clean and simple card.

I had just a small piece of pretty butterfly vellum, which I thought would be pretty on this card.

Now that I've gotten these designs out of my head, I can go back to packing.

Challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge #15 - Anything Florals

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #737

 

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

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 

This week there is no sketch.

 It is our Annual Anything Goes Challenge.

You can create any type of craft project you would like.

 

I know that my niece is going to love this birthday card with bookmark.

 

I've used a digital image from Gecko Gals and dies from Spellbinders. The Happy Birthday was cut from glitter paper.

My grand-niece has a birthday 2 weeks after her mother's.  So I made her a similar card.

 

  Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. 

The Design Team invites you to stop by

 and visit their blogs, too.

Debbie 

Donna

Melissa

Patti

Tammy

Tangii

 

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

 

**This challenge will run for 2 weeks from 12/19-12/31**

Then we will have a break

and the first challenge of 2024

will begin on 1/2/24.

 

 

The theme of the Gecko Gals December Challenge is Winter Elegance.  

 

I'm hoping the card above is elegant enough to fit the theme. 

Send a Smile 4 Kids March Challenge #235

 

 Welcome to 2023 at SAS4K!

The theme for the March Challenge at

Send a Smile 4 Kids 

is 

Cards 4 Boys.

 

Anything Goes for kids is always acceptable, too.

We just want to see your wonderful creations

and hope you enjoy making and sharing them! 

 

Today I'd like to share the card I made for my grandson's 18th birthday.  He loves baseball.  From the time he was small, he was always the happiest when he was outside and had a ball in his hand.  Turning 18 is such a momentous age.  He will graduate High School in a few months and in a few more he will enter Messiah University where he has already committed to playing baseball with their team.   We are so very proud of him!

 

I like to make special cards for the grandkids.   This card has a zip strip across the front.  It hides the gift underneath.

 

In case you'd like to try a card like this, here are some directions.  I hope they are not too confusing:  Cut a piece of white card stock 4" x 5 1/4".  Using a die, I cut the zip strip 2" down from the top of the card and then removed the strip.  Next I glued the baseball paper onto a piece of red cs the same size as the white piece and cut a zip strip in the same location as the white piece.  Do not remove this zip strip. The white piece was carefully glued onto the front of an A2 navy card, only applying adhesive to the very edge of the paper.  That allows you to slip a gift card, cash, or even a note into that opening between the two layers.  Just make sure the top of the gift card shows in the slot and can easily be removed.  Then you can glue the card front onto the white piece, lining up the 2 slots.

I carefully folded the zip strip back about 3/8" and wrote PULL on the tab. 

 

  

It would be great if you joined the fun at the

Send A Smile 4 Kids 

March Challenge.

(Cards only, please. And they need not be donated.)

 

Please take some time and visit the fabulous blogs of my teammates.  They work so hard and are very creative! 

Bobbi

Sybrina

Mary

Karen 

April 

Celeste

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Double Trouble Challenge #144 - YouNique Technique

 Today I have a card made specifically for the Double Trouble Challenge #114.  I bet the gals there been wondering where I've been.  It's one of my favorite challenges.  And usually, when I haven't played in a week or two, one of their dt members sends out a search party.

 Here's my entry:

(The fussy cut Panda stamp is from SU; the Hooray die is from Honey Bee; the circle embossing folder is from Spellbinders.)

In keeping with this week's theme,

 

 I made my background using circle stencils, ink and daubers to create the 3 circle pattern from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

 

and then dry embossing it with another circle pattern.  I even used tiny circle stencils on the balloon. 

I hope you'll  come back tomorrow to see the 2 Christmas cards I made for Send A Smile 4 Kids.  The card I made today will go in the box for SAS4K since it is kid friendly and can be used for multiple occasions.  When my grandson was in Children's Hospital several years ago, he couldn't come home until he learned how to swallow pills to continue on with the antibiotic he needed.  The day he managed to get his first pill swallowed, was definitely a Hooray! kind of day.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Merry Christmas/Happy Birthday

 My blog has been neglected of late.  I've only been posting cards that I've made for the two design teams on which I serve.  Not sure how that happened, but I shall try to do better.

Tuesday I taught a small card class of Delightful Dazzling Dames, my Red Hat Chapter.  It was a purple/butterfly themed class.  These are the four cards they made.

As I was putting my supplies away and using up extra pieces, I decided to revise the bottom right card. 

How do you like this?

The dies are from Cheery Lynn (bell), Sizzix (sentiment), and ODBD (frame).

 

Now I'll pop this into a few challenges and then go back to putting my supplies away.

Challenges:  

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #176 - Triangles 

Krafty Chicks Challenge # 618 Week 5 - Anything Goes 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

December Birthday #3 - Mechanical Iris

 My grandson's favorite subject in school this year is engineering. 

For his 15th birthday tomorrow I thought I'd try some engineering of my own by making him a card with a mechanical iris.

When you move the yellow tab up, 

the eye opens and this is what you see.

It works a little harder than I'd like, but I'm no engineer!

Here is the inside of the card.

This week, at Double Trouble Challenge #99,  Troublemaker asks that you choose an event as your theme, but the event is Up To You.  (My event is Matthew's birthday.)  Twisted Sister wants to see a number (15).  And Double Dare has teamed up with the Anything Goes Paper Fun Day Challenge #36, which I am entering, too.  

 

Here are a few additional challenges: 

Paperminutes Challenge #721 - Numbers

Use Your Stuff Challenge #437 - Plaid

Allsorts Challenge week 653 - Use a Die (The Happy Birthday is a die from Shady Lane Expressions.) 

Inkspirational Challenge #2 - Plaid

  

My December birthday cards are now finished and I can return to Christmas card mode.