Double Trouble Challenge #51

Today I made a relatively simple card for the new 

Double Trouble Go Green Challenge.

(LET'S GO GREEN | Optional Twist include GOLD | OPT. 3 JOIN HEART2HEART with PUT YOUR GREEN ON)

First I die cut the square out of the center of the plaid paper using a die from MFT.  I cut a piece for behind the square and embossed it.  Using CTMH thin cuts stitched hearts, I cut 8 hearts, folding 4 of them in half, and arranged them on the squared, adding the stem which is actually a die cut tree trunk, but it works.   To finish that section of the card I punched a circle from a tiny scrap of CTMH holographic paper.  Finally, I heat embossed the Lawn Fawn sentiment in gold. 

I am also entering these fun challenges: 

Heart 2 Heart Challenge - Put Your Green On

Cuttlebug Tuesday Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (Embossing folder, Die Cut, Circle)

 

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #204 - Add a Heart 

Aud Sentiments Challenge #245 - AG with a Sentiment

Creative Craft Challenge #126 - Add a Heart

Crafting Happiness Challenge #38 - AG option Green

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #251 - Embossing

 

This ladybug smells.

Ladybugs don't normally smell.  This one, however, was colored with a raspberry scented crayola marker.  Hence, it smells.  I don't even know the origin of that marker, or how it got in my craft stuff, but it was there, I used it and the ladybug smells.

The rest of this Bugaboo digi stamp was colored with normal, unsmelly markers, with the exception of the bear.  He was colored with pencils blended with Gamsol.  The sentiment frame and words are CTMH stamps.

By the way,

Happy St, Patrick's Day!

We had a quick moving storm pass through earlier today followed by bright sunshine and a gorgeous double rainbow.

How fitting for St. Patrick's Day and confusing for the leprechauns. 

Today, I am entering these challenges: 

Craft Rocket Challenge #11 - Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #146 - Green as main color with ribbon 

Sassy Studios Designs Challenge DTBST#325 - St. Patty's Day

Creatalicious Challenge #87 - St. Patrick's Day or use Green 

Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #122 - Anything Goes w/ twist: add an animal

Open-minded Crafting Fun Challenge #3 - Luck/St. Patrick's Day

City Crafter Challenge Week #303 - Make it Green

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #243 - St. Patty's Day 

 

 

 

Super Easy Card

This precolored digi image from TLC Creations, St. Patrick's Day Mail Vintage, makes a super easy card.  I used a CTMH stamp to add the sentiment, backed the image with some pink CS to pick up the pink in the birds, used a kraft card base, and added a green woven ribbon bow.  TLC has great vintage images and gives out lots of freebies.  I got this image 2 years ago but don't know if it is still available.

TLC is having a spring blog hop shortly.  You might want to mark your calendars. 

Challenges I am entering today include:
Crafty Friends Challenge #27 - Anything Goes
Crafting with Friends Challenge #16 - Anything Goes
Pattie's Creations Challenge #120 - Green 
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #136 - Show Me the Green with Ribbon or Trim

 

 

CTMH Cards 3/17/15 & Enough Green, Already!

First, here are the cards we made at Joyce's CTMH card workshop this afternoon....

inside layer

outside layer

center

assembled card

Whew! that was a lot of work!

 *****

Now, let's get to the green.  I know today is St. Patrick's Day.  I will be making corned beef and cabbage for dinner.  Why?  No clue.  Mostly because I like it and while it isn't one of my DH's favorites, he will humor me once a year.  

(I really cheated this year.  I went to the deli at the market, asked to see what the corned beef looked like, it was beautiful, had them cut me a 1" slice, and that's dinner.  I just wasn't into cooking corned beef for hours.  Plus, they sell it in those vacumn sealed packages and you can't tell how lean or fatty the meat actually is.)

  Many of the current challenges want to see green cards, or St. Patrick's Day themed cards i.e. leprechauns, shamrocks, luck, pot of gold...  I haven't seen one with a snake theme.  Didn't St. Patrick chase the snakes out of Ireland?   If you're curious about the snake issue, I felt compelled to google it and found this very interesting.  Be that as it may.  Personally, I have never sent a St. Patrick's Day card to anyone.  But I have made one, in honor of the occasion and to enter in the plethora (That was one of my father's favorite words.  Miss you, Dad.) of challenges requesting it.

I've used a Doodle Pantry digi for the shamrock maze and sentiment. 

Challenges:

Ants in my Pantry Digital Challenge #3 - Anything digital goes
Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #62 - Clean and Simple
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge - Buttons or Bows
Craft Hoarders Anonymous March Challenge - Go Green
Eureka Stamps Challenge #132 - The Color Green
Get Creative Challenge #10 - Green 
The Pink Elephant Challenge # 290- Green
Eclectic Ellapu March Challenge - Purple Team - Green
Great Impressions March Challenge - Go Green
Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #301 - Photo Inspiration (green with shamrocks)
Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Lots of Green
Jo's Scrap Shack Fun Friday Challenge  # 79- Lucky Clover
Naughty or Nice Challenge #13 - It ain't easy being Green

Love to Scrap Buttons and Bows

Once again,  I'm wearing my Guest Designer Hat at 

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog.  

Today begins challenge #26 - 

Buttons and Bows  

with   

sponsors  
Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet (prize is a $10 gift certificate) and Fresh Squeezed Stamps (prize is a stamp set of winner's choice).

I've used a subway art stamp set  from Freshly Squeezed stamps, which was stamped several times in various colored inks.  Then I did some cutting, pasting, popping and coloring.  Talk about fussy cutting.... those little bunnies are definitely little bunnies.

I'll be entering the card above in the following challenges:

Card a Day March Challenge - week 2: Spring

Crafts and Me March Challenge #146 - Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts March Challenge - Spring is Here

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #91 -  Welcome Spring + ribbon or trim

The Craft Garden March Challenge - Use Pastel Colors

Open Minded Challenge #6 - Use some buttons

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Pastel Colors

Crafty Hands Challenge #10 - Buttons and Bows
Cards in Envy Challenge - Anything Goes with an A2 Card

Since today is St. Patrick's Day, I used another Freshly Squeezed stamp from the same set and made this card for the occasion.

I'll be entering this card above in the following challenges:

The Artistic Stamper March Challenge - Letters, Words and Numbers

Connie Can Crop Challenge #20 - Green with Envy

Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge - Monochromatic (I've used the argyle embossing folder by Darice.)

One Sweet Challenge March - Scream for Green

Crafting for the Craic March Challenge - Something Green

Come and Get It Challenge - St. Patrick's Day
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #76 - Include Some Green/St. Patrick's Day
Corrosive Challenge #195 - Go Green

Before I go, I'd like to thank Love to Scrap for inviting me to be a Guest Designer this month.   I had lots of fun.

PS: You might want to hurry over to Freshly Squeezed Stamps because they are having a 50% off closing sale until the end of March!

Artist Trading Cards

ATC's aren't something I normally do.  But I'm headed to the Heirloom Rubber Stamps Show in Allentown, PA, this weekend and there's always an ATC contest.  The theme this year is Irish Luck.   The competition is fierce, so I'll be needin' a bit o' luck meself, if I'm to be winnin'.

The poker player is a stamp from Stamper's Best.  I stamped it a few times so I could fussy cut and add a few more coin piles.  My DH suggested the gold tooth. The shamrock stamp is from CTMH.
For the next ATC  I used some vintage playing card paper I found in my stash.  I cut a tag with shamrock aperture using the Artiste CTMH cricut cartridge.  Then I stamped CTMH images of a ticket and shamrock with sentiment and fussy cut.  Everything was distressed with green ink.
The cute little piggy will be lucky indeed if he collects any kisses.  After all, he is a pig.  He's a From the Heart digi image.  The sentiment is a rub on, and the shamrock is CTMH.
And the last card has gold textured paper under the white cardstock background.  I took a few different CTMH ink pads (sweet leaf, ponderosa pine, olive green, creme brulee) and smeared them across the CS before random stamping the CTMH shamrocks, punching the corners and adding a piece of sheer green ribbon.  I used a wood stamp I found in a dollar bin at ACMoore and 2nd generation stamped it on white CS.  Then I stamped half of the CTMH sentiment over it.    The second half of the CTMH sentiment was stamped over another solid shamrock.  I spritzed both with gold mist and then cut them out.  The cloud/rainbow/pot of gold is another CTMH stamp which I colored, fussy cut and then added glitter to the gold and glaze to the pot.

I am going to enter the Pot of Gold ATC in the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge #102 - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #168 - Anything Goes
Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge #127 - Leprechauns/Luck
City Crafters Challenge Week #202 - Beautiful Rainbows
Cuttin and Stampin Weekly Challenge 14-10 - St Patrick's/Luck
Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge #94 - Shades of Green
Through the Craft Room Door March 11th Challenge - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations Challenge #82 - Anything Goes/St. Patrick's/Green
Heart 2 Heart March Challenge - Feeling Lucky
Love to Create Challenge #106 - Anything Goes

Top of the Mornin'

Theodore-Shamrocks is the name of this cute Irish teddy from Bugaboo Digital Stamps.

There's no patterned paper on this card, just white CS distressed with green and blue, and a bit o' green CS for the punched border, a few gems and gold corner dazzles.

In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, I am hoping to win a pot of gold (like that will happen) by entering
this card in the following challenges:

Fab n Funky Challenge #207 - Animals
Inky Impressions Challenge #150 - Go Green
Scrapper's Delights Challenge #18 - Luck of the Irish
Crafty Sentiments Design Challenge - Lots of Green
2 Cute Digital Stamps Challenge #101 - St. Patrick's Day
Cards in Envy Challenge - Think Green
Crafty Boots Challenge - Green
Catch the Bug March Theme Challenge - Feeling Lucky
Love to Scrap Challenge #25 - Back It Up!
Use Your Stuff Challenge #126 - Animals

From the Heart Mojo

The freebie Hamlet Pigwit images for the From the Heart Progressive Challenge are so cute this month.  If you're not playing along with this challenge, you are really missing out.

I've used one of the images on the card I am entering in the Monday Mojo Sketch Contest # 335.




I'm not Irish, although I am feeling a wee bit lucky this morning.  The 3 to 6 inches of snow the weather forecasters predicted turned out to be a dusting in our area.   The vertigo that plagued me all last week has departed.  And today I'm a Guest Designer at Love to Scrap! for their Back It Up! challenge.

I have some sewing to do today.  I'll show it to you eventually.

Have a great my crafty friends!

Stop back tomorrow for my Tuesday Throwdown Design Team card.  It's a special fold using 2 Robyn's Fetish images.