Do you like it with seeds or seedless?

Watermelon just isn't the same without seeds.  That's how we feel about it.  Besides, the seedless watermelons still have seeds.  They are just those tiny ones that you can swallow but are useless in a seed spitting contest! 

While Gerda Steiner is taking a summer break, she has left us with 2 cute digi images to play with and enter in her progressive challenge.  Here is one of them, Watermelon Kid:

(Sentiment stamp is CTMH.)

This cute little dude is being entered in the following challenges:

Gerda Steiner Designs June/July 6 Week Progressive Challenge

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #36 - D is for Dudes

Creative Corner Challenge - Just for Boys

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge # 119- Masculine w/ Ribbon or Trim (I've used baker's twine.)

Fresh Brewed Designs Challenge - Dude

The House That Stamps DCC 610 - Fresh and Fruity
Double Click Skittles Challenge - Summer Fun

That's all for today.  I'm headed back to my craft table where I'm working on a final batch of cards for Operation Write Home, since they won't be accepting cards much longer.  

Now what do I do with all these cards I just can't stop making?

Splashing Around!

That's the best thing to be doing on a hot summer day.  (But don't be drinking out of a garden hose.  It's a guy thing and it's just plain nasty!)  And it's probably just what Deedee Anderson had in mind, splashing around NOT drinking out of a nasty hose, when she designed the June 2015 Digi Set of the Month, Diver Daniel, for her Monthly Progressive Challenge.  Here I've used the colored version of Diver Daniel to make a fun card for Dad:

Since Deedee is sponsoring a few current challenges, I am going to also submit this card there:
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #63- Anything Goes
Creative Moments, Challenge # 70 - Anything Goes/Man in your Life/Father's Day
Pinspirational Challenge #142 -
 

And I am also entering this card here:

CAS on Kraft

Today I have a very simple card to share with you.  Prickles Says Hello is the free digi set this month for the From the Heart Progressive Challenge.  And here is Prickles saying Hello:

I printed him on white twice and kraft once, fussy cut the cute little guy and paper pieced him onto the white.  Also, I colored the white banner and butterfly, fussy cut them and paper pieced them.  I added couple of nice globs of liquid glass on his spectacles, colored the flowers and sponged around the white base with blue and green.  After embossing just the bottom of the green background paper, I did a bit of sanding.  Finally I wrapped a bit of bakers twine around the image 3 times before mounting it on the kraft card base.  I always think the simpler design lends itself to a more masculine card, as does the knot instead of a bow and absence of a lot of bling.

Challenges:
From the Heart June Progressive Challenge - use Prickles Says Hello set
Splendiferous Creations - For the Guys Bloggers Challenge
Crafty Catz Challenge #283 - Clean and Simple
Creative Knockouts Challenge #92 - Use Your Stash (It all came from my stash with the exception of the new digi set.)

Tea! Tea! and more Tea!

It seems I have picked up a summer cold.  So I am drowning it with cup after cup of tea! Stands to reason that for my Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #111 this week, I've chosen to use the tea cup from CTMH Treats of Friendship stamp set. 

Just for a change, I may switch to a glass of iced coffee while I check out the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and enter this card there, too.

 

Mr. Rooster, a digi by A Day for Daisies,  is really workin' it on the front of this Father's Day card. 

Don't you just love the overalls?

(sentiment stamp is CTMH)

I've CASEd Julianna's card, who CASEd Arielle's.  That's the theme at the current A Day for Daisies Blog Challenge #123, CASE one of the design team member's cards.  

Other challenges I am entering include:  Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #9 - What's the Word, Bird?;

Pile It On Challenge #72 - For/Featuring a Father/Man; A Gem of a Challenge #142 - Something Blue; Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #74 - Texture; Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - For a Man; Digi Choosday Challenge Wk 23 - Father's Day/Male

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge # 248

It's time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge Blog.   "Frame It" is the theme this week. 

Our wonderful sponsor is for this challenge is  A Day for Daisies.  I've used one of their wonderful digital stamps,  Boy at the Beach to give you  a bit of inspiration.  It won't be long until we'll be at the beach with my son and his family, doing a bit of digging in the sand ourselves!  That's why I chose this image, because it reminded me of my grandson.

(Sentiment stamps are CTMH)r

I hope you'll join us this week at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge for this fun "Frame It" challenge.  Please take a moment to visit the shop at A Day for Daisies and also their blog here they regularly offer free digi images for you to try and use in one of their challenges.  And Design Team B at Tuesday Throwdown  would definitely love it if you stopped by our blogs for some inspiration.

Asha

Davi

 Donna K

Kim

Pam

Traceymo 

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I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
Card and Scrap Challenge #98 - Use Dies
Crafting Musketeers Challenge #26 - Shades of Summer
KarleighSue June Challenge - Hello Summer
Ooh la la Creations Challenge #182 - Here Comes Summer 
Stamp and Create June Challenge - Summer Fun
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Summer Fun
Crafty Calendar June Challenge - Fancy Folds (Easel Card)
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #92 - Summer Fun
Fussy and Fancy Challenge # 140 - Fun in the Sun

2 Cute Ink Ice Cream Penguin with Mojo Monday

You just can't go wrong when you add ice cream.

So that's what I did for today's Mojo Monday Sketch.  I used an adorable ice cream eating Birthday Party  Penguin, this month's free digi from 2 Cute Ink, and some fun coordinating ice cream papers to create a "cool" birthday card.  

 The penguin is paper pieced. The sentiment is a digi from Imagine That... digis by Kris.  I've used kraft paper for the card base.  The kraft border strip is CTMH.  The bling are skittles.

Challenges into which this card has been entered include:

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #401

 

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #63 - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #265 - Always Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Animals

Use Your Stuff Challenge #187 - Sentiment

Come and Get It Challenge - Paper Piecing

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #9 - What's the word, bird?

That's it for today.

Would you believe I'm going to another baseball game this evening?  That makes 6 in 3 days!

Good thing I like baseball!