Isn't it compulsory....

to use something new when you've been to a stamping show over the weekend?  After a great buying spree, who can resist playing with their new toys?  Not me!  So for today's Mojo Monday card I unwrapped a new graduation hat embossing folder by Darice.  I love embossing folders.  I can't believe I only bought one.  But,  I was trying to be good since there are more shows coming up in April and May.  Yippee!!  My cousin wants some graduation cards to sell at her little shop, so I should get a lot of use out of this folder. 

Thinking this might be more of a guy card, I tried to keep it kind of simple and used CS only. I chose black, off white and red, because red is one of our local high school's colors and there were pieces of each in the pile on my table.   I used washi tape for the bottom borders, a Close to My Heart stamp for the sentiment, Snoopy is a Hallmark puffy sticker I picked up on clearance last year, and I followed today's Mojo Monday Sketch:
 

I'll be entering this card in these challenges:
Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #337
Dragonfly Dreams Challenge #3 - Up in the Air
Pile It On Challenge #11 - For a Guy
Scribble and Scrap Challenge #14 - Always Anything Goes
Card a Day March Challenge, Week #3 - Congratulations
Flat Friends Challenge #18 - Cards for Men
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Sentimental Journey

Now I must get my Tuesday Throwdown DT post ready for tomorrow.  

Hope you'll join us in the fun.

Have a wonderful day! 

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!

A Day for Daisies

Here's a quick post for today... a simple card using a freebie digital image from A Day for Daisies, colored with markers, with a piece of self-adhesive fabric tape across the top, some CTMH gems, and buttercup liquid pearls.

The challenges I am entering with this card include:

A Day for Daisies Challenge #91 - Anything Goes

Oddball Art Stamps Challenge #1 - Use a Digi

Allsorts Challenge Week #250 - Pretty in Pink

The Doodle Garden Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #102 - Anything Goes

Crafter's Cafe Challenge #54 - Flowers

Doodle Pantry March Challenge

For this card I used the Clover Mini Maze digi set from Doodle Pantry .  It's actually a freebie from Doodle Pantry.  They also have several more a-mazing digi sets which make fun interactive cards. 

I made this card for the Doodle Pantry March Digital Challenge #44 - Anything Goes with a Digi.  I'm really excited to work with the Carousel Pig Digi Set I'll receive free just for using one of their images for the challenge.  They have a bunch of freebies you can download to start playing along and then you can start receiving more of their fun sets free each month.

I am also entering it in the following fun challenges:
2 Sisters Challenge #174 - Black, White and 1 other color (in this case, Green)
Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #203 - Black, White and 1 other color (Green)
Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #20 - Emboss It 
Craft for the Craic March Challenge - Something Green
Craftitude Challenge #60 - Anything Goes/Add a Little Green
Digi Haven Color Challenge - Use 3 shades of Green
Stamping with the Dragon Challenge - Let's Go Green
Cards in Envy Challenge - Think Green
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Black, White and 1 other color (Green)

BTW  The stamping show in Allentown today was great, very crowded, but great.  

Peek a boo Birthday Card for Imagine That March Challenge

Digi by Imagine That; Happy Birthday sentiment is a CTMH stamp.

Imagine That digis by Kris supplied this adorable Kitty in Flowers image for its March Progressive Challenge.  There's a big 1st birthday celebration in progress on the Imagine That blog with a fun Blog Hop March 10-17th.  And there are some great new birthday digis which were just released for the occasion.  Take a moment, read the rest of this post, and then head over to their blog for a chance at some great prizes.

(This is an unsolicited and unpaid advertisement.  I just like Kris's digis and I'm sure you will too.)

Returning to my blog post for today.....

I've been using this striped glitter paper on several cards lately because the colors remind me of Spring even though our weather is still far from Springlike.  The snow is slowly melting.  We even found our Feb 2nd newspaper earlier this week.  It had been covered with snow all that time.   And I must give our carrier credit - it was wrapped in plastic and totally dry.  Amazing.

I applied adhesive tape around the outside edge of the glitter paper and adhered it onto the card base.  With my Spellbinder beaded circle die, I cut the aperture through both layers.  After resizing, printing and coloring the digi image,  I cut that with the same die and attached it to the inside of the card.  I cut a few more die cuts from matching green glitter paper and pink CS for the corners and sentiment, respectively.    A little bling here and there and this card is ready to be submitted to the following challenges:

Imagine That March Challenge - Kitty in Flowers 

Alphabet Challenge  - "C" is for Country Flowers

Cut It Up Challenge #40 - Include some Green for St. Patrick's Day or Spring

Jellypark Challenge - Pretty Pastels 

Jo's Scrap Shack Challenge #40 - Anything Goes

Simply Create Too Challenge #57 - Animals 

Sister Act Card Challenge #48 - Anything Goes 

Stampin for the Weekend - Anything Goes

Art Impressions Challenge #131 - Take a Peek/Window Opening Cards

Aud Sentiments Challenge #102 - Anything Goes 

Crafty Creations Challenge #258 - Happy Birthday

Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #87 - Add a Birthday Sentiment 

And I still have the 2 beaded circles I cut from the front of the card.  
I'm sure you'll see them eventually.

Now I'm off to do the Blog Hop at Imagine That.  
 

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