Imagine That!

This card is for the Imagine That! October Progressive Challenge using the digital set called Let's Squash Cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  The set is adorable.  Thanks, Kris!  I kept the card pretty simply because I didn't want to detract from the DP I found in my stash.

Upright Diamond Fold Card

Scrapbook Blessings Club Challenge #31 is an Anything Goes Challenge this week, but they are featuring an Upright Diamond Fold Card.  I followed the written instructions available at Splitcoast Stampers to make this card, although there is also a video available at the Scrapbook Blessings Club Blog.

I've used a digital image and sentiment from Doodle Pantry 

so that  I could enter the 

Doodle Pantry October Anything Goes Challenge #51, also.

Thank You From the Heart

This month's stamp set for the From the Heart Progressive Challenge is really sweet with the cats and little bird perched on the banner, or is that a bunting, whatever.  

I've made this card for the following challenges:
From the Heart October Challenge
DRS Designs Thursday Challenge # 143 - I'm so Hungry
Aud Sentiments Challenge #117 - Anything Goes with a sentiment
Creative Knockouts Challenge #58 - Thankful

Tomorrow I am headed for York, PA for the Heirloom Productions Rubber Stamps and Paper Arts Festival where I'll be teaching Make & Takes at the CTMH booth, after I help build and stock it and before I help tear it back down.  It's kind of like a sandwich, the best part is in the middle.  Hope I see you there!

Our next show will be in Edison, NJ with the Stamp, Scrap, Art Tour, November 1st and 2nd. 

What you see....

isn't always what you get.  That's definitely true when I'm taking the photo.  If I'm photographing people, they usually lose their heads in the photo.  A photo of headless people at Halloween could actually be a good thing, now that I think about it.  

I've used a digi image from A Day for Daisies to make today's card, cute little cupcakes with spiders on top.  They have been colored with markers, sugared up around the edges with glitter, and the spiders have liquid pearl eyes.  But I am so disappointed in the photo because those cupcake papers are purple.  They match the purple strip across the card.  Why do they show up more blue in the photo?  Well, at least the spiders have their heads!

The frame and sentiment are CTMH stamps.

Speaking of heads.... I smacked my head so hard on a book shelf yesterday I saw stars!  It still hurts.  My dear mother saw me do it and she was amazed that I moved all the books on the shelf when I hit it.  I'm amazed there was no blood!  

This card with purple cupcake papers is being entered in these challenges:

A Day for Daisies Challenge #106 - All Sugared Up

A Little Bit Crafty Challenge - Boo!

Bearly Mine October Challenge - Halloween

CCC Digi Creations Challenge #10 - Digi/Borders or Punches 

Eureka Stamps Challenge #109 - Delightfully Frightful

Now I'm off to play pinochle this afternoon.   

Wait, wait....  I finished the scarf for Sue.  (I posted her birthday card yesterday.)  It looks so warm and cuddly I may make myself one too! It's a simple circular scarf that you can just hang around your neck long or double for extra warmth and a shorter look. 

Blue Birthday Card with a Bird

Alliteration - a succession of similar sounds;  

One of the literary terms I learned in 8th grade.  We were all excited when we met our 8th grade English teacher.  She was a knock-out.  Gorgeous auburn hair (not from a bottle), that she always wore in a chic french twist.  She was fresh out of college.  But she was a tough cookie, which is why I still remember most of those literary terms and a lot more.  We all kind of scratched out heads when she started dating and eventually married one of the other teachers.  He was all but bald before he was 30!  

Now, how did I get started on that?  

Yes, my title.  

Blue Birthday Card with a Bird

This is a special card for a woman with whom I used to work for her 80th birthday.  (We had a really great group of gals who worked well together at the law firm and have remained friends even after the firm dissolved.  Unfortunately, the attorneys didn't work together quite as well.)  The girls will be gathering for a birthday dinner in her honor tomorrow evening.  I am almost finished crocheting a scarf  to accompany this card.

I had the cricut machine buzzing this morning.  All the cuts were made using the CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge.  I've used an older CTMH stamp set and sheer ribbon in a quadruple bow and some of the new fundamental paper.

This card is headed for the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Anything Goes

 Inky Chicks Challenge #39- Die Cuts Only

Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge #121 - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe's Crafts October Challenge - Animals

Craft-dee Bowz October Challenge - Anything Goes 

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #39 - Always Anything Goes

Gotta fly now!

Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge + Create with TLC Image #10

This week's sketch at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #76 really made me think.  But after a bit I had an idea, and I think it turned out pretty well.

Here's the sketch:

I combined CTMH sentiment stamps and tiny ornament stamps, fitting them together on 1 acrylic block.  I stamped it a few times on one side of the white CS, used a dauber to distress the edges, and lightly sponged over the stamping.   Using the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, I cut the ornament, stamped it, then embossed it, before adding the bling and popping it onto the CS.  I used some silver twine for the ornament bow and hanger and some bling on the tiny ornaments.  I backed the white CS with blue, also distressed around the edges, before mounting it onto a white card.

Woot! Woot! Another Christmas Card completed!

This card is also entered in these challenges:

Take Heart Ideas October Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafting When We Can Challenge #78 - No Designer Paper
We Do Doobado Challenge #16- Christmas
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round Challenge - Embellish It

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Card #10 for the Create with TLC Progressive Freebie Challenge. 

Both the image and sentiment are digis from Create with TLC.

Challenges for this card include:
Left of Center Challenge #48 - 3 or more layers
613 Avenue Create Challenge #92 - Anything Goes
Sparkles Forum Challenge #60 - Things with Wings 
Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Animals

Mojo Monday + Create with TLC Image #9

Create with TLC recently gave its followers the freebie digi image that I used for my Mojo Monday card today. 

I didn't add a sentiment to the front of this one.  That way I can keep it in my stash and use it as a notecard or, by adding a sentiment, I can use it for a number of occasions.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Mojo Monday # 366 Contest

Eclectic Ellapu Challenge - Pink Team: Flowers
Fairytale Stamper Challenge #45 - Flowers & Ribbon
A Creative Romance Challenge - In the Garden

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I've a second card to show you today.  It uses Image # 9 in the Create with TLC Progressive Freebie Challenge celebrating World Card Making Day. 

I can't believe I actually paper pieced the little dresses, bows and table cloth.  And I also had to fussy cut the 2 tea cups on the table or they would have had gray checks.  It was such a challenge doing all the fussy cutting and gluing, and it isn't even noticeable.  I used the same papers to make the background, glued together and embossed.  The sentiment is from an HOP set.  The lace was a second hand store find.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Di's Digi Design Challenge - Girly
Crafty Calendar October Challenge - Bingo (Pink, Sentiment, Buttons)
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #297 - Embossing
Creative Knockouts Challenge #57 - Lace/Ribbon
Southern Girls Challenge - Girly/ Shabby Chic