CTMH Card Class 10/18/2016 - Shoebox Swap

The Shoebox Swap Joyce planned for our CTMH Card Class today was a huge success!  Class members attending were to make a card and bring all the supplies needed (in a shoebox) for everyone else to make it too.  I came home with 7 wonderful cards, designed by the other gals in the class.

Carol's Thanksgiving card

Bonnie's masculine card

Cindy's fabric card

Mickey's layered card

Sybilla's Cricut Cut card

Eileen's Cricut Cut Card

Judie's glittery card

 Here's my shoebox full of stuff

to make this card: 

which I am entering in these challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's October Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes with pp

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #33 - Use at least 1 die cut 

613 Avenue Create Challenge #190 - Anything Goes w/ option to use green and gold

The Merry Christmas Challenge #3 - Use a Die Cut 

Love to Scrap Challenge #88 - Anything Goes 

Craft Your Passion Challenge #334 - Always Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #132 - Always Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by.

Tomorrow I have a couple quilted cards to show you!

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #470 + Halloween Peekaboo Flip Card

This Mojo Monday card was created from pieces already on my messy craft table.  

 The digi sentiment circle is from Inky Impressions.  The popped leaf was fussy cut from a section of the bg paper.  After embossing the barn red cs, it was lightly sanded and then distressed with sunflower ink.  Everything else was distressed with barn red ink.  The whole card front got a shot of gold shimmer mist.

My apologies for being a bit lax in my blog posting.  It's just that I've been crafting up a storm.  Wait until you see it all!

I am entering this fall card in the following challenges:

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #470

 

Moving Along with the Times Challenge - Trees and/or Leaves

Just Add Ink Challenge #333 - Just Add "g"  (gold sequins and spritz; green glitter tape)

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #210 - Anything Goes 

Ooh-la-la Creations Challenge #215 - Shades of Autumn 

Here's another card I made and hastily photographed.  

Actually, I was surprised that no one asked me where the peekaboo flip card was when I posted a card last week made from the scraps.

(Stamps and papers are from CTMH.  Circles were all punched.)

When you open the card, the sentiment slides into the circle overtop of the owl.

You can find a tutorial for making a Peekaboo Flip Card here. 

 

Challenges for this Halloween card include:

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #102 - Anything Goes; option- Halloween 

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #175 - Things that go bump in the night

Dream Valley Challenges #142 - One for the Boys 

Use Your Stuff Challenge #238 - Mixing Up Your Stamps (I used 5 stamps from 2 different stamp sets to make this card; the web, the spider, the owl, the sentiment frame, and the sentiment.)*

Inkspirational Challenge #119 - Use 5 stamps *see above

My Time to Craft Challenge #331 - Fancy Folds

 

Tomorrow we are making shoe box cards at Joyce's CTMH class.  Everyone is bringing a different card for each of us to make.  It should be fun to see the different styles we choose.  I'll post them as soon as I can.

Scrappy Halloween & CTMH Card Class 10/11

Yesterday I was designing a Halloween Peekaboo Flip Card and ended up with several shapes and stamped images I had decoded not to use.  They morphed into this card:

 Papers, stamped owl and sentiment are CTMH products.  Die cut pumpkin and bat are Sugar Pea designs.  Die cut stitched circles are La La Land dies.  And the yellow owl eyes are Skittles.

Challenges: 

Double D Challenge - Pumpkin Time
Stampotique Designers Challenge #259 - Halloween 

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Here are the cards we made on Tuesday at 

Joyce's CTMH card class using the 

CTMH October Stamp of the Month. 

(You might want to hop over to Joyce's blog and 

check out the Joyful Stars CTMH October Blog Hop, too.)

 

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #315 with A Day for Daisies

Today I'm using Little Pumpkin Witch from

 A Day for Daisies Digital Stamp Shop, 

our wonderful sponsor

for this week's

Photo Inspiration Challenge 

at Tuesday Throwdown.

 

  Please take a moment to visit the shop at A Day for Daisies and also their blog where they regularly offer free digi images for you to try and use in one of their challenges.  

In fact, right now they are offering a fun spider web which you could use on a Halloween card for both their current challenge and the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.

And Design Team B at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge  would definitely love it if you stopped by our blogs for some inspiration.

Andrea 

Asha

Davi

Kim

Pam

Traceymo

Maybe you could leave them some love while you are there.

Challenges:

A Day for Daisies Challenge #155 - Anything Halloween-y Goes

Crafty Boots Challenge - Halloween

Patti's Creations Challenge #127 - Halloween or Autumn

Dragon's Lair October Challenge - Boo!

Craft Your Passion Challenge #333 - Always Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #131 - Always Anything Goes

Nuts about Mojo Monday....

but not so crazy about the squirrels who are busy burying nuts everywhere, especially in my flower pots!

This cute squirrel, from Bugaboo, has worked his way into my heart and onto this week's Mojo Monday card.

 

The sentiment stamp is from CTMH.

Challenges: 

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #469 

Cards 4 Galz Challenge #32 - Autumn Colors

Hiding in My Craft Room #270 - Super Scraps Saturday

Crafty Friends Challenge #42 - Autumn Colors 

Ooh La La Creations Challenge #215 - Colors of Fall

Craft Your Passion Challenge #333 - Always Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #131 - Always Anything Goes

Colouring in Scrapland Challenge #16 - Autumn

Allsorts Challenge #384 - Colors of Autumn

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Autumn

 Scroll down to the previous post to enjoy a stroll through the

 Joyful Stars CTMH October blog hop.

Joyful Stars Close To My Heart October Blog Hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars October blog hop, where a group of talented Close to My Heart consultants, and me, gather to share ideas with you in a fun blog hop. 

When I first saw the Woodland Wishes stamp set with matching Thin Cuts, I thought the images would make a great step card.  

Step Cards are not hard.  

But I sure tried my best to make it hard, scoring wrong, cutting wrong,  embossing the paper upside down, blotching the ink when I stamped, matching the wrong snowflake stamps with the wrong thin cuts.  It was just one of those days.
Miraculously, here is my finished side step card:

The patterned paper is from the City Sidewalks paper pack.
 
The shapes were all cut with the CTMH matching Thin Cuts, which cut perfectly on cardstock and glitter paper, with only one pass through my Cuttlebug. 
 

Now, since this is a blog hop you might have arrived here from Marie Flayer's blog.

Your next stop is Stephanie Brown's blog.  The hop is circular. So if you are just starting here, simply continue hopping until you find your way back, making the full circle.  If you get lost, the complete list of participants is on Joyce's blog.  

Card for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This Bugaboo digi image was printed directly on pink card stock and would have made a lovely one layer card.  But, I have a difficult time leaving well enough alone.  By printing it a second time, I could fussy cut the flower petals and layer them onto the base image with foam tape for dimension. 

 I added a bit more shading to the roses with a marker and gave the entire card a good spritz of Tattered Angels pink glimmer mist.  

In the photo you can only see a few spots here and there, which sort of looks like I sneezed on the card.  But it really has a great sparkle to it, especially with the white shimmer trim.

Challenges:

Catch the Bug Theme Challenge - Breast Cancer Awareness 

The Corrosive Challenge #10 - Pink for Awareness 

Pile It On Challenge #118 - Sparkle 

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Think Pink 

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #209 - Think Pink 

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge - Pinktober 

Brown Sugar Challenge #219 - Think Pink 

In the Pink Challenge #104 - Flower Power 

Time Out Challenge #67 - Breast Cancer Awareness (optional embossing and/or pink) 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge 250-251 - Anything Goes 

Love to Scrap Challenge #87 - Go Pink