Double Trouble Challenge #28 Guest Designer

It was so awesome to be adopted into the Double Trouble Challenge family as a crazy cousin for the month of May!

Not only am I crazy about card making but I am crazy about being a Red Hatter, too.  

Check out the fabulous image that 

Sue Reynolds created just for me:

Normally, the Double Trouble Challenge starts on a Monday, but this week the fun begins on Friday to coordinate with the Coffee Lovers' Blog Hop. 

WELCOME to Challenge #28 

 Let the Troubles Begin!

THING 1: Trouble Maker

would like you to create projects that fall within the Spring/Summer months (special friend/family occasions, May Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, Patriotic Holidays).

THING 3: Twisted Sister

says "Some like it hot, some like it cold, I like it all"  Include your favorite drink that you'd share with friends and family.    

This is an OPTIONAL twist and you will be awarded an additional chance in Double Trouble's random prize draw. 

THING 2: Double Dare

says "If you have included food or drink you can join the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #26 "Food/Drink".   To post, click HERE. This gives you an additional chance at winning the Double Trouble Random Draw.

A Double, Double Dare - Don't forget! If you created a spring/summer project with a coffee, tea or cocoa theme or sentiment, you are eligible to enter your project HERE  for the 2019 Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop through Friday, May 10th (details below).

2019 Spring/Summer 

Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

Friday May 3rd - Friday, May 10th

There are great prizes and no limits to the number of entries. The more entries the better your chances for winning Coffee Lovers' BlogHop random prizes from over 60 super sponsors.  

Create a Spring/Summer project to include some sort of coffee, tea or cocoa element and/or sentiment. How simple is that?

For inspiration, sing along with Frank Sinatra's The Coffee Song. You'll be glad you did!

The Coffee Blog Hop closes at 12:00 midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on Friday, May 10th. However, Double Trouble is biweekly and we'd like you to play along with us throughout our entire challenge. 

BLOG CANDY  If you participate in any of these three challenges you can become a possible recipient of this Blog Candy.  To qualify all you need to do enter into our Double Trouble Challenge, make a comment on this post and tell us "What's your favorite hot/cold drink during Spring/Summer months.  We will have a random draw after each 10 qualifying entrants.  Some of the prizes:  a coffee mat, or Spellbinder Die, or Stamp Set, or....even a Starbuck's Gift Card.   

If we have more than 40 qualifying entrants on the last day of the Coffee Lover's BlogHop we will have a final random draw to include all entrants.  This prize will include several items.  

All prizes will be awarded at the end of Double Trouble Challenge #28. 

With Mother's Day in the USA coming up next Sunday, May 12th, I pulled out some retired CTMH stamps to make this card:

I hope you'll be able to join the fun this week at 

the Double Trouble Challenge blog, Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge and the 2019 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Challenges I am entering:

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge - Food/Drink

2019 Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop - coffee, tea or cocoa element and/or sentiment

Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - For Mum or a special woman

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of April 30th - AG

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge Apr. 15th - May 5th - Coffee/Tea Time

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #418 - AG
Aud Sentiments Challenge #226 - Feminine + a Sentiment
DL.ART May Linky Challenge - AG
Crafty Hazelnut's May Patterned Paper Challenge - AG

Double Trouble Challenge #27

It's the 5th Monday in April and Double Trouble has a new easy one week challenge to close out the month.

The theme is SomeThing, AnyThing, and  EveryThing.

In other words, it's a free for all!

 

Earlier today I mailed off a box of Birthday and Mother's Day cards to SAS4K.  No time like the present to start filling another box.

(Stamps are from CTMH.)

I used a Happy Birthday word embossing folder on the striped background just to make Twisted Sister happy.

And I am also entering some previous partners' challenges*, this week's Double Dare.

Challenges:

Double Trouble Challenge #27 - ATG, Babble, and partners' challenge entries  

Creative With Stamps Challenge #37 *- Happy Birthday

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #314 *-  

Birthday & Mother's Day with Bugaboo digis

I find the Bugaboo digi stamps perfect for the cards I make for Send a Smile 4 Kids.  The images are bold and easy to color.  Today I thought I'd make two cards for the two challenges currently running at Bugaboo Stamps Blog.

The first card is for the Stella Says Sketch Challenge #709. 

 

Additional challenges where I am entering this card:

Catch the Bug Stella Says Sketch Challenge #709 - see sketch above

Aud Sentiments Challenge #225 - Happy Birthday Sentiment 

Mod Squad Challenge - Stars

Through the Craft Room Door Week of April 23rd - Always Anything Goes 

The second card is for the Photo Inspiration Challenge.

   

Additional Challenges where I am entering this card are:

Catch the Bug Photo Inspiration Challenge - see above

Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - For Mom from the Kids or AG

Allsorts Challenge #517 - Mother's Day/Feminine 

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #579 - Brads, Sequins or Gems (The butterfly is a brad.) 

 

Fabric fancy fold cards

This past Thursday I spent the morning in Paradise.

Quite literally, I was in Paradise, PA.

That is the location of Farmhouse Memories, an old farmhouse filled with fabrics and card and scrapbooking supplies.

It was my first time taking a card class there, and I thoroughly enjoyed the class and a bit of shopping afterwards.

Here are photos of the two cards we made:

This is a vertical joy fold card using fabric flowers.

The bottom multicolored panel is fabric, too.

Good thing I like fussy cutting!  The rose buds were pretty small.  But check out the next card....

This is a box card.  All the frogs, butterflies and flowers were cut from fabric.

Back of card.

Here you can see the layers inside the box.

There are more pictures here on the Farmhouse Memories blog.

And here's a simple birthday card I put together yesterday, here at home, using a few scraps.

The Happy Birthday die is from MFT; the glitter "2U" were cut on the cricut. 

The kitty with cake was a freebie stamp from a magazine.

Challenges:

Crafty Catz Challenge #459 - ATG 

A Gem of a Challenge Week #8 - ATG

Aud Sentiments Challenge #225 - Birthday Sentiment

Seize the Birthday Challenge #164 - Texture

And while I have time to post, 

I'll share this Thank You card with you, too. 

(The stitched rectangle dies used are from ODBD)

 My friend had a box of stamps she was giving away and she let me go through them.  Of course I saved this hat stamp!  As a member of the Red Hat Society,  I'll enjoy using it.

Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge #417 - Red Hat Society Day; use red and/or purple 

Allsorts Challenge Week 517 - Mother's Day or Feminine 

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #95 - Ribbon or Lace Trim

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - ATG 

 

 

Double Trouble Challenge #26 & Mojo Monday #514

Splish Splash, the Challenge Theme for Double Trouble #26, sent me looking through my House Mouse stamps and I found just what I was looking for.

Challenges:
Double Trouble Challenge #26 - Splish Splash (water), Bumbershoot, link with JOSTTT#4
Joy Of Sets Tic Tac Toe Challenge #4 -  Die Cut, White, Pearls
 
Mojo Monday Sketch #514 -

Dies R Us Challenge #119 - April Showers
CCC Digi Creations Challenge #102 - April Showers
2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #25 - AG
The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - April Showers
Crafty Catz Challenge #458 - AG option All creatures great and small
Stamping Sensations Challenge - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Dragonfly Dreams Challenge - Include an Animal
Dare 2 B Artzy Challenge - Animals
House Mouse Challenge #289 - AG option Spring

Wedding Card

Today I dug out my prettiest off white papers to make a wedding card for my granddaughter.  These papers were selected with much care, each having it's own texture.  They were from a challenge prize a long time ago.  You may have to look very closely to see the faint stripe in the top sheet, the gloss on the die cut in the upper  left corner, and the fabric design of the layer on top of cs and below the pale pink glitter.  That makes a lot of layers.

(Inspired by a card on Pinterest)

 Those 2 pink pearls have got to go, now that I look at the photo.  I colored them with a promarker which matched perfectly, but dried too pink.  I will switch them to white pearls before I give her the card.  I didn't know if I had ribbon that would work.  Then, to my surprise, I came across a yard of this pretty ribbon with tiny hearts, also a challenge prize from long ago.  The corner dies are from Our Daily Bread Designs.  And the little flowers were punched.

Now I must find the perfect sentiment to wish her all the happiness she deserves!

Challenges:

Pile It On Challenge #153 - Lots of Layers

Craft-Dee Bowz April Challenge - AG 

Path of Positivity Challenge #68 - AG twist Happiness 

Joy of Sets Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (I used the first column: Wedding, Glitter, Die Cut)

 613 Avenue Create April Challenge #220 - AG

Kid Friendly Birthday Cards

Thought I'd use the new set of Tim Holtz robot stamps I purchased at a stamp show in Florida, to make some kid friendly masculine birthday cards for SAS4K.  

This is my favorite, 

and I'm entering it in a few challenges:

Craft Rocket Challenge #58 - For Men or Boys

Seize the Birthday Challenge #163 - AG 

Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge #336 - AG

Through the Craft Room Door Week of April 9th - AG

Love to Scrap Challenge #120 - Male Call