Look what I found!

(Love you stamp is CTMH.)

This is the card I should have posted for February's From the Heart Progressive Challenge using the digital set Loves Me Birdbrain.  Somehow, I forgot to post it.  Guess that makes me a bit of a "birdbrain".  

I won't be making that mistake again this month!  

Here's my card for the March From the Heart Progressive Challenge using the set Easter Trio:

The cute framed images just screamed "waterfall card" to me.  I sized the digital sentiment to match and hand drew a frame around it, too.  Then there's room on the bottom piece for a personal note.  I chose this glittery striped paper for the springy colors, added butterfly brads and new oregano skittles, then used an aqua blue card base to finish off the card.

I'm also entering this card in the following:

Creative Moments Challenge 63 - Anything Goes/Spring Greens 

DoubleClick Skittles Challenge #17 - Use Green

Animal Friends March Challenge #23 - Easter

Creative Craft Cottage Challenge - All that Glitters

Bunny Zoe's March Challenge - Spring Colours

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Get Creative Challenge #10 - Must have green
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Ribbons and Brads 
Allsorts Challenge week 301 - Spring is in the Air

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge & CTMH Card Class 3/10

Oh, to be one again!

 

We had an exhausting day, yesterday, celebrating my granddaughter's birthday.  Not that we did all that much.  It's more like we ate way too much!  But that's what always seems to happen when you go to a buffet.

 I don't know why my granddaughter never brings Laila's stroller along when we have an outing.  She's getting way too heavy to carry for very long.  She's not going to fit in a shopping cart much longer, either!

Check out the pink glitter shoes on that babe! 

By the time I got home the Atlantic Hearts Sketch #98 for this week had been posted.  With CTMH dottie paper still on the table from making my Mojo Monday card, I got to work creating this card

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which I'm entering in the AHSC. 

I am also entering it in these other challenges:

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion Challenge #252 - Always Anything Goes

Cards in Envy Challenge - Anything Goes with a Bow

Eureka Stamps Challenge #131 - Anything Goes 

Mema's Crafts March Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze Challenge - Anything Goes

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This afternoon I went to Joyce's CTMH card workshop.  Today we made  4 cards featuring the current Stamp of the Month set.  It's hard to believe it's been almost 3 months since I've seen most of my creative gal pals.  It was wonderful to see them again. 

These are the cards I made:

If you like blog hops and are looking for some great ideas,

Joyce sponsor's a monthly CTMH Blog Hop which you can find right HERE.  And if you are looking for more ideas using the

 CTMH March Stamp of the Month, check out this blog hop or this blog hop.  And I even found a CTMH paper blog hop using the hopscotch paper.  So you can hop until you drop.

 

Mojo Madness

My DH challenged me to get this done before I left to take my mother, daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter out to celebrate my granddaughter's birthday.  That gave me 1 hr. to get ready and make the card.  Well.....

Gotta fly.  My hair's still damp!

Today's challenges include:
Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #388

Gaby is 21 tomorrow! Imagine That!

It's so hard to imagine that my granddaughter turns 21 tomorrow.  It's not difficult, at all, to imagine that I put off making her card until today.  I am pretty good at procrastinating.

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The peacock and sentiment on the front of the card are from March's Stamp of the Month digi set Pretty Peacocks at Imagine That...digis by Kris.  Kris, this is a gorgeous set.  Thanks so much!  

I printed, fussy cut and layered the image.  The peacock feathers received a brush of glitter.  I've used some CTMH Fundamentals embossed paper(purple hearts, double sided) and Glitter paper.  The numbers were cut on the cricut using the CTMH Artiste cartridge.  And then I added lots of bling.  I wrote the inside sentiment and printed it on the computer, but the digi set has a nice birthday sentiment, too.

I am entering this birthday card in the 

March Peacock Challenge at Imagine That!

This card is also entered in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create Challenge #114 - Anything Goes (optional twist-aquamarine, which you'll find in the peacock's tail feathers) 

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge #15 - Add some embellishments

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge #127 - Decorate the inside and outside

Robyn's Fetish Challenge #254 - Pearls or Gems 

Corrosive Challenge #219 - Follow Your Heart (obviously the paper has hearts, but I love the ones in the peacock feathers)

Today, I've made a second card using the same Pretty Peacocks digi set.  I like the fact that the set includes multiple sentiments, making it very versatile.  

For this card I used 3 different sizes of Spellbinders scalloped ovals to layer the flowers.

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Pile it on Challenge #59 - Go Green

A Gem of a Challenge #139 - Clean and Simple

Addicted to CAS Challenge #58 - Distress

Missed the mailman!

I was hoping to get this card in the mailbox, but the mailman was a bit early.  Probably, I was a bit late.  Maybe because I finally had my entire stash at my disposal and had so many more choices to make.  

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I used my new Cuttlebug, Spellbinders dies, a Fiscar's corner punch, the Cricut and the CTMH Artiste cartridge, CTMH papers, ribbon and Serendipity stamp on the bottom petals, a Taylored Expressions sympathy stamp, a Great Impressions sentiment stamp, and Bellini Skittles.

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges #276 - Put a Bow on it.

Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #190 - Freestyle

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #113 - Flowers and Ribbon

Sister Act Card Challenge #96 - Anything Goes

Now I have to go clean up the mess I made!

Unpacking

Little by little I am unpacking from our trip.  Today I thought I'd tackle the bag that held my craft stash, what I took with me as well as some purchases I made in Florida.  I haven't put any of it away yet.  It is mostly on my dining room floor in little piles.  

I sort of got distracted.  

In among the papers was an adorable digi from the Ice Fishing set by Deedee's Digis that I didn't want to lose.  It gave me the perfect excuse to finally use my new Cuttlebug machine.  I used a Spellbinder's scalloped oval die to cut the image making it ready to pop on a card.  Then I came across a pack of paper (from the Stampfest show I went to in Clearwater) which was a perfect match for the colors in the precolored digi.  It didn't take long to get the Cuttlebug back out to die cut a Memory Box Snowflake Corner from glitter paper.  And with a quick bow made from silver embroidery floss this card was born....

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #363 - Die Cuts/Punches
Dare to be Sassy Thursday Challenge #271 - To Die For
Scrapy Land Challenge #13 - Anything Goes using a die sold by ScrapyLand (Memory Box & Spellbinders)
Little Red Wagon Challenge #279 - Birds of a Feather
Clear It Out Challenge - Anything Goes, stash item- anything goes (embroidery floss)
Cards in Envy Challenge - Anything Goes with a Bow
Robyn's Fetish Challenge #253 - Use a Digi
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #248 - Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Punches or Die Cuts

This is what it looks like outside my front door right now.

Lots of white and it's still coming down.  That's why I thought this was a perfect card for today.

Sending warm hugs to all my friends.

Not a good idea!

Sunday morning we left the warmth of Florida and Monday evening we returned to the freezing temperatures of Pennsylvania.  

What were we thinking?

Yesterday, while it was snowing and sleeting, my granddaughter and great granddaughter stopped by and I got to see Laila walking.  And today my son and grandsons visited.  Family and friends bring you home.

It's a bit difficult getting back into the rhythm of things.  I've filled the cookie jar and baked a cake.  I guess it's time to get back to some crafting.  The obvious place to start is with my 2 weekly favorites:  Mojo Monday and Atlantic Hearts Sketches.  Both sketches this week are fairly simple.

First, I've used a Bentley Bear stamp that was a freebie from Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine for my Mojo Monday Contest #387 Card. (It was nice to come home and find 3 issues of my craft magazines, a package of skittles I had ordered, and some stamps that I had won before Christmas in the pile of mail.)  I stamped the image 3 times and paperpieced it onto the card.  And I used 3 of the new skittles.  

 

 

My second card is for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #97 and uses CTMH products. 

I have one more card to show you.  I made it before we left Florida but didn't get a chance to post it.  For this card I used the current sketch #304 at Catch the Bug Stella Says Sketch Challenge.  

I really liked the sketch but, unfortunately, had no way to print a Bugaboo image for on the card.  

Instead, I used a stamp from My Favorite Things.