Repeat Impressions DCC

It's a designer's choice challenge day over at The House That Stamps Built!  Lynette has challenged us with a recipe. The recipe is as follows:  1 image, 1 sentiment, 2 die cuts, 3 embellishments.

Here's my card!

Image: Repeat Impressions: 3810-M Snowflake - Prism

Sentiment:  Repeat Impressions: 2219-G May your days

Die cuts:  Nestabilities circle dies

Embellishments:  Stitching, glitter, pearls

Make sure you head on over to The House That Stamps Built and look at all the wonderful samples from the rest of the DT!

ABC Challenge - T is for Two Images

This week at ABC Challenge Team B is challenging you to use two images!  You can use them any way you want, but there has to be at least two!  Our sponsor this week is Wild Rose Studio:

They are donating this lovely stamp:

Isn't he cute?

I seem to be in the circle easel card mood, because I've made another!  I have used my Stampscapes stamps and colored them with my copics.  I was very impressed how well the copics worked with my scene as I had never used them together before!

Here's a picture of it all opened up so that you can see both panels:

Here are the copics I used:

Here are the rest of the supplies:

Stamps:  all from Stampscapes:  Sedge Filler, sentiment, Altocumulus Cloud, Pond, Old Fence

Ink:  Momento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up Going Gray

Paper:  White and black from Stampin Up

Supplies:  big shot, circle and scallop circle nestabilities

I am entering this into the following challenges:

iCopic Lover - Make grass

Cards for Men - circles

The Crazy Challenge #65 - cards for men

Dream Valley Challenge #6 - Flowers

Hello and happy Sunday to all of you!  It has been a beautiful weekend here in New Hampshire.  The rain of last week was gone and we had lots of sunshine and you know what that means don't you?   The flowers are blooming.........which brings us to our challenge this week at Dream Valley Challenges:  FLOWERS!   Ha!  How's that for a segue?!  I know, it's pretty bad when you crack yourself up huh?

Right! So....flowers!  Our sponsor for this challenge is One Stop Card Crafts and they have donated this:

For my card I have created my very first round easel card!  It was so easy after I read this tutorial here.  Thanks Beate!

  

Supplies:

Stamp:  sentiment from Stampscapes

Die Cuts:  circle and scallop circle nestabilities

Punches:  all from Punch Bunch

Ink:  Momento Tuxedo Black, Bashful Blue from Stampin' Up

I'm entering this into these challenges:

My Mum's Craft Shop - flowers

Craft Your Passion - layers

Charisma Cardz - April showers/May Flowers

Craft us Crazy - mom's/flowers

Do You Stack Up - make it pop 3D

Little Miss Muffet - Die Cut/ punches

Sweet Stampin' - try something new

Have a great week everyone and don't forget to show us your FLOWERS at DREAM VALLEY!

My Favorite House Mouse

BEWARE!  This post is picture happy! :)  I have had fun creating this card, and it was so photogenic (hehe) that I decided to post a few pics!

This is one of my favorite House Mouse stamps, and it really goes well together with the black and white color scheme.

I have also done some paper piecing on the "eaten" strawberry on the far right, although it is somewhat difficult to see!  

Here's a pic of the inside:

Image:  House Mouse Sleeping with Strawberries

Copics used:  C1, G17, E09, E18, E35, R22, R24, R29

Paper:  Stampin' Up

Misc:  cuttlebug embossing folders, ribbon and pearls from my stash, and circle and circle scallop nestabilities

I am entering this card into these challenges:

House Mouse - favorite stamp

Stamptacular Sunday - Food

Mojo Monday - sketch

Stampin Royalty - use markers

Pixie Cottage - sketch and/or embossing

Copic Creations - warm colors

Sarah Hurley - food and drink

Your Next Stamp Challenge - Paper piecing

Bearly Mine - ribbons and pearls

My Time to Craft - circles
Blog o doodle - ribbon, embossing and bling
Samuel Taylors Crafts - use copics or promarkers
Rubber Cafe - no patterned paper

Cats on a Fence - SSDS #38

It is week #38 at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays, and we'd like you to show us your easel cards! There are many tutorials out there in blogland, so if you 've never tried them now is the time! Come link up your card and you could win 3 digis of your choice from our wonderful sponsor Digi Stamp Characters!

Heather also gave the dt some digis to play with and I used these adorable cats!

I colored the cats with my copics, and then cut them out. I used the Labels 8 Nestabilities to make the easel card out of black paper, and I also used them to make the mats. The background behind the cats was brayered with Soft Sky and Old Olive ink. I used Wild Wasabi for the bottom mat. I also used the Big Shot to cut the fence with a Sizzix die. I adhered the fence to the green mat and folded the bottom of it so it would hold the easel card in the right position. The cats were adhered last with pop dots so the fence would go under them.

Don't forget to come and join us at SSDS to play along!

I also entered this card into these challenges:

Alphabet Challenge - A is for Animals

Daring Cardmakers - easel card

Cupcake Craft - Don't be square

Creative Inspirations - Easel Cards

Stampin' Royalty - use your punches

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Shaped Cards

The Road to Magic

I was working from another one of my "recipes." Sketch and Stash had a great sketch here. and Incy Wincy Designs was looking for something magical. I based my design on those, but also added in some other challenges (see the end of the post). With the sketch I sort of rotated it, but it's still there!

The dp is from a pack called The Whimsy Stack. I cut out the shape from the Nestabilities Labels 8 and brayered light blue on the top and green on the bottom, and then stamped the Curvilinear Road from Stampscapes. The next step was to stamp the fairy tale castle from Great Impressions on white cardstock and cut it out using the circle Nestabilities die. I adhered the castle to the card with pop dots, and added some ribbon and flowers!

So these are all the challenges I entered into:

Sketch and Stash - sketch

Incy Wincy - magical

Design Dollies - Take a Walk in the Park

Papertake Weekly - Cutie Pie

The Crazy Challenge - Don't call me flat

Thanks for checking out my blog! Happy Stamping!

Rainbow Bugs

I seem to work better when I use a recipe! The "recipes" I use are the different blog challenges! Today I used the sketch challenge from Creating Life's Pieces, the colors of the rainbow challenge from The Crafty Pad, and Crazy 4 Challenges challenge to use 1 ribbon, 2 buttons or brads, and 3 different punches.

I was lucky to find all of my cardstock from my scrap box, so I am being frugal! I folded the yellow, and punched the red using the Martha Stewart Stars border punch. I adhered the red and the orange and the green in that order. I then used the Nestabilities Labels 8 die to punch out the image panel and the Stampin' Up oval punch to punch out the sentiment. I stamped both the Dragonfly and the Thankzzz from the Stampin' Up set Cute as a Bug with Staz-On ink onto the white panels. I colored the dragonfly with some pens and used the direct to paper technique with Only Orange ink to both white punches, and then adhered them with pop dots. Last but not least, I added the ribbon to the bottom with 2 orange flower brads from my stash!

I hope you all enjoy today's card, and don't forget to check out these wonderful challenge sites and come up with your own "recipe!"

Flowers, Buttons...and Sewing?

Well everyone, I've gone and done it. I dug out the sewing machine so I could sew a card. I've been putting this off even though I have admired other peoples' sewn creations from afar. Now I'm afraid I'm hooked. This first attempt has a few slipped stitches, but I'm sure with more practice I will be much better at it!

I used a designer paper from Webster's Pages called Your Life Beautiful, confetti cream cardstock, and an olive green strip from my scrap box. I put the "scene" through the Big Shot with the scalloped circle Nestabilities. I then brayered the sky and the ground before stamping the stems and adding the flower buttons. Before I attached the flower scene I did a straight stitch around the dp and a zig-zag stitch to attach the green. All in all, not a bad first try!

I entered this card into the following challenges:

Eat, Sleep, and Stamp - Sketch

Creative Card Crew - vintage

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - buttons

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - bought it, use it (just bought the dp on monday couldn't wait to get at it!)

Cooking It Up With Katie #12

Hello again! It sure has been a crafty week!

Over at the Cooking it Up With Katie blog she is challenging us to use the Decoupage/3D technique, some metal, and to add another current challenge to the mix. For my card I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch, and also the challenge from Totally Stampalicious blog to use black and white plus one other color.

I have used another House Mouse image....yes I didn't realize I had so many here! This little mouse was enjoying one too many strawberries, so my one other color is red! The sketch this time was a great one, so my card is actually made to fit a standard #10 envelope (think bills!). I stamped, colored and then used the Nestabilities circle and scallop to cut the image and the red mat. I then stamped and colored another of the same image and used my paper snips to cut out 2 strawberries and the mouse. I popped these two up in the same place on my finished image to make the 3D effect.

The two side panels are cut using a 2" square punch onto which I added the flourish from the Stampin' Up set Doodle This. Then I just had to use some red pearls and the library clips to jazz it up a bit! The ribbon and bow were added to finish off the sketch!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and don't forget to check out these great blogs and try your hand at their challenges!