August SFYTT

Jen's sketch challenges run for one month and start on the first Saturday of each month.

She has different crafter's to highlight their work.

the last day for this one is tomorrow.

Sketch For You To Try by Jen del Muro is always exciting and

the entries are all so wonderful.

Thanks for coming by!

Supplies include DCWV Animal Cracker paper stack, Soft Suede ink and paper, with just a touch of kraft in the sentiment circle. the owl stamp and punch from SU and a bit of green and white polka dot ribbon. The border punch from MS, and of course, those cute giggly googlie eyes

Mandelas are here again

Daisy Doodles newest challenge is now open.

It's called New Moon and it's anything goes.

Get your card/project done and make sure it has a digi image and get it posted on the challenge blog.

I just printed three of the mandelas, one larger than the other two.

Sprayed them with some mist..obviously, one green and the other purple.
Used the two small ones to make a rosette

Had to get the Kraft Journal in on this challenge, it wasn't hard since kraft paper is just one of

my favorites.

Added some purple glitter glue to the flowers along the edge, alternating total coverage with just a minimal amount.
The cotton crochet I found at a Hospice thrift store in Mount Dora.

Thanks for coming by!

Challenges

Catered crop - recipe- layered digi images and rubber stamped

Opus-gluei - Roses or rosettes

Scrappy Frog -  Time for some bling

Kraft Outlet

Want to win this prize package at The Kraft Journal?

For a list of goodies and more information for you to have a chance at winning this 

great candy bag check out Kraft Journal.

The Kraft Outlet has an amazing store full of 'krafty' items,

amd the challenge blog has tons of stuff going on so often

with chances of winning goodies from the store.

This one is so easy, just spread the word about the Kraft Journal and Kraft Outlet 

and your odds

of winning are increased.

Thanks for coming by and listening to my latest AD.

Every Flower

Delightful Inspiration inspired me this week to do some resisting.

A 'sorta' emboss resist.

I used Crystal effects on the flowers and leaves, let it dry, and then 

brayered some rubber bands over the colored 'embossed' image

using some glitter mist and angel mist.

I only own two bottles and used them both!!

Thank you, Faith, for a great image to play with and use some fabulous techniques.

I got to use my brand new Tim Holtz die for the folded flowers.
Delightful Inspiration also has a Saturday challenge and this week is anything goes
so will submit this one to that challenge.

Thanks for coming by!

P.S. Made this card this morning before an appointment that I had at 1PM.

Gave it to Annie ( the appt person) for her to give to someone else.

she was flabbergasted and said that she had someone very important to send it to.

Can't go into the details, but she was very moved and it was more than a coincidence

that we had an appt today.

Free Week at Daisy Doodles

Tableau Tuesday is up right now at Daisy Doodles.

Our September Designer of the month is Stephanie from Crafty Teacher.

You can see her card and Sammibug's over at the challenge blog.

My mojo  has left the building or maybe it's just some procrastination on my part.

 Getting the blogs posted and the card made was not on my 

list of things that needed top priority last week or this past weekend...sooooo

I had to think of something quick and easy.

I have several images in my folder so I flipped through it and found the 

daisy, ribbon, butterfly and printed dp from Daisy doodles collections.

The pre-colored images are from some card kits that you can find in Daisy's store.

Just look under categories near the bottom on the left and you will see

Card Kits. the bg paper is from card kit 3 and the images are from Card Kit 0ne.

The Kraft Journal's challenge this week is "Movies, Songs, or Books".

I added a three layer kraft paper die with 'Hugs' on it.

The song by Elton John, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" has butterflies in the lyrics.

Better get crackin...time's a passin' and the deadline is approaching quickly.

Thanks for coming by!

Challenges

Sugar Creek Hollow - Buttons and Bows, vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired creations

Crazy 4 challenges - BINGO--- flowers, die cut, button

Alphabet challenge - 'O' is for only three embellishments

Card Makin Mamas - PINK

Cardmadfairy - Buttons

Crafty Ann's - Scallops or fancy borders

Digi's with Attitude -  Anything Goes

Crafter's Cafe Blog candy

Check out how to win this awesome candy including COPICS at the Crafter’s Café blog.    If you enter after seeing my post, please let them know I sent you and leave me a comment letting me know too.

Cheryl's Meljen's Blog Candy

My friend Cheryl is giving away some Meljen's images...your choice of four...WOW!!!!
Head on over to She Stamps blog for details and your chance to win some awesome images.
Her contest runs til August 23rd...that's just ten days from today!!!!

Stitched Pumpkin by D2D

Faith at Delightful Inspiration created the cutest stitched pumpkins, one with a mouse and one without.

I colored the non-mouse one.

check out the D2Dblog to see the entire set that comes with a border image, also.

I made sure to add some kraft card stock for the card's base to qualify for the 

Kraft Journal 'Anything Goes' challenge.

made my own patterned paper with Distressed Inks and some leaf stamps.

Got out an old stapler to staple the frame to the under layers and staple the ribbons under the button.

Thanks for coming by!

 Stamps used:  D2D, and Fall Whimsy from Stampin Up

Postcard Challenge

Daisy Doodles Postcard challenge # 40 starts today.

Just grab a digi, a postcard and make something...

a card...

a frame....

an album....

anything.

I got the post card from the Daisy Doodles Store and scored and folded and roughed it up a bit...

OK... a lot more than it needed, let's say.

The palm tree is also a DD creation that you can find in the store.

It just so happens that The Kraft Journal is having a challenge...Anything Goes.
So you know where this card is going?
Thanks for coming by!

Challenges

Dream Valley challenges - Distressing

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

Challenge Up Your Life - No patterned paper

Crafty Emma 49 - Mix And Match

Just Some Lines - Embossing

Supplies: Distressed Stripe ef, cardboard, SU bird punch, Sizzix Vine die,

Daisy Doodles digis, bling, spellbinders die, SU distressing tool.

Mouse cupcakes

Hit three challenge blogs for this card with the wee mouse and her sweet treat.

She is the free image for the beginning of August, so if you 

don't have her, quick head on over to Delightful Inspiration.

while you are there check out the Saturday challenge...BLING!

Then for the Kraft Journal's "Carnival, Parades, Parties" challenge I added a piece of embossed 

kraft paper that I 'blinged' up with some Stickles.

The card base is a piece of Core-dinations...actually all the paper except the kraft is from the same piece of Core-dination paper. I even used it to paper piece the cupcake liner, then distressed it between the lines

with an old emery board.

OO,OOO her sweet wee face is...kraft paper, too!!!!

Used my Prismacolor pencils to color her ears and give her a bit of blush on her cheeks.

I love to see when crafters mix up the border punches, so I tried it for myself.

The sentiment came with the D2D set which also included a party guy mouse and another sentiment.

The 'core' paper is fab for the embossing folders, just a wee bit 'bleeds' out and if you want more of the 

'color' from behind just use an emery board or your distressing tool of choice.

Thanks for coming by!!!!

Thinking of You

It's free week at Daisy Doodles and that means Tableau Tuesday!!

There's a new guest designer, Stephanie.

You can head on over to the challenge blog or just click HERE to see Stephanie's blog.

The boat from the Summer Fun set was printed out on a textured paper and sitting

in a file folder just waiting to be colored and die cut and put on the front

of a card.

thanks for coming by!!!

challenges

Make It Monday - anything Goes

Squigglefly - button blowout

Card Cupids - buttons and or bows

Kenny K Crafty girlz  - Anything goes, sunny, bright, cheerful

If it's layers you want....

..........it's layers you will find.

We made a card like this in club  a couple of months ago.

thought it would suffice for a challenge demanding of layers.

This mouse is usually caught holding a big present with a tag, but I cut that out to put a picture 

of Lily in it's place. I LUV this little fella with the big pink ears.

He's a creation of Helen's at Ellephantastic's.

Our friend Cheli came over one day and took oodles of pictures of Lily 

and this is just one more cute one of her.

Soon as the camera comes out Lil's already in a pose.

Here's a pic of the card 'open'.....

I do believe that Stampin Up calls this style a telescoping card.

In this photo you can see the wee mouse in all of his glory...big present

and ALL. Just click on photo to enlarge.

Once I glued the image down, I ran both through the embossing folder

for that inlaid look.

Lily has not seen this card, YET!!

thinking she just might like her photo on a card!!!

Be sure to stop at Ellephantastics challenge and see all the great layers of

creations the DT has put together. Then join in the fun and

 enter to win a fabulous image of Helen's!!!

Thanks for coming by!

Pick your own digi

Delightful Inspiration let us, the progressive players, choose our own image to play in the 

challenge this week.

I made a set of three little note cards  3 1/4'' square.

Colored and then embossed with a square Nesties.
thanks for coming by!

School Time Challenge at Daisy Doodles

 The Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge blog's theme is School Time.

You can use a school image or the colors of your school.

An apple for the teacher and 'A' is for apples is what was going on in my mind.

the children go back to school in just three weeks.

Oh, how I vacillated over which school time image to use from the Daisy Doodles choices. So I just thought about 'A' is for apples and had to choose from only two apple images...the basket or the apple all by itself.

The 'Apple basket' and 'School Time', which has the single apple, can both be found in the store at Daisy Doodles. Just type into the search window whatever you are looking for and presto that image will appear.

 

Paper pieced the basket and apples in layers as you can see. got out the very old Sizzlits Alphabet, the spiral punch and the very new Spellbinders pendant.

used the computer for the words, and a sheet of paper from a junior legal pad.

The D2D Saturday Designer's challenge is to use any image, but include at least 3 buttons.

Both designer papers from Stampin Up were sitting on my cutting table as scraps from some previous cards.

Thanks for coming by!

Challenges

Cardmakinmamas- Food and Drink
Inspire Me Fridays 17 - Anything Goes
Sew many Cards - Anything Goes
Clear It Out - Use up your stuff*
Everybody Art challenge - Garden*
Digi Doodles Shop's Best - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - In the Garden
Moving Along With The Times - Brand Spanking New*(the new school year)
Creative Craft World - anything but birthdays
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes*

The Pixie Cottage - Emboss it* (spellbinders is embossed)