School time

Delightful Inspirations Saturday challenge is all about school time.

Maisie Belle here got all printed up but not onto a card a couple of weeks ago. 

Now is her time to shine.

Maisie is all set for school...can you tell?

There are pencils, and a paint brush, a ruler, and even a pair of scissors.

All in her two pockets...and she's got her composition folder and spiral

notebook in her hands.

and a little peek at the inside.....

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Get Well Soon

Aud Sentiments is having Daisy Doodles as a sponsor this challenge.

The theme is Get Well Wishes.

Daisy's Bloomin' Potty is a great image for a get well card.

Over at Jen's SFYTT comes the inspiration for the sketch.

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Supplies: paper is SU's Orchid Opulence and Old Olive, the patterned papers are scraps; the sentiment is from Bow Bear- an old retired set from SU, too. Tim Holtz flowerette die

A sketch, an image

Add a couple of sunflowers and pumpkins and what have you got?

My newest card Kraft Journal challenged us to use a sketch and I

 chose the newest one from Fetch-a-sketch using the Freebie from

 Delightful Inspiration- "Autumn Harvest".

And I couldn't stop there because Feline Playful had some great challenges listed there, too!

Digital Tuesday - include a digital element - #128 Celebrate The Season (Any Season)
Shopping Our Stash -  Vintage or Distressed or Shabby Chic
Happileigh Scrappin  -  Anything about Autumn /Fall
House of Gilli -  Embossing

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some basic supplies- kraft paper, image from D2D, sketch from Fetch-a-sketch, Su paper, white paper,

some assorted buttons, spellbinders die

and

a new way to color the edge of the die cut before it's embossed..

Stampin Up embossing folder - lattice. My distressing tool and Black soot distressing ink pad.

SWEET

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenge Blog has for a theme this week---

Raise it up!!!! emboss something and attach it to a card/creation.

Be sure to use a digi...be it an image or sentiment.

I paper pieced the apple from School Time..

Used two different dry embossing folders,

and a sentiment stamped directly to the paper.

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Challenges:
Challenge Up Your Life #52 - paper piecing
Digi designs - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft - Food and drink

Digi Doodles Shop's Best - Circles
Card Makin' Mamas - digital
Clearly I Stamp - patterned paper
The Crafting Misfit -  Anything Goes

Stamp Something - Anything Goes

Supplies: October afternoon dp, kraft cs, scraps of red and green, even the argyle piece was sitting around unused; SU sentiment; EFolders from Tim Holtz and Cuttlebug

Falloween kitty

I regretfully admit that I did not play with my digital freebie last week at 

Delightful Inspirations. School Maisie Belle was printed and given a

sentiment but never made the front of a card, but stay tuned, she will get her due.

 (It's been a bit sad around my house for the past week.
God has given us strength to forge ahead and healing has begun for us all.)

With this being the first digital freebie this month it's all mine with out playing last week.

PLUS...I won name that puppy..go see him HERE.

He was a fb contest...I named him Puppy Magic

and WON!!!!!

back to the kitty.........

 I paper pieced using orange mulberry paper. Cut it out not too close to some of the edges.

Wet the edges with an aqua painter and 'shredded' a bit of the edges to look 'furry'.

Then I cut the tail out, the face I cut out of the same paper as the tail and made sure to cut inside the lines for some of that 'fur' to hang out around the face.....so kitty like...right?

Debating about sending this over to the Kraft Journal.

There is kraft paper all right, but the theme is 'something grand' in honor of

Grandparent's Day. No grand parents for me, but I definitely could

send this one off to a grand child as a 'grand' gesture.

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supplies---

the mesh is from Club Scrap, the sentiment is a partial from Festive Favorites at Stampin Up.

distressed stripes er from cuttlebug. papers are bits of this and bits of that.

Belle

Belle is just one  new image at Ellephantastic.

To see her colored by her creator/artist click on Helen's blog.

I made a bookmark for one of the grand daughter's now that she is the big reader!

Belle goes on this card and slides right off when needed to be used.
Belle is totally paper pieced...no coloring on this bookmark.
I even cut out the pink hairband!

The theme for the September Ellephantastic challenge is 

"Here Come the Girls"!

Want to play to win some Elle prizes?

Ellephantastic Challenge Blog

The sketch is from I heart 2 stamp by Jen del Muro (August's sketch).

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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.

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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