TCCCB0827 - Bon Voyage

This week, over at the Crafter's Café Challenge board, the theme is to create anything but a card. Come on over and join in on the fun.

The Sponsor is: Milk Coffee and the image is Michelle in hot air balloon. 

The theme this week is punches and dies. 

Challenges submitted to:

Supplies:

Papers: Neenah, xPress-It blending cardstock, Recollections, We R Memory Keepers (dots and stripes pack), Bazzill.

Stamps: Milk Coffee - Michelle in hot air balloon, Fiskars.

Accessories: Cricut, Phrases cartridge, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Darice ef's, bling, pop dots. 

Inks: Copics, Spectrum Noir, Memories. 

GCC0825 - Live it up

There is a new Greetings challenge posted over at the Outlawz. Come on over and join in on the fun.

The theme this week is Anything Goes - it's the last Monday of the month after all.. I finally got on the make your own enamel dots by melting pony beads and melty beads. I like how they add some color and shine. I cut some in half (I need to come up with a better way to cut them in half. I had bead halves in the living room and I cut them in my kitchen. Not sure how that worked. The melty beads didn't melt down as well, but I think i'll still try and figure out how to use them. I baked the black ones longer and they melted down in a thinner patty instead of a dot. I added Glossy Accents on her glasses, the headlights and on the bumper.

The sponsor this week is: Stitchy Bear Stamps and the image is: Drivers Ed . Head on over and grab one of their cute images. This image made me laugh. I'm going to send this one off to my grandma. She's 90 and still drives, lives on her own, cooks, and volunteers. She's amazing. I normally send a card a month to her and my great aunt but lately, I haven't been good about sending the cards. Life has been too crazy.

Supplies:
Papers:
Neenah, xPress-It Blending cardstock, Bazzill.
Stamps: Stitchy Bear Stamps - Drivers Ed, Studio G.
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Glossy Accents (lights, glasses, bumper), homemade Acrylic dots, Pink Stickles.
Inks: Copics, Spectrum Noir, Sharpie (silver for streaks in hair and bumper), Memories.

GCC0818 - Oh Happy Day

There is a new Greetings challenge posted over at the Outlawz. Come on over and join in on the fun.

The theme this week is "sentiment needs to be on the left". I love this sentiment and decided to make a bold in color card and mix some patters. I really love these colors together. I used my Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge for the hibiscus. I loved the theme as well. Works perfect for the long one-line sentiments. 

The Sponsor is: Lisa Decosse and the sentiment is: Oh Happy Day. Hop on over to Lisa's blog to see her designs. She has some neat things on her site and offers a lot of it as freebies. 

Supplies:
Papers: Neenah, Bazzill (red, stripe - from Avalon pack), SU (daffodil, garden green), Recollections (polka dot)
Stamps: Lisa Decosse - Oh Happy Day digi
Accessories: Cricut, Life is a Beach cartridge, Doily (Hobby Lobby), American Crafts ribbon, sequins (Hobby Lobby), Bazzill bling, pop dots. 

TCCCB0813 - Here's the Scoop...Life is sweet

This week, over at the Crafter's Café Challenge board, the theme is to create anything but a card. Come on over and join in on the fun.

The Sponsor is:The Paper Shelter and the image is Happy Times - ice cream. 

This idea came about because I ran out of time to do what I had originally planned. : ( Life - ie work - has been more crazy than normal and I feel like all I'm doing is working. When I first saw this image and knew our theme was to create anything but a card, I wanted to make homemade hot fudge sauce. I wanted to hang a tag with this image on the neck of the jar. I still may do it, but it doesn't look like it will clear up any time in the near future so it will have to be over Labor Day weekend I guess. My dad loves my hot fudge sauce and homemade ice cream so I may wait until he comes back in the winter. Or make it now and then again when he's back. I normally only make both for 4th of July. It's become a tradition now. I found this wooden frame on sale for $.25 a long time ago. You just never know when you can use items like this and you need to snag them up when you see them. I changed out the ribbon and took off the Christmas Reindeer. 

There are lots of die cuts on this one. I wanted to try the hot glue gun acrylic dots so I did. I made a few different sizes. I colored them with Sharpie markers and topped then with Glossy Accents. The ice cream cone is paper pieced. The red circle, I didn't pop out the circles around the edge. I wanted it to have more dimension so I left them intact.

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Supplies:
Papers: Neenah, Bazzill (orange, black, red, brown), SU garden green, Recollections, xPress-it blending cardstock, SU Vellum cardstock.
Stamps: The Paper Shelter - Happy Times - icecream, Fiskars.
Accessories: Cricut, Elegant Edges cartridge, Fancy Frames cartridge, Paper Lace cartridge, Hot glue acrylic dots, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, SU embosslets flower, Glossy Accents.
Techniques: digi, paper piecing.
Inks: Copics, Spectrum Noir, Memories, Sharpie.

GCC0811 - Wishing you the Best

There is a new Greetings challenge posted over at the Outlawz. Come on over and join in on the fun.

The theme this week is circles. It was my week to decide the theme and I love my circles. I think circles just say fun. I turned the new SU large dot ef embossed paper around and then added a stamp or circle of dp in the circles. Some circles,  I popped up for added dimension.

The sponsor this week is: All Dressed Up Stamps and the image is: Cheeky Monkey. Head on over and grab one of their cute images.

Supplies:
Papers: Neenah, xPress-It blending cardstock, SU daffodil, Bazzill, Recollections, The Paper Studio, DCWV.
Stamps: All Dressed Up Stamps, SU, Riveting, Hero Arts.
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, SU large dot ef, Circle punch, pop dots.
Inks: Copics, Spectrum Noir, SU craft ink, Memories.

GCC0803 - Enjoy the Journey

It's Monday so you know that means a new challenge is posted over on the Outlawz.

This week,  the theme is how do you pamper yourself. This theme was easy for me. I love the sun,  anything to do with water, and to travel (to the beach as often as I can).

I actually copied myself for the base of this card. I tried to make her hair the color of mine since I was describing how I'd pamper myself (my hair isn't curly though). I added glossy accents to the sea horse and her fins in her hair.

The sponsor this week is Rick St. Dennis abmy image is Sea Sprite Two.

Supplies:

Papers: Neenah, xPress-It blending cardstock, Bazzill, The Paper Studio, Recollections,  Son Born, DCWV.

Stamps : RSD - Sea Sprite Two, Tim Holtz. 

Accessories: Cricut,  Sampler cartridge, Elegant Edges cartridge,  Sewing machine, Tim Holtz Glossy accents,  bling,  pop dots. 

Inks: Copics, Spectrum Noir,  Memories, at you Spica glitter pen.