LTCCB #87: Hello New Neighbor

Hello Crafty Friends!  July is here like a lion breathing hot fire on us .... It is HOT!  Hopefully you are staying cool by crafting a little.

This is my post for LTCCB, Anything Crafty Goes. 

Remember the days when you had to score out your paper just right to create these foldable box cards?  MFT has made it so simple now with using die-cuts. Best way to use up some scrap papers too. The houses are from another die-cut company.

I made this card for our new neighbors.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

⦁ stamps: Stampin Up: Chic Boutique (sentiment) 

⦁ paper:  lots of scraps

⦁ die-cuts: MFT: Outside the Box Level Up, Grass Hills, Cloud Trio, Recollections: houses

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog #167: Happy Birthday Handyman

 Hello Crafty Friends !!  Hard to believe how fast this year is flying by.  I do love the Spring and all the flowers and bees pollinating.  

This post is for LTSCB, Anything Goes.  Make sure to check out all sister blogs for more inspiration and challenges to enter.

 I made this card for a special birthday using an image from Polkadoodles Work and Play 1 bundle, Handyman Dave.  The image is colored with my prismacolor pencils.  Some paper, die cuts and a stamp later ...it's complete.

Here's the inside.

Sometimes you have all these cool die-cuts and just want to use them.  That's what happened to me, I cut them out and thought about using them on the front of the card, but it was too busy. So inside they went and maybe one on the envelope.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

   ·        stamps: Polkadoodles: Work and Play 1 Handyman Dave, Unity: party all day, MFT: Sweet Surprise
·         paper:  Bazzill, Tim Holtz,
·         die-cuts: MFT
·         embellishments: Spare Parts: mustache brads

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog #54: Garden Stocking

 Hello and Happy New Year!!!  May you have a beautiful and blessed 2024 !!

This post is for Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog, Anything Christmas is welcomed.

    It's no secret that I love Power Poppy images for their details. I fell in love with this Garden Stocking, that I colored with my prismacolor pencils.  This old fashion background paper was perfect.  I know many don't think brown is a Christmas color, but I really love the way this turned out.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

·         stamps: Power Poppy: Garden Stocking, Unity: (sentiment from an Unity grab bag)

·         paper:  Bazzill, Recollections, Carta Bella: Christmas Day

·         die-cuts: MFT, Craftin Desert Divas

·         embellishments: Recollections: Pearl Stickers

Love to Craft Challenge Blog #77: Thoughtful Roses

 Hello Crafty Freinds

This post is for Love to Craft Challenge Blog, where Anything Crafty Goes.

Power Poppy images are some of my favorites with all the details.  This is Everything Rosy colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  The stamped sentiment is from Unity Stamps.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking :o)

·         stamps: Power Poppy: Everything Rosy, Unity Stamps: my thoughts are with you

·         paper: Recollections, MME: Lost & Found

·         die-cuts: MFT

Celebrate Beach Style: MIUCB#66

 Hello Crafty Friends !!  

Here is my post for Mix It Up! Challenge Blog, Anything Goes; Optional Apeture

Some summer loving card here.  Every year my chiropractor goes to the beach with his family for his birthday, this image was perfect.  The image was colored with my prismacolor pencils, with a little background added.  A little relaxing is what we all need.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

·         stamps: TwistedToons: On the Beach, TLC Designs: Celebrate

·         paper: Recollections: Light Blue, the Paper Studio: Pretty in Palms, scraps

·         die-cuts: Craftin Desert Divas: Fancy Frame, MFT:

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges: 

A Place to Start:  Life is a beach

Allsorts Challenge: Wk735 - Summertime 

Crafts Galore Encore: #113 Anything Goes

Worldwide Crafters and Colorists: #65 Anything Goes

Mix It Up! Challenge Blog #61: Butterfly Tag

Hello crafty friends :o)  Another new month, more fabulous new inspirations.  Please check out all the sister blogs.

This post is for MIUCB, Optioal Smooshing/Anything Goes

Sometimes I design things for other projects and decide I don't like them... on that project, so they get put to the side until I can figure out what to do with them.  After distressing a couple of cards, I didn't like them on another project, put made them front and center for this tag.  Stencil, scrap pieces of paper, paint, inks, and objects filled this tag .

A little sentiment for the back.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

o   stamps: MFT: Fairy-Tale Friendship

o   paper: scraps

o   embellishments: Fairy Tale: metal butterfly, Recollections: wooden key, 3 Girl Jam: ribbon,Tim Holtz: Stencil,  twine, scrap lace,

Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #69: I'd Be Lion

Hello crafty freinds!  All 4 sisters blogs are going live today, so make the rounds for inspiration. Here's my post for LTCCB, Anything Crafty Goes.

 My Favorite Things has made making box cards very easy, everything is ran through the die-cutting machine, just put together.  

The adorable image is from Lee Holland Art called Cute Lion and colored with my Prismacolor pencils.

I did sponge the edges of the grass to give it some depth, thought a few small flowers were needed.

The Rounded Banner die-cut was used for the back to stamp a sentiment. This Sentiment from Unity is perfect.

thanks for looking :o)

o   stamps: Lee Holland Art: Cute Lion, Unity: I’d BeLion

o   paper: Recollections, MME

o   die-cuts: MFT: Outside the Box Level Up, OS BoxGrassy Hills, Rounded Banner

o   embellishment: Prima Flowers    

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog #139: Happy Fall

 Hello crafty friends :o)   Here's my post for Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog where this month is Anything Goes.  

Who doesn't love Fall; the smells, the colors, and the crisp air.  I found this cute Fall bendy card svg design at Lori Whitlocks: Flexi Card Fall Scene.  Picking out the papers can be fun, because you can make it look different based on the colors you pick out.

I cut out some extra leaves to put inside and around.  The Happy Fall is a stamp from Stampin'Up.

Happy Fall Y'All

stamps: Stampin Up

paper: Bazzill, 

svg file: Lori Whitlock: Flexi Card Fall Scene

Dr Digi: Birthday Bot

Hello crafty friends :o)  Today is my post for Dr Digi.  I hope you are getting house projects done and lots of crafting.

Here is a birthday card for any male species living in your home.  The image Birthday Bot was colored with my Prismacolor pencils. Not happy with the lighting, but it was getting dark.

I used metal gears and wire to give it a robot feel.  The fan-tage even has a metal look.

Here is the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Dr Digi: Birthday Bot, MFT: birthday sentiments
paper: Bazzill, MME, Bo Bunny
embellishments: Bead Landing: gears, wire, Stampendous: fan-tage embossing podwer

Dr Digi: Good Gossip

Hello crafty friends!  Today is my Dr Digi post.

I created this card using the image Bus Stop Beth.  As many people these days, she has her nose in her phone.  Hopefully she will not miss her bus or the man of her dreams.The design is more business than girlie, but I like the way it turned out. 

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Dr Digi: Bus Stop Beth, MFT: Twisted Sentiments
paper: the Paper Studio: kraft, crinkle blue, white
die cuts: Craftin Desert Divas: Francy Frames, MFT: Rounded Banner
embellishments: ribbon, button

Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #35: Medical Graduation

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here with my 2nd post of the day this one for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, as always and every month "Anything Goes".

I was asked by a friend to created a graduation card for his wife.  She earned her degree as X-Ray Technician and he wanted it to be special.  Graduation paper and this wonderful die-cut/stamp set from MFT was just perfect.  I went with a tri-fold card to fit all the ideas we had between the two of us.

A picture of a x-ray was on his wish list and inserted on the inside of the 1st flap.  I made sure each flap had something special on it.  Hidden behind the 1st flap is a stamp sentiment.

Here it is completely opened. There is glitter stickles in each circle of the Bright stamp.  The image is from Mi Ran called Graduating Kim and colored with my Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the envelope with the card.

thanks for reading and looking :o)

stamps: Mi Ran: Graduating Kim, MFT: Happy Graduation
paper: Recollections: black, the Paper Studio: Fun Graduation Mix, Grads Caps & Scrolls, blue and yellow scraps
die-cuts: MFT: Happy Graduation, oval stax 1 & stax 2
embellishment: Stickles

Dr Digi: I Was Wrong

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with my post for Dr Digi. 

I'm sure you have watched America's Got Talent, so when I saw this image Got Talent? from Dr Digi, I knew I had to do something clever with it.  It could be for a promotion or if a person did a good job on something, but I went with a sorry card.  Some times we don't say it enough, when we are in the wrong.  The image was colored with my Prismacolor pencils, the background sponged. 

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Dr Digi: Got Talent? , MFT: Just My Type (sentiments)
paper: Recollections, TPC Studio: Birthday Party Candy Circles

Dr Digi: Beach Birthday

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here with my Dr Digi post today.  I decided to only post every other week during the summer, with running the kids to camps and whatever else might come up.  Not that I'm not already insane, but just trying to keep up with DT work during the summer can be insane...lol.

I made this cute birthday card using SeaSide Sidney from Dr Digi.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  The background is brushed ink.  The banners are from Polkadoodles and I thought were a great match with this image.  When my older boys were in Cubscouts, I was a certified leader, so I used my skills in tying up some sea knots on the charm (I know it's hard to see from this angle).

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Always Fun Challenges: #62 For a Male/Dad
• Always Happy Birthday: Anything Goes + optional Summer Birthday
• Crafty Cardmakers: #213 For A Man/Boy
• Crafty Gals Corner: #167 Summer Colours
• Cute N Crafty: #2 Summer Theme
• Daisy Chain: #20 For The Boys/Men
• Digi Choosday: Wk 24 Anything Goes
• Dragonfly Dreams: Anything Goes
• That's Crafty: A Summer's Day Challenge
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes June 12th
• Try It On Tuesday: For the Boys
• Unicorn Challenge: #33 Masculine

stamps: Dr Digi: Seaside Sidney. Polkadoodles: Winne Starfish & Sandcastle MFT: Everything Birthday
paper: Bazzill: artisan pool, Digi Scrap Delights: Robin Sampson Beach Bliss paper, Kathartstudio: Beach Paper, the Paper Studio: white
embellishments: Bead Landing: heartlines charms & cording

Love To Craft! Challenge Blog #23: Fetching the Garter

Hello crafty friends!  They say June is the most popular month to get married, well, now as of 2017 they are saying it is one of 3 of the most popular months.  This is my post for Love to Craft! Challenge Blog, where it's also "Anything Goes".

I have 4 posts today, make sure you checked them out.

I was asked by my dad to create a wedding card for a spunky gal.  It just happens, I went to school with this gal and her newly husband.  My dad and this young lady, did volunteer work at the same place, that's how they knew each other.  They are always joking around with each other, so he wanted a funny card for her big spunky personality.  He picked out this image from Redonkoodles called Fetching the Garter (it's a tradition here in the states and can be quite humorous, like the groom pulling out different objects from under the bride's dress. Like everything. but the kitchen sink)  I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils.

My dad was always teasing the groom, that he needed to run...and fast.  This sentiment for the inside seemed to fit perfectly.

On the back of the card, I decided to add a quote.  Marriage is not perfect, nor are you or the person that stands by your side.  It's just accepting each other in their imperfections.

Here's the card with the envelope.  Yup, I stamped another quote.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge: E=Ebony
• Brown Sugar Challenge: #279 Wedding or Party
• Crafty Catz: #419 Anything Goes with optional Black & White
• Scrap From The Heart: #22 Wedding
• The Creative Crafters: #4 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT: #5 Anything Goes

stamps: Redonkoodles: Fetching the Garter, Stampin'Up: Well Scripted, MFT: about Anniversaries
paper: Recollections: handmade white paper, the Paper Studio: black, white & B&W Intricate Swirls
die-cut: MFT: Fishtail Flag Stax
embellishment: Wild Orchid: lace

Lacy Easter

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with my Lacy Sunshine inspiration post for the Facebook challenge.  Come join us at Facebook for this month challenge

This Easter card was created using Li'l Miss Sassy's Easter.  I colored this colorful image with my Prismacolor pencils.  I couldn't help myself, Easter can be very beautiful with all the Spring colors.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Lacy Sunshine: Li'l Miss Sassy's Easter, MFT: My Favorite Peeps
paper: Recollections: lilac & painted fancy dp
die-cut: MFT: oval stax 1
embellishments: 3GJ: lace, the Paper Studio: poppies & paperie, Recollections: rhinestones

Dr Digi: Life's a Beach

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with my Dr Digi post.  I don't know about you, but I'm ready for summer to be here.

I created a card using Beach Bum Bob.  Looks like Bob took vacation and decided not to come back to life of reality.  The image is colored with my Prismacolor pencils, with a sponged sky background.  I did use a little of Dr Digi's New Wave backing paper, that I had left over from another project.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter this card the following challenges:

• 4 Crafty Chicks: #396 Crazy Egg/ Anything Goes

stamps: Dr Digi: Beach Bum Bob, MFT: twisted sentiments & birthday sentiments
paper: Recollections, Bazzill, Dr Digi: New Wave
die-cut: MFT: fishtail flag stax
embellisments: Recollections: brads

Dr Digi: Luv U

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here with today's Dr Digi post.  If you haven't checked out Dr Digi's new Emogeez images, you really need to.  They are fun and ready to use.

I created this fun Valentine card using Emogeez Luv.  The only thing I had to color were the words "Luv U"; with my Prismacolor pencils of course.  The tickets are from MFT stamp set.  Just print out the emogeez you want, cut it out and create something fun...that easy.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create: #206 Anything Goes + Optional twist Love
• Allsorts Challenge: wk 453 Spots and/or Stripes
• The Color Throwdown: #479 (red, pink, grey)

stamps: Dr Digi: Emogeez Luv, MFT: ticket die-namics
paper: Bazzill, MME: the Best of Lost & Found, K & Company: lovely
die-cuts: MFT: circle stax 1, ticket die-namics, La-La Land: corner die
embellishment: Celebrate It: lace

Dr Digi: Valentine Treats

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with my Dr Digi post.  It's time to think about those special people you want to give valentines treats to.    Who wouldn't want it from this cute little chihuahua?!

Using Chico the Chihuahua, Box of Chocs and Gift Bag "Pink Bows", I created this cute little treat bag.  Both images are colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  The sentiment is from MFT.  The gift bag from Dr Digi is very easy to print, cut and little tape or glue for the side to make. 

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Dr Digi: Chico the Chihuahua, Box of Chocs, MFT: LJD Homespun Hearts
paper: Dr Digi: Gift Bag "Pink Bows"
die-cut: Craftin Desert Divas
embellishment: 3GJ: lilac ribbon

Dr Digi: Feeling Gnarly?

Hello crafty friends!  I'm here today with my Dr Digi post.

I created a card using Hangover Hannah from Dr Digi.  I'm sure many of us feel this way after the holidays, sickness (there's has been plenty going around), and late nights these past few days.  I colored this fun image with my Prismacolor pencils.  Just kept the design very simple. 

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Classic Design Team Challenge: #21 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore: Anything Goes
• Crafting by Designs: Anything Goes
• Unicorn Challenge: #28 Anything Goes

stamps: Dr Digi: Hangover Hannah, MFT: Surf's Up VIP Collection (sentiment)
paper: MFT: grout gray, SU, scrap
die-cuts: MFT: mix & match banners, oval stax 1

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #9: Let's Hang Out

Hello crafty friends!  Happy New Year!  I hope each one of you are blessed and have a healthy new year in 2018.

Since it's a new month, I have 3 wonderful posts for you today...enjoy.

This month at Mix It Up Challenge Blog, it's all about masking.  In this photo, I stamped the image that I wanted in front of the scenery that I was creating on mask paper.  Then carefully cut it out.

I stamped the image on the cardstock I was using for my card, then put the mask paper over that image.  Then stamped happily over the mask image.

After I was done stamping everything I needed behind the image, I pulled the mask paper off.  The tire swing and the grass were the main images I didn't want on the little girl.

The images are colored with my Prismacolor pencils.  It was nice to finally use this stamp set I bought years ago at My Favorite Things (MFT).  My goal this year is to use more my of my stamps in my collection, because many are unused.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

• Classic Design Team Challenge Blog: #21 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open DT Challenge: #29 Anything Goes

stamps: MFT: Let's Hang Out
paper: Bazzill, Bo Bunny
die-cut: MFT: Sentiment strips