Do I look good in this?

Finding another winter image that I colored long ago in my stash. This cute bear is from Pachela Studios. This bear is just too cute and has an attitude.

Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollection
Stamp: Pachela - Do I look good on this?
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug and Darice
Border Punch: Fiskars

Challenges
CHNC - Ch. 546 Anything Christmas with optional non-traditional Christmas colors
the Cutie Pie Challenge - Ch. 160 the Bear Essentials
the Sketchy Challenge - Ch. 175
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Cold and Frosty
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Ch. 96
Sparkles Christmas - Ch. 125 A Krafty Christmas
Krafty Chicks - Ch. 563 Christmas 

Birthdays like golf.....don't keep count

My co-worker was off this entire week so I had a crazy and long week of working a lot of hours. So therefore, even though I am needing to pack I need some time to destress. I saw this sentiment on Pinterest and just thought it was too funny and appropriate. So here is a quick and fun birthday card that I made.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe - Clubbin' It
Cardstock:  Recollections
Stamp:  Nellie's Choice - Golfer
Ink:Versafine
Ribbon: Michael's
Tag: Recollection
Punch: Martha Stewart
Die: Spellbinder
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug

Challenges
Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 220 One for the Boys
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Ch. 186 K is for Kraft
Fab 'n Funky - Ch. 527 For the Boys
DL ART Thankful Thursday  - Ch. 279 Birthday
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 689 Anything Goes
Pearly Sparkles - Ch. for the Boys/men
Creatalicious Challenge - Ch. 212 Anything Goes with optional for a boy
Word Art Wednesday Ch 495 - 496 Anything Goes 

A cuppa Cocoa soothes the soul

I haven't been keeping up on my Christmas cards, so I am trying to get some done with some images that I had sitting in my stash. This is one from Torico and a sentiment from TLC Create. I used pop dots on the smaller hearts.

Patterned Paper:  Recollections
Cardstock: Bazzil and Recollection
Tag: Recollection
Stamp: Torico digital
Sentiment: TLC, Create - Cocoa soothes the soul
Punches: EK Success, Fiskars
Ribbon and twine: Michaels
Ink: Distress - Fired Brick
Pom: Creativity

Challenges
Cheerful Sketches - June 2021
Sparkles Christmas - Ch. 125 A Krafty Christmas
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Red and Green
Crafty Catz - Ch. 554 Anything Goes with optional Tag, you're it
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Ch. 186 K is for Kraft
CCAYR - June something with K or L (Kraft, love, layers)
Do-A1(1) Kreatives - Ch. 54 Small and big (hearts)
Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 35 Anything Christmas
CHNC - Ch. 545 Anything Christmas with optional winter fun

Some people don't believe in Superheroes

I made a Father's Day card using word art from TLC, Create. I distressed the word art and several papers. I punched out some stars and popped up two of them to make this card. I tried to keep it simple for a masculine card.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Sentiment:  TLC, Create
Punches: Fiskar
Tim Holtz distress tool
Bling: Paper Studio

Challenges
Sketch Saturday - Ch. 656
Krafty Chicks - Ch. 556 All occasions
Watercooler Wednesday - Ch. 314 All about occasions
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 487 - 488 Anything Goes
Always Fun - Ch. 210 Anything Goes  

Gardeners

Well I am not a gardener. My Dad was a potato farmer; however, I have no desire to have a garden, heck I can't even keep plants alive. The cat I have now I don't think would bother a plant, since she doesn't go after flower bouquets like my male cat did. She went and got a hair cut today so she had enough drama. I went out to get some groceries the other night and when I came home....my garage door wouldn't open. Today I had a repair person out and as my Dad predicted "my spring was out." Needless to say $600 later I can get my car in the garage and we missed garbage day. So obviously I did some coloring to try to help my stress and got this new image from Twistoon and a sentiment from TLC, Create. 

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp:  Twistoons - George Gnome Wheelbarrow (see above for direct link)
Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Garders all day in beds
Washi Tape:  Recollections
Ink - Distress Oxides - Squeezed lemonade
Stencil:  My Favorite Things

Challenges
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Ch. 599
Scribbles Designs - Ch. 98 Spring Fling
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 680 Anything Goes
Time Out - Ch. 184 Inspired by Words
Love to Scrap - Ch. 144 Spring Forward
Do-A1(1) Kreatives  - Ch. 52 Spring
Krafty Chicks - Ch. 553 Stamp Act

CIJ Day 7 at CTB Knobby Knees Christmas Sack

Today is the last day, day 7 of the Christmas in July at Catch the Bug and the theme is a Friday Freebie with a Color Challenge. You don't have the Friday Freebie.  For my card, I used a sentiment from TLC, Create.  This is emotional since this is my Design Team post. Due to all the demands with working full time as a nurse it has been difficult to meet the requirements of all that's required for the DTs.  I have met so many wonderful people and have gained such inspiration along the way.
And the inspiration for the design for my card, came from a card that Julie made back last August after she returned from having surgery and she was so excited to return. So it's just the opposite of what I am doing, but it was also a watermelon photo.

Julie's inspiration from August 2019

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Knobby Knees Christmas Sack

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Christmas Things

Pom:  Creativity

Stickles

Ribbon:  Michael's

Sakura jelly glitter pen

Prisma pencils

Enamel Dots: Paper Studio

Challenges

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 448 - 449 Anything Goes

CHNC - Ch. 499 Anything Christmas with optional die cut or punch

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 644 Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 24

Crafty Calendar - July Add a ribbon

Celebrate Graduation

I know that graduations are so different, unusual, unique than we have ever had them before. I am still making some regular graduation cards for my stash.  Here is a new die that I got from Frantic Stampers that I used along with some of my older dies. And a star embossed background.

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  Just Rite

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

Dies:  Frantic Stamper; My Favorite Things

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Circles

Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Challenges

Dies R Us - Ch. 145 Graduation/Congratulations

Happy Little Stamper - May Anything Goes with Dies

Double Trouble - Ch. 57 Brown Bag
    Thing 1 Use Kraft
    Thing 2 Partner with Crafting Happiness - Ch. 50 Anything Goes with optional use red
    Thing 3 Use Red

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 440 - 441 Anything Goes

Krafty Chicks - Ch. 508 CAS

Sharing the Joy

I have my second Christmas card for this month so that I keep up with the stash.  For this there is a challenge at Christmas Card Throwdown for a Silhouette card so I thought it would be perfect to use my Spellbinder die cut. I dry embossed the background and used a sentiment from TLC, Create. I wanted to add a little color so I added some strips with banners the end along with some twine and snowflakes.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio

Cardstock:  Recollections

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Sharing the Joy

Punches:  EK Success

Spellbinder: Building a Snowman

Bling:  Recollection

Divine Twine

Embossing Folder:  Creative Expressions

Challenges

Christmas Card Throwdown - May Theme Silhouette 

Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Anything Goes

12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 65 Anything Christmas with optional Deck the Paws

CHNC - Ch. 490 Anything Christmas with optional candy canes

Winter Wonderland - Favorite Color Combo (Red, Green, Kraft)

Sparkles Christmas - Ch. 112 Add ribbon, lace or twine

Krafty Chicks - Ch. 507 Christmas

Crafty Catz - Ch. 506 Anything Goes with optional outdoors

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 22

let Heaven and Nature Sing!

I am on a vintage kick this past week. I think it's because Easter is on my Grandmother's birthday and I miss her and it brings back memories of old.  So here is a Christmas card that I made using a sentiment from TLC, Create which I covered with Distress ink.  I used the image from Graphic Fairy.  I distressed the edges of my paper and cardstock.  I added a feather that I had behind the image.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio; Recollections

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Graphic Fairy - freebie

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - let Heaven and Nature Sing

Punches:  EK Success

Sequins:  Stash

Feather:  Stash

Flowers:  Recollection

Snowflake:  Dress it Up

Tim Holtz Distress Tool

Ink: Distress - Old Paper

Challenges

Christmas Card Throwdown - April Sketch

CHNC - Ch. 484 Anything Christmas with optional funny

12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 64 Blooming Botanicals

Sweet Stampin' - Things with Wings

Winter Wonderland - Angels / Anything with Wings

Crafty Catz - Ch. 500 Anything Goes with optional for the girls

JUGS - Ch. 530 Feathers

little red wagon - Ch. 543 Blue

Double D - Banners

Bunny with Basket

I am planning to get around to blogs this weekend....this working is interfering with my crafting time. I wanted to post this card where I found an image from Mo Manning, Bunny with Basket that I colored up a LONG TIME agon and it was sitting in a pile. So I grabbed a patterned paper from TLC, Create.  I dry embossed a white piece of cardstock and then spritzed with Glimmer Mist. I added some flowers and flourishes and hid some eggs between the flowers. And naturally the bunny needed a pom tail. I did the basket in green that reminded me of the plastic ones that I had as a child.

Patterned Paper:  TLC, Create - Easter Brings Posies Paper 2

Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Mo Manning - Bunny with Basket (see above for direct link)

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts

Eggs:  Recollections

Stickles

Die:  My Favorite Things; QuicKutz

Embossing Folder:  Sizzix

Glimmer Mist

Pom:  Creativity

Challenges

Mo Manning - Ch. 289 Green with a Mo Manning image

Aud Sentiment - Ch. 247 Spring/Easter

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 118 Cute Animals

CRAFT - Ch. 550 Easter/Spring

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 627 Easter

Time Out Challenge - Ch. 158 Lots or little purple

YNS - Ch. 135 Cute Critters

Crafty Catz - Ch. 499 Anything Goes with optional use kraft

Sisterhood of Crafters - Spring

Double D - Spring

Sending Pups & Kisses

I have a Grandpup, Gus and he is a Teddybear breed and is very playful.  My daughter has him sooooo spoiled. He usually goes with her to school on Fridays and he is a big part of her 4th grade class. This is a card that I made for my daughter using a stamp from My Favorite Things, Pups and Kisses. I heat embossed the sentiment in white.

Gus today playing in the snow.

Gus's toys

Patterned Paper:  American Crafts

Cardstock:  Recollections

Stamp and Sentiment:  Pups and Kisses

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

VersaMark

Embossing Powder:  Stampendous

Ribbon:  Michael's

Dies: My Favorite Things

Challenges

My Favorite Things - MFTWSC475

Crafty Catz - Ch. Anything Goes with optional embossing

If you give a crafter a cookie - Ch. 135

Creative Knockouts - Ch. 336 Love/Valentines

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 114 Use kraft paper or card

Aud Sentiment - Ch. 244 Love/Valentine with a sentiment

CRAFT - Ch. 543 Love/ Valentines

Sweet Stampin' - All you need is love

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 424 - 425 Anything Goes

Double Trouble - Ch. 49

   Thing 1 Repeat (circles)

    Thing 2 Use your stuff - Ch. 391 Critters

   Thing 3 Critter

I get so CRABBY....

I have another nautical card that I made using a Tim Holtz crab stamp along with a sentiment from TLC, Create.  I added a couple of punched images of an anchor and crab.

Patterned Paper:  Anna Griffin; Core-dination

Cardstock: Paper Studio and Recollection

Stamp:  Tim Holtz

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

Die:  My Favorite Things

Punches:  Martha Stewart & EK Success

Challenges

Double Trouble - Ch. 35
   Thing 1 3 Colors (Red, Blue, Kraft) 2 DP 1 Sentiment
   Thing 2   TSOT - Ch. 420
   Thing 3 Nautical

Crafter's Cafe - Ch. 225 I spy something beginning with "A" (Anchor)

Krafty Chicks - Ch. 468 Masculine

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 233 Animals & Sentiment

Calm seas don't make a skillful sailor

I am always looking to add masculine cards to my stash since they are usually sparse. So I made this nautical card using a Spellbinder stamp set and dies along with anchor embossing.

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp & Dies:  Spellbinder Rough Waters
Dies:  My Favorite Things

Embossing Folder:  Darice

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

Challenges

Double Trouble - Ch. 35

    Thing 1  3 Colors 2 DP 1 sentiment

     Thing 2   TSOT - Ch. 420 Sketch

      Thing 3 Nautical
International Art & Soul - Ch. 64 Embossing
Dragonfly Dreams - No patterned paper
Southern Girls - Father's Day / Masculine
Inkspirational - Ch. 193 Travel
Heart to Heart - Adventure awaits

Happy Pig

I have some stamps that I have colored, and are sitting on a pile waiting to be put together so I grabbed this adorable Happy as a Pig from QKR and used a sentiment from TLC, Create.  Just love that curly tail, lol.

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  QKR - Happy as a Pig (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - I love you more than pigs

Punches:  EK Success

Corner Rounder:  Creative Memories

Divine Twine

Buttons:  Stash

Embossing Folders:  Cuttlebug & Darice

Challenges

Double Trouble - Ch. 30 Let the Troubles Begin / Stenciling embossing 

  Thing 1 Embossing Folders used two of them

  Thing 2 Also participate in challenge with 2 Crafty Critter Crazies (see below)
  Thing 3 Farm Animal  used pig

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 27

Crafty Animals - Ch. 27

QKR - Ch. 352 Anything Goes

Heart 2 Heart - Woodwork

Sweet Strawberry

I love a lot of fruits and in the summer I especially love strawberries. Here is an image/sentiment from TLC, Create.

Patterned Paper:  American Crafts

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections; Paper Studio

Stamp:  TLC, Create - Sweet Strawberry

Spellbinders:  Small and large circles

Enamel dots:  Paper Studio

Challenges
TSOT - Ch. 409

Double Trouble - Ch. 29 National Brow Bag It Day
   Thing 1 - Use Kraft Paper
   Thing 2 - Use Sketch from TSOT
   Thing 3 - Strawberries
Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 432
Crafty Catz - Ch. 464 It's Summertime
Crafting from the Heart - Ch. 244

Celebrate April: Spring, Easter, Flowers

Today there is a New Release at Catch the Bug and the image is Easter Chick Flower and for my card I have a sentiment from TLC, Create.  I am hoping that we get Spring here in Wisconsin, we have had all of our snow melt and have had some issues with flooding.

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations; Recollections

Cardstock:  Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Easter Chick Flower

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Celebrate April

Corner Rounder:  Creative Memories

Flowers:  Prima

Enamel Dots:  Recollections

Challenges

Try Stampin' on Tuesday - Ch. 400

Krafty Chicks - Ch. 447 Polka Dots

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 378 - 379 Anything Goes

Allsorts - Wk 512 Feathered Friends

Crafty Animals - Ch. 24

If you give a crafter a cookie - Ch. 113

Always & Forever (Elegant)

I wanted to make a variation of the Valentines card using a Spellbinder Swirl Heart in metallic gold and heat embossed sentiment of Always & Forever and this is what I came up with.
For this card I embossed the sentiment on velum and used a ribbon from Stampin' Up.  The background paper is also heat embossed with the white dots.

Patterned Paper: Core-dinations

Velum:  Core-dinations

Gold Metallic:  Recollections

Card Base:  Paper Studio

Stamp:  Recollections

Versa Mark

Embossing Powder:  Stampdenous

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - Ch. 550 (see sketch above)

Double D - Hearts (see mood board above)

Crafty Cardmakers - Ch. 227 Love, Love, Love

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 220 Love or Valentine Sentiment

Dream Valley - Ch. 195 Love & Kisses

Crafty Calendar - February Add texture and ribbon

Pearly Sparkles - Ch. 37 It's a Love Thing

DL Linky - February