You deserve the royal treatment

I had this image printed out as a freebie that I had in my stash along with this sentiment from TLC, Create.  I really have to get cleaning since I want to sell my house instead I just find things to finish and craft instead. I think I just have to buy a house then I will get serious lol.

Patterned Paper: American Crafts
Cardstock: Bazzil; Recollections
Image: Unknown freebie
Sentiment: TLC, Create
Dies: My Favorite Things
Spellbinder: Banner
Ribbon: Michael's
Bling: Me and My Big Ideas
Ink: Distress Broken China
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug

Challenges
Alphabet Challenge - B for Bird
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - Ch. 183 M for Monochrome
Creative Knockouts - Ch. 398 Wings and Things
Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 145 Mother's Day or for a Special Lady
Crafty Animals - Ch. 49
Dragonfly Dreams- Feature a creature
Unicorn Challenge - Ch. 64 Include an animal

Dove sympathy

Here is the other sympathy card that I made using another die cut and lots of layers.

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny
Cardstock:  Recollection
Die:  Tutti Designs
Pearls: Recollections

Challenges
Sweet Wednesday Sketch 2 - Sketch 187
Love to Craft - Ch 53 Anything Goes
Crafty Animals - Ch. 45
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 45
Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 486 Anything Goes

Sparkle

I wanted to post a card for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Challenge since my dear friend Kathie makes such wonderful sketches and I just love them. I made two Christmas cards. Both of them using my foil machine. The first with a snowflake design and lots of bling.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations: Recollections

Foil:  Spellbinder

Foil Die: Spellbinders; My Favorite Things

Die:  My Favorite Things

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Circles

Punch:  EK Success

Bling:  Michael's

Challenges

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Ch. 185

CHNC - Ch. 496 Anything Christmas with optional snowflakes

12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Ch. 66 Anything Christmas with optional Gingham

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 444-445 Anything Goes

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 23 Anything Goes

Dream Valley - Ch. 228 All Occasions

the Holly and the Ivy - Ch. 74 Anything Christmas

Watercooler Wednesday - Ch. 277 All about occasions

Christmas Card Throwdown - June cluster embellshiments (bling)

Sad people like the rain...

Today there is a New Release at Catch the Bug called Skelekinz aint no sunshine.  I have a computer generated sentiment. I added some flowers and sequins. I have some family going through some rough times so this will be perfect. I think that we all go through rough times in life and need support of others.  And we have been having a LOT of rain these past few days.

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Skelekinz Aint no Sunshine

Sentiment:  Computer generated

Die:  Tutti

Sequins:  Stash

Flowers:  Recollections

Flourish:  Sizzix

Ink:  Distress Oxide - Broken China

Stencil:  My Favorite Things

Challenges

Penny's Paper Crafty - Ch. 473

CHNC Patterned - June

Do-Al(1) Kreatives - Ch. 42 Black, white and one other color

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 444 - 445 Anything Goes

Scrapping 4 Fun - Ch. 169 Anything Goes

the Creative Crafters - Ch. 29 Anything Goes

Deer Scene Happy Birthday Brother

I made a bunch of blended ink backgrounds and punched out this deer landscape.  So here is a birthday card that I made for my Mom's stash. I used some washi tape, dry embossed the navy piece and framed the landscape.
Well I did it! I went out to dinner with 2 other nursing friends tonight and we went to a restaurant. We actually ate outside since it was cool, but sunny. Then we went to one of my friends places to continue our conversation. Now as I said when I did my Stella post previously I may talk smart, but I don't usually drink alcohol and I didn't tonight, but my girlfriends were celebrating that we were able to finally get together. I did have a piece of carrot cake.

Cardstock: Recollections

Deer Landscape Die:  Unknown maker

Die:  Tutti

Inks:  Distress Oxides:  Faded Jeans; Peacock Feathers; Salty Ocean

Washi Tape:  Recollection

Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - It's a Man Thing

613 Ave Create - Ch. 234 Anything Goes with optional create a blended background

Allsorts - Wk 494 Embossing Wet or Dry

Sweet Stampin' - Die Cuts and Punches

Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 208 You're the Man

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 638 Masculine

Tuesday Throwdown - Ch. 459 Special Guy

Crafty Animals - Ch. 39

Dragonfly Dreams - Make It Masculine

Alphabet Challenge - E for earth bound animal

As you like it - Scene or not and why? (Scene, looks more realistic and 3D)

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

Holiday Cheer Chibi Reindeer

Well Thursday at Catch the Bug is Oldie but Goodie and I made a card using Chibi Reindeer and this weeks Stella Says Sketch.  The sentiment is a stamp from Hero Arts that I inked up.  Still time to make a card for our Anything Goes Challenge.

Patterned Paper:  DCWV

Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Chibi Reindeer (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  Hero Arts

Ink:  Distress - Broken China

Bling:  Mark Richards

Die:  My Favorite Things

Challenges

12 Months of Christmas - Ch. 62 Winter Blues
CHNC - Ch. 475 Anything Christmas with optional quick and easy

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 35

Crafty Animals - Ch. 35

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Add some Sparkle

Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 19

Winter Wishes and Thank You for TMS 539

Today at Tuesday Morning Sketches it is another revisited sketch and this is one that I chose.  I made two samples with this layout. For the first one I punches three Fiskar snowflakes on glitter cardstock and put a sentiment on the middle and sequins on the other two. Then put these snowflakes on a piece of light blue vellum.
For my second card, I used images from Bugaboo Rose Trio. I colored them with Copics and mounted it on a piece of Glossy navy paper and added some light blue sequins.

Patterned Paper:  DCWV

Cardstock:  Core-dinations

Stamp:  Verve

Ink:  Memento

Punch:  Fiskars

Sequins:  Stash

Vellum:  Paper Studio

Patterned Paper:  Bearly Mine

Cardstock:  Paper Studio

Stamp:  Bugaboo Rose Trio (see above for direct link)

Sequins:  Stash

Challenges
Artystamper Digital Challenges - Ch. 8 Thank You

JUGS - Ch. 520 Photo Inspiration

Hand stamped sentiments - Ch. 331 Wintertime

CHNC - Ch. 474 Anything Christmas/winter with optional no sentiment

Crafty Catz - Ch. 490 Anything Goes with optional Flowers

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 124 Winter Blues

Let it Snow

We are scheduled for snow the next few days, and I am not trying to encourage anything. However, I got some new snowflake dies from Tim Holtz and Birch Press and just love how they look together. The papers on the inside are shimmer which don't show up well in the photo and then I added some brads. The snowflakes on the outside are glitter and shimmer along with sequins.

Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Paper Studio; Bazzil

Dies:  Birch Press; Tim Holtz; Creative Expressions

Brads:  Paper Studio

Sequins:  Stash

Challenges

CHNC - Ch. 473 Anything Christmas with optional use a sentiment

Tuesday Throwdown - Ch. 449 Layered die cuts

Crafty Sentiments - Winter

Hand Stamped Sentiments - Ch. 331

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 124Winter Blues

Scrapping 4 Fun - Ch. 158 Winter/Spring

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 113 White ad Blue

Creatalicious - Ch. 179 Anything Goes with optional add a snowflake

Creative Knockouts - Ch. 333 Finish the inside

If you give a crafter a cookie - Ch. 133

Hugs

I have this adorable cat stamp from Art Impressions (I couldn't find it so I think it's retired) and wanted to make it for my nephew for Valentines. It has a wobbler action piece. He knows that I just love to HUG him so he will have fun with this card.

Patterned Paper:  Recollection

Cardstock:  Recollection

Stamp:  Art Impressions - Has Hugs Set

Sentiment:  Clearly Besotted - Love Notes

VersaMark

Embossing Powder - Ranger

Wobbler

Challenges

Art Impressions - Ch. 273 Hugs & Kisses

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Ch. 143 Cute and CAS

Show us your Pussy Cats - Ch. 50 Furrything Goes

Lets Craft and Create - Ch. 155 Anything Goes and optional Love is in the Air

Your Next Stamp - Ch. 130 Shades of Blue

Baby it's COLD Outside

This card is for my post for the Tuesday Morning Sketch 535 for the Annual Anything Goes. For this challenge I used an image from Mo Manning Chill, and a sentiment from TLC, Create. I found ribbon with bling in it. The snowflake sequins are two different colors a white and clear and they just don't photograph well. The white ones have blue sequin centers and the clear have white sequin centers. I think put glitter on her fur of the hat and jacket.

For those who celebrate have a Merry Christmas!

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Mo Manning Chill (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Baby it's cold outside

Ribbon:  Michael's

Sequins:  Art Minds

Glitter:  Recollections

Sakura jelly glitter pen

Spellbinder:  Small and large squares

Challenges

Mo Manning - Ch. 286 Winter and a Mo Manning image

Addicted to Stamps - Ch. 180 Cold and Frosty

Love to Scrap - December BINGO  N (Die Cut / Ribbon / Blue / Snowflake / Silver)

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 123 Add glitter and sparkle

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 613 Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 418 - 419 Anything Goes

Autism

Today at Catch the Bug is a New Release day and for my card, I have Bugaboo Brat Autism Boy and the patterned paper is from Imagine That Digistamp Awareness Ribbons Autism Digi Papers.  My daughter teaches 4th grade and has 20 students and has 9 with special needs of some sort, not all have Autism. But she works hard with her students and I know that she sends home cards to her students.

Patterned Paper:  Imagine That Digistamp Awareness Ribbons Autism Digi Papers (see above for link)

Cardstock:  Neenah

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Bugaboo Brat Autism Boy (see above for direct link)

Challenges

QKR -  Ch. 368 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 238 For a child and a sentiment

Dream Valley - Ch. 212 Add a sentiment

The Paper Players - Ch. 464 CAS Large sentiment as a focal point

Jolly

Today starts a new challenge at Catch the Bug and since it's the first Saturday of the month it's Anything Goes. For my card, I used Santa Clause and colored him in non-traditional colors. The sentiment is a die cut from Sizzix. I wanted to keep up with doing a couple holiday cards each month so I started with one right away the beginning of the month.  Next month, we will have our Christmas in July Celebration at Catch the Bug and have some fun themes for that.

Patterned Paper:  Recollection

Cardstock:  Recollection; Core-dination; Recollection

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Santa Clause (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  Jolly die cut from Sizzix

Sakura jelly glitter pen

Snowflakes:  Dress it Up

Challenges
Cute 'n Crafty Christmas - Ch. 14
CHNC - Ch. 440 Anything Christmas with optional include a bear
Creatalicious - Ch. 164 Anything Goes with optional blue
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - May snowflakes
Crafting by Design - Getting ready for Christmas

Take time to chase the Snowflakes

I had planned to post this last week, but with the Catch the Bug Birthday Bash I got too busy, but this was last weeks Sketch Saturday. For this card, I used a Bugaboo image called Winter Puppy Dog and the sentiment is from TLC as well as the patterned paper.
This pup reminds me of my daughter's dog....my grandpup, Gus.

Patterned Paper:  TLC, Create - Snowflake Shimmer Papers 4
Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dination; Recollection
Stamp:  Bugaboo - Winter Puppy Dog (see above for direct link)
Sentiment;  TLC, Create - Take time to chase the snowflakes
Snowflake:  Fiskars
Gem:  Recollection
Button:  Stash
Hemptique
Spellbinder: Pennant
Ink:  Distress - Broken China
Sakura jelly glitter pen

Challenges
Crafty Sentiments - Winter Challenge
Creatalicious - Ch. 155 Anything Goes with optional Winter Fun
Crafty Cardmaker - Ch. 225 Winter
CHNC - Ch. 421 Anything Christmas with optional use a sentiment
CCAYR - January Let It Snow
2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 22
Crafty Animals - Ch. 22

Mittens Warm Winter Wishes

This is my second card for the Catch the Bug Saturday Challenge which is a BINGO challenge.  For my card I used all the items on the BINGO and for the Player's Choice I did monochromatic and sparkle.  Last night we got snow so I will have to see how much it ends up being since it was predicted to be 3-5 inches. I outlined the  snowflakes in Sakura jelly glitter pen to add some sparkle.  The white background has snowflakes dry embossed on it.

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations

Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Circle Sentiments - Warm Wishes

Ribbon:  Michael's

Button:  Stash

Jute:  May Arts

Pearls:  Jolee

Embossing Folder:  Darice

Spellbinder:  Small circle

Tab:  Fiskar punch

Challenges

Mojo Sketch - 507

As You Like It - Favorite Pearls or Buttons and why?  I have both on my card because I can't decide I like them both and find that the pearls accents where the button gives texture and color.

Crafty 

Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 183 Make it Sparkle

Crafty Sentiments - Winter Challenge

Crafty Cardmakers - Ch. 225 Winter

Di's Design Challenge - Snow Much Fun

Creative Craft Cottage - Ch. 114 Winter

Love Mouse

After the week of challenges for the Birthday Bash (which you have until Sunday at 1 pm to complete) there is a new Saturday Challenge at Catch the Bug today.  I actually made two samples because I think the team went all out last week and didn't have a lot made for this one.  It's a BINGO challenge and I did ALL the items which I like to do and the Player's Choice is die cut.

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Mouse Hearts

Sentiment:  Gina K Stamp

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

Tab:  My Favorite Things

Border Punch:  Martha Stewart

Ribbon:  Michael's

Buttons:  Papertrey Ink

Jute:  May Arts

Pearls:  Jolee

Spellbinder:  Hearts

Embossing Folder:  We R Us

Challenges

Sunday Stamps Challenge - Ch. 196 Sketch (see above)

JUGS - Ch. 471 Color Week Pastels

Tuesday Throwdown - Ch. 243 Embossing

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 22

Crafty Animals - Ch. 22