CAS birthday

Happy Pi Day everyone. (OOps, Judy is right, Pi Day is March 14. Bad info from the DH.)
This card was inspired by the inspiration photo for the Time Out challenge.  The lineup of frames led me to the lineup of vases in this card.
This is as straightforward as a card can be.  Image is from Paper Cupcakes, colored in pencils. Matted and wrapped with ribbon.  The sentiment is from SmARTworks. 
I'm entering these challenge:


Time Out #26-- Inspiration photo
Really Reasonable Ribbons #113 -- flowers
Crafty Sentiments -- Birthday
Ribbon Girl -- Birthday
Word Art Wednesday #174-- Anything goes.

B is for Beetle

The hardest thing about making this card was convincing myself it was OK to cut up the old map book (that no one has used since they invented MapQuest.)
The sentiment is white embossed and is from The Alley Way Stamps. It's supposed to suggest a line down the highway.
The Beetle is from Pattie's Creations, fussy cut and popped up.

This card is for these challenges:

Sketch Saturday -- sketch # 351
Simon Says Stamp Monday -- B is for
Word Art Wednesday #174-- anything goes.
Catch the Bug -- Anything Goes
Just us Girls #283 -- masculine 

All the girly elements

I don't do super girly too often, but this one has all the elements -- pink, fairies, ribbons, charms, pearls....
The image is from Fairie Song Art Stamps. She is colored in pencils, with her skirt paper-pieced.  There's some Spica glitter pen o her wins and stars, and the wings are tipped with teeny pearls. Ii used an out-of-the-box cut to fit her in the oval.
The sentiment is from The Alley Way Stamps, stamped on vellum. I used pearls to hide the adhesive.
I've bee want to try a "junk bow" for a while and had all the elements for this card.  It's snippets of four different ribbons, secured with some embroidery floss, with a charm hanging from it.

I'm entering these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- girly
Inky Impressions #199 -- dots or stripes (how about both)
The Paper Shelter #193-- fairies
Crafting for All Seasons #97 -- girly girls
Crafty Ribbons 114-- ribbon, pearls, charm
Loves Rubberstamps 141 -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday 173 -- anything goes
CHCN patterned paper March -- patterned paper

Keep thinking spring

Yesterday we got a serious hint of spring. Today it's dreary winter again. But I'm going to keep crafting like it's spring.
This card is all about spring -- you can tell, because I broke out the Flower Soft. As I've mentioned before, the only jar of the stuff I have is this white/pink/green mix that looks like cherry trees in bloom, so every spring I use it to make a few blooming tree cards. (At my current rate of usage, this jar will last into the next century).
I used the current Mojo Monday sketch for this. The trees are stamped in Sepia. Before adding the Flower Soft, I die-cut the circle, sponged in sky and colored in grass. The color of the die-cut sentiment picks up the blue from paper, which is from an old Cosmos Cricket pack.
I found a blue button in a similar color, and added embroidery floss to that before adhering.

I'm entering these challenges:
Mojo Monday #387 -- sketch
Divas that Die Cut -- spring
Crafty Sentiments -- Spring colors
Creative Inspiration #303-- use something old (Flower Soft has been sitting around for 6 or 7 years, I'd say)
Papertake Weekly -- anything goes
Loves Rubberstamps #141-- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #173 -- anything goews
CHCN patterned paper challenge -- Cover your card with patterned paper

Let's green this place up

We finally got a hint of spring yesterday. the temperatures were the warmest they have been in months, and a few of my crocuses are blooming.  It seemed like it was time to starting thinking about spring, which brings me to green.

This card was inspired by Deepti's card on the Stamplorations blog site. I've used this technique before of cutting strips in various shades of a color, stamping an image on them, them mounting them.  The fabulous image is from Impression-Obsession; I walked by their booth at a stamp show and this image just jumped out at me. I knew there was no way I could leave the hall without buying it.

The musical notes are from die I got at the same show -- the brand is Poppy. (The packaging looks the same as Memory Box, not sure why they would change the name.)

I'm entering these challenges
Simon Says Stamp Monday -- green
Stamplorations -- CASE a card
Cuttlebug Mania -- monochromatic Green
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #172 -- anything goes
Pixie's Snippet Playground #166  -- Anything Goes

Christmas cardinal

It's snowing up a storm, so let's make a Christmas card.
The image is from Stamping Boutique, colored with pencils, with Antique Linen Distress ink sponged around the edges. I used the sketch from Papertake Weekly Challenge. There's crocheted lace along the bottom, and I wove red baker's twine through the center of it. The sentiment is a cardstock sticker, and the embellishmennt is a flower and brad.

This fits a lot of challenges, so here goes:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge 217: Feature a Creature
Papertake Weekly : Take  your pick (I chose their sketch 98)
Rudolph Days Challenge, Feb -- Christmas card
Catch the Bug -- bingo: lace, sentiment, 3-D element (flower/brad)
Loves Rubberstamps #140-- lace or ribbon
Creative inspirations -- Luscious lace
Clear it Out -- Animal and striped paper
Addicted to Stamps -- holiday
Christmas Card Challenge #12 -- anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Rock on

I had fun combining this cute image with a bunch of different challenges, including the Sketch Saturday Sketch, the Time Out theme -- rock around the clock, and Loves Rubberstamp's theme to "Make it sparkle."  They all made sense together.

The image is from Bugaboo, colored with pencils and sparkled up with loads of silver Stickles. The metal-rimmed, star-shaped tag (de-tagged by removing the string), made the perfect embellishment.  I just ran the sentiment off on my computer. (That's the understatement of the week. I spent 45 minutes fixing a paper jam, then trying to persuade the printer that it was not, in fact, still jammed. ERRGH)

I'm entering these challenges:
Sketch Saturday --sketch 349
Loves Rubberstamps #139 -- let it sparkle
Time Out challenge #25 -- Rock Around the Closck
City Crafter #249 -- Love metal
Word Art Wednesday #171 -- anything goes
Sister Act #94 -- anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday -- anything goes