Full moon Christmas

I recently purchased the set that includes this Santa and reindeer stamp from Whimsy. It's a little smaller than I thought it would be.  I used my stamp positioner to stamp on the blue "sky" piece and the yellow "moon" piece, and it worked out pretty well. Santa is embossed in black detail EP, and the sentiment in red ink with clear embossing over top.

This card is for these challenges:

Rudolph Days for March -- anything Christmas
ABC Christmas -- E is for embossing
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #378 -- inspired by a Christmas song (Santa Claus is Coming to Town)
Word Art Wednesday #326 -- anything goes

Another serving of cookies

(Please scroll down to next post if you are looking for CRAFT challenge post).

It's time for another challenge at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie. I think these cookies are so pretty, and I was just captivated by that green butterfly near the bottom -- hence my card.
If you are captivated by the bunnies, birds, or anything else among these cookies, create a project and link up at If  You Give a Crafter a Cookie #90. Little Blue Button Digi Stamps is offering a prize, and you could win it.

I began my card by stamping two rows of Butterflies in a mint green ink. I die-cut the lovely butterfly (from Simon Says Stamp) on a white scrap, and sponged with the same green. Small clear gems were added.  I also used a smaller punch for two more butterflies, which I sponged a light blue and light pink. I wrapped light green twine around the panel, put the green butterfly on pop dots, and arranged the other butterflies. I used a birthday sentiment rather than Easter. Panel was layered on a green panel, then a white card base.

My card is for these challenges:
Double D -- Just Wing it
Time Out #105 -- Prompt is Birthdays are full of sunshine, love and laughter
Butterfly Challenge #97 --  I chose light blue and letters (sentiment)
Word Art Wednesday #326 -- anything goes

Bus stop, wet day....

Recently one of my cards was top pick at the C.R.A.F.T. challenge, and they asked me to do a guest DT stint for this week's challenge.  The theme is Easter/spring, and I chose to make a spring showers card. (That's quite appropriate considering our weather.)
My card features a sweet image from The Paper Shelter, which I colored in pencils, adding some stamped shrubbery on the side.  The image is die-cut with a Spellbinders pierced oval. The clouds are cut with a die from Whimsy Stamps called Stitched Clouds.
The papers are all snippets -- the three patterned pieces are from a really old stack. The scalloped strip in the middle was cut from a snippet that was only an inch wide (why do I keep some of these things?)  The clouds were cut from bits of white.
If you're in the mood to do an Easter/spring card, hop on over to C.R.A.F.T. #460. You could win a prize from Eureka Stamps.

My card is for these challenges:

Pixie's Snippet Playground -- use snippets
Cuttlebug Mania -- spring
Stamplorations -- Spring
Crafting from the Heart #199 -- anything goes
Pammie's Inky Pinkies 1811 -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday#327 -- anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Hello Spring

Sometimes the pieces are all there, just waiting to be assembled. Or at least that's what I found when I organized my crafting space, with an emphasis on categorizing and storing the stash of die cuts I have (some made by me, others from friends who tucked them into a card). I found the layered center panel, with some scallops cut with a Spellbinders border die, bird die cut and Hello die cut collected from random places and decided they were meant to go together.
The bird is actually part of an Impression-Obsession die called Love Birds that was split in two. The bird was sponged with some distress ink. I can't determine the origin of the Hello die, so if you know, please leave a comment.
I added a base card and a couple sequins, arranged everything, and had an almost instant card.

The card is for these challenges:
Die Cut Divas -- monochromatic
Cuttlebug Mania -- spring
CRAFT #459 -- animals
The Paper Shelter #330  -- cool colors
Word Art Wednesday #326 -- anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Pushing daisies

 I got this daisy die (from Poppy) at a stamp show about a month ago, and this is its first outing. The circle negative was on my craft desk, and I liked the look of the daisies popping through it. The butterfly, which I think qualifies as Napier green, has a few Nuovo drops (also from the stamp show) on it.
This card is for these challenges:
Butterfly Challenge #96 -- napier green and not square
Catch the Bug -- nature's wonders/creatures great and small
Crafty Friends #79 -- for a special lady
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies
Word Art Wednesday #325 -- anything goes
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Musical cookies

 

The newest challenge is up an running at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie. This time, we are all about the music, and if you join in, you're in the running for a prize from Sasayaki Glitter. 

My card features a fun image from Sasayaki, which is colored in pencils. The digi actually shows a flower by her ear, but I covered it up with a bright felt flower. What looks like a blue polka-dot background is actually white-core paper that was embossed and sanded.

This card is for these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- girl power

Catch the Bug -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #324 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #1809 -- anything goes

Crafting By Designs -- anything goes

Creative Inspirations -- Any Occasion

Vintage Christmas

Here's a Christmas card that uses mostly snippets. All the patterned papers come from a vintage-themed pack, which I just keep in a baggie along with all the snippets that get created from it. The layout uses the current sketch from SCS, and as I was looking through the snippets, I realized I could basically build this layout with snippets. The red edges, for instance, were a 2-inch piece I sliced into 1-inch panels, and the starry strips weren't cut at all, just trimmed off the edge.

Because everything is built on a cream base card, it was just a matter of figuring out the order to apply panels (I started with red on the sides, added green in the middle, then put on the starry strips, covering the gap between the two).  The central image was part of an already-cut page  from the set that contains small elements -- the image was rectangular but nothing was lost by die-cutting it. The sentiment strip is also cut from that same page, making both snippets.

This card is for these challenges:
Pixie's Snippet Playground #321
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Card Challenge #375 -- Vintage
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper
Word Art Wednesday #324 -- Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Another taste of spring

 

Here's another spring themed card. The image is from Pattie's Creations, colored in pencils and die-cut with Spellbinders. The layout is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday. The patterned paper is about as old as dirt, except for the tiny white gel pen dots around the edges, which I added when I decided the card needed "something else." Not sure if that was the right answer, what do you think?

This card is for these challenges

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- In My Garden

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- Anything Goes

Sweet Sketch Wednesday -- sketch #131

Word Art Wednesday #324 -- Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper 

Dies R Us Challenge -- Pastels