Sentiment As The Focus Challenge

 Today is a start of another challenge at 
Can You Handle The Pressure with an optional theme of 
'make the sentiment the focus'.
This challenge is all about using your embossing folders,
you know, all those folders you have but have a tendency to
just sit in your stash, get them out, put them to use
and join our challenge!!

I used a garden sentiment from JustRite Stampers
and a 3D embossing folder from Nellie Snellen.
I love the detail of this folder.
The paper is a graduating of colors from Ella and Viv,
perfect to emboss and stamp on!
My card base is actually deep, dark purple though it looks black!

Male sure to pop on over to Can You Handle The Pressure
and see all the pretty inspiration from the design teams!!

Floral Cards

 Today at The Sisterhood of Crafters I am hosting the challenge
and I chose FRAMES for our theme.

At the beginning of the New Year I told myself I was going to use up all I could of
things that I already had precut and these cards are products of that.
I had a baggie of stitched flowers from Cottage Cutz left over from
another project and a set of Impression Obsession frames that were also leftovers.

I had previously cut all these flowers and leaves from various colors of scrap papers,
a great way to use some up of those too!
I had plenty to work with for both cards and even some left for another day!

My first card, sentiment is from The Greetery.

My 2nd card, sentiment is from Pink Fresh Studio.

I kind of like my bright and cheerful cards

We would love to see your framed cards over at 
The Sisterhood and my 'sistahs' have plenty of beautiful creations
for you to feast your eyes on too!

Entering the following challenges:
Craft Rocket Challenges .... Flowers (M)
Try It On Tuesday .... Keep It Simple
AAA Birthday .... Anything Birthday

Stencil Mania

 Well, my partner and I in crime (AKA BFF) (Darlene) are at it again and have created another
NEW challenge blog!
I know crazy right??

We have started a new STENCIL challenge where we will
have an optional theme and also be anything goes!
Your choice to go with the theme or not!

Our new challenge starts Oct 4th,
take a peek and see what  you think!

Our stencil name is 
Crazy is our Fame - STENCILS are our Game!!

I have a couple of fun stencil cards to share with you today
using an embossing folder stencil combo.
It's a pretty big EB folder, so once done I simply cut it in half
making two cards instead of one!
It is from Gemini and a fun way to stencil!

Card #1 ( Bottom Open)

Card #2 (Side Open)

Make sure to visit the new blog and become a follower so you won't miss a thing!!

Crazy is our Fame - STENCILS are our Game

Peace On Earth Anything Christmas

We are on our second round of challenges for
Peace On Earth in August already and gee
Christmas isn't really that far off, hard to believe isn't it?

As always we have a fun mood board for inspiration
but you can create anything you want as long as it's Christmas themed! 

Anything Christmas

I always try to use the mood board for my inspiration and 
the first thing that 'spoke' to me was the dog in the upper left corner!
I knew I had a Cottage Cutz die that I hadn't used yet
and being a discontinued die I must of had it for quite sometime!
It was time to put it to use!!

This was one of their easier dies to use with all my scraps of papers
so I know I'll be making more of these!
I hand cut a snowbank and added diamond stickles along the top.
The paper is Carta Bella Farmhouse Christmas.
The sentiment is an Altenew.

Won't you join us at Peace on Earth?
Check out all the beautifully fun designs from the teams, too,
always lots of inspiration there!!

Entering the following challenges:
Snippets Playground .... ATG Snippets
NBUS .... Never Before Used Schtuff
Simon Says Wednesday .... Christmas
Make My Monday ....Christmas In August

Anything With Wheels Challenge

A new challenge theme is up and running at Double D challenges and it is 
WHEELS!

(Something that has Wheels)
We have an inspiration board just for a few ideas!

I had several things to choose from but n the end I let the upper
right corner inspire me as I had a yet to be used Cottage Cutz die
that seemed to fit the theme perfectly!
I like to hit the Cottage Cutz sales whenever they have them and this is where
this die "Garden Wheelbarrow' came from!
I have to say I have created with lots of Cottage Cutz dies but the wheelbarrow
was a tricky one with the placement of the handle bar.
I first cut in white card stock scraps (snippets) and colored everything in with Copics.
My normal is to cut from scraps of colored papers
but with so many little pieces and colors I thought this was an easier way of
doing things!  I popped each little flower up with foam for a tiny bit
of dimension!  The paper is Echo Park Spring Fling, the lattice doily die
is one I had previously cut and from my stash.  The sentiment is
Elizabeth Craft Designs!

I 'wheelie' hope you will join our challenge at
Double D and see all the 'wheelie' cute designs by the DT teams!

Entering the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday .... Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner .... Lazy Days of Summer
Try It On Tuesday .... Summer Blooms
613 Avenue Create ....ATG
Cut It Up .... It's About Me (I am a MAJOR flower gardener)
NBUS .... Never Before Used Schtuff
Snippets Playground ....Snippets

Swimming By

  
Here we are halfway thru July already and that brings us to a new
challenge theme today starting at Dies R Us and the theme is
SUMMER!

I created an easy summer card starting first by using the
Tutti Designs Dotted Nesting Circles to cut my background circles
using just the negative part, I can always use the die cut circles for another project.

I die cut 3 coral pieces using Catherine Pooler Ocean Chums die, there is a stamp
for the coral as well but I chose to just add a bit of color with Copics, but I did use
the stamp set for the sentiment!

The fish are Poppystamps Whittle Fish and sorry to say no longer available
in the store, but they do have a fish trio that would be just as cute to use!

I added some Pink Fresh Studio and Pretty Pink Posh gems for bubbles
and extra sparkle!

Whittle Fish
Can use Poppystamp Fish Trio
Catherine Pooler Ocean Chums Dies (coral)
Catherine Pooler Ocean Chums Stamps (sentiment)
Tutti Designs Dotted Nesting Circles

Head on over to the Dies R Us blog and see all the fun summery
creations from the design team and join in with us too!

Two Old Bats August Halloween Challenge Reminder

We are half way through our Two Old Bats Halloween challenge
and 3 months til Halloween!
Now is the time to join our challenge and get some Halloween cards
created and ready to send before the big day! 

We have a fun and spooky inspiration board to give you some creepy ideas!

Halloween Inspiration Board

For this card I let the flying bats inspire me and used a new paper
from LDR Haunted Halloween paper pad.
I told myself I wasn't going to purchase any NEW Halloween papers
this year as I surely have plenty, but when I saw all the fabulous images on this pad I couldn't resist!

I kept this card simple and I mean real SIMPLE as I wanted to showcase the paper without covering much of it up!
I mean look at that Booville Bus, does it get any cuter then that?

I decided on a mini slimline that seemed to fit the paper perfectly!

I added a Halloween sentiment  strip and a popped up pumpkin at the end, I felt that was all it needed!

So why not join us at Two Old Bats with your Spooktacular creations
and have some Halloween fun with us....there is always a prize up for grabs
IF we have 50 or more players.