I am dreaming of........

 

Welcome 2021 at Christmas 24! It is a whole year of new challenges to get you started on next year's Christmas cards. I will tell you come the past December, I was so happy to have the stash of Christmas cards from the Christmas 24 challenges to get me started.

Today's challenge could be a tough one for some of you. White on white. I have to say,I make quite a few white on white cards. it is the essence of CAS to me. the trouble is photographing them. LOL!!

Today's card I just went though my stash for dies and embossing folders that I thought would work. I encourage you to do the same.

I decided today to supply a bit of musical inspiration, Even though I do not listen to Christmas music after the 25th, I will make an exception to inspire you all!

You have two weeks to play along with us at Christmas 24! Let's see your best white creations!

Hello foxy!

 

Woohoo!! A new year of challenges at Cupcake Inspiration. This year we are starting off with a digi stamp sponsor and the theme is arctic animals.

If you don't have any arctic animals in your stash- please check the adorable images that the DT used from our sponsor:

PIXEL PAPER PRINTS

Prize: 3 Sets of Digital Stamps to a lucky winner

*(Be sure to read and follow our Rules to be eligible to win)*

For many years, I worked as a designer in the infant and children fashion industry. I specialized in producing “cute things” and have a lot of experience designing prints and patterns. I realized that I could apply my knowledge to graphic design and illustration and share my creations with others. In the spring of 2011, I opened Pixel Paper Prints and have greatly enjoyed the Etsy experience!

I absolutely love crafts! Everything I design is done while thinking about people similar to me...those who like to create, experiment, and transform. :)

My hope is that you find graphics that make you smile and inspire you to create.

Belen Martindale

BE SURE TO CHECK OUR PIXEL PAPER PRINTS SHOP

  HERE!

My card today features the arctic fox digi.

 

 You have two weeks to play along at Cupcake Inspirations with our arctic animals challenge. Don't for get to check out the fun digi images from our sponsor!!

Party till the cows come home

 

Happy Monday all. Wooooh....... I am exhausted after all the festivities from our 500th birthday challenge at Cupcake Inspirations during the last two weeks. I hope you were able to check out all the sponsors, inspiration and prizes. It was an awesome party.  But as the saying goes, "there is no rest for the weary". It is time for our new challenge at CI.

This one had me a bit stumped and required some retail therapy! So off shopping I went. I saw this adorable cow set from Newton's Nook. Bingo into my shopping cart.

 

As a kid we often took family drives on a Sunday afternoon. I always counted batches of cow. I guess I didn't know that it was a herd of cows. I could never count the same batch twice. If I recall I was in the 30's when I just stopped counting.

You have two weeks to play along with our "on the Farm" challenge at Cupcake Inspirations.

Jaws

 

Happy Monday! Time for a new challenge at Inky Paws! It was awesome to see how many of you that joined in the fun for our last challenge. Lots of great cards.

Today's challenge was a challenge for me. We are asking you to use polka dots in your work. Now I just love polka dots, but was having trouble figuring out how that would fit into Newton's Nook stamps and dies. So what did I do? I cheated and did paper piecing. 

I have a couple of go to stamp sets and "Shark Bites" from Newton's Nook is one of them. The grey polka dot sharks make me laugh. The waves were also from NN.

You have two weeks to play with this polka dot challenge at Inky Paws! We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is this Friday, March 13, 2020 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Yuletide greetings

Happy March! One month closer to Christmas!! LOL!! But it is never to soon to work on your holiday cards. Over at Christmas 24 we have a twice a month Christmas card challenge to help you kick start your holiday cards with a variety of fun challenges.

Today's challenge is a color challenge. We are challenging you to use red, green, and gold.

I notice many of my cards have Christmas trees on them. I must love trees!! 😀

Nothing like gold polka dot snowflakes falling gently down. Are you wondering where my red is? That's a fair question. The balls on my trees are red stickles. This card uses one of my favorite tree stamps from Clearly Besotted- "Joy to the World", which unfortunately is no longer available.

So head over to Christmas 24 and join in the fun and show off those quintessential Christmas colors, red, green, and gold.

Happy Heart Day!

Happy heart day everyone!! I have a last Valentine to share with all of you. This one is very special and I know George is gonna flip over it. It features the quintessential teddy bear on it. This is an oldie but goodie, wood- yes wood stamp from Penny Black. The stamp dates back to 2006!!!

I am submitting this card to a few challenges.

The Male Room

CASology

And Shopping Our Stash featuring "my heart on fire". Not there is anything really firey about my card except my love for my guy and his love of teddies.

 Hope you have all your love created and spread around. I heading off to share my love with George!!

Sing out and make some noise

Oh goodness!! It's September! The summer is over! I don't know about you, but my summer blew by. It was an awesome summer with lots of trips and fun times. 

But it is time to get back to reality, before you know it, Christmas will be here.

The first of September means time for another challenge at The Rainbow Card Challenge. This month our featured color is brown. Brown... well it's no the most exciting of colors. But the leaves are changing the days are getting shorter so brown is kinda the perfect way to kick off September. 

My card today is the perfect card for a guy, especially for one born in September. That's why this card will be going to my bro Bill.  I am just loving this this set from Your Next Stamp. I have been using it time after time. See this post for another way I used it.

This month's musically inspiration is a no-brainer! Brown-eyed Girl by Van Morrison!!

Are you ready!! Did Van inspire you?!!?

Did I inspired you?

Be sure to head over to The Rainbow Card Challenge , see what the other DT members came up with and join the fun. You have all month to play in our "beautiful brown" challenge.

Gullfriends

Happy Monday everyone!! Can you believe it? This is the last week of summer. Geez louise!! Where did it go? I had an awesome summer, full of trips to the beach and day trips with the husband. I have no complaints. This was my first summer free after spending the last seven in school.

Inky Paws  is hosting a sketch challenge this week. I knew I had to make it summery. 

This fun sketch is just begging for a little scene. Newton's Nook's "Gull friends" was the perfect stamp to use. As I pulled this set out, I was thinking about the sea gulls I saw at the beach at Fenwick Island, Delaware. They were very calm and sweet compared to the aggressive and nasty gulls at the shore in NJ. I used these sweet birds as inspiration for my card.

This guy was just hanging out. To complete my card I used from Newton's Nook, the sea borders dies,  sunscape stencil, and frames and flag die set. 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our scenic looking sketch challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is this Friday, September 6, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

You are unique

 Massive computer problems today, some how I lost ALL of my photos. I will be on the phone with Apple all afternoon. In the mean time I managed to backdoor my photos for today's posting from here to there to there to get them in blogger.

Before all this craziness happened, I made this card for the MIX-IT-UP challenge going on over at Ellen Hutson's blog.

Ellen is asking us to mix it up using stamps from Essentials by Ellen and Reverse Confetti. Two of my more fav companies!!

For today's card I used these sets from Essentials by Ellen: Wish Big and Bokeh Dots. From Reverse Confetti I used this tag die and the Fabulous Flamingos- unfortunately it is no longer available.

This was a great challenge and if I didn't have to spend the afternoon on the phone with Apple, I might have tried making another card. Please check out this awesome challenge.

House of Cards June Blog Hop!!

This is a very bittersweet moment. House of Cards was the first DT I was asked to be on. Mynn gave me my start. Today, HOC is the last team I am stepping down from. As I have said in previous posts, school and work has just gotten to crazy. So if I post sporadically, you will know why.

As usual our blog hop at HOC is full of fun, lots of inspiration, creativity and PRIZES!!

This hop will run FROM JUNE 1ST AT 6:00 AM CST THROUGH JUNE 15TH AT NOON CST,  ANY CARD STYLE is welcome and we've got a gorgeous photo inspiration for your crafting enjoyment!

So, get ready and let's get hopping?!  Oh wait, hold the horses!! Before we get hoppin',  we have some fabulous sponsors to share with you!  Make sure you leave a comment at each person's blog along the way because the prizes are hidden and we'll be doing random drawings from the blogs where they are hiding! :)  After you're done, make a creation to share with us here, too, for another chance to win!

 

Here are all of our fabulous sponsors.

Our team will be using a variety of products

from these amazing companies!

A Day For Daisies

Prize: 3 Digital Images

A Day For Daisies provides themed categories of over 1000 digital illustrations, including fairy tales and magical mermaids, cutie kids, vintage illustrations, sentiments and lovely designs for all occasions!

ADFD WEBSITE: www.adayfordaisies.com

ADFD BLOG: http://adayfordaisies.blogspot.com

ADFD FACE BOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Day-For Daisies/142905905744876?ref=ts

ADFD ETSY: http://www.etsy.com/shop/adayfordaisies

Reverse Confetti

Prize: $25 Gift Certificate
REVERSE CONFETTI offers on trend, high quality photopolymer stamps, high quality CONFETTI CUTS steel dies and exclusive paper products to coordinate with our releases…all made in the USA.

Great Impressions

Prize: Prize Package

Great Impressions was founded in 1984 by Ken and Deone Mackenzie.  With a love for stamping, the company grew.  The result is a quality rubber stamp in either wood mount or stickable mount backing for all your stamping needs.  Great Impressions' goal is to provide the highest quality stamps and to inspire creativity!

MHKDesigns

Prize: Any three products of your choice!

MHKDesigns is a vintage digital stamp Etsy shop owned and operated by Mynn Kitchen from On A Stampage.  She creates vintage stamp sets and digital paper packs for all your crafting needs.  Contact her with any requests you have at mhkdesigns.etsy@gmail.com!

And now, here's your hop order~

HOC Blog | Mynn | Sue T. | Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em | Emily 
Heather | Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa  | Katy | Leslie | Linda

Merethe | Merlina | Michele | Paula | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley | Steph | Sue N. | Susan | Tina | Toni

 

MK Designs: Choice of 1 digital stamp set and 1 paper pack 

Great Impressions: Stamp Package

A Day for Daisies: 3 Digis from the Store

Reverse Confetti: $25.00 gift certificate

***PRIZE WINNERS FROM THE BLOG HOP WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE 20TH OF JUNE. CARD WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEXT MONTH ON THE 15TH, AS PER THE USUAL HERE AT HOC.  THANK YOU!***

Our sponsor Reverse Confetti sent 8 of us free stamp sets- Woo hoo!!!! I was lucky enough to get the "Your a Star" set! I used the colors as my inspiration. This card is all RC- I used their awesome card panels, this one was from the "so very spring" set. The sentiment is from my fav set: "whole lot of happy". There is sentiment for everything!!

Now get to hoppin'!  Your next stop Cohenna!  Don't forget to link up a project with us after completing the hop for an extra chance to win a mystery prize from one of our fabulous sponsors, too! 

If you have lost your way, here is the whole hop:

HOC Blog | Mynn | Sue T. | Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em | Emily 
Heather | Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa  | Katy | Leslie | Linda

Merethe | Merlina | Michele | Paula | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley | Steph | Sue N. | Susan | Tina | Toni