Summer Lazy Days - Creatalicious #96

Hi my friends.  Guess I've been slacking off somewhat lately. It's been busy and a zoo at my house.  Kitties and butterflies. They have me coming and going. I have a new white kitty outside. She decided to make my back yard her home about 4-5 weeks ago. She was in the family way at the time. She actually has come here to eat a few times before when she was pregnant, but would just come and eat and go home. This time she came and stayed.  Unfortunately, none of her 4 kittens survived. Now I'm having a devil of a time trying to get her in a carrier to take her to have her spayed.  Epic failure the first time. I think I'm going to have to dig out the trap and see if I can get her in there.  Gotta find something that she really likes to entice her though.  So far she has turned her nose up at canned chicken and canned tuna. Any ideas?

I sure hope to get some more cards posted soon. I actually have 3 in the wings just waiting to make their debut.

Getting down to the business at hand. It is time for a new challenge again today @ Creatalicious Challenges and our theme is "Anything Goes + Optional at the Sea / Beach."  You're welcome to join us with the optional as most of the DT did, but as it is an optional, you can also chose not to do it  -  it's totally up to you. We were each given a great image to work with. Here is my card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Lacy Sunshine  - Summer Boo Beach Girl
• Sentiment - Paper House Stickers
• Card Stock - Stampin Up Cool Caribbean; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Paper House - Color Ways
• Accessories - Paper House Beach Stickers; Magic Scrap - Turquoise Net; Ivory Liquid Pearls
• Copic Markers - B0000, B14, B41, E00, E01, E11, E21, E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, E40, E41, E95; R81, R83, R85; YG09, YG23, YG45

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is

Lacy Sunshine

Store  -  Blog
Prize  -  3 digis of winner's choice

I hope you'll pop on over to the Creatalicious Challenge Blog and see what the rest of the DT has to show you.   While you're there, pop on your own card and take part in the challenge. You could be the winner or one of the Top 3!

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

arbymiran challenge - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers  - Anything Goes
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes
Pattie's Creations Design - Make a Splash
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Crafting with Dragonflies - Anything Goes
Crazy 4 Challenges - Place that brings you peace and joy
The Outlawz Paper ala Mode - Anything Goes
Scrapper's Delights - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes - Create Your Own Challenge - Summer
Lacy Sunshine - Anything Goes
Crafting When we Can - Squares
Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Life's a Beach
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
 

Zoe's Party Girl

Hi my friends and happy Thursday!  Has this week been dragging for you?  It sure has for me. I can't believe it isn't Friday yet!  It will get here eventually. I guess I'm just anxious for the 3-day weekend coming up.

Well, I told you the other day that I have some big news to share.  This week is my first post for the new Design Team that I am on - Creatalicous Challenges!  I'm super excited that I was chosen by Melanie to be on the Design Team. There are two teams and I'm on Team B, so our posts will always be the last of the month. Good for me, it gives me all month to work on my projects.  The theme for this challenge is Anything Goes + optional CAS.  I really, really have problems with CAS cards.  I have all that space and want to fill it up with flowers and doilies and bling, and etc.  You get the picture.  Well this time it's CAS, so very simple.

Materials Used:

•  Image - Make It Crafty - Zoe's Party Girl
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Party Pants
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up - Pumpkin Pie
• Stamp - Inkadinkadoo - Dot Flourish
• Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Bling from my stash; Nestabilities Scallop Circle and Classic Circle Dies;  Stampin Up Scallop Circle Punch; Circle Punch; yellow Stickles
• Copic Markers - B0000; B12, BG10, BG11, E00, E01, E1, E000, E21, E23, E25; Y32, Y35; YR000, YR14, YR16, YR23.

If you haven't guessed, our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Make It Crafty!

Prize - $10 gift cert.

I hope that you'll come join in the fun. Remember the "optional" twist is optional so you don't have to make your card CAS, just come have fun if CAS is hard for you. I can understand that.

Happy Birthday Dolly

Hi my friends and happy Monday!  I wanted to get this card posted last week, but other things got in the way and it never got done. Today I've been digging in the dirt and my fingernails are awful looking. I needed to repot some of my 4" size milkweed plants. I took 2 small ones and put them in a one-gallon pot. It was so hot and humid out that I could only stay outside for 1/2 hour and the mosquitoes were relentless.  Still have more to do, but they'll have to wait a few days. I have other things scheduled for the next couple of days.

Anyway, I wanted to get this other card on my blog.  It's the second image that I used from Jeanette's kit from Girls of the Baker's Dozen n/k/a Creative Card Chicks.  I had such fun with this image - I love her Whimsy hair. It was funny because I picked this designer paper because it had the dark purple color in it that I used for her coat, and then I went and covered it up with the image. LOL!  I still love it. It's been so long since I finished this and I didn't write down all the different things that I used, so I'll have to fill in some of it later.

Materials Used:

•  Image - Whimsy Stamps - Dolly
• Sentiment - Whiff of Joy
• Cardstock - Stampin Up; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up
• Ink - Tuxedo Memento Black
• Accessories - Ribbon, Stampin Up; Flowers by Petaloo; Edge punch, Stampin Up 
• Copic Markers - C1, C3, C5; BV01, BV08, BV13; E04, E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E95; R22, Y13, Y15, Y28; YG91, YG93, YR61

That's it.  I'll be back on Thursday with something new and some fun news.  Stay tuned.

I'm submtting this card for the following challenges:
Craft-Dee-BowZ - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting From the Heart - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
The Outlawz Monday Challenge - Anything Goes with a Greeting
The Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams - Say it With Flowers

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge - Lots of Layers
The Ribbon Girls - Any Image

Happy Birthday - Creative Card Chicks

Hi my friends.  I'm playing catch up with my Monthly Challenge posts from Creative Card Chicks f/k/a Girls of the Bakers Dozen. I've been making the cards, just haven't blogged them. In case you haven't heard of us yet, each month one of the members of the groups sends a kit to the other members and we each make up a card or two or three. It's always fun to see what the others come up with. First up is one of two cards that I made with Jeanette's kit.

Materials Used:

• Image - Unity Stamps - Eyes Closed - See Clearly
• Sentiment - Stampin Up
• Cardstock - Stampin Up
• Ink - Tuxedo - Memento Black
• Designer Paper
• Accessories - Stampin Up label punch and ticket punch; brads from my stash; Prismacolor pencils; blender pen

That's it for now. I need to go look up a few things in my materials list. 
I'll be back in a day or so to post up the 2nd card I made with Jeanette's kit.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion -  Anything Goes
Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
The Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes
Glitter N Sparkle - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge - Lots of Layers
Broken Fairy Challenge- Anything Goes with Celebration
Scrapper's Delights - Anything Goes

Clowning Around - OSAAT #264

Hello my friends.  Happy Sunday! I hope you are having a good weekend with no weather disasters.  It's been a crazy time down here in H Town - lots of rain and flooding in places it has never flooded before. Thankfully, I live in an area that does not flood which is also good for my caterpillars and butterflies. They do not like all the rain we've been having.

I want to bring you the card that I made for this challenge for One Stitch at a Time. The theme this time is Anything Goes With Layer It Up! So use lots of layers on your project.

 Materials Used:

• Image - Clowning Around from BB Cakes
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - That's the Ticket
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Summer Sun, Ruby Red, Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up 
• Ink - Stampin Up
• Accessories - Martha Stewart Fir Branch Punch; Stampin Up Balloon Punch; twine from my stash; flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts; Stampin Up Ticket Punch
• Copic Markers - BG0000; B000; B12; E00, E11, E21, E25, E27, E35; R22, R24, R27; Y13, Y18, Y19

Our sponsor for this challenge is our own Stitchy Bear and one lucky winner will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to Stitchy Bear Stamps.  Good luck to all of you who enter. I hope you will take the time to play along.

Before I go, I want to let you all know that this is my last post for One Stitch at a Time. I am stepping down as part of the Design Team, but wanted to let Stitchy, Jane, and all the Design Team members that I've worked with over the last few years how much I enjoyed working with them and seeing their projects for every challenge. It's been a blast, but time to move on to new things.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps - Flowers
Lacy Sunshine - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge - Lots of Layers
Scrapper's Delight- Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - 3 or more Layers
A Beautiful Mess - Anything Goes
artbymiran - Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Morgan's Art World - Happy Birthday

Orchid Beauty - OSAAT #263

Hi my friends and Happy Sunday and Happy Memorial Day weekend. I hope you are enjoying your weekend and time off on Monday if you have it. While you are enjoying yourselves, don't forget to give some thought  to those who gave their lives for our freedom that we enjoy.

I have a very simple card to share with you today.  It's called Orchid Beauty. This was a package deal - I got the digital papers along with the image and just love the colors. They are from Coosty Creations.

I used a sentiment from an old Hero Arts set that I've had for a long time, but I love all the different sentiments, so I hang on to it. I used Crisp Cantalope cardstock from Stampin Up. It was just perfect with the digital papers.  The bling and lace trim are from my statsh.

The theme from One Stitch at a Time is Anything Goes with Stitching ( real or faux).  Mine is faux stitching.  The Copic Markers I used were YG61, YG63, YG67; YR000, YR14, YR61, YR62.

Our sponsor for this challenge is our own Stitchy Bear Stamps and one lucky winner will receive a $10 gift card to use at the store.

I hope you'll come play along with us. Don't forget to hop on over to the Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have to share with you.

Bashful Dream

Hello again my friends. Happy Sunday. I hope you are doing okay. I can't believe that it's the middle of May already. We're in another rainy pattern. I thought it was April showers bring May flowers!  We're having May showers which you know will bring the hot and humid Summer!

Well, on the the post at hand. This fortnight our them over at One Stitch At A Time is Anything Goes With Hot Colors!  Here is my card for a little bit of inspiration.

Materials Used:

• Image - Bashful - Stitchy Stamps
• Sentiment - Tim Holtz Idea-Ology, Small Talk collection
• Cardstock - XPress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Calypso Coral and Concord Crush
• Designer Paper - Prima - Rose Violet collection
• Accessories - Purple rick rack from my stash; Wild Orchid Crafts - Flowers; Martha Stewart Leaf Punch
• Copic Markers - B0000; E07, E09; E50, E51, E53; BV01, BV13, BV25; RV02, RV13, RV14; RV55;YR07, YR14, YR16

I hope you'll join in on the fun this time. Hop on over to the OSAAT Challenge Blog and see what the rest of the Design Team have for your inspiration. You could be chosen as one of the Top 3 or you could be our random drawn winner of a $10 Gift Card from Stitchy Stamps.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Card and Scrap - Flowers
Card Mania - Flowers
Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Enjoyments - Lots of Flowers
Creatalicous Challenge - Anything Goes
World Wide Open design Team Challenge - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - 3 Layers or More