Friday Challenges!

Hello there and Happy Weekend!  I'm so glad it's Friday...it's been a LONG week!  Today I have 2 posts for the challenge at Stamp Something!  This week (and next!) we have 2 sponsors for our Thankful theme.  Soft Pencil and Cardmad Fairy!  They have provided us with some ADORABLE images for inspiration!  My card for Soft Pencil is "Looking for My Friend."  I chose Christmas images because I am always in need of thank you cards for Christmas gifts from our customers (my FT job).  The second image is "Cosy Snowman."  I wanted to use as much white as possible on this...he just was screaming for glitter!  So I delievered :)  I hope you have time to jog on over to the rest of the DT's blogs to see what they did with their images!  And I hope to see you play at Stamp Something!

Looking for my Friend fits these challenges:

Cupcake Craft:  Digi image

Cute Daisy May: Texture

Tuesday Taggers:  Red, gold and green

Crafty Creations:  Metallics

Creative Belli:  Christmas embellies

Creative Inspirations:  Sparkle

La-La Land: Thankful

Simon Says: Animal Antics

Colour Create:  Red, green, white and Christmas

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp:  Glitter

Secret Crafter:  4 Seasons (winter)

Stamp With Fun:  Christmas

Cosy Snowman fits the following:

Corrosive Cards:  Emboss it

Cupcake Craft: Digi image

Cute Daisy May: Texture

Stamp With Fun: Christmas

Crafty Creations: Metallics

Creative Inspirations: Sparkle

Gingersnap:  Monochromatic

La-La Land:  Thankful

Ildi Co: Christmas song inspiration *Winter Wonderland*

Three Clovers: Christmas with no red or green

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp: Glitter

Kraftin' Kimmie: Lotsa Circles (spots and dots background embossing)

Secret Crafter: 4 Seasons (winter)

It's another Whimsy Challenge!

Hope everyone had a good weekend! At Whimsy this week, we have another challenge for you.  Anything but a card!  Simple, right?  Hahaha!  Well let's see what you come up with!  I made a little luminary.  I saw a tutorial on SCS, so I decided to try my own.  I bought some bags at the dollar store in the wedding section.  They were too flimsy, but I opened one and used it as a template. I used a SU wheel to stamp the pine boughs with Versa Mark and then heat embossed with white powder.  I then cut holes using a circle cutter and template.  I taped scraps of vellum inside.  The image is one of the newer Whimsy winter raccoons.  I colored with watercolor pencils and tacky glue and chunky white glitter on the snowy parts.  I adhered them with 3D foam squares.  Finally, I tied a bow and attached the charm with a snowflake brad.  Too cute, huh?  Thanks for checking it out and I hope you look at all the fabulous DT projects!  Happy Monday!

This works for these challenges:

Cute Daisy May:  Texture (embossing)
Pollycraft:  No cards
Die Cuts R Us:  Emboss something
Tuesday Taggers:  No patterned paper
Crafty Creations:  Snow
Creative Belli:  Christmas Embellishments
Creative Inspirations:  New or neglected (new stamp, neglected stampin' wheel)
Charisma Cardz:  Merry and Bright
C.R.A.F.T.: 1 tag, 1 ribbon, 1 sentiment
Cute Card: Glitter me silly (the snow is glitter)
Fun with Shapes and More:  Light (the candle produces the light for this project!)
PaperCutz: Stamped image
Stampin' B's: Anything But a Card
Secret Crafter:  4 Seasons (winter)
Corrosive: Emboss it

Stamp Something Friday!

Hi there! Sorry so late today...had some issues this morning!  This week our sponsor at Stamp Something is Stretch N Bubbles.  I had my card done in advance, so I didn't get to use their images :(  But this week we had a fabulous sketch by Ann Vento!  I went with GF Flutterby Anya and a green theme.  It was for my friend's daughter.  She just turned 11 this week!  So Anya is all glittered up and the jeweled brads, flowers and flourish stickers (I forgot I had!) finished it off!  Thanks for stopping by and please jump back to see the rest of the DT's work!  Happy Weekend!

This card fits these challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers:  Stamp Something
Creative Inspirations: New or Neglected (stamp is new, flourish stickers were neglected!)
Cute Card Thursday: Glitter me silly (hair and dress)
Three Clovers:  Birds or Bugs (Flutterby Anya)
PaperCutz:  Stamped Image
Allsorts: Bling
One Stop:  Cards for Kids

Glittery Birthday Card

Hi there!  Thanks for coming by today!  I have a card I whipped up for one of the girls I babysit for. Her 9th birthday is Saturday.  She's a girly girl and loves dance, so I thought it was the perfect occasion to try out my Ballerina Anya!  The paper is from DCWV and I embellished with rhinestones and Stickles and frosted Primas.  I hope you like it...because I know the girl getting it will!

This card fits these challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers:  Stamp something
Just Christmas and Birthdays:  Sketch, birthday
Creative Inspirations:  New or Neglected (new stamp!)
One Stop:  Cards for kids (for a 9 year old girl)

It's Monday, already????

Hi All!  Hope you enjoyed your weekend!  Today is the final day of the blog hop for Stamp Something...for Jaimie!  If you haven't hopped yet, please do so...quick!  You have until 10AM EST!  Now, onto the next order of business!  Today the challenge at Whimsy is watercolors!  We want you to use watercolors to color your image!  I am in Christmas card mode, and trying to make some unconventional ones.  So here's another :)  I went with Pajama Time Emma and watercolored her hair, face, hands and the stuffed dog.  I paper pieced her jammies with BG paper.  She is highlighted with a white gel pen.  I embellished with eyelets from SU and elsewhere.  The paper is all BG.  The flowers are Primas and the ribbon is from my stash as well.  The sentiment, I made on the computer.  I hope you love her as much as I do!  Please check out the rest of the DT's work and have a great Monday!  Be back soon with more stuff for fun!

This card fits the following challenges:


Card Patterns- Sketch
Crazy 4 Challenges- Easel card
Secret Crafter- Easel card
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle- Special folds
Stamp With Us- Christmas
Moxie Fab World- Plum Crazy
Crafty Cardmakers- Stamp Something

Recipe for Love...for Jaimie!

Happy Friday!  And thanks for stopping by!  Today at Stamp Something, the challenge is a recipe...for love!  We're still spreading the love and hugs to Jaimie Cates...if you don't yet know the story, please visit the Stamp Something...for Jaimie blog.  And please join us on the blog hop that ends Monday at 10am EST.  Now, on to the recipe!  Today we'd like to see 1 ribbon, 2 papers and 3 embellishments!  Our sponsor this week is Mo from Mo's Digital Pencil.  She has some of THE cutest images to choose from!  This is Bismarck...I just fell in love with him (mainly because he's a dog :))  I used a Christmas paper for the backing and a textured red paper for the background circle.  The image is colored with watercolor pencils and Stickles.  I turned it into a shaker card by adding a sheet of acetate and taping it to the back.  I put about a tsp of white snow glitter.  I glued to the red circle.  The top is a wooden letter tag flipped over and rubbed with cocoa ink and gold glitter.  The charm is a rustic stocking that says NOEL. The sentiment is from SU.  The roses from Joann.  Thanks for stopping by and please check out the AMAZING projects our DT came up with!  This card also fits the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers:  Stamped Image (rubber, or digi)

Digital Tuesday:  Flowers

ABC:  Green (the base card, paper, ribbon and bow in the imag all have green!)

Cooking It Up With Katie:  Christmas, Sparkle, and Border

Fun with Shapes and More:  Recycling (acetate was from a package of flowers I was throwing away)

More Love for Jaimie!

Hello Everyone!  I am putting this post up for the children I babysit for!  They all wanted to help spread some love to Jaimie and they put their hearts into art!  Here's their work:

The first picture is a card by Chelsey, age 2.  The next 3 pictures are of the first card Isabelle, age 9 made.  It's the front, inside and back.  The next 2 pics are a book that Owen, age 6 made.  He made tons of pages, but those two were the ones he worked the hardest on :)  And the final 3 are the second card Isabelle made.  It touched my heart to see them working so hard and they are very excited to know that they are going to someone special!  I am so happy they wanted to help!  They are wonderful kids!

Thanks for stopping by and please come again :)  Visit this blog too:

http://spreadthelove-forjaimie.blogspot.com/