Club Scrap Bootcamp Challenge Week 3

Club Scrap is having and Assembly Line Boot Camp Challenge on their blog.  This week is die cuts.  For every link on the page they will donate 10 cents to Operation Write Home!  Here is my card for the challenge.  I used the April 2013 Club Scrap Spring Chorus Kit. I used to cut aparts from the kit.   Your entry can be a card, layout or digital but must include at least 50% Club Scrap materials. 

"Music is love in search of a word."  Beautiful sentiment!  All materials are from the Club Scrap Spring Chorus kit.  

Happy Crafting!
Donna

Club Scrap Boot Camp Challenge Week 2

Club Scrap is having and Assembly Line Boot Camp Challenge on their blog.  This week is torn paper.  For every link on the page they will donate 10 cents to Operation Write Home!  Here is my card for the challenge.  I used the July 2013 Club Scrap Wisteria Kit.  Your entry can be a card, layout or digital but must include at least 50% Club Scrap materials.

This is a die cut from the embellishment kit.  The background stamp is En Francais from Stampin'Up.  Ink is Tim Holtz Distressed. Cardstock and Ribbon is also from the Club Scrap Embellishment Kit. Want to play along and don't have any Club Scrap material?  You don't have to join to order from their website but you get a discount if you are a kit subscriber.   Tell them I sent you!

Happy Crafting!

Donna

House of Cards February Challenge

Here is my Classic & Elegant card for the February Challenge over at the House of Cards.  My foot is still not healed from the broken bone and I still can't walk on it for three more weeks.  So attempting to make this card was a real challenge. Not only to get down the stairs in my craft room (going down on my rear end) but also moving around from paper stash to cutter, cutter to big shot, etc.  It was a slow process.  The minute I saw the gorgeous Sale-A-Bration free paper from Stampin'Up!  I knew I was going to use it for this challenge.  It is called Sweet Sorbet and you can get it free with a $50 purchase from Stampin'Up!

The flowers are from the Stampin'Up Secret Garden Stamp Set and they have a matching framelit set to cut them out. I stamped on vellum with black ink and heat embossed them with clear.  I then sponged the back of the flowers with Pool Party and Crisp Cantalope ink.  The only way to attach them is with glossy accents.  Nothing else would stick to the back.  I used the new Banner Framelit Dies to make my banner.  The oval is Spellbinders Lacy Oval.  The white oval in the center of the lacy oval is stamped with the PPetal Parade Stamp set, another free item you can get with a $50 order from Stampin'Up!  The Crisp Cantalope twine is another free item during Sale-A-Bration.  Lots of cute stuff!

Come join in over at House of Cards Challenge Blog for the Clean & Simple, or Classic and Elegant card challenge.  It is a photo/color challenge.  You can be inspired by the photo or use the colors to make a Clean&Simple (CAS) card or a Classic&Elegant card!

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Happy Valentine's Day Dear Hubby!

I posted this card two weeks ago and wanted to use this for my husband's Valentine's card.  When I shared it on facebook my sister made a comment that reminded me of a song from my youth!


So the inside of the card has these lyrics to my husband.

Me and you and you and me
No matter how they tossed the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you and you for me
So happy together

I can't see me loving nobody
But you for all my life
When you're with me, baby
The skies will be blue for all my life

Read more: Turtles - Happy Together Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Crafting!
Donna

Masculine Birthday Card

I am way behind in my Big Picture Class Create & Share Cardmaking.  Week Two Kim Kesti provided us with a great sketch.  Here is my take on it.

Stamp Set:  Vintage Type CTMH

Ink:  Momento Rich Cocoa

Sentiment:   Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous

Brads from my stash

Cardstock:  SU

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Valentine's Day Card

Just when I have time to really get back to crafting after the wedding --BAM!  I broke a bone in my right foot on Friday falling off a curb.  Lucky I don't need surgery (it was a close call) but I am in a boot and cannot walk on it for six weeks.  I have been getting around in my ranch style house on a wheeled walker.  I put my right knee on the seat and wheel myself around with my left foot.  The big problem is my craft room is in my basement.  I have finally worked out a solution to get down the stairs.  I go down on my rear end.  At the bottom of the stairs I have a rolling office chair to wheel me around in.  Going up the stairs is another story requiring great arm strength to lift myself up to each step and sit on it.  Very tiring.  Makes me appreciate greatly our veterans who have to do this every day because they have lost a leg.  Today I did manage to get downstairs and actually make a card.  I have been viewing a lot of You Tube videos in my boredom, and this one caught my eye from Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie.  She used the new Stampin'Up! Hardwood Stamp.

• Hardwood stamp wood#133032 clear #133035

I have this stamp somwhere, but getting around the craft room is hard and I had right next to my desk this Jillibean Soup Hearty Barley wood look paper leftover from this blog post.  I also loved that it had little hearts in the wood grain.  Here is my version of the card.  

I got a little messy with the inking around the edge of the heart but it still turned out cute.  The You + Me stamp is from a Stampin'Up Stamp set called Hip Notes.  I embossed it with white EP.  The banner punch is a FREE item (along with a matching stamp set) in the Sale-A-Bration catalog (starts Jan 25th to March 31st).  With any $50 purchase from Stampin'Up you could get the banner punch and stamp set free!  Cardstock is Cherry Cobbler and Soft Suede from Stampin'Up.  

Don't forget there is still another week to enter the Clean & Simple or Classic & Elegant Sketch Challenge over at the House of Cards challenge blog.  You can read about on this blog post of mine.

Happy Crafting!

Donna  

House of Cards January Challenge #2

There's some new changes at House of Cards.  A new look to the blog and a different combination of challenges.  Challenges go for two weeks now.  The first two weeks of the month (Challenge #1) are for Cute & Fun or Shabby & Vintage cards.  The last two weeks of the month (Challenge #2) are for Clean & Simple (CAS) or Classic & Elegant cards.  Here is my Classic & Elegant card for the January Challenge #2.  This month it is a sketch challenge.

The DP and Stamped Bow are from the Club Scrap Bon Appetite collection.

Sizzix Lacy Oval, Ovals Small, and Pariesienne Dies.

Wreath stamp and sentiment from Inspired by Stamping Fancy Circles.

Ribbon and bling from my stash. 

Hope to see your designs from this sketch over at House of Cards Challenge Blog. 

Happy Crafting!
Donna

Words 2 Scrap By Challenge #1

Some blogger friends of mine Bobbi and Sybrina, have a new challenge blog called Words 2 Scrap By.  Their first challenge involves The Sound of Music "Favorite Things" song.

So, what's the inspiration for the first challenge? Our first month's inspiration comes in the form of the song "My Favorite Things" from Rodger and Hammerstein's  The Sound of Music. You know the song, "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens..."

The challenge is to choose a lyric from the song and make a card based on your chosen lyric. Maybe your card will feature roses and raindrops... or kittens with whiskers... or another one of those favorite things mentioned in the song.

I was inspired by Carol L. who blogs at Our Little Inspiration.  She used the line "cream colored ponies" from the song.  Her card is gorgeous!  I remembered I had this great stamp from B&J's Art Stamps.

Cream Colored Ponies

Products Used:

Sizzix Labels 17

Tim Holtz Distressed inks in Antique Linen (to color horses) and Brushed Corduroy for edging.

Image stamped with Momento Rich Cocoa Ink

DP is Jillibean Soup Hearty Barley Mushroom

Sentiment is from Simple Sayings set Stamper's Anonymous (Tim Holtz)

On a different note, I gained 22 followers overnight!  Thank you all for joining my little blog.  I owe it all to Darnell at djkardkreations.  She gave me a shout out on her blog and wow!  Welcome everyone thanks for joining!

Happy Crafting!

Donna

OWH Sketch Challenge #206

Here is my take on Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge #206.  I love OWH sketches.  They have the measurements right on them so they are very easy to make.  Your only challenge is what cardstock, DP and stamps to use!

Carstock is Stampin'Up! Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler.

Gingham DP is Cakewalk Kazoo.

Cherry DP (or apple?) is Crate Paper Farmhouse Collection.  

Stamp is Close To My Heart.

EF is Cuttlebug.Honeycomb.

Play along and post your version on the OWH Stars and Stamps blog!  

Happy Crafting!
Donna

OWH Midweek Throwdown Chalkboard

Chalkboard is all the rage and OWH has a Midweek Throwdown asking for Chalkboard cards.  I made this one as an assignment for a class at Big Picture Classes with Kim Kesti (well known in the cardmaking world).

Stampin'Up Elementary Elegance (Retired),  Sizzix Labels 22 and Fancy Labels 22, DP and Ribbon from my stash.  

Happy Crafting!

Donna