Springtime

The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #25 is all about Springtime! And, Paper Smooches has just released this gorgeous floral set, Rosy Posy, that looks like my pretty spring garden of roses! Their monthly prompt for their challenge inspired me to do this cut out card.

Closed Card with See Through Opening

Inside of Card

I used a stencil from STAMPlorations and Distress Oxides for both the inside and outside of the card. Then, I made a strip with the same colors, edged with the Dots & Dashes from Paper Smooches. The white floral border die is from Fran's/Stampendous .

The die cut from the Rosy Posy set was used to cut an opening from the front of the card and then the stamped image on the inside was colored with Prismacolor colored pencils.

I thought a few pearls were called for since this was such a delicate composition.

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Rainbow Birthday on a Green Sky

I have so much fun at the beginning of the month trying to do a card for each of my friends' challenges that meets everyone's requirements. So, here is my take on Paper Smooches (birthday), Three Amigos Blog hop Challenge (rainbow), Double Trouble #x24 (Wearing of the Green)!

Copics Used

The rainbow (for Three Amigos) was printed from a copyright free image in Pixabay (I added a green background for Double Dare, it doesn't show up in the photo too well, but it is really green!). The sweet fairy was colored in Copics and comes from the Paper Smooches So Fairy Cute set. The Happy Birthday was embossed in gold.

Some liquid shine and Nuvo drops finished off the card.

Along the way, I had my usual disasters. This time, I took a photo so you could see. I was looking all over for my colored image that already had sticky foam on the back ready to be popped. I looked for about twenty minutes before I thought I'd better get everything cleaned up......

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you'll take a look at all these fun challenges linked above for even more inspiration and all the requirements to add your own!

Also shared with Heart 2 Heart Challenge.

You're a Fungi Shaped Card

Combining two challenges this time. First, to make a shaped card for Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #22, and second and anything goes from Paper Smooches!

Closed Card

I used the Sizzix Regal Stand-up card die but turned it on its side. The stamp and die set is from Paper Smooches, Fanciful Fall, and colored with Caran D'ache Luminance colored pencils. Some of the images are popped for dimension. The tiny hearts are from Stampin' Up.

Hope you'll visit both sites and have some fun with everyone! Thanks for your visit and know that I truly enjoy reading all the comments.

Baby It's Cold Outside!

I'm thrilled to be guest designing this month for Double Trouble Challenge Blog. (Do take a look at the blog to read complete and fun directions!)

This week, #16, is all about embossing. For more chances to win, add coffee/tea/cocoa and join in on the Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Then, add some winter or holiday to your card and you can enter the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for the month of December as well!

I started with an embossing folder from The Paper Studio that I then ran some Distress Inks over. The main image, Winter Drink, is from Victorine Originals, colored with Prismacolor pencils. The snowflake dies, colored with Distress Inks, are from Echo Park. And, the tiny blue snowflakes are from my stash.

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Spinner Card

Fun spinner card that I created myself. Here are three pictures showing some of the different things that will show up in the circle:

Had to rip this apart more than once, LOL! The stamps are from Waffle Flower, Cookie Time, as is the sentiment. Some Nuvo drops were added for some extra fun.

I created this for the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenges #20, Interactive Cards!

Autumn Leaves

This month, the theme for the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #19 is "Create a card with your favorite Autumn theme!" For me, that would be leaves. I grew up in New Jersey where we had delicious fall colors. Maybe not so much here though in southern Arizona.

I was very fortunate to have been able to go to Our Creative Escape (Kim from Paper Smooches) for Kathy, The Daily Marker's Road Trip. Kim did a little make and take using some alcohol inks. I decided to use the Paper Smooches set, Large Leaves, to cut out the pretty colors to make two fall cards. The sentiments are from Paper Smooches as well:  Thanks so Much and Thanks.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll take a look at the Three Amigos Blog Challenge for more inspiration.

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Side Lattice Fold Fall Leaves Card

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #18 is to use a Fun Card Fold!

 I had just seen this card fold in a magazine, but the measurements were not in inches so I went hunting on the Internet. The Frugal Crafter to the rescue!
The Lattice Fold Tutorial can be found on YouTube.

I wanted to do a fall card as well, so I grabbed my Simon Says Explore Nature Stamps and Dies. I used Distress Oxides to double stamp these pretty leaves and cut them out with the matching dies. Some are added straight to the paper and some are popped.

The paper comes from Paper Pink & Main Pumpkin Spice 6x6 paper pack, and I added some Nuvo Drops in clear and orange. The sentiment comes from the same Simon Says set.

I kept the fun side fold white for a day as I debated as to whether or not I should add color. Color won. Here's what the inside, undecorated, looks like:
This looks a bit complicated, but was really easy to do.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll take a look at the Three Amigos Blog Challenge for more inspiration.

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Also shared with: Di's Digi Design Challenge - Fancy folds
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Unusual folds

Double Trouble and Three Amigos Challenges Using Catherine Pooler Products

I recently was fortunate enough to be the winner of a Catherine Pooler stamp of approval set through the Coffee Loving Papercrafters on Facebook. It came with several packages of birthday, cakes, party and design type stamps, sentiments, some papers, and an ink pad and MORE! Wow, was that ever a surprise!

Inside

I created a shaker card with the pretty cake stand embossed in white.  I streaked across some different colors of ink over it then added some of the cute cupcakes to the stand. The outer edges were stamped with one of the fun edging stamps that comes with the set. All those great sentiments, balloons, and stars also came with the set.

I die cut (Gemini Jr.) the center portion and the sentiment using Penny Black's Antique Frames.There are so many things in this set that I will never run out of stamps to create new cards in the future!

Sharing this with:
Double Trouble -  Challenge #2 - Die Cuts and No Patterned Paper
Three Amigos Blog Hop - Die Cuts

Hope you'll join in on the fun for both of these groups! Thanks for your visit.

Out of this World

The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for March has a challenge theme of Out of this World! 

 I have had this set called Super Duo from Simon Says Stamps/ Mama Elephant for some time and just never got around to using it. This seemed like the perfect time to do so!

Side View

I also pulled out my new Triple Scallop Square card making die for the swinging shields.
The Ka-Pow is stamped then heat embossed in clear for the blue and white for the sentiment. The little hero is colored in Copics, fussy cut, and popped. The background is Distress Inks in blue. The lightning bolts and tiny stars were stamped with Golden Glitz Delicata and filled with a gold Gelly Roll Metallic pen.



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Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and Three Amigos Blog Hop

The Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop has started and I am excited to see all of the fun coffee related cards showing up. This digital coffee cup, colored with watercolor pencils and fussy cut and popped up, is from Limited Run, one of the generous sponsors for this hop. I added some embossed candles from Paper Smooches, and a sentiment from Art Impressions.

Also, this month, the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge is Silver and Gold.  Do take a look at the beautiful papers and follow along on the blog posts for inspiration! This seemed like a good time to combine two challenges. I do like the look of shiny papers, but they are so difficult to take a decent photo of. I went all over the house trying to take a picture that didn't show me in the reflection. There must be a trick that I don't know!
  

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Fall Leaves in Felt

The Three Amigos has a blog hop and a challenge for September. The theme is Falling For You named after the pretty paper pack that is available. I selected papers as close in color that I could.

I cut out felt leaves from a die cut set from Cuttlebug. Then I added a sentiment using the negative from a foiled print out from my Minc machine, did a bow with twine, and added some dew drops from The Robin's Nest.

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Smooches from a Prickly Pear in Watercolor

This months challenge from Three Amigos is actually Prickly Pear.  This started out as a Zentangle Inspired Art (ZIA) tile that I thought would fit this challenge perfectly. I tried to match the colors as closely as I could.

I actually drew the cactus myself since I didn't have any cactus stamps (yet, LOL). It is a prickly pear cactus, many of whom have lived in my various yards over the years here in the Phoenix area until I saw how quickly they multiplied!

The sentiment comes from Paper Smooches, Smooches.

Do take the time to pop over to see this new challenge group and join in the fun!

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Also shared with Paper Smooches Anything Goes Challenge