Butterfly in Flight

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this weeks Send a Smile for Kids challenge  and the theme is 'Mother's Day '!  I do hope you take a look and decide to participate. I choose to make my own rolled roses (instructions are all over the place on YouTube and on the web, just  'google it' :O)!  I used a Doodle Pantry pre-coloured image called 'New Butterfly' for the image and sentiment . This stamp set contains coloured images, outlines ,digital papers and sentiments.  The sentiment was framed with a Spellbinders die cut  called deckled rectangles. The other die cuts used were : Cottage Cutz 'Bella Leafy Branch and , Magnolis Dragonflies Doohickeys. The blue background was stamped  with Impression-Obsession's 'Cover a Card Butterflies'and heat embossed to create a spring type background!

 All papers were Stampin' Up's'.

Note: Send A Smile 4 Kids :For any Albertan or others out there  who might be interested in creating cards for the Stollery Children's Hospital  the coordinator is Dawn Frost and any cards suitable for children 0 to 19 would be gratefully  accepted. See here for more information: Send a Smile 4 Kids.  

Won a Top Three Placement for Natalie&Amy challenge entry

Challenges
1. Craftitude: Challenge #62 Anything Goes OR Corrugated Paper or Cardboard (mine is just anything goes)
2. Crafty Catz Challenge: #225 Springtime
3. Jellypark Friday Challenges: Mother's Day/Important Female
4. Jo's Scrap Shack:FFC#44 Anything Goes
5. Sister Act Card Challenge! #51 Anything Goes
6. Crafts Galore EncoreChallenge Blog:Creating with Colour-include your favourite colour   (mine is blue with green a close second)
7. Mema's Crafts April Challenge 2014 Anything Goes
8. Natalie and Amy Challenge 19 Embossing
9. Oddball Art Stamp Co.: First Challenge - Use a Digi
10. Crafty Girls Challenge Blog; #15 Anything Goes

Snowman Wagon Wheels

What a happy little scene with a  snowman, birds and snowflakes!
Doodle Pantry is sponsoring the challenge this week of Feb. 23rd over at 'Cupcake Inspirations' and the  inspiration this week is:

I took the colour of the three blue birds as my inspiration and  using one of the outline  images from the Doodle Pantry digital stamp set 'Wagon Wheels 1'  created my card. The image only has two birds, so I 

printed the image  twice and coloured one of the birds from the spare, cut it out and placed it on the left hand twig of the snowman. I now had the three birdies I wanted. The snowman's hat, two of the birds and the two side wheels were all made dimensional using double sided foam tape.

  

:For some lovely inspiration stop by the Doodle Pantry Blog site and have a look.

Card Recipe:
Stamp: Doodle Pantry 'Wagon Hello 1' and a Stampin' Up sentiment  from 'It's Snow Time'
Colour Medium: Prismacolor Markers
Card Stock:  Stampin' Up's Marina Mist  Whisper White. & some  white card stock from Staples (for the embossed backgrounds)
Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities deckled rectangles(image frame);  Impression Obsession snowflakes  DIE024-X
Punch : Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Snowflakes and Spot & Dots,

Challenges
1. 2 Sisters: #173  Embossing
2. Send a Smile 4 Kids: Punches and/or Die Cuts
3.One Crazy Stamper: February Challenge Anything Goes
4. Card Makin Mamas; CMM81 Stack It Up  
5.  Craftitude Challenge #59 Anything Goes or Hit the Right Note Music Themed
6. Craftyhands Challenge: 8th Challenge Heat/Dry embossed background
7. Sister Act Card Challenge: #45 Anything Goes
8. The Stamping Boutique:#5 Use a Punch or Die Cut
9. 4 Krafty Girlz: Challenge 12 Anything Goes
10. 4 Crafty Chicks: 182 Things with Wings

Teddy Time

Love this Vintage bear image from Doodle Pantry and I am pleased with this Birthday Card  I made. A lot of that has to do with the marvellous sketch I used from the "Little Miss Muffet' challenge #76 (see here)! I also fell in love with  these papers I found languishing in my stash:O)! Oh and I even used some Creamy Carmel  paper  (discontinued from Stampin Up and  hoarded in my stash it as it is one of my favourite colours in the brown tones). I coloured with Copics and used a Doodle Pantry sentiment from another stamp set ( 'Oh So Sweet Mice')! The flower was from my stash and the leaves are from a Spellbinders die cut  called "Foliage".

Doodle Pantry is the proud sponsor of this weeks challenge over at "Send a Smile 4 Kids" and the challenge is 'Anything Goes'!  Please take time and visit their blog and perhaps join in the fun!

Challenges:
1. Brown Sugar Challenge: #77 Anything Goes
2. Sister Act Card Challenge: #40 Anything Goes
3. Stampin for the Weekend: Happy Birthday
4. Wags and Whiskers: #120 Anything Goes
5. 4 Krafty Girlz: # 9 Anything Goes
6. Sassy Studio Design: DTBST #212Shabby Chic or Vintage
7. Cards Galore: #1 Anything Goes
8. Seemacrafts: January Challenge Anything Goes
9. The Crafting Cafe: Anything Goes
10: Little Miss Muffet Challenge #76 Sketch

Pumpkin Carving Ants

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this weeks Send a Smile for Kids  challenge with the theme 'anything goes'!  Such a versatile theme, do hope you take a look and decide to participate. I have wanted to make a card  with this adorable image since it's release Sept 5th. I used an outline  image from  Doodle Pantry's   'Pumpkin Carving Ants' stamp set . This stamp set contains coloured images, outlines ,digital papers and sentiments.I choose my own papers and left the sentiment for inside the card.  I colored the image using Prismacolor markers and inked the clouds with 'bashful blue' Stampin' Up ink. It's a fun stamp set , love it!

Card details:

Stamp: Doodle Pantry Digital 'Pumpkin Carving Antsl' stamp set;  Stampin Up Best Friends for the 'Boo' and the spider on the  circle on the right 

Card stock:   Stampin' Up 

Designer paper:  stash

Die Cuts: nil
Punch: small portion of a Martha Stewart spiderweb double edged punch;   circle punches, Stampin Up  Pennants builder, Stampin Up Photo Corners
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Spiderweb
Other:  ribbon

Challenges:
1. Chocolate, Coffee & Cards: #48 Anything Goes
2. Creative Corner: Happy Halloween
3. Jo's Scrap Shack:FFC #18 Anything Goes
4. Simply Create Too: #46 Bugs
5. Sister Act Card Challenge: #25 Anything Goes
6. Creative Inspiration Ink: Autumn Colours
7. Craft Your Passions: Autumn/Fall Colours
8. Diva's By Design:  Anything Goes
9. The Sisterhood of Crafters: Divine Digi (use a digi)
10. Tammy's Scrapin Corner: #80 Anything Goes!

Quirky Owl

Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this weeks Send a Smile for Kids  challenge with the theme 'for the girls'!  Such a versatile theme, do hope you take a look and decide to participate.  I used an outline  image from  Doodle Pantry's   'Quirky Owl' stamp set . This stamp set contains coloured images, outlines ,digital papers and sentiments.I choose my own papers and left the sentiment for inside the card. I did make the flowered eye dimensional and it looks so darn cute IRL. I colored the owl using Prismacolor markers. It's a fun stamp set , love it!

Card details:

Stamp: Doodle Pantry Digital 'Quirky Owl' stamp set, background stamp?  

Card stock:   Stampin' Up 

Designer paper:  Stampin Up

Die Cuts: Spellbinders  standard circles;   scalloped circles, Stampin Up's scalloped edge
Punch: Martha Stewart butterflies
Other: rhinestones, epoxy stickers,ribbon

Technique: heat embossing, pop-up dimensional

Challenges:
1. Card makin Mamas:CMM711 On the Farm (animals)    hope a   owl counts
2. Delicious Doodles #40 All Creatures Great and Small
3.Digi Haven: Anything Goes
4.Sister Act Challenge: #11 Anything Goes
5.Stampin for the Week-end: Cute
6. Sweet Pea Stampers: For the Children ( mine is a card for a child hence the unrealistic owl)
7.Charisma Cardz: #23 Digi's Only
8.Crafty Ribbons: #48 Anything With Ribbons

Spring has Sprung

I needed a quick card for the Easter donation to the Edmonton  'Stollery' Children s Hospital  and  here it is. The image is a Joanna Sheen rubber stamp   and was part of a fabulous gift from a wonderful  fellow crafter and friend in Scotland!  Isn't it adorable! I coloured with Prismacolor markers and made the hat, and the arm with the watering can dimensional by popping them up with dimensional tape. For any northern Albertan's out there  who might be interested in participating  the coordinator is Dawn Frost and any cards suitable for children 0 to 19 would be gratefully  accepted. See here for more information: Send a Smile 4 Kids.  

Challenges:

1.  613 Avenue Create: #11 Anything Goes

2. Challenges 4 Everybody: #16 Anything Goes

3. Hobby Cutz: #2 Easter

4. Penny Black & More: March Challenge-One for the boys

5. The Squirrel & the Fox: #40 Easter or Passover

6. 2 Sisters Challenge Blog: #136 Easter/Spring

7. Di's Digis Design: Easter/Spring

8. My Sheri Crafts Challenges: #106 Easter

9. Send  A Smile 4 Kids: Anything Goes 4 Kids

10. Mark's Finest Paper: Speedy Fox and Friends: #152 Easter or Bunnies