Color my Life

I can't believe its March 1st already, wow! The snow's actually melting here, we should be able to take the snow tires off in another month...or two, hopefully. With the new month comes a new release from Doodle Pantry and those rascally ants are playing again, this time on an Easter Egg! My cards seem to be getting larger and large and I just love the scenes that Laurie creates with her images. This set comes with 4 sentiments, 2 papers, coloured image and an outline image which I used.

I printed the stamp off twice so I could pop up the paint buckets, ants and paint brush. If you love these ants as much as I do you can have them for free! Just participate in Doodle Pantry's Digital Challenge (DPDC#32)  and you receive these guys, sweet!  The challenge starts at Noon est. BEST of all AND FOR 3 DAYS ONLY... A 20% OFF coupon!!!!! 

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Hop on over to my DT mates and check out their cards, you'll love them! 

I've entered this into:
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: use embossing (I used dry)
Craft Us Crazy: anything goes
Divas by Design: anything goes
Through the Craftroom door: anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody: anything goes

Stamp: Doodle Pantry Easter Egg Ants
Paper: raspberry ripple, basic black, whisper white
Ink: raspberry ripple
Other: prisma markers, epoxy dots, ribbon, stampin up embossing folder and punch
 

Smelly Mondays

This giraffe just kills me he looks so ticked, sooo this is the sentiment I came up with to go with him. My son HATES getting up in the morning and Mondays are the worst so I thought this would be the perfect. The inside says "Stinky! Happy Birthday" 

I really like how the ribbon turned out. I originally used twine and decided the ribbon looked better. I've entered this into:
The Stamp Man Challenge: Texture
Crafty Ribbons Challenge: One for the Men or boys
Craft Us Crazy: anything goes with Bugaboo
Digi Doodle Shop's Best: one for the boys
Moving Along with the Times: Cute critters

Stamps: Digi's with Attitude Giraffe, computer generated sentiment
Paper: early espresso, garden green, tangerine tango, cajin craze
Ink: ballet blue, garden green, cajin craze
Other: oval spellbinders, crafts too embossing folders, pearls, stampin up early espresso ribbon, buckle and modern label punch

Happy Anniversary

 I was so organized and ready for my 30th anniversary, I made a card months ago so didn't have to worry about that since we were leaving for vacation on our anniversary. Sooo I went looking for the card a week before we left. I tore apart my craft room and do you think I could find the card... NOOOO! So I made another one with my stamping buddy, thank goodness I had time.

I love Rubbernecker stamps the ladies are so elegant! 

However Maude, wow she looks a bit green around the gills, maybe its that windchill thing, lol! We're having a great time in Maui and the temperature at home is around -39 with the windchill... its awesome to be here! I'm entering this into:
C.R.A.F.T. challenge: use numbers
Craft Us Crazy: valentine/love
Creative Card Crew: Seeing Red
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: Texture

Stamps: Rubbernecker Monique, Art Impression Maude
Paper: cherry cobbler, whisper white
Ink: cherry cobbler
Other: prisma markers, whimsy diecut, cuttlebug d'vine embossing folder, stampin up designer punch, watercolour pencils, cherry cobbler stickles

Lil Hummer

Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring One Stop Craft Challenge and its a bingo challenge! 

I used Doodle Pantry's Lil Hummer from January's release and did embossing, diecuts/punches and flowers. I'm not very good at flowers but my stamping buddy Glenda (she does gorgeous flowers)

 assured me I could do it, so I kept practising and I LOVE how the flower turned out.  I added stickles, of course, and lightly sponged the flower background. 

There's still time to enter the latest challenge at Doodle Pantry's Digital challenge, it ends on January 24. Its an anything goes challenge, you just have to use a Doodle Pantry image and just for entering the challenge you receive an adorable workout birdie image. If you win the challenge you receive a $15.00 coupon to spend in the Doodle Pantry Store, sweet. I've entered this into:

Craft Us Crazy: anything new or humourous

Cute Card Thursday: what's new (flower)

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: something new (new image, new technique (flowers))

Stamp n Doodles blog: anything goes

Stamps: Doodle Pantry Lil Hummer

Paper: Handsome hunter, summer sun, whisper white, costco paper

Ink: summer sun 

Other: prisma markers, EK success flower punches, rhinestones, classic/scallop oval spellbinders, whimsy leaf diecut, diamond and yellow stickles

Party Hardy

This little hopper has had waaay to much to drink, lol! This card is something I very rarely do, make an ATC card. The cards are so small 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" so they go fast but I find them harder to do. I made this for the house mouse challenge and am pretty pleased with it. I've entered this into:

House Mouse and Friends Monday challenge: make an ATC card

ATC Challenges: all things summer/anything goes

Craft Your Days Away Challenge: birthday celebrations

Craft Us Crazy: August anything goes

Cute Card Thursday: no designer paper

For Fun Challenges: anything goes

Stamps: Stampabililties Party Hoppers

Paper: taken with teal, summer sun, whisper white

Ink: summer sun, barely banana, bashful blue

Other: ribbon, rhinestones, stampin up perfect petals embossing folder, spellbinders deckle rectangles, cotton ball

Magnolia

Friday was a very interesting day to say the least! My son and his girlfriend had asked a week ago if I'd make a card for each of them, they needed going away cards for people leaving each of their work places, and they were leaving at the end of the month, no problem. What I forgot is that the two kids were leaving for vacation and their last day was ... yes you guessed it Friday. Then a friend was leaving for a 60th birthday at 3:00 AND I still wanted to make 3 challenge cards for the Catch a Bug Christmas in July challenge. So this is the first card I made and raced it to Sam's place by 1:00, raced home and started on the birthday card. My friend came at 3:15 to pick it up, 5 minutes after I finished it. When she left I worked on the last card and it was done just before I had to leave to pick up another son from work. Talk about a deadline, lol! Now I had the whole night to work on the three Bugaboo cards but I was too tired to do them, oh well. Next Year! I love my kids, lol! I've entered this into:

The crafty Pad: embossing heat or dry
Craft Us Crazy: anything goes
Paper Pretties: embossing
7 kids College Fund: texture

Stamps: Paper Garden Projects spring trees
Paper: concord crush, whisper white, pink pirouette
Ink: none
Other: prisma markers, ribbon, rhinestones, cuttlebug texture embossing folder, diamond stickles, classic/scallop oval spellbinders

Candy Cane

I've been doing Christmas cards all week and had to work with this gorgeous stamp! Its from Clear Dollar Stamps and is called Candy Cane Poem. I printed it off twice and then cut out the holly and berries and popped it up. I'm still learning how to add highlights but I think the berries turned out perfectly. I'm entering this into:
Catch the Bug Challenge: Friday anything goes
The Rubber Cafe: Christmas in July
Paper Sundaes: Christmas in July
Craft Us Crazy: Anything goes
Winter Wonderland: holly and ivy

Stamp: Clear Dollar Stamp Candy Cane Poem
Paper: Stampin up dp, michaels vellum, whisper white
Ink: none
Other: prisma markers, MS snowflake punch, classic/scallop oval spellbinders, ribbon, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Thanks for the push

This is my second last post for Doodle Pantry this month as a guest designer, "sigh". (I'm going to try for one more on Thursday) My son asked me to make him a card for his boss who is leaving the company at the end of the month. Steven is a computer programmer and so is his boss, so... I couldn't resist! Believe it or not I actually hadn't done a card with these guys yet, how perfect is that! And I made the card red, white, and blue, 1 because its masculine but 2 because Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Paper Playtime Challenge and the theme for the challenge is using a digi which is red, white and blue! Hop on over and take a look! I've also entered this into:
Penny's Paper-Crafty challenge blog: red, white and blue
Sketch N Stash: sketch
Sketches In Thyme: use any sketch
Craft Us Crazy: red, white and blue and/or summer theme
Rainbow Lady's Challenge: digi day
Sew Many Challenges: dry embossing
Stamp Something: celebrate with red, white and blue

Stamps: Doodle Pantry Computer Ants
Paper: whisper white, pacific point textured paper, cherry cobbler
Ink: bashful blue ( on large white argyle paper)
Other: prisma markers, cuttlebug argyle embossing folder, stampin up perfect dots embossing folder and modern label punch, spellbinders deckle rectangle

Happy Father's Day

This is the card I made for my kids to give to my husband. Fishing is his favorite pastime and he can't do it this year (or golf, and curl) because his shoulder is still healing. Thank goodness its been so rainy and cold, lol, it makes him feel better about not getting out. Happy Father's Day Robin! I've entered this into:
Bows and Berries: masculine
Incy Wincy Designs: father's day/masculine
Papertake Weekly: Dads & lads
Craft Us Crazy Challenge: father's day/masculine
Crafty Sentiments Designs: Father's Day card
Catch the Bug Challenge: Its a man's world
If the shoe fits: For the Men
Crazy 4 Challenges: Add twine, string or floss

Stamps: Gina K Happy Camper(mountains), Gone Fishing(fish), Life is good(grasses)
Paper: handsome hunter, basic black, whisper white, always artichoke, sage shadow, bravo burgandy
Ink:bashful blue, ballet blue, pacific point,
Other: prisma markers, stampin up large and small tag punches, stapler, ribbon, recollections brads, wavy crimper, twine, foam dimensions