Valentine Bee Box

Good morning! Monday's at Catch the Bug are Anything But A Card day so I made a box to hold a chocolate bar for Valentines Day. 

I used Bugaboo's Valentine Bee and popped up his head then attached him to a band around the box, very simple.

 Drop on by Catch the Bug and see what other Anything But A Card projects were made today!

I'm entering this into:

Delicious Doodles: anything but a card

Cute Card Thursday: Be my Valentine

The House that Stamps Built: anything but a card

Stamp: Bugaboo Valentine Bee

Paper: whisper white, basic black, cherry cobbler, dp paper

Other: ek success punch, spellbinders, copic markers, ribbon, chocolate bar!

Sparkle and Shine

Good morning and welcome to the week long celebration of Bugaboo's 2nd Annual Holiday Chaos. Today is the first day of seven challenges and the theme is to Sparkle and Shine. I used shiny silver paper, stickles, and rhinestones. I printed Bugaboo's Christmas Ornament Gal off twice so I could pop up her bow.

Drop on by Catch the Bug take a look at all the prizes you could win and give their challenge(s) a try Come back here each day for a week for a new challenge! I'm entering this into:
Craft for the Craic: favourite Christmas colours
Delicious Doodles: non traditional Christmas colours
Fussy and Fancy Friday: Happy Holidays
Sister Act Card Challenge: anything goes
Dragons Lair Design Challenge: Christmas Time

Stamp: Bugaboo Christmas Ornament Gal
Paper: brilliant blue, whisper white, silver
Ink: none
Other: holly vine die, prisma/copic markers, rhinestones, stickles, silver gel pen, spellbinders, winter embossing folder

Guest Designer

Good morning! Today I get to announce that for the months of November and December I'm guest designer for Bugaboo digital stamps! They have a free image every Friday and here is the card I created with this Friday's Freebie. I love their stamps and I'm looking forward to creating with them!

I'm entering this into:

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Delicious Doodles Challenge: Baby its cold outside

Sister Act Card Challenge: anything goes

Sweet Stampin Christmas: snowflakes

Stamp: Bugaboo AKV Winter sled, stampendous sentiment

Paper: midnight muse, whisper white

Ink: midnight muse

Other: ribbon, stampin up/copic alcohol markers, spellbinders, liquid pearls, stickles, Darcie snowflake trim embossing folder 

Remember

Good Morning! Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Craft Your Passion and their challenge is Doodling, which was a challenge for me! I created a card with today in mind (Remembrance Day in Canada) using Poppies and doodled around the outside.

Drop on by Craft Your Passion and give their challenge a try. You can enter our challenge as well and IF you use a Doodle Pantry image you will receive Snowman Pile-up for free!

I'm entering this into:
Daring Cardmakers: The Other occassions and reasons, anything but birthday/Christmas
Delicious Doodles: Remembrance/Thinking of You
SweetPea Stampers: Let us Remember/Thinking of You

Stamp: Doodle Pantry Poppies, Stampin Up sentiment
Paper: basic black, real red, shimmer white
Ink: none
Other: prisma markers, sharpie pen

For You

Good morning! Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Send a Smile 4 Kids and their theme is For the Girls. Doodle Pantry has this adorable little duck Harold and Fred, and I thought "could I add a bow to Harold". So I emailed Laurie and voila, she created a stamp set that has a girls bow, a man's bowtie, sunglasses and a ton more, called Hats and Things. So Harold becomes Harriet and the cute little frog gets sunglasses!

Here's a closeup of the bow and sunglasses

Hop on over to Send a Smile 4 Kids and give their challenge a try. If you use a Doodle Pantry image you can also enter our challenge and receive Quirky Stork for free!

I'm entering this into:
Delicious Doodles Challenge: All creatures great and small
Digi Haven: anything goes
Sister Act Card Challenge: anything goes
Stampin for the Weekend: cute

Stamps: Doodle Pantry Harold and Fred, Hats and Things (bow and sunglasses), FireCracker Designs, Rubbernecker and Stampin up scenery
Paper: pacific point, summer sun, whisper white
Ink: cool Caribbean, tempting turquoise, ballet blue, always artichoke
Other: Prisma markers, crystal effects, whimsy vine diecut, stampin up punch

Hook, Line and Sinker

I was going to post a picture of what it looks like outside but that's too depressing...it snowed and is still snowing... again! So I thought I'd post a card I did for a friend's birthday a couple of weeks ago.
I did this image totally in prisma pencils and then used baby oil to blend.

Come back tomorrow when Doodle Pantry has their new release!

I'm entering this into:

Cupcake Craft Challenge: all at sea

Challenges 4 Everybody: anything goes

Card Crafter's Circle: boys to men

Delicious Doodles: something fishy

Stamp: Just Inklined

Paper: pacific point, dusty durango, whisper white

Ink: dusty durango

Other: prisma pencils and baby oil, ribbon, stampin up clouds embossing folder, spellbinders

One Stop Craft Challenge sponsorship

Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring One Stop Craft Challenge and the challenge is to include 3 circles. I have two sets of three, three brads and the three balloons. I made this card for a neighbour who's going back into the workforce after being home with her children for 12 years.

 I love the new set of ants from Doodle Pantry because you can add them to anything!

So I added the ants to this present and then made separate balloons and just put the string into the ants hand. 

Hop on over to One Stop Craft Challenge and give the challenge a try. IF you create a project with a Doodle Pantry image you can also enter Doodle Pantry Digital challenge #22. two for the price of one! Just for entering the Doodle Pantry challenge you receive the Quirky Parrot for free. There's a sale on at Doodle Pantry until April 24, take a look!

I've entered this into:

Delicious Doodles Challenges: loads of layers 

Prairie Fairy Fridays: anything goes

Hotshot Craft Blog: red

The Poodles Parlour: going round in circles

Wags 'n Whiskers: anything goes

Sketch N Stash: sketch (neglected stash is the background stitching stamp)

Delightful Challenges: delightful stitches

Stamps: Doodle Pantry Ant Accents and Birthday Accessories, stampin up special day, Impression Obsession stitched

Paper: basic black, whisper white, summer sun, real red

Ink: craft bravo burgandy and summer sun

Other: prisma markers, ribbon, stampin up tag, brad, pearls, silver twine 

Pansy Turtle

Good morning everyone! Today Doodle Pantry is sponsoring Tuesday Morning Sketches and what a great sketch it is! I used Doodle Pantry's Pansy Turtle and coloured him myself.  I printed him off twice so I could pop up the turtle and flowers.

I found the gorgeous yellow marble paper at a stationary store and used the swiss dots embossing folder on it as well as wet embossed the background. I added the epoxy dots to the flowers and it adds so much IRL.

Hop on over to Tuesday Morning Sketches and enter their challenge, you might win. If you use a Doodle Pantry image, freebies here, you can also enter Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge #22 and you automatically receive a free image (quirky parrot) just for playing. Its a win, win!

I've entered this into:
Catered Crop Recipe Swap: use brads
Digi Design Challenge: emboss it ( I used wet and dry)
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays: spring
Crafts 4 Eternity: 3 of a kind (3 brads, 3 epoxy dots)
Delicious Doodles Challenge: textures
Stampin with the Dragon: Spring is here

Stamps: Doodle Pantry Pansy Turtle, Hero Arts Large Flower background
Paper: cherry cobbler, really rust, whisper white, garden green, marble yellow
Ink: craft really rust
Other: prisma markers, classic/scallop circle, epoxy dots, brads, stampin up modern label punch, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

With Sympathy

Today is the Funeral Service of Katie Renz, a Clear Dollar Stamp Designer, who was loved and respected by all. This is the card I made for her husband Kevin and their children.

I've entered this into:

Paper Sundaes: digital image

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days: texture

Crafty Catz Weekly challenge: use a digi

Delicious Doodles challenge: remembrance

Stamps: Doodle Pantry Lily Collection, Stampin Up Warmest Wishes

Paper: bravo burgandy, whisper white

Ink: none

Other: Stampin Up perfect polka dots embossing folder and classic/scallop oval punches, spellbinders classic/scallop ovals, ribbon, MS butterfly punches, pearls

Fall Fun

These crazy ants are at it again! They're just floating along on a leaf having a great time which is a perfect fall card for the challenge Send A Smile 4 Kids challenge. Doodle pantry is one of the sponsors and its to create a fall or Halloween card for a kid. These ants make it so easy. I'm also entering this into:

Heart Song Inspirations: colour orange and/or buttons (I used both)

Lexi's Creations: card for a child

My Craft Spot: fall leaves

Paper Creations Ink: buttons or bows

Delicious Doodles Challenge: Cute as a button

Raise the Bar challenge: leave summer

Stamp: Doodle Pantry Falling Ants

Paper: Early Espresso, whisper white, summer sun, wallpaper

Ink: bashful blue (clouds)

Other: prisma markers, recollections brads, spellbinders classic/scallop ovals, sizzix flourishes, stampin up buttons and square lattice embossing folder, ribbon, yellow stickles

Happy Birthday BJ

Happy 25th BJ, LOL isn't this the greatest! I bought the image immediately, I just saw so many cards I could do with it, but I had no sentiment. Then I went back to the store to window shop and and saw this awe inspiring saying. This is sooo true, I live to embarrass my kids! I'm entering this into Charisma Cardz which is jokes and laughter (my favorite), Pile it on use a rubber stamp, Papertake Weekly use spots and/or stripes, Scrapbook Sisters buttons, Aud Sentiments challenge and Delicious Doodles challenge both are anything goes.

Stamps: Art Impressions golden oldies jump in and another service
Paper: whisper white, pacific point
Ink: pacific point, cool Caribbean, taken with teal, bashful blue, apricot appeal
Other: prisma markers, stampin up buttons, perfect dots embossing folder, crystal effects and foam dimensions, ribbon, spellbinders label 15.