Born To Be Wild

Time Out Challenge #108 goes live today with a theme of WILD. 

Challenge sponsor is Winnie & Walter. Winner will receive a $25 gift voucher to spend in the Winnie & Walter store. 

Our Guest Designer is the wonderfully fun and talented Darnell of djkardkreations. She will be with us for the challenge and reminder posts. If you don't know Darnell, you really must meet her. In any case, visit her blog for a real treat! You will be so glad you did!

For my card, I used a free digi download from Winnie & Walter for the background. It felt wild and jungle-like to me. I heat embossed the tiger on a white stitched circle die cut with metallic copper embossing powder, and die cut a gold metallic circle to frame it. The image and sentiment are from Happy Little stampers Born To Be Wild.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenge Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Then get wild and create something to share in our gallery.

I am also playing at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

CAS Colours & Sketches #269

Papercraft Challenges #010 - Clean & Simple

Cards In Envy - Birthday

Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes

Grateful

There's a new Inspired By Words challenge up at Time Out Challenges with a theme of gratitude. 

Challenge #97 runs from Thursday, November 23rd to Wednesday, December 6th. The challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations. Winner will receive a gift voucher to the STAMPloraions Store. Check the Time Out Blog for all the details.

Our awesome Guest Designer is Izzy of Izzy Scrap. She is a wonderfully talented designer, and you are sure to be inspired by her works.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Create something based on our inspiration and play along with us. I can't wait to see how you are inspired by these words...

I'm also playing at:

Stamp Ink Paper #126 - Grateful, Thankful, Blessed

Cards In Envy - It's Only Paper Card Challenge

CAS-UAL Fridays - CFC187

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Give Thanks

Chestnuts Roasting

I was digging deep into the black hole of my stash today, and I ran across this wonderful SU background stamp that I have had forever... then I found this wonderful stamp set (Subway Series Holidays) from Fresh Squeezed Stamps which is sadly no longer in business. I looked at some challenges for inspiration, put them all together, and this is what happened! 

I'm playing at:

Merry Monday #264

Kraft and Red

Typography Theme

Create cards that have LETTERS or WORDS as the focus of the card. 

Christmas Card Challenges #25

Boo To You Too!

I'm having lots of Halloween fun with my new Reverse Confetti stash: Monsterous stamps and dies, Wonky Shaped Rectangle die and Boo To You Circle. There are 5 kids in my family who are 6 years old and under, so I have been crafting up a storm for them. Jeanne Jachna of A Kept Life designed a card to showcase the new Wonky Stripe Panel Confetti Cuts on the Reverse Confetti website. She  used two sentiments from the Monsterous stamp set to create a border. I loved that idea and used it here. I just love that "fang-tastic" little blue monster!

I'm playing at:

Die Cut Divas - Trick Or Treat

Die Cuttin' Divas #340 - Halloween

Cards In Envy - Let's Play Dress Up! (Halloween Costumes Of Course).

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 

Boo To You

I have created some really fun halloween cards lately, for the littles in my life. I made some Reverse Confetti purchases and combined them with some papers that have been in my stash for ages and some Copic markers and voila! I also took the big leap into something I never have before, and is crazy that as a cardmaker this was a first for me, but I broke out some GLITTER. Not glitter paper - GLITTER!!!! And I loved it. Thank you Jenny Colacicco and Jill Vickers for making me do this. It only took me a year after your encouragement for me to take the plunge.
Lesson learned: Stick-It + Glitter = fabulousness!!!!

I am playing at:

As You See It Challenge #161

Die Cut Divas October Challenge

Die Cuttin' Divas #340 - Halloween

The Heart Desires #17

Cards In Envy - Let's Play Dress Up! (Halloween Costumes Of Course).

Birthday Smooches

I made this card for my Grand Nephew's 2nd birthday. He is so stinkin' adorable and sweet. Happy smooch-filled birthday, T-Baby!!!

I'm playing at:

CAS Mix It Up September - My choice is die cut.

Watercooler Wednesday - Birthday

Seize the Birthday with Toppings of Balloons.

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Clean & Simple.

Challenge #116 Color me Pretty, use Pencils or Markers

Cards In Envy - Cheers To You!

Make A Wish

The theme of the current Double D Challenge is SIHLOUETTES. I began to dig though my stash to see what I could find to play with, and I came across Butterfly Kisses from The Craft's Meow. Perfect!

I embossed the fairy image with black EP on Bristol paper. Then I opened up my new Ranger Distress Oxide Inks, watched a few "how to" videos, and created the background. I am so loving these inks!

I'm also playing at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Cards in Envy - Pretty Pastels

I Treasure You

It's Valentine Time. I had lots of time in my craft room over the last 5 days or so which is unusual, so I went to town making several Valentines and actually MAILING them! 

On this card, the gold embossed heart is from Winnie & Walter's "True", colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and fussy cut. The top panel is sprayed with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine Iridescent Spritz. I stamped the sentiment, distressed the edged and popped up the heart. I just love the sentiment.

I'm playing at:

W&W Third Birthday Bash - Three Challenge With Shay

I used three words

Cards In Envy - Be My Valentine

Creative With Stamps - Valentine

Addicted To Stamps And More - Holiday

Thank you for stopping by today.

Pizza My Heart

I made this one for one of my twin boys who loves pepperoni pizza. Even though he is a 17 year old, over 6 feet tall guy, he still loves a hand made card from me. I love that. All stamps & dies are from Lawn Fawn. Images are colored with Copic Markers.

I'm playing at:

Marker Pop #114 - Be My Valentine

Cards In Envy - Be My Valentine

Creative With Stamps #11 - Valentine

Thanks for your visit!

Creepy Crawly Sparkly Trick Or Treat

Still in Halloween Mode - I pulled out my spider web EF,  Martha Stewart Spider Punch, black glitter paper, MFT Stitched Flag Dies, PTI Tricky Trio dies, Orange Stickles and Halloween twine... put them all together and this is what came out!

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

Cards In Envy - CREEPY CRAWLIES challenge.  Make an A2 card that is flat enough to fit in an envelope featuring things that are creepy & crawly--spiders, bugs, snakes etc. That spider is creepy and crawly!

Addicted TO CAS #74 - my sparkly spider and orange stickles fit the bill for this CAS creation.

Thanks of coming by today!!