Happy Birthday Dog

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list. Your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation.

Today's festivities are inspired by International Dog Day which takes place on August 26th. International Dog Day is a special day to celebrate all dogs around the world. Read more HERE.

The challenge runs from August 5th - August 15th.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the theme. For my dog-themed card, I used Funky Fossil Designs Pawsome Heart stencil to create an embossed background of paw prints. I framed the square with a scalloped square die from Spellbinders. I stamped and fussy cut one of the dog images and the party hat from Catherine Pooler's Peeking Pets stamp set. I colored the hat and adhered but to the embossed square. I gave my dog sunglasses which are die cut from Sugar Pea Designs SugarCut Basic Bookmark Dies. I used SSS Holographic card stock for the lenses for a very cool affect. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Birthday Sampler stamp set.

I used dog, paw print, twine and texture from the Inspo List.

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the  Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Stephanie Lanzalotto - that's me!

Melva Peters

Jaydee

Diane Evans 

Joanne James

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AAA Birthday #40 - Anything Birthday Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Birthday

The Ocean Will Set Your Soul Free

CYHTP July 23 - August 10 - Beach

A new challenge starts today at Can You Handle The Pressure? where the theme is always Anything Goes with an Embossing Folder and an optional twist. Heat embossing is welcome, but not required. An Embossing Folder must be used. For this challenge, the twist is "Beach".

Although my scene is not a "beach" scene per se, when I go to the beach, I go to the ocean. So here we are! I have the good fortune of having the ability to go to the beach pretty much whenever I want, and I do this frequently. There's no place I'd rather be.

To create my card,  I used a Kraft card base. I debossed using Ink on 3 Fleurette's ~ Atelier Ink - Shark Tooth White ink, Catherine Pooler Ocean Buddies stamps and dies colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Picket Fence Studio's Swim In The Sea stamp set.

Please head over to the Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge Blog to check out the Design Team inspiration projects. You are sure to be impressed! Then dive into your embossing folder collection and join us with or without the twist! Just be sure to use an embossing folder on your creation!

I'm also playing at:

Allsorts Challenge #686 - Summer

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Vacation

Party Time!

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list. Your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation.

Today's festivities are inspired by World Party Day, which takes place on April 3rd. The challenge runs from March 18th to March 28th.

I just had to add the following here, as it is the most perfect time in our world for this:

The inspiration for World Party Day stems from a novel entitled, “Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel” written by American author, Vanna Bonta. Published in 1995, the novel ends with — spoiler alert — a big party. Actually, it ends with a synchronized worldwide celebration that takes place on April 3. In real life, groups of people found each other sharing the same goals of peace and the want to utilize human intelligence and resources toward global humanitarian progress. Bringing together people in the name of social change, it became a worldwide phenomenon involving millions of people, corporations, and organizations working together to contribute positively to the future of the earth and humanity.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the theme. For this one, I used Catherine Pooler's Ocean Chums stamps and dies and colored them with Copics. The jelly is brushed with clear Wink Of Stella. I popped the die cuts up and placed them on an embossed panel (I don't know the name) which I framed with the beautiful Pinkfresh stitched scallop rectangles that I received as a gift from a dear friend. I adhered the top panel to the card base using fun foam and my card was complete.

I used sparkle, bright colors, celebratory sentiment and layers from the inspo list.

Come play with us! Remember that your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation!

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design team:

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Stephanie Lanzalotto

Melva Peters

Jaydee

Diane Evans

Joanne James 

I'm also playing at:

AAA Birthday #35 - Under the Sea

Seize The Birthday #234 - AG

In Low Or High Tide

 Time Out #209 begins today, It's an Inspired By Words challenge where we are challenged to be CUTE. The challenge runs from Thursday, March 10th to Wednesday, March 23rd. We are generously sponsored by Lawn Fawn.

Challenge winner as chosen by our Design Team will receive $25.00 in Lawn Fawn store credit. In addition, our winner will be eligible for a guest designer spot in a future Time Out challenge.

We welcome Sue Symens of Sentimentally Sue and winner of Time Out Challenge #205 as our Guest Designer for this challenge. Sue is a super talented paper crafter whose style is often CAS and loves to use graphic design in her in her art. Her blog is so inspiring. Go take a look!

 For my card I used the adorable Octopus and a sentiment from Catherine Pooler's Ocean Chums. I colored her with Copics and popped her up on a background panel stenciled with the Waves stencil from Simon Says Stamps and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink. That panel is die cut with a Nordic Frames Die from The Greetery. I added some clear drops, stamped and clear embossed the sentiment and my card was complete. 

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that Nancy and the Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

Inkspirtional #260 - Curve

NBUS Challenge #36

My NBUS ia Ocean Chums by Catherine Pooler

Fab 'n' Funky #546 - Dies and Stencils

National Cat Day

It's time for a new challenge at Festive Friday where every challenge is an inspiration list based on a selected holiday/festivity from the traditional to the unusual. Challenge projects must include at least three items from the festivity inspiration list.

Today's festivities are in celebration of National Cat Day, which takes place on October 29th. The challenge runs from October 15th - October 25th.

I like to create a card for our challenge that goes with the celebration theme. To create my card, I used Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat Halloween stamp set to create a Halloween scene. The background is cut from a sheet of Halloween themed patterned paper from Creative Memories that has been in my stash for a very long time. I stamped, Copic colored and fussy cut the cat, pumpkin, broom and bat images and arranged them on the panel of patterned paper. I gave the bat a heavy coating of Wink Of Stella for texture and sparkle, and adhered that panel to a slimline die cut panel from Catherine Pooler's Essentials Slimline Dies 

I used cat, orange and texture from the inspo list. 

Come play with us! Remember that your project does not have to go with the challenge theme. You can just use 3 or more items from the inspo list for your creation!

For more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the  Festive Friday Challenge Design team.

Ann Schach

Beth McCullough

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

Melanie Hungerford

Helen Jennings

Melva Peters

Jaydee

Diane Evans

Joanne James

I'm also playing at:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - October Anything Goes

Inspired by - Fall

Fall theme, orange and dark colors, and sketch

Sweet Season

Less Is More Challenge #447 begins today. We are challenged to make a card for Christmas In July!

I bought some Christmas stash very late in the 2020 Pre-Season, and of course I didn't use any of it in time for Christmas. I was anxious to get some of it out and start on some cards before December 2021 shows up! This very simple card is a Mini-Slimline size 3 1/2 x 6. I just love the size. It has taken me a while to warm up to the slimline craze, but I am getting there. I cut the base from Neenah Solar white 110# card stock. The scalloped panel was cut with a regular slimline die, then placed back in the die and cut again to get it to be the right length for a mini.

The solid candy canes were cut with red foil card stock, and the white layer was cut from white glitter paper. They are popped up with foam tape. The silver hangers were cut with adhesive backed silver paper. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with clear Embossing Powder.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple. See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

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I'm also playing at:

Just Add Ink #562

Krafty Chicks #567

Christmas

Stars and/or Stripes For Christmas

Little Red Wagon - Anything Christmas Goes

Practically Perfect In Every Way

Time Out Challenge 191 begins today, We are challenged to create a card with the theme of movies - a  favorite movie, scene from a movie, filmstrip, popcorn, reels, red carpet, tickets, etc. There is an optional twist of glitter or glitz.

 Our Guest Designer is Nancy Elrick of Nancy's Creative Mess 

and winner of Time Out Challenge #188. Please visit the Time Out Challenge Blog to see Nancy's fabulously punny card. I just love her take on this challenge!

It's easy to tell what my interpretation is. Mary Poppins is one of my favorite movies of all time. I also loved Mary Poppins Returns. A fantastic update to the story! 

My card is very simple. I used Catherine Pooler Essential Slimline Dies for the shape of my card. The clouds were created with the Cloud Edger stencil from A Colorful Life Designs. I inserted a sentiment from a set of Mary Poppins images and sentients that I bought from ETSY.

I have looked everywhere for the source of the Mary Poppins silhouette stamp that I used for my card. It's red rubber cling, and I had it in a plastic sleeve but there was no additional info with it. If anyone happens to know where it came from, please let me know so that I can give credit where credit is due.

I just love the way this one turned out. 

 Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that Nancy and the Time Out Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

Im also playing at:

Watercooler Wednesday #319 - All Things Feminine

You Are Loved

 

I wanted to use this gnome and large die cut sentiment together. I could not find a way to like whatever I tried on an A2 sized card. I am not so comfortable with the slimline craze, but when I laid this out, and added the stenciled hearts with the delicious new Distress Oxide color - Kitsch Flamingo, it made me very happy. The pink background behind the die cut sentiment is pink vellum. The DO ink, SSS Gnome dies & sentiment dies are "Never Before Used Schtuff"!

I'm playing at:

Color Hues #11 - Red & Pink

Watercooler Wednesday #308 - All About Occasions

Alphabet Challenge - V is for Vellum

Pink vellum behind sentiment die cu

Mod Squad Challenge - All About Love 

NBUS #23

Hot Diggity Dog!

 

It's time for a new challenge at Time Out. For Challenge #175, we are challenged to be QUICK. 

 We are sponsored by Catherine Pooler Designs. Challenge winner will receive a $25 gift voucher to spend at the discount at the Catherine Pooler Designs Store.

For my card, I chose to interpret "quick" as the time it took to make my card. The process of coming up with my design was pretty quick, and because it consists mainly of die cuts, it went together quite quickly. I forgot to set the timer, but I would say it took about 15 minutes. With all the parts, I think that is pretty quick... for me anyway! I have been know to spend hours on a CAS design!!!

I used Catherine Pooler Peeking Pets Stamps & Dies, a gift from Catherine Pooler for which I am grateful. I used Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripe Stencil to color the backgrounds for the dogs. I stamped the dogs in black, and colored the party hats to mach the striped backgrounds. The sentiment is stamped from Essentials By Ellen Clever Sausage Stamp Set, and die cut with MFT Fishtail Flag dies. I am super happy with the way this one turned out! I am a bit slimline reluctant, so this was a good experience.

Please hop on over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see the wonderful creations that the Design Team came up with to inspire you. Come play with us!

I'm also playing at:

AAA Birthday Challenge #19 - For A Child 

Watercooler Wednesday #298 - Anything Goes With A Masculine Twist

Salt Water

A new challenge is up at Less Is More where the challenge is Going Dotty. 

A one layer card with anything with dots e.g. images, sentiments, backgrounds...

To create my card, I used Picket Fence Studios A Bottomless Sea stamp for my dotty image and sentiment. After stamping the background with Catherine Pooler It's A Boy Ink I heat embossed it with glitter embossing powder to give it sparkle. I stamped the sentiment over the bubbles with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, and heat embossed I with clear embossing powder.

Our Guest Designer is Jen Mitchell of I Create. Jen is one of my favorite crafters. Her work is wonderful and always inspiring to me. Give yourself a treat and stroll through her blog. You will be so glad you did.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what Jen and the Design Team have created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and for a chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog. Good Luck!

I am also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #508 - Clean and Simple

Addicted To Stamps and More #390 - Photo Inspiration

Celebrate Everything

Time Out Challenge #139 is up and running. This time, it is an "Inspired By Words" challenge with a quote from Oscar Wilde: "With freedom, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?"

This challenge is sponsored by the fabulous Catherine Pooler. Our winner, chosen by the design team, will receive a $25 coupon to the Catherine Pooler store. 

Claire, a regular player at Time Out, is our guest designer. Clair is an incredibly talented card artist whose coloring skills are amazing. Please treat yourself to a visit to her blog: Life on the Scrap Heap for heaps of inspiration. You'll be so glad you did.

Using Sponsor stamps Good Things and Canvas Grunge Background, I interpreted the quote as one of celebration, and how many reasons there always are to do so. 

Today is a huge day of celebration here in the US, which prompted me to use red, white and blue as my color palatte. I created a background with Distress Oxide inks that I inked directly to Catherine Pooler's Canvas Grunge Background stamp. I sprayed it with water and stamped it on Neeneh Solar White 80# paper. Once dry, I spattered it with a little Perfect Pearls mixed with water, then die cut a large star from the background to use as the stage for my quote. I stamped it with VersaFine Onyx Black inside the star, then embossed with clear EP on top of the black ink. I spattered a mixture of red Perfect Pearls and water on a panel die cut with a Lawn Fawn scalloped rectangle, added some twine at the top, popped the star up in the middle, and adhered it to an A2 card base cut from SU Marina Mist cardstock.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what Claire and the rest of the Design Team have created for your inspiration. Play with us to share your creation, and a chance to win a prize from Catherine Pooler Designs. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

I'm also playing at:

Inkspirational #190 - 3 or 5 of Something

Five points on my star.

SSS Monday Challenge - Make Your Own Background

My star.

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Stars and/or Stripes

Freshly Made Sketches #395

Moving Along With The Times #101 - Stars And Stripes

Addicted To Stamps And More - Holiday

Always Fun #117 - Patriotic