The Blessings Of Each Day

Spring has sprung at The Four Seasons Challenge. It is our first Spring themed challenge where this gorgeous mood board is there for your inspiration, but anything Spring goes. 

I took my inspiration from the shamrocks and went with a St. Paddy's Day creation. Take a look at the moodboard, and see what inspires you. The Design Team have created wonderful projects to inspire you as well. Check them out on the challenge blog HERE. Make yourself a cuppa, get crafty, and join us in the gallery. I can't wait to see what you create!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils	Pretty Pink Posh Best Of Luck Stamps & Dies Reverse Confetti Big Stripes Cover Panel Simon Says Stamp Large Gnome Die A Colorful Life Designs Shamrock Spray Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die
Cardstock	110lb. Neenah Solar Crest Recollections 110# Black Cardstock
Ink	Various Green Distress Oxide Inks
Embellishments
Other	Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips Reverse Lucky Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Bearly Art Precision Glue Waffle Flower 1/16" Foam Strips

I'm also playing at:

Festive Friday #0154 - St. Patrick's Day

Green, Leprechaun, Clover/Shamrock

Double Trouble #161 - Pinch Proof

Partnering With Festive Friday

Use Green In your Project

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Dots and/or Stripes

 Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Station March 2024 Challenge

Photo Inspiration - Looks like St. Paddy's Day to me!

How Did I Get So Lucky??

 

It's time for a new challenge at Just Us Girls where we are challenged to use stencils on our projects. Bobby is our host.  With St. Paddy's Day fast approaching, I went with a gnome and some shamrocks and a promise to myself to mail the cards I make to my Irish family members for this fun occasion! The Design Team and our wonderful Guest Designer, Denise Morgans, have made some wonderful cards to inspire your stencil loving hearts. Head on over the the Just Us Girls Challenge Blog and see what they have created to inspire you, then grab a cuppa and some stencils and join us!

Project Details
Stamps/Dies/Stencils	Simon Says Stamp Large Gnome Die A Colorful Life Designs Shamrock Spray Stencil Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die
Cardstock	80# Neenah Solar Crest Recollections 110# Black Cardstock
Ink	Distress Oxide Inks - Various Greens
Embellishments
Other	Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine Spellbinders Platinum Plus Die Cutting & Embossing Machine Scor-Pal Score Board Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer Waffle Flower 8.5x8.5 Grip Mat Bearly Art Precision Glue Waffle Flower 1/16" Foam Strips

I'm also playing at:

Krafty Chicks #704 - All Occasions

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Less Is More #460 starts today. We are challenged to create a CAS card with a bit of bling.

I need some St. Patrick's day cards so I went there. I stamped, colored and die cut this adorable Leprechaun from Pretty Pink Posh's Best of Luck stamp set, popped him up with dimensionals, and added a sentiment from the same set. His jacket button and the center of the four leaf clover are tiny gold rhinestones for my bling. Hard to see. Here is a closeup...

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 which we define as designs that include large areas of CLEAR AND CLEAN space with NO PATTERN, NO INK and NO TEXTURE See challenge guidelines on the Less Is More Blog.

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I'm also playing at:

The Card Concept #170 - Wearing o' the Green

Clean & Simple

Little Red Wagon #644 - CAS 

Challenge Up Your Life #145 - Mood Board

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Green

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A Bit Of Green

An Irish Blessing

Time for a new challenge at Addicted To CAS: ATCAS #155: Code Word GREEN.

I am hosting this challenge and I can't wait to see all the places this code word will take us!

We have 2 Guest Designers for this challenge:

Beate (Winner of Challenge #152 - Birds)

AND

Claire (Winner of Challenge #153 - Grid)

Both of these crafters are incredibly talented

St. Paddy's Day is tomorrow, so I couldn't resist making a card to celebrate it. I am not Irish, but I do love this celebration of family and stories and music and food. I went with Irish Blessings stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink to create my card. The card base is Stampin' Up Garden Green cardstock.  The scalloped panel is made with Papertrey Ink Fresh Snow Linen cardstock, die cut with Lawn Fawn Scalloped Stackable Rectangles. The shamrock is cut from a snippet of water colored cardstock. The circles are popped up with foam tape, and the sentiment is embossed with gold EP from Hero Arts.

I hope your day is as rich as gold and as colorful as a rainbow.

Please head on over to the ATCAS Challenge Blog and take a look at the wonderful inspiration pieces the Design Team and our Guest Designers have created for your inspiration. Get your GREEN on and make something to share in the gallery. Happy crafting!

Please remember that this is a CAS challenge. Here is a definition to remind you:

I'm also playing at:

The Card Concept #110 {Shamrock Blessings}

Clean and Simple style - Inspired by the shamrock itself.

Watercooler Wednesday #212 - All About Occasions

St. Paddy's Day

The Male Room #106 - Gorgeous Greens

Always Fun Challenge #101 - Shades Of Green

SIP Challenge #190 - Best Of Luck!

Lucky

My card below worked for many challenges this week with St. Paddy's Day coming up - lots o' green, gold, luck, shine...  I chose three challenges for my inspiration for this card.  I started with  Curtain Call which has a theme of "Lucky".  Here is my take:

Pals Paper Arts Challenge #242 is a color challenge with the colors green, gold and black.  I went with that and threw in a touch of rainbow just for fun.  I cut the word "lucky" in 4 different papers and I wasn't totally happy with any of them until I tried a scrap of watercolor paper on which I had painted rainbow colors for my AAA card last week.  That was perfect. I used all of the die cuts I had previously cut to build up the "ky" because the "luc" sat higher on the shaker.  The gold layer gave it a nice gold tinge.

Pretty Pink Posh's first challenge launched this week, and the theme is Sparkle & Shine.  I found these fun shamrock and gold coin confetties recently.  They are very sparkly & shiny, so there you go.  Perfect for this challenge.  Of course, I ended up with a shaker card because that is what I do with confetti these days.  I love it.

I am on a bit of a roll lately.  It's because of all the snow and bitter cold we have had - let me get in my craft space more than usual.  Thank you so much for coming by.  Have a wonderful day.

P Is For Paddy

I found a new challenge recently that I really like - the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. Lots of tongue in cheek fun. This week's challenge is to pay homage to all things Irish and green! I went straight for Paper Smooches "A Magical Spring" and came up with this. I had a lot of fun with it. Thanks for stopping in for a look.

Top O' The Mornin'

There is a great new challenge out there - Retro Sketches. Today's creation is made from inspiration from Retro Sketches and Colour Q.  I turned the sketch on its side.  The Colour Q colors screamed St. Paddy's Day, and so I pulled out this digi stamp I had for a year and put it to use.

Supplies:
Stamps~  Heather Ellis - Pure Innocence #24 Digi, Just Rite Happy Everything Tag Making Kit.
Paper~Certainly Celery, Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety, White, DCWV Textured Cardstock.
Ink~VersaFine Onyx Black, Garden Green.
Accessories~Dimensionals, Copic markers, Nestabilities, Sponge, PTI Background Basics Diamond Impression Plate.