Pilin' On the Scraps

The themes this month at Pile It On are Lots of Layers and/or Use Your Scraps. You can choose one or both themes, and you may enter the challenge as many times you like, as long as you are inspired by at least one other Challenge theme. We're sponsored by Angie's Digital Stamps, and I used her At the Beach digi stamp. I only used scraps from my offcut box to make this shaker card.

The mason jar & umbrella dies are from Elizabeth Craft Designs; I bought it from Elizabeth herself at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo in Mesa, Arizona, last September, with the intention of using it to make a shaker card. So glad I finally got around to it! I filled the shaker with blue microbeads, green & blue star sequins, and glass beads. I heat-embossed the sentiment (Lili of the Valley) in blue onto the towel part of the image. I had inked the gradient blue background a long time ago, and it ended up in my stash, just waiting for the perfect project!

Inspiration/Challenges:
Archiscraps: (P1) Squeeze (The digi stamp is "squeezed" into the mason jar!)
Die Cut Divas: (P1, die cuts) Water
Sognando Scrap Challenge #66: (P1) Green & Blue
Stick it Down (P1) Card Sketch

Update: This was the 2nd Place Winner for Sognando Scrap Challenge #66! Looking forward to being their Guest Designer!

Update: I was the lucky prize winner at Stick it Down!

Thank you for visiting! Hope you'll join us at Pile It On,

Pilin' On the Big ideas

The theme this month at Pile It On is Think Big (Large shapes; enlarged image; Big words, etc). The only really rule is to be inspired by more than one papercrafting challenge. We're sponsored by Angie's Digital Stamps, and I used her Cowboy Hat with Boots digi stamp.

I used a large cling stamp from Stampendous for the background and to decorate the letters. I heat-embossed it in white for the background, and stamped it in black for the letters. I cut the letters in the Blackoak Std font on my Silhouette Cameo. I colored the image with Copic markers.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Angie's Digital Stamps: Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts #261: Something To Say
Creative Craft Cottage Challenges #110: No patterned paper
Everybody-Art-Challenge #430: Use a Stamp
Simon Says Wednesday: Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting & inspiring my crafting! Hope you'll join us at Pile It On,

I Got the Blues Blog Hop + Cards for Men at the Crafter's Cafe

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge theme is Male Cards, and we're calling this our January Blues Challenge.  It's been 3 weeks since Santa was here, 2 weeks since we welcomed the New Year - all the hype and excitement has gone, are you feeling a bit down? So along with our normal challenge prizes, we will be 4 blog hop prizes as well to help spread a little cheer! Be sure to leave a comment on all the Design Team members blogs and mention "January Blues" to be eligible. And of course, link up your great Male Cards!


Welcome to my stop on this fun Blog Hop! Here are two cards featuring products from Angie's Cards & Digis to chase away a few winter blues.


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Hot Cocoa Gift Card

I used this fun sentiment by one of our generous sponsors, Angie's Cards & Digis. The card base was adapted from an SVG file I grabbed online years ago. It's an actual card, I just used the template to create a pocket on the front, for a packet of hot cocoa.

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Teddy Pop-up Card

For my second card, I used this cute image by one of our generous sponsors, Angie's Cards & Digis to make a 3-fold card based on this video tutorial by Frenchiestamps. The sentiment is by TLC Creations.

Thank you for visiting & hope you'll join us at The Crafter's Cafe! Be sure to leave me a comment & mention "January Blues" to qualify for the great Blog Hop prizes. Your next stop is the fabulous Fiona.


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Ribbons and/or Lace at Crafter's Cafe

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge this week is Ribbons and/or Lace. I used Box of Crayons by Angie's Digi Stamps, the sponsor for this fun challenge, along with a sentiment by TLC Creations.

The little lunchbox was made with Shrinky Dink plastic & a MoMR rubber stamp. I stamped it in black StazOn ink, baked it in my toaster oven, and colored it with a Ranger Distress Marker (Old Paper) and an American Crafts stamp marker (Sunflower). The 3D Kraft-paper butterflies are stickers from Recollections.

The notebook- and arrow-patterned papers are actually from one sheet by Pebbles Inc. that I die-cut with a Pagemaps die. The notepage is popped up slightly with foam tape. The ruler ribbon and adhesive lace are from my stash.  

I printed the image twice, once on white paper & again on kraft. I colored the crayons with Copics and pieced it into the kraft paper box piece. I added a bit of color to the box with Copics as well. I put the box of crayons on an Action Wobble:

The base of the card is double-sided patterned kraft cardstock. I used the notepage die to create a message section:

Cheerful Sketches April Challenge

Inspiration/Challenges:
Cheerful Sketches Challenge Blog: April Sketch
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper: Anything goes with Patterned Paper (2nd entry)
Dream Valley Challenges: Use Kraft
Top Tip Tuesday: 3 of Something (three butterflies)

Thank you for visiting & hope you'll join us at The Crafter's Cafe,