{Paper Piecing} at Sweet Stampin'....

Happy Saturday!!

The challenge at Sweet Stampin' this week is PAPER PIECING...I dug through my older stash of Totally Stampalicious stamps and came across this cutie and found some cool paisley paper in my "Giddy Up!" Carta Bella paper pack....

Our sponsor this week is Stamp and Create and they are offering a $20 voucher:

Please be sure to head on over to the Sweet Stampin' challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team has for you...then be sure to get crafty and link up your paper piecing project for us to leave you some love....happy crafting!!

4 CC #199 {Round Cards}

Happy Thursday! Welcome back to my blog for another "theme" challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks! Miss Tamie is our challenge hostess this week and here's what she's throwin' out there for y'all:

4 CC #199 {Round Cards!}

I colored up this adorable Puddle Jumper "Darla" from by LORi Designs, fussy-cut her out and popped her up with foam squares...added some stitched stars, pearls and my birthday wishes sentiment is from  Verve....wa-laaa! Done! I love her...she's so cute! ;)

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Cuttin' and Stampin' Challenge - Birthday
Crafty Cardmakers - Circle cards
Inky Chicks - Shaped Cards
Top Tip Tuesday - Shaped Cards
Bunny Zoe - Layers

Please be sure to pop on over to the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge BLOG and see what the rest of CHICKS have created for you - the rounds cards are AMAZING! I cannot wait to see what you come up with! Happy crafting!

TPE #255 {Love You Bunches!}

Welcome back to my blog!

 

This week at The Pink Elephant, we are using this gorgeous inspiration photo as our jump-off point:

 I went with the fuchsia, blue and yellow colors and the "bunches" theme also from this photo....my colored digi is from Digital Delights and she fit the bill perfectly! I went searching for the PERFECT sentiment and came across it in my Sugar Pea set called "Love You Bunches!" ;)

I hope you take some time during this busy time of year (gardening, lawn care, camping, campfires, etc.) and get crafty with us at The Pink Elephant - we are so excited to see your interpretation of this gorgeous photo! Happy crafting!! :D

Merry Monday #113

Happy Merry Monday!!

 This week, our uber-talented miss Kathy is our challenge hostess and she's issuing such a fun and non-traditional palette for us to create with - check it out:

 

I went very CAS this week using my stitched star dies from Lil' Inker Designs, sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink:

I hope you get some time to come and get crafty with us Merry Makers this week! Click HERE to see what the rest of the Design Team has for you - you will be blown away! Stay tuned for another installment from The Pink Elephant - happy crafting!! :)

4 CC #198 {Baby} and PP #199

Welcome back to 4 Crafty Chicks Thursday! Today we had such gorgeous temp's...seems like we only get a day here and there amongst rain, wind and cold. Hopefully we start getting a string of warm weather and sunshine! ;)

This week, our challenge hostess is miss Tina, and she's issuing the following THEME for you:

4 CC #198 {BABY!}

I went in search of a color combo to color up my new-to-me image called "Ready to Pop" from Saturated Canary (isn't she just the most adorable pregnant girl you've ever seen??) and came across this one from the Paper Players:

 

And here's my card:

Thanks for stopping in today - be sure to hop on over to all the Chicks blogs and see what they have for you - I can assure you, the projects they made this week are ADORBS!!!! Link up your BABY project for us and we'll come visit you! Cheers!!

STS #22 and CMCC #23

Happy Tuesday! Lori Tecler is our sketch artist over at Seize the Sketch this week and she has given us this AWESOME layout to play with:

 I went in search of a color combo to use for my card and came across this GORGEOUS palette from Colour Me! :)

 

I totally LOVE this color combo....I hope you get some time to come get crafty with us at STS - you have 2 weeks to play along...click HERE for more details! CHEERS!

TPE #254 and cQc #244 {Happy Father's Day!}

 

 Welcome back! Are you ready for another THEME challenge from The Pink Elephant?! Excellent....here ya go:

TPE #254 {FATHER'S DAY!}

I borrowed this awesome masculine set (The Open Sea from SU!) from my good friend, Diane, and got busy scopin' out color challenges and came across this perfect one from ColourQ:

...and here is my card:

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

SUO Challenges - Stamp a background (I used the ledger stamp)
Stampin' Royalty - Masculine
Crafts 4 Eternity - For the Boys
QKR Stampede - Father's Day
The Stamping Boutique - Dad or Masculine

 Please be sure to hop on over to The Pink Elephant challenge BLOG to see what other creations Ella's girls have created for you - then, get crafty with us and link up yours!! CHEERS!!

MM #112 and The Challenge #8

 Happy "Merry Monday!"

This week, our challenge hostess is Karren and here's her theme for this week:

I have been wanting to play along with Lesley Croghan's new sketch this week over at Always Playing with Paper - check it out:

My cute hippo is from 'Tis the Season from There She Goes Stamps (*sniff* who have closed their doors)...isn't he cute!?! Love that Santa hat (and suit!)

I added some stitched die stars, sequins and faux stitched with my white pen around my sentiment and all done! I had so much fun creating this cutie....please be sure to hop on over to see what the rest of the Merry Makers have for you - they blew it out of the park this week! So many adorable creations! Cheers!

Celebrating BABIES at Sweet Stampin'

Happy Saturday!!

This week at Sweet Stampin' the girls are wanting to see BABIES!! I do not make these cards very often, so I was tickled to go in search of a cute image to use and came across this one from Pink Gem Designs :) Aren't they adorable???

Our weekly sponsor is Bunny Zoe and they are offering up a £10 voucher. 

The "new beginnings" sentiment is from The Alley Way Stamps set called Spring Has Sprung....goes perfect!

Thanks so much for stopping in today! I have a very busy day ahead with our son in an all-day football jamboree and then I'm heading up to my sisters to stay overnight and walk in the Edmonton Juvenile Diabetes 5K walk for my nephew, Cooper tomorrow morning....he was diagnosed with Type 1 a year and a half ago (he's 6 now) and we have now made it a yearly tradition to walk and raise money for research! 

Be sure to hop on over to the SS Blog and see what all the girls have for you - you will not be disappointed!! Cheers!!

4 CC #197 {Christmas in June!}

Happy 4 Crafty Chicks Thursday!!

This week, we welcome our Guest Designer for June - please be sure to hop on over to Lil Cutie Creations and give Amy a huge welcome to our hen house this month!! Welcome, Amy! Can't wait to be crafty with you this month! xoxoxo

This week, our challenge hostess is our wonderful, Leanne, and she's issuing a THEME challenge for y'all:

4 CC #197 {Christmas!}

Yep, you heard right - Christmas! I could make Christmas cards all year round - they seem to be my easiest type of card to make....Here's a CAS one I made for her challenge using up some of my scraps of DP:

The stamp is from Papertrey Ink called Think Big Favorites #8

Be sure to hop on over to the 4 Crafty Chicks blog HERE and link up your project for us! We are looking for anything paper-crafts....layouts, 3D altered items, cards, tags....you name it! Can't wait to see what you come up with! CHEERS!

TPE #253 {Orange}

Welcome back, crafty PEEPS!

This week, at The Pink Elephant, miss Ella is looking for us to use the color ORANGE on our crafty projects:

I came across THIS beautiful card at Splitcoaststampers and I just HAD to try to CASE one! I added a 3-sided border to my main panel and a couple pearls and more dots around my TAWS sentiment....but I thought it had such WOW factor! Thank you for the gorgeous idea, Toy!!

Be sure to click HERE to see what the rest of Ella's girls have in store for you - you will be blown AWAY! Happy crafting! Cheers!

Merry Monday #111 {Karen's Color Challenge}

 Welcome to another challenge from Merry Monday!

This week, the Merry Makers are saying goodbye to Karen Davis - good luck with everything Karen and don't be a stranger - we will miss you!! xoxoxo

For Karen's challenge, she has given us this gorgeous color theme: Aqua/White/other colors (I chose red) ;)

 

Like I said above, I chose RED as my other color as the colors just POP to me :) The stars are dies from Lil' Inker Designs I believe and the "holiday cheer" sentiment die is from Paper Smooches :)

I kept it CAS this week and I love how it turned out! I am also entering this card into the Stampin' Royalty Inspiration challenge this week - the colors are perfect!! Thanks for the tip, LeAnne!!

Be sure to hop on over to the challenge blog to see what the other girls have created for you...you will NOT be disappointed! See you soon for another challenge from The Pink Elephant ....

4 CC#196 {Anything Goes!}

 Happy 4 Crafty Chicks Thursday!

This week marks our 5th Thursday of May, so that means it's one of our favorite challenges:

4 CC #196 - ANYTHING GOES!!!

I decided to go CAS and I found a card similar to this one on Pinterest, but forgot to PIN it :( So, to whoever I got the idea from - THANK YOU!!

Please be sure to hop on over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the Chicks have created for you and then link up your project for us so we can come leave you some love! Cheers!!

{PIN}spirational Challenge #109

Welcome back to my blog! I must apologize for such a late post! Time seems to be getting away from me more and more these days - gardening/yard work season, our crop spraying business is getting ready to take off, football season for our son, and the end of the school year all take so much time! I need about another 24 hours in each day to get everything done! *wink*

The inspirational photo challenge over at {PIN}spirational Challenges this week is SOOOOO cute - take a peek:

 

The sponsors this week are:

 

~Meljen's Designs~

Prize-4 digis

 

~Oak Pond Creations~

Prize-3 digis

I chose to work with this cute image from Meljen's - and the bubble sentiment is from The Alley Way Stamps called "Small Talk"

It is with a torn heart that I need to announce that this is also my last post for {PIN}spirational. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Deanne and all the wonderful gals over at {PIN}spirational Challenges for such an amazing time being on the DT with them. Deanne, you run such an amazingly organized and fun ship, anyone would be honored to design for you! I hope to see you wonderful ladies in the Fall - Summer is just a bit too crazy for us around here so I need to downsize just a smidge! See ya around in blog land! HUGS!!!

{Summer Fun} at Twisted Tuesday and STS #21

Welcome back to my blog :) This week at Twisted Tuesday Challenges, the challenge is "Summer Fun" and we are to showcase children playing and we are to have a sun on our project....this also marks my last week on the DT at Twisted Tuesday and I would like to just say a huge THANK YOU to Melina and all the girls on the Design Team. I've had so much fun being sent out of my comfort zone with the twists each week - and the girls are amazing to work with! Hopefully, I will see you all again in the fall! Summer is so busy for me and our crop spraying business, I just feel I need to scale down a bit until the weather turns cooler ;)

I am also the "sketch hostess" over at Seize the Sketch so I decided to make a combination card this week:

 

Here's my card combining both challenges:

This cute image is a pre-colored digi from Digital Delights...they have so many awesome digi stamps to choose from - go check 'em out some time! I added my sun and cloud die cuts and stamped Good Times from the Celebrate Cake set at Reverse Confetti....thought it was the perfect day to take the picture outside and show off all my gorgeous sunshine-yellow dandelions in the background LOL.....

Please take time to come get crafty with us at Seize the Sketch and Twisted Tuesday - we look forward to seeing you!!