Mixed Bunch...

Lovely tag card using SU! Mixed Bunch and Marina Mist.

A very easy 'stamp your own background'

with trio flowers from 'Language of Friendship' set.

Sentiment is from 'Well Scripted'.

Inspirational Challenges are:

Crafty Ribbons, Cute Card Thursday, and One Crazy Stamper are challenging a Birthday theme

Do You Stack Up? challenged a favorite color

Gingersnap Creations - challenged only 2 colors (blue, brown, neutral white)

Lollipop Crafts - challenged white with a splash of color

Paper Crafting Journey challenged Pretty Pastels

Party Time Tuesday challenged a selection of a monochromatic color

Let's Ink It Up challenged to Show Us Your Flowers

Scrap Creations challenged ribbons and pearls

Totally Stampalicious challenged a bouquet of flowers

Crazy Challenge challenged No Designer Paper

The following pictures show gifts I made for the hostess of a Stampin' Up party.

Thanks Tonya, soooooooooo much fun!

A Gift Bag...

Candy Bar and Baker's Twine Holder...

Thanks for stopping by.

I have done a clean-up/moved stuff around in my 'crap' room,

so hopefully I can gear back into making some more paperies!

SAM

Happy St. Pat's Day!

Fresh Cut Flowers...

This time of year I love to walk around my flower beds and cut fresh flowers to bring inside. Now Faith's D2D image this week brings the same happy feeling to my ho-made card...

The scallop black frame around the image was an creative accident!

I wanted to mat the image but the scallop nestie I used just looked toooooo big. So being the cheapo I am, I decided to die cut a simple square out of the middle of the scallop die cut. Well, it caught my attention and when I placed it around the image with the pink background showing through, well, it just didn't look so big and made a perfect frame!

Love it when that happens!

Now for some inspirational challenges...

Digital Tuesday - favorite ice cream combo. I've been on a strictly vanilla ice cream kick with added ingredients. With the fresh strawberries in our garden (well, were in our garden) it has been vanilla with loads of fresh cut-up strawberries!

Craft Your Days Away - Chose a monochrome color theme

Crazy 4 Challenges - add twine, floss or string

Designed 2 Delight Card Ideas - use color combo of orange/pink. sigh ;) I love pink but not so much orange so my combo is very heavy on pink and a few orange flowers.

Designed 2 Delight - the Fresh Cut digi by Faith (I obtained this digi free by participating in the progressive challenge she has every month!)

Lexi's Creations - no sentiment.

Penny's Challenges - Best Friends - represented by the 2 hearts in the bouquet

Truly Scrumptious - the sketch I used. Love this sketch!

Everybody Art Challenge - is an anything goes challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by!  SAM

Fringed Ribbon Flower...

Pam at 365 Cards asked for a technique of making Fringed Ribbon.

I interpreted this to mean Frayed Ribbon.

I like frayed ribbon.

So I made this card yesterday. 

It's not the same, my daughter told me so.

I even looked up the definition - to prove I'm right
And not ruin my record of being right all the time!!!

She's right

(Gr-r-r-r!).

So - I made a new card today and made Fringed Ribbon.

That I turned into a flower.

Then I got carried away and put it on the tag.

Oh yeah, The white center of the flower is Fringed too!

~Here it is~

I like this card. Even if I'm wrong   ;(

On to my inspiration challenges -

365 Cards, Day #79 - Fabulous Fringe

The Alphabet Challenge - CAS

Craft Your Days Away - White + one

Cupcake Craft Challenge - In the Garden

Everybody Art Challenge - tag

If the Shoe Fits, Scrap It! - CAS

Incy Wincy Designs - CAS

Let's Ink It Up - Focal Sentiment and a 3D flower

Paper Play Challenge - Sparkle Galore

The Shabby Tearoom - Monochromatic color scheme

Totally Stampalicious - White + WOW

One Stitch At a Time - Bling it on

I Did It Creations - Anything goes

Clean and Simple Stamping - sketch

That's it for this week-end.

3.5 Days of school left.

But who's counting?   :)

SAM

SPRING BIRTHDAY WISHES!

Speaking of Spring, storm warnings are out for tonight, including tornado warnings north of us. Hey Kim, remember, I won't be in the recliner this time...I'll be asleep in bed! Better get this posted before it hits...

Look close at the butterfly, it is a close-up of a petunia picture that I took a couple years ago...

OK, going to make this quick, so listed below are the inspirational

challenges that inspired this card...

Allsorts Challenge - to make your own flower

CES Challenge - Flower and Flutterbys

Cooking it Up with Katie - the recipe of white, wings and wishes

Cr8 4 Fun Color Challenge - use colors from the following chart

Crafty Creations Challenge - what lives at the bottom of my garden, I kept thinking worms [yuck], but thought about all the butterflies we see around our flowers [much better].

Crazy 4 Challenges - use flowers

Die Cut Dreams - Spring garden scene

Inspirational Card Sketches the sketch below

Lexi's Creations - flowers

Oldie but a Goodie Challenge  - a stamped image at least 6 months old,

got the Just Believe stamp set at SU! Convention last July, what fun!

One Stop Craft Challenge - spring flowers

Paper Cutz Challenge - spring flowers

Party Time Tuesday - anything goes

Reasonable Ribbon - Spring theme with ribbon

Sentimental Sundays - Spring theme with sentiment

Stamp Something Challenge - Stamp something with flowers

Stamping Bs Design Team - use a flower

Sugar Creek Hollow - inside out, meaning front and inside are completed

Tuesday Throwdown - 3-D, pop up design

Paper Pals Arts - element of style with scallops

Simply Create Challenge - power of flowers

365 Cards Day 363 - Faux Framed, look close, I scored double lines

around the flower image!

Well, looks like the storm is staying north (well most of it)

but now they threw in the "S" word...

SNOW! 
Aghhhhh, said Charlie Brown!

SAM

Krafty Flowers

A simple card to be entered in several challenges -

Theres Magic in the Air - A CAS card with Nina's image, "Softly Afloat"
365 Cards, Day 77 - Super Sketchy Sunday
Paper Play Challenge - brown + 'what' (I hope kraft counts as brown, as in brown paper bag?)
Just Us Girls (JUGS) Challenge - colors red, white, blue with optional kraft, umm, I mean brown!
Hand Full of Stamps - get your shine on - I used pearls
Gingersnap Creations CS 51 - botanical
Crafty Cardmakers - distressed  (ooops, too late, shouldn't have fixed dinner  LOL!)
Pile It On - a photo inspiration challenge - My card was inspired by the wallpaper
Paper Make-up for the Week-end - use 3 flowers. I used more, but noticed others did too.
Creative Inspirations #34 - punches and die cuts.