A Happy Summery Birthday!

A very summery Birthday card made easy with bright sparkly pattern paper! The flower is a circle scallop punch and fan folded.. The blue layer is made from 2 scallop punches and the green is from one. Then I stickled the edges which ended up making the flower stiff, which means it will keep it's form better!

I am entering this in the following inspirational challenges:

Oldie but a Goodie - anything goes (everything in this card is old LOL!)

Hand Stamped Sentiments - button it up,

the flower are covered with clear sparkly buttons

Try It On Tuesday Taggers - Flower Power

Papertake Weekly - anything goes with option of buttons

Everbody Art Challenge - use shapes, I used layers of circles!

ABC Challenge- Y is for yesterday, and all of my

supplies are from many moons ago...uhm, so am I!

Scrappy Frogs Challenge - summer flowers

Birthday Sundaes - anything goes with a birthday sentiment

365 Cards, Day 128 - ad inspired,

I picked out the stripes and blue/green flower

Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers!!!

Party Time Tuesday - Square Card

Do You Stack Up - Square Card

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch I used

Polly Craft Challenge - Celebrations

Incy Wincy Designs - sugar/sweets

(I put a small cupcake, I'm on a diet! choke, choke cough!)

Freshly Brewed Designs - Birthday or Party theme cards

Penny's Challenges - Happy Birthday

Your Next Stamp - Button Up

Moving Along with the Times - Here Comes Summer

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - gardening theme

Getting Cricky - Summer time fun

Creative Craft Challenge - Pretty Blossoms

Unstampabelles - Celebration

Thanks for stopping by!

SAM

Just Beachy!

A CAS card using Faith's new beginning of the month Designed 2 Delight Digital image Flip Flops. Hurry over and you can participate in this month's progressive challenge and pick up free digis all month!

I printed the digi image and sentiment at the same time then cut my CS in half and had an instant card! Even though it is a one-layer CAS card, I took the liberty to layer up the inside and make it a gift card holder.

You can find the gift card holder toot at: Paper Garden Projects

I am entering this in the following challenges:

The Crazy Challenge - On the Beach

Designed 2 Delight - Freebie flip flop image

Designed 2 Delight - DT challenge of "It's My Party!"

Fresh Brewed Designs - Birthday or Party Themed cards

Kaboodle Doodles - Any Celebration

One Stitch At A Time - use a Digi

Pile It On - Time to Relax theme

Saturday Challenge at The Secret Crafter - Here Comes Summer

Stamp Something Challenge - July Digi Day

Hot Spot Challenge - Time for Vacation

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar - Under the Sea

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Single Layer card

2 Sisters Blog - Birthdays

Crafts and Me - Birthdays

Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges - summer doodles

My Partner in Crafting Crime - Let's Hit the Beach!

Wags 'n Whiskers - Summertime

Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Hot, Hot, Hot!

 Thanks for Stopping By!   SAM





Owl Wish U a Happy 4th!

My one and only Independence Day card for this year!

It is a spinner card and the star rolls (kind-a-sort-of) from one side to the other.

This card is made of Stampin' Up only materials and supplies except for the star.

A die cut I bought years ago and this is the first time I have used it.

Sound familiar?

This card gave me a couple of new challenges. First time to make a spinner card similar to what my DD did for her DT card at 365 Cards.

Top Tip Tuesday Tip -Make you own Pattern Paper - The stripes on the card? Wanted to use ribbon but it didn't work so I made a table on Word and changed the lines to Cherry Cobbler (by using the RGB code) and making the lines heavier. Kinda looks like ribbon - just glad I didn't make a bow out of it!

On the the challenges I am entering this in and we have a lot of patriotic themes this week...

365 Cards, Day 121 - Spinner card, check out the link Pam gave us that uses a brad and eyelet!
CCEE Stampers - die cuts
CES Challenges - woodland creatures
Cooking It Up With Katie - Colors of your Flag or something your country is known for.
Craft Us Crazy - Red, White and Blue and/or summer
Craft Your Pasiion Challenge - Seeing Red
Crop Stop - Show us Your National Colors
Little Red Wagon - Patriotic
Lollipop Crafts - Anything goes
Oldie But a Goodie - Anything goes using a stamp over 6 months old
Our Creative Corner - a seasonal celebration
Paper-crafting Journey - Anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays - 4th of July
Penny's Challenges - red, white and blue
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge - red, white and blue with option of stars
Scrappy Frogs Challenge - use red
Sentimental Sundays  - use colors of your national flag
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday Challenge - Stars and Stripes
Stamptacular Sundays Challenge - Stars and Stripes
Tuesday Throwdown - Red, White, and Blue
Friday Mashup - Let's Hear It for the Red, White and Blue and or Patriotic theme
Pals Paper Arts - favorite technique - I love to mix embossing and die cuts.
Allsorts Challenge - free and easy
Challenge Up Your Life - 1 die, 1 lace (mine is paper) and 1 brad
Crafty Creations - Thank You
Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge - Patriotic
Top Tip Tuesday - starts with T - thank you
Paper Issues - red, white and blue
Color Lab Color Challenge - night of navy, cherry cobbler, not quite navy
JUGS challenge - the sketch I used...


Off the Wall Craftiness - inspiration picture

Well, it's late and I hear an owl hooting that it's time to go to bed.

Have a great, happy and safe Holiday week-end!

SAM

sew suite!

Some things to note about this card.

*It is fabric pieced

*The fabric swatch under the sewing machine needle - I cut a slit in the CS and slid the fabric through the slit

*The lace flower is layered with Cherry Cobbler ribbon seam binding

*The DP and fabric is from 2010 SU! Holiday Mini catalog

This is an all Stampin' Up card using the Sew Suite stamp set.

 Love this set.

Being a seamstress in my past life

(i.e. Before I grew up and became a school counselor!)

I still enjoy any project that incorporates fabric.

I am entering this into the following challenges...

Card Positioning System - the sketch I used

365 Cards, Day 114 - Fun with Fabric

A Spoonful of Sugar - Ribbon and bows

Corrosive Challenge - Ribbon and bows

Craft Your Passion Challenge - Paper piecing (I hope it's OK that I used fabric instead  :)

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Embossing

Stampin' for the Weekend - My favorite Things:

I love to do vintage with lace/ribbon/bows and earth tone colors

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - my something new would be the buttons

and everything else is 'old' as in since Christmas.

Totally Gorjuss - ribbons and lace

Sugar Creek Hollow - Tic Tac Toe Challenge

my 3 - diecut (the green frames), flowers, embossing

Our Creative Corner - My Style: Vintage

Belli Challenge - Embellishment the starts with G: My is a Gathered flower!

Totally Stampalicious - my something new would be the buttons

and everything else is 'old' as in since Christmas

Craft Your Days Away - Vintage

Thanks for stopping by on another Stormy evening in the Midwest!

SAM

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

Oh Mary, Mary...

how does your garden grow?

Well, from Faith's new freebie digi for this week

it's lookin' pretty good!

Must be a butterfly garden with lots of butterfly bushes and butterfly weed.

And that cute little toad looks almost like the guys hopping around my flower beds

 - except -

they're a ugly brownish, gray color and

I've never seen a smile on their faces!



Challenge inspirations for this charming card are...

Inspirational Card Sketches - 

Just Add Ink - add some color, I used a combination of Prisma Markers and Copics
One Crazy Stamper - colors of the rainbow
Top Tip Tuesday - open
Moxie Fab World - Tuesday Trigger, Rainbow Bright
Anything Goes Challenge - Here comes summer
Bee Crafty - Summer is here!
Designed 2 Delight - Mary, Mary free digi (be sure to check Faith's blog for deets)
Stampin' B's Challenge - Use a border punch
Designers Challenge Designed 2 Delight - Going buggy

Thanks for stopping by!  SAM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARDEN...

Lovely Spring Fence digi from Faith at Designed 2 Delight!

This will be brief, camera issues.

I'm thinking new batteries...

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

A Spoonful of Sugar - Here comes summer!

Bee-Crafty - Summer is Here!

By the Cute and Girly - June in the Garden

Corrosive Challenge - summer colors

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes

Designed 2 Delight - Spring fence digi

Digital Tuesday - Garden outdoors

Do You Stack Up - Birthday theme

Paper Pretties Blog - summer theme

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Partytime Tuesdays - summer birthday

Pile It On - summer Heaven

Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Happy Birthday

Truly Scrumptious - Summer Sparkle

Tuesday Morning Sketches

Crafty Calendar Challenge - things with wings

Creative Card Crew - things with wings

Thanks for stopping by and take time to smell the roses!

SAM

HAPPY PAPA'S DAY!

So many masculine challenges in blog land  -

must be lots of cards being made for all the great daddy's!

I have had the honor of loving two of the greatest Dad's in my world!

My father who passed away 20 years ago.

I was Daddy's Baby Doll, which I used to my advantage at every chance I got.

My mother spanked me once for reminding her of that fact
when she told me to do something, LOL!

The other great father in my life is my DH.

I knew he would be a loving husband, but his role as father

to my favorite daughter is just amazing!

(Don't think I'm playing favorites here,

I only have one [adult] child who just happens
to be a girl and she is the bestest!)

I had an idea in my head to use a necktie on this card, mostly because my masculine stamps are non existent. I wanted it dimensional so I found directions for an Origami Necktie. Really easy to do even though I picked a little more complicated one. You can find an easier version a here.



My main inspiration today is Day 94, Button Blitz Challenge at 365 Cards to use at least 20 buttons and 6 needed to be stacked. I couldn't imagine all the weight of real buttons so I mixed real and faux on this card. I tried a technique of faux embossing by using layer on layer of the white card stock with the embossed die cut buttons. Not so sure it lives up to my expectation.

I was also inspired by the following challenges:

The following asked for a Masculine/Father's Day theme...

Craft Your Days Away

Craft Your Passion Challenge

Fresh Brewed Designs

Fussy and Fancy Challenge

Lexi's Creations

Paper Issues

Simon Says Stamp

SUO Challenge

Simply Create Challenge

And then other inspirations...

CES Challenge - embossing

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Zesty Colors - Orange, Yellow, Green

Paper Play Challenge - Greens, Yellows and Oranges

The Saturday Challenge - Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by on this SUNNY, HOT DAY!

HELLO SUMMER!

SAM