Think Love - Think Chocolate!

This is my 'sweet treat shipping tag box' that I am entering in several challenges [again!]. It was easy to do this with most challenges looking for love (in all the right places!), valentines and hearts. The picture looks a little green to me but the color of the box is SU! Blue Bayou


The following challenges are looking for a digi:

1. There's Magic In the Air - to use the cutey giraffe image and make a treat box, bag, etc. (Now that challenge was made by my DD Kim, check out her awesome cupcake box!)

2. Fab N' Funky Challenge #8 - to use a digi stamp or sentiment

3. Bee Crafty Challenge - to think Romance and use a digi!

The following challenges are looking for colors:

4. Everybody Art Challenge - to use blue, white and brown

5. Wags and Whiskers Challenge - to use blue, white and brown

The following challenges are looking for hearts, valentines, and love:

6. Fussy & Fancy Friday Challenge #3 - to use hearts

7. Hand Full of Stamps - "I Give You My Heart"

8. Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - to use Hearts/Valentines

9. Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Hearts

10. Catch the Bug Challenge - Valentine with a twist, no pinks or reds

11. Polka Doodle Stamp Challenge - Non traditional valentine

12. Challenge Up Your Life - Valentines with Heart

13. A Spoonful of Sugar - #88 Freestyle

And the last challenge I did is the sketch:

14. Card Patterns - the sketch that determined the design of my sweet treat shippping tag box!

That's all for this project. I've been ordered to make 5 more cards this week-end (what's left of it). We'll see, the other order from DH is to get the house clean. Yeah right, I am woman, hear me roar!

Those of you with snow, be safe and warm!

SAM

Sending You Tons of Love!

Whew! Put more time into researching challenges and seeing how many would go together to make a Valentine card. So I'll keep this part short so I can get to listing all the challenges I am entering this card in. By the way, thanks for looking!
This would be the front view:


This would be the inside view:

The following challenges specified colors:

1. Paper Sundaes Second Challenge: A yummy recipe!
Ice Cream: Chocolate, of course! (brown)
Sauce: Strawberry (pink)
Topping: Whipping Cream (lace)
Finishing Touch: Flowers
2010

2. GC39: Color Challenge - Metallic:
metallic - of or suggesting metal, as in luster, resonance, or hardness.

3. Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C21
pretty in pink

4. Ildi Co's Challenge #8 - Pink, red and white
pink red white

5. Charisma Cardz Challenge #3
FRUITY COLOURS

6. Pretty Pink Papertake
pretty pink

7. C.R.A.F.T Challenge Week 34 - Colour Challenge - Red
red

8. Incy Wincy Designs Challenge
favorite colors

9. Bee-Crafty Challenge # 22
favorite color combo

The following challenges specified different techniques

10. Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #43
This week's challenge is called…POP-UP! when card is opened

11. Corrosive Challenge #48
fancy folds - I made a gate card

12. La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge #22 - Fancy Folds Cards
fancy folds - I made a gate card

13. The Pink Elephant Challenge #50
The sketch that I used

14. Crafty Ann's Challenge
wet or dry embossing

15. Creative Card Crew
punch it - I punched paper lace

16. Simon Says
punch it - I punched paper lace

The following challenges specify embellishments:

17. Your Next Stamp Challenge
anything that sparkles - Glitter Hearts, elephant skirt, and brown scallop matting

18. Dare U 2 Digi Stamp Challenge 29 - Buttons
buttons and digi image

19. There's Magic In the Air

Red Ribbon, Buttons, and Glitter or Something that Sparkles Tons of Love digi

20. CAARDvarks Challenge
red hearts

21. BELLI CHALLENGE #83 - HEARTS!
hearts

22. Practical Scrappers
embossing

23. Humble Pie Challenge

use red, pink white and hearts!

The following challenges specify a theme:

24. One Stop Craft Challenge
love and kisses


25. Crafty Creations Challenge
valentines or love

26. Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge
Valentine Project

OK, that pretty well sums up my week-end. Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to work I go!

SAM

EDIT: Wanted to show 4 cards I showed at my first SU! Party as a demostrator. We made the first 2 cards in the front. CASEing cards from splitcoast and other SU! demostrators we made a pull out tag to get the candy out. I discovered that the punched out heart could be put on the tag to show through when it is empty. The snow globe is so easy to do! Wish we had made that card instead. Then I made a card with the bird punch in the new occasions catalog. Love that punch, expect to see more use from it!

Warmest Wishes

I was inspired to make this card due to all of the winter challenges out there in blog land!
Scroll down to see the challenges I am entering it in...

This would be the front!

And this would be the inside!

I didn't put a sentiment inside but after photographing it I decided to turn it into a birthday card for a swap I am involved in at StampTV.

The inspirational challenges are:

1. Cards Patterns, Sketch 47

2. There She Goes Clear Stamps to use 3X embellishments

3. Our Creative Corner is a color challenge of Blue and Green

4. GC38: Spicy Supply Challenge - Embossing Powder at Gingersnap Creations

5. Everybody Art Challenge to use snowflakes

6. Three Clovers to use a winter theme

7. Stamp with Fun to use snowflakes

8. Fussy and Fancy to use a winter theme

9. Die Cuts R Us to use leftovers

10. Jacksonbelle Embellishments to bling in the New Year

11. Belli Challenge is to use bling

12. Challenge Up Your Life to think ice and snow

13. SophitisCat to be inspired by "Doth The North Wind Blow"

14. Charisma Cardz to use anything new (DP from Hawaii!)

14 Challenges and yet such a simple card and actually one that I am happy with the end result!

Those of you that are off work tomorrow for Martin Luther King Birthday - Have a great relaxing day!

Till next time, SAM

Happy Birthday Miss Kitty!

A cute image from There's Magic In the Air! I used this image to make a Birthday card, wouldn't it be cute for someone that has a birthday coming up February 10th! Hmmm, wonder who that could be? The challenge asked for stripes but I could not find any striped paper that I liked so I decided to make an awning and draw my own stripes!
This is the front...

and as requested by KM this is the inside...


I'm also entering this card in -

* There's Magic In the Air - kitty digi and stripes

*Charisma Cardz Challenge - color scheme (pink, brown, cream, toffee)

*Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #51 at the Sweetest Thing. I flipped the sketch upside down.

*Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C19 - Birthday

*The Pink Elephant Challenge #49 - Birthday

*ABC Challenge - 'L' is for layering

*Cupcake Challenge - Going Girly

* Digital Tuesday Challenge #41 - Embossing

SAM

Pretty Painted Pony...

This is posted earlier than my usual Saturday or Sunday - helps with 2 inclement weather days at school!

This card is based on the digi challenge at There's Magic In the Air with Nina May. When I first looked at the image I saw a welcome baby card. With the color scheme added to the challenge it seems more appropriate for a baby boy. I am entering this in a few more challenges that are listed below the pictures.

Oh by the way, I accepted the challenge by the DT member Kim (who just happens to be my daughter) who keeps asking, "Is your card done yet? Is your card done yet [over and over!], did you finish the inside?" She is definitely my motivator and inspiration! Love ya Kim!

The front...

And the inside...

As you can tell, I do everything Kim tells me to do, yeah right, like she does everything I tell her to do! LOL

Other challenges met:

1. 365 Cards - to use metal (by the way, love the new blog style!)

2. The Corrosive Challenge - to use 2 favorite embellishments (brad and punches [feet on inside]

3. Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge - to honor new life, I chose a baby theme

4. Cute Card Thursday Challenge - again a baby theme and new stash of metal brads

5. The Fresh Batch Challenge - the sketch I followed

6. Our Creative Corner Challenge - sketch

6. Stampin' for the Weekend - new beginning, again baby theme

7. Cupcake Craft Challenge - a baby card

8. By the Cute and Girly - something new, I chose new baby theme

9. Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Something new, ditto

10. Creative Card Crew Challenge - distressing, I sponged edges of mats

11. ABC Challenge - to use layers, I did, inside and out!

12. Crazy 4 Challenges - to use dots, OK I didn't use a lots of dots

13. Papertake Weekly Challenge - New Beginnings

and of course

14. There's Magic In the Air - painted pony digi and color challenge

That's it for today, hope you like my card and didn't notice that I almost cut his ears off - that comes from being cheap and trying to save my paper, I printed it too close to the top of the CS. I think I need to sacrifice CS for design.

Have a great day and keep warm!

SAM

I've Seen the First Snow!

What a week! Left Hawaii (Kim's) Monday afternoon with low 80 temps. Got home on Tuesday with high 20 temps. And I woke up Wednesday morning with the prettiest snow coming down! Hmm-from sand to snow! We had a great time at Kim's, got a lot done in her backyard and even made it to a few stores! It amazes me that I can find so many paper craft items there that I can't find here. It's just such a darn long ride to get there!

Well, looking at There's Magic In the Air challenge for this week it seemed to fit in perfect with our first snow. Nina's challenge was to pick one of her free digies or to look at her on-line store. I picked out the digi "First Snow", purchased it and Viola, it was there to use immediately! I also found a free sketch there and used it to design the following card...



The challenge also asked to make it sparkle. I used glitter card stock for the frame (built it up with CS layers) and then used pop-up dots to attach it. I also used Dazzling Diamonds on the snowflake, mittens, and snow at the bottom.

I am also entering this in

Pile It On Challenge # 29 to use anything digital

Lexi's Creations to use pastel colors

Practical Scrappers to use a winter theme

This is my last card - for 2009! So here's wishing you a safe, healthy and Happy New Year!

SAM

Winter Wishes...

Well, not exactly winter where I'm at...HAWAII!

Yes, we're still at Kim's and will be leaving on that big silver bird tomorrow afternoon. Makes me so sad :( to leave, we have had such a great visit. We didn't focus on Christmas as much as we did just being together and getting to know our gran-puppy Malie. Such a cutey and she did warm up to us pretty quick. Of course, giving her lots of treats broke the ice!

Kim let me dig into her stash of supplies to complete the card below for this week's TMITA challenge. It was so much fun to see how she organizes and all the different supplies she has. Now I'm motivated to go home and re-create my space and get the Mojo goin'!




She gave me 'another' lesson on coloring using her Prismacolor markers - I 'thinks' I better start saving my money...

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

1. There's Magic In the Air - use digi moose and follow sketch

2. Charizma Cardz - anything but Christmas

3. Crafty Creations - No rules!

4. Creative Card Crew - anything goes

Next time you hear from me I will have left Paradise (high 70's all week!) and I will be back in the cold Midwest! Maybe I can pack this wonderful weather and take it home?

Hope you had a great Holiday and I wish you the very best for the coming New Year!
SAM

Fancy Surprise!

What an exciting Blog Hop at There's Magic In the Air this week! Nina has some wonderful free digis for us to use and will soon have her store up and ready to share more of her artwork. This is my entry for the chance to be a guest designer. I have been looking at the other entries and they are awesome. The challenge is a recipe (you have until tomorrow to get your entry posted, so get to it!)

The recipe is as follows:
... you MUST follow this "Recipe" to make a card:
Use 1 tag - my sweet tag is on the right
Add 2 textures - cuttlebug stripe paper and ribbon
Mix in 3 pattern papers - background stripes, tag/scallop at bottom, bottom portion under mouse and cupcake
fold in 4 pieces of ribbon - 4 on main image + tag = 5 (ooops, see I can't follow a recipe!!!)
and sprinkle with 5 brads or 5 buttons - 4 on main image + tag = 5

You may also use one color card stock outside the color of the base of your card if you like, but only one.




Now I'm not very good at following recipes, just ask my DH!

Him, "This is good, how did you make it?"
Me, "Well, it called for a teaspoon of butter, but I didn't have any so I substituted mayo."
Me, "And then we were out of noodles, so I used rice instead."
Me, "No onions either, so I used onion salt, ya know it still gives it that 'oniony' flavor."
Him, "So what did you use that is in the recipe?"
Me, "The chicken."
Him, "So it's another one you made up?'
Me, "Yeah, basically"
Me, "So you like it?"
Him, "Yeah, it's good, but will you remember how to make it the next time?"
Me, "Probably not."

So, for me, the hardest part of this card was following the recipe! I must have checked the recipe at least one hundred times, which could be the reason it took all day and I still didn't get it right!

I am also entering this in the following blogs:
* The Sweet Stop sketch challenge.
* Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Sparkle Baby! challenge
*A Spoon Full of Sugar, Challenge 81 to make a monochrome card
*Whimsey Stamps, Challenge 31 - Die Cuts
*Pile it On!, Challenge #27 Tinsel Town
*Stamptacular Sunday, Let It Shine

Getting late, so best say "Good Night all!"

SAM