Ladybug Kindness and Candy Pencils!

Take a Double Step Ladder card, add mirror image balancing lady bugs (digi stamp), sparkly flowers, ribbon, bling and you have a dimensional spring card!

Really a fun card and the cuts were easier than I thought they would be.

I found the template for this at: Photobucket

I am entering this in the following challenges:

365 Cards - Day 44, Fancy Folds - Double Stair Step Card (my DD is the designer for that day, check it out!)

Designed 2 Delight - use the freebie image, Lady Bug Balancing act by Faith

Color Throwdown -

A Spoonful of Sugar - All Creatures Great and Small
Craft Your Passion - 2 X 2, make a pair
Creative Card Crew - spring
Dutch Dare - fancy folds
Incy Wincy Designs - Flower Frenzy
Papertake Weekly - truly Dimensional
Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle and Bling
Your Next Stamp Challenge - Texture It
Pixie Dust Studio - Say It Out Loud, use a sentiment



Also wanted to show off test examiners pencils for the Missouri Assessement Progran that we are now in the middle of. Since I am the BTC (or Building Test Coordinator, no pay raise with the title!), I do a training every year with the teachers and constantly say, "Only #2 pencils." And every year someone will ask, "Can we use mechanical pencils?" NO, your may not! Arghhh! So this picture show you my reminder for this year. I used SU! supplies except for the computer generated sentiment and the gold rim around the eraser end.

Have a great Sunday!

SAM

Guest Designer Spot at Designed 2 Delight!

Welcome to Part 1 of my week as a Guest Designer for Faith - artist and owner of - Designed 2 Delight! The perks of being a guest designer is that I got the image before anyone else, but the downside is that she asked me to keep a secret! Ahhh!

Garden Party is the next free image at Designed 2 Delight that I am showcasing for you today. It was so much fun to pull out my color pencils/OMS and color in this happy spring image. I love the little mice eyeing the cupcake! I kept the design simple but I just 'had' to add some bling and glitz. (If you play along from the 'get-go' at the beginning of the month you will get a free image the next week. If you didn't have a chance to grab the first freebie, never fear, you can find it in her shop along with some other amazing digi images)

You will find this card at the designers blog - Card Ideas Challenge Blog.

Along with Card Ideas, I am entering this beauty into the following challenges~



Allsorts Challenge - Blooming Blossoms
Anything Goes Challenge - Pearls
A Spoonful of Sugar - Tons of Texture
Birthday Sundaes - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge - Pastel Colors
One Crazy Stamper - April Flowers
I Did It Creations - Anything Goes
Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Flowers and Lace (I made paper lace)
Sketch Frenzy Friday - the sketch I used
Stamp Something Challenge - April Digi Challenge
Tuesday Throwdown - Spring
Crafty Calendar Challenge - bring forth May Flowers

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to come by Saturday for my next card for the Saturday Challenge at Card Ideas!   :)

SAM

HUG A BUG!

Another adorable image from Designed 2 Delight by Faith. Also inspired by Card Ideas to name a new holiday. As a school counselor I teach my elementary students that 12 hugs a day keep you Happy and Healthy! It is a proven fact, so each class lesson starts with us giving ourselves 12 hugs with #12 being a Bear Hug! (we don't hug each other because of that other little bugs called 'head lice' LOL!)

So my new holiday is

HUG A BUG DAY!

I would like to thank Hannah at 365 Cards, Day 31 to use poetry.

 I 'grabbed' the verse she used today for her DT card. Thanks Hannah!

Sorry about the bad picture, a little dark this time of night in the house...
I am entering this in Card Ideas and in Designed 2 Delight to use the above image, Ladybug Bloom.

Thanks for stopping by!  SAM

Bug Me Anytime!

Love this sentiment. Living my life as a school counselor I have people confiding in me about issues they have, usually about their children. They always apologize for bothering me and really it doesn't bother me at all. So the saying "Bug me anytime!" feels so appropriate. Maybe I'll carry this card with me and give it to the next person who apologizes! I combined the freebie "Caught A Bug" set from Faith's Designed 2 Delight and one of the first SU! stamps I bought a couple years ago. I had it in my head to use transparency film to make a 'jar window' in the front and expand on the lady bugs on the inside. Sometimes executing my ideas is not so easy...


This is the front...

and this is the inside...

I am entering this buggy card in the following challenges...

Designed 2 Delight to use this set so I can get a free digi next Friday!

Off the Wall Craftiness - to use the following color combo

Paper Cutz Challenge - is open to anything goes

Sugar Creek Hallow - is an anniversary, anything goes

Craft Challenge - is paper piecing, just did a little, that would be the cork stopper on the jar.

Truly Scrumptious Challenge - To tag it.

Creative Sketches - use a technique of Fancy Folds, Cuts, or Punches. This card was all about cutting (!) and I also used a punch for the tag

I hoped I didn't 'BUG' you too much today ~ Tee Hee!

Have a great rest of the week-end!

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

Butterflies are Free!

Well, not actually, when you consider all the gear you have to buy to make cards. The Cuttlebug was on sale for $50., the butterfly die was probably around $15., the pearls a mere couple dollars, the texture plate around $5.00, the cardstock was a dollar or so, oh yeah, adhesive, the ribbon is a few pennies, the button I won at Magic In the Air and time taken to make the card - priceless! Are we to $100. yet? So if I sold this card, just how much should I charge? Bottom line, don't tell my husband!

I followed the sketch at 365 Cards Super Sketchy Sunday Day 21.

I like this sketch, clean, neat and easy!

The inside of the card...

I was also inspired by the color challenge at Res-Q to use SU! colors, apricot appeal, regal rose, certainly celery and tempting turquoise. Also inspired by 'two-lips', I mean, tulips!

I was also inspired by the color challenge at Satuday Spotlight to use use your birthstone to chose the colors for the card. My birthday is in June 20 (yes, I accept presents, tee-hee). My stone is Alexandrite or Pearl, so I combined the 2 colors and the Pearl. Alexandrite is a stone that can appear to bluish or reddish. [ummm, kinda fits my personality!]

This also is being entered in the following challenges:

1. 
   
   Allsorts - Spring is in the Air
2. 
   
   Crazy 4 Challenges - Spring Theme
3. 
   
   Hand Full of Stamps - remove the dust, butterfly die cut hasn't been used forever!
4. 
   
   Fab 'n Funky - use something new, the button
5. 
   
   Jacksonbelle Embellishments - use something new, the button
6. 
   
   Rosie D's - Think spring (I'm not only thinkin', I'm prayin'!)
7. 
   
   Sweet Stampin' - Spring is in the Air
8. 
   
   The Pink Elephant - Spring!
9. 
   
   No Time To Stamp? Stamp Simply #131 - add texture and keep it CAS
10. 
    
    Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Spring Has Sprung

Thanks for stopping by and the kind comments that you leave. Have a great week!