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

DINO-MITE!

Today I get to help kick off the new challenge at the

Designed 2 Delight Designers challenge blog ~ Card Ideas!

Debbie Fisher is hosting this challenge: 

KIDDING AROUND!

"April 10-16 is Week of the Young Child.

Let’s create a card/project for a young child.

This can be for any occasion: birthday, get well, or just because."

It seems that Debbie knew something about me or has a sixth sense because I have celebrated the Week of the Young Child for many years. My first job in the education field was as a teacher and director at Window Tree Preschool. I attended many Conference on the Young Years presented by Missouri's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Besides my degree in Elementary Education and Elementary Guidance and Counseling, I also have a degree in Early Childhood.

Well, enough about me, on to the card...

I think Faith's Dino-mite Birthday Party set is perfect to brighten any child's day.

I decided that I would make this a girly-girl dinosaur [Dino's aren't just for boys ya' know!]  and went with the all pinkish color scheme with lots of fussy cutting, glitz and glamour!

I used a Stand-Up card design.

(Free template here and check out others similar cards on Splitcoast)

I am entering this Pinky-Pink Dino card in the following challenges:

By the Cute and Girly - to be cute and girly!
CES Challenge - Monochromatic
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
Creatalicious Challenge - Two Tone colors
Hand Stamped Sentiments - Pink-a-Licious color scheme
Lexi's Creations - Monochromatic
One Stop Craft Challenge - Monochromatic
Allsorts Challenge - anything but a square
One Stitch At a Time - 3-D
Critter Challenge - fancy folds
Kaboodle Doodles - Let's Get Girly!
Fussy and Fancy - child theme
Cooking It Up with Katie - The ingredients for this week are: Start with a Die Cut,
Add a few Scallops, Keep it Monochromatic
Colour Create Challenge - color combo, pink, black, white
Really Reasonable Ribbons - dies or punches
Crafty Ann's Challenge - Raise a smile
Picture Perfect Creations -

Tuesday Morning Sketches



Thanks for stopping by and check out Card - Ideas on Monday to see a 'few' of my favorite creations with D2D images!

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



A Simple Thought...

A simple CAS card today...

the card base is Very Vanilla, but my camera lies!

entering in the following challenges

Speedy the Cat's Friend Challenge - to use lime green and gray, one layer

One Stop Craft Challenge - to keep it clean and simple

Less is More Challenge - a one layer card on the edge (stamp off the edge)

Simply Saturday at Stampin' Moments - the sketch I followed

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the sunshine!

SAM

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Quick and easy card using DP to set the scene, a digi image from Designed to Delight, a stamped sentiment, embellish with a button, ribbon, rhinestones, punched hearts to make a teeny, tiny shamrock, and a recycled gold tie from a honey jar!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Corrosive Challenge - Going Green

Paper Take Weekly - something lemon, yellow or bright and zingy

The Shabby Tearoom - Luck of the Irish

Designed 2 Delight - the cute Lucky Bird digi [freebie!]

Stamp Something - March Digi Day Challenge

Die Cut Dreams - Spring Garden Scene

Simply Create Challenge - Power of flowers

CES Challenge - St. Patrick's Good Luck

Hand Stamped Sentiments - Go for the Green

Paper Cutz Challenge - St. Patrick's Day theme

Scrappy Frog Challenge - Good Luck

Card Ideas - going green by recycling (that is the gold bow)

Crafty Ho's - St. Partick's Day theme

SAM

Butterfly Thanks

Quick card for today after I woke up at 3am with a huge sore lump in my throat - tonsils? Never had that problem before. But after numbing it with caffeine it does feel better. No temp Kimberly (my DD) so I will go to work today. After all, it is Principal's Day and we are all dressing with a suit coat and tie. I'm borrowing a tie, if you knew my DH you would know why! Well, after all that caffeine, this is what I came up with...

I am entering this card in the following 3 challenges ~

Sketch Frenzy Friday - using the following sketch...

Pals Paper Arts - using the following colors...

Less is More - to use the following...

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Have a great TGIF!

SAM