You are Pawesome

Hi everyone,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Lynn McAuley our challenge hostess for the month, continues to issue the challenges.

Lynn asks .... Can anyone resist the cuteness of a puppy, man’s best friend. In honor of National Puppy week, find some of your cutest images of a puppy and feature it on your card this week.



As you can see I have created an easel card for my card this time round. For the background on my card I have used some more of the backgrounds I created when I was playing with my new Distress Oxide ink pads. 

I had the background for the top part of the card made already, but I needed to try and match up the background for the base of the card. One thing I did discover not all white card works as well with these inks. The white card I would normally reach for goes very dull, so I had to re do it using watercolour cardstock or Soft Finish Cardstock works week too.

I purchased these cute digital stamps from Bugaboo stamps earlier in the year and as I had this one all ready to color, it was begging to be used on a card. I layered the dogs onto a fishtail panel using the Fishtail Borders die set from Elizabeth Craft Design. For the other fishtails I used the ModaScrap Stitched Fishtail Banners.



This is a look at the card when it is closed ready to be placed in an envelope. The paw prints were sponged using distress oxide ink using the A Way with Stencils Hearts and Paw Prints stencil from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Here is a close up of the base of the card. I have also added Black/Silver Glitter Dots Peel Off Stickers to each of the fishtail panels on this card.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould

Stamps: BugBdayPups Digital Stamp - Bugaboo; You're Pawesome - Simon Says Stamp!; General Sentiments - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Paper: White; Black; Purple

Dies: ModaScrap Stitched Fishtail Banners; Fishtail Borders - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other ECD Products: Black/Silver Glitter Dots Peel Off Stickers; A Way with Stencils Hearts and Paw Prints

Other: Black Ink; Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide; Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide; Fired Brick Distress Oxide; Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide; Wilted Violet Distress Oxide; Walnut Stain Distress Oxide;  Foam Tape; Copics

Snow Fun

Hi everyone,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Vicky our challenge hostess for the month is here with one last challenge.

By now we’re in the snow season …. Let’s see an all occasion card – thinking of you, get well, hello …. Any card you can send on a normal day … no birthdays or holidays … and it should have snow on it in one way or another. 

Recently while surfing through Facebook, I came across some cute Puppy digital stamps which I NEEDED! While I was purchasing them, I also found this cutie which I thought would be perfect for this challenge. So of course I added it to the cart too haha! The image comes without a mouth so I used a stamp of a mouth that I had in an old faces stamp set.

This card was inspired by a card I created last year, I used the same base and designer paper but other than that is is change. 

I wanted my card to look like a snowy scene outside a house. So I added the Garden Notes Carolina Window & Shutters. I added the snow bank from the Pop it Ups Outdoor Edges and on each sided I added some winter trees using the CountryScapes - The Woods 1.

For the sentiment along the bottom edge of the card I used the "Play" from the new A Way with Words Fun Play die set. For the "Let's" I used the A Way with Words Let it Snow die set and separated the "Let" and used the "S" for the word "snow" to finish the word.

For the inside of the card I added some more of the brick designer paper along the bottom edge of the white panel. I then used the word "snow" for the A Way with Words Let' It Snow die set and the word "Fun" from the A Way with Words "Fun Play" die set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould

Stamps: Winter Kid Digital Stamp - Bugaboo Digi Stamps; Faces - Provo Craft

Paper: White; Red; DP - Authentique

Dies: Centre Step Card - Cheery Lyn Designs; Garden Notes Carolina Window & Shutters; CountryScapes The Woods 1; Pop It Ups Outdoor Edges; A Way with Words Fun Play; A Way with Words Let It Snow; Winter Sweater (snowflakes) - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other ECD Products: Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape 64mm; White Silk Microfine Glitter; Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter; Red/Gold Glitter Dots Peel Off Stickers

Other: Foam Tape; Copics

Dog-gone Happy Birthday

Hi everyone,

Today I am sharing a card using a digital stamp I purchased recently, I fell in love this cute dog image! I have created an Easel Card by just folding the front of the card in half and added a label to the bottom half of the card.

Here is another view of my card so you can see the folds a little easier. I added a couple of strips of cardstock along the edge of the base and front of the card for a little extra decoration. On the ends of the strips I added Black/Silver Glitter Dots Peel Off Stickers.

I added a dog themed sentiment for the birthday greeting on the base card.

Here is a look at the front of the card when it is closed ready to be placed in an envelope.

Stamps: Birthday Pup 1 - Bugaboo Digital Stamps; Dog-gone Birthday - Penny Black; LJD Birthday Greetings - MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Blue; Navy; Father DP - Moxxie

Dies: Pop It Ups Labels & Circles; Pop It Ups Katie Label Pivot Card - Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other: Black Ink; Black/Silver Glitter Dots Peel Off Stickers; Foam Tape; Copics

Pawsitively Doggone Great Day

Hi everyone,

I am still playing with those cute digital stamps I purchased recently from Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

 For my card today I created a Pop Up Card using the Pop It Ups Anita Frames Pop Up die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

To decorate the front of the card I used a Happy Birthday sentiment die and added another of the cute puppy images to the top of the sentiment

Stamps: Birthday Pup 1; Birthday Pup 2; Birthday Pup 3 - Bugaboo Digi Stamps; "Paws"itively Doggone Great Day - Rubbernecker

Paper: White; Brown; Red; Yellow; Antique DP - Kaisercraft

Dies: Pop It Ups Anita Frames - Elizabeth Craft Designs; Grand Happy Birthday - Memory Box

Other: Black Ink; Foam Tape; Copics

Trick Or Treat!

Hi everyone,

I love Saturday’s because it means it is time for another challenge with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.

Our challenge hostess Silke Ledlow has challenged us to create Halloween card or treat project. As you can see I opted for the later …. a treat project.

I have been wanting to make a test tube holder project for ages and this challenge seemed like a great opportunity to finally get around to it.

I found this fun image on the Bugaboo site recently … it is part of their Har Pot collection and this one is called The Chosen One. Of course being a Harry Potter fan I couldn’t resist them and just had to play with this one.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Angela Wood
• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lynda Benden
• Maria Bell
• Silke Kittmann
• Silke Ledlow
• Tammy Hershberger

Stamps: The Chosen One Digi – Bugaboo; Sentiments – Paper Pretties

Paper: White; Black; DP

Other: Black Ink; Oval Nestabilities; Black Divine Twine; Test Tubes;Tag Punch; Foam Tape; Copics

Chocolate Chip Cupcake!

Hello everyone,

It’s challenge time over on The Pink Elephant blog, this week the challenge is a sketch challenge …. my favorite type!

Our sponsor for our challenge is “Bugaboo Stamps”, this was a stamp company I hadn’t seen before but they have some really fun stamps and digi stamps so you might want to head on over there and check them out.

The image I choice to create my card is from Bugaboo Stamps “Cupcake Kids” range … these are such adorable images … I used “Chocolate Chip Girl” 

Here is a close up of my stamped image, after stamping and coloring the image I added white liquid appliqué to the cream areas of the image.

  Here is the sketch we are using for the challenge this week, we would love for you to play along too.

Don’t forget to check out The Pink Elephant blog to see what the rest of the design team have created this week.

Stamps: Chocolate Chip Girl – Bugaboo Stamps

Paper: White; Brown; Pink; Nook&Pantry DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Liquid Appliqué; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Button; SU Border Punch; Oval Punch; Foam Tape; Copics