Anything Goes at Catch the Bug

Hi, everyone! Happy Saturday!

 Today is a new challenge day at Catch the Bug Blog, featuring all kinds of sweet Bugaboo Stamps images! Since it's the first Saturday of the month at Catch the Bug, it's an

Anything Goes

theme for our challenge this week!

Make sure you hop on by to check out all the wonderful DT eye-candy, and we hope you join us for the fun!

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This card features the image Ava Latte from Bugaboo Stamps. 

I started by coloring the image in PSE (surprised?! No....I know you're not! haha). I added the sentiment, also in PSE, and then printed it out on a 3-1/2 x 5 card. I cut the top at an angle (I winged it......seriously, no real thought was put into that one! lol!). I added some pretty blue dp from my K&Co pack of papers. The pretty pink scallop edge is a Spellbinders die from the On the Edge set. This card is headed out the door with a gift card to Starbucks for my bestie back in MI. I'm sure she will love the 'hug in a mug' idea (she's a BIG-time coffee addict!).

Now it's your turn to pick a favorite image, or try something new from Bugaboo Stamps, whip up your project and head on over to enter it into the Mr. Linky!

By entering your project, you could win up to TEN Bugaboo images!

Head on over to Catch the Bug to play along!

One more thing before I wrap this up....

I am now assisting the DT Coordinator with some of the more routine things at Catch the Bug Blog to fill in some time for our wonderful Ms. Min, who is expecting Baby #1, and is happily preparing for the arrival! I'm helping out with some posting duties, and I'm also helping out by choosing a Bugaboo Stamps Fan of the Month! So......if you're a fan of Bugaboo Stamps (and who isn't, right?!), make sure you're posting your Bugaboo cards on your blog because I'm poking around Blog-land looking for YOU! :)

Happy Crafting!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I truly appreciate it, and would love it if you would leave me a comment so I know you came to visit!

Please feel free to browse my blog, I'd love to be your inspiration for your next project! :0) If you're not already a follower, and like what I create, please consider following me! :0) ====>>

Time for an Oldie But Goodie!

Hi, everyone!

Thursday's are Oldie But Goodie Days at Catch the Bug Blog! 

I love OBG day because I can break out some of my favorite Bugaboo Stamps to play with, and have an excuse to show them on my blog! lol! (As if I need an excuse, right?!)

Today I am using the AKV Smell the Flowers from Bugaboo Stamps.  I paired her with a Fiskars sentiment stamp from their Lasting Love 8x8 Set.

This is a CAS, clean and simple, card. I have been making a TON of CAS cards, as you may have noticed. I'm still trying to diminsih my scrap paper piles, and it's harder to find matching pieces, so fewer, simpler card layouts have been my norm, and probably will be for quite aome time. I do still love making my little die-cut scenes, but those haven't been accompanying my digis, so.......for another time!

Anyhow, I grabbed a strip  of polka-dot and a strip of leftover stripes that matched well for this one. I added some Stickles Star Dust to the hearts, layered it all on a piece of scrap card stock, and there you have it!

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You can check out all the great images that Jodie has to offer, at the Bugaboo Store here.

Pick up this cute Bugaboo image, and others, over at the Bugaboo Stamps Store, and make sure you also jump over to the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: it's where you can find out all the lastest "dish" on what challenges are happening and what other challenge sites that Bugaboo is sponsoring (more chances to win some free Bugaboo!). It's also where you can check out all the other fantastic DT projects, including the OBG (Oldie But Goodie) stuff, the ABC (Anything But a Card) items, and the Tuesday New Releases......plus so much more!

One more thing before I wrap this up....be on the lookout for the upcoming Bugaboo Christmas in July Week Long Celebration! This is always a favorite, with lots of FREE images given away for participating in our challenges that week! I'll have more details on that as the date draws nearer.

 

Also, I am now assisting the DT Coordinator with some of the more routine things at Catch the Bug Blog to fill in some time for our wonderful Ms. Min, who is expecting Baby #1, and is happily preparing for the arrival! I'm helping out with some posting duties, and I'm also helping out by choosing a Bugaboo Stamps Fan of the Month! So......if you're a fan of Bugaboo Stamps (and who isn't, right?!), make sure you're posting your Bugaboo cards on your blog because I'm poking around Blog-land looking for YOU! :)

Happy Crafting!

Please feel free to browse my blog, I'd love to be your inspiration for your next project! :0) If you're not already a follower, and like what I create, please consider following me! :0) ====>>

Challenges Entered:

4 Crafty Chicks - Stripes

4 Krafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies - Spots & Stripes

Little Miss Muffet - Anything Goes

Guest Designer at From the Heart Stamps - A Sketch Challenge!

Hello, everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful day! I am very excited to share my second post as Guest Designer for From the Heart Stamps! Woohoo! 

I am having a great time playing along with their talented design team each week!

Not only does From the Heart Stamps have some incredibly adorable images, but each week at From the Heart Stamps Blog a sketch challenge is held. It is called a Sketch Challenge with a tWiSt: a sketch is provided, but so is an additional requirement. Don't worry.....no need to feel overwhelmed with rules and restrictions! You can choose to use the sketch, OR you can create using the tWiSt....or you can do BOTH! :)

Here is this weeks sketch:

Sketch with a tWiSt #070

tWiSt: Use an Animal of Some Sort

Here's a really cool thing about this sketch challenges: EVERYONE IS A WINNER! You can earn a $1 discount code toward any digi image in their store. No, not by being a random winner, but just by entering! And even better, yet.......you can use multiple codes toward purchases in their store! So, if you play three weeks in a row, you can buy a new digi for only $ .50! Play four times in a row, and "buy" a new digi with all four of your codes without spending a dime out of your own pocket! 

See......I told you that everyone is a winner there! :)

Here's another cool thing about From the Heart Stamps.......they also run a month-long challenge in addition to their weekly sketch challenges. "Why is that cool?" you ask??? Because if you use the monthly image, you will be emailed next months image 

FOR FREE!

Okay....now that I've explained my excitement about this great digi-stamp company, let's move on to my card for this week.  This week I am using the sketch AND the tWiSt. :)

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I chose to play with the sweet little Balancing Hearts image on my card. I colored my image digitally, with PSE. I cut it out, and embossed it, using a Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Rectangle die. I had these great papers in my stash, and I love the whimsical design of them. I don't normally use light colored papers without a pop of bold color, but for this card, that's exactly what I did......excluding my image, that is. :)

My Lattice Heart is a Martha Stewart Punch, as is the little Vine Heart. The tiny Heart Border is, too. The "Love" word is a plastic flat-back that I had from a packet that I purchased long ago. I had grabbed it from a clearance rack at a JoAnn store. I love shopping the entire JoAnn store for things to use on paper! :) I adhered it with some Glossy Accents, and called this "Done!".

  

I hope you enjoy your day! I appreciate you stopping by, and would love it if you'd leave a comment!

I hope you'll join us for the sketch challenge!

Thanks for stopping!

Happy Crafting!

Challenges Entered

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Layers

Card Mania - Flowers

Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes

Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes

Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes

A Sketchy Spring Day

Hello, everyone!

It's a sketchy Spring day, here. It can't seem to make up it's mind if it's going to be cloudy, or sunny. First, we had a forecast of all sun, but now it says it will be partly cloudy all day......I believe that! lol! Anyhow, here's a sketch that I used to create a Spring card to try to keep the gloomy grays out of my head.

This is Sketch No.#60 that I found at From the Heart Stamps Blog.

Here's the cool thing about their sketch challenges: EVERYONE IS A WINNER! You can earn a $1 discount code toward any digi image in their store. No, not by being a random winner, but just by entering! And even better, yet.......you can use multiple codes toward purchases in their store! So, if you play three weeks in a row, you can buy a new digi for only $ .50! Play four times in a row, and "buy" a new digi with all four of your codes without spending a dime out of your own pocket! See......I told you that everyone is a winner there! :)

Anyhow, I put this card together today using the image that I had picked up in their store (using my previously earned codes!) for free. :)

This uses the Happy Mail digi.

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I hope you're enjoying your day! I appreciate you stopping by, and would love it if you'd leave a comment!

Thanks for stopping!

Happy Crafting!

Card Recipe

Paper from Stash

Impression Obsession Die - Sm Grass Border

EK Success Punches - Medium Retro Flower, Large Retro Flower

Recollections Punch (from Michaels) - Tiny Music Notes, Scalloped Square

Spellbinders Dies - Classic Circles - Lg, Classic Circles - Sm

Brads from Stash

Challenges Entered

City Crafter Challenge - Easter or Spring
Creative Card Crew - Animals
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Meljen's Designs 'Girls Just Wanna' Have Fun' Challenge

Happy almost-Friday, everyone!

I am waiting, very patiently, for the local sushi place to open up for dinner! It is gorgeous outside, and hubby and I are heading to our favorite sushi place to get us out of the house. In the meantime, though, I had some time to put together a card for Meljens Designs newest challenge, 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'.

I had entered their challenge celebrating their 200th challenge, and I had won! Woohoo! Of course, silly me.....I didn't check the current challenge theme before sending off my image pics for my win. If I had, I may have chosen something a bit more girly for this challenge card. *sigh* Ahhh, well......I had these Sweet Lips, which I had actually picked up as a freebie "way back when". They are now in the Meljen's store here. 

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I did a lot of white-on-white for this, as you can see. I colored up the lips in PSE, added a sentiment, and printed. I layered the main image onto a white sheet with some pop dots, for interest. I cut out the 'xoxoxo' banner with a Silhouette cutting file, and the scalloped hearts are a Spellbinders die from the On the Edge set. A thin strip of a deep red card stock from my scrap for the bottom was added to anchor the card.

That's it! Easy-peasy, right?! I know..... but it was quick and fun! I hope you like it!

Thanks for dropping by! I'm off to tear hubby from his video game so we can hit the sushi bar! Have a great almost-weekend!

Happy Crafting!

Challenges Entered:

Cards in Envy - Anything Goes with A2

Crafting for all Seasons - No Designer Papers

Incy Wincy Designs - Monochromatic

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day, everyone!

Just a quick post to share the card I made for hubby. This is made using dies and an embossing folder, along with some Distress Ink and a few mulberry flowers and pearls from my stash.

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It was an extra-thick card, and I made an over-sized envelope for it out of some pretty dp using my new Envelope Punch Board by We R Memory Keepers. (Sorry, I forgot to take a photo of that!).

I know it's a very girly,  "froo-froo" card, but he loved it, regardless! :)

Challenges Entered

4 Crafty Chicks - Use Pearls

Crafting by Designs - Love

Crafting for All Seasons - Romance

Divas by Design - Love

Fab N' Funky - Love/Valentine

Milk Coffee Challenge - Girly

PCJ - Love is in the Air

Sassy Studios - It's Valentines Day

Sisterhood of Crafters - Love

Love is in the Air at Catch the Bug Blog!

It's Saturday, which means a new challenge over at Catch the Bug today! This week's theme is definitely appropriate for the season! 

It's all about

Love!

We want to see you whip up a goodie using

that has anything to do with love!

My card features some favorite Bugaboo Stamps characters, Gus & Stella! This is the 

Stella & Gus - Deck of Cards image. I just love the sentiment for this! Even hubby was laughing hard when he read it. (Little did he know....this one's coming his way! Haha! We've been together quite some time, can you tell?! hehehe)

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I actually broke the sentiment into two parts (digitally speaking), so that I could use part of it on the outside of the card, and the rest inside. I don't normally finish the inside of my cards, but for this one, I did.

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I blinged up the front of this card using some Glossy Accents on both characters glasses. I also added some Stickles, Star Dust, to the poker chips. For the border, I used two Silhouette cuts (Scallop Border Big and Playing Card Suits - Set of 4) to create the border, then filled in the suit cut-outs with some Stickles, Black Diamond and Xmas Red. I used the cut-out Spade and Club on the inside of my card. 

My designer paper is Stampin' Up, Jackpot II. I own the digital files, and printed them out on card stock for my card. I used my Stampin' Up Scallop Border Punch and some ribbon for additional touches.

So, let's see your card this week! Whip up your project and hop on over to enter it into the Mr. Linky!

By entering, you could win up to TEN Bugaboo images!

Head on over to Catch the Bug to play along!

Please check out the rest of the Design Team goodies while you're there! These peeps are filled with talent, full of good tips and ideas......and loaded with eye-candy-inspiring ideas! I am so honored to be part of the group!

Pick up this cute Bugaboo image, and others, over at the Bugaboo Stamps Store, and make sure you also jump over to the Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: it's where you can find out all the lastest "dish" on what challenges are happening and what other challenge sites that Bugaboo is sponsoring (more chances to win some free Bugaboo!). It's also where you can check out all the other fantastic DT projects, including the OBG (Oldie But Goodie) stuff, the ABC (Anything But a Card) items, and the Tuesday New Releases......plus so much more!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
I'd love for you to leave a comment so I knew you were here, and if you don't already, 

please consider following me ======>>

Challenges Entered:
ALBC - Man Up!
Crafts Galore Encore - Gem, Glitter or Candi
Crafts & Me - Photo Inspiration (I used the marraige undertone)
Digi Galore - Valentine
Feeling Crafty - Dies/Punches
Just B Creative Crazy - Linky Party
Just For Fun - Love is in the Air
Ladybug Crafts - Be Mine
Seemacrafts - Love/Valentine
The Cupboard Trilogy - Love