Anything Goes 4 Kids Challenge at Send A Smile 4 Kids!

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This year, all challenges at SAS4Kids are Anything Goes 4 Kids! We will often have an alternative theme that you can choose to follow, but are not required to. Create and link any card that is appropriate for a child and your card could be chosen as one of our top three cards and you could join us as a guest dt member on a future challenge.

The theme for this challenge is: Anything Goes 4 Kids with no alternative theme.

HEADS UP- MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Our next challenge on July 21st is our 175^th and we are celebrating that milestone with a huge blog hop with many prizes to be won! The theme is Christmas in July 4 Kids, so you may want to get a Christmas or holiday card appropriate for a child ready to go as there will be EIGHT random winners chosen from the entrants in the challenge. And many prizes available both here and on each stop of the blog hop but if you are too busy to hop, you can win simply by commenting once on any of the blogs and the SAS4Kids blog!!

I created a sweet card for a child that features a Layered Chocolate Bar stamp set from Kat Scrappiness. All children of all ages love chocolate, right? I put the chocolate bar with its wrapper into a pocket created with rounded square stitched dies from My Favorite Things. I sponged the background and pocket with an aqua blue ink through a new stencil from Simon Says Stamp called Tap Dance.  Sweet (from Tonic Studios) was cut twice and layered slightly offset.

Be sure to check out the rest of the cards from TEAM SAS here and we would love it if you entered our challenge.

I am entering this card in the Scrapy Land challenge (used a Tonic Studios die.)

CAS Thank You Card

I often need thank you cards and used a favorite older oval scenery stamp from Northwoods and my Distress Oxide inks to make this CAS card. I stamped it twice and after sponging, cut out the oval scene and attached it to the oval frame stamped on the card front. The perfect sentiment stamp is by My Favorite Things.

Celebrating 4th of July with Fireworks

I love fireworks and make it a point every year to go somewhere to see them. I just bought a new die from My Favorite Things called Fireworks Display and managed to get a card made with it before the holiday is past. I die cut two of the Fireworks Display die out of the cardfront and placed blue and red glitter paper behind the fireworks. I die cut "celebrate" using a die from Penny Black and punched some sparkly stars using a punch from Tonic Studios. It was an easy and fun card to make when I have the perfect dies. 

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, the Red White or Blue challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday, and the Celebration challenge at The Paper Players.

Video - Double Interactive Baby Gender Reveal or Congrats Shaker Cards with DPP Sparkle Blends

Today I am sharing a new video on my YouTube channel and am also honored to be the guest designer diva at the Doodles Paper Playground blog. I created two cards with the new "Oh Baby" Sparkle Blend and show how to make them in the new video. I also used new Baby Onsie Shaker dies from Lil' Inker Designs to make the cards as well as new Crosshatch Squares dies from Karen Burniston and sentiment dies from Die-Versions and Tonic Studios. Here are a few pictures of both cards:

For more information and instructions on how to make these cute double interactive baby gender reveal or congrats cards, come watch the video here. Thanks for watching, subscribing, commenting and sharing and also for visiting my blog today.

I am entering the first card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday and the Celebration challenge at The Paper Players.

Happy Birthday USA 4th of July Card with Doodles Paper Playground Sparkle Blends

It's almost the 4th of July and I made this patriotic shaker card with a new Sparkle Blend from Doodles Paper Playground called Star Spangled. I started with a patriotic napkin and attached it to cardstock with cling wrap in my Minc machine. Then I cut a stitched star out of the center of the star on the napkin with a die set from Lil' Inker and created a shaker in that star with the Star Spangled sequin mix which is available here for purchase. I also cut some red and white stitched stars using the Lil' Inker set and attached them with Happy Birthday USA cut out with a Penny Black die and alphabet dies from Tonic Studios.The shaker napkin card front was attached to a red square card base. Here are a couple more pictures of the shaker "all shook up" and the inside of the card:

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Video - Peek A Boo Animated Cards with Motion Crafts Stamps and Dies

I love to share unique cards on my blog and in my YouTube videos and cards made with Motion Crafts by Uchi's Design are unique because their stamps move when pulled! I can't show that with still pictures, so you will want to watch my newest video here to see that motion. The bunny underneath the peek a boo window hops up and down with happiness. Here are a couple more pictures that give a hint as to that fun motion:

The layered Happy and stamps are by Gina Marie Designs. Here is another card I made with the same dies and stamps but with a black grid instead of the Motion Crafts grid die:

To really see the motion in these cards, you will want to hop over here and watch the video. I do so appreciate the time you spend here on my blog and watching my videos. Thanks for subscribing too and sharing and helping me #share the joy of creativity.

Guest Designer at Crop Stop To Finish Revisiting Embossing Folders Week

I am honored today to be the guest designer at the Crop Stop blog. I had so much fun designing with the embossing folders and specialty paper I purchased at Crop Stop that I made almost a dozen cards and featured them all in my newest video here. I find I neglect my embossing folders, but they are a great way to add unique texture to any card. The card above features the Tarnished Foil technique which I show how to do in the video.

This card features another pretty embossing folder and several kinds of paper I purchased at Crop Stop. For all the details and the links to the products used, hop over to the Crop Stop blog here.