Robyn's Fetish, OSAAT and Whoopsi Daisy Challenges

Anything Goes is the theme at One Stitch at a Time and Whoopsi Daisy this week and monochromatic is the theme at Robyn's Fetish. Lately I have been making more and more monochromatic cards for some reason- I guess I just like the look. I played with a whole bunch of dies and punches for this card. The leaves are from Cherry Lynn Designs, the branch from Memory Box and the bird punch is from Fiskars. The sentiment on the inside is by Hero Arts. I love to use the positive and negative of dies and punches and did so on the bottom of the inside of the card which shows as the front was cut down. I used a variety of shades of green and added some gems and pearls to complete the card.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Crafty Catz and Art Impressions Challenges

Anything Goes at Crafty Catz this week and at Art Impressions they want us to use any sentiment on our cards. I used a sentiment and swirly flowers from Heartfelt Creations to create this card. I have seen this type of layered card many times recently in my Pinterest searches and found a tutorial here to try one for myself. It is very easy to do and I love the look you get. I used all black and white except for the pop of color for one flower I raised up and added a pearl to.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Doodle Pantry Baby Card

I discovered a challenge at Doodle Pantry recently that is just awesome! You can download a super cute set of digital stamps called Crescent Moon Ants FREE and then design a baby card with it for a chance at some great prizes! I used the colored version of this darling stamp and the perfect sentiment is part of the set too, so you just need to print them, decide on a layout and voila! you have a super cute baby card.

I am also entering this card in the Oh Baby challenge at Card Crafters Circle and the challenge at  Aud Sentiments to use a sentiment to welcome baby.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Paper Take Weekly and Crafty Sentiments Design Challenges

CAS is the challenge at Crafty Sentiments Design and Anything Goes at Paper Take Weekly this week. I saw this idea of cutting around parts of an embossing folder and raising the cut parts up to show a darker color of paper below at my local stamp shop. I used a Darice embossing folder and cut around the butterflies wings. But the wings were plain white and I didn't like that look, so I cut them out of a light blue velum, embossed with my favorite Swiss Dots folder (Cuttlebug) and attached to the white cut out butterflies. I added some pearls and an old sentiment from TAC to complete the CAS card.

Stamping smiles, Karen

Crackerbox Palace Thursday and More Blog Candy!

It's Crackerbox Palace Thursday and I am sharing some cards I made featuring Friends stamps that are available from Crackerbox Palace. Today there is a bonus third card because I was having so much fun with the friend sentiments I didn’t stop at two:) You can win your choice of the stamps featured on one of these cards by leaving a comment at either blog. The simple requirements for a chance at winning this week’s blog candy are below.

 But first-  to find out the winner of last week’s blog candy of the stamps featured on one of the “Focus on Sentiment” cards last Thursday you need to visit the CBP blog here. I am on a mini vacation in Door County celebrating my anniversary with my DH and I scheduled this blogpost before I left. 

 If you are the lucky winner, please send me or Crackerbox Palace your address and your choice of which stamps you want, so we can get you the stamps you have won.  And remember you can win another CBP stamp of your choice simply by posting a card you made with the stamps you won to your blog or Splitcoast Stampers gallery and sending us a link.

My first card above features Trixie in the scalloped heart (Nestabilities) and a fun- and so true- sentiment about bras and friends. I used a highlighter to accent parts of the sentiment, and a heart border punch by Martha Stewart.

My second card and third cards features another beautiful friendship sentiment from CBP and a whole bunch of dies too numerous to name. But as usual, I want my cards to say something and either of these would be great for a good friend’s birthday or a thinking of you card.

So would you like to win the fun stamps featured on one of today’s cards? Here is how to win our weekly blog candy:

 1.) We have decided that becoming a follower on both blogs is going to be something we would prefer you do but not a requirement.  My blog is here and the Crackerbox Palace blog is here. 

2.) Leave a comment on either my blog or the Crackerbox Palace blog on the Thursday blogpost featuring CBP stamps.  If you leave a comment on BOTH blogs, you will be entered twice in the drawing.   The deadline to leave a comment will be the following Wednesday at Noon CST. Mr. Random will pick a winner from the comments and he or she will win the featured stamp(s). You must send me (khasheck@gmail.com) or Crackerbox Palace (crackerbox@crackerboxstamps.com)  an email with your home address so the stamps can be mailed to you. If we do not hear from you within two weeks after we announce your win, and we can’t reach you through a blog, your prize will be forfeited.  And if you post a card to your blog or to Splitcoast Stampers with the stamps you won and send a link to Crackerbox Palace, you will win another Crackerbox Palace stamp of your choice!!

Crackerbox Palace smiles, Karen

What If? Wed. Sketch Challenge at Repeat Impressions

It's time for another fun sketch challenge at The House that Stamps Built and we are challenging you to make a card using the sketch below and link it up for a chance at some great Repeat Impressions rubber! For all the details on what you can win and to see the other Rock Stars cards using this sketch, please visit our blog.

For my card I started with a real photograph I found in one of my files of some clouds and a mountain background. I stamped the plane silhouette from the Big Boys Toys collection on the photo and cut it out with a large circle nestie. I stamped the “Wishing You” sentiment from the same set on purple and added some gems to complete the card.  

Here is the sketch for you to follow when you create a card for our challenge:

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Two Sisters Challenge Blog.

Stamping smiles, Karen 

Scrapping Memories and Blog Candy You Can Win!!

If you follow my blog, you know about my love for kids. Making any child happy touches my heart and that is why I became involved with Send a Smile 4 Kids and stepped up to become the blog’s owner and team leader when it was in danger of closing down. Recently I discovered a website called Scrapping Memories where there are so many cute digis and cutting files that are darling for making cards for kids. They were so kind in sharing their digital files with me to help make my kids smile, so I have joined up with them to share cards and scrapbook pages here on my blog every other Tuesday.  And each time I show you a project featuring some of their fun digital files, we are going to be offering you a chance to win some blog candy! Just leave a comment below sometime between now and Monday, August 20, 2012 at 9:00 am CST and you will be entered for a chance to win 5 digital stamps or cutting files from Scrapping Memories!!  If your comment is the winning one picked by Mr. Random AND if you have the Scrapping Memories blog badge on your blog, you will win TWO MORE free digital stamps or cutting files!!  (It is not required to win the blog candy that you have the blog badge on your blog, but you can win more if you do.)

Here is the code for putting the Scrapping Memories’ blog badge on your blog:

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I will announce the winner of the blog candy on August 21^st and you have two weeks to email me at khasheck at gmail dot com so I can put you in touch with Scrapping Memories to claim your prize.  I will try to contact you to let you know you have won, but if I am unable to reach you through a blog or email, and you do not contact me within the two weeks, your prize will be forfeited.  We will try to have a new blog candy contest every other Tuesday on my blog. 

Enough chatter- you came for the pictures, right? I created a Back to School card to share today and started with this darling colored digi of Matthew all ready for school. I had some colored lined notebook paper that I cut with a Nestabilities die and added a perfect sentiment (digi from Rainbow’s Echo.)

I am also sharing some scrapbook pages I made of my grandson attending a Harry Potter birthday party. I found some perfect HP  designer paper and printed and cut out the Harry Potter digital stamp from Scrapping Memories to accent these awesome pix from the party. Here is the second page of the layout and a super cute pix of the Harry Potter participants.

Hope you enjoyed my CAS projects featuring Scrapping Memories digitals. Leave a comment below for a chance to win some for yourself. Here’s another great reason to check out their website:  Scrapping Memories is having a Summer Sale right now- 60% OFF everything in the store!! And they are adding a bunch of new digi files this week- check out what is new and maybe buy some raffle tickets to help Carrie while you are there.

I am entering the card in the Anything Goes challenge at No Matter Which Challenge.

Stamping and scrapping smiles, Karen