Love To Craft Challenge #95

Good day my Crafty friends! It's already November and Christmas is just around the corner. Ready or not, it's coming! This is the month that I mostly create Christmas or winter cards. Today is Day 1.

It's time to play along with the Love To Craft Challenge Blog: a wonderful group of crafty people creating and motivating the viewers to participate in the easy Anything Goes challenge every other month. You have six weeks to make time in your craft space and play along. I can handle that! Mostly!! But November 1st kind of crept up on me. I saw it coming and every week in October, I told myself to create a card but I kept pushing it off. I'm hoping our Admin for this challenge, let's me play but I understand she can't hold up the blog post just for me. So it's possible you don't see my creation on the challenge blog. I promise to do better and be on time in January.

 For this card, I created an alternative design with the October 2026 Paper Pumpkin kit: Noel Greetings using the sketch from the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

 

 

I was having a hard time putting the idea from my head onto card stock until I added the sweet chickadees, then it all fell into place. Chickadees are from October 2024 Paper Pumpkin: Nests of Christmas.

 

 

 I like to finish the card set with a matching inside and envelope. Keep it simple with just a little card stock and a coordinating image.

 

Hope you enjoyed my card today and that it motivates you to get creative. We all need a little me time, why not get crafty?? Upload your project for this week's Anything Goes theme on the LOVE TO CRAFT CHALLENGE BLOG.

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #844: ATG: COFFEE

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

This week on the Krafty Chicks Challenge blog, it's ANYTHING GOES week. One of the easiest challenges because you can have any theme you like. It can be a card, (fancy fold even), a treat package, home decor, or a scrapbook page. Literally ANYTHING GOES! But this time you can add the TWIST if you so desired. We will be accepting all card, so don't feel like you have to. The theme: COFFEE!!!

 #844 ANYTHING GOES

I just realized that I only own one coffee themed stamp set and I'm running low on the Coffee Break DSP. I'll have to look to upgrade and have a better stash for this theme.

First I cased a Sunflower Thank You card from Traveling Stamper almost exactly. I SELECTIVELY EDITTED the colours as I don't have Golden Glow or the Gingham Gallery DSP. I'll post that card to Facebook on Saturday morning if your interested. It'll be in my Diane's Craft Space group page.

For today's card, I cased the layout. I think this is a keeper sketch and that I'll create a template for future reference. If you would like the measurements and the original card tutorial, Traveling Stamper has a PDF link on her blog. 

Products used

• Stamp set: Rise & Shine
• Card Stock: Soft Sky, Early Espresso, Green Garden, Basic White, Vellum
• DSP: Coffee Break
• Ink Pads: Early Espresso, Garden Green 
  
• Accessories: Mini Alphabet Dies, Opaque Faceted Gems, Stampin' Dimensionals

 

I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple, this time with just a little DSP. 

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for ANYTHING GOES week from the Design Team. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

 

AAA Christmas Card Challenge #1

 Welcome crafty friends. So glad you stopped in to visit and see what's going on in my craft space. I have been blessed with a spot on the Design Team (DT) for a brand new challenge being launched today: AAA Christmas Card Challenge. I am so excited! Like I need another reason to play with my Christmas stamping supplies. Simple rules: create once a month, follow the theme of the month (it's Christmas/Holiday related), send some love to other DT members and in the gallery. Oh and have fun!

Let's get to it! Here's my card:

 Our very first challenge theme is Traditional Christmas. I took it to mean RED & GREEN but it can be anything you think of as traditional for Christmas. Check out the AAA Christmas Card Challenge blog for more inspiration. The DT have put their own spin on the theme. Think ornaments, tree, nativity, even Santa counts.

 

 Here's a close up of my card. I believe pine cones can be festive, especially with a little Wink of Stella to sparkle it up a bit.

 

As always, I can never leave the inside of the card and envelope blank, or as some say: naked. I try to jazz it up a notch. This time it's a strip of DSP, a left over pine cone die cut, and some pine needles 

 Now it's your turn to get creative. Make some time in your craft space this week, or at least once this month and play along with our fun CHRISTMAS challenge.

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge #843: MASCULINE

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you! 

Welcome to another great challenge week from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. MASCULINE is the theme this week and good luck to you. I struggle with cards for men. I love flowers and frills so I tend to buy more feminine stamp sets and play with those. I'll have to dig deep for masculine stamp set and dust them off before playing. Here we go!

 #843 MASCULINE

I am kind of last minute with my MASCULINE card this week. Thankfully Freshly Made Sketches had an easy layout to play with.

I'm also trying my hand with the Creative Challenge from Stampin' Up! The colour combo is a tough one. I couldn't think of a way to as the soft pink.

I don't have Barely Blush or Hydrangea Hue colours either. So I cheated a bit because the DSP has the Hydrangea Hue but I had to use Petal Pink instead. It's all good though! It goes well together!

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Sentimental Rose- Paper Pumpkin April 2019
• Card Stock: Blackberry Bliss, Petal Pink, Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow
• DSP: Delicate Dreams 
• Ink Pads: Mossy Meadow
• Stampin' Blends: Pecan Pie, Blackberry Bliss 
• Accessories: Mountain Air Dies, Seasonal Layers Thinlits, Stampin' Dimensionals
   

 

 I like to keep the inside of the card and the envelope clean and simple by just adding a coordinating die cut and image.

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration from the Design Team for MASCULINE week. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

The Creative Crafters #105: ANYTHING GOES

 Good day my Crafty friends! I hope all is well and that you are creating some crafty time for yourself. I try to get creative at least 3 times a week. It helps that I'm on the Design Team (DT) to some fun and easy challenges. Today I'm showcasing my DT card for The Creative Crafters Challenge #105.

As always, we keep things simple and fun and our challenge is ANYTHING GOES. It doesn't even need to be a card, any paper project hand-made by you counts.  

 For this card I created a Paper Pumpkin alternative using the September kit called Aspens of Gratitude. I also had a try at the Eclipse Technique by raising every other strip with Stampin' Dimensionals.

 Products used:

• Stamp Set: September Paper Pumpkin kit- Aspens of Gratitude
• Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze
• DSP: September Paper Pumpkin kit- Aspens of Gratitude
• Accessories: Linen Thread, Stampin' Dimensionals

 

Hope you enjoyed my card today and that it motivates you to get creative. We all need a little me time, why not get crafty?? Upload your project for this week's Anything Goes theme on The Creative Crafters challenge.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #842: CAS

  Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

 

Are you ready for this week's challenge?? On the third week of the month, I'm the hostess and we are looking for CAS. I always have a difficult time with the true CAS design of lots of white space but I've come to realized after all this time that there's a wide interpretation to CAS (Clean And Simple). So just have fun with it.

#842 CAS

This week I'm playing with a Totallyawake4-life's sketch challenge. One day while scrolling Facebook, one of her creations caught my eye. Then I noticed Margaret plays along and shares many challenges. She was (actually still is) everywhere on my Facebook feed, in many of the groups I follow, and even in the Krafty Chicks Challenge gallery. So I think it's fine time I play along with her sketch challenge #TA4L023.

And since we are having beautiful fall weather (little windy though), I thought I'd play with some pumpkin. Instead of a big block shape of card stock or DSP in the background, I thought the gate die was a great substitute.

Products used:

• Stamp Set: Painted Pumpkins
• Card Stock: Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Basic White
• Ink Pads: Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie 
• Accessories: Painted Pumpkin Dies, Blending Brush, Painted Pumpkins Decorative Masks, Linen Thread, Speckled Dots, Stampin Dimensionals 

 

No card is complete without finishing the inside and the envelope with a coordinating element like some pumpkins. Keep it simple!

Want some more inspiration?? Go check out the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created. Hope you play along and upload your project so that we can see what's happening in your craft space. Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog

Krafty Chicks Challenge #841: CHRISTMAS

 Happy Krafty Chicks Thursday to you!

Time for another great challenge from the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog. Welcome to week 2 of our challenges and that's to use a CHRISTMAS or any holiday/winter theme on your project. I chose to put the spotlight on Christmas this week!

 #841 CHRISTMAS

I went looking through my retired Paper Pumpkin kits and found that the Nests Of Christmas was perfect for last week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge #756.

 For the inside of the card, I simply added a strip of pattern paper. Keeping it simple! And because the envelope was already pretty, the card set was done. 

 

Head on over to the Krafty Chicks Challenge Blog for more details about the challenge and for more inspiration for CHRISTMAS week from the Design Team. There's even a place to upload your project at the end. I hope you play along with us and show us what's happening in your craft space.

Here's a direct link to our wonderful Design Team's personal blogs:

Leanne's Blog

Denise's Blog

Lori's Blog