STAMPtember - Day Sixteen - Peace and Love Are All You Need

Happy shopping Saturday!  I'm taking a break from replenishing my supplies to share this card that I actually made out of found pieces from piles in my craft room.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Try It On Tuesday - Make It Colorful
• Mirtillamente - #35 Anything Goes 4/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Creative Crafters!!

Happy middle-of-the-month!  It's the fifteenth and that means it's time for a new challenge at Creative Crafters!  As always our challenge is Anything Goes!!!  We had one whole day of fall weather and now we're back to humid.  Ugh!  So I made a fall card cause I love sweater weather and we get so little of it. Mostly we go from 90s to puffer coats lol.  This image from last month's KOM from Unity Stamps is just amazing.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• The Crafting Challenge - Anything Goes 1/3
• Inspiration Station - Prompt #65 Photo Inspiration - Fall Farm 2/8 - I was so inspired by all the colors of the fall leaves and trees!!
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes 2/3
• Crafts Galore - #127 Anything Goes 2/3
• Scrapping4FunChallenge - #239 Anything Goes 3/4
• Polkadoodles - #36 Anything Goes 3/4
• Paper Funday - #69 Anything Goes 3/6
• Allsorts - #798 Anything Goes 3/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #665 Anything Goes 5/5

Be sure to visit the blog, play along with us and check out the other DT's projects as well!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

STAMPtember - Day Eleven - Take Two (technically Three) - Happy Birthday, Nessie!!!

Three posts today!  There's a lot going on.

My fellow Twihards will know that today is Renesmee Cullen's birthday.  Per the books, she's eighteen!  Crazy.  I hope Jacob's keeping his creeper distance cause.....yecch!  Anyways, I always make a card for Nessie's birthday, and this year I made a card slightly Twilight inspired, but that could absolutely be a card that someone might give to Nessie.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Polkadoodles - #36 Anything Goes 2/4
• Word Art Wednesday - #665 Anything Goes 3/5
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Stamp It 4/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

**FALL FRIENDS IG CARD HOP** Week One - Latte Love

Welcome to Week One of the Fall Friends Card Hop, hosted by @createwithkas.  We're sharing 11 weeks of fall projects with weekly themes and if you would like to join us, please DM Kelly @createwithkas.  This week's theme is A Latte Fall Fun!!

Even though I don't drink lattes, I love all things coffee!  I had to make two cards because I couldn't decide what to make.  I used my brand new Pumpkin Spice Vibes stamp and die set from Simon Says Stamp and I've got a feeling I'm going to be using this a lot!

I love them both, I don't think I could pick a favorite!!

Sketch for this card - Hand Stamped Sentiments #446

Sketch for this card - Sweet Sketch Wednesday #286

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Polkadoodles - #36 Anything Goes 1/4
• Word Art Wednesday - #665 Anything Goes 2/5

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STAMPtember - Day Eleven - Celebrate America

Hi everyone.  Today's a somber day for everyone, I know it is for me.  This day kind of haunts me, and I feel like it always serves as a reminder of how different our country was back then.  No one tried to politicize the terrorist attacks, we all came together, we supported our country as a whole, it was so different than we are now.

I always make a card for today, usually a thank you card, which this would work for, to honor those who were lost, and those who risked their lives to help.

Just a few challenges

• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #665 Anything Goes 1/5
• Halloween Crafts All Year Long - #18 Anything For Your Country Goes 2/5
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Stamp It 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

**STASHBUSTERS IG HOP** Week 19 - Use A Crafty Item In More Than One Way

Welcome to the Stashbusters 2024 Paper Crafting Hop!  Stashbusters 2024 is hosted by Armen @armenscraftroom.  Every other Tuesday, the Stashbusters post 1-6 creative, paper-based projects to share. Our goal is to use the items and supplies we already own to create between 27-162 projects each over the course of 2024.

Today's hop theme is "Use one item multiple ways to create interactive friendship cards".

I did two out of three!  I couldn't really nail the "interactive" part of the challenge with my time constraints, but I definitely made cards for girlfriends using the same stamp in three different ways.

Sometimes I like to split the posts up for the cards, but I didn't feel like doing that today for some reason.  All three cards use the same Simon Says Stamp stamp set in a different way.

This one I stamped on patterned papers and cut all the pumpkins and gourds out by hand.  I love fussy cutting.

A couple challenges for this one:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Inspiration Station - Prompt #65 Photo Inspiration - Fall Farm - 1/8 - I loved all the colors of the fall foliage in the photo and felt like the farm would have a pumpkin patch!

The copper and gold didn't photograph that well, but I stamped this one with the Lisa Horton metallic inks.  Honestly the jury is still out on these.  I've had these dry really well, like on this card, and not at all on other projects, which makes them just like every other brand of metallic ink pad I've ever had. 😢

She's my favorite.  So festive with her PSL, ready for a day of errands, and maybe a little fun in there, too.

Just a few challenges for this card:

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• Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
• Pammie's Inky Pinky Challenge - #2436 Anything Goes 1/3
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Stamp It 1/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy hopping!  Laters!!

JUST FOR GIGGLES IG CARD HOP - September - Clean and Simple

Hi everyone!  Welcome to the Just For Giggles IG Hop, hosted by @craftyengineer and @itsawonderful_craft_life.

This month we hope to make you laugh but we also challenged ourselves to make "Clean and Simple" cards.

If you've been here before, you know how hard CAS cards are for me.  I tried, I really did.

This sentiment really speaks to me now, way more than when I bought it and I've had it for years.

If we made you giggle, chuckle or smile, please leave us a comment so we can know.  Now sit back and enjoy the hop!

Next up is @reclaimingmycrafts

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Allsorts - #797 Anything Goes/Autumn 1/3
• A Cut Above - Anything With A Die Cut Goes 1/3
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - STAMP It! 4/5
• Ally's Angels - #84 Anything Goes 6/8
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STAMPtember - Day Seven - Merry Christmas Truck

Happy Saturday.  I've not had any caffeine and I'm not awake yet, so please forgive any typos.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Unicorn Challenge - #102 Circles
• My Time To Craft - #542 Add Some Texture 1/3 (dry embossing!)
• Cheerful Sketches - Sketch 1/3
• Can You Handle the Pressure - Anything with an Embossing Folder Goes 1/3
• As You Like It - Layers 1/3 (I prefer layered cards, the more the merrier!)
• Christmas Bingo Challenge - #9 BINGO Card - I Column (die cut, gold, stamped image) 1/8
• Merry Little Christmas Card Challenge - #58 Anything Christmas Goes 1/8
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - STAMP It! 3/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #664 Anything Goes 4/5
• Ally's Angels - #84 Anything Goes 5/8

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STAMPtember - Day Six - Read A Book Day

I love to read.  Like, really, really love to read.  I don't give myself as much time to read as I wish that I did, but, yeah.  I love to read.

In one of my favorite movies, You've Got Mail, Kathleen talks about how reading books as a child changes your life so drastically, and I believe that this is true.  And there are times when I feel myself in two worlds, just like Rory Gilmore, and one is a world of books.

It's been very important to me from the beginning to get my nieces into books and they both love to read.  Everyone should find something they love, and then read about it.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Try It On Tuesday - Make It Colorful
• Vesela Hiska - #58 Anything With a Letter T 1/3 (TREE) 
• My Time To Craft - #541 Related to a Tree 1/3
• Mirtillamente - #35 Anything Goes 2/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - STAMP It! 2/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #664 Anything Goes 3/5
• Ally's Angels - #84 Anything Goes 4/8

Thanks so much for looking and happy reading AND stamping!  Laters!!

**FALL OR AUTUMN** New Challenge with Simply Create Too!

Happy Friday!  It's time for a new challenge at Simply Create Too and our theme this month is Fall or Autumn!!!  Pumpkins and gourds and leaves, oh my!  I absolutely love this time of year.  Anything fall themed will do.  Come play with us!

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Try It On Tuesday - Make It Colorful
• Four Seasons - Fall 1/3
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - STAMP It! 1/5
• Paper Funday - #69 Anything Goes 1/6
• Word Art Wednesday - #664 Anything Goes 2/5
• Ally's Angels - #84 Anything Goes 3/8

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

STAMPtember - Day Four - Big Splash!!

So, where did summer go?  It's nauseatingly hot and then it's cold.  WTAF.  I might be adding something to this card and updating the new photo.  I'm serious.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #664 Anything Goes 1/5
• Ally's Angels - #84 Anything Goes 1/8

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

STAMPtember - Day Three - Witches Stick Together

I feel like maybe this sentiment doesn't quite go with the card now that it's finished, but I just decided to go on with my original intentions and see how it turned out.

I'm just not sure I'm happy with the card.  And that was NOT the intended cat but I messed up the one I had stamped, hence the pumpkin peeking out behind the witch.  Witches can have pumpkins in trees, right? 😆

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Creative Knockouts - #529 Anything Goes 1/3
• Two Old Bats - September - Anything Halloween Goes 1/3
• Halloween Crafts All Year Long - #18 Anything Halloween Goes 1/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy Halloween stamping and crafting!  Laters!!

**INSPIRED BY A BOOK** New Challenge with Get Creative Challenges!

Hi everyone!  It's a new challenge at Get Creative Challenges and our theme is Inspired By A Book!!!  This can come from the title, the book jacket, the plot or subject matter, a character, anything!  I love to read and Read A Book Day is actually later this week, so I thought this theme would be fitting.

I was inspired by the jacket for the book It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover.  I absolutely love this book as well as the first in the series, It Ends With Us.  I loved the IEWU movie, too.  Perfect casting.

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Anything Goes
• Pammie's Inky Pinky Challenge - #2435 Anything Goes 1/3
• We Love Stamping - Anything Goes with a handcolored image 1/3
• Digi Chooseday - #34 Anything Goes 2/4
• A Gem of a Challenge - #17 Anything Goes 3/4
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 3/5

Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!!

STAMPtember Kick Off - Marbled Birthday

HAPPY STAMPTEMBER!!  It's that time again, when I drive myself crazy trying to do ALL the things and using stamps on every. single. one.  I hopefully planned better this year, we'll see how it goes.

Don't you just love the colors in this?  I think purple and turquoise or teal always complement each other so well.

A lot of challenges for this card:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Crafters Cafe - #311 Bright Colors
• Dragonfly Dreams - Birthday 1/3
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes 1/3
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes 1/3
• Krafty Chicks - #731 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafts Galore - #127 Anything Goes 1/3
• Sheepski -  #90 Anything Goes 1/3
• Digi Tuesday - #34 Anything Goes 1/4
• We Love 2 Create - #8 Anything Goes 1/4
• Scrapping4FunChallenge - #239 Anything Goes 1/4
• Mirtillamente - #35 Anything Goes 1/5
• Love To Craft Challenge - #82 Anything Goes 1/8
• Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #579 Anything Goes 2/3
• Krafty Chicks - #731 Anything Goes 2/3
• Dream Valley - #321 Anything Goes 2/3
• A Gem of a Challenge - #17 Anything Goes 2/4
• Word Art Wednesday - #663 Anything Goes 2/5
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 2/5
• Cut It Up - #311 Anything Goes 3/3
• Pattie's Creations - #221 Anything Goes 3/3
• Crafty Gals Corner - #258 Anything Goes 3/3
• Creative Fingers - #283 Anything Goes 6/6

Thanks so much for looking and happy stamping!  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Morgan's Art World!!

Happy Sunday everyone!  And Happy STAMPtember!!  It's the first of the month, and that means it's time for a new challenge at Morgan's Art World!  This month I'm working with one of the beautiful fairies from Fairy Line Set 2 and as always our challenges are

ANYTHING GOES!!

This fairy was soooo fun to color.  Purples and teals really are my favorite color combination to use.

Just a few challenges:

DLArt Linky Party

Classic Design Challenge - #8 Anything Goes

Crafters Cafe - #311 Bright Colors

Try It On Tuesday - Make It Feminine

Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #579 Anything Goes 1/3

As You Like It - Favorite Coloring Medium 1/3 (Spectrum Noir markers!!  They're easier and more affordable than Copics)

Dream Valley - #321 Anything Goes 1/3

A Gem of a Challenge - #17 Anything Goes 1/4

Word Art Wednesday - #663 Anything Goes 1/5

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Anything Goes 1/5

Mix It Up - #73 Anything Goes 1/8

Pattie's Creations - #221 Anything Goes 2/3

Crafty Gals Corner - #258 Anything Goes 2/3

Digi Tuesday - #33 Anything Goes 3/4

Creative Fingers - #283 Anything Goes 5/6

Paper Funday - #68 Anything Goes 5/6

Creatalicious - #280 Anything Goes 3/3

Be sure to visit the challenge blog and see what everyone else has created!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!