More Patterned Paper IG Hop - Rainbows Everywhere

Just a few challenges:

• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Retro Sketch #169

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

**STASHBUSTERS IG HOP** Week Eight - Bonus Card!

Welcome to the Stashbusters 2024 Paper Crafting Hop hosted by @armenscraftroom, @avedamontedesigns, @bkeeleycrafts, @hilarygreek, @createwithkas and @touchofmagik.  Stashbusters post 3-6 creative paper projects every other Tuesday.  Our goal is to use the items we already own to create between 81-162 projects in 2024.

This week our challenge was to use any card sketch to make cards with a Graduation or Celebration theme!  This was perfect for me as I’m going to be needing a few graduation cards coming up, but I did only get one made so far.  

So I wrote my challenge details down wrong in my planner and this was actually the first card that I made for this hop, only I didn't use a card sketch 😂.  So I'm using it as a bonus card!

Just a few challenges for this card:

• A Perfect Time To Craft - #4 Anything Goes
• Unicorn Challenge - #97 Use Dies
• Colorful Options - Pastel
• Try It On Tuesday - Rainbow Colors
• Crafty Catz - #669 Anything Goes 2/5
• Paper Funday - #64 Anything Goes 3/6

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

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Crafty Addicts!!

Hi everyone!!  It's time for a new challenge at The Crafty Addicts!!  Our theme is always:

ANYTHING GOES!!!

I came across this cut and emboss stencil in my stash the other day, and I'd never used it so I decided to make a card with it.  While I do really like how it came out, I'm also not sure it doesn't need something additional!

It's hard to photograph shaker cards vertically, because all the filler goes to the bottom!

There, that's better!!

Just a few challenges:

• Classic Design Challenge - Anything Goes
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Be sure to check out the blog and see what the rest of the DT created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Taking Christmas in July Literally!!!

Okay, so about two weeks ago, a friend suggested everyone in our little group make a Christmas card with summer colors.

I'm the only one who did it.

I'm not even sure I LIKE the card, but here we are.

90% of my Christmas paper is, you know, Christmas colors.  The rest is pastel.  So I had to make my own background paper and I used a snowflake stamp that resembles a star.  That might be my favorite part.

In general, just a lot of things went into this card.  I just had ZERO inspiration and I didn't want, like, Santa in a swimsuit.  So I decided to make a coffee card, so it would count for that challenge too.  Now for that, it needed a star, but I love stars so that was no big deal.  But the card fell flat with just a star on the cup.  And I didn't like the look of an embossed mug, or of patterned paper (again, wrong colors anyway).  So I added the rainbow out of scraps from a different card.  Do I love it or hate it?  I don't even know.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas in July Linky Party
• Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge - #19 Stars
• DLArt Linky Party
• Word Art Wednesday - #605 Anything Goes 2/5

Thanks so much for looking and happy caffeinated Christmas crafting!!  Laters!!

31 Days of Crafting - Day Five - Over The Rainbow

I saw that The Wizard of Oz was on, this rainbow die is new, you do the math :)

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Color Challenge - Rainbow

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

STAMPtember - Day Twenty-One - The Way You Roll

I LOVE the 80s!  I love the music and the movies and some of the clothes and trends (crimped hair and ratted bangs can stay in the past thank you!) and the COLOR!  Lisa Frank will forever live in my head.  

Just a few challenges:

• DL Art Linky Party
• Leann's World - #54 Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies
• Colorful Options - Rainbow
• Ally's Angels - #62 Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafts Galore - #103 Anything Goes 2/3
• Stamping Sensations - Feminine 2/3
• Rabisco Challenge - #37 Anything Goes 2/5
• Paper Funday - #45 Anything Goes 5/6

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

STAMPtember - Day Six - Rainbow Birthday Girl

 Hi everyone!!  This is one of my favorite Unity stamps, and I looooooove creating with it!

Just a few challenges:

• DL Art Linky Party
• Stone Cottage Adventures linky party #489
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #9 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #9 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge
• Happy Little Stampers - Birthday
• Colorful Options - Rainbow
• As You Like It - Favorite Shape 1/3 (A7!  I love how much space you have to build your art)
• Everybody Art Challenge - #519 Anything Goes 1/3
• International Art and Soul - #141 Birthday 1/3
• Dragonfly Dreams - Birthday 1/3
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - Stamp It 1/5
• Rabisco Challenge - #37 Anything Goes 1/5
• Word Art Wednesday - #559 Anything Goes 2/5
• Crafting Happiness - #131 Add a Sentiment

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

CRAFTmas in July - Day Twenty-Four - Christmas Rainbow

So it's been so hot for days.  We had like seven consecutive days in the 90s and it's just been miserable.  Today it rained, but somehow that made things hotter. I'm not even kidding.

Enough about the weather.  The summer isn't exactly conducive to Christmas cardmaking, but I do like making the Christmas cards and watching the Christmas movies.  I bought this stamp & die set from Simon Says Stamp and I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it.  I'm not entirely happy with the colors I chose, but I think it turned out okay.

Just a few challenges:

• BYSHC Christmas In July Linky Party
• DLArt Linky Party
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7-2022 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - #604 Anything Christmas Goes

Thanks so much for looking and happy Christmas crafting!  Laters!!

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with 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!!!  

Just a few challenges:

• DLArt Linky Party
• Crafting Happiness - #124 Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - Anything Goes
• Classic Design Team Challenge - #6 Anything Goes
• Sweet Sketch Wednesday - #231 Sketch 1/3
• Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes 1/3
• Crafty Gals Corner - #232 Anything Goes 1/3
• Word Art Wednesday - #548 Anything Goes 1/5
• Mirtillamente Challenge - #10 Anything Goes 4/5

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!!