DYSU Challenge # 58 - Love is in the air!

It's February!

For this week we have two great sponsors:

1 year PDF subscription

Winner's Choice of 3 Digital Stamps

This week I had the opportunity to work with
this adorable little
"BIRDIE BROWN" image!

"Girl with a Rose"

I used the sketch over at Craft's Meow Stamps. 
They have such wonderful card sketches there!

This little gal was so much fun to paper piece, which has become my second favorite image treatment 
(second to coloring with my Copics,of course!)
The chipboard heart was inked red and heat embossed with clear powder three times to get that thick, rich color.

I was intimidated by the flower, so I simply glued on a Prima bloom that I had in my stash, and glittered it. 
It really added some great texture to the card and made it extra-cute!

This one is going to the Cancer Treatment Center, for sure!

Check out the rest of the Design Teams projects
at Do You Stack Up!
They are terrific!

And because of the special holiday nature of my card,
it was entered into the challenges at:
The Craft's Meow (Sketch)
Simon Says Stamp (Love and Prima product)
C.R.A.F.T Challenge (Valentine)
Delightful Challenges (Love)
Sarah Hurley Challenge (Love is all Around)
Divas by Design (Love)
Sentimental Sundays (Love)
Cupcake Craft Challenge (Red)

Wanna win some goodies?

My fellow "Do You Stack Up" Design Team member, Naomi, is celebrating her One Year Blogoversary and is giving away a fantasic slew of goodies! Did I say SLEW? Yep, a whole slew of wonderful scrap goods!

Check out her blog at Paper Bag Princess and sign up to be in the running! 

And look at her wonderful past projects while you're there!

Good luck everyone!

DYSU Challenge 57 - You name it!

For this week we have three
great sponsors:

Crafty  Individuals

 Stamp Fairy

Stamp &Create

Stamp and Create is an
online store based in the USA with worldwide shipping. We carry many stamp
designs including Magnolia, Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, The Greeting Farm, Wags 'n
Whiskers Rubber Stamps, Whiff of Joy, CC Designs, Whimsy Stamps, and more. We
have a Product Spotlight sale each week with one select stamp company or
category are on sale up to 25% off. We also have a Monthly Challenge and Weekly
Candy on our blog.

Yep, this week the challenge at

DO YOU STACK UP

is ANYTHING GOES!

Father's Day will sneak up on me before I know it,

so I decided to get my Dad's card done now!

The photo was cut from DCWV paper and looks soooo much like me when I was young!

Dad loves the vintage cars and all things old-timey!

This Crafty Individuals stamp was perfect!

I paired it up with the papers from DCWV, "Vintage Stack" and "Tattered Time Matstack" and some die-cut gears and sprockets from Tim Holtz!

It's hard to tell, but the black trim piece is actually a metal corner reinforcer from an old office supply box! I got my hands on several and tore them down and flattened them to make these accents.

The book plate is JoAnn's Essentials.

With the challenge being "Anything Goes" , there will be no shortage of entries!  The DT will be busy this week! 
Go get your card finished and enter now at DYSU!

This card was IDEAL for the challenge at:
 Cupcake Craft Challenges (Recycled item, the metal trim, of course!)
Colour Create Challenge (Browns and Creams)

Happy Birthday, Cowboy!

Used the sketch at Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge to make this birthday card for a cowboy friend.

This Vintage Label 18 stamp looks so great when heat embossed that I grab it every time I need a masculine western card!

I stamped extra ink onto every star to make them look aged and dry embossed the bottom to give it some texture similiar to jeans.

 (I don't have a folder that actually looks like denim!) 

This "belt buckle" has been a hit every time I've used it!

I will also enter this in the challenges at:

One Stop Craft Challenge (Stitching, Real or Faux, I used both)

Sentimental Sundaes (Dry Embossing)

Party Time Tuesday (Anything Goes)

Cupcake Craft Challenges (Recycled, the buttons were on an actual old shirt!)

Congratulations, Hayden! Way to go!

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Do You Stack Up

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 This is my second post for today:

My grandson who is only 6 and in the first grade, received extremely high scores on his mid-year reading evaluation!  I'm not surprised that he is reading above grade level, but the scores were WAAAY up there!  He has been reading since he was 4, and there aren't too many books in my house that he can't pick up and read every word!  I am so very pround of him.  So, because he will be spending the next few days with us, we plan to reward him for his work.  Taking him to his choice restaurant for dinner,  rodeo on Saturday, and then his pick of movies from Blockbuster...  whee!

A peek into my private life...

Hayden playing soccer this past Fall.

I love October Afternoon's school themed papers! They aren't too babyish for the kids as they get older. And I am always up for some vintage!

The sentiment is from Stampendous, and the "brads" are simply gold office thumbtacks that I made rustic with StazOn and cut off the points then adhered them with Pop Dots!

I think the ribbon will get the message across that I think he is

Number One in my book!

 When it came time to make this card, I needed some inspiration. I found the best sketch at Skipping Stones Design, but had no stamps from them that would even come near what I wanted to express for a child. So, today I am fondly using their sketch and entering this in their challenge!  This experience tells me that I need to expand my SSD stamps past "girly" images!  (which I love, by the way!)

  And of course, I had to flip it!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

Jan

DYSU Challenge #56- RIBBONS!



First off, I'd like to wish all my Aussie blogging friends a

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

Welcome to a new challenge at Do You Stack Up?! This week is all about
RIBBONS!!   
We all have yards and yards of those yummy things in our stash.  So let’s take them out and give them some good use. 

For this week we have four great sponsors:

Crafty Sentiments
 Winner's choice of 4 images 

The StampingBoutique 
 Winner's choice of 5 images 

Dearie Dolls 
 Winner's choice of 4 images 

The Ribbon Reel

Since I love using ribbons and bows on my cards, this was no challenge at all!

And that adorable little image is from Stamping Boutique.

Isn't she so, so sweet!

My Copics class last week was on hair, skin, and eyes, so hopefully my skills will be noticably improving!

Go check out the rest of the DT's projects!

Wherever you go...

One of the challenges this card is for is the Unity Stamp challenge,

which requires you to use ONLY Unity/Ippity stamps.  I don't have very many, so finding some that would be appropriate for the "New Beginnings" theme was interesting.  However, I have a friend who will be moving out of the 48 states from a warm, sunny climate to one very different! I thought this would be a nice message to send. 

I used two of the Ippity's stamps sets, Quotes a 'la Happy (IPK-135),

and Authentic Man (IPK-132).  Yep, those little "blades os grass" are actually the design from Authentic man turned sideways and heat embossed in a mix of gold, orange, and yellow sparkle (Just like my sun)  I stamped and embosssed the sun a second time onto print paper and cut out the center so it would really pop out from behind the cloud. (Actually the Nesties Labels 14). The bluebird of happiness is cut from DCWV pattern paper, Songbird, so as not to use any other company's stamps!

I really like the CAS look of this card.

 I think my friend will be warmed by the sentiment of this one!

This card will also be entered at:
Pollycraft Monday Challenge (Warm it up!)
Scrap It with A Song (It's the End of the World As We Know It)  :) Kinda says it, don'cha think?
Simon Says Stamp Challenge (Anything Goes)

Waltzing Mouse - Be My Valentine Sweetheart!

This week the challenge at Waltzing Mouse was so much fun!

For my DH this year! 

He has been so nice and understanding with all my medical issues and

doctor's visits of late! Changing medications and lack of

sleep has made me, at times,  a bit

difficult to live with, to say the least!

And in addition,
the sketch at City Crafters was almost identical, save for an added element, which I easily utilized in my card!
Also, this card is proudly submitted to the challenge at:
Sentimental Sundays (Die Cuts)  SWEET sentiment and heart (Nesties)
The Crazy Challenge (Vintage)
Creative Card Crew (Seeing RED)

I want Paris in the Spring!

I have always had a dream of visiting Paris and Rome, and Sydney, and well, you get the idea.  I would love to travel constantly! 

The "Greetings from Paris" stamps from Just Rite transport you there without ever leaving your scrapbook room!

 I love this set! And the color challenge at

Just Rite Inspiration 

allowed me to expres myself and maybe win some more great stamps!  Yum!

Colors are:  Light Blue, Dark Blue, Brown, and Pale Pink.

The image of the Eiffel Tower was a Clipart one I found online, ran it through Photoshop and changed it to blue with reduced opacity.  Makes for a nice postcard background.  Inked everything up for that sweet vintage look.

Supplies:
Paper:  DCWV, Tattered Time; Bazzill
Stamps: Just Rite, "Greetings from Paris"
Embossing die: Cuttlebug, "Fleur de Lis"
Die cut: Spellbinders, Nestie Labels Four
Ribbons:  Michael's
Resin flower: online purchase
Ink: T Holtz, Tea Dye Distress Ink;  Colorbox, Cyan

This card also qualifies for the challenge at:
PaperPlay Challenges

Have a great weekend! Stay warm!

What does this mean?

I saw the sketch challenge at Skipping Stones Design this week and immediately knew what I wanted to do.

I have friends who have NOT had a mammogram in, well,

let's just say a very long time.

Hopefully this card will reach one of them,

and the others (and you know who you are),

will see this post and consider what's at risk here.

I absolutely love this stamp set, Bras Volume 1.

It was my very first Skipping Stone,

and still remains my favorite!

Because I wanted to get to the heart of the problem,

I used a sentiment from another stamp set.

It just brought the message home so well.

I love the way the little stamped hangers popped off the embossed cardstock after I heat embossed them in black. And those bras are so much fun to stamp and color!  I can pretend I'm shopping at Victoria's Secret! I can also pretend I would buy a $60 bra! LOL!

So, no matter who you are reading this,

you are someone's daughter,

maybe someone's mother,

or sister...

Get a mammogram!

You DO matter!

And, go check out the challenge at Skipping Stones Design!

They have the coolest sketches and products!

Supplies:

Stamps: Skipping Stones Designs, "Bras Volume 1"; Verve, "Words of Wisdom"

Papers: Bazzill, Pattern Paper (unknown)

Embossing; Cuttlebug, "Swiss Dots"

Twine: The Twinery

DYSU Challenge #55!

This week the challenge is to use your

Pattern Papers!!!

Copic Marker Scrapbooking 6 Copic Ciao Markers (North/South America) Martha Stewart punch (rest of the world)

My Little Shoebox Surprise Goodie Bag

My card was paper pieced with pattern paper which is,

by the way, one of my favorite techniques!

Here's a close up of the pretty little image I used from Sparkle Creations, one of our previous sponsors.  She's called "Charlotte with a Rose".

I tied an embroidery bow around her waist and the flower stem.  I also cut a second tag and glued it over the first so that it would be more dimensional.

Enabling supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Sentiment: My Favorite Things, "Clearly Sentimental about Friendship".

Pattern papers:  DCWV, "Citrus"

Flowers: Prima Marketing

Copic Markers

Thanks for joining me again for another peek at the challenge this week at DYSU!

Check out the rest of the DT's projects!

Also, this card has been entered in the challenge at:

Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge (Dots!)

 

Can you cay GRUNGE?

Well, over at  A Jillian Vance Design, the challenge this week is to make a "grungy" Valentine's card!  Now, I can do Classic, and Vintage, and Modern; but Grungy took a bit more thought.

I kept going to the "pretty and the old-fashioned sweet".... veered from the DARK side.
But eventually, I came up with this.  The problem also arose that I have only one Vallentine's stamp set.  (An older one from Recollections)

I wanted it to be a bit edgy with the black lace and embossed medallion, but couldn't resist throwing the resin swan piece on there!  All the reds match, I can assure you.  Don't you hate it when one surface reflects the light diffently than another?  ugh...
The black and gold Prima flower added a little grunge, too. Don't you think?

Dirtied up the Snug Hug bow some, and this is what I finished with.  I decided that GRUNGE is not my style. I have a hard time taking something relatively pretty, and making it look messy...just me and my age, I guess.

Check out the stamps at Jillian Vance's store!  She carries terrific products, and I especially love the sentiments stamp sets and we can all use more stamps!

This card also qualifies for the challenges at:
 Paper Sundaes (Favorite Challenge #92, Black, Flowers, and Distressing)
Stamptacular (Texture)
The Crazy Challenge (Tic Tac Toe / Lace, Image, Pearls)

Having "Commenting" issues?

I noticed that as of Friday, I was unable to open my comments and was getting a white screen on other blogs when I attempted to leave comments! Well, a great friend and fellow DT member sent me this link!
And it worked!
http://xxxtglxxx.blogspot.com/2012/01/blogger-issues-white-screen-no-comments.html

I figured I wasn't the only one having these problems as it appears things have been changed in the "netherworld" out there....

Good luck!

B-I-N-G-O!

I have a dear, dear 70 year old Great-Aunt living in the Midwest who absolutely loves playing Bingo!  I rarely get to see her, so I send her cards as often as I can. She is a real sweetheart. So, for the New Year and to add a bit of Valentine's feeling to it, I made this card for her.

I found the little joke online, and knew she would get a kick out of it. 

Entered in the "Spots and Ribbon"  at One Stop Craft Challenge!

I used the bingo game piece from Maya Road, and the card is from October Afternoon. 

 The inside of the card:

I used the challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week that asks that we show "A Red Letter Day".... 
mine is to celebrate the beginning of a
Red Letter Year!

Thanks for endulging me and looking today!

Hope your weekend is fantastic!