Crafty Card Gallery's Sketch Blog Hop #3 - February 17th & 18th

Welcome to another Sketch Blog Hop. Everyone has had so much fun doing these it's turned into a regular event! The purpose of this hop is to show how all of these talented bloggers can take the same sketch and come up with totally different cards. If you've never used a card sketch before, give it a try! Be sure to check back on Sunday, as there will be some bloggers posting cards on day 2. So sit back & be inspired! If you just happened on the hop, be sure to go to the first stop http://craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/ so you can see the whole hop! Grab your favorite beverage and sit back & hop along with us!

Today I decided to break out a stamp set that I never used before called Sweet Summer from Stampin' Up. I used my favorite colors for this card and the card base and paper flower are from Creative Memories. Here is what I came up with:

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you will stop by tomorrow as well. For now I send you off to Miss Kerry's blog....

Jen's Digi Stamps New Release: Sugar n Snap

Good morning my crafty peeps!


It is snowing! Not really snowing but the snowpeople are popping up. I plan on making tons of snowpeople cards for Christmas/Winter birthdays. Here is one of  new digi stamps that I worked with:

The recipe for this card is as follows:


* Stampin' Up pinking hearts border punch, sentiment stamp and gold eyelets
* Creative Memories paper and scissors
* Sugar n Snap digi stamp from Jen's Digi Stamps


I hope you will stop by the link above and see what the other team members have made. Until next time...

The Celebration of Dad's....

Note: I entered this card in the Crazy About Cricut and My Craft Spot challenges this week too :)

Today I came across a new challenge on the Stampin' Sisters in Christ. Since I am blessed to have my Dad still with me (after a bout with lung cancer, chemo and radiation), I chose to showcase his Father's Day card.Dad will be 70 on his next birthday and I am so grateful to have both my parents. This is the first year I have made my parents their cards for Mother's and Father's Day.

I went Cricut crazy with the Cricut decals cartridge. Since my Dad spent so many years as a suit and tie guy, I thought this was perfect.

Here is the inside of the card. I used a Jolee's sticker I found and "engraved" it. I can't wait for my Dad to get it! 

I also managed to film a video with hubby today. I am so excited about it. It will be rendering most of the night but will be ready to show tomorrow in time for You Had Me @ Craft Made It Myself Mondays . 

Until tomorrow...

It was a great day (except for the rain)

Well, the rain served two purposes today. One to cool us off from the those hellish temps and to give me time to create today. This is my 2nd post for today. While watching a movie with hubby and eldest son, I decided to make the last cards I planned with the Cricut Preserves cartridge. I had an interesting experience with it. First, I cut out 3 strawberries. Upon trying to draw seeds on one, it looked demented. Thank goodness I had one extra apple laying around. Here are the results:

I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More for the card base and scraps to make the fruits.


I then decided to use the Card feature to make an apple card. Well, to my surprise the card opens on the left side (not the right). Hmmmmm......

I covered the apple cutout with red paper and used my Peachy Keen face stamp. I am in love with my new Gelly pens that I found at Michael's. The only changes I made to this card is I added the Stampin' Up stickable rhinestones to the flower centers and a row under the sentiment. There is also another flower gem in the 4th corner. I can now return this cartridge to my friend Erin with a clear conscience. Tomorrow I hope to make some cards with her Mickey Mouse cartridge and make a few more cuts with my other friends Cricut Decals cart. I have such great Cricuting friends :) Until next time....

Some challenge cards.....

We got some movie time in this weekend and that meant time in the Crop Cave for awhile. I have to say that I had a lot of firsts this weekend. I finally got to use my new Sew Easy, a new stamp sets and new sizes of cards that I have never used. I plan on entering these in the M.A.G. Challenge #29, the Made It Myself Monday's Challenge and the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge. Here is what I came up with:

M.A.G Challenge #29: Gypsy Wanderings Page 68


These two cards use a new stamp that I bought with my 55% off AC Moore coupon! It was inspired by Stacy's Creative Corner card found HERE.


This card is being entered in the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge. The criteria is as follows: "Use something new on your project - it can be a new product, technique, embellishment - even a colour combo that is new for you - show us what you got!!". I had never used my Sew Easy before and I have never made a tall card before either! So this qualifies on two fronts :)

Here are some other cards that I made this weekend also:

This card was inspired by The Daily Scrapper. I made some changes to this and am thankful to my friend Erin from Comfy on My Cloud for lending me the Preserves cartridge to make this card. I have an idea for little notecards too using this cartridge.

This card was also a product of Erin's generosity. This Belle sticker came from my goodie bag that Erin gave me from the Scrapbook Expo here in Jersey. The card was in a pack I got from Michaels that I ran through my Cuttlebug.

I have some other challenges and cards that I want to make as well. That is in between job searching :) Until next time....