Shopping Your stash #434

This was for the sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers this week and also for Shopping Your Stash challenge to use kraft paper. Since I have been on a tighter craft budget this summer, I got out some of my old favorite summer stamps from previous years. The shells are from Flourishes, whose stamps I dearly loved when they were in business. The sentiment is from Sweet and Sassy stamps. I have had it for years as well and it is one of my favorites I use each week in my cardmaking for church. The design paper was a deal I found at Tuesday Morning a month or more ago.

Spotlighting zinnias

Decided to take part in the Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge this week. The challenge is to do "spotlighting."  I love this stamp I have had for a while that I ordered from Flourishes. Marcella Hawley is the artist and I just love her floral pieces.  Thought this flowers on this design paper reminded me of these zinnias so used it and pulled out that bright orange to be the card base. I colored with alcohol markers and stamped the image with versafine black.

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Week three of the June CCEE Stamps Challenge. Here is Joanne's  challenge for this week.

"As many of you know, the ocean is my favorite place….and my annual trip to Maine is sacred.  So, in honor of that, please create a card inspired by the ocean or beaches."

" Obviously I am very much looking forward to this week's gallery of creations.  Please play along with us."


I am with you, Joanne! The beach and ocean are my favorite escape for the summer as well. Check over on the CCEE blogsite to check all the sea creations of the team. If you load your card to SCS please use the CCEE1825 as your keyword. 

I used two old Flourishes sets that I just love because collecting seashells at the beach are always one of my favorite things to do. 

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It is an honor for me today to be a guest designer over at the Color Throwdown challenge. Here are the colors for this week:

Here is my card made with stamps from Stampin' Up and Flourishes. I had just recently found this design paper from Carta Bella called "Ahoy There," which I found at Tuesday Morning. Summer time has surely hit my area of the Texas gulf coast, and I am longing to get to the beach.

Be sure to visit the CDT blog to see all the wonderful creations the team has put together with these awesome colors. Link your card there to play along.

CCEE1821 NEWS

Anne is back this week with the next challenge.

"I wake up in the morning to the NEWS.  Make a card using each of these letters ..... N, E, W, S."

So, my card today is using Not so Navy for my N and the sentiment is a new stamp. My E is embossing for the sentiment, and the enamel dots. W is for the white embossing powder and dots and also the washi tape. S is for the sunflower image, which is from Flourishes.

Hope you join in on the fun this week. Use the CCEE1821 for your keyword if loading to SCS. Check out all the team members' cards over on the CCEEStampers blog.

Fall challenges are fun

I made this for the F4A challenge on SCS and for A Vintage Journey's Crazy for Autumn color challenge.  I used many of my fall colors of Oxide inks for my background using a Flourish leaf set from my stamp collection. The sentiment is from Rubbernecker stamps.

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Kelly, our hostess for this week,  has chosen as our challenge this week for CCEE Stampers  

  an opportunity to  celebrate Roald Dahl Day!

For challenge #1737,  create a card using any one of his books as your inspiration.

There are so many ~ and Kelly being an avid reader,  hopes  you find a way to use them in this week's challenge.

The book I selected was James and the Giant Peach.  I used a peach from an old Flourishes set, I used a diecut of the city, and did some freehanded writing on my card this week. 

Check out all the fun cards made by the team for this unique challenge at the blogsite:
www.cceestampers.blogspot.com

My wild rose

I made this card using one of my favorite of stamps from Flourishes. I stenciled a partial background first using yellow ink and my Clarity brush. Then I stamped the flower image and colored it with copic markers. I added the sentiment with versafine black ink, and added some little dots with an old favorite SU itty bitty background stamp with peanut brittle Memento ink. I really loved the way this turned out. I am using it for these challenges that I found listed on Paper Playful:

PSC#32 Flower power challenge
Let's Craft and create challenge #125 - Make your own background
Creatalicious Challenge #145http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/  Use a stencil

CCEE1702 Trifold card

Vicky is hosting the challenges for CCEE this month and this week's challenge was to make any kind of a trifold card. I used the Joy fold on mine. I am way behind on my thank yous from Christmas, but I decided to brighten things a bit with these spring colors. The daisy stamp is from Flourishes and the bee is one of those dollar bin finds at Michael's. Making use of some fabulous design paper I found in my stash. A new year's resolution for me: Work from the stash and deplete the papers in my stamp room.

Hope you join in on the fun this week and if you load to SCS please use the keyword: CCEE1702.
Check out all the lovely work of my fellow team members over on the CCEEstampers.blogspot.com 

Guest Designing for Crazy for Challenges

I was so honored to have my stamping friend, Mariann invite me to guest design over on the Crazy 4 Challenges website this month. I have enjoyed taking part in their challenges when my schedule allowed, and so happy this month worked out for me for the upcoming challenges. My card was made using a Flourishes stamp and sentiment. I used kraft paper as my base, Graphics 45 design paper, and black and white. I love coloring images so this one I did with my copic markers. I used one of my favorite border dies for this as well. Peaches are my favorite of the Texan fruits we have over the summer. Some of my dearest friends have moved away over the years,  but I find this sentiment to be so true of those dear friends that will always remain so. It doesn't matter how long it's been since you have seen them, it seems like we just pick up where we left off.

CTD 417

On a roll getting some fun challenge cards done. This one is for the Color Throwdown #417 using orange, turquiose, and green. I love inking up my embossing folders, then I spritz it with water and then I smash it onto my card front. I used a stamp from Sweet and Sassy (the silhouette) and the other stamps are from Flourishes.

CCEE1634 Herbs

According to some research I did, it is More Herbs, Less Salt Day!! Herbs and plants add so much to our lives, so in honor of this unusual day, make a card with an herb or plant on it. I know we have lots of followers who love gardening, so any of these images would work great. You might even want to add colors that are named after herbs and plants: sage, thyme, lavender, cinnamon, nutmeg, mint, celery, olive, or cocoa, as well as all those you can think of. Have fun with it.

I added the scent of rosemary essential oil to the inside of my card. I used a stamp set from Flourishes that featured many different herbs and had this fabulous quote as well.

You can post your card with your comments, or you can post it to SCS using CCEE1634 as your keyword.

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I am again hosting another challenge this month for the CCEEStampers. The month of August is National Catfish Month. Fishing is a year round sport and hobby around where I live, especially saltwater fishing. So, for the challenge this week, find a fish, or someone fishing and it might make a perfect masculine card for your stash!!

Join in on the fun and post your card with your comments, or post it on SCS using the CCEE1632 as your keyword.

It's been running 3 digit temperatures here where I live. I hope it is cooler where you are, or that you are finding a cool place to get in our of the heat.

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MaryAnn is our hostess  for  today's challenge.

According to the National calendar today is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 

It is a chronic disease that MaryAnn has, and it is often called the invisible disease because you don't look ill. There is no cure but maybe some day they will be. So Please make a Get Well card and add a purple ribbon.

I used the Zinnia set from Flourishes for this card. Since fibromyalgia is something that is not cured, I decided to use the sentiment "cheer up" in hopes that my card will uplift someone's spirit. 

Please visit the CCEEstampers.blogspot to view the other team members' cards, and join in the challange and link your card here.

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Today is National Roof Over Your Head Day. It is a day to be thankful for those of us who are fortunate enough to have a safe home to live in AND to think about those around the world who do not. To mark this day, our challenge today is to make a card with a house/building of some sort on it.

I used an old Flourishes set for this card. I am grateful for my humble abode, and I am thankful that I have friends who are always so wonderful about welcoming me to their homes. I will continue to support Family Promises who find wants to give shelter and meals to those who do not have those luxuries.

CCEE1547 Universal Children's Day

Welcome to our CCEE challenge blog, Frances is our wonderful hostess again to give you the challenge for this week.

Tomorrow is Universal Children's Day. Let's create a card featuring a child having fun of some type.

We'd love to have you play along. All you have to do is create something using the above challenge, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1547. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see your card too.

Now, lets see what the CCEE gals have come up with this week:

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Hi all,

 Frances is again bringing us another fun challenge. 

She says:

"This week we are creating Screen Divider Card - I have been meaning to make one of these style cards for some time now … so let us create one for today's challenge. Here is the link to the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers. 

Please join us and link your card up using the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of this post. If you upload to another site such as Splitcoaststampers, please add CCEE1533 to your keywords.

Now let's  check out the Screen Divider Cards our Design Team created for us this week."

I made mine rather simple using some old Florishes images of a tulip and sweetpea. The scriputer stamp is from Stampablities (I think). The images were colored with Copic markers. I used a diecute to cutout the bottom.

CAS on Sunday #62

CAS cards are becoming my favorite cards, because they take less time, they are easier to mail, and simple often seems more elegant. I used two different companies embossing edges for this card. The sentiment is from Flourishes and the sun and seagulls are die cuts. I love the fact that embossing causes shadows, and I used dimensional strips to stick on the birds to add extra shadows, and let the sun and shadows help emphasis the words of this proverb. This took less than 10 minutes to create and I really liked the look. Hope you do too. Check out the others over on CAS on Sunday' blog.

CFC138 and C4C280

I made this card this morning for the CAS-UAL Friday challenge using a bouquet of daisies from Flourishes  to be my bouquet on Kraft paper. The C4C challenge was to use daisies. I used white gel pen to draw in the white petals on the kraft paper. I love using white with the kraft paper. I also used the cluster stamping method inside a heart shaped space. I used my old SU itty bitty backgrounds stamp to stamp in some peanut brittle ink inside the heart and then I added some white craft ink also using that same itty bitty stamp. I diecut the bow and added it and the sentiment is from Power Poppy. Since the challenge asked for twine to be used for the CFC I added some natural twine on top of my diecut   bow. 

CCEE1440 Breast Cancer Awareness month

Lynn and I are co-hosting the challenges for October. We thought the perfect way to start this month would be in making a pink card for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To take it one step further, why not send the card you made to a breast cancer survivor?

Be sure to get over to CCEEStampers to check out all the great designs from our design team. If you want to play along with us lease link up over at the CCEEStampers blog site and use CCEE1440.  as your keyword.

My card was made with a set from Flourishes. I also used one of my favorite Martha Stewart punches for the edges.