Color Inspired Challenge on the Love to Create Challenge

Hello, Happy  Monday!!  

Today I am sharing my cards for this week's  new challenge over on my challenge blog

Love to Create Challenges

Our theme for this week's challenge is a Color Inspire one

We have two fabulous sponsors this week Bugaboo Stamps and Dr. Digi House of Stamps. Both offer a fabulous prize to our winners!

I selected an image from each of our sponsors !!

Dr. Digi House of Stamps
Rescue Squad 

I am really loving how this turned out fussy cutting the image and then 

layering onto this designer paper by Authentique - Genuine to get the 

feel of a starry night. Background designer paper is by Glitz Sunshine in my Soul.

Sentiment is by Create with TLC  from her Kissed by Snowflakes collection 

My next card uses Bugaboo Stamps Jar-Autumn 

Once again I used the beautiful papers by Authentique Genuine collection 

which were the perfect colors with our color inspired photo.I added Diamond Glaze to the jar and then lightly sprinkled some fine glitter over it while wet. Twine is by Recollection and sentiment is a SU stamp.

Hope I have inspired you!
We would love to have you come join us at Love to Create Challenge, for a chance to win some  fabulous prizes from our wonderful sponsors.

Thanks for visiting!! 

{Crafty Hugs} Jackie 

  

Sweet Sketch Wednesday and Bugaboo join up for this week's sketch

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone

We have a fun week in store for you today 

along with our weekly sketch and fabulous sponsor we are actually 

teaming up with our sponsor's design team this week

So you will definitely want to visit Sweet Sketch Wednesday's blog

to see some incredible inspiration from members of Bugaboo DT's along with SSW design team 

Here the fun sketch Arlana has designed for this week

Welcome Bugaboo Design Team 

This week winner will receive this fabulous prize package from Bugaboo

My card featuring the ever so sweet Ava and Deacon Ho Ho Ho!

DP - MME Merry Days of Christmas - Pajama Plaid

CS - PTI Poppy Red

Color Medium - Copic

Flower punch - Snellen

Gem Brad - Recollection 

Sentiment - Michael's

Deco Arts Snow Writer

Well Done Friend!

Good Morning, Happy first day of March!

WOW, wonderful entries last week with the birthday challenge with

Going Grey with Scrap-Creations

Birthdays cards are always such fun to create and I was inspired by many that I visited.

Well this week we have another fun challenge for you

and a wonderful sponsor to help kick it off.

Our challenge this week is

Kids Theme

What better sponsor to have than Bugaboo with Jodie's adorable images that just fit the theme with lots of kids related images in the store.

One lucky winner will receive 7 Bugaboo digi

WOW isn't that a Fabulous Prize!!

Jodie was sweet to allow the design team to pick an image of our choice to showcase on our cards

I chose this adorable Baseball Deacon

I love this color combination with the red and grey so clean and soft. My design paper that inspired this combination is Summer Days by Wild Asparagus, beautiful textured paper.

Sentiment is one from SU Congrats set.

Now hop on over to Going Grey with Scrap-Creations blog, my wonderful teamies have some fabulous cards to share!

Challenges I found to enter my card

KB Cute Monday challenge - anything goes

Paper Playtime - Anything goes with a digi

Spring is in the Air at Scrap-Creations

Hi, how are you doing today did you have a great weekend, were you enjoying the Spring like weather that some were able to enjoy over the weekend? It was beautiful here and warmed up enough that I was able to open the sliding glass door for a while on both Saturday and Sunday.

Going Grey with Scrap-Creations must of had an inside scoop because our scheduled challenge for this week is 

"Spring is in the Air"

Bugaboo is our sponsor this week and has a fabulous prize package of 7 digi stamps to the one lucky winner!! Now that should get your mojo moving, hope you will come join us as we celebrate "Spring in the Air"

For my card I used the current sketch over at Lili of the Valley challenge #84

my papers are from Studio G layered on PTI Spring Moss and Summer Sunrise

image is colored with Copic (RV21 R20 YG03 YR03 C1 C3 Y15 G24), added half pearls and Stickles Stardust, Yellow and Pink, flower and ribbon from stash.

Please hop on over to Scrap-Creations to see all the great cards the team is sharing.

Thanks for visiting,

hugs'

Sweet Sketch Wednesday with Bugaboo

Hello, it's time for another spectacular Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge

One of our favorite sponsors is back with us this week Bugaboo Stamps

One lucky winner will receive 7 free images of your choice from the Bugaboo store, so come on us this week.

Arlana has cooked up another fabulous sketch for us and once again this one is a winner in my eye!!

Lots of different layers for this fun sketch.

As you can see I enjoyed playing with it, that I whipped up two sweet cards using freebie's Bugaboo recently offered.

Be sure to stop over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday to see some wonderful inspiration from the design team gals!!

We each had fun with this week's sketch and Bugaboo Stamps

Card recipe:

First card

Image - Bugaboo

DP - Bo Bunny

CS - PTI Hawiian Shores, HL Purple

Ribbon - Off Fray

Flowers  - Prima

Recollection - Jumbo glitter candy dots

Second Card

Image - Bugaboo

DP - PTI

CS - PTI True Black, Pure Poppy

Ribbon - PTI Saddle Stitch Pure Poppy

Buttons - Black PTI , Hearts - Dress it Up

PTI - twine

Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge #82

Happy Wednesday!!

It's time for a new sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and I must say this one is another fun one that will definitely inspire your creative side. 

Jodie with Bugaboo Stamps is our fabulous sponsor this week.  Jodie has a huge selection of images to chose from. with new releases each Tuesday and Friday.  Looking for a special image than be sure to check out the store as she offers images from cute adorable critters and little people to the humorous Gus and Mildred. 

As our sponsor this week, Jodie is generously offering 7 images of your choice to one lucky winner. That's a rockin $21 value!!!

So please follow all the rules to be sure you are in the draw for this Awesome Prize!

Now that Christmas is here and gone, I am now scrambling around the stores for birthday gifts ... I have 4 in the next two weeks. Hunter's (our grandson we raise) is this Thursday and he is making it easy for me as all he wants is gift cards. We are having a family dinner and then planning a big paint ball party for his friends in the middle of January as it seems to work better for most if we wait till after the holidays. Poor guy seems he really gets the short end every year. Then I have my daughter's next week and then hubby's, our 6 yrs old grandson's and our 39th anniversary all within 3days the following week. It's two weeks of non-stop parties!!

I couldn't resist  the opportunity to create a card with one of my favorites Bugaboo character Gus for my DT card this week. As I mention, my very dear but extremely grouchy hubby is having a birthday (he so reminds me of Gus) and of course Hunter is in need of a card for this big occasion, as the old man is hitting the big 60 here!!

I kept my card pretty simple, as Grandpa just wouldn't appreciate all the extras as he is basically a very simple man!

Then Hunter and I came up with the sentiment for the inside!

I so glad you stop by to visit and I hope you got a little of a chuckle with my card. Jump on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday's  challenge blog to visit with the rest of the design team for more sweet cards using some more Bugaboo images today.

 I hope you will join us this week, as I would love to stop by to visit.

Thank you to each for your love, support and words of encouragement through out the year. May You have a very safe and Happy New Year!!

~Hugs~

Goofy Cats at Bugaboo Stamps

Hi

Thanks for visiting once again today, it's a busy day for post heehee! please scroll down to see my post on my  3D project for Going Grey with Scrap-Creations and my Treat project for Tuesday Morning Sketches both current challenges that started today!

Jodie is one busy lady over at Bugaboo Stamps, she is knocking out new images left and right and they all are MUST HAVES!! Did you see the new release on Saturday with her Har Repotter gang!! OMG!! these are just adorable if you haven't seen the new release you must run over and check them out, and don't forget to pick up The Gentle One that is a freebie until Thursday!!

OH WAIT don't run off too quickly as you will also want to check out today's new release of Goofy Cats they too are available in the store....

Now before you take off let me share my card using Goofy Cats

Whew, thanks for sticking with me, now we would love for you  to head over to the store for all the new images that are available to purchase.

Have a great day

A Mini scrapbook for Bugaboo's Anything But a Card Monday.

Happy Monday,

If you have been visiting my blog for the past few days, you have seen a couple of projects that I have shared using the newly released Halloween Bobble Head friends from Bugaboo Stamps. I was so excited when I was able to preview this adorable Halloween set as a design team member for Bugaboo Stamps that my thinking cap immediately went in to over drive with so many cute ideas/projects these Halloween Image would compliment.

Today I have one more project to share, and I hope you like it as much as I do. This was such an easy project and so much fun to create. This is a mini Chipboard scrapbook using a 8x8 Zutter Chipboard book cover, which I covered using miscellaious Halloween design papers of all sizes that I have had stuck a way for the past couple of years. A lot of scrap card stock (you know all those scraps that we just refuse to throw away), Haloween stickers from my scrapbook bins and left over ribbon from last year projects and the adorable Halloween Bobble Head images from Bugaboo Stamps that were released this past Friday (you can find them all here in the store). A perfect project to share for our weekly Monday post of Anything but a Card.

          Halloween bobblehead Ghost

Bugaboo Halloween bobblehead Witch

Bugaboo Halloween bobblehead Mummy

Halloween bobblehead Dracula

Halloween bobble head Frank

                                                  Halloween bobblehead Princess

Halloween bobble head Devil

 

This mini scrapbook will hold 13 or more pictures and is the perfect gift for my Grandson Reece's First Halloween. Wouldn't one of these add the perfect touch to any occssion such as a baby shower, first Christmas, Baptismal, or for a special birthday.  Like I mentioned above all materials except for the Book covers were all items that I just couldn't throw away and had in one container or another.

I hope you liked my project and if you have any questions pleasse leave me a comment as I will gladly reply to all questions.
Thank you for visiting me today

Freebie Friday with Bugaboo

Hi again, if you would like to see my card for the new challenge at Fussy & Fancy please scroll down to the previous post!!

Thanks for visiting with me again today, I have been busy catching up on some house cleaning and laundry this morning and now plan on spending the afternoon in my craft room.

Well as you know Bugaboo Stamps has a free image for you each Friday and this week I do believe you are going to be jumping with happiness when you see what Jodie has for you. OMG!!! I just was giddy with excitement when she sent the DT their image and could not wait to start playing with this super fun bobble head image.

Yes Jodie has Halloween Bobble heads in the store today!!! You are going to want all of them as this cutie has some friends in the store just waiting for you to create with!!!

Meet Bobble Halloween Frank! Isn't he just so darn cute!!

Well. now head on over to the store and pick up your very own Halloween Frank and don't forget to check out all the other Halloween Bobble head figures that are available!!

My little project is A One Sheet Wonder Treat Box that I had to try when I saw this tutorial, it is easy as pie and cute too boot!!

Ok I know you want to run over and pick up your very own Frank, but I want to share some more fun information with you. Now don't be a stranger while you are off colouring and creating with Frank as you will want to come visit me and the design team tomorrow as the we will be sharing with you some more cute images for our new challenge over on our challenge blog Catch the Bug, with a chance to win 7, 4 or 2 Bugaboo images (I will be sharing another 3D project with you again tomorrow) also there is another free image over on Crafter Digital Art Center and a fun  challenge for you to win some more Bugaboo images.

Please come back and visit me on Monday too, you won't want to miss my anything but a card project using all of the new Halloween Bobble Head friends

Thanks for hanging with me, now run don't walk to the store as Halloween Frank is waiting!!!

Bugaboo Stamps is Hosting a New Challenge on CDAC, Come Join the Fun

Do you like challenges? How about free images? Then I have a challenge and a free image to share with you. Bugaboo Stamps is hosting a Holiday/Special Occasion challenge over on CDAC and Jodie owner of Bugaboo Stamps is sharing a very cute  Mistletoe Mouse image free for you to play along with.

Isn't she a cutie? I kept my card very CAS, since I will be mailing it along with my other cards to Operation Write Home, cards being sent over to our service men and woman (you can read more about this wonderful mission here). I used some older SU design paper  and Kiwi Kiss on my layout and colored her with Copics, the mistletoe berries are covered with Stickles (remember if making a card for OWH, please no glitter is allowed on cards going to our servicemen) and candy buttons in the four corners. For my card layout I used a wonderful sketches by Sketches by Carly #3

Now be sure to swing over CDAC to pick up your Mistletoe Mouse free digital image and join us in this fun Holiday/Special Occasion Challenge. 

This challenge will run from today through October 6. Just load your card to CDAC gallery, When you add your Bugaboo card please use cdachsoc7 as a tag so that we can easily see your card in our gallery

Two challenges with one image you ask, well Mistletoe Mouse can also be entered into Bugaboo's current challenge for OWH Christmas card drive/challenge going on until Saturday on our own challenge site Catch the Bug!

Bugaboo Stamps Supports Operation Write Home

Happy Saturday,

 Bugaboo Stamps and I would like to send a challenge out to all our fellow card makers, to make a Christmas or a Birthday card for a soldier to send home.
Operation Write Home is celebrating their birthday (Sept 12th) for the month of September and the team at Bugaboo Stamps are helping to celebrate with them by supporting their mission.

Here is a little bit about OWH-
Operation Write Home mission: Supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.
Operation Write Home is an organization that sends blank handmade greeting cards for all occasions to deployed service members to write home on. They’ve mailed approximately 500,000 cards so far—and are still going strong! Our challenge to you is to make cards to send to them for our nation’s heroes.

Please read the OWH's basic guidelines here; it’s important especially to remember that glitter is NOT allowed (it’s a safety hazard to our heroes), handmade cards only, and OWH needs A2 sized cards. “Operation Write Home” needs to be on the backs of your cards—it can be stamped, handwritten, or printed on labels. Please include a packing slip inside your box or envelope, and mail them to any of their shippers listed on the Mailroom page. In your package, you can also include notes written to a deployed service member.

Another way you can support our men and women who are serving our county is by considering to enter a card for Operation Write Home into Jo-Ann’s Craft for a Cause Contest. You can win $1500, and OWH could win $50,000! Please see their site for detailed rules and regulations.


Link your OWH card to our challenge blog Catch the Bug for a chance to win Bugaboo Images.

Friday Freebie at Bugaboo Stamps

TGIF.....

New freebie at Bugaboo Stamps, just in time for the wonderful fall weather that is right around the corner. Yesterday was so nice here in my area, sunny but not to hot with a nice breeze. The leaves are starting to turn, and some have started to fall, I am seeing the neighbor's leaves in my yard already.

Run over to Bugaboo's store and pick up this fun image called AKV - Fall , and be sure you take a look at all of the other AKV images that will be up and available to purchase this afternoon.

I used this week's sketch from The Sweet Stop Challenge #73 for my layout, the fun paper I purchased from Die Cuts R Us, which came in a pack of mixed papers. both of my ribbons are from my ribbon basket, blue button is PTI and corn button is from a pack of Adorn It from Michael's, half back pearl Oueen&CO.

The wonderful design team has wonderful cards to share today as well, check all of them out on our challenge blog.

Hope your day is wonderful and full of happiness
Hugs

I Did it Creations and One Stitch at a Time Challenge for Bugaboo's OBG day

Hello friends

On Thursdays,  the design team at Bugaboo Stamps shares different images that are available in store, we call this our Oldie but Goodie day, using images from past releases.
My card today was made in honor of Autism Awareness, using Bugaboo Stamps Brat Angel Autism.
I Did It Creations and One Stitch at a Time has a very special challenge this week...They have joined forces in honor of a very special little guy named Cameron.
A very very good friend of Stitchy's who is known in the digital world by the name "FUNKY" , has built a beautiful fundraiser blog for her grandson Cameron..He is autistic and Funky and her daughter are striving to help Cameron..

Some of you may know Funky, she has been in the digital scrapping world for a very long time. You can read more about Cameron here

This is a cause that is close to my heart, as some may know my 17 year old grandson Taylor has a form of Autism and faces his challenges each day with a bright smile.

My card will be entered into the following Challenges

I did it Creations #21- Rainbow theme

One Stitch at a Time #30- Rainbow theme

Card Recipe

Bugaboo Stamps- Brat Angel Autism

DP- Basic Grey

PTI - Spring Rain card stock

PTI- Buttons

Let's get witchy with Bugaboo Stella

Third post for the day - please scroll down to see new challenges at Tuesday Morning Sketches and Going Grey with Scrap-Creations

Happy Tuesday - hope you are having a wonderful day,

It's a new release at Bugaboo Stamps and this week Stella is back with us, just as cranky and hilarious as always.

Meet Stella the wicked witch!! Isn't she just the perfect witch, what would Halloween be without Stella as our witch of the East and West?

You can find Wicked Witch Stella in the store today.

Do you like to work with sketches to help jump start your creativity? Sketches by Carly is the perfect place to find fun sketches that will help get your mojo flowing. My card uses her sketch #1, hop over and check out this young lady sketches, I know you will be amazed with the talent this 11 year old gal shares.

Have a wonderful day

Jackie

Card Recipe:
Bugaboo image- Wicked Witch Stella with sentiment
Dp- Basic Grey Eerie and Cosmo Cricket Matilda
Recollection pearls
Purple, lime green stickles
ribbon- from stash
Copics

Thinking of you with Bugaboo Friday Freebie

hi once again - this is my second post of the day, please scroll down to see my card for Fussy & Fancy Challenge -  Red & Green, Tilda picking Apples

So far my morning has been going good, knocking on wood as sure as heck I say this my luck will turn south. :)
 Fridays are always great for one reason or another but they are especially great when Bugaboo Stamps offers a free digital image.

This week is one adorable image and I just loved creating with it to make this card

Is this little guy CUTE or what? I really did have fun with this one even if I had to make a new one after the coffee accident :) Design papers are from SU a few years back, hey what can I say I do hoard my designer paper, Buttons are PTI, small glittery buttons are found at HL, sentiment is The Greeting Farm - Butterfly Wishes, now the little cutie is cute out and popped on some dimensional, along with the spool of thread, I used embroider thread to wrap around the spool.

All you have to do to get your own Sewing Bear thread is to hop on over to the store, and look under the freebie section, oh and while you are there pick up the other freebie Jodie is offering for this week too. Yes, Bugaboo Stamps has two free images for you today.

Be sure to check out all the other new Sewing Bears that are available today in the store

Now be sure to check out our challenge blog tomorrow, Saturday as we have a fun new challenge starting with the chance to win 7 free Bugaboo images, that is a $21 Value.

See you all tomorrow, enjoy your day and weekend,

Jackie

Bugaboo September New release -

Good Afternoon, busy day today with three post, please scroll down to find my Going Grey with Scrap -Creations and Tuesday Morning Sketches post.

It's Tuesday and that means a new release of digital images over at the Bugaboo Store!!! Jodie has been busy once again and she has some new fun JJ images just waiting for you to play with.

This sassy gal is one fun image for those cards that you want to give to those girls that love to have a little bit of fun. She is perfect for a birthday, going away, retirement or just  a hello greeting. 

Swing on over to the store and check out all the new JJ images that are available today.

Have a wonderful crafty day!

  

Sewing with Stella from Bugaboo Stamps

Good Morning to you,

Today, I wanted to share a card with you, that I made using a fairly new image from Bugaboo Stamps, Stella Sew Thread  was released last week as our Friday Freebie. As many of you know, Thursday are when the design team shares some of their favorite images that we refer to as our Oldie but Goodies, but since I didn't get a chance to finish up a card with her last week I thought I would share with you today/

This is Stella Sew Thread, which was our Friday Freebie last week and if you hurry you can pick her up here but she will only be available as a freebie till the end of the day. So hurry on over to the store and snag her before she is put back into the store for sale.

Thanks for coming by, hope you enjoyed seeing my card with this fun image. Have a safe and fabulous holiday weekend.

New Release at Bugaboo Stamp - Are you ready for Halloween?

Hello once again, please scroll down for Going Grey with Scrap-Creations Challenge

Are you ready for some fun Halloween images?  Bugaboo Stamps is  ready and has a new fun image Goofy Ghost, that is being released today.

Goofy Ghost is such a fun image, that I knew it would be perfect to use for a little gift set that Hunter could give to our neighbor friends. He loves to do Ghosting each year and since his friends are getting older, I thought this project would be fun to give in place of the small pumpkin.we have given in the past years. I found this template on Digital Delights by Louby Loo

 The nice part is Hunter can help make these super easy candy bar wrappers and 3x3 cards. He had fun using my stickles for the heart and Copics for the bow tie, that fun paper is the new mini deck Matilda from Cosmo Cricket. I took some of the scraps and made a liner for the 3x3 envelope. A cute and easy gift set with a full size Hersey candy bar, which I know his friends are going to enjoy.

Go check out all seven of  these brand new Goofy Ghost images that are available in the store today. If you would like to see the rest of the design teams eye candy stop by our challenge blog Catch the Bug as the team has some amazing eye candy to share with you.

 Speaking of Halloween and projects, I found a few challenges that this gift set will work with:

Just Us Girls - template challenge - candy bar template

Digital Tuesday #74- make a gift set

Totally Stampalicious- Anything but a card

Hope you are having a sweet day!

Hugs
Jackie

A New Challenge at Bugaboo Stamps

Good Morning

Today there is a fun new challenge at Bugaboo "Catch the Bug", as summer comes to an end we are celebrating the Dog Days of Summer for this challenge. Fall is right around the corner and the hot summer days will soon be gone, so for this challenge we want to see animal cards, now it does not have to be just a dog, any animal  will work, your card/project has to be one using a netural color (white/Ivory, brown/kraft or black) plus one color.

Bugaboo challenges are not only fun to play along with, it's a great opportunity to win some of  those images that you have on your wishlist.  So come join us and have a chance to win some wonderful  Bugaboo images. Jodie is offering 7 images to the first place winner, 4 images for 2nd place and 2 images for 3rd place, and if you use a Bugaboo image on your submission that gives you a 2nd chance to win.  Now I know we all have a Bugaboo wishlist!

 Along with our normal prizes, we have a special sponsor joining us for this challenge,
                                                Stampin Dragon Designs  

They are offering one winner a gift certiicate for 4 free images from their online store!! WOW, now wouldn't that be a great prize to win? If you haven't been over to visit their store, you need to as they have some really cute images that are always fun to create with.

The design team had the opportunity to play with some of their adorable images for our challenge and here is my card using "Rupert Heats Up"

Isn't this a fun image, I kinda turned Rupert more into a girl card using Ivory and Eggplant for my color scheme, but that is what makes playing with digi images so fun.

For my Bugaboo image I picked one of my favorites (now I did say ONE as I have so many favorites when it comes to Bugaboo Stamps) Turtle with Flower  using the color combo of Red and Black.

Do you see her glittery hat and shoes, isn't she just a darling?

Now be sure to head on over to Bugaboo challenge blog  for all the details of the challenge . While you are there, you can seeall the FABULOUS cards that the design team created.

 Please play along with us in the Dog Days of Summer challenge. We have lots of goodies to give away this week!

A little bit of country

Hello, and a beautiful Thursday morning!

Today's card is for Bugaboo Stamps and on Thursday's the design team shares a card that features one of  their favorite Bugaboo images that you can find in the store.

I used the Bugaboo cowboy with fence for my card, as The Just Us Girls challenge blog is having a WILD WILD WEST theme that in support of Alicia who is organizing a charity rodeo in memory of her son, Ethan. Here's the link to the rodeo website for Ethan.

The card base is SU Kraft, SU Chocolate Chip for matting, design paper is My Mind's Eye 29th St Market Shinning Star (this is from last year I believe), MS fence border punch, Twill ribbon is from Adorn It and the stars are a pack from JoAnn's and the silver boot button is from Dress it up. For my layout on the card I followed the sketch from this week's challenge  at The Sweet Stop Sketch #69.

Thanks for visiting, I am off to spend some time in my craft room this morning. I wish you a crafty day.

Hugz ~ Jackie