Shopping with a Friend

Love this little dog digi.  I made a fun card using the Hambo Stamps background storefront.  The background digis are just too much fun.

Who do you take shopping?

St. Patrick's Day Card

Lucky You!  Here is a card made to send someone luck and love!  St Patrick's Day is almost here and it is time to send love and luck to those you care about!  Maybe a few Irish kisses as well!

Sending you Luck!

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Creative Belli - Animals

Creative Craft World - Male Card

Charisma Cardz - Four Legged Friends

Papertake Weekly - lemon zingy

Kaboodle Doodles - Go Green

Stamptacular Sunday - Lucky Duck

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes

Cupcake Card

It is a wonderful sunny day here and I wanted to post a sunny card to celebrate!  Here is a card made with a die cut from my very talented friend Emma's cupcake die.  You can get the die here.  Her dies are called "Buggy Designs by Emma".  Check them out!

This card is entered in the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant - Spring time

Craft your passion - anything goes

Digital Tuesday - Celebrations (Sunny Days)

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes

Sweet Sketch - Sketch 91

Cute Card - Signs of Spring

Paper Sundae - Stripes

Cupcake Inspirations - challenge 101

Playdate Cafe - Black, White and Yellow

One Stop Craft - Black, White and Yellow

Fab n Funky - Spring into action

Cooking it up with Katie - yellow flowers

Going Goth...

Creative Card Crew's current challenge is Gothic.  I have never made a Gothic Card but thought it would be really fun to try and make one.

I used Sweet November's Jessamine stamp as my image and tried to work with purples and grays and blacks to create the Gothic look.  It is so much fun to try new ideas and challenges.  Thanks Creative Card Crew for the great challenges.

The card is entered into the following challenges:
Creative Card Crew - Gothic
ATS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Pink Cat Studio

Today I am posting a project made with a Pink Cat Studio digi.   I love the stamps made by Melissa at Pink Cat Studio.  Pink Cat Studio will be releasing their St. Patrick's Day stamps on March 10th.  Check them out at Pink Cat Studio.

I wanted to start with a St. Patrick's day project since we are so close to this upcoming holiday and I am Irish among other things :).  Loving some shamrocks!  The Pink Cat Studio stamp is Itty Bitty Betty - Rainbow.

I created this coupon book for my husband.  It has several pages in it for free items just for him.  Here are two of the pages from inside the book.  I took them out of the book to photograph them.  The die cut used to create this coupon book are an old Sizzix album cover die and page die.

There had to be a few pages saying a one kiss.  

And of course green beer coupons.  LOL

This project was entered in the following challenges:

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Green

Digital Tuesday - celebrations (St. Patrick's Day)

Good news to share with you today!

I was asked to join Paper Playtime today!  So excited about joining this group!

There are two challenges a month so check out Paper Playtime!

Challenge One  - will be on the 2nd Monday of the month which will be a theme based paper project challenge.
Challenge Two -  will be on the last Monday of the month and will be an DIGI challenge with an Anything Goes theme.  (I just love digi's!)

Here is a list of all the Queen designers at Paper Playtime.


Janis (owner):  Pause Dream Enjoy
Pam:  Simply Pam
Sheree:  Cravin Scrappin
Theresa:  The Scrapbooking Queen
Lisa:  Crop And Create
Glenda:  Glenda's Cards
Kathi:  Kards By Kathi
Heather:  Princess' Paper Projects
Melissa:  A Paper Journey
Denise:  Lala's World
Georgiana:  Carson's Cricut Creations
Carley:  The Real iCarley
Sharon:  MeeMee's Creations
Don & Judy:  Airing Out
Corri:  Bug Lover Cards
Maria:  Joyful Stamper
Michelle:  Purple Monkey Moments
Sandra:  365 Days of Cricut
Elsa:  Cricut Lvr
Jen:  Honeybean Creations
Rose:  Pink Lemonade
Gloria:  Oma's Crafts
Mary:  Marebear Scraps
Deanna:  Deanna's Papercrafts
Dawn: Always Crafting  (Me)
Amanda:  Amanda's Crafts And More

Do you use background stamps?

I have been looking for really good background digital stamps for a while now and I came across this site, Hambo Stamps, that sells really detailed incredible background digital stamps. You can find the link here. I purchased the stage background to use for my Superstar Anya card below.

I just love the background don't you? The idea to have a setting for my stamps has been rolling around in my brain for a while now. Using a background can give your cards some depth and interest.

Wanting a moonscape background I emailed Monica, the site owner, and asked her if she would consider making one. Well she got right back to me and told me that they would! Love it!

My next request will be for a beachscape! The possibilities are endless! Way to go Hambo Stamps!

For this card I printed the background stamp on white cardstock and printed paper. I cut out the large background curtain from the printed paper and placed it over the white cardstock after I colored in the rest of the background. Then colored up the Superstar Anya stamp and cut her out. Next, she was placed her on the stage with pop ups. She just had to be singing on her stage so I added a microphone cut out with my cricut. Added some twine and sentiments, then she was ready for her preview!

Monica, posted this card on the Hambo Stamps blog.  Here is the link.  Thanks Monica!

Try out the background stamps.  See what they can do for your cards. :)

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Paper playtime - anything goes
Craft your passions - girly girl
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Prairie Fairy Fridays - inspired by a song (Barbra Streisand - A Star is Born)
Sew Many Cards - Star
Stampin'  B's - something music related
Digital Tuesday - Celebrations