Sentimental Sundays–Shaped Cards

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Are you ready for the new Sentimental Sundays challenge? This week we are challenging you to create a shaped card, no squares or rectangles allowed, with a sentiment. We have two generous sponsors of our challenge this week, Meljen’s Designs and Raindrop Echo Designs.

This past week I had the sad occasion to need to make a card for a friend that lost one of her sweet pups. I immediately thought of this image from Meljen’s Designs, Dog Angel.

Stop by the Sentimental Sundays blog to see the rest of the inspiration pieces by the DT. While you are there you can download a free sentiment set from Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs and link up your “Shaped Card” (with a sentiment).

If you love Meljen’s Designs images, don’t forget to check out my blog candy!

Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Dog Angel by Meljen’s Designs (available on Whimsy Stamps)
• Inks: Distress Inks Old Paper
• Papers: Papertrey kraft CS, Neenah Crest solar white CS, Crate Paper Portrait Collection
• Tools: Big Shot, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Copic markers, foam dimensional adhesive, Provo Craft Seeing Spots embossing folder
• Embellishments: misc. buttons, cotton crochet thread, Distress Crackle Paint Old Paper

Challenges:

• AI Factory - Anything goes
• Corrosive Challenge – Earth Tones
• Crafty Catz – Embossing
• Crafty Sentiments – Die cuts & punches
• Crazy Challenge – Embossing
• Dare to Be Sassy – Distressing
• Delightful Challenges – Things With Wings
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best – Shaped Card
• Do You Stack Up – Distressing
• Dream Valley – Distressing
• Ellephantastic – add some layers
• Flutterby Wednesday – Open challenge (used dog angel)
• Forever Friends – Round card
• Frosted Design – Animals
• Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge – Shaped card
• iCopic challenge – Fur
• Just Some Lines – Embossing
• Paper Pretties – Die Cuts
• Pattie’s Creations – Animals or insects
• Raise the Bar – Dog Days of Summer
• Speedy the Cat challenge – distressing
• Stamp Something – Dog days of summer
• Totally Gorjuss – Round and Round
• Whoopsi Daisy – anything but square
• That’s Krafty Thursday – kraft paper

Best Witches with Lindsay's Stamp Stuff

This past week end, my mojo was totally working for me. I got 6 cards done. That is amazing since usually I struggle to get 2-3 done. And I didn't even craft on Saturday because we took a trip down to Ikea to check out furniture and storage solutions for my future craft room. Yeah me! Okay, I am going to pipe down now before my muse thinks I am cocky and totally deserts me and get to the details of my LSS DT card.


I had fun making this card. I created the pumpkin using 3 ovals cut using my nesties. I embossed them and inked the edges. The stem was hand cut and then embossed and inked. After I assembled the pumpkin, I folded a matching piece of orange paper (for the fold in the card) and then traced my pumpkin. I cut it out for my card base and attached my pumpkin to the front. Does that make sense? If you would like more info, please feel free to email me.

I thought Lindsay's cute little witch from Cute Halloween would look perfect here. She is attached using pop dots from some dimension. I am still practicing using my Copic markers. This is the first time I tried to color anything black. Some parts of her look better than others but I was afraid to keep messing around with her.

Here is a look at the complete Cute Halloween set.

Please visit the rest of the DT blogs to see their LSS creations this week. As always, Lindsay will have a freebie on her blog.

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Lisa Jurecek
Margie Visnick
Melissa Craig
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Tracy Vinson

Thank you for looking!

Challenges:

• Aud Sentiments - Any Halloween Sentiment
• Baby Bud Challenge - Fall/Halloween
• Catch the Bug - 3D Halloween
• Craftalicious - Autumn/Fall Festival
• Crafty Little Place - Autumn
• Drunken Stampers - Salute to Fall
• Ginger Loft - Happy Haunting
• Humble Pie - Shaped card
• Incy Wincy - Anything Goes
• One Stitch At A Time - anything goes
• Polly Craft Challenge - No DP
• Sarah Hurley - autumn
• Speedy the Cat - have a pumpkin on your card
• Stamp Insanity - Embossing
• Stamp It Crazy - Anything Goes
• Stamp Something - Fall colors
• Stamps R Us - Halloween
• Stamptacular Sunday - Fall colors-
• Totally Stampalicious - Halloween
  
  

Supplies:

• Stamps: Cute Halloween from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff (mygrafico.com), Studio G stamps
• Papers & CS: Neenah Solar white CS, PTI kraft, misc orange
• Inks: SU Chocolate Chip, Momento black
• Tools: Big Shot, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Distressed Stripes embossing folder, Copic & Prismacolor markers
• Embellishments: Raffia, PTI button twine, misc button, Sakura gold gelly roll glitter pen

Under the sea...... Meljen's Designs shaped card challenge

This week the challenge on the Meljen's Design Challenge blog is Shaped Cards. I decided to make a couple of Get Well cards using images from the new release "Sea Critters". You can get this new release in the Meljen's Design digi shop.

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Come join us in the Shaped Cards challenge at Inspiration and Challenge blog for the chance to win some Meljen's Designs digital images.

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You might also want to check out the fabulous tutorials a couple of the DT members are putting together for Tutorial Tuesdays. This week Andrea put together a paper piecing tutorial.

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Did you get your Meljen's Designs freebie this week? It is only available for one week. You can get it on Melissa's blog.

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Thank you for looking. Stop by the Challenge & Inspiration blog to see what the rest of the team created for the shaped card challenge.

Updated: These cards were in the top 3 in the Die Cuts R Us Double Duty challenge.

Challenges for these cards:

• Aly's Sunday Challenge - ASC16 Animal Hugs
• C.R.A.F.T. challenge - Shaped Cards
• Cupcake Craft Challenge - Don't Be Square
• Die Cuts R Us - Double Duty
• Mojo Monday - Sketch (used on the crabby card)
• OWH Stars & Stamps - Wild Thing
• Papertake Weekly - Do Something Different (I usually don't make shaped cards)
• Penny Challenge - Shaped Cards
• Pink Elephant Challenge - TPE64 Aqua

Supplies:

• Image: Little Fish & Cutie Crab from Meljen's Designs
• Papers & CS: My Mind's Eye Where The Heart Is, image printed on Nenah Crest solar white
• Inks: none
• Embellishments & Tools: Cricut, Prismacolor and Copic markers, clear embossing powder and heat tool, misc. gem stones, Sakura Gellyroll clear glitter pen, misc. ribbons (green ribbon was colored with Prismacolor markers)

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff / Thanks!

Although Lindsay gave her DT the day off, I wanted to thank you for joining in the birthday celebration last week. I think we all had a lot of fun in the mygrafico virtual crop room sharing projects and tips and just chatting. I hope you were able to stop buy and got the cute freebies Lindsay was giving away only there.

You still have a little time to get in on the prizes for the blog hop. Each DT member is doing a drawing for one digital stamp set. (That's a total of 18 digital stamp sets!) Mine is for the Sweet Stuff digital stamp set that was used to make this card. You can see my posting for the blog hop HERE. I will be doing the drawing this evening.

As for the details on this card, I put it together with the scraps I had on my table after finishing another project. It measures 3-1/4 inches square. Although I have used the Sweet Stuff set multiple times, I have never used this image before so I thought I had better give it some use. The inside (I forgot to take a picture) says "You're So Sweet!".

Thank you for looking! The DT will be back to our regular Monday LSS posts next week.

Challenges for this card:

• Daisy Doodles Challenge - Pink + 1 (mine is brown)
• Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - Metal (I have a metal swirl/clip)
• Fab N Funky - Use a neglected stamp
• KL Stampin N Scrapin - KLSNS26 Bling
• Kpink challenge - Thrifty crafter
• Little C's - Add bling
• One Stitch at a Time - Thank you
• Paper Popsicles - Icecream

Supplies:

• Image: Sweet Stuff digital stamp set from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff on mygrafico.com
• Papers & CS: My Mind's Eye Laundry Line, Georgia Pacific CS, misc. brown CS
• Inks: none
• Embellishements & Tools: Prismacolor & Copic markers, misc. clip, Hero Arts gem stones, scalloped square nesties

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Birthday Event

Today is the second day of the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Shop, Hop, and Crop event. To get in on the blog hop today, with the chance to win a some digital stamps, start at Lindsay's blog. The hop starts at 10 AM ET. (9 AM Central)

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Everything in the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff store on mygrafico is 50% off through April 15th.

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Make sure you stop by the virtual crop room on mygrafico to check out what is going on. Lindsay is giving away some freebies that will only be available during the blog hop. There will be lots of fun with free classes and challenges for prizes. This card uses Monday's freebie. Did you get it? Go on over there and check what she has for Tuesday and join in the fun.

Lastly, for your chance to win the Sweet Stuff digital stamp set, see my post HERE with the details.

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Supplies:

• Image: Party hat freebie from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff
• Papers & CS: Georgia Pacific CS, Stampin' Up Real Red, mis. black
• Inks: None
• Tools & Embellishments: Spellbinders nestabilities. hole punch, misc. ribbon, BacicGrey rubbons, black pom pom

DCT29 Things with Wings

Earlier this week, my daughter asked me if I was going to make her a special card for her birthday. I was planning on it, but now there are "expectations". The pressure is on....

When I was looking around for inspiration, I found the DCT29 challenge - Things with Wings. From there, I decided use Itty Bitty Betty butterfly from Pink Cat Studios. Since butterflies are always around flowers, I used my Cricut Wild Card cartridge to cut the card base into a flower shape. To make it a little more fun, I made it into a spinner card.

What do you think? Is this suitably "special" for an eighth birthday?

Supplies:

Pink Cat Studios Itty Bitty Betty butterfly

Stampin' Up Slumber Party designer paper

Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink card stock

Stampin' Up Pale Plum card stock

White cardstock (Georgia Pacific)

Cricut

Plantin School Book cartridge (for the "8")

Wild card cartridge for the card base

Cuttlebug

Spellbinders nestabilities

Stampin' Up Markers & Soft Subtles ink pads

Versamark champagne stamp pad

Close To My Heart spots on background stamp (on the "8")

Brads

Swirl Clip

Close to My Heart ribbon and flowers

Stampin' Up Slot punch

Pennies (for the spinner card)

Sakura Gelly Roll pens (black and clear glitter)