Whimsy and Stars Release Day

Today is the day! Mabelle is releasing her collection of Fall digis! Such a great variety of fun images. You can find all of them today in the etsy Whimsy and Stars shop. Check out the Whimsy and Stars blog for lots of samples made with these adorable new images.

I used Alex with a pumpkin for my card. Alex is one of my favorite characters in Mabelle's shop, maybe because he looks a little like my DS2, Liam.

I used the sketch from Deconstructed Sketches #17 for the layout of this one. Make sure you drop by the Whimsy and Stars blog for lots of great Autumn inspiration! Thanks so much for visiting me here today.

Challenges:

Craft Us Crazy - 2W, 3E - Autumn Colors and/or Favorite Embellishments (1st week) (twine is my favorite embellie)

Delightful Challenges - 1E, SIO -HALLOWEEN

Floweret - M, SIO - Something that makes you feel tricky or Halloween

Secret Crafter - #150 Colours of Autumn

Card Cupids - 2W - (2nd week) Card with Stitching

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - 2W - Use Twine (ends 15th Sept)

Creative Stamp Friends - 2W - (1st week) Card for Man

Cupcake Craft - Patchwork Quilt

Lexi's Creations - 2W - (1st week) Autumn/Fall (ends 17th Sept)

Stamp with Fun - Autumn/Fall

Card Recipe:

Image: Whimsy and Stars, sentiment PTI

Ink: Printer, Palette Umber

Paper: PTI ssw, Kraft, Dk Chocolate, Simply Chartreuse, SU Pumpkin Pie,  DCWV Indian Summer

Extras: copics, nesties, sewing machine, PTI twine, Jesse James button, MM brads, dimensionals

Tuesday Morning Sketches #110

It's Tuesday! That means it's time for another Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge. Jessica created the sketch this week, it is a pretty cool one, that you could do many different things with. Hope you will give it a try and play along.

Our sponsor this week is Bugaboo, and they very kindly allowed us to select an image. They have such a fun and diverse selection of digis. I picked this super fun image with sentiment called Stella/Gus - marriage - commitment & insanity. I love Stella and Gus, thy just crack me up! This makes the best anniversary card (for someone with a good sense of humor). I've got a few friends in mind already who will love it.

Stop over to the TMS blog and check out all the inspiration from the DT.


Challenges:
Ooh La La Creations - 2W, SIO - (1st week) Anniversary (funny anniversary)
The Crazy Challenge - 2E - Spots and/or Stripes (stripes)
Aly's Sunday Challenge - 1E, 2W - (temporarily monthly) Bows (ends 02nd Oct)
Corrosive Challenges - 2W, 2E - (1st week) Funny or Punny
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi
Little Claire's  - M, 3E, SIO - #12 Wedding/Anniversary (until mid Sept) (funny anniversary)


Card Recipe:
Image: Bugaboo Stella/Gus - marriage - commitment & insanity
Ink: Printer
Paper: PTI ssw, Dk Chocolate, Simply Chartreuse, Melon Berry, Jillybean Soup stripe
Extras: nesties, copics, PTI and SU ribbon, Bella Dots, crystal effects

Sassy Studio Masquerade Ball

Hi and welcome to the Sassy Studio Masquerade Ball blog hop! If you just came from Rebecca's fabulous blog, you are in the right place. If you just popped in here by chance you will want to start on the SSD blog, so you won't miss out (there might be freebies involved).


Lindsay has masked up some very popular SSD images for us today. We are having a blog hop today as well as some chat times in the party room, fun on PCP and a challenge with a HUGE prize.


My card uses the Princess Masquerade image. Isn't she pretty? Would you like to have her? Keep reading, she will soon be yours! I used a great sketch from Willow Sketchie Challenge blog.

At each stop along the hop, there will be a free image for you to grab! How cool and generous of Lindsay! Just double click on the image to get better resolution and then save to your computer. Make sure and get it while you can, it will only be available for free until Sunday night. Free image now removed, available in the SSD store for sale.


Make sure you also leave a comment on each stop. Each of the DT will pick one random commenter to win an unreleased image from the upcoming Halloween release. Your next stop on the hop is the super talented Julie.


Hope to see you sometime later in the chat room or on PCP today. And since you are getting all these cool Sassy images free today, why not enter one of our challenges for a chance to be a guest design team member?


Here is the hop list incase you get lost along the way:

Sassy Studio Designs

Rebecca 
Kathy (you are here)
Julie
Sara
Regan
Lindsay
Laura
Paper Craft Planet 


A few challenges that I would love to enter:
Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - , must use a digi -add flowers 
Stamp Something - digi day
Show and Tell - Anything goes
Jellypark Challenges - punches and/or die cuts (die cuts)
Inspire Me Fridays - always anything goes
Fun with Shapes & More - must include die cut/punch - what you want (anything goes)
Clearly Inspired - patterned papers
Card Makin' Mamas - cards only - Go digi


Card recipe:
Image: SSD, sentiment from Create with TLC
Ink: Printer
Paper: PTI ssw, Black, New Leaf, DCVW patterns
Extras: copics, sakura stardust pen, nesties, cuttlebug embossing folder, prima flowers, rhinestones, dimensionalshttp://charmedstamping.blogspot.com/

Phindy's Friday Challenge

TGIF! Welcome to another Phindy's Friday challenge. We are doing things a bit differently this week (and will be the first week of each month). Our challenge is anything goes, makes it super simple to play along. BUT, you must use a Phindy's Place image this week. Not hard to do, when there is a huge selection of images in the store to suit every taste!

I've used an image called I Wuv You. I think he is a so cute with his funky outfit and heart shaped cheese. I thought this would be fun to give to my hubby. The sentiment was a freebie from Create with TLC.

Stop on over to the challenge blog and check out the DT cards and help us welcome our three new DT members. Hope you will play along with us this week!

Card Recipe:

Image: Phindy's Place I Wuv You, sentiment from Create with TLC

Ink: Printer

Paper: PTI ssw, Orange Crush, Simply Chartreuse, Dark Chocolate, DCWV Amber Autumn patterns

Extras: copics, nesties, PTI ribbon, MM brads, crystal effects, dimensionals

Whimsy and Stars

How can it be September first already? I don't know where the summer went.

But, I do have a special little card here today. This cute little guy is from Mabelle RO's Whimsy and Stars Fall collection, which will be released on September 6th. So it's just a little sneak today.

You can head over to the Whimsy and Stars blog and see some more sneaks, fun stuff coming soon! Fall is my favorite time of year and these images will make great Halloween, Thanksgiving or just general Autumn themed cards!

I have to laugh, I made this while waiting for Irene to hit. My dh thought I was nuts, but really how much of the weather channel can you watch. We were well prepared for the worst case scenario  but luckily were spared. We have friends just minutes from us who are still without power and dealing with flooding, so we got lucky this time around. My dh is still shaking his head and saying guess what Kathy did while waiting for the hurricane??!!

Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge - #28 Sketch
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Die Cuttin' Divas - must include a Die-cut - #30 Fall Colours
Send a Smile for Kids -  Use a Punch or a Diecut or a mixture of both
Sew Many Cards -use an edge punch
Poodles Parlour  - anything goes
Just Add Ink - something from stash (hoarded autumn papers)
Cuddly Buddly -  say something nice
Digi's With Attitude! -  anything goes ends Sept. 1

Card Recipe:
Image: Whimsy and Stars, sentiment PTI
Ink: Printer, Palette Noir
Paper: PTI ssw, SU Pumpkin Pie, Always Artichoke, DCWV patterns
Extras: copics, nesties, SU brads, SU border punch, PTI leaf dies, cuttlebug embossing folder, PTI button and twine

First BookEndz card

Back again with a quick post. I've joined the online reading group, BookEndz, over at Color Me Creative Classroom started up by Suzanne Dean. Our first discussion is tonight, the book was Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. It was an interesting read for sure. The challenge to go with was to make a card reflecting the book. I went with an Asian themed card.

My layout is from the sketch #117 from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Looking forward to tonight for the discussion and to see what the next read will be!

Card Recipe:
Image: Mo's Digital Pencil
Ink: Printer
Paper: PTI ssw, Black, SU Pale Plum, BG Kioshi prints
Extras: copics, stickles, nesties, WOC cherry blossoms, Recollections sparkly brads, offray ribbon, PTI button, crochet floss

D2D Stitched Pumpkin

I love this little mouse peeking out from behind the pumpkin, so cute. It is from Designed2Delight and is called Stitched Pumpkin. The set comes with one without the mouse and a cool border image as well.  I thought it would make a perfect "miss you" card to go in my OWH cards that I'll mail off.

I've used Tracy's Eat Sleep Stamp Sketchy Thursday sketch #144 for this layout. Another stellar sketch from Tracy, she really knows how to put together a sketch that flows well.

Card Recipe:
Image: Designed2Delight Stitched Pumpkin, sentiment from PTI
Paper: PTI ssw, SU Choc. Chip, Wild Wasabi, Real Rust, retired SU patterns
Ink: Printer, Palette Umber
Extras: copics, nesties, ribbon, MM brads, cuttlebug pumpkin embossing folder