DTC Challenge #200 3-2-1 Recipe "Oodles of Doodles" with TSOT #679

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #200 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Oodles of Doodles" and combining it with our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #679) which starts on Sept 16th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

    

Had lots of fun with pencil doodling and once I decided on the hedgehog I replaced pencil using a Sharpie black thin tip pen. The rest of the doodling was free-hand using Sharpi and once comfortable with doodling the card went pretty fast. 

Used Copic Sketch brush pens for Twisted Sister's optional twist "Punch of Color", bordered my doodle card with pink cardstock and adhered to card base. Added a corner doodle on the inside of card.  

Below are experimental doodles which I'll save for another time. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe " " and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Critter Crazy Challenge "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter" 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Cardstock 

     Pink and White Daisy     

Free Hand-doodling 

     Hedgehog Image and scene, border design outside and inside, 

     and sentiments  

Inks/Pens 

     Sharpie Fine Tip "Black" 

     Copic Sketch Brush Pens (Alcohol-base) Varity of Colors 

Color Dare #668

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #668 which you must use both colors as shown or closest to.  My first thought was to use these colors for a blended background with a silhouette, but then leaned toward an older technique I had not used in a while, "Triple Time Stamping".  

Cut three proportional rectangle panels, stacked securing with some adhesive and used the Misti to stamp floral images using these colors in, around and across the panels. Randomly stamped small wire mesh around florals using Heather ink. Separated panels and bordered each with candy apple cardstock. and adhered each panel to match up with the floral design.  Stamped a small sentiment in the lower right-corner. 

From same stamp set another floral was stamped on the inside bottom right-hand corner along with a the wire mesh.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #668 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Consider hopping over to our DTC sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:
Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Florals with Optional Mood Board #32 

Colorful Options Sep 2025 "Anything Goes, Colors and/or theme" 

Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 6 "Anything In or From a Garden" 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday September Challenge "AnyThing Goes"

Inspiration Station Sept 2025 Photo #77

     Inspiration Photo: Using Red & Yellow Colors
The Neglected Stuff "August" 

     Stuff:  Paper Garden Stamps, Triple Time Stamping Technique 
Triple 3 Sep 2025 Challenges "Birds, Blooms and Butterflies"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Cardstock
     White Daisy and Candy Apple 
Stamps
     S1509 Paper Garden 

     D1629 Just to Say 
Inks/Pens
     Memento "London Fog" Ink
     Candy Apple Ink 

     Canary Ink 

TSOT #678 with DTC Challenge #199 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #678 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble #199 "3-2-1 Recipe Sweet Surprise" and using Twisted Sister's optional twist to shake it up a bit and make a Shaker Card adding some of your favorite shaker bits. 

I've had these CTMH Heart Shaker window kits which had never been used. There were no instructions so put together as best I could. I realized the window would not be embedded flush with the surface of my card because I put a backing on the heart with a snowy-like patterned paper.  

Didn't have the heart die that went with the kit so traced the heart shaker onto another 4" x 5 1/4" panel of same paper, fussy-cut and adhered to card base with foam tape and inserted the shaker window. My fussy-cut had a couple small mis-cuts so I needed to do a horizontal flip of the sketch. Stamped two images, colored using Copic Sketch brushes, and ahered to the background covering the two mis-cuts. 

Finished with a sentiment, and a few snowflake images on the inside of card.  

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there. 

DTC also has another small random-draw gift if you join us in celebrating a "sweet surprise" by telling us about your favorite donut and/or filling. Add it to the comments DTC Challenge post and you will be eligible for an additional randomly drawn prize.


Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Christmas (or not) Bingo Challenges #15 

     Bingo G Column: Christmas, Free, Hand Colored Image 

The Holly and the Ivy #190 "Anything Christmas" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Design Papers

     CTMH Specialty Paper in stash  

Cardstock 

     White Daisy

Stamps and Dies 

     Rubbernecker Stamp & Die Set "Snowmen with Presents" (Retired)  

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Shaker Window, Foam + Acetate "Heart" 

     Kat Scappiness "Snow Flurries" shaker bits 

     

 

DTC Challenge #199 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise" with TSOT #678

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #199 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise" and Twisted Sister's optional twist to fill in your aperture with at least one image or make a shaker. My choice was to add one image in aperture. Also used our Sister Challenge for inspiration, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #678) which starts on Sep 2nd. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges to show how easy it is to participant in both challenges.

My birthday card used CTMH "Party Gnomes" stamps which had never been used and sitting in my stash since purchase. First selected a party patterned paper, bordered with red cardstock, adhered to card base and then cut out a stitched circle aperture.  

Went back and forth on whether it was going to be an aperture card or a shaker; but decided to go with the aperture using several of the party gnomes images. 

Gnomes were stamped using Memento black ink, cut with Brother Scan&Cut, and colored with Copic Sketch pens. 

On the inside of the card I placed the same patterned paper and adhered one gnome to display on aperture cut,  another in the corner, and placed a third gnome on front of card hiding one of the ones on the inside. 

When opening the card I wasn't pleased with the gnome on the left side. As with alcohol-inks they bleed through cardstock... so, cut another gnome, pencil drew the back of the gnome, used Black Multi-liner over penciled, erased pencil marks, colored and carefully cut with circle die to fit in aperture cut. My art wasn't perfect but looked better than the color bleed.   

I then cut another piece of the same patterned paper using same circle die, fussy-cut around the stitching and applied to the inside of aperture opening.  Sentiments were stamped on the front and inside of card. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Sweet Surprise" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twist and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above - Sept "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" 

Addicted to Stamps #500 "Die Cuts or Stencils" 

Allsorts Challenge #831 "Birthday" 

Cut It Up #337 "Anything Goes" (Must Include at Least one die cut)

The Neglected Stuff (9/25) Challenge 

   Neglected Stuff Used: Patterned Paper, Gnome Stamps 

Try It on Tuesday "Going Round in Circles 

The Paper Players PP753 Tic-Tac-Toe: 

Left Diagonal: Celebration, Free, Stitching 

 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

    CTMH - Prehistoric Party Patterned Paper Packet  

Cardstock 

    Candy Apple and White Daisy   

Stamps 

    Party Gnomes   

Dies 

    Stash - Stitched Circle Die    

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Color Dare #666 (Due 08/22)

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #666 "Must Use All Three Colors" and found a cool stencil in my stash to use with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #643 flipping to landscape.   

I needed to make a quick card because my family from back East are visiting this week and wanted to spend time with them. They only make it out here every couple years, and it's the only time our pool is used... lol. This stencil was a good match to the sketch challenge, so simply blended the three colors and then added the sentiment... CAS, finished and posted all within an hour. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 
Dies  

     Lawn Fawn Words: Happy Birthday   
Inks/Pens
    Peacock, Goldrush, Buttercup Inks
    

DTC Challenge #198 - 3-2-1 Recipe "Mix It Up" with TSOT Sketch Challenge #677 for Inspiration

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #198 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Mix It Up" (3-layers, 2-patterned papers, 1-sentiment) and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #677) which starts on August 19th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for inspiration and how easy it is to participant in both challenges. 

Twisted Sister says, "Let's be cool and take this fan-tastic opportunity to cool off, and use my optional twist and create a fan-fold card using TSOT's Sketch Challenge #677 above. Here are two tutorials in two different sizes for creating Fan Fold cards: Patty Dolan's A2 Tutorial and Lisa Curcio's A7 Tutorial 

This was such a fun card to put together and I chose to do a Christmas card. First I sized and printed the sketch to an A2 and used that as my pattern for the different panel cuts...that procedure saved me many cuts. 

My fan was decorated with foliage and pinecones to add more dimension to the card... undecided on what pinecones and foliage to use several cuts were made using cardstock and patterned paper. After completing the front of the card the balance of cuts were placed on the inside corner against one of the patterns in the fan.  A sentiment was added bordered with evergreen cardstock.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Mix It Up" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare for inspiration and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge, Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Double Trouble's alternate challenge for another chance at DTC random drawing was shared with Creative Creases #106 "Anything Goes, Fun Fold". 

Christmas Crafts All Year Round (Songs of Christmas:Pinecones and Holly Berries) 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge "Aug Anything Goes" with Top Pick Twist

The Neglected Stuff "8/25" Neglected Stuff Used: Christmas paperpack & dies 

Jingle Belles "The Sprit of Christmas Past"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Evergreen (Used 3 of the patterned papers)

Cardstock 

     Vanilla, Evergreen, Acorn, Chocolate and White Daisy

Stamps 

     Sentiment: D1629 "Just to Say"

Dies 

     Ultimate Crafts "Wild Branches & Pinecones" 

     Ultimate Crafts "Rustic Christmas" 

     Penny Black "Jolly Holly" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Evergreen" Ink 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Color Dare #664 - Thank You

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #664 using at least two shades of blue.  As I was looking through my stash I came across a very old floral from one of CTMH Fundamental paperpacks and it already had two blues meeting the requirement and perfect as a background. Decided to use a third color, Sapphire, for a second border. 

 

My immediate thought was to add butterflies using the same colors... so I sought out a pair of butterfly dies.  Cut the shadow base for each butterfly with glacier and cut the decorative butterfly for each using Lagoon. Each were glued on body part only, then adhered to background using 3D thin foam tape and the wings were rolled for additional dimension.  

Sentiment was cut using Lagoon cardstock and then adhered direct to the background and a butterfly was added to the inside r-h corner of card base. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #664 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

If you like to combine additional Challenges... consider hopping over to either Double Trouble "3-2-1 Recipe" and/or our sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.



Also entered at the Following Challenges:

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

The Neglected Stuff "   Used: Floral Paper retired CTMH Paperpack 

     and Butterfly Dies

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - August 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
     CTMH Fundamentals - Floral   
Cardstock

     (3) Shades of Blue (Sapphire, Glacier and Lagoon), and White Daisy 

Dies
     Lawn Fawn - Thank You Border 

     Spellbinders "Butterflies"   
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape

TSOT #676 - 25th Anniversary

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #676. The CTMH paperpack "Love Story - Silver Pack" had some paper I've wanted to use for quite some time. My inspiration and plan was to use the 3-2-1 Recipe at Double Trouble but my final card ended up as a grey/silver monochromatic perfect for a 25th Wedding Annniversary. 

I chose a scalloped hexagon cutting out the center with a smaller hexagon to make the frame for the focal point. The focal point was a flower that was right in the middle for the background patterned paper and the hexagon frame was approximately the same size as my focal point. The frame was adhered with 3D thin foam tape and from the same patterned paper the same floral was fussy-cut to use for layering and dimension. 

For more dimension the leaves were lifted up over the frame, another sprig was fussy-cut and adhered with 3D thin foam tape over the same sprig on the patterned paper. Wink of Stella was added to the frame, floral, leaves and sprig which gave a little sparkle against the background.  

To finish my card a sentiment was die cut using three different dies, layered 3 times for dimension and adhered to the bottom of the background. Again added Wink of Stella to bring in more sparkle against the background.  

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there. 

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to also see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

I Spy With My Little Eye No. 28 "Something to Celebrate"

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 31" 

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - Aug 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers

     Love Story Paperpack "Silver"    

Cardstock 

     Gray and White Daisy  

Dies 

     Pink and Main Scallop Hexagon Dies 

     Lil'Inker Mixed/Stitched Numbers Die Set 

     Paper Roses "Words" 

     My Artc Alphabet Stamp and Cuts 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Bitty Sparkles 

DTC Challenge #197 3-2-1 Recipe "You're In the Spotlight" with TSOT #676

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #197 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "You're in the Spotlight" consisting of 3 Color of Choice (Purple, Yellow, Lagoon and Green), 2 Layers Not to Include Card Base, and 1 Spotlight Technique.  Click on Spotlight Technique here for easy tutorials for creating this technique. Also included using  Twisted Sister's optional twist to include flower(s) and share my card with our alternate challenge "Triple B (Butterflies, Birds & Blooms)".  My inspiration came from our sister challenge, TSOT, Try a Sketch on Tuesday #676, rotating the sketch to landscape.  

In the CTMH paperpack "Love Story" there was a large floral sticker in black and white.  I chose a scalloped circle, cutting out the center with a smaller scalloped circle to make a frame for the spotlight technique. I circled off the space to be colored and then colored the florals and leaves within the circle using Copic Sketch  (alcohol-base) pens.  

Adhered the floral on black cardstock, added 3D thin foam tape to adhere to the card base.  The frame was place around the colored floral sticker and adhered to the background.  To finish my card a sentiment was die cut using white cardstock was placed in upper right-hand corner. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "You're in the Spotlight" and play along with our optional twist and double dare while earning additional chances to our random drawing. Check out the Design Teams inspirations and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 30" 

The Neglected Stuff "   Used: Floral Sticker from retired CTMH Paperpack

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - August 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Love Story Paperpack "Floral Sticker"     

Cardstock 

     Black and White Daisy

Dies 

     Scalloped Circle Dies 

     Peachy Cheap "Words" 

Inks/Pens 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) Variable Colors

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Bitty Sparkles 

Color Dare #662 Hugs

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #662. This color challenge was a little bit of a challenge for me... I had no idea what I had in my stash... surprised when I found some gold metallic and a clear plastic piece of gold polka-dots. 

 

First cut a white cardbase and a gold metallic for the border and adhered them together. The polka dot was cut the same size as the white cardbase and then adhered using glue placed behind several polka-dots so glue wouldn't be seen through the plastic.

The polka dot background appeared simple but yet eloquent... felt it deserved a pop of color for the focal point and what better than a pink flower cut from glitter and gold metallic leaves. To finish the card, cut in gold one of my favorite sentiments for an all occasion card and layered with white cardstock.

 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #662 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "July"  A/G with a Die Cut  

All Sorts Challenge #828 "Flowers" 

Beautiful Blossoms 

Ellibelle's Corner: Garden Party #4 

Ellibelle's Corner: Crafty Wednesday (June/July)

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     CTMH Clear Plastic with Gold Polka Dots 

     Gold Metallic Paper 

     CTMH Pink Glitter Paper

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 

Dies 

     In Stash, unknown vendor "Gold Leaves"  

     Reasonable Dies "Flowers #5A26411

     Tuttie Designs "Hugs Sentiment"

Inks/Pens 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

DTC #196 3-2-1 Recipe "Keep Us In Stitches" and TSOT #675

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #196 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Keep Us in Stitches" and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #675) which starts on July 7th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for interested participants. 

 

This CTMH paperpack was one of my favorite patterned papers for newborn and kid cards... patterns are so whimsical and love the bright colors. This sketch captures all the papers and it was so easy to include the images from a coordinating stamp and die set with the same theme. 

Two of the patterned papers (plaid and polka-dot) were cut as in sketch, adhered to blue cardstock, die cut using a stitched frame along the border and adhered to the card base. 

The three stitched circles were cut using the cloud pattern and adhered direct to background.  Images were stamped, die cut, colored with Copic sketch pens (alchohol base) and adhered to the circles using thin 3D foam tape. 

A sentiment had been stamped with black ink prior to placing the baby on the circle. However, while posting I noticed Twisted Sister's optional twist (a fun pun) was not included on my card. So I looked on the Internet and the only pun I found was Stork Naked which reminded me of Stork Naked with Daffy Duck's Looney Toons. So a quick fix, removed baby from circle, a new circle cut of clouds, a typed sentiment bordered with blue cardstock and all adhered to card base background. Daffy wasn't to happy with the delivery but I think anyone who gets the card above submitted will get a laugh out of it. 

In the upper L-H corner of the front of card three stitched hearts were fussy cut and adhered direct to background. Stork Naked Daffy Duck

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble 3-2-1 Recipe "Keep Us in Stitches" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge, Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "July - Anything Goes with a Die"

Critter Crazy Challenge #100 Special Birthday Bash - Must be Birthday theme 

     with featured critter  

I Spy with my Little Eye "Something to Celebrate" 

Elllibelle's Crafty Wednesday "Anything Goes"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Design Papers

     Sweet Safari Paperpack

Cardstock

     Blue and White Daisy

Stamps

     Z3914 Stamp & Thin Cuts "Sweet Safari"

Dies

     Craftin Desert Divas - Rectangle Frame with Wacky stitches

     Cottage Cutz "Nested Wacky Stitched Circles"

Inks/Pens

     Memento "Black" Ink

     Copic Sketch Brush Pens (alcohol base) - Variety of Colors

Other

     3D Thin Foam Tape