DTC Challenge #208 3-2-1 Recipe "Waddle We Do Next"

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #208 3-2-1 Recipe "Waddle We Do Next". When I saw Twisted Sister's optional twist to include a penguin, there was no question in my mind, a penguin card it would be. May be a little out of the box, but my inspiration was from our sister's challenge TSOT's sketch.

 

While looking for my CTMH penguin stamp set I came across this cute summer stamp set from Rubbernecker (aka as Brass & Bliss) which my daughter had gifted me some time ago and never used.

This stamp set needed a beach scene so I pulled out a retired stamp set from CTMH "Writing in the Sand" and stamped sea and sand on a piece of vanilla cardstock. The sea was first stamped with Peacock, moved cardstock up slightly and stamped with Sea Glass and then used Sea Glass and lightly sponged all of the sea portion. The sand portion it was stamped with Chocolate ink and then lightly sponged with the same color. Used an oval die to cut the sea/sand and adhered to a blue panel, and then to card base.  

Stamped all the images using Momento black ink, cut with my Brother ScanNCcut, colored with Copic Sketch pens, and adhered using glue and 3D thin foam tape for dimension.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Waddle We Do Next" 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 January "Anything Goes" (Must use a Die Cut) 

"Critter Crazy Challenge #106 "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter"

Retro Rubber Challenge #263 "Anything Goes" Stamp Sets at least 2 years old)

Simon Says Challenge "Things with Wings" Yes, Penguins have wings "Technically,     they are wings, but functionally they are flippers, and they use them to fly                   underwater

The Neglected Stuff January Challenge" Penguin Stamp never used, in stash

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
   Personal Stamped Sea/Sand Background 
Cardstock
   Blue and Vanilla and White Daisy
Stamps
   Rubbernecker Stamps 35014  "Summer Penguins" 

   CTMH D2102 "Writing in the Sand" 
Dies
   Oval in Stash 
Inks/Pens
   Memento "Black" Ink
   Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) - Variety of Colors 

   Gelly Roll 08 "White"

   CTMH Inks - Sea Glass, Peacock, Chocolate 
Other
   3D Thin Foam Tape

Color Dare #602 - 12th Anniversary Celebration

This is my Design Team project for ColorMyHeart Color Dare #602 "Triple Play" for our 12th Anniversary Celebration. In homage we are doing an updated take on those original colors. While I was looking for a sketch to combine with our color challenge, the CTMH "Just Chicken In" was sitting in my space beckening me to use. When I selected the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #578 there was a floral on the same stamp set which was perfect for this sketch. Even though I wanted to use chicks; just couldn't see chicks in these color... so the chicks will sit there for another challenge and I'll use the floral.   

The floral was stamped using Memento black ink on Wisteria (one on dark side and the other on the light side) and another one stamped in Royal. The Royal floral was fussy-cut for the base of the floral. The light Wisteria was fussy-cut for the inner part of the daffodil and the dark Wisteria was fussy-cut for the outer part of the daffodil. The Wisteria pieces were added to Royal floral base with glue and some parts with thin 3-D foam tape for dimension. 

Periwinkle is one of my favorite colors. We had a Periwinkle car way back in the 90's because I wanted a purple car. My husband was hesitant; but we purchased it. There were times I would wander around a parking lot looking for my Periwinkle car but in daytime light it was more blue than purple and there weren't remotes at that time to lead you to your car. So... there were difficult times when looking for my car; but it wasn't difficult to choose the background papers in Periwinkle, border them with the Royal and place them as in the sketch on the card base.  

The focal point and sentiment frames were cut, one with patterned paper and the other in Royal cardstock, modified using a stitched rectangle frame.  

On the inside of the card base the right-hand border was a strip of Royal cardstock, zip strip and another strip of the same background patterned paper.  Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #602 for our 12th Annniversary, check out the Design Teams inspiration and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

You may also like to hop over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenges to see how easy it might be to combine challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Aloha Friday Challenge "Flowers" 

Beautiful Blossoms Mood Board #17 

Cut It Up #304 "Send Me Flowers"  Must use at least one die 

Craft Rocket Challenge "Flowers"

Daring Card Makers "M is for..." Monochromatic - Purple 

Die Cut Divas "Monochromatic" (Purples) (Must Use at least one die) 

Just Add Ink #703 "Just Use Two" (Bright Colours, Birthday) 

Moving Along the Times #166 "Flowers 

Retro Rubber Challenge #231 "Lavendar Love" 

The Paper FunDay #65 "AG w/Optional Flowers" 

MFT "Take our Cue - Flower Power"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Sweet Memories 

     Mix-in Packets with Periwinkle patterns 

Cardstock 

     Royal and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Floral:  S2403 Just Chicken In 

     Sentiment:  S2105 Flowers For You (Retired Stamp May 2021)

Dies 

     Waffle Flower #310052 Lacy Layers Rectangle

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink    

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

You're One Crazy Cat - Guest Designer for Crazy For Cats

Back awhile ago I was invited as Guest Designer for Crazy for Cats Challenge "Anything Goes" with the choice of March through June challenges ... how time flies.  Missed submitting the last three months so my card is for the June Challenge "Anything Goes Cat".  

Looked through my stash for cat/kitten scrapping supplies and found this cute Halloween stamp set.  Back a month ago my daughter invited me to their cabin for a scrapping retreat and we set aside one day to do gel press backgrounds and this was the perfect background for a Halloween card.  Decided a mini-slimline card would be perfect for the image.  Gel print background was backed with a black and white magical design paper and adhered to card base.   

Stamped cat on white cardstock, colored with Copic brush pens, fussy cut and  adhered to background with thin foam tape.  Stamped the witch's hat on the same background pattern and fussy-cut to be placed on cat's head with regular foam tape for more dimension.  Sentiments were stamped with black on top and bottom corners and a few cute bats were stamped on the upper right-hand corner. 

On the inside of the card added a border along the right, stamped cat peeking behind the border and added the witch hat and bat in the corner.  

Also submitted to the following Challenges  

Critter Crazy Challenges "Anything Goes - Critters"  

Most Magical Time of the Year "Halloween" 

Retro Rubber Challenges #207 "Anything Goes"  Must use stamp more than a year old - CTMH Stamp 2016

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge "June Anything Halloween" 

CTMH products Unless Specified Other 

Paper and/or Techniques 

     CTMH Black & White Mix-In Paperpack 

     Gel Print Background using Stencil 

Cardstock 

     Daisy White 

Stamp 

     S1608 "Perfect Halloween" (Aug 2016 retired) 

Inks 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Pens (alcohol base) 

     C1, C3, C5, C7 and G05 

     Gelly Roll 08 "White" 

Other 

     3D Thin and Regular Foam Tape 

 

Friendship Makes Life Colorful - Color Dare #498 "Shades of Green, Blue, Purple"

This is my Design Team card for ColorMyHeart Color Dare #498. The Color Dare's color palette reminded me of a paintbrush image we colored at Jennifer Dove's December 2021 Copic Boot Camp Class and all I had to do was to use shades of the three colors... how fun is that. 

The rainbow stream of colors was a personal add-on with shades of green, blue and purple using Copic alcohol brush pens... this rainbow stream was not a part of the paintbrush stamp. Masked the paintbrush rainbow image, stamped on various ink blot flairs using inks of the same colors, added a sapphire border and adhered to my card base.  

The sentiment was from a very old retired stampset.  Stamped on white cardstock using the same ink colors, overlapping each color, added a sapphire border and adhered with 3D thin foam tape at the base of the rainbow stream of colors. 

On the inside of card, stamped various ink blot flairs at the the bottom and right-hand side. 

 

Also sent to the following challenges:  

Facebook 2021 December Boot Camp 

Heart3Heart "Splatter It"  

Crafter's Cafe #285 "Spots and/or Stripes" 

Colour Crazy #21 "Anything Goes Colouring Challenge 

Retro Rubber #183 "Anything Goes" Stamp Whimsy "Artist Toolkit" 2019  

Passion for Markers #642 "Spots and Stripes" 13th Anniversary Challenge

Just Add Ink #605 "Inspiration Photo"  

   Went with Colors Green, Purple and Blue

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Cardstock 

     Sapphire and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Sentiment - C1361 Buttoned Together 

     Background - D1660 Ink Blot Flair 

     Paint Brush - Whimsy "Artist Tool Kit" 

Inks / Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Inks Sweet leaf, Thistle and Indian Corn Blue (Retired Colors)

     Copic Sketch Pens (alcohol-base)  

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Happy Bird Day - Double Trouble Challenge #59 3-2-1 Recipe

Here is my DT card for Double Trouble Challenge #59 "3-2-1 Recipe". Double Trouble usually has a pretty simple recipe (This recipe had 3-Colors, 2 Embellishments and 1 seasoned stamp over a year old).  And you can enhance or make a bigger recipe by using additional ingredients. You can stop here and submit your entry or you can use Twisted Sister's Optional Twist and get additional chances at Double Trouble's random draw. I wanted to take that challenge.  

But then when I wanted to challenge myself to Twisted Sister's optional twist using a sketch from Retro Rubber Challenge #137 and using a triangle or quadrilateral shapes...wow and pow. I had the perfect background die that had triangles and every quad shape there is. Now, the hard part is to fit the busy background in the sketch.  

Soooo, off to my daughters blog to see how she would treat a busy background.  She frequently makes busy look simple.  So this is my attempt at a Lisa card and I think I captured a little of her style... what do you think?  Don't answer that.  

For my birdhouse I used a woodgrain design paper along with another design paper for the roof.  The cut of the roof looked like a triangle and the walls of the home were my quads. Not that I really had to worry about Twisted Sister's optional twist to include at least one triangle or quad because the background die had them all.   

The woodgrain design paper looked like a Birch tree.  Since the sketch called for a panel down the side, I cut another background die with the same woodgrain and pieced them to look like it was a Birch tree trunk outside my glass window and used sequins for the leaves falling off the tree.  And of course the sentiment was stamped on the woodgrain design paper, curved the sides and adhered with 3D thin foam tape to appear as a birdhouse post.   

I knew I was going to use the sentiment "Happy Bird-Day" so went through all my stamps to find the right bird.  

To join us at Double Trouble just follow one of our favorite 3-2-1 Recipe and take on the challenge of Twisted Sister's Optional Twist using our partner's sketch and enter your project at Retro Rubber. 

Please follow us on Double Trouble Challenge and receive notices of our new challenge on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, and if there is a 5th Monday we run a special one week challenge like this one for our "Something, Everything, Anything", which will be coming up the end of this challenge.  

Also entered in the following challenges:
The Cutie Pie "June" Challenge "Layer It Up" 

The Crafter's Cafe "Things with Wings" 
Paper Craft Challenges #59 "Geometric" 
Just Us Girls #540 "Frame It" 
Daring Cardmakers "Wing It" 
Your Next Stamp #141 "Shake It Up" 
Moving Along With the Times "Things with Wings"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Paper 

     Celebrate Mix-In 

     Clear Plastic for Shaker Card 

Cardstock 

     White Daisy and Black 

Stamps 

     B1432 Love This "Seasons & Nature" - Bird  (July 2016)

     Paper Smooches "Baby Birds" - Sentiment (Nov 2017)

Dies 

     Cricut Cut #M3B555 - Bird House "Modified" 

Pens / Inks 

     Black Ink 

     Copic Pens - alcohol-based Sketch Pens 

        C1, C3, C5, E42, Y15 

        Copic Multi-Liner 0.3

Embellishments 

     Kat Scrappiness 

Other 

     3D Thin and Regular Foam Tape

Happy Birthday - Double Trouble Challenge #57

This is my DT card for Double Trouble Challenge #57 "Brown Bag-It Day" (use Kraft paper). And if you use Twisted Sister's optional twist to create a kid's project and include a favorite item (toy, clothing) as a child and you will be able to also enter in Crafting Happiness Challenge #49... and who doesn't like a grown up purse when you're a kid. 

Found in Pinterest a tutorial by Samantha Clayton at Mixed Up Craft Blog "Handbag Fold Card", with all the dimensions and the YouTube shows how to put it altogether. An fun and easy card to put together.  All you have to do is choose your papers, embellishments and sentiment. Since it was a little purse I decided to put a pocket on the inside for money and/or a gift card. This purce fold, including the purse handle, creates a 5 x 7 card.   

  

To join us at Double Trouble all you need to create a project using Kraft. 

Then it's up to you whether you want to include Thing 3 Twisted Sister's optional twist "kids project" for week one, and just add red for week two challenge at Crafting Happiness.  

Please follow us on Double Trouble Challenge and receive notices of our new challenge on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, and if there is a 5th Monday we run a special one week challenge like this one for our "Something, Everything, Anything".

Also sent to the following Challenges: 
Heart2Heart "National Scrapbooking Month" 
Stinkin' Inkers Challenge Blog "In the Bag" 

Retro Rubber Challenges #135 "TicTacToe"  
     3rd Row: Flowers, Pattern Paper, Bright Colors

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 
Design Paper 
     Stitched Together Paperpack and Sticker Sheet Embellishments
Dies 
     Tutti Designs #417 Scalloped Stitched Nesting Ovals 
     Inspire by Spellbinders "Sentiment" 
Stamps 
Other 
     3D thin foam tape 








   

Double Trouble Challenge #32 with Retro Rubber Challenge #114

Here is Double Trouble Challenge #32 "Be Square - Christmas in July" partnering with Retro Rubber Challenge #114 wherein you use old stamps. It's usually pretty easy to find old stamps for Christmas, but hard not to choose one of your new ones.  However, Retro and Double Trouble have partnered together to give old stamps some love.  

Used a lot of technique and tools for this project but it all came together.  Stamped Santa and his reindeer in red, fussy-cut and set aside for placement later. In Cricut Design Space there was a square card with a Palm Tree (4 3/4 x 4 3/4) which was perfect to pull in Twisted Sister's optional twist "a beach scene with Santa".  Modified the card to include the sentiment created with text and printed directly on card with the Cricut.    

To create the shaker card...the card was folded, taped in place to sponge on the scenery in a variety of colors for sand, water, clouds and sky using the landscape stencils.  Additional palm tree and starfish cricut cuts were adhered to the existing palm originally on square card but modified to have the leaves overlap the square cut for the shaker card.  Card was cut in half, plastic added to the back of front, sequins added to the center of inside card, then both pieces adhered with foam tape to create the shaker.  Another panel in cranberry cardstock was cut to frame the card and then adhered to card base.  

Last but not least was the placement of Santa and his reindeer as they were coming across the beaches of Hawaiian wishing everyone a "Mele Kalikimaka".  

Join us at Double Trouble Challenge #32 - Click Here 

Trouble Maker
Be Square 

Chrismas in July 

Twisted Sister's
Optional Twist - Santa at the
Beach North Shore  

Double Dare
Retro Stamp Challenge

 Use Stamp Over Year Old 

Also sent to the following Challenges:  
Art Impressions Blog Challenge #259 "Shaker Card" 
Kitty Bee Designs Challenge #146 "Christmas in July" 
Bitten By the Bug 2 "Summer" (Might be somewhat out of the box, 
but Santa even enjoys Summer at the North Shore) 
My Time to Craft Challenge #400 "Beside the Seaside" 
Make My Monday #99 "Begins with a B"  (Beach) 
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog Challenge #113 "Begins with B" (Beach)
Pile It On "Transportation and/or Vacation"  (Santa-Sleigh/Raindeer) 
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' June Challenge "Anything Christmas" 
     Optional Twist: Non Traditional Colors
Double D Challenges "Tropical Challenge"  

Also posted project in the following Facebook Groups 
All Cricut Galleria 

CTMH Products unless Specified Otherwise:

Design/Specialty Paper

     Jackson

     Paper Fundamentals  "Fern" 

     Plastic Sheet  

Cardstock 

     Cranberry, Almond and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     CTMH C1567 Santa Claus (2015) - Artbooking 

Stencils 

     MFT Clouds, Waves and Drifts/Hills  

Inks/Pens 

     Inks - Cranberry, Crystal Blue, Lagoon and Almond 

     Cricut Thin Point "Moccasin"

Cricut Design Space 

     Life is a Beach M34BFF "Palm Tree Square Card"   

     Life is a Beach M34191 "Starfish" 

     Sentiment - Text "Mele Kalikimaka

Embellishments 

     Sequins - Paper Sweeties "Brown" 

     Sequins - Journey "Bloom Time" 

Other 

     Thin Foam Dots 

     Glue Dots