Happiness Is - Thanks alatte

Day 3...Be sure to stop on over to the Spring Coffee Lover's BlogHop and check out all the great projects and cards...they are filled with inspiration...join in the fun...you have until the 25th to submit as many cards as you want that are Spring themed and include coffee, tea or hot chocolate.  

A Thank You shaker coffee cup Card made with CTMH "Artistry" Cartridge.  Sized cup image and modified to create the card using White Daisy cardstock. For the Front of Card a second image was cut, modifying the size and changing the heart on the sleeve to a 4-leaf clover, and sliced another image to make the cap the same design as the sleeve.  Secured on card with with 3D Regular Foam Tape to allow the pocket for the Sentiment and a gift card.  

Inside of card decorating with die-cuts from Cricut Design Space and stamped with a Thank you Sentiment.  

Also submitted to the following:  Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges.  

DL.Art March Linky Party - Anything Goes
The Outlawz Thursday Challenge - "Anything Goes" with Twist: Layers

Products Used:  

Design Paper 
     Doodlebut Design, Inc. "Pot of Gold" 
Card Stock 
     CTMH White Daisy, Pear and Sweet Leaf
Stamp Set 
     Front Sentiment - Stampendous "Cling Shared Coffee"
     Inside Sentiment - Verve Stamps "Delightful & Delicious" 
Die-Cuts from Cricut Design Space
     Coffee Cup Card - CTMH "Artistry"  
     Inside 4-Leaf Clovers - CTMH "Artistry" 
Ink
     CTMH Black and Pear
Embellishments 
     Little Things from Lucy's Cards "Chocolate Truffle" sequins

Hot Chocolate Is Like a Hug In A Mug

Day 3...Be sure to stop on over to the Spring Coffee Lover's BlogHop and check out all the great projects and cards...they are filled with inspiration...join in the fun...you have until the 25th to submit as many cards as you want that are Spring themed and include coffee, tea or hot chocolate.  

The Outlawz Monthly Progressive Freebie using the Digi Gerda Steiner Designs and Hot Chocolate Day for the Spring Loving Coffee Blog Hop.

Cup stamped on Design Paper and cardstock, and then pieced the design paper on the cup. Colored all images and fussy-cut and adhered to doilies placed on the background. Created both sentiments in Cricut Design Space and added some hearts.  

Also submitted to the following:  Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges. 

Fantabulous Challenges #272 - Easter
Cut It Up Challenges #92 - Bunny  
DL.Art March Linky Party - Anything Goes 
DL.Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #176 - Easter 
Craftin Desert Divas "Photo Inspiration" Linky Party Week 2

Products used: 

Design Paper
     CTMH Kaleidoscope
Stamp Sets
     Stamps By Rupa Shevde "My Cuppa' Joe"
Cricut Design Space Die-Cuts
     Cricut Cartridge "Edge to Edge" Circle Doily #M3CB4B 
     Sentiment - Sue's Design created in Cricut Design Space
Die-Cut Image 
     Gerda Steiner "Cute Nerdy Bunny with glasses" 
Embellishments
     Small Doily from JoAnne's
     CTMH Enamel & Glitter Duos - Purple Hearts 
     CTMH Beads - Black 
Other
     CTMH 3D Regular and Thin Foam Tape
     CTMH Liquid Glass 

 

     

All the Goodness of Life is a Cup

Day 2...Be sure to stop on over to the Spring Coffee Lover's BlogHop and check out all the great projects and cards...they are filled with inspiration...join in the fun...you have until the 25th to submit as many cards as you want that are Spring themed and include coffee, tea or hot chocolate.  

In my travels I had seen an image where a teacup was made into a flower which inspired me to make a bouquet of flowers with teacups and use the tea kettle for the pot.  

So off to Cricut Design Space to find an appropriate stem and leaves to go with the teacup chosen. I chose a stem with flowers (seen below), and pulled in two of the same to work some magic...modifying using combinations of slice, weld, attach, and reverse image.  After the stem and leaves were completed I made a back panel with a lighter color green, adhered to other image, distressed the leaves.  

The teacups and sentiment were from a Stamp Set from Verve, and the teapot was another Cricut Design Space die-cut which I didn't even have to modify or change the size...perfect.

  

The purple panel, using the negative from a doily cut, was adhered to red cardstock, and layered with a yellow border.  The flower teacups were stamped, colored, fussy-cut, attached to the leaves which were distressed, and then floral image was adhered to the card with 3D thin foam tape   

Teapot was cut with design paper and one other layer, distressed along edges, and using both 3D Regular and Thin Foam Tape to make the teapot more dimensional and rounded.  

Used the teacup stamp and put a border of cups on the inside of card.  

Also submitted to the following:  Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges.  

CTMH Products Unless Otherwise specified: 

Design Paper 

     Paper Fundamentals "Whimsey" Canary 

Cardstock 

     White Daisy, Canary, Pear, Sweet Leaf, Poppy, and Gypsy 

Inks/Pens

     ShinHan alcohol-based pens, Yellow, Red 

     Black, Canary, Pear and Black Inks 

Die-Cuts from Cricut Design Space 

     Cricut "Pink Journey" M3E221 Flower, Modified 

     Cricut "Once Upon a Prince" M3CD54

     Cartridge "CTMH - Artiste" Doily M3ACF4 (Negative)

Stamp Set 

     Verve "Delightful & Delicious"

Other 

     3D Regular and Thin Foam Tape 

Coffee is Happiness in a Cup

Day 2 -  Be sure to stop on over to the Spring Coffee Lover's BlogHop and check out all the great projects and cards...they are filled with inspiration...join in the fun...you have until the 25th to submit as many cards as you want.  

A St. Patty's Day Coffee Card with Mr. and Mrs. Coffee Couple from Craftin Desert Diva's Digi's.  Stamped 2 of each cup on white cardstock for the base and another on green cardstock, and then stamped on design papers for piecing to the cups. Die-Cuts used for this card are all listed below.  Also used a clover for Ms Coffee Couple    

Also submitted to the following: Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges.  

Bitten By the Bug - St. Patrick's Day or Green 
CraftinDesert Diva's - March Digi Stamp Challenge "Green"
The Outlawz - Saturday "Paper Ala Mode" - "Anything Goes" 
DL.Art March Linky Party "Anything Goes"

Products Used: 

Design Paper
     Doodlebug Design Inc. "Pot O' Gold"
Cardstock 
     CTMH Pear and White Daisy 
     Cardstock from JoAnne's
Stamps
     Sentiment - Verve Stamps
Inks
     CTMlH Pear and Topiary
Digi Image 
     Craftin Desert Divas "Coffee Couple" 
Die-Cuts 
     Coffee Word - Verve Stamps
     Stitched Tags "Pretty Pink Posh"
Cricut Design Space Die-Cuts
     4-Leaf Doily - Cartridge "Seasonal Soirees" 
     Circles - Cricut
     4-Leaf Clovers - CTMH Artistry
Other
     CTMH Liquid Glass
     CTMH 3D Regular and Thin Foam Tape 



     

A Hug In A Mug

Day 1... March 18- March 25, 2016 for the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop.  

Welcome to this week's Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #185. Join us in this week’s challenge using only and all the colors in photo (Cotton Candy, Sweet Leaf, Topiary, Glacier and White Daisy.) You have until Thursday, March 24, 2016 to create and link up your project. Another great color combination for Easter/Spring...look forward to seeing your inspirations for this color challenge.  

This was also created for March 7th Heart2Heart Challenge, "Retirement"  which can be retired paper packets, embellishments and stamp sets. I chose to use some of the "Retired" Paper Fundamentals design cardstock. 

All die-cuts, stamped cacti and flowers, as well as the background, both the new and the retired designs, were used.  The stamped images were fussy-cut, edges rounded and adhered to the background using 3D Thin Foam Tape to raise the center of each cacti.  

Arizona cacti are all so beautiful in the Spring/Summer Season.  We might not have much green grass but the cacti are many shades of green, and the flowers that come out of the cacti are a variety of colors and so pretty and some just give out an abundance of flowers.  

The Mug was a die-cut from Cricut Design Space that was modified, removing the center, to make a shaker card.  The sentiment on top was designed by me in Cricut Design Space, and the sentiment on the bottom was a stamp and fussy-cut.  

 This is a picture of the inside of the card using a larger cut of the mug for a sentiment, and then adding a couple cacti in the corner.  This also shows the rounded edging used on the cacti and the layering of the mug and cacti for more dimension.  

Also submitted to the following: Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges.  

Bitten By the Bug - St Patricks or Green   

The Outlawz Thursday Challenge - "Anything Goes" with Twist: Layers

DL.Art March Linky Challenge - Anything Goes 

All CTMH Products Unless Otherwise Specified: 

Design Paper 

     Paper Fundamentals

     Topiary  - Mug (Retired), Cacti (New)  

     Cotton Candy - Flower (New)

     Glacier - Flower (Retired) - Background (New)

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 

Stamp Sets:  

     C1643 Stuck on You Seasons & Nature

     Sentiment - Verve Stamps "Delightful & Delicious"

Inks

     Topiary 

Die-Cuts from Cricut Design Space 

     Sue's Design on "A Hug In A Mug" 

     Mug CTMH "Artistry" Cup M41224C

     

You're One of a Kind

This card was created using Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #151.  Wasn't sure what I was going to do with this sketch...it looked like a series of band aids for a Get Well Card but DT Members already had this same idea.  So, back to the drawing board...I didn't want to use just patterned paper for each section so I thought a combination of many flowers would be a great spring card.  

  

  

I cut several flowers from Cricut Design Space, and then stamped them with a variety of colors using the polka dot flower, glued the white flower to each and adhered on card in sets of three using glue and 3D Thin Foam Tape on the ones in the middle and leaving a space for the Sentiment.  



This is a close up of the Sentiment and the pretty bird showing the foam tape layering.  





The inside of the card was decorated on the inside right-hand corner with some left-over flowers, leaving space for a personal note.  

Also submitted to the following:  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Paper

     Penelope 

Cardstock

     White Daisy and Pacifica

Stamp Set

     Flowers - D1491 Hooray Bouquet 

     Sentiment - B1441 Buggy Love Seasons & Nature 

     Bird - S1304 My Sunshine SOTM    

Cricut Design Space 

     CTMH Art Philosophy M4356A "Flower"

     CTMH Artiste M3D61C "Bird"

Inks

     Pacifica, Canary, Gypsy, Lagoon, Cotton Candy

     Thistle, Pear 

Other

     3D Regular and Thin Foam Tape 

Get Well Soon

  

My Design Team Project for Aud Sentiments Challenge #151. Click on this challenge to see what the other Design Team Members have created and other entrants' inspirations.  Challenges run for two weeks...using a Bingo Win Line create a project and submit by Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Please join us in this Challenge...and don't forget to Add a Sentiment. 


My Get Well Card is using the Bingo Winner Line:  Die-Cut, Flowers, 2 Pattern Papers and image from Art By Miran "Isabel's Bouquet", as well as using a sketch on MoJo Monday; however, not as an entrant.  

The inside of the card was completed with another die-cut of the doily in yellow to represent Sunshine, Sentiments and a couple flowers stamped and a corner border adhered.  

Also submitted to:  
Through the Craft Room Door "Anything Goes"  
Ooh LaLa Challenge #200 "Spring Time" 
DL.Art March Linky Party "Anything Goes" 

CTMH Products Unless Otherwise Specified:  

Design Paper:  
     "Dotty for You"
     "Kaleidoscope"
Cricut Design Space Die-Cuts 
     Cartridge "Ultimate Creative Sampler" Get Well Soon 

     Cartridge "CTMH - Artiste" Doily M3ACF4
Die-Cuts
     Pretty Pink Post - Stackable Scalloped Frames "Negative" 
Digi Image
     Art By Miran "Isabels Bouquet"  
Inks/Pens
     Gypsy Ink
     ShinHan alcohol-based Pens, Variety of Colors
Embellishments
     Flowers purchased through Peachy Cheap
Other 
     Foam from Dollar Store 
     3D Thin Foam Tape 
     Zig "Wink of Stella, Clear" 

Eggs-tra Special Delivery Easter Wishes

This Easter Card was inspired by Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #150, using the Kaleidoscope PaperPak and Stamp Set "Hopping By Holiday".  The purple panels were die-cut and modified for the different sizes in the sketch, a piece of design paper adhered in each panel, and two panels adhered direct to card and the other two adhered with 3D Thin Foam Tape.  

The bunny in his carrot-mobile was colored, fussy-cut and adhered with 3D thin foam tape. Sentiments stamped, one attached to the back of the carrot-mobile and the other cut and framed on a left-over modified rectangular die-cut.  

Also submitted to the following challenges: Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges.   

Suzy Bee's Boomin Challenge Blog - "Anything Goes" Twist: Easter 
The Outlawz - Sat "Paper Ala Mode" Easter 
Die Cutting Divas - "Use Paint Chips" 
Craftin Desert Divas Blog - Lots of Layers "Linky Party Week 2" 
DL.Art "March Linky Party" using Green 
DL.Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #176 "Easter"


The pictures below show that some of the purple panels are raised with 3D Thin Foam Tape and others adhered directly to the card.  The inside of the card was stamped with one of the images from the stamp set and two panels cut diagonally adhered along the right-hand side and space left for a personal note.  

CTMH Products Unless Otherwise Specified: 

Design Paper
     Kaleidoscope 
Cardstock
     Daisy White, Gypsy and Canary
Die-Cuts
     Pretty Pink Posh Small Rectangle Frame, modified 
Ink/Pens
     Gypsy and Black Ink 
     ShinHan alcohol-base Pens, Variety of Colors
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     

It's Your 25th Anniversary

 

Welcome to this week's Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #184. Join us in this week’s challenge using only and all the colors in photo (Smoothie, Canary, Flaxen, Sweet Leaf and White Daisy.) You have until Thursday, March 17, 2016 to create and link up your project. Another great color combination for Easter/Spring...look forward to seeing your inspirations for this color challenge.  

This card was made for my daughter and son-in-law's 25th Wedding Anniversary...the colors were just perfect.  Using the Canary, Sweet Leaf and Smoothie Inks on White Daisy cardstock, the background was stamped with the flower from CTMH Stamp Set "Love This Seasons & Nature" (masking many of the flowers) and then adhered it to a piece of Flaxen cardstock.  

Additional flowers were stamped, "clear" heat embossed, fussy-cut and adhered four of the flowers on top of the background flowers and added pearls to the center.  From my stash I added the butterfly which was a Cricut Design Space die-cut.  

Sentiment was added and paneled with a piece of glitter paper, and created the 25 in Cricut Design Space.  

The inside of the card was stamped with the same flower in the bottom right-hand corner.  

    

Card also submitted to the following:  

The Outlawz Thursday "Anything Goes" 

with Twist:  Spring with a little green

CTMH Products Unless Otherwise Specified: 
Design Paper 
     Background Personally Stamped
     Glitter Paper - Pink Package
Cardstock
     White Daisy and Flaxen  
Die-Cuts 
     Butterfly - Cartridge "Home for the Holidays-Spring"
     Sliced a Tag with 25 in it, and then added Circle around it using Cricut Design Space
Inks
     Smoothie, Sweet Leaf and Canary 
Embellishments 
     White Pearls 
     Clear Ranger "Embossment Powder"

You're Tweet

Welcome to this week's Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #183. Join us in this week’s challenge using the colors in photo (White Daisy, Thistle, Pear, Honey and Crystal Blue.) You have until Thursday, March 10, 2016 to create and link up your project. Great color combination for Easter cards...look forward to seeing your inspirations for this color challenge.  The Color Challenge was combined with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #149.  
 

   

My card had been completed, and without even having another challenge in mind, when I opened up Heart 2 Heart Challenge everything just fell in place with the first March theme Challenge is to use 3...

  

My card had 3 branches, 3 Birdies, 3 Banners, 3 Butterflies, 3 Panels with the same framed cardstock and 3 different design papers from the Paper Pak "Penelope".  And should I add the Sentiment as 3 words "You Are Tweet"?  

Other than a lot of fussy-cutting and adding glitter tape and liquid glass to the leaves, the card went together pretty fast.  This next picture shows the detail.  

Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to all of the challenges.  Some of the these challenges may still be open so click on by and join us for some fun challenges.  

 

 

Submitted also to the following: 

Between the Folds Challenge #16A - Use CTMH "Penelope"
The Outlawz Challenge Tuesday Color Challenge 
  (Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink)  Twist: Add leaves

DL.Art "March Linky Party" using Green
The Sisterhood of Crafters "Think Spring" 

Shared with the following Facebook Groups: 

CTMH Artwork

Card Making USA 

Cardmaking

Works of Heart 

CTMH Products Unless Otherwise Specified

Design Paper

     Penelope 

Cardstock

     Paper Fundamentals Whimsey "Thistle" 

     White Daisy

Stamp Pad 

     Sentiment S1304 My Sunshin SOTM

Inks/Pens 

     Thistle Ink Pad

Embellishments 

     Puffies - Butterflies

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Liquid Glass 

     Glitter Tape