This Place is a Zoo!

Ok Lovelies, I'm trying something different this Tuesday!
Instead of posting all my DT cards separately, I'm just posting once today!

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The Digital Tuesday Challenge is sponsored by My Grafico this week and our lovely Shelly has challenged us to use up our scraps!!! "Bits & Pieces" is the theme!

I've been going through my stash of dp (designer papers)scraps! Holy Moly, it's time to stop buying and start using! Anyhoo, I love to mix and match patterns, so when I saw an awesome mixed patterned design the other day I just had to case it! See Tori's card at Wild Sprinkles, she's an inspiration!!! These awesome BasicGrey papers are from the offbeat pack. The bg paper is two scrap pieces and the blue & orange layers are the leftover scraps from the 6 x 6 sheets!

Stamps: Louby Lou (Lenny the Lion)
sentiment -SU! wild about you
Papers: SU! choc chip cs, BasicGrey offbeat dp
Ink: Copics/Prisma makers
Other: MS border punch, Sizzix oval scallop,
EK flower punch, button sticker, floss,
piercing tool for faux stitching.

Ok, I was trying different ways to make a flower since I have limited flower punches and don't want to spend the money for more.

I simply punched a 1.5 inch circle

centered it in my EK retro flower punch

and it makes a nice 'squared off' flower!
I used my piercing tool to help position the punched
circle! Then distressed & curled it!
Applied a button & floss and attached it to my card!
easy peasy!

Checkout all the scrappy inspiration by the rest of the DTC girls...

Amy
Anne-Marije
Anneke
Ellie
Kristine
Lora
Lorraine
Michelle
Sandy
Shelly

Digital Tuesday Challenge -use scraps & a digi!!
Paper Playtime -Zoo
Digital Delights Aug. Digi Day -In the Wild
Order of the Opus Gluei - You Gotta Move It, Move It
Corrosive Challenge - Faux Techniques
One Stitch at a Time - Pack a Punch
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - In Stitches
Alphabet Challenge - P is for Punches
Crafty Catz - Animals
Allsorts - Paper Piercing/Paper Piecing
Drunken Stampers - Cats

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This noble lion is also purr-fect for our Paper Playtime challenge this week- the theme is -ZOO!

Digital Delights by Louby Lou is sponsoring!!!

Lenny the Lion is currently a Digital Delights FREEbie for their August Digi Day over on the SNR forum! Pop over and snag him!!!


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Apologies for the bad photography, not sure what's going on with my camera!

Two weeks have gone by and it's time for another fortnightly challenge @ Creative Card Crew!!!
It was my turn to choose a theme for the Crew and I chose Sparkle & Shine...always a fun one in my book!!

Stamps: The Digi Shack (spottie)
Papers: SU! cs, Cosmo Cricket dp
Ink: Copic markers
Other: MS border punch, CB emb. folder,
EK flower punches, Kaisercraft bling,
Offray ribbon, Stickles
SU! crystal effects (on eyes)

Our totally awesome sponsor over the next 2weeks is The Digi Shack!!! I adore their images, so much fun in one place!!! Please check out their SHOP! And to keep up-to-date with all their activities click HERE!!!



Check out the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the CCC girls...
Janna
Caroline
Cherie
Chrissie
Denise
Emma
Jen
Julie
Linda
Linda C
Melly
Pauline
Peggy
Sandie
Victoria

Creative Card Crew -sparkle & shine
Paper Playtime -Zoo

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I hope you have an opportunity to play along with some of these challenges!!!
Have a Sparkly day!
Blessings!



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The Digi Shack Bat....

or did you say Cat??? Ok, one of my favorite reasons for making cards is....you can have a card for every occasion! Like...congratulations on your new cat! Or add a little humor to the situation....



...isn't it fun to use stamps in a non-conventional way! We don't really celebrate halloween, but I have all these super adorable images! So, being inspired by the awesomely talented Vicki from Stamped Smiles, I found some hidden potential in my Digi Shack Batty stamp! lol

I found this kitty cat digi paper somewhere online for free (I'll try to find it again to give credit)! The eggplant colored SU paper is embossed with CB distressed stripes. The zigzag stitching is faux, used a Hot off the Presses clear stamp....the brads are faux too.

Here are some fun challenges I played with...
Crafty Cardmakers~sketch
SCS CC235 Black, Olive, Eggplant.
Stamping B's~humor.
Creative Belli~fall/halloween.
La-La-Weekly Wed chll~3 embellies=ribbon, brads, stitching.
My Grafico~1image,2 papers,3 embellies/fall.
Papertake Weekly~faux anything.
The Digi Shack~fall colors...I hope these count Toni, I did use a DS image!!!!! lol


Reminders....
SNR Card Universe Digi Day is being sponsored by Squigglefly tonight 8pm EST, Holly & Stef have some great plans for us...you know with those two we're certainly going to have fun!!!

Also, I'm so excited to welcome the new ladies to our Spotlight Diva team, woohoo....check it out over at SPOTLIGHT SATURDAY with HIDDEN POTENTIAL!!!! And there's still time to get in on the HUGE candy!!!!


Ok, that's it for now, I'll be back later to show you some cards from the garden!!! Blessings!

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A Lani-scape and some awards!

Happy, happy Wednesday everyone! I wanted to show you a wintery card today, I'm sooo not ready to make Christmas cards yet but at least I'm in the winter season...

This is winter Lani from The Digi Shack, isn't she just lovely?? Toni asked us to make a 'Lani' scape...a Lani image in a scene. So, I made a snowbunny Lani. lol She's colored with copics/prismas and glamed up with glitter and dazzling diamonds! Too Fun!
The snowbanks were cut using the creative memories cutting system, distressed and sponged with bashful blue. The snowflakes are white craft embossed! I wasn't sure what occasion I'll use it for yet, so no sentiment!!!

The sketch from Stamps and Smiles was perfect for my scene as was the theme at My Time to Craft~polka dot party! Of course my party is a snow party! hehe The La-La Weekly Wednesday challenge was to add distressing and the Wednesday Stampers have an open theme this week, so everyone can play along with that one!!

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Well, we are all buzzing at Squigglefly today awaiting the big announcement! How exciting!!!
Yet another reason to stay tuned!
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And now some sweet awards...
I've been blessed with so many lovely people in my life since coming to blogland, thank you for your friendships!!!

Alanna of Alanna's Spot in the World Thank you Alanna!

Tracy of Queenies Thank you Tracy!!!

Both these lovely ladies are so kind and encouraging, with wonderful blogs, please stop by and check them out!!!!

I hope you all have a fabulous day! Blessings!!!

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Perfect Card for Today

I thought this would be a perfect card for a relaxing Sunday!
The weather has been gorgeous all week long and continues today!

This is one of the brand spanking new images Toni released last night at The Digi Shack SNR party! I made this card for the speed challenge....however, I missed the deadline! I was searching thru cyberspace for the perfect digi paper and found way too much to look at! lol Obviously, I get sidetracked too easily!!!

Can you believe this gorgeous Adirondak chair was only a $1....isn't that totally cool?!! AND, last night Toni also made a BIG announcement....that all her images will now only be a $1 except, of course, the sets and Lanis! Way to go Toni!!!! Click HERE to read about it!!!

I finally decided on was this dotted gold/cream DP at Crisdam Designs called fall fun! I thought it coordinated nicely with my burnt orange textured cs! The sentiment is CG and layered on a dark burgandy cs, the raffia and leaf brad are from my stash. KJ has these colors for the Color Chef challenge this week! yay! They work well for a fall card!

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Well, yesterday was a day for us to cut and store some firewood for the coming season...can you believe we'll be cranking up the woodstoves in a few weeks!! Usually we start burning season around the end of Sept...just at night to take the chill off! But who knows this year, it has been such a peculiar summer!!!
Praying Peace, Joy and much Love over you! Blessings!

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Hopping by...

Hello and Happy,hoppy Tuesday! It's Digital Tuesday challenge day and this week Jenn has challenged us to 'Hop To It'! We'd love to see your creations using something/someone that hops! (Frogs, rabbits, girl jumping rope, etc) Dustin Pike is back to generously sponsor us with 3 digi's to this week's winner!

My hopper is an altered image from The Digi Shack! I 'erased' the witch hat and added googly eyes for fun! The coloring is prisma markers, the DP BasicGrey Junebug and cs, SU!'s pumpkin pie and olive! I glittered almost everything and CG the sentiment. A really fun make!

I hope you can join us this week at the Digital Tuesday Challenge! The sketch is from the Twisted Thursday challenge, with a 'twist' to use a punch. The colors were inspired by the PCP color challenge, to use fall colors. My favorite colors!!! Which season's colors are your favorite, pastels for spring, vivid brights for summer or classic colors for winter?

I've been working on a fun little project...I'll be back later to share!
Enjoy your day!

Blessings!

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