Happy Spring - 3GJ Challenge

 

 

Oh, it's been quite a long time since I've entered a 3 Girl Jam challenge.  Here are the details for this week's challenge:

 

3 Girl Jam Challenge #16~ April Showers w/Ribbon

 

April Showers w/Ribbon

we want to see all those projects with rain, water, umbrellas....anything that makes you think of April Showers

 

 

My cute little bear is cut from the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge. I used fun bring springy paper for this card. And I paper pieced the umbrella for more effect, and pop dotted it.



I used lime green stain ribbon and some hemp twine for the MCT stitched buttons.  I made the banner for the sentiment and a little more ribbon.  All the paper on this card is from my scrap drawer...imagine that!

There is still plenty of time to enter 3GJ's April Showers w/ Ribbon Click HERE to enter.

Have a great day. --C

Rainbow Of Color - Thank You - MCT Designer Challenge

 



Me! Me! I wanna play!!!!  Yes, it's another fun MCT Designer Challenge. This challenge is hosted by Miss Cassandra over at Creating with Color by Cassandra. 

Here are the details:

Hello everyone! This is Cassandra and guess what?? It's my turn to host the "Designer Challenge". And of course, you know that I just HAD to make this a COLOR CHALLENGE!! The Colors of the Rainbow to be exact! All you have to do is make a project of your choice using 3 of the following 6 colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple. For a more difficult challenge - if you dare...use ALL 6 colors!!!

Here's Cassandra's card to get your creative inspiration going:

 

So as you can see....Cassandra's card was very inspiring for me....in fact, she has been my most inspiring friend.... she'd send me homemade Christmas Cards over the years and I just loved them...well about three years ago...I see her in person and ask her "Is that the "CRY-CUT" (that's how I pronounced it LOL) you used on this year's Christmas Card!" Well, after learning how to pronounce Cricut...I was off on a shopping spree for this wonderful cutting machine. THEN, along came the blogging...now you can see how my crafting madness has gotten to where it has

 and I love it.

THANK YOU, MY FRIEND!!!  CRAFTING KEEPS ME SANE!!!

 

Now onto my card for the challenge:

 

 

I used the butterfly from MCT Chunky Jar Accessories and the sentiment is from MCT More Gift Card Sentiments. I love this script Thank You - I use it a lot for my cards.

All the polka dotted paper is from Bo Bunny.

 

Remember in science class, they had you go out and collect insects and then you had to put them in a jar with cotton soaked with rubbing alcohol so the insects would die...then you had to 'pin' your insect to the bottom of the egg carton....ok, ok, this card isn't quite like that...but once I glued the butterflies into their straight line it reminded me of my school project. 

For the last butterfly, not only did it not fit in the same row, but I felt it wanted to go rogue.
Now, this challenge just started today....and it's open for TWO WEEKS so get your COLOR ON and enter. Click HERE for the challenge and click HERE to go to Cassandra's blog.

Have a great rest of the week! --C

 

 

 

Thank You - MCT Designer Challenge

 

Hello my friends,
I've missed the last two MCT Designer challenges and I was soooo bummed because the last two were so much fun to get in on, but other things in life took priority....so this time when I saw Miss Kim's Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge for MCT, I just couldn't miss entering this challenge and made the time.
Here are the details:
All you have to do is pick a row from the chart below (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) and incorporate those three items on your project! You are free to use anything in addition, just be sure the three items in the row you chose is included!

Just like all my crafting situations....so many crafts, so little time. So when I saw this, I wanted to do every which way LOL does anyone else have that problem ???  So after contemplating, which seemed like hours, I finally chose to do the top row...Use A Die, Embossing Of Any Type, and Bling.



 

For my 4.25 x 5.5 card I used both dry and heat embossing.  The dry embossing is the Swirls folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug. The heat embossing I used colored ink and then used clear 'detail' embossing powder from Recollections (this is great stuff)

 

 

The butterfly die and the stitched plate are from the MCT Chunky Jar Accessories die & stamp set.  For my bling I used a half pearl...I tried something more blinging but it just wasn't 'soft' enough for this card, so I went with the pearl for my bling...does that count as bling???

The whismical butterfly paper is from an old pack from K&C Company, I think...I don't even have the top cover to tell you which stack it came from.

The Thanks stamp is also from the MCT Chunky Jar Accessories die & stamp set, again with heat embossing.

 



There's still time to enter your project, click HERE to enter.   Have a crafty day, see you again soon my friends. --C