Moolah in Your Bank Card

I was just going through my pictures and realized I never posted this.  I also realized that I haven't posted some awards too (So Sorry).  I have another award to add so I promise I'll get to them this week. 
I guess it is appropriate to post this one today since taxes needed to be post marked today.  My kiddos just love this one!   I almost made a cow bank just because of the way they were saying "MOOOO-LAAAHH"!  It was really cute!

Don't you just love the Sweet Treat Cups from Stampin' Up!   We had a fun money lesson when filling it!  I had to handwrite this sentiment in honor of my girls new favorite word...Moo-lah! 

I do believe that after this card, I am about done with using my scraps!  I took on Sonia's challenge over at Scraps4Fun back in the beginning of March and the challenge was to grab your scraps and use them up before reaching for new paper.   After the end of the challenge you get rid of what is left of your scraps.  At first I thought there was no way I could discard a single piece of my beautiful paper however small it was, but now after looking at just my scraps for the past month and a half, I'm ready to get rid of them.  I am getting down to the knitty-gritty of my scraps and I want to play with my paper stacks again!  After this card, I will be giving the remainder of my beloved paper scraps to my girls to play with!  Thanks for the fun Sonia!  I hope everyone else was successful!

Products Used:

• American Crafts and other bits of scrap pile paper/CS
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Baby Blue Bakers Twine
• Buttons are from my stash
• Money from the US Treasury Dept (hehe)

Challenges:

Cooking with Cricut #25 Cash in Your Stash

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

I hope you still have some Moolah in your bank after this tax season!  If not, let me know and I'll send you this card..hehe!  Thanks for stopping by today!



Just Hatched LO

One of the perks of volunteering at my kiddos preschool are the fun pictures their teacher (who is also a photographer) takes of all of my girls.  The second that she showed me this pic, I started singing in my head, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" and now every time the girls see the pic, they sing the song too! 

I knew I had to run home and scrapbook this picture, and I knew I wanted to use the chick from Simply Charmed but it turned out to be a tricky pic to scrapbook!  The colors in the picture are so bold and bright, that I had a hard time matching them up!   This is what I ended up with.

I would have loved to move the picture up and place the journal egg elsewhere, but the girlies slapped them down before I had a chance to place them.  Normally, this wouldn't be a problem to pull up but I had to use glue dots (which are permanent the second they hit) for the entire LO because I am out of my ATG tape!  GASP...can you believe that hoarder me let myself run out!  I have so many projects to get done that I haven't had time to run to Michael's.  

I did finally finished all of my Easter Orders and now I am pressed for time to finish my projects for the school.  Here is one of the little guys I am working on.  The bunny is from Oriental Trading but I am adding the cross around his neck so it relays the real meaning of Easter to the preschoolers!   The girls are doing their part by punching out all the scalloped ovals!

Products Used (LO):

• Stampin' Up! CS, Large Oval Punch and Ink
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
• My Creative Time Color Me Happy Stamp Set
• Stickles

Products Used (Bunny):

• Bunny from Oriental Trading
• Stampin' Up! Scalloped Circle Punch
• Indie Art Cricut Cartridge (cross)
• My Pink Stamper More Faithful Sayings Stamp Set
• StazOn Ink

Challenges:

K Andrews Simply Sunday Challenge I'll Sing You a Song Challenge

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #56 Do the Bunny Hop (Use a Bunny or Chick)

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

You Make Me Smile Card

***Scroll Down for Birthday Sundaes #5***

I couldn't sleep tonight so I thought I would put together a quick card for a few challenges.  Do you remember how happy your first bike made you when you were little?  I do, and that was the inspiration for my card tonight!  My oldest daughter got her first bike for Easter several years ago.  She squealed with excitement so I thought this would be a fitting card for Easter or Springtime!

For this card, I needed to add a border, so I used my sewing machine with the thread pulled out to make a nice, even stitch around the edges.   I am also having so much fun playing with my new stamps and ribbon from My Craft Spot!  I am loving this soft Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon!  It ties so easily and nicely! 

Products Used:

• Scrap Pieces of American Crafts CS (leftover from my bunny cards)
• Stampin' Up! Top Note Die
• Kate ABC's Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments #1 Stamp Set
• My Craft Spot Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon

Challenges:

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

FCCB Spring Fling Cricut Crawl (use the colors pink, green, yellow)

GAB #11 Theme Challenge (Borders)

It is Palm Sunday today and I hope you have a very blessed day!   Enjoy your family, friends, or what ever makes you happy today!  Thanks for stopping by!  

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #5

It's anything goes this week at Birthday Sundaes and the Design Team has whipped up some fabulous Birthday cards to inspire you!  I needed another boy birthday card this week so here is what I came up with!

I have fallen in love with this little lion from Life is a Party!  I think he is adorable and he was such a fun cut to pop up with dimensionals!  I also had the perfect paper scraps for this little guy's card!  I hope he likes it!  I'm sure he will because even my girly-girls loved it! 

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Punches, Dimesionals, Ribbon
• SU Family Phrases Stamp Set, Ink for stamping and sponging
• Scrap Pile Papers
• Life is a Party Cricut Cartridge (lion)
• Once Upon a Princess Cricut Cartridge (frame)
• White Gel Pen

I'm also going to enter this for Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #10

Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Teams Anything Goes Birthday Cards and link up your card at Birthday Sundaes by Saturday April 23.  Remember they must be New Unposted Birthday Cards with a Birthday Sentiment on the front!  I hope to see you there!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Baaa, Baaa Birthday Card

I got a wonderful package in the mail today!  It came from My Craft Spot and it had the most beautiful toys in it!!  I could not wait to play!  Here is a birthday card I made for a knitty friend using the Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon and stamps from Sweet Sentiments Set #1 that were in my package!

I was following the sketch from GAB challenge #10 and I was using my scraps from my Camping Trip LO.  I had planned on using the other side of the polka-dot paper but accidentally applied my adhesive to the wrong side...oppsies!  Oh well, it still looks cute and I loved the way the ribbon matched the paper!  I also love how the ribbon tied so nicely on this.  If you look closely, you'll see that it is just a bunch of cheater knots, not an actual bow! 

The lamb is double layered and I thought it was a fitting image for a friend who knits.  It also went nicely with the inside sentiment!  I love the quality of these stamps and they stamped so nicely (even over the layers of paper like on the "Happy" part of the outside sentiment).  I added a little tag to the lamb and hand wrote the "Baaa" sentiment. 

Here is the card the girlies made with the scraps while I was working on my card!  My Oldest E wanted to cut a little lamb for the card with the cricut but Middle E wanted a baa, baa black sheep.  Looks like Middle E won!  Baby E worked on her normal job of floor clean-up, picking up all the little pieces of paper (some of which I'm sure I will find in her diaper).  The funniest thing I saw was the label on the Cosmo Cricket paper reads "Acid Free. Lignin Free. Fat Free. Sugar Free. High in Fiber. Happy Trails"!  Good to know because Baby E eats a lot of paper...hehe! 

Make sure you check out Kimberly's new line of stamps over at My Craft Spot and let her know I sent you! 

Products Used:

• Cosmo Cricket Mr. Campy Paper
• Stampin' Up! CS, Dimensionals and Ink
• My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments Set #1 Stamp set
• My Craft Spot Hand-dyed Crinkle Ribbon and Bakers Twine
• Country Life Cricut Cartridge

Challenges:
GAB Challenge #10 Sketch Challenge
Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge
Flaunt it Fridays Challenge #18 Country Life
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #3 Birthday with a Twist (use a tag)
Crazy About Cricut Thankful Thursday Birthday Theme in honor of Jenny's Birthday last week!  Happy Birthday Jenny! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

This card was a Winner at Thankful Thursday



This card was Top Pick at GAB

Camping Trip LO

Today the girls and I worked on a quick camping layout.  My kids love looking at past photos and today we picked out a camping trip to scrapbook.  There a lot of trips to choose from and we decided on my oldest E's 1st camping trip.  It was cute because my middle E kept looking at the pics and asking "where me in this picture" and then we have to go through the whole explanation that God didn't give her to us until after this trip and the questions go on and on!  Anyway, I wanted to make a special LO just for the Crazy about Cricut challenge to create a project specifically for the challenge about something you love.  I love crafting (and would like to win the cart) but I, or I should say we, really LOVE camping.

Like my tent?  I had to give it tent stakes because when I think of camping I remember that I always stub my toes on those darn things!   Another funny part of this LO is that I have a camper and a tent on there but we were cheaters this trip and stayed in a cabin...hehe! 

This LO doesn't look that great in the pictures.  I should have taken more close up pics but my camera battery (which baby E took the other day and I just found it) was dead!  I promise this LO looks a lot better in person!

Products Used:

• Cosmo Cricket S'more Mr. Campy Paper
• Stampin' Up! CS, Buttons, Ink (sponging)
• Summer Vacation Cricut Cartridge
• Brads and Twine from Michael's

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #4

I can't believe we are on challenge #4 already at Birthday Sundaes!  Time flies when you having fun crafting!  Every week I see more and more beautiful birthday cards and I feel so fortunate to be a part of such a fun group!  The Design Team has created some gorgeous birthday cards this week for you!  The challenge this week is to create a Birthday Card based on the Inspiration Photo.  Here is my card!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, Stampin' Write Markers
• SU So Happy For You Stamp Set
• DCWV Nana's Nursery Paper Stack
• Kate ABC's Cricut Cartridge
• Once Upon A Princess Cricut Cartridge
• Queen & Co. Pearls

Check out the inspiration photo at Birthday Sundaes and join us for our fun challenge this week!  Thanks for stopping by!

My Pink Stamper April Blog Hop

It's all about Birthday's this week!  I had so much fun checking out the My Pink Stamper Design Team Projects tonight!  What a talented group of ladies!  The theme is Birthday in honor of Robyn's daughter Katelyn and her 13 Birthday...Happy Birthday Katelyn!  I decided to really step out of my comfort zone for the challenge tonight and actually challenge myself.  Anyone who follows me, knows we do a lot of pink here at My 3 E Scrapbooking.  I have 3 girls, so naturally we make a lot of Girl Projects.  Tonight, I decided to challenge myself and make a boy birthday card...GASP!!  What do you think?

I think he turned out pretty cute!  I was grabbing whatever was on my desk tonight!  Now, the first time I saw the (SQUISH) stamp on Buggy Punnies, I was sad.  I couldn't imagine squishing any of my cute cricut creatures.  Then I saw one of Robyn and Karlee's videos, and that is the word they use for HUGS...HOW CUTE!!

Products Used:

• Scraps of Stampin' Up!, Cosmo Cricket, Bo Bunny
• Cardboard from my Stampin' Up! shipment
• Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge
• My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies Stamp Set
• PKS Critter Faces Stamp Set
• SU Bugs & Kisses Stamp Set
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Twine from Michael's

Challenges:

My Pink Stamper April Pinkalicious Blog Hop Birthday Challenge

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #2 Cute As a Bug

Wacky Wednesday #33 Birthday Theme

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

Getting Cricky Simple Sunday Challenge Inspired Heart

Crafting Misfit A New Season A New Skill Blog Hop

Thanks for stopping by tonight!  If this is your first time here, please feel free to look around and please let me know you were here so I can stop by and visit you!

This card won the Monday Challenge at My Craft Spot



Rain, Rain go away LO

Rain, Rain go away...well, not really!  We actually love to play in the rain!  My girls love to hold hands and sing this song while they play in it!  Today, the rain is too cold to play in but they are enjoying watching it fall!  I think this may be one of the plainest layouts I've ever made and I'm sure it is not finished!  I started it last night but my middle E had a bad dream so I stopped.  I went to lay down with her and never got back up!  When I came back to it today, I drew a blank so it is what it is!  No reason to dwell on it and waste precious scrapping time over it!  I decided to stitch it, leave it be and move on to other projects.  I'm sure when I go to add my picture it is going to change but for now, this is what I have!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! SC
• Michael's Open Stock Papers (Blue Dot and Yellow Glitter)
• Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut Cartridge (Hello Kitty)
• Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge (Circle)
• Life is a Party Cricut Cartridge (title)
• Lyrical Letters Cricut Cartridge (title)
• Divine Swirls CB Folder
• Michael's Ribbon
• Signo White Gel Pen

Challenges:
FCCB Challenge Me Monday #54 April Showers Must Use Umbrella or Hat
Paper Variety April Showers Inspiration Photo
Creative Cutter Room Hippity Hop Use the 4 Elements
Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope to have something more inspiring later today!

You're one in a Melon Card

Super Quick Post.  I am running out the door for a meeting but I saw this challenge over at Crazy About Cricut and had to throw a card together quick for it!  It is for the cricut cart that I've been drooling over...hehehe!  It honestly took me longer to post it than it did to make this cute little card!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Ribbon, Punch
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
• My Pink Stamper Fruit & Veggies Puns Stamp Set
• Tiny Mosaic Cuttlebug Folder
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Pink Stickles

Used my Scraps  for Scraps 4 Fun!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope I get this posted in time!!!

I Love Chocolate Bunnies!!!

I absolutely love My Creative Times Color Me Happy Stamp Set!  It has the cutest collection of Easter and Spring stamps so naturally I'm using them on most of my Easter Card orders!  Here is the card I made tonight using the sketch from Emma's Throwback Challenge. 

The Challenge this week is a Cricut-Less Sketch so I thought this would be the opportunity to use this delicious looking bunny stamp from Stampin' Up!  I embossed it on Chocolate Chip CS with clear embossing powder.  Doesn't it look good enough to eat!

I left these very simple because I am going to make a dozen of them for one of my Easter Card Orders.  I may even make a second dozen in another color so she has more of a selection!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Ribbon, Bunny Stamp (retired), Good Neighbor DSP (last years Sale-A-Bration)
• My Creative Time Color Me Happy Stamp Set
• Martha Stewart Border Punch
• Clear Embossing Powder
• VersaMark
• Scrap Pile Paper
• White Gel Pen

Challenges:
Emma's Throwback Thursday Cricut-Less Sketch
Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Birthday Hubby

Today is my hubby's birthday!  He and his twin sister are April Fool's Babies!  So naturally, we like to play some friendly jokes on each other each year.  Last year I got him good!  I had found an old positive pregnancy test from our last Baby E.  I laid it on the bathroom sink so he would see it when he got ready for work...hehehe!  Now, we've had 3 kids in 4 years.  It is not in our best interest right now to have more any time soon so of course he woke me up in a panic!  I went along with the joke and it wasn't until later in the morning that he realized I played him good...hehehe!!!  I'm kind of worried what he has planned for me this year!
I've been waiting to post his card, because I didn't want him seeing it.  He loved his Grilling Fever LO so much that I wanted to make him a card similar to it.  This is what I came up with!

I would have like to use the hamburger, but I couldn't find a funny or punny stamp to use with it!  Happy Birthday Honey! 

Products Used:

• Scraps of Stampin' Up CS and Scraps of Bo Bunny Double Dot Paper
• Pink By Design Simply Everything Stamp Set
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
• Stampin' Up! Oval Punch
• White Gel Roll Pen
• Michael's Ribbon

Challenges:

Cooking With Cricut C-23 Funny Quote, Saying or Pun

Wacky Wednesday #32 Something Funny
Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps

Thanks for stopping by!

This card was a winner at Cooking with Cricut!



Thank Ewe Card

Quick post today!  I hadn't planned on entering any challenges this week because I have so many Easter projects going right now.  Yesterday, I helped my MIL make little paper Easter Baskets for all of her quilting friends and I got started on making 15 Dozen Bunny Ears for a local Bakery.  I am finishing the ears up today then on to lots and lots of Easter of cards!  I decided since I needed to make a special Thank You Card (not that the ones in my stash are not special), I would whip something up for a few challenges!

Products Used:

• Scrap Pile CS and Papers (most of the CS is Stampin' Up!)
• Stampin' Up! Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Punches and Dazzling Diamonds
• County Life Cricut Cartridge
• My Pink Stamper Punnylicious Stamp Set
• Ribbon is from Michaels
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Stampin' Write Marker

Challenges:

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge (I got to use lots of my little scraps on this one!!)

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #53 Looks Like Spring (and I'm entering on the first day of the challenge instead of the last like I usually do...hehe)

Cooking with Cricut C-22 Lions and Lambs (I was sad that I wasn't participating this week but the "Thank Ewe" gave me the perfect chance...YAY!)

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #7 Spring is on the way (Hopefully Mother Nature figures that out soon!!)

Flutter By Wednesday #147 Open Challenge but you must have a butterfly, fairy or angel on all creations (My daughter's Native American name is memengwaa which is butterfly in Ojibwe and I tend to do a lot of butterfly projects for her.  Therefore, I was so happy to find this challenge blog by way of Kristie...thanks Kristie!!)

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #1Tie a Bow (Kimberly has the most incredible ribbon and I am very excited for her!  This is the very first Monday challenge at her blog so hop over there and play along.  I haven't actually tied a bow for a while.  I've been using the cheater method so this was a challenge..hehe)
Talk Time Tuesday Looks Like Spring (It doesn't feel like Spring around here but it is sunny outside.  We'll take it!!  I love the wonderful tips shared on Talk Time Tuesday.  Thank you Cathie for the invite to enter this today)

All those challenges in one simple and quick Thank Ewe Card!  Thank you ladies for all the work and time you put into these wonderful and fun challenges!  I truly do appreciate it and I have such a fun time playing along! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Snappy Birthday LO

I couldn't sleep tonight so I thought I would throw together a quick LO for a few challenges using my Imagine! 

Now I have no clue why I did another page for my Middle E's 3rd Birthday.  I already completed an entire scrapbook for that birthday (Click Here and scroll to the end of this post if you would like to see it)!  I started with a sketch for the PKS challenge but I strayed from it!  Oh well!  You can never have to many scrapbook pages..hehe!

I used the Hopscotch Imagine cart and Life's A Beach for most of the LO.  I did pull a few pieces from my scrap pile.  For some reason, I have double the amount of blue scraps than any other color so I felt the need to use some of them for the water!  

I printed this cute little guy out using Hopscotch but I didn't think he popped enough.  I decided to heat emboss him with Red Craft Ink and Clear Embossing Powder.  I wish you could see it better in the pic but I love the way he turned out!  I stamped a My Pink Stamper Stamp on a label because I thought it was a cute addition!

The title is all printed and cut using the Hopscotch Cart and the banner is from a leftover scrap piece from the LO.  I'm still trying to use my scraps up for Sonia's challenge at Scraps 4 Fun!  I've been putting a pretty good dent in the pile.  Sometime this week I will tally up how many projects I've done so far with them!

Now doesn't this palm tree make you want to pack your bags and head for the Beach!  After spending a few days this past week at the Great Wolf Lodge and Indoor Waterpark, it makes me want to head for the beach!!  I am ready for the warmer weather!  I actually had my Imagine and Expression both going at the same time for this tree!  The palms and sand are printed using patterns from the Imagine More Cards cart and the trunk was cut from scraps using the E!  I also gave my dear sewing machine some attention for this LO!

Challenges:

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps

Simply Sunday Challenge Pack Your Bags (I would love to head for the Beach...the Lake would do too!!)

Challenge Me Monday #52 Happy Birthday (Happy Birthday Robin and FCCB)

GAB Challenge #8 Your Favorite Technique (Embossing wet and dry for me!!)

Crafty Creations Challenge #111 In Stitches



Thanks for stopping by! 

PS...Can you see my gadgets?  If I view a single post they are there but when I view my whole blog they are gone.  I haven't changed anything and it shows up fine when I go to my Design Page.  Where did they go?  Maybe it is a glitch with Blogger tonight.  I'll play with it later!  Thanks!  ***FIXED IT AND I REDESIGNED MY BLOG WHILE I WAS AT IT!  THANKS FOR YOUR HELP TO EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED!!!***

This LO was Top Five Pick at FCCB

This was a winner at GAB



Birthday Sundaes Challenge #2

**Sorry Everyone!  This post had an error somewhere in the HTML that was affecting my gadgets.  Now I have my blog a big mess because of it!  I will be reposting it later when I figure out where the error code is!

OK, I think I fixed it!  I figured since I had my entire blog a mess that I would pretty it up a bit!  What do you think?  I have been holding out on doing it because my brother offered to design something for me, but I would have to change over to wordpress.  He is so much better with this kind of stuff but I just figured out blogger.  I am not ready to figure out how to use wordpress.   Enough of this and that.  On to the card.

I cannot believe it is Sunday already.  It means it's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes!  First, I would like to thank everyone who joined us for our first week!  I saw one fabulous card after another!  Great job everyone!  I hope you will join us again this week!  Our challenge for this week is a Spring Birthday Card!  Have you seen the wonderful cards the rest of the Design Team created to inspire you?   Let's hope all these Spring Creations will jump start the season!  Here is my Spring Birthday Card!

Don't you just love this little barefoot girl!  My girls and I can't wait for warmer weather so we can run outside barefoot!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Cardstock and Wintergreen Designer Series Paper (a little Winter mixed with Spring...kind of like our Spring now)
• SU Top Note Die and Oval/Scalloped Punches
• SU Dimensionals and Stampin' Write Markers
• Kate's ABC Cricut Cartridge
• My Creative Time Color Me Happy Stamp Set (somebunny Special)
• SU Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set (happy birthday)
• Buttons are from my stash

Thanks for stopping by!  I have my fingers crossed that when I post this, my blog will not go crazy again!  I hope you will play along with us this week for our Spring Birthday Card Challenge at Birthday Sundaes!

Grilling Fever LO

Springtime in our house means the start of Grilling Season.  As soon as Daylight Savings Time hits, my husband feels the need to grill almost every night (even when it is still freezing outside)!  Next week is my hubby's Birthday and he is getting a new grill!  I thought it would be appropriate to make him a LO for it!  He even came up with the name for this page!  I think he did a pretty good job!  I can't wait to get some pics of him with his new grill!

I've been wanting to use the burger and dog since the Simply Charmed cart came out! 

I sponged both of them and popped them up with dimensionals!

This little chef looks a lot like my Hubby!  Happy Birthday Honey! 

I curved my Hot Diggity Dog Clear Stamp on my block and stamped around the circle for a cute little border!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid CS, Classic Ink Pad and Dimensionals
• Bo Bunny Double Dot Paper
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge (Hotdog and Hamburger)
• Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge (Circle)
• Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge (Title)
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge (Chef & Grill)
• Pink By Design Simply Everything Stamp Set
• Signo White Gel Pen

Challenges:

Scrappy Saturday's with the Bug Challenge #4 Spring with a Twist of Green

Throwback Thursday Use any Older Cartridge and Use the Color Green

Wacky Wednesday #31 Manly Challenge

The Paper Variety Tic Tac Toe Challenge ( LO, Spring Colors, Used a Stamp) 

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

Amber's Crafts and Stuff Challenge #2 Use Die Cuts

Thanks for stopping by today!  

Cute as a Bug Birthday Card

Another non-Cricut Project for today!  Without power, I was forced to stamp!  I've been using my Cricut so much lately, that I forgot how relaxing it is to just sit and stamp!  I'll be entering this card into one of my new favorite challenge blogs GAB!  They are so sweet over there!  This week their theme for challenge #7 is Birthday!  I thought I would stamp a birthday card for a little friend who is into bugs!  I knew the Stampin' Up! Bugs & Kisses set would be perfect for this little bug catcher! 

I had to take 15 pictures just to get these 3 decent ones (silly camera)!  I'm thinking I may need to pull out the book and see if there is something I am missing!  Once I get it fixed, I will be keeping it far from the reach of Baby E!

I used my Stampin' Write Markers to stamp the dragon fly and popped it up with some dimensionals!  The grass is from SU Inspired by Nature Stamp set (it is one of my favs)!

The "cute as a bug" was left over from a previous project and it just happened to work perfectly for this card.  If I remember correctly, I believe it was heat embossed with glitter embossing powder.  I stamped the base of the card with the dragon fly using VersaMark.  I love the way it turned out! 

Sorry it is not your typical Birthday Theme for a little girl, but this card is so her!  I was thinking maybe I should save it for a spring/summer challenge but then I figured it would be fun to share!  This could easily be done in blues/greens and make it for a little boy too!

Products Used: 

***Everything is from Stampin' Up!***

• CS Scraps Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
• Top Note Die
• Bugs & Kisses Stamp Set
• Inspired by Nature Stamp Set
• Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set
• Stampin' Write Markers Rich Razzleberry, Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo, Always Artichoke, Garden Green
• Classic Stampin' Pads Always Artichoke, Garden Green, Elegant Eggplant
• VersaMark
•  1 3/4" Circle Punch
• Dimensionals

Challenges:

GAB Challenge #7 Birthday Theme

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!   Have a great day!