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Welcome to July and the new challenge over at Love To Scrap. The challenge runs from July 1 thru August 31

Love To Scrap is a fun challenge, welcoming all types of scrapped projects - cards, scrapbook layouts, ATCs, mixed media, altered items, 3-D projects, etc. - using bits of leftover items in your stash or new stuff!

Well that leaves it wide open as far as what you can use. 

Some of you that know me, know I love cats. I only have 3, but I love all cats, wish I could have more but......3 is enough for now. (LOL) Anyway, I saw this cat stamp and it begged me to buy it so I did (HAHAHA). I have finally got around to using it and I hope you enjoy my project.

The card is a 5X7 on cream/white CS and I used a DP scrap piece for my layer.  Added a piece of corrugated box lid for interest. Next I stamped that cute kitty and cut around the cat and the fur and whiskers to make sure those elements stayed. I have an old paw print stamp so I added it as a border and the sentiment came last but not least. I also have a peg stamp that adds some dots and used that to finish this cutie!!

Products I used.

Stamp (Cat and sentiment) - Pink Ink Designs - Fabulous Feline; Paw - Old & unknown

Paper/CS - Cream/White CS,  DP; Cardboard corrugated from a box

Ink - VersaFine CLAIR - Nocturne & Morning Mist

Fine watercolor brush to stroke the Morning Mist onto the body of cat

Dotted Peg Stamp - Stamps by Judith

Oval Shape - Spellbinders Die

3M Foam dots

Well my cats have meowed their approval on this one. Hope you enjoyed my project and I'd love to see your project submitted in the challenge.

Thanks for stopping in and I will be back soon.

Happy Birthday

Hello and welcome to a new month and the new challenge over at Love To Scrap. This challenge goes til June 15 so there is plenty of time to get your project made and submitted. 

Here is my DT project for this challenge.

 This card is a great card design to use a scrap piece you might have laying around. And I have tons of scraps, don't you!!

This card is a bit small 4 X 5.5 (I generally make 5X7 sized cards.) but I love the simple look. 

I cut straight lines every 1/2 inch  parallel to the sides. My lines start and end at 5/8" in from top and from the bottom.

Next, I cut strips from scrap paper, 1/2" wide and about 6 " long. I wove the strips thru the cut slits and positioned them on a diagonal basis. I just added a dot of adhesive to the strip ends. Oh and I trimmed the strips that were hanging off the edge of the card.

The sentiment is from a set by Forever in Time - Birthday Wishes.

As I mentioned earlier the Love To Scrap challenge has begun and will be running til June15. So you have plenty of time to make a project and submit it.  I would love to see your project. 

I hope I have inspired you and I will be back soon with another project.

Have a Nice Day

Hello and welcome to 2024.

It's time for the first challenge of the year at Love To Scrap Challenge. For this challenge I usually go thru all my leftover bits and pieces that weren't quite right for other projects and use them on a card/project that I make for the Love To Scrap Challenge.

For me, its fun as I go thru a whole bunch of stuff I have saved and come up with a card to share with you all. 

That big pink oval was calling to me and then I spied a smaller oval cut from DP in the pink family and it worked well with the large oval. The stamped bird had a pinkish colored flower and that seemed to fit with the pink colors I was looking at and then I spied a fence just waiting for something to sit on it. My background DP has pink in it, so, it all works well together (IMHO)

Well if you are like me, you save lots of things. So go thru them and make a card. and submit it here at the Love To Scrap Challenge. I know I'd love to see what you have made. 

Thanks so much for stopping in today to see my project!!

I will be back soon

Love To Scrap Challenge - January & February 2023

 Hello All

Time for the first Love To Scrap Challenge for 2023. 

I know we all have looked at bookoo cards with a Christmas theme so as I was going thru my scraps folder, and yes I do go thru my scraps for this challenge, I decided to focus on Valentines Day.  I spread out some of my scraps and a few jumped out at me. Here is a pic of some of my scraps.

So I narrowed my die cut scraps down and here is the card I finally designed using some of the scraps that were in a few of my scrap bags.(Notice I said a few)

This will make a darling Valentine's Day card. (IMHO)

Save those unused die cuts, you never know when it will work for an upcoming card.

 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Rubber Stamp - Heartfelt Creations - Fence;  Digital - Bird   Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Pink CS, Red CS Dies Used: Spellbinders - Scalloped Heart, Oval, Heartfelt Creations - Fence; - Impression Obsession - Heart Flourish Accessories: Spectrum Noir alcohol Markers, Embossing Folder

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• 613 Avenue Create  January - Anything Goes + option: Winter
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends  - #196 - Always Anything Goes 
• A Perfect Time To Craft  Always Anything Goes
• Classic Design  Challenge  Always Anything Goes 
• Crafter's Cafe  #292 - Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore  Always Anything Goes
• DL.Art Linky Challenge  Always Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede (M, P1/P15, 4E, SIO) #457 - Always Anything Goes

Start saving those scraps and check them out our when you need something to use on your next card 

Hope my card gives you some inspiration

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back soon

Just Because

Welcome back to my second post for today. 

Its really unbelievable that November is here already!!! Yep that turkey (or whatever you will be making) will be cooking in the oven pretty soon. 

Since it's November 1, The Love To Scrap Challenge has started and hope you stop on over and check out the other projects from the other designers. 

For my project I decided to make a floral card. Even though it's fall I decided to use pink on my card. 

I decided to make a slimline card. I used a digital floral image and used 2 of them to make the flowers look more like a bouquet. I used some Spectrum Sparkle and Wink of Stella to color the flowers. I used some white CS scraps, cut in 1/4" strips to add just a little something to that pink background. I also snipped some green CS scraps to look like sprigs for the floral design.

The sentiment is also digital and I printed it off using my toner printer and I foiled it with a pink foil. Sorry that this pic really doesn't show off that beautiful pink foil. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Digital - Gracielle Designs - Flowers - from the Together set, Sentiment from the Bougainvillea Galore set Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Green CS, Pink CS Dies: Spellbinders - Ovals Accessories: Spectrum Sparkle; Wink of Stella; thin paint brush; Minc Mini Machine; Pink Foil

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Cupcake Inspirations   - #556 - Anything Goes  (#17)
• Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge  - October - Anything Goes #144
• Polkadoodles  #44 - Anything Goes (#29)
• Creative Fingers - No. 241 ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES   (#139)
• Pattie's Creations - OCT - No.  199 ANYTHING GOES   (#81)
• Creative Knockouts  #476 Anything But A Square (#19)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes (#281)
• Digi Choosday Challenge -- #43 - Anything Goes (#11)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes )#107)
• Cutie Pie Challenge- October #176 - Think Pink (#36)

Hope my card inspired you to use some of your scraps (I know you have some!!) And looking at a card, who will ever know that you used scraps somewhere on the card.

Thanks for stopping in today, and I will be back soon

Today Belongs to You

 Hello everyone,

WOW, Welcome to September. Sunflowers remind me of the fall season. So  I am back with a post for the Love To Scrap Challenge with a sunflower card. Hope you might check out the other designers projects, its a great place for some creative inspiration.

The project I made for Love to Scrap, comes from my fascination with paper napkins. Yep, paper napkins. I have friends that get those decorative napkins (some are like decorative paper towels) and have them in their guest bath to use to dry your hands off with. Well the napkin I used for my project really called out to me when I was at a friends house. And this napkin, when unfolded, had 6 images. (It was a pretty large napkin - it was 12 1/2" X 15 1/2") So I took one and cut it up which gave me 6 duplicate images and I was ready to make my 6 cards.

Here is the end result

Napkins can make the most beautiful cards.

Have you ever used a napkin on a card?? No?? well it is pretty easy (IMHO). Let me share with you how I do it.

   Here is the napkin opened up before I trimmed it.

1.  Trim the napkin into the design you want to use on your card. Usually I cut the napkin on the folds.

   2.  Next, remove the layers, this napkin had 3 layers. 

    The 2 layers under the image - throw away as  you will not use them

  3. Cut a piece of white cardstock a little larger than the napkin piece you will be using. 

       Using white CS will allow the image colors to pop

  4.  Use a glue stick, cover the whole piece of card stock with the adhesive. 

       (Don't use liquid glue)

  5. Gently lay the napkin onto the glued up card stock. I usually pat it, to try to make a smooth surface.

  6. Smoothing the napkin - I use a business card to very lightly run the card over the napkin.

      Try to remove any spots that are not smoothed out. I generally will pat those spots.

      Now set aside to dry. Generally I do this in  the evening and let this part of the project, dry overnite.      

 7. After the project is dry I then trim away the excess card stock and attach it to a card front. 

      I  add glitter and add a sentiment and the card front is done.

On my project in the picture above, you will notice that I trimmed away the white background on the top part of the above image. I then added a gold piece of card stock to give some added interest to the card.

Here is another version but I left that white area on the top. 

Hope you liked this card and hope you try your hand at using paper napkins in your card making repertoire. 

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Clear stamp (sentiment) - Inkadinkado - Thoughts for the Day (OLD)  Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Blue CS, Gold CS Ink:VersaFine CLAIR - Morning Mist; Memento - Bamboo Leaves Accessories: Decorative napkin; Glitter; Glue Stick; Outline Stickers for the side borders

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• The Four Seasons Challenge  Anything Goes Fall (#7)
• The Paper Funday  #44 - Anything Goes/Optional Twist is friendship (#159)
• Digi Choosday Challenge - #35 - Anything Goes (#16)
• Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes (#46)
• Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge  - August - Anything Goes (#127)
• The Corrosive Challenges - August - Anything Goes (#142)
• We Love 2 Create  - #9 - Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes (#16)
• Creative Fingers - 2W, 3E, No totally digital projects - No. 237 Summer Schedule (W3 of 3) -  ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES  (#172)
• 2 Sisters On The Blog  #66 - Sunflowers (#1)
• A Perfect Time To Craft  Always Anything Goes (#35)
• Arty Divas  Always Anything Goes (#27)
• Classic Design  Challenge   Always Anything Goes (#31)
• Crafts Galore Encore  Always Anything Goes (#33)
• QKR Stampede  #451 - Always Anything Goes (#10)

Thanks for stopping in today

I will be back soon

Happy 4th of July

Hello, hello, hello!!!

Welcome to my 2nd post today

As I Mentioned in my first post today, I have been accepted on 2 design teams and I am really excited to be part of these fun teams. They are sister design teams in sister challenge blogs, Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog and Love To Scrap Challenge Blog and you might be familiar with these challenges.The challenges post on the same day and this is my 2nd post and  am showcasing my card for the  Love To Scrap Challenge Blog. 

I went thru my scraps (and I keep lots of scraps, I guess you can call me a scrap horder - LOL). I try things out and might not use the trial piece but I will save it unless it's a disaster. Since I will keep the trial piece, it sometimes will give me inspiration for a project down the road. So, I went to my scrap tray and spied this patriotic piece and decided it would be perfect since July 4 is righr around the corner. Perfect timing for this medallion. 

First, here is the inspiration piece that is in my scraps tray

I made this a long long time ago and thought this would be a great piece on a patriotic card. So that's how my card came to be.

I made a new medallion and rounded up some patriotic images and here is my finished card. 

That inspiration piece looks great with the stamped images from my stash.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz - Americana; A Jillian Vance Design  - God Bless the USA. Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Red CS, Blue CS, DP Ink: VersaFine Clair - Morning Mist; Ranger Tim Holtz - Distress Oxide - Antique Linen Dies Used: Spellbinders - Classic Scallop Rectangle & Classic Scallop Rectangle -sm Accessories: Circle Punches - 1" and 1 1/2"; Stick on stars

I am submitting my card in the following challenges - 

• Pattie's Creations - JULY - No. 196  ANYTHING GOES  (Closes 08/04) (#3)
• Simon Says Stamp W, 5E - Anything Goes (#98)
• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #26 - Anything Goes (#27)

Gee,  I hope you can join in the fun and submit a project in the challenge. BTW the challenge theme is really anything goes so that leaves it wide open for you. 

Well that is it for now.