#32 - numbers everywhere

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use numbers on your project...it could be actual numbers, stamp, paper or any other combination as long as those digits are there....I am still not unpacked in the craft department (probably another 6 weeks or so), so this was a real scrounge around card...but here it is:

play along with us, won't you?

#31 - dollar store finds

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a project using some cool products you may have found in a bargin bin or at a dollar store...this project is all made with dollar store products...the base, the "washi" tape and the canvas sentiment...even the ribbon...what can you come up with this week?

#30 - A bicycle built for two

This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei is to do a project with bicycles...I came up with this card...not my best creation, but with the move and all, I really have no supplies to access (at least not until the basement is finished)....I will be getting, as my hubby puts it, "a craft lounge" in our basement that should be pretty swanky, but the construction won't be getting started for a couple more weeks and everything is "supposed" to stay packed up until he gets done...I have been secretly breaking into boxes and trying to grab bits and pieces to get some projects done, but everything is really limited...can't wait until everything is done the way it is supposed to be and all is put away in it's place!  Play along with us this week, won't you?

#29 - funky papers

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use the funkiest papers that you just had to have and have never used...this was a real challenge for me, not because of lack of paper, but because of lack of access to the bazillion sheets of paper that I do have...

this is the current state of my crafting area after we moved last week and I can't really unpack anything until my basement is done in the end of June or so....I had to buy - insert***gasp****here...a kit of the month from my local scrapbook store to complete my project, but the meshy paper under the flowers is about 8 years old...found that in a box on top of the pile...so back to basics it is...not much for embellies or anything, but it will have to do!  If I can manage to get a card out in these "conditions" I am sure you can muster up something to play along!

#27 - easter or spring

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a project with easter or spring in mind....I love this little bunny stamp and had to have it...just never used it...not sure why??  It turned out super cute in the polaroid stamp that I bought from Lawn Fawn....I like the way it turned out and all are scraps which is the best part!

#26 - spring tag

This weeks' challenge at Anything But A Card is to do a project to do with spring or easter...I am in the midst of moving this week...so busy....but hopefully this tag is springy enough to qualify for the challenge....play along this week, won't you?

#25 - oh balls!

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use a snarky or funny sentiment...I love these bugaboo stamps and they have the funniest sentiments going - I used all scraps for this card and am trying to continue with that trend for as long as I can!

#28 - spring has sprung

This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei is spring...it was my turn to set the challenge and in that time, we decided to buy a house with our spring fever...we have been packing everything up and I thought this little stamp was the perfect way to use up some of the scraps on my desk....hope you come out and play this week too!

#24 - getting punchy

This weeks challenge at Shopping our Stash is "getting punchy" - using border punches...I used the same scallop punch multiple times on this card and inked it up a little to give it some texture...all of the pieces are scrap...

#23 - little leprechaun

This week's challenge at Anything But A Card is to do St. Patty's day projects...I made some of these cute little magnets last year and they were such a hit, I whipped up a few more for this year too...they brighten up a dull workspace well!

#22 - Tag you're it

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is "tag you're it" - use a tag on your project somewhere...I had this tag in some left over kit supplies and so is the end of this doily...the cupcakes are the end of a package of puffies that I bought ages ago (and still wish I had bought the whole rack of them because they are fur)...the papers are scraps...Play along, won't you?

#21 - at the movies

This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei is "at the movies" - making a project inspired by a movie...I have had this Marilyn stamp for quite a while now and not had an opportunity to use it...but I thought it was so cute that I had to get it anyway, so today was the perfect opportunity to dip her in some ink!

#20 - celebrate

this week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use your oldest paper....my craft room is inundated with paper...probably 10,000 sheets of an assortment and array of thicknesses and colours and textures and sizes....there is soo much there...I am trying really hard to plow through some of that while not buying new stuff (doesn't always go so well, but I am trying ;)...my favorite old paper is definitely the Chatterbox brand of paper...there is just something about the colours and thickness that I llooovvvee beyond any other paper company...I have hoarded this paper and used it sparingly over the years, so I felt this was the perfect challenge to crack out a new page, when, lo and behold, I found enough SCRAPS to do this card...didn't even have to sacrifice any new papers in this project (the best kind ;)...so pull out those oldies and show us what you've got!

#19 - very superstitious

This weeks challenge at Anything But a Card is to do something superstitious, with the number 13, to do with gambling, luck etc or 13 embellishments.....after a long week of trying, unsuccessfully, to buy a new house (the address was 132, we put our offer in on 13 2 13) and tried to close on Valentine's day to no success, what could be more appropriate than a superstition challenge??? Thought I would try something with a positive result - our winning race at the local racetrack ( we won a whopping $8 on our $2 bet - my girls were jumping for joy)....hoping that good mojo work for us when we try again next week to buy the same house!!! Needing all the good karma I can get, cuz this house is fabulous!
I used the Sketch from Artful Delight for their monthly challenge....it made this page come together so quickly!  I love sketches!

#18 - Happy Birthday

This week the challenge at Shopping our Stash is to make a birthday card...easy peasy bellafeasy...my favvorite kind of card to make by far...I could do them always and never run out of ideas when it comes to them.  This card is made with all kinds of stash...old dollar store flowers, a plastic button that came in an exchange, a puffy cupcake that was the last in a set....the only thing new on this card is the happy day stamp and punch cuz I just had to try it out!

#17 - Thank you

This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei is to make a card that is to be donated to a charity or somewhere similiar.  This was easy for me because I donate a stack of cards every year to my work fundraisers for the United Way and our local Children's hospital.  There are usually 10 or so in a pack and they get raffled off in the dime parade.  This is one that will be in one of the packages (I usually do around 3 packages to raffle off - around 30 assorted cards by the end of each year).  This one is bright and cheery and I have been super addicted to baker's twine lately...the buttons were leftovers from another project that I made a long while back....join in for a challenge that also had a pay it forward cause to it, won't you?

#16 - Happy birhday

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use your oldest bling....I am a bling hoader...especially big swoopy bling...I love it, I buy it and I can't bring myself to actually use it because it is expensive...especially on a card!  But not today...I picked out my biggest swoopiest oldest flourish and sacrificed it...I totally stole the design for this card from a picture in PaperCrafts magazine and tweaked it a little to use up scrap papers and stickers...I filled in the centres of some of the flowers too...just to make it a bit blingier.....

#12 - valentine's page

The challenge this week at Anything but A Card is to do something to do with love, valentines, anniversary, red, hearts etc....We had this picture taken on our cruise to Alaska last summer and I thought it would be a good idea to get the page finished with this challenge...we are not the mushy gushy hearts and lovey kind of people...but I had this kit that had some heartish paper in it and all valentinesy type embellies and my goal this year is to finish off all the kit bits I have purchased, so I dove in and did a mushy gushy page...loving all the gems and pins and stuff though...that part is fun...so why not crack out your supplies and join us this week?

#15 - more sympathy cards

I made these cards following the Sketch from Artful Delight for this month.  Love their sketches!

a clean and simple sketch for some quick cards...using up some of my old bling....

#13 & #14- sympathy cards

I found myself needing an abundance of sympathy cards this week, as my auntie passed away.  She has 5 kids and 4 brothers and sisters, so there is a great need for the sympathy card production line.  These are the first two I came up with.  I used my Tim Holtz markers to do the image and stamped it three times on each card.  The little scallop is a dragonfly (kind of hard to see in the picture).
This is the second set that I got done this morning: