C4C537 - Gnomes

I want to thank Frances Byrne for asking me to guest design for the Crazy4Challenges blog during the month of May.  I thoroughly enjoyed joining in on the fun.  The challenge for my final week is gnomes.  Gnomes seem to have become very popular over the past 6 to 12 months, with so many fun stamps, dies, and papers being released.  We were to create a card today that features a gnome.

Paper Nest Dolls has a cute set of gnomes, and I used one of them on my card today.

Be sure to check out all the cards on the Crazy4Challenges blog for some more gnomes.

CCEE2022 - World Creativity Day

Kelly's final May challenge for the CCEE Stampers is to celebrate World Creativity Day (Saturday, May 30th), a day to embrace your own creativity and support each other in the crafting community.  She said:  "Let's make a card using YOUR favorite technique ~ the sky is the limit!  Just have fun and get creative!"  I don't know if you'd call interactive cards a "technique" or not, but it's my favorite kind of card to create.  So I'm saying it IS a technique.

I used the Karen Burniston Triple Flip die and some cute Paper Nest Dolls gnomes to make my card.

See what the favorite technique each of our team likes by popping over to the CCEE Stampers blog.

Back to Space!

Hopefully, today is the day that astronauts will again be blasted into space from U.S. soil!  If the weather is cooperative, two astronauts will leave Cape Kennedy in a Space X rocket on the way to the International Space Station.  In honor of this event, I made a card using the Karen Burniston Rocket Pop-Up die and Honey Bee Stamps' Far Out Friends stamp set.

I've been bitten by the slimline card bug and experimenting with some of Karen Burniston's dies.  I'm rather pleased with this one!

When you open the card, the rocket ship pops up out of the card.  Pretty cool, no?

Here's a short video showing the action.

Good luck to Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley!

C4C36 - Photo Month

Apparently, May is Photo month, and the Crazy4Challenge challenge this week is to include something that relates to photos this week . . . a card including a real photo, faux photos, selfie style stamps, cameras, etc.

One of my favorite Karen Burniston dies is the Photo Collage Pop-Up, and one of my favorite book/movie franchises is Lord of the Rings.  I combined these two loves on my card this week.  Kindred Stamps has a few stamp sets that were perfect for my card.

See some more photo-related cards over on the Crazy4Challenges blog.

CCEE2021 - Mother, May I?

For this week's CCEE Stampers challenge, Kelly asked us to create a card based on a popular children's game or to create a card for a child.  I initially struggled with trying to find an idea for a card based on a children's game, but I finally came up with the card game "Go Fish."  And I just happened to have an old stamp set with that phrase in it.  The rest of my card comes from the Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel set, Just Keep Swimming.

You can see the fish puff himself up in this little video.

Stop over at the CCEE Stampers blog for some more fun and games.

C4C535 Sketch Challenge

I'm continuing this week as guest designer for the Crazy4Challenges blog -- this week's challenge is a sketch challenge.

I love these Honey Bee Stamps Build-a-Bee stamps and dies, and I thought they would look cute for this challenge.

The Karen Burniston Rockin' Rectangle is actually the perfect pop-up for this card as well.  It brings the large panel from the sketch into the inside of the card.

Stop over at the Crazy4Challenge blog to see some more cards based on this sketch.

CCEE2020 Asthma Awareness Month

Kelly continues as hostess for the CCEE Stampers and told us that May is Asthma Awareness Month.  She said, "Let's bring the awareness to 339.4 million people worldwide affected by asthma by creating a card where you need to use your lungs!  Think blowing up a balloon blowing out birthday candles, a dandelion, a whistle."  I chose the dandelion.

A favorite stamping technique of mine is Triple Stamping.  I have just one dandelion stamp set, which fortunately has two different images on it.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see how the rest of the team handled this challenge.