A Day for Daisies is sponsoring "Going Dotty" at Southern Girls Challenge

Southern Girls Challenge is offering their next 2 weeks challenge with the help of Images from A Day for Daisies!   If you've never been to their great site You've missed out on some fantastic digis!  The one I chose to use was "H is for Happy Birthday" and I love the whimsical characters surrounding the letter H.  I can just see this being used on SEVERAL Birthday cards in the future!

The THEME for this challenge is "Going Dotty" so bring out all your papers with dots, spots, and combinations of the circle theme and join us!  Besides the image, the thing I liked the most about this card was the Template that I pinned from Pinterest for the paper bow--I tried it for the first time on this card and I just love the look of it!  The great thing is that the paper bow will compress down in order to mail it and stay relatively fluffy when opened by the lucky recipient!

Thanks for Looking and come and play with us! Carolyn  

There's Something in My Pocket ~Squigglefly Challenge!

This week our team, Rhonda's Rowdy Rascals, has got a great challenge called "There's something in my Pocket" and we make either cards or tags, or pages with pockets SO come and join us on Squigglefly  with an entry!

For my entry, I decided to make a Get Well card-I never have enough!  And my pocket has some Kleenex in it!  I also used 2 different images from Squigglefly *one is Daisies by one of our newest artists, Pammie Lehto, and *the other one is a cluster of butterflys (green, purple and yellow) in the upper right corner.  Those are from the True Friendship digital group by Cheryl Alger.  It almost makes me feel like it could be Allergy related LOL!

I hope this card inspired you to make a card to play along with us this week!  You are always welcome to play no matter what images you use, but to be eligible for the prise, please use at least one stamp from Squigglefly.  There are many freebies in the store!

Sassy Studio Sponsors Seems a Little Sketchy this week! #1 Mom

What with this being the day after Mother's Day (hope all of you had an opportunity to spend with your Mom's!), I'd like to share a card I made to Honor all Moms at Seems a Little Sketchy!  
I used the image from our sponsor this week, Sassy Studio Designs, called #1 Mom.  I teamed it up with our Sketch #39 challenge this week.  I think it's great to have a sketch to follow in making your cards-it goes so much faster that way! The sentiment is one that I had in my stash and is so appropriate for the day~Hope you enjoyed and that you gave your Mom a big hug and kiss for bringing you into this world.  I'm sure that she is grateful everyday for you!

So much excitement in the Air~Graduation Days are nearly here

I don't think I've ever made so many cards in one week as this one!  This scrapbook room will need SUCH a deep cleaning when all the craziness is over that's for sure!  I had many Graduation cards to make for some well deserving students so did a mass assembly-lucky I had already colored several digitals in anticipation.  I thought I'd share some on the Blog ~who knows I may inspire someone!  Of course I had to go to my Cheryl Alger Digis for several of them-as much as I enjoy them, I'm sure they will put a smile on their faces as they cross the stage and get their diplomas!
 
I'd like to enter this in the following challenge:

• Sassy Cheryl Challenge Blog: Girl's Rule 
• Show Me Thursday Challenge: what are you working on

Mother's Day is coming soon~Flowers from Fred, She Said!

 I've seen these style cards on several blogs lately and was determined to try them out!  I got carried away and ended up making 4 of them, all a little bit different.  But the greatest thing was that I was able to use the Happy Flower Set  from Fred, She Said! By using that multi-flower set, I was able to get several different looks.  I used a ready made card blank as a size pattern and then measured and cut out the Pot template. Two Terra Cotta colored pieces sandwiched together with foam dots made the perfect pocket for the slide out insert.  I mounted the flower layers on the insert and found just the perfect verse to make a Mother smile.  I wish all you Crafty Mothers out there a well deserved Day of Recognition!  Hope you spend the day basking in the Love of your Family and relaxing...cause the next day it's all back to the daily Routine!

Monotone time at the Latest Squigglefly Challenge~Join us!

 This week the challenge is to make a card using one color as your primary focus;  Pick whichever color you like.  Make a card using all blue items or how about a stunning card in all white?  make a card using all reds or even a card using all greens.....would be great if you also incorporate your image in the monotone type, but you can color your image as the one feature if you choose.  We of course always love a Squigglefly image, it's not required to play, but to be eligible for the prize, must be included.
For my "entry", I chose to use this awesome new image called Blow Me A Kiss by Lynne Stansbery...which literally Blew me away! I absolutely love all the shading she puts on her images-it just comes alive when you add color!  Some of the colors in my card seem to not pop when I took the multiple pictures--it's done in different shades of peach/pink  and a peachy beige so I hope it fits the monotone requirement of our sister team, Holley Hobbists.

You have one week to complete the challenge and it will close Sunday evening. The winner will be announced at the same time the new challenge post comes up...so be sure to check back EVERY Monday to see if you are a winner!

Lots of New Artists announced at Squigglefly~this week featuring Pammie Lehto

 This week at Squigglefly, the new images were released a tad bit early and there are super great images PLUS 2 new Artists with us, Dawn Collins and Pammie Lehto! Their work is so awesome you will be pleasantly surprised and so anxious to use it!
I just love flowers and Pammie has delivered in spades!  I used her Hollyhocks, fence and Iris digitals, wanting to create a layered effect.  So even though I ended up covering up some of the hollyhocks, they are all equally as pretty as the pink ones on the edge.  There are so many ways to use these images but I decided that they would make a great Mother's Day card.  One of the other things that Pammie does is handle the Challenge Blog for Scrap Book Place , a super great place to make friends that scrapbook and like to swap and exchange supplies.  You ought to check into joining our fun group.  Their current challenge for the next 2 weeks is "May Flowers" and that's where I'm going to enter this card.  Hope to see you there and make sure you take a trip also to Squigglefly for some neat ideas!