Tic, Tac, Toe....

Ok, the theme is Tic, Tac, Toe; I love using games in challenges and this board is full of fun ideas!  Come over to Cut It Up and play along!  

Here is the Challenge Board.  I chose the 3rd column down or diagonal left to right (fav color blue) or maybe the first row across since I've never used a button as part of my tag hanger before!  ;)

This little winter cutie is from Stinkin' Cute.  He is Penguin 3 Cutting File Set.  I had such a great time putting this tag together with cereal box under some pieces to build in dimension!  

My designer papers are from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles and Polkadoodles.  The buttons, gems, and twine were in my stash!  The circle border is from Cricut Elegant Edges.  

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors. 

This tag is off to the following challenges: 

Creative Knockouts:  Winter/Holidays 

Crimbo Crackers:  Animals

12 Months of Christmas:  AG  No Twist
Do-Al(l) Kreatives:  Anything but a card
Arty Divas:  AG

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Thankful!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's time for a new challenge over at 

The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and our optional twist is Anything Goes!

In November, we love to recognize and thank our sponsors for the year!  



This card highlights a digi stamp from Fred She Said called Pumpkins and Sunflowers just perfect for a Thanksgiving Card, I'd say! 

This card is off to the following challenges:  

Crafty Gals Corner:  Fall
Paper Funday:  AG twist:  Thanksgiving
Words to Craft By:  When asked if my cup is half-empty or half-full 
my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
Shopping Our Stash:  So Thankful

Material List:
Image: Pumpkins and Sunflowers
Copic Markers
M-Bossability Folder
Pattern paper from Polkadoodles
Sentiment from Cricut Library
Adhesives 

Cereal box for dimension
Flower, Gem, and Twine from Stash

Be sure to visit
 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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Twisted at Twisted Thursday: Sponsor Appreciation Week 3

It's time for a new challenge over at 
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and our optional twist is Twisted Easel!

In November, we love to recognize and thank our sponsors for the year!  



This twisted easel card highlights a digi stamp from Stamp On It called A Little Flat Digital Stamp from QKR!  I love this stamp since I've spent most of my life playing/teaching oboe!  Now, I'll say right off, I've never been accused of playing flat...usually sharp!  UGH!  

Most of my family play something, so I know I'll get a lot of use from this one!  

It seems almost everyone who plays an instrument in my family (even extended family) plays oboe or trumpet!  We even marry trumpet players; very strange, indeed!  Many of us played through college and into music careers!  I made this particular card for my cousin's husband who is the director of bands at a college in the midwest; he's also a trumpet player.  I'm sure he'll get a laugh from it!

This card is off to the following challenges:  
Stamp on It:  AG 
Creative Moments:  AG  
The Male Room:  Hobbies

Material List:
Image: Stamp On It ~  A Little Flat Digital Stamp from QKR 

Music Paper from Polkadoodles
Adhesives 
3D Foam
Black Shimmer Tape
M-Bossabilities Music Folder

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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PoP Midway

Thankful is the optional theme over at Path of Positivity! What makes you thankful?  

Me, I'm thankful for so many things!  I'm thankful for my health...when I'm in remission from my auto-immune disease!  ;)  I'm always thankful for my husband and our kids and grand-girls, my friends, coffee, ice cream, and quiet time to reflect/craft.  I try to remember to be thankful for work, inclement weather, and busy-ness.  Not always easy to be thankful for everything we are handed. 

This little one sitting on the pumpkin is just so sweet and reminds me to be thankful for lovely days to just sit and enjoy the beauty around me.  

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This delightful digital image, Pumpkins and Butterflies, was from A Day for Daisies.  I Copic colored the image and sponge-inked the background.  The background Bokeh effect paper is a retired paper from CTMH as is the ribbon.  The flower is from Prima.      

 My card is off to these challenges:  
Use Your Stuff:  Mood Board (pumpkins, fall colors, girl in contemplation, flowers)
Addicted to Stamps:  AG
Corrosive Challenge:  AG
TTCRD:  AG
Crafts Galore Encore:  AG
The Paper Funday:  AG ~ Twist Thanksgiving

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about Courage!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Vintage Christmas Inspiration!

Time to get ready for the holidays and Crafter's Castle Challenge is showcasing some delightful Christmas Kits from Taylormadecards4u!  

I'm so excited to be a guest designer alongside the talented and creative team residing at Crafter's Castle Challenge.  Check out all the wonderful projects,  incredible YouTube videos, and then play along with your Anything Goes (or follow the optional theme) project!  

Of course, you will want to visit Monica over at Taylormadecards4u to get a closer look at this festive Christmas themed digital kit as well as so many other beautiful and ingenious paper lines!  There is something there for every crafter no matter what type of paper-crafting you do!  

The video below shows several pictures of the pieces of my holiday collection as well as how to make the envelope as one piece!  So, grab a hot cup of your favorite beverage and join me for some cheery crafting time! 

My project is off to the following challenges:

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge:  AG Christmas
Unicorn Challenge:  Christmas/Winter
Get Creative:  AG optional twist Holidays
Dragonfly Dreams:  Christmas/Winter
Craft-Dee Bowz:  AG
Daisy Chain:  Christmas/Winter
Love to Craft:  AG
Merry Little Christmas:  AG Christmas
Not Just Cards:  AG
12 Months of Christmas:  Opt Red and Green
Outlawz:  Festive Friday Christmas

Material List:

Santa Passport Kit (Digital Kit) from Taylormadecards4u

Adhesives

Inks

Cereal Box

Ribbon
Burlap
Gems
Twine

Here is a lineup of the Crafter's Castle Challenge team videos:
Janie https://youtu.be/2O8nUr85_VA
Jeanie https://youtu.be/REJMVmkUpsE
Mynn Kitchen https://youtu.be/7nmBYxdQsCY 
Call Me Crafty Al https://youtu.be/FGbHyEeuwUI

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Fall Festival Tag

The new theme for the Cut It Up challenge is Festival!  Create any type of project in this theme, but don't forget your die cuts!!   

Here in the Midwest US we have lots of fall festivals where we pick our own pumpkins and apples!  I thought it would be fun to use this tag on a pie or other fun fall food item from a festival!

This fun jar cut is from Cutting Cafe.  The tag includes little tiny die cut pumpkins also from Cutting Cafe!  You can find these fun pieces in the Halloween and Fall in a Jar Set.  This is such a fun fall set perfect for so many occasions!  There are apples, pumpkins, leaves, candy, and Halloween theme pieces that go along with the jar cut.  It also comes with sentiments!  You could stretch it into Christmas using the candy pieces in the jar!  

I thought it would be fun to cut pumpkins for my jar from Recollections Glitter Cardstock.  I added a few gold beads to the shaker mix!     

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors. 

This tag is off to the following challenges:  

Through the Purple Haze:  Fall Everything
Tuesday Throwdown:  Fall Holiday
A Bit More Time to Craft:  AG

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Sponsor Appreciation at Twisted Thursday: Week 2

It's time for a new challenge over at 
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and our optional twist is Anything Goes!


Now, since it is November, it's time again to recognize and thank our sponsors for the 2019 year!  


We are continuing our Sponsor appreciation and I am delighted to work with this charming digi from Hetty Clare called Pony Jump!  Now this digi is right up my alley or maybe I should say right down my barn aisle!  hahaha
  

I didn't start riding until I was in my 30's and started hunt seat with my son who was just a little guy at the time!  We both now ride Western; however, I'll admit, my Western riding is bad English riding in a Western Saddle!  😉  My son, well, he's pretty good at Western!  Here are a couple of pics of Keith riding!

Keith's first English Show

Keith's last HS Western Show

Anyway, we all love horses over here so a digi with a horse is always a must have!  So, when I saw Pony Jump, I had to have it!  There are more horse/pony digi stamps over at Hetty Clare if you have this same obsession!

I Copic colored this fun image and cut a mask for the image so I could sponge ink over the grass and sky portions.  It's easy to turn a digi into a mask you can lay over a digi to protect it!  If you are unsure how to make a mask for an image on a Cricut, you can view a video on how to do this HERE.

This card is off to the following challenges:  

Cutie Pie:  Add an Animal (Pony/Horse)
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG
2 Crafty Critter Crazies:  AG with Critter
Crafty Animals:  AG with animal
Tinker Dream/Bastel-traum.ch:  Favorite Animal (Horse)
Colour Crazy:  AG colored
TTCRD:  AG

Material List:
Image:  Pony Jump from Hetty Clare

Copic Markers
Paper from stash
Adhesives 
CTMH Inks

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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TT Sponsor Appreciation: Week 1

It's time for a new challenge over at 
The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and our optional twist is Pleated Ribbon!

Now, since it is November, it's time again to recognize and thank our sponsors for the 2019 year!  



We'll be having 4 challenges this month to get them all in!  How fun is that!  

This lovely image is Birdhouse from Anne's Digis!  It is adorable and she has lots of delightful images, and many for free, on her blog! 

I used a hot iron to pleat my ribbon and adhered it to the middle of the tag.  This would be lovely on a gift or bag for the fall since I used reds/browns/oranges and a deep green ribbon.    

This tag is off to the following challenges:  
Colouring in Scrapland:  Works with form (not square)
The Paper Players:  Into the Woods (Woodgrain birdhouse)
TTCRD:  AG

Material List:
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Image:  Birdhouse from Annes Digis
Copic Markers
Paper from stash
Adhesives 
Ribbon from Stash
Shape from Cricut Access

Cricut Standard Mat

Cricut Blade
Cricut Access
Cricut Maker

Be sure to visit

 The Outlawz Twisted Thursday for all the details about the challenge and to check out all fun inspiration from the DT and participants!

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Thankful for Diversity in the Arts

Thankful is the optional theme over at Path of Positivity! What makes you thankful?  

This wonderful image reminds me to be thankful for diversity!  I look at this adorable Native American girl and I think of all the different kinds of people who have made this world what it is.  

Just thinking from an artistic aspect, it is amazing the different beautiful craft influences from different cultures! 

Origami from Japan
Glass Beading from Italy
Turquoise, Shell and Coral Beading from Native Americans
Pop Art from the US
Day of the Dead Art from Aztec that extended through Mexico and South America
Textile Arts from India
Dot and Symbol Painting from Aboriginal Australians 

There are so many more; but my thought is, we use many of these influences in our paper crafting today!  I'm thankful for all the creative people who came up with such artistic ideas!

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This delightful digital image, Flower Dreams, was from A Day for Daisies.  The orange and plaid paper are from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Simply Spring Mini Kit.     

The die cut flowers are from Cricut Library:  Gypsy Wanderings Cartridge.

 My card is off to these challenges:  
Colour Crazy Challenge:  AG colored
Just Add Ink:  Photo Inspiration (colors, flowers)  
Moving Along with the Times:  Rich Autumn Colors
Crafting Happiness:  Fall
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:  AG
Crafty Friends:  AG

Be sure to come on 

over to 

Path of Positivity 

and see 

what the team 

thinks about Courage!  

You can also find 

more information 

about entering 

the challenge!  

Thanks to our 

wonderful sponsors this month:

and

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Circus Theme Party!

Wow, life is a circus and Crafter's Castle Challenge is showcasing this delightful Passport to the Circus Digital Kit from Taylormadecards4u!  

I'm so excited to be a guest designer alongside the talented and creative team residing at Crafter's Castle Challenge.  Check out all the wonderful projects,  incredible YouTube videos, and then play along with your Anything Goes (or follow the optional theme) project!  

Of course, you will want to visit Monica over at Taylormadecards4u to get a closer look at this fun circus themed digital kit as well as so many other beautiful and ingenious paper lines!  There is something there for every crafter no matter what type of paper-crafting you do!  

My video on making all of the items above (except the candy bar wrapper) is below.  So, grab a bag of peanuts or candy and join me for some circus fun!

My project is off to the following challenges:

TTCRD: AG

Die Cuttin Divas:  AG
Crafty Creations:  AG
Outlawz Festive Friday:  AG
A Bit More Time to Craft:  AG
A Perfect Time to Craft:  AG
Worldwide Open DT:  AG
Craft-dee BowZ:  AG
Crafts Galore Encore:  AG

Material List:

Passport to the Circus Digital Kit from Taylormadecards4u

Adhesives

String

Shimmer Tape

Inks

Cereal Box

3-D Foam

Candy Bar Wrapper can be seen HERE!

Here are links to Crafter’s Castle Design Team YouTube channels where you will find more creativity and inspiration!

Janie https://youtu.be/VYgA_Lt0dh8

Jeanie https://youtu.be/tUhLnu8gF2c

Mynn Kitchen https://youtu.be/5uOCcpXEcpU

Alicia Ekermans https://youtu.be/BMDKbCrbvtY

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Smooshing into Fall

The new theme for the Cut It Up challenge is Thankful/Thanksgiving and use the 'smooshing technique'!  Create any type of project in this theme, but don't forget your die cuts!!   

I had never done the 'smooshing technique' before and I found it quite fun!  I simply rubbed different color ink pads over a glass plate, sprayed it with water, and laid a piece of white cardstock into the colored water!  Easy as that!

My squirrel is cut from Squirrely Fun from Scrappy Dew.  The sentiment is from Sprinkled With Love also from Scrappy Dew.  You can find both cuts in the seasons section!  

The leaves are cut from the paper I made using the 'smooshing technique' and the other papers are from DCWV The Autumn Melody and DCWV Berry Street Farmer's Market.  I believe they are both retired by now since they've been in my stash for a looooong time!  There are some other papers used from my stash, also.  

Inks are from CTMH as well as the gold shimmer pen I used on the letters and the olive twine.    

When you visit the Cut It Up blog, have fun viewing the DT projects and check out the rules and prize info.  Then be sure to share your project with us ~ don't forget the die cut to have a chance to win a prize from our amazing sponsors. 

This card is off to the following challenges:  

Dream Valley:  Add a Sentiment
Dare 2 B Artzy:  Cute Animal
Outlawz ~ Paper A La Mode:  Autumn Colors
Cardz for Galz:  Starting with S ~ Squirrel, Smooshing Technique, Sentiment
Crafty Animals:  AG
2 Crafty Critter Crazies: AG with Critter   

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