Color Dare #62

Today's Color Dare is another inspiration challenge. Here is the inspirational photo:

The colors are Baja Breeze,Whisper White and Ruby Red. As always, if you don't have these exact colors, use what you have that is close. Here is my card:

I used the sketch from this week's Eat Sleep Stamp.

Upload your creation to the Color Dare before next Tuesday and you will be in the running for the weekly Top Three. I hope you'll join us.

Cardmaker Sketch

There's a new sketch challenge at Cardmaker this week brought to us by Jane. I used it with this adorable new image from the Character Cafe. Isn't he a cutie?

Challenges:
Cardmaker: sketch
Crafty Creations: babies
Pile it On: Furry Friends
SPC Color Combo: Rust, chocolate and pink

Color Dare #61

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means...time for another Color Dare. Here is the inspiration picture for this week:

The colors are: Pretty in Pink, Green Galore and Basic Black. As always, if you don't have these exact colors, use what you have that is close. Here is my card, made with another adorable image from Elizabeth Dulemba from Tuesday Coloring Pages.

SO many challenges this week incorporating Spring and flowers. Here are just a few that this card works for:

Incy Wincy

All Sorts

Magical Crafts

Crafty Cardmakers

Digital Tuesday Challenge

Frosted Designs

Our Creative Corner

Crazy4 Challenges

Secret Crafter

OWH Blog Hop Winner

Time to announce the winner of my Blog Hop Candy. There were 81 comments so I used Random.org and came up with:

True Random Number Generator Min:1 Max:81 Result: 64 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

That's you KAJIKIT

Please email me your snailmail address and I'll get your prize in the mail to you right away.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by during the hop!

Bugaboo Clown!

Check out this adorable clown from Bugaboo stamps. Doesn't he make a fun birthday card, sitting on the candle like he is.

Challenges:
Paper Cutz Challenge: 1 ribbon, three buttons
Eat Sleep Stamp: sketch
Charisma Cardz: Something for kids
Color Throwdown: teal, blue,black and orange
Tuesday Taggers: clowns, masquerade, jesters

Vintage Christmas

I don't do vintage. It's just not my thing. Since the Bah Humbug challenge and the One Stitch at a Time challenges are both vintage this week, I decided to give it a try. I combined the vintage theme with the Dare U 2 Digi stamp theme which was to not use any patterned paper. I also thought it went well with the Stamp Something challenge which was to distress something. I sanded the red and green paper and used distress ink around the oval image. The layout is from the Our Creative Corner sketch.

I have to say this is not my favorite card. I think it's more the "no patterned paper" thing that makes me feel like it's really plain.

Just a Cute Bear

I want to thank everyone who stopped by my blog on the OWH blog hop this weekend. I appreciate all of your comments and hope that those of you who haven't participated in OWH in the past will be inspired to do so now.
On to today's challenges. I love the Just Cute Bears challenge. I love cute bears, I mean, who doesn't? So it's pretty easy to play along. This week the challenge is a sketch that I combined with the colors from the Rosie Dee challenge. This particular bear is from Meljens and since he's a "Thank You" bear, I used him for the Treehouse challenge and the Paper Play challenge which were both thank you themes.

If you have a cute bear image...you can play along!

OPERATION WRITE HOME BLOG HOP!

**EDITED** You now have until 8am Central Time on Monday, March 22nd to leave a comment for the blog candy**
Welcome to the Operation Write Home (OWH) BLOG HOP! If you've found your way here by mistake...well it's your lucky day..but you'll probably still want to start at the beginning so go HERE to start the hop at the top! If you've come here from Melissa's blog, you're in the right place. Your next stop is below. But first, I want to tell you a little about OWH. This amazing organization collects handmade greeting cards from crafters all over the United States and ships them to troops overseas for them to use to write to their families back home. Here are a few quotes from deployed troops who have received cards from OWH:
(from the OWH website).
Thanks to you and your organization for the personal handmade greeting cards. They are a big hit with everyone here. The first day, the box was reduced to 2/3 of its original amount, and i have some folks taking handfuls at a time.
It is because of the work you and your organization does that makes our time bearable.

Thank you so much for the box of cards. I am a physician who works at the Medical Clinic and our medics went crazy for them! The cards look great and I know my family and friends will love them! Thanks again so much. It definitely helps brighten the day knowing that so many people care about the soldiers to put time and effort into making these cards.

Making cards, something we all love to do anyway, is such a simple way to help brighten the day of soldiers serving overseas. Knowing that a card you made is helping that soldier stay in touch with family and friends is the most rewarding aspect of participating in OWH. If you aren't already a part of this great organization, I encourage you to jump in and send some cards. It's really easy. Here is a link to information for beginners: HERE
This isn't a huge commitment. It's whatever you want to send, whenever you want to send them so don't worry about getting over committed! If you want to jump in right away, how about making a few Mother's Day cards this week and sending them off to the OWH shipper closest to you? They need to make it to the shipper by April 1st so there's still time to make some cards and help make Mother's Day special for so many moms with sons and daughters serving in the military.
Now, on to my card. I made this card with an image from Sassy Cheryl's which you can get here.

If you're interested in seeing a step by step walk through of how I colored my card, click HERE.
Finally, leave a comment on this post and you could win a little prize from me. I'll use random.org to choose a winner around 8:00 AM Central Time on Monday, March 22nd.

In case you can't tell from the picture, here are the details of the prize:
Ribbon from the Paper Studio. 6ft lengths, 3/8 inches wide in these colors:
*Large Dot Brown
*Polka Dot Blue
*Large Dot Bright Pink
*Polka Dot Bright Pink
*Polka Dot Brown
The Paper Studio 3D "Butterfly Glitter Stickers"
K&Company Dimensional Stickers "Princess Tags"
Bo Bunny "Love Bandit" buttons 35 piece pack
Stampology "onyx" ink pad
Your next stop is Carolyn's blog. Have fun on the rest of the blog hop...I'm sure you'll see a lot of inspiration along the way. I hope this encourages you to join in on the fun at OWH. You'll be glad you did. Thanks for stopping by today!

Raise the Bar Challenge

I am so excited to announce that I am the "guest bartender" in this week's Raise the Bar Challenge. I got to play along with the AWESOME RTB DT with this week's challenge which is called "Fruits of Labor"... you can use a fruit image, fruity DP, ribbon...whatever you want as long as it features fruit. How fun is that?
I used this adorable image from Elizabeth Dulemba at Tuesday Coloring Pages:

The sentiment is computer generated and I used some paper, buttons and ribbon from my stash. I hope you'll play along with Raise the Bar this week. You could be the next guest DT!

One Last Bugaboo Challenge Entry

The entries for this week's Bugaboo challenge close tomorrow (I think?!) so I'm submitting one more card. This is another adorable Bugaboo image. I got this one from the Special 50-50 Stamping Group and used the sketch from this week's Bugaboo challenge.