StampInsanity and Fussy and Fancy Join Forces To Fight Breast Cancer

Good morning my blogging friends. Today is a very special day. StampInsanity is releasing a special digi set called Katie For A Cure available exclusively at the StampInsanity Store. For $10 you get this awesome digi stamp set and you are helping a worthy cause. Proceeds from Katie For A Cure will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. StampInsanity is this weeks sponsor over at Fussy and Fancy. Since this is a special cause Fussy and Fancy decided to go live a day early to be a part of the release. 

The challenge this week at Fussy and Fancy and StampInsanity is Pink and Black. I hope you join us.

Challenges:

StampInsanity- Pink and Black

Fussy and Fancy- Pink and Black

Fun With Shapes and More #62- Sketch

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday- use Digi image

Create For Fun Week 30- Flowers

One Stitch At A Time 23- Black, White and One Other Color

Creative Inspiration 39- Anything Goes

Stamping Vacation- Lots of Paper Challenge (Dots)

Simon Says Challenge- Dots

Supplies:

Su card stock and pattern paper

Making Memories pattern paper

Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die

Copics

GROOVY GURLZ

• Margie
• Alison
• Erica
• Jacquie
• Jennifer
• Lisa
• Suzi
• 
  
  
  

  GUEST GURLZ

  Shelley

  Margareet

Pretty, Pretty Princess

Hello fellow crafty bloggers, today I am sharing a card featuring Party Time digi by Di's Digi Downloads.

Challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 59- Sketch

Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge 93- Fairy Tales

Supplies:

Party Time digi

SU card stock and pattern paper

ribbon from Michael's 

Dew drops

Glitter glue 

Copics

Fussy and Fancy 15

So sorry for getting this post up so late. I totally forgot I needed to post this today. This is my card for Fussy and Fancy Challenge 15 Stitches, Scallops and Sparkle. Well, I don't have a sewing machine so I faux stitched. I used the sketch from Friends Having Fun with this super cute image by Stitchy Stamps called Short Shorts. Stichy is generously donating 5 digi's to the winner. She also donated images for the DT to create with. 

SISC19 Mini Album of Love

Today there is a new sketch challenge over at StampInsanity. I decided I wanted to do anything but a card this week. When I read this sentiment I thought it would be perfect for an album. I pulled out some coasters I bought a while back. I found this tutorial and used parts of it to make my album. All 5 pages have a pocket. I haven't done anything to the inside, not sure what to do yet. The sentiment from Les Coquettes set by StampInsanity. 

 

GROOVY GURLZ

• Margie
• Alison
• Erica
• Jacquie
• Jennifer
• Lisa
• Suzi
• 
  

  GUEST GURLZ

  Shelley

  Margareet

FHF Recipe 4 Christmas In July

Good morning, today Friends Having Fun has a new recipe challenge.

Edited to add close up picture.

Theme: “Christmas in July”

- make a holiday card or scrapbook page (you can choose any wintery holiday: Christmas, Hanukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, etc.) I made a Christmas card. 
- make your card long and narrow to fit a business sized envelope (4 1/8 in x 9 ½ in). An easy dimension is to cut your 8.5 x 11 cardstock to 8 in by 9 in and score the long way down the middle (yields a folded card size of 4 x 9). If you are scrabooking, one of the elements in your layout should be this size. My card is 4 x 8.
- incorporate your favorite technique. I inked up the image panel with sponge. I also used my copics.

As an optional element/ingredient:   theme it something “holiday” in your home state or country. For example, Rebecca is in Florida …. a Christmas theme may include the beach like theme like a surfin’ santa, a sea shell christmas tree, etc.

Supplies:

Skating Out by Di's Digi Downloads

SU card stock

Pattern paper from Oriental Trading Co (really old)

Sparkly Fluff

Flower Soft

Copics

SISC18 Radical Ribbon and Rockin' Rhinestones

Good morning friends, today there's a new challenge at StampInsanity. For  SISC18 you are to use your Radical Ribbon and Rockin' Rhinestones. I used Summer Lovin' Maddie (a StampInsanity freebie) with one of my favorite color combos. I hope you get a chance to play with some ribbon and rhinestones so you can join us.

GROOVY GURLZ

• Margie
• Alison
• Erica
• Jacquie
• Jennifer
• Lisa
• Suzi
• GUEST GURLZ

  Shelley

  Margareet

  
  

Friends Having Fun Sketch 4

Today there's a new sketch challenge over at Friends Having Fun. 

Here's my card.

Supplies:

A Time To Celebrate by Di's Digi Downloads

SU card stock, pattern paper ribbon and grey marker

Prima flowers

Copics

SISC17 Water, Water Everywhere

Here's my card for StamInsanity Challenge 17 Water, Water - Everywhere . This is another summer inspired theme. What do you think when you think of summer and water? Well I think of my kids playing in the pool. We have an above ground pool that gets put up every summer. It's not that big since we have a tiny back yard but it's big enough for my kids and a few of their friends. 

For my card I decided to use this blue because it reminds me of the color the water looks against the pool liner. I used Hang Ten Henry from Beach Babes by StampInsanity. I wanted to use more of the blue but all I could find were a few strips of it in my stash. I found this sketch from Mojo Monday # 146. It was perfect for the strips of blue card stock.

GROOVY GURLZ

• Margie
• Alison
• Erica
• Jacquie
• Jennifer
• Lisa
• Suzi
• GUEST GURLz

  Shelley

  Margareet

  
  

Fussy and Fancy Christmas in July

Happy Friday my dear bloggy friends. Today there is a new challenge over at Fussy Fancy, our theme is Christmas In July. Our sponsor this time around is Simon Says Stamps. They are generously offering one lucky winner a $15 gift certificate to spend as like. 

For my card I used Morgan from Naughty and Nice stamp set by StampInsanity. I colored her in with my Copics. I added some Polar White Flower Soft to the trim of the Santa hat and the dress. The sentiment was computer generated so I could use the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday #56. 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a fabulous weekend!

SISC16 Red, White and Blue and New Release

Hey there Groovy people, today is the release of Beach Babes by StampInsanity and the start of a new challenge, SICS 16 Rock Red, White & Blue. I used Bikini Babe Morgan on my card.

GROOVY GURLZ

• Margie
• Alison
• Erica
• Jacquie
• Jennifer
• Lisa
• Suzi

• GUEST GURL

  Shelley
  
  
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Penguins. Lovely.

Happy Eclipse Day, as you read this I will be waiting in line to see the midnight showing of Eclipse. I'm in CA so I will need to wait another 3 hours but I know some of you will already be in the theater watching it. So I lost track of time and desperately wanted to make a Twilight card. I knew I needed to get my 2 Cute DT card done first. For some reason I remembered there was a mention of Penguins in the book, ha, then the wheels in my head started turning. This card satisfied my need to make a Twilight card and my DT obligation :).

My card uses Penguin Fun; I cropped off as much of the ice cream cone as I could. I hid the rest of the cone with a computer-generated sentiment. The sentiment is something Edward says to Bella when they are talking about where to go to college. Penguins would have been part of their "vegetarian" diet, lol. Good thing for little penguin they didn't end up in Alaska. Ok I know some of you won't get this but I couldn't resist.

Challenges:

KL Stampin N Scrappin Challenge 36- Sketch

Friends Having Fun Pop Culture- Eclipse

Raise The Bar 24- An Evening Theme/Eclipse

SPCC 54 Last Card As A SPCC Diva

Is it really Monday already? Where did the weekend go? We went to the beach on Saturday and the kids had a blast. I'm still worn out from being in the sun all day. I hope you had a fab weekend.

For my card I used Maddie from the stamp set Zeke and Maddie by StampInsanity. I colored her in with Copics. This was my first attempt at a round card. Next time I will need to use a smaller image or just a sentiment.

SPCC was my first DT and I will be forever grateful to Samantha. She must have seen something in me because she chose me before I owned any Copics and my water coloring skills were/are below par. Not saying my Copic skills are all that but I know they are better then my water coloring skills. Sadly I needed to let my term end. Samantha has a lot of new and exciting things going on, so I hope you head over to her blog and check them out. Even though I won't be a Diva any longer, I'll still hop on over and join the challenges.

SISC15 Birthday Cake Inspired

Good morning, my blogging friends. I have a fun card to share with you all today. This card is for StampInsanity Challenge #15. We were asked to pick one of these cakes and use it as inspiration to make a birthday card. I picked the second one because it is more my style.

I colored Nicholette to match the cake. I found this awesome sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday #55. After I found the sketch I pulled out my pattern papers and this scrap of polka dot ribbon. This card sort of threw itself together from there. My 11 year old daughter told me I needed to line the bottom of the card with pearl so it would look like the cake. Well, there was no way I had enough pearls to do that but her little idea inspired me to add the pearls on the sides. The sprays of stars behind the flower are from a piece of left over Christmas garland that I had used in another project. Thanks for stopping bye.

GROOVY GURLZ

• Margie
• Alison
• Jacquie
• Jennifer
• Lisa
• Sarabeth
• Suzi

• GUEST GURL

  Erica

Supplies:

Nicholette (Les Coquettes) by StampInsanity

SU card stock half pearls and rub on sentiment

Making Memories Pattern Papers

Bling from Michael's dollar bin

Copics: E000, E27, E29, E35, E51, E53, BG01, BG02, BG05,

BG09, C1, C3, C5, C7, 100, B02, R05, and R02

2 Cute Thank You Cat

Good evening friends, today I am sharing a card featuring a 2 Cute Thank You Cat Digi. I found this sketch at Papertake Weekly Sketch #43. I had to turn the sketch because I pierced the holes in the wrong corners.

Supplies:

Thank You Cat

SU card stock

Georgia Pacific white card stock

Bo Bunny pattern paper and brads

Copics: E33, E35, E37, R00, R02, R20, R22 R24,

R27, YR04, YR06, Y13, YG13, YG 17

FHF Recipe # 3

Good morning friends. Today I am doing a quick post to share a card I made for Friends Having Fun Recipe # 3. Here's The recipe:

Theme Birthday

Create a shape using brads or eyelets

use a number/s

tie a bow somewhere on project

use a tag

Honestly I'm not very happy with my card. I lost track of time and threw this together yesterday. I plan on making something else sometime this week to do the challenge justice. I hope you get a chance to play along with us at FHF.