Dear Santa....

Today I'm playing along with this month's Sugar Pea sketch challenge. I love this guy from Sugar Pea's Timber stamp set and think he makes a pretty cute rustic Santa! 

Supplies Used: Sugar Pea Stamps Timber, Your Next Stamp Sprinkles Snow Fun, Spectrum Noir markers, vellum

I took a bit of liberty and moved the sentiment banner to the left side instead. Here is the sketch...

monkeys...

Today I'm playing along with Sugar Pea Stamps July sketch challenge. I used the sketch loosely with the cloud die cut background representing that rounded corner piece and the photo/embellishment cluster the horizontal strip across the card. 

supplies used:  Sugar Pea Design Easily A'Moosed (adventure awaits sentiment on globe, adventure stamped on background), Caring Critters (monkey), Paige Evans cloud cut file and stickers, Maggie Holmes stickers, American Craft Thickers and pattern paper, Scenic Route pattern paper, Gelatos

I'm playing along with the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Design Mix it Up Challenge

Campy Birthday...

I've been trying to play along with the 30 Day Coloring Challenge a bit this month. I took a long break from crafting and designing, so its nice to dip my feet in a bit and get creative again. 

Mod Squad Challenge is a stamped background, so I used that as a jumping off point for my card. I masked and stamped all the trees on the cardfront and colored them up to create the forest. 

This moose is too cute! My dad used to have a fishing hat just like the one I colored up for Mr Moose. 

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Mod Squad Challenge- stamped background

AAA Cards- birthday celebration
The Paper Players- Animal Antics

Hello Handsome...

Playing along with Sugar Pea Designs sketch challenge! I used Timber stamp set for this card. 

Hello....

Sneaking in one last card for November! This one uses Sugar Pea Design Easily A Moosed. I die cut the word HELLO on the silhouette and backed it with a panel colored with Distress Inks. 

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Design Mix It Up 37

CAS colors and sketches

Timber...

I recently won a $10 GC to SugarPea Designs on Facebook and couldn't wait to ink up my new goodies!

supplies used: Sugar Pea Designs Timber, Spectrum Noir and Copic markers, Crafters Companion Kraft cardstock

I'm entering this in the Sugar Pea Design challenge for the sketch...

happy hauntings...

I love those animal skeleton Halloween decorations that are so popular in the stores right now, so I've been playing with some of my stamp sets and converting ordinary animal stamps into Halloween themed skeleton stamps. I'll have a tutorial in an upcoming blog post. 

I used Sugar Pea Designs Caring Critters set for the dog today. The "happy" sentiment was also from the same set. The "hauntings" sentiment and the spider are from Stampendous Halloween Haunts stamp set. 

I stamped the dog three times, and cut his head and legs out so that I could stack the pieces and give him some depth. 

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Designs- challenge #36

Pink and Main- Halloween

Heartfelt Thanks

Today's card features Sugar Pea Design Caring Critters stamp set. 

I used the sketch and inspiration colors from SPD Mix It Up challenge #35. 

I inked the card base with a Dreamweavers stencil. Next I created a shaker card and filled it with sequins, paper dots and beads. Those heart sequins are a oldie but goodie from Doodlebug. Glad to sequins are popular again and I can finally use them up. 

Dropping by to bring you Smiles

This month's Sugar Pea Stamp sketch challenge is a fun one! I thought that banner element would make a great vine for the monkey to swing on. 

Supplies used:

Sugar Pea Designs Caring Critters, The Cat's Pajamas Sending You,  Dreamweavers stencil, Distress Inks, Copic and Spectrum Noir markers

Your kindness....

Today I'm playing with some Sugar Pea Design stamps and Paper Smooches dies! 

Supplies Used: Sugar Pea Designs (Caring Critters), Paper Smooches (Linked Hearts Die)

I'm playing along in the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Designs Mix it Up challenge #32

You Make My Heart Happy...

A crazy month filled with sick kids, birthdays and Prom have kept me out of my craft room. Nice to get back in this week to do a bit of playing :)

supplies used: Sugar Pea Designs Caring Critters, Basic Grey pattern paper, Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Circles, Copics, Spectrum noir, colored pencils

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Mix it Up #31

April Showers...

Sneaking one more card in for the Sugar Pea Challenge this month. :)

supplies used: Sugar Pea Designs (Caring Critters), Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Circle Dies, Spectrum Noir markers

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Designs- #30

Simon Says Stamps- anything goes

You're So Thoughtful...

For today's card, I used a Dreamweaver stencil to create the background. Using post it notes, I masked off the individual squares, inked them up in the different colors in the Sugar Pea Design Challenge  and then splattered it with water to distress. 

supplies used: Sugar Pea Designs (Caring Critters), Dreamweaver Stencils, Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Circle Die, Distress Ink, Spectrum Noir markers

I'm entering it in the following challenges:

Sugar Pea Designs- Mix it Up #30 SPDMIU30

AAA Cards- #88 Stencils