Challenge Time

Whew!  What a great time we had last week with all the challenges.  I had a very busy schedule this 

week and took a little break from everything but I'm back this morning with a fun challenge for you.  It's a photo challenge, so let your creativity be inspired and take it wherever it wants.  

Here is the photo:

And here is my all occasion card featuring one of Bugaboo Stamps new images, Bacon In The Sun.

Don't you just love that pig!  He looks so chill!

I colored him using Photoshop and then added some depth using my copic markers.  I kept the layout and details pretty clean and simple, letting him be the star of the show.

Now that I've shown you my interpretation, I would love to see yours!  

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

It's Challenge Time Again

At Catch The Bug and it's time to celebrate Summer!  I know I'm ready for some summer fun. how bout you?

When I think of summer fun I think of swimming.  When I was a kid, I lived in the pool.

I used to walk to the pool, bare footed, in the hot Arizona sun.  I probably looked pretty silly hopping from grass patch to grass patch, but I didn't care.  I was having fun, 

That's why I chose to feature  this adorable Kidz Beach Girl image from Bugaboo Stamps  for my card.  Now I wasn't this cute, but I did have a red bathing suit.

 She just screams Summer Fun to me!  

I colored her using Copic markers and fussy cut her.  I created the circle sentiment using PSE12/

Now it's your turn to get creative and show us your summer themed cards!  I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs, 

Becky G

Some Great Blog Challenges I've Entered This Card In:

Pile It One-Use Patterned Paper
A Creative Need-Anything Goes
Sister Act-Anything Goes
Send A Smile 4 Kids-For The Girls
Stampavie And More-Summer

Photo Inspired-Fall

It's so pretty around here lately with the changing of the trees!  The reds,oranges and yellows are so inspiring and today's photo inspiration challenge at Catch The Bug goes right along with it.

I pulled out my Pumpkin Patch mat pack from DCWV and some crackle card stock from Tim Holtz and added this awesome Crow image from Bugaboo Stamps and this is what I came up with for the challenge:

Super simple fall card and so much fun!

Now it's your turn to play along and show us what you do.  You could win some Bugaboo images so what are you waiting for?

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,
Becky G

Other Challenges:

Pile It On-With Thanks
Brown Sugar-Anything Goes
Craftitude-Anything Goes With Falling Leaves
Make It Monday-Anything Goes
One Stitch At A Time-Anything Goes

A Time For Thanks

It's that time again.  Thanksgiving is coming soon and it's also time for a B-I-N-G-O challenge at Catch The Bug so I combined the two and came up with today's card.

It features Bugaboo Stamps Scarecrow-Pumpkin and designer paper from The Pumpkin Patch Mat Pack from DCWV.

Here are the choices for bingo:

So I have Brown/Orange, Designer Paper and Brads for my bingo and this is my card.

Now it's your turn to play along and we can't wait to see what you do with the challenge.

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,
Becky

Some more great challenges:

Simon Says-Thanksgiving
Through The Craftroom Door-Anything Goes
Love To Scrap-Anything Goes
Brown Sugar-Thanksgiving (Bugaboo Sponsored)
Craftitude-Anything Goes or Falling Leaves
Digi Haven-Happy Fall

Humor Me Wednesday

Good morning!  It's time for this weeks Humor Me Wednesday challenge at Catch The Bug and the holiday I'm celebrating is Housewife's Day.  How about that, there's an actual holiday to celebrate the work we women do on a daily basis.  What better time to feature one of the many JJ Housework images from Bugaboo Stamps?  This one is JJ Housework-Not Busy and she's got the right idea!  A nice hot cup of coffee while dusting!

For more great holidays this month, pop over to Catch The Bug and check them out.

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs, 
Becky G

Blog Challenges:

 Sister Act-Anything Goes
An Inky Situation-Anything Goes
Crafty Girls-Anything Goes
Make It Monday-Anything Goes

It's Photo Challenge Time

Good morning and welcome to this weeks challenge at Catch The Bug!  It's time for a photo challenge.  You can interpret it any way you want.

Here's your inspiration photo:

And this is my take on it.  I'm featuring Bugaboo Stamps Kitchen Jar, using color and a kitchen theme.

Now it's your turn to play!  Can't wait to see what you come up with.

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,
Becky

Thinking Of You And Challenge Time

Happy Saturday!  Are you ready for a challenge?  Good!!!  Cause it's challenge day at Catch The Bug and this one's and Anything Goes challenge.  Sound fun?  Then let's get started then.  Here's the card I made featuring Bugaboo Stamps Critter Balloons-Elephant.  He's super cute and so versatile.  I used him for a Thinking Of You card but the possibilities are endless.

As you know, if you play along with the challenge and link your project to the CTB site, you could win some awesome Bugaboo images so have fun and get creative.

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,
Becky

Other challenges:

Creative Inspirations-Anythng Goes
Make It Monday-Anything Goes
Simon Says-Going Dotty
Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes

Trick Or Treat

It's time for your favorite challenge at Catch The Bug.  It's Anything Goes!!!!

I've  been trying to work ahead so I decided to make mine a Halloween card and I've featured Bugaboo Stamps Kidlet Wizard.

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Now it's your turn, let's see what you come up with!  

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Some fun challenges I've entered this card in:

Pile It On-All That Flickers (the stars)
Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes
Creative Inspiration-Anything Goes
Make It Monday-Anything Goes
Papercrafting Journey-Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss-Anything Goes

Good Morning Sunshine

Have you missed the challenges at Catch The Bug?  I know I have!  The vacation was nice, but it's time to get things started up again.

Before I get to today's challenge, I wanted to show you this week's Freebie Friday image.  I don't have a card for it, but didn't want you to miss out on the image.

All you need to do, is head over to Bugaboo Stamps and download this image for free.

Now that that is taken care of, let's get to today's challenge.  It's a Bingo challenge and here are your choices:

I chose Bugaboo Image, Lace and Charm and featured Lady Bug Flower Pot for my card.

I absolutely LOVE ladybugs and especially this ladybug image and I had a lot of fun coloring it.  I used my copic markers and die cut it using standard circles.  I placed it on a lace doilie and a die cut lacey circle.  I used the colors from my image to decide my color combo, which by the way, is one of my favorites.  Makes me think of Disneyland and Mickey Mouse.

Now it's your turn to get creative.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs, 
Becky G

Other challenges I've entered this card in:

Pile It On-Outdoors
Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes
Crafty Boots-Die Cuts
Make It Monday-Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin-Bold & Beautiful
The Paper Shelter-Use That Ribbon

Anything Goes at Catch The Bug

Good morning!  It's time for this weeks challenge at Catch The Bug and it's Anything Goes.

What's better than birthday cake and candles?!!!  A card with birthday cake and candles!

Here is my card featuring Bugaboo Stamps Make It Snappy-Birthday Cake!  

For more great cards to get your creative juices flowing, head on over to Catch The Bug and check out the fun stuff the team has for you!

 Looking forward to your creations!!!

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,
Becky

It's Anything Goes At Catch The Bug

And I have a fun baby card to show you.

I'm featuring Bugaboo Stamps Funny Stroller-Monkey Banana and some fabulous Nana's Nursery & MME papers.

We would love you to join us in this weeks challenge!

Other challenges I've entered this card in:

Inky Impressions-For A Child
The Crafty Bloggers Network-Anything Goes
Mema's Crafts-Anything Goes
Crafty Catz-Anything Goes
Simply Create-Animals

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

It's Time For Another Challenge

From the team at Catch The Bug!  Are you ready?

It's a recipe challenge!

ABC - A (Anything you choose), B (Bling) and C (Cardstock)

Here is a birthday card I made featuring Bugaboo Stamps Kidz Girl-Heart Balloons and some fun washi tapes.

I've entered this card in the following blog challenges:

Bearly Mine - Girly Pink

Through The Craft Room Door-Anything Goes

My Grafico-Anything Goes

Make It Monday-Anything Goes

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

It's challenge time at Catch The Bug

So let's play some crafty Bingo!

Here is you bingo card:

And here is my card for the challenge using a Bugaboo image, Flower and Circle.  I'm featuring Bugaboo Stamps Lady Bug- Butterfly

Won't you join us?!!  

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Stella Says Sketch-Let It Snow

It's time for this weeks Stella Says Sketch at Catch The Bug and I have a card with a wintery theme for it.  Today I'm featuring Bugaboo Stamps Snowman Patches and paper piecing.

I colored him using copic markers and paper pieced his hat, scarf and patches using Pebbles Let Freedom Ring papers.  This snowman  sparkles from head to toe with glitter.  Using my cricut and George cart I created the Snow sentiment and using Print Shop I created the Let It sentiment.  Some dry embossed snowflakes and twine add the finishing touches.

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Pile It On-Pile On The Embellishments

Dream Valley-Christmas

Guylou's-let it Snow

Through The Craft Room Door-Anything Goes

Love To Created-Anythng Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity-Bling-tastic

Jingle Belles-Anything Goes

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

HO HO HO It's Challenge Time

At Catch The Bug and it's a Bingo challenge.  Pick three in a row from the image above and make a card using those three items to play along.  I used Bugaboo Stamps fun Santa Stocking and came up with cute card.

I colored the image using copic markers.  I kept everything else pretty simple.  Just a little glossy accents and glitter for pizzazz and an embossed border plus a little Ho Ho Ho sentiment, and I was done.

I've entered this card in the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations-Clean And Simple

Diva's By Design-Use Some Red

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes
Wags N Whiskers-Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations-Snow
My Time To Craft-Santa
Pixie Dust-Traditional Christmas Colors

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Joy To The World Bugaboo Style

Good morning!  It's challenge time at Bugaboo Stamps again and this time it's anything goes!  I've been wanting to get a head start on Christmas cards cause it'll be here before you know it.  That's why I chose this cute little Girl Gingerbread-Candy Cane image for my card today!

 

I colored the image using a combination of copics and prismacolor pencils.  The papers are from my Recollections Sugar Plum paper pack.  I cut the frame using my cuttlebug and elegant edges cart.  Some bakers twine and a punched snowflake add the finishing touches.

 

 

We would love for you to join us in the challenge!  You can find the details at Catch The Bug!

 

 

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

 

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Imagine

Hello!  I bet you all thought I fell off the face of the earth!  Nope, just took a mini vacation last weekend to surprise my friend for her 50th birhtday!  I get really jet lagged anytime I fly and the fact that we didn't get much sleep the whole weekend didn't help that fact.  I'm all caught up on my sleep and I didn't have to work today, so I headed into my crafty space and made this card for Tiddly Inks current challenge.  The theme is Any Favorite Tiddly Inks.  I have a lot of favorite Tiddly Inks images but I absolutely love Sweet Dreams Wryn so that's the image I chose for my card.

I colored the image using a combo of Copics and Prismacolor pencils.  The card stock I used is Recollections Black and Bazzil's  Blue Swiss Dots.  The designer papers I used are MME Indie Chic (Saffron Birds Batik), Trinity Paper Surf & Swim (Lei) and the paper studio (Black & White).  

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes

2 Sisters Challenge Blog-Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges-Card/Project For A Teacher

Paper Crafting Journey-Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin Challenges-Book & Text
Scrap Creations-Anything Goes

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Enjoy Life

Summer is slipping away quickly and soon I'll be heading back to work but until then, I'm just going to enjoy every day I have left doing what I love.  You know what that means don't you?!!  Lots of card making and blog challenges.

That's exactly what I did today!  I popped over to Sassy Cheryl's blog to see what this weeks challenge was all about!  Yippee!  It's all about Polka Dots!  This is gonna be fun!

Now it's been really hot this week and I would love to be sitting in a float on the water so it was easy to decide which image I was gonna use for my card.  Sassy Sally In Her Inner Tube!  Here's my card.

I colored the image using my copic markers and sponged the clouds using sky blue ink.  The card stock is lime and sun textured from colorbok.  The designer papers are Echo Parks Hello Summer (bubbles & you've been flagged) and some of my CTMH stash (green stripes & polka dots).  Die cuts used were spellbinders standard circles & label one.  I fussy cut the flags, punched holes and threaded bakers twine to make the banner. 

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges-Stitching Faux or Real (Banner)

Whimsy Stamps-Summer Fun

The Pink Elephant-Summer

Simon Says-Anything Goes

Scrap Creations-Water

Digi Stamps 4 Joy-Polka Dots & Stripes
Hiding In My Craftroom-Let's See Those Layers
Love To Create-Spots & Dots

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Happy Birthday Cupcake

I had a rare Saturday off today so I thought I'd put it to good use so I made a trip to the local scrapbook store (The Scrapper Boutique) to pick up some new papers.  After making my purchase I came home and sat down at my craft table to make a card for this weeks  Tiddly Inks Challenge.  I recently picked up her super cute  Cupcake Bugg image and wanted to ink it up.  Here is the card I made for the challenge.

I colored the image using Copic markers.  I used my Spellbinders Oval and Beaded Oval dies. I also ran the oval beaded piece through my Cuttlebug using my Swiss Dot folder.  I paired the image with this yummy paper from. My Minds Eye Indie Chic collection.  (Nutmeg Rainbow Paper), Recollections chocolate textured and kraft paper.  I made the candles by rolling  2 x1.5 inch pieces of paper up and gluing them closed.  I then used a marker to make the stripes.  For the wick, I just added a small piece of embroidery floss to the centers of them, gluing them in place.  The sentiment was cut using my Cricut and George cart.  Some recollections pearls and a bow on the candles added the finishing touch!  

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes

Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes
Digi Doodles Best-Anything Goes
Incy Wincy-Dust It Off (Swiss Dot EF)
Paper Crafting Journey-Pearls & Swirls
The Paper Shelter-Anything Goes

Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky

Summer Fun & Friends

It's a great day today!  The weather is nice outside.  My youngest daughter is back home with us and I got to spend some time coloring.  I'm telling you, it doesn't get much better than that in my book!

Do you wanna see what I colored?  I hope you said yes cause I'm getting ready to show you!

It's Sassy Cheryl's Sassy Sally & Bella Head To The Beach (try saying that three times fast, lol)!  I picked it up in her shop today and couldn't wait to put some color to it!  Here's the card I made for her current Summer Fun challenge using it!

I colored the image using copic markers and prismacolor pencils.  I also picked up this cool new embossing folder for my cuttlebug from Michael's yesterday.  It's called pinking stitch.  The polka dot paper is from the paper studio's black & white pack.  The red and blue card stock is Bazzill basics.  While sorting through some of my papers I came across this fun typewriter alphabet paper from HOTP.  I'm pretty sure I've had it for a while.  I punched the letters out using my 3/4 inch punch!  I would have called it done there but I had a slight mishap with some glue and needed something to hide the spot it left.  Hmmmm....I'm thinking twine will do quite nicely to hide that!  LOL

Other challenges I've entered this card:

Make It Monday-Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays-Anything Goes
Digi Doodles Best-Summertime
One Stitch At A Time-Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey-Summer
Pile It On-Kick Back And Relax
Scrap Creations-Use Something New (within the last two months)

That's all for today!  Until next time, have a great day and thanks for stopping by!  TTFN

Stamping Hugs,

Becky