SOS316 - Chillaxin' and Relaxin'

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Chillaxin' and Relaxin'. Pretty self-explanatory, right? Here is what I came up with:

I used a Penny Black stamp with a chillaxin' kittie and went from there - I think I might be in a blue phase, just realized I used the same colors last week :) Oh, well... so just keep chillaxin' and Be Yourself .

Challenges:
Crafty Animals - Anything Goes with Animals
Paper Craft Happy - Anything Goes with Animals
Craft Rocket Challenges - Animal Kingdom
Star Stampz - Hand Colored Image
Dragonfly Dreams - Animals

SOS315 - Baby Spice

This week at Shopping Our Stash we have a fun challenge - it's called Spice Up Your Life and we want players to be inspired by one of the Spice Girls.
I picked Baby Spice and made -- guess what -- a baby card :)

I used Stampin Up cardstock and several different dies - the baby buggy and the background are dies I got from China, banner is from Spellbinders. Sentiment is also from Stampin Up

Challenges:
Craftaholics R Us - Die Cuts
Crafting With Dragonflies - Baby Card
Scrap & Craft - New Baby
Die Cut Divas - Anything Goes with Die Cuts
Come and Get It - Die Cuts

SOS306 - Vintage car layered card

This week at Shopping Our Stash we are focusing on masculine cards.

I made this card at my friend Julie's house -it has lot of texture - embossing, corrugated CS, distressing, die cuts + the little key thing -  it all works just fine with the vintage car. Perfect for Father's Day, retirement or masculine birthday.

Challenges:
A Gem of a challenge - for the men/boys
Sweet Stampin' - For Dads or special men

SOS305 - One Sweet Birthday with House Mouse

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called You are so sweet! and we want to see sweet stuff featured on everyone's creations.

I used another one of my House Mouse 3D sheets - this time with birthday cake. I used Soft Suede card stock and very old papers from We R Memory Keepers. And of course a bunch of flowers from my stash.

Challenges:
Kitty Bee - Animals
The Crazy Challenge - Birthday
Pile It On - Animals
Crafting With Dragonflies - Animals

SOS301 - Merry Christmas with House Mouse

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Back To Basics and we want participants to put away their dies and fussy cut something.
What has more fussy cutting than House Mouse 3D sheets, where you need to cut out several layers of everything? Probably not much :)

The paper is really shiny so it was a bit hard to get a good picture.

and here is a detail view where all the cut out leaves are better visible.

Challenges:
Come and Get It - Make It Square
The Crazy Challenge - leafy green
Christmas with the Cuties - add some holly
Crafting By Design - Christmas

SOS300 - Caffeine Fix for the mice

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Caffeine Fix - pretty self-explanatory, right?
Here is what I created:

I used one of my House Mouse 3D sheets, cut out and layered them with dimensional tape. Embossing folder on the background panel is from Darice, Cardstock and Ribbon are from my Stampin' Up Stash.

Challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges - Coffee or Tea
Tuesday Throwdown - Embossing
Make My Monday  - Embossing
The Ribbon Girl - Any Image with Ribbon

SOS295 - Embossed forest with deer

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Forest Friends and we want to see forest animals on everyone's creation

I have this lovely deer family die cut that I barely use and I thought it would be perfect for this challenge. I wanted to create a nice background for them so I used my Woodland embossing folder from Stampin Up and used  this video tutorial  to create this woodland scene.

Challenges:
The Crazy Challenge - Masculine
The Male Room - wood
International Art & Soul - Embossing

SOS294 - House Mouse & Spring

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash is called Luck O' the Irish and we want to see predominantly green on everyone's creations.

I used a lot of oldies on this card - House Mouse stamp I had for years, Spellbinders Nestabilities I did not touch in ages and the striped paper and cardstock are from a wedding Simply Scrappin' kit from Stampin' Up.

Challenges:
Oh La La Creations - spring is in the air
Use Your Stuff - Dry embossing
Sweet Stampin' - anything but birthday
613 Avenue create - ATG + use stamps, not digis
Stamping Sensation - close to nature

SOS292 - Power Poppy Roses

I did not manage to finish my card for the current challenge at Shopping Our Stash on time, but better late than never, right?
This week's challenge is this color palette

and here is my card:

I used a digi image from PowerPoppy and this month's pencil coloring tutorial from Kit & Clowder.
All the cardstock, ribbon and dots are oldies from my stash.

Challenges:
Craft Rocket - no patterned paper
Southern Girls - Nature Inspired
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Kitty Bee Designs - Flowers

SS452 - Rockin' Birthday with Anya

I made this card for the current sketch at Sketch Saturday

and here is the sketch

I flipped the sketch and used an Anya stamp from TGF - could not find the exact image name, I had it for years, so I think it's retired. Anya is colored with with alcohol markers and I made the resto of the card really sparkly. Silver foil CS embossed with SU embossing folder, red glitter paper and black glitter tape.

Challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz - teen cards