C4C431: I ♥ Puppies, sketches, and faith!

Good Morning, friends!

We're having internet connection issues here at home

so I'm bouncing by more like in the afternoon!

*Crossing my fingers Comcast has it fixed now* 

Today starts a new challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges and it's a fun sketch challenge.

The sketch looked like a perfect one to use as a base for a CAS card

to use as a foundation for my Crafters of Faith card, too.

Tracie is the hostess for the Crafters of Faith for April

and gave us this scripture/challenge theme:

 For my challenge I decided to use the Scripture "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your Heart" which is from Psalms 37:4.  I love hearts so I asked everyone to have a heart somewhere on their card.

Based on her challenge and the wonderful C4C sketch, I came up with my card.

I knew I wanted to use "You Have my Heart" from My Favorite Things,

a stamp/die set I was very lucky to scoop up at their huge retirement sale.

Truthfully, anything with puppies has my heart ♥

This funny thing happens whenever I see a puppy stamp set,

it magically falls into my shopping cart!  

And here's the inside of my card:

If you'd like to play along with the Crazy 4 Challenges,

you can find the blog in the link and here's a peek at the sketch ↓

The fun thing about challenges is they can often springboard your creativity!

Maybe you are stuck in a rut or can't quite come up with putting together

a card idea and make the card come together.

Sketches are a great baseline to do just that!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Crazy for Coffee! ♥

Oh yes!  It's true!

 Coffee and I ...... we go hand in hand!

Especially when it comes to Starbucks.
My cup runneth over ♥

 I think I whisper these words to my macchiato every time 
I stop into Starbucks and the barista hands it to me - LOL!  

 

This week for the Crazy 4 Challenges,

the theme is coffee in the forms of colors, stamps or dies.
Naturally anything with a coffee theme makes me happy!

 I'm a guest designer for the month of April

and this is what I came up with to play along with the theme.

 I used two stamp sets from Honey Bee Stamps:  Coffee Break and

Oh, Snap! (pssst - this one is retiring!)

You may remember this card that I made with Coffee Break ~

I absolutely LOVE it ♥ 

After stamping out the sentiment and getting a card together,
I stamped out the coffee cup from that set.
Remember, if you don't have dies to match your stamp sets, just fussy cut!
I stamped it again on designer paper and cut just the portion to go around
the cup to create a 'sleeve'.
It's popped up on 3d foam for dimension
and pretty simple!
I'm really happy with how this card turned out with it's cheerful colors 
and, of course, coffee theme!

Here's a peek at the inside, with a small flap to tuck in a gift card :)

 Be sure to stop in the Crazy4Challenges to see more coffee themed
inspired cards!
Cheers!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥
~Kelly

I'll enter this to:  Crafty Gals Corner/Buttons

 

Guest Designing ~ I'm absolutely ......... CRAZY!

**Today is the last day to enter my birthday giveaway!**

You can find the details here ♥

Hi crafty friends!

I'm delighted to have been invited by the talented Maryann

 to be the guest designer for Crazy 4 Challenges for the month of April!

I DO love challenges ~ they really give you a great springboard

for coming up with card ideas, 

including ones you might not have thought of before :)

The first challenge:  Use your dies as a stencil!

I jumped right in with one of my favorite Altenew stamps ~

Geometric Menagerie Stamp set

I started by using the lion die and my Tim Holtz inks and 

did a random stamping around the panel.  

 Next, I stamped out another lion and ran it through the Cuttlebug

as well as the sentiment from the set.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project 

and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C429. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Kelly