My Time to Craft #413 ~ New Stash

Hi Crafty Friends,
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. I love Christmas, especially when I get new crafty goodies to play with.
Our My Time to Craft challenge is a great reason to show off your new stash.
I know, I know, this is a Christmas card but I just had to share this amazing Door Die I got from  La-La Land Crafts - so versatile!  Actually, all of the dies used for this card are from LLLC and several were used for the very first time.  Me thinks someone may have more dies than she can use!

So come and join us and show off your NEW STASH!  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft Challenge #412 ~ Christmas Flowers

Hi Crafty Friends,
Another Christmas card to share with you today for the My Time to Craft challenge.
I've used La-La Land Crafts pointy flower dies to create the flowers on this card.

I just stacked the 4 different sizes and added a gem to create the flowers.  The leaves are from Jaded Blossom's flowers set.  The papers are Authentique.
Follow the link above to share your Christmas Flowers with us.

My Time to Craft #411 ~ Christmas Scene

Hi Crafty Friends,
Now I'm in Christmas countdown mode.  It's less than a month away!!! Are you ready?
Our My Time to Craft theme for this challenge is Christmas Scenes.
I used a variety of dies and one stencil, all from La-La Land Crafts, to create this 4.5 x 6.5 in card.

The snowy mountains and lake dies are from the October Club kit.  The 3 trees and Santa sleigh are available in the store now along with the stencil.  

I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  Be sure to visit the MTTC blog to see some amazing Christmas scenes for inspiration.

My Time to Craft #410 ~ Christmas Animals

Hi Crafty Friends, We're sharing Christmas Animals for this challenge at My Time to Craft. A year ago I attended a La-La Land Crafts retreat.  We spent 3 days learning and creating some amazing projects.  It was a jammed packed weekend and I'm still finishing projects from the retreat! This cute little Christmas card was one of our class projects.

Doesn't this sweet Hippo with its deer antlers bring a smile to your face?  The Hippo, tiny stamps and sentiment are all from La-La Land Crafts Deck the Halls clear stamp set.  The star circles are LLLC dies.  I filled the shaker with seed beads - a nice change from sequins. I hope you'll share one of your Christmas animals.  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft challenge 409 ~ NO Squares or Rectangles

Hi Crafty Friends,
We have a fun one for you this time at My Time to Craft.
For this challenge we're asking for shape card EXCEPT squares or rectangles!
Jaded Blossom to the rescue with their Octagon stitched dies.

I've been wanting to use this Caffeinated Boxer stamp from The Rabbit Hole Designs and I needed a masculine birthday card so here it is.  The inside of the shaker was stamped with Jaded Blossom's Birthday Splatter stamp then heat embossed.  I finally added some seed beads to my stash and I think they look fun inside the shaker.  I colored the image using Copic Markers.
So put your designing cap on and come up with a shaped card to share with us. Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft #408 ~ Halloween OR Cats

Hi Crafty Friends,
Our My Time to Craft challenge is double-themed this week for those of you who don't participate in Halloween.
I just love Whimsy Stamps, especially their monthly Paper Door kits.  The stamps I used for this project are from one of last year's kits but the stamps are still available in the store, just not as a kit.

The card base is a Whimsy Stamp die.  I colored using Copic Markers.
I hope you'll join us with either a Cat or Halloween project.  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft #407 ~ Inside Out

Hi Crafty Friends,
Our theme for the My Time To Craft challenge is INSIDE OUT.  So, what do we mean by that? We want to see the INSIDE of your card as well as the outside.  I'll admit that I often leave the inside blank but I'm always inspired by Irina Blount (La-La Land Crafts) because she always creates something special for the inside as well.
Here'a a birthday card that was inspired by one of Irina's make n take classes at our local Memories for the Making store.

All of the dies (except the scalloped rectangle) are from La-La Land Crafts.  I also embossed an LLLC stencil for the white background and stamped the gingham using an LLLC background stamp and Distress Oxide ink.  I love that you can use  stencils with inks as well as emboss with them.  I used my Gemini Jr. to cut all of the die cuts.

Please join us for our Inside Out challenge.  Be sure to show us both parts of your card!

My Time to Craft ~ Birds!

Hi Crafty Friends, Our My Time to Craft Challenge # 406 is BIRDS.  We hope you have a good time with this one? I just love The Rabbit Hole Designs caffeinated critters and the flamingo is just so much fun. Here she is, happy with her coffee!

I used Whimsy Stamps shaker dies for this card along with a banner die from La-La Land Crafts.   The caffeinated flamingo was colored using Copic markers and cut out using my Scan N Cut2 machine.
I hope you'll join us for our BIRD challenge.

My Time to Craft challenge #405 ~ Anything but a Card

Hi Crafty Friends,
Time for Friday's second post - My Time to Craft Challenge 405.
Although it's still really hot in my part of the country it's time to start thinking about fall and Halloween.  I used Jaded Blossom's Paper Bag Die for this cute little Halloween gift bag.

I'm such a fan of Authentique papers. I loved the way these went together.  I think the graphic is perfect for the sentiment from a set I found in my stash by Bug Bites (not sure if it's available any longer.)  Just some Crafter's Spool twine and a few gems and I call it ready to gift!
I hope you'll share your Anything BUT a Card projects with us.

My Time to Craft challenge 404 ~ Fantasy

Welcome back, Crafty Friends,
Our My Time to Craft Challenge is FANTASY.  We want to see your Fairies, Dragons, Unicorns, etc.
Here's my card.

The dies are all from La-La Land Crafts.  The sentiment and image are Jaded Blossom stamps.  I colored using Copic markers both the image and the rainbow.  I added Spectrum Sparkle to the heart wreath.  The papers are Doodlebug Designs.
Please follow the link above to share your FANTASY creation with us.

My Time to Craft challenge #403 ~ Oriental

Hello Again Friday Friends,
It's also time for a new challenge at My Time to Craft. Our theme for this challenge is ORIENTAL.
La-La Land Crafts has some amazing dies that fit the theme perfectly.  

The sentiment, cherry blossom fan and temple are from the July 2017 Club kit.  I also used the cherry blossom flower dies and branch dies.  I got my color inspiration from the patterned paper that I had in my floral paper stash.
I hope you'll play along with us this week.

My Time to Craft Challenge 402 ~ Christmas in July

Hi Crafty Friends,
We're celebrating Christmas is July for this week's My Time to Craft challenge.
I've learned NOT to put away my Christmas papers, stamps, dies, or embellishments.  That way, I can work ahead whenever there is a holiday challenge or I just get in the mood.  Still hoping to avoid the last minute crunch before Christmas.

I've had this digital image run off for quite awhile (maybe last Christmas LOL) so I decided to use it for this project.  It's colored with Copic markers.  The papers and sentiment were in my stash.
I hope you'll join us.  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft Challenge 401 ~ Check it out!!

Hi Crafty Friends,
We're up for a fun challenge at My Time to Craft.  You're asked to make something with checks.  You may use checked pattern papers, embossing folders, stamps, whatever you might have that will add checks to your creation.
La-La Land Crafts has a wonderful background stamp set called Just for You.  The rubber stamp has a large checked surface to stamp a checkered pattern to any design.  I used it for my background paper in this card.

I also used LLLC's Best of Cluck clear stamp set for the rooster and sentiment and the different dies (all colored with Copics after cutting them out) are also from LLLC.  I love that this dapper rooster is waving through a window to all the chickies in the barnyard!

Just follow the MTTC link above to join us - check it out!!!!

My Time to Craft # 400 ~ Beside the Seaside

Hi Crafty Friends,
Well now that summer is officially here in the United States we can begin thinking about all things summer-ish.  LOL.  For our next challenge at My Time to Craft we want to see things that remind us of the seaside: beach, fish, mermaids, whatever comes to mind.
I purchased a fabulous stamp set from The Rabbit Hole Designs called Sofishticated.  It has some gorgeous line art that just begs to be heat embossed.

Aren't these images gorgeous?  And there are so many more including some amazing fish.  The background is actually a card blank from a set that my BFF shared with me - ha, instant background!
I hope you'll join us in this challenge.  Just follow the MTTC link above.

My Time to Craft Chalenge #399 ~ Watercolor

Hi Crafty Friends,
For our My Time to Craft challenge we're using water colors; pencils, paints, pens, whatever to color an image or create a background.
I watched a Jennifer McGuire video on how to make a split design card and thought this style would be perfect for a background I had water colored and a new stamp I had just purchased.

Isn't this fun?!

I cut the clouds and sea using La-La Land Crafts Stitched Clouds and Hills border dies.  I also cut them in velum for an offset.  The image is Caffeinated Shark from The Rabbit Hole Designs as is the sentiment.  I colored the shark using Copic markers on Gina K Pure Luxury card stock.  The split design is attached to the background that I water colored using Spectrum Noir Aqua pens diluted with water and brushed on with a large bristle brush. 

I think I'll be making other cards using this split design technique.

Please join our water color challenge by following the link above.

My Time to Craft #398 ~ Make it Krafty

Hi Crafty Friends, Our challenge for My Time to Craft is to use Kraft paper. I love using Kraft paper for my card projects.  All of my daughter's Save the Dates and Wedding Invitations were made using Kraft paper bases.  I'm now in the process of making 50th Anniversary invitations, also with Kraft paper bases.  Here's how they turned out.

My wedding flowers were daisies so when La-La Land Crafts released their spring kit which included a daisy background stamp I was thrilled.  The daisy line art stamp was also included in the background set.  I used my MISTI to add the line stamps so they would be uniform on all of the invitations. I used my Silhouette to cut the gold numbers and shadow using glitter paper from Michael's and AC black card stock.  Then I added gold Stickles to the daisy centers.  The sentiment is from Jaded Blossom's Invitations Galore set.

I hope you'll join us in our Kraft challenge.  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft #397 ~ Tag, You're It

Hi Crafty Friends,
I seem to be in a tag-making mood this month which is perfect since our challenge at My Time to Craft is "Tag, You're it."
For this challenge I made a birthday tag.

The image is Stamp AnnieThing's, Stacy, Sign Board.  I colored using Copic markers. The tag is Jaded Blossom's Luggage Tag die and the cupcake is from JB's Birthday dies.

Come on over to My Time to Craft and join our TAG challenge.  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft #396 ~ CAS

Hi Crafty Friends,
We're going for Clean And Simple for challenge #396 at My Time to Craft.
I received this cute bird stamp and sentiments from Whimsy Stamps.  Every time I order from them I receive a freebie stamp in my order - so thoughtful!

I used a Whimsy Stamps border die for the simple embellishment.  I colored using Copic Markers.

I hate fussy cutting so I used my Scan N Cut2.  Did you know that if you have "open" parts in your stamped image you can close them using a pencil.  Just draw a line around the open part, scan and cut, then erase your line.  I did this between the wings and the feet.  

I hope you'll join in our challenge.  Just follow the link above.

My Time to Craft Challenge #395 ~ Spring Flowers

Hi Crafty Friends,
Here's my second post for this busy crafty Friday. We're celebrating with spring flowers at My Time to Craft.

I fell in love with this floral frame die from Pretty Pink Posh. There are so many ways it can be used but I decided to color the flowers using Copic markers.  I cut two frames then cut off the flowers from one so that I could add a frame to the flowers giving it more dimension.  I used Distress Ink Oxide on the separated frame.  The background was stamped with the same ink using the Hello Lovely background stamp from La-La Land Crafts.  The sentiment is from Jaded Blossom's Spring Signs.
I'm excited to try even more designs using this fabulous die.  I hope you'll join in our challenge. Just link your project to our blog (see above.)

My Time to Craft ~ Easter or Hedgehogs

Hi Crafty Friends, We're celebrating Easter (or if you prefer, hedgehogs) at My Time to Craft. I love buying the Paper Door monthly kits at Whimsy Stamps.  Not only do you get papers, stamps, dies, and often embellishments, but you also get an entire set of inspired projects with directions from the design team members.  I used the March kit to create this card.

I colored this sweet bunny using Copic Markers.  The frame is a Whimsy build a card die.  The papers and spring die cuts came in the kit as well.  The clouds are a La-La Land Craft die.

Just follow the link above to join in our challenge.  Can't wait to see what you're working on.