Card Chain Challenge Reveal

With a background as vivid as this, you just want a nice sentiment and so I cut one of the sentiments I print off and I was done.

I have fallen in love with these flowers that a friend gave me to play with.  I believe they cannot be ordered anymore in the new catalog for Stamping Up.  No matter what colors you would use, I think you could not go wrong.

Supplies:

Hero Arts digital Birthday Bash kit sentiment at A2Z Scrapbooking
Stamping Up card stock engraved in gold (friend gave me some cut pieces out of a sheet)

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Spellbinders tags - old set
Copic markers

Having Fun With Flowers and Tea

Visit Graciellie for your wonderful digital flower images and this wonderful cup so you, too, can enter the Coffee Lovers Bloghop.

Graciellie Design is Die Cut Divas' sponsor for May.

It's all about the flowers or a flower in your project.  This is the last day to enter the challenge at Die Cut Divas.

Here is my sample for Die Cut DIvas and I am also entering the Coffee Loving Spring/Summer Blog Hop.

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I'm having fun with the Spring & Summer Coffee Lovers Blog hop,  May 25, 2018 through June 1, 2018.  

Supplies:
Graciellie Coffee and Love Digital Stamp Set
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Die-namics Stitched Oval STAX
Vagabond die cut machine
Copic marers (surface under cup - W3 & S5: background in BV0000 & BV000, flowers - RV10, RV11 & RV13; leaves YG05 & YG09; cup - Y00 & Yaa; cup holder Y00, Y11 & RV10)

Sugartree Sweeter Than Sweet Tea

It's Blog Hop time and I am lucky enough to be able to use the brand new digial kit by Sugartree Stamps.   I think it's a bit of Picnic and gingham time for me. I really;like how this turned out so cute.  I'm very happy with it and it's definitely going to my granddaughter.

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I used the images from this set, don't you love it?

And I'm submitting this card to The Spring and Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop, but check out 

A2Z Hop first so you can get your free mini digi.or win 3 digi sets.

 If you arrived here from Kristina Beagle's blog, you're on the right track, but if you haven't, please go to A2Z Scrapbooking blog to start on a nice short hop with a great prize.

a2z is giving away 3 Sugartree Sets of the Winners Choice to 1 lucky hopper, all you have to do is comment. One winner will be chosen by random draw from the comments left across all of the participating blogs, the more blogs you comment on the more chances to win!  Leave your comments by 11:59pm May 31st. Winner will be contacted via email and announced on the a2z winners post June 7th.

a2z Scrapbooking blog 

Kristina Beagle 

Arlene McClung (You are here)

Cindy Chiu 

Helen Gullett 

Monica Martinez

Now let's see about the monthly challenge:

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Please join us in this month’s "Shape Shift" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month



The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code insert your code here to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Sugartree Stamps at A2Z Scrapbooking (Sweet Tea)
• Hero Arts Tags (old dies no longer sold)
• Spellbinder tag
• Copic Markers
• Vagabond die cut machine

Graciellie and Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

If you are looking for the A2Z Scrapbooking blog hop, please click here.

  

I'm loving this cup and lots of different colors.  Happily this image fits the Die Cut Divas' and the Spring & Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop, flowers and coffee, tea or a hot chocolate.

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I'm entering the Coffee Lovers Bloghop

Supplies:

Graciellie Designs Coffee and Love Digital Stamp Set
Die-namics Pierced Circle STAX
Vagabond die cut machine
Copic markers: (flowers - Y04 & Y08, cup - V91 & V95, leaves - YG01 & YG03, background V2, V3 & V5)

Graciellie Flowers With A Fun Kitten

If you are looking for the A2Z Scrapbooking blog hop, please click here.

Graciellie Design is Die Cut Divas' sponsor for May and isn't the saying "April Flowers Bring May Flowers"?  

So it is with our theme, 

Use flowers or a flower in your project. Visit Die Cut Divas.

It is also time for the Spring & Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop, which is always such fun, May 25, 2018 through June 1, 2018.

I took two digital kits and combined the kitty with the "to go" cup and it is really the cutest combo I've done in a long time on a card.   I fussy-cut the kitten and cup with flowers.  The papers are scraps from the infamous scrap pile.

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Isn't this the cutest?  It makes my heart melt.

I'm entering this card in the Coffee Lovers Bloghop.

Supplies:
Graciellie Designs Coffee and Love Digital Stamp Set
Graciellie Designs Sweet Tea Digital Stamp Set
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Vagabond die cut machine
Copic markers (kitty - E30, cup - E53 & E95, not sure of the other colors)

Coffee Lovers' BLog Hop A2Z Style

Friday, May 25 - Friday, June 1

6 am pacific
The theme is Spring | Summer 
Be sure to use coffee, tea &/or cocoa images
Visit this blog for Coffee Loving Cardmakers.

Direct link to SPRING | SUMMER Hop Post.

We'll also see you at A2Z right here.

Check out the Sugar Tree stamps at the A2Z Scrapbooking store here.  . I took the cup and one of the sentiments and copied them into word, resized them to work on a medium size.  I copied the first cup, pasted it and then cropped the second cup for only the sleeve.  Coloring was a breeze and adhering the cup sleeve over the cup gives the cup more definition.  Popping the cup up over the scrap panel is quite striking. The background panel looks like a gingham table cloth to put out for a picnic.

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I am entering my card in the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog hop

Supplies:

Sugartree Stamps "Hug in a Mug" at A2Z Scrapbooking

Elizabeth Craft Designs

Die-namics Pierced Circles

Copic markers

Vagabond die cut machine

Mother's Day Card Using a Sugartree Sentiment

Mix a bit of digi with coloring and this is one of the results.  I gave this card to my daughter-in-law for Mother's Day.  A friend gave me the paper to color and I went for yellows and pinks.  Below the card is one of the panels in pink that I colored.  I didn't think I would like the panels so well, but I love the gold outlines (which you can feel if you run your finger over the panel) and extremely smooth paper.

I usually print out digital sentiments in different sizes to see how they will fit on the card and either die cut the sentiment or make a banner with scissors like I did here.

Supplies:
Sugartree Mothers digital kit at A2Z Scrapbooking
Stamping Up card stock engraved in gold (friend gave me some cut pieces out of a sheet)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles
Copic markers

Morgan's ArtWorld Challenge for May

As soon as I saw this image, I wanted to see if I could color it.  I went to Pinterest to check on horned owls, at least that's what I thought it was and I was pleasantly surprised.  It's the eyes that I couldn't believe were orange, but it really does stare out at you.

Join Morgan's ArtWorld for the monthly challenge of "Anything Goes".  Hope to see you there.

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Supplies:
Morgan's ArtWorld image
Spellbinders Scalloped squares
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Squares
Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking Notes and Dates Duel

Sometimes people need prompting when it's your special day, like an anniversary.  This is the card that will do it.  We'll be dueling on A2Z Scrapbooking, so check it out here.

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Please join us in this month’s "Shape Shift" challenge.   As you know, we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner from our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month



The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code insert your code here to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Hero Arts Digital Kit Notes and Date at A2Z Scrapbooking 
• Elizabeth Craft Designs Postage Stamp Squares dies
• Die-Namics Pierced Circle STAX

Graciellie's Sweet Kitten

Graciellie Design is Die Cut Divas' wonderful sponsor for May and isn't the saying "April Showers Bring May Flowers"?  

So it is with our theme, 

Use flowers or a flower in your project.

This is a sweet kitten in a cute cup.  The sentiment is as sweet as the kitten.  There are flowers in the design, but difficult to see.  I recently received some very pretty purple petite posies from my March Card Chain Challenge partner, Lucille, and I knew they were perfect for this cup.  I think I colored the cup a bit darker than I would have liked, but the sentiment and blue matting makes the dark cup fit.  Sometimes you can save an image.

Supplies:
Graciellie Design You are the Sweetest
Vagabond die cut machine
Copic markers
Petite Posies

Hero Arts Magnolia Shaped Card

I've used several different colors on this lovely magnolia image and love them all.  The image lends itself to a circle so well too.  I like the way this particular die-cut enhances the flower. 

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Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don't miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!


Please join us in this month’s "Shape Shift" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month



The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code insert your code here to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Hero Arts Magnolia Wood Block and the matching frame (If A2Z Scrapbooking is out of this stamp, please custom order.
• Spellbinders scallop circles
• Vagabond die cut machine
• Copic markers

It's a new challenge at A2Z Scrapbooking and Time for a Shaped Card

I really like every piece in this stamp set, especially the chair, but I wanted to make the other images the focus of the card, so left that lovely chair out this time.  I miss it, but I like this combination of sentiment and table with a lamp for reading and writing.

My granddaughter is pretty good at drawing and is now keeping a journal, so I thought this will be perfect for her, either for graduation or her birthday, or just a card to perk her up. 

You see the lamp, the dark gray ink dropped a blob of C5, but I was able to save the lamp.  If only it was so easy to save a real lampshade if you dropped it.

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Are you on social media? We are! Please join us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook? so you don't miss any fun promotions or new challenge announcements!




Please join us in this month’s "Shape Shift" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp AND, if you used Hero Arts, a $20 gift card to our Hero Arts store. Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month





The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code insert your code here to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from with-in the shop.

• Hero Arts  In the Study Stamp set and the die cut set
• My Momenta die cut alphabet
• Die-namics Stitched Oval STAX
• Spellbinders Arched Windows One
• Copic markers BG0000, B21, B91, B95E30, E31, E55, C2, C4, C5 & 0, 
• Vagabond die cut machine

Graciellie Design is the sponsor for the Die Cut Divas' challenge this Month

There's a new challenge at Die Cut Divas 

and it's all about the flowers.  

Use flowers or a flower in your project.

I couldn't pass up this coffee cup and flower design.  I have no idea what kind of flower this might be, so I chose a color that appealed to me and made purple flowers.  I chose the back of a 6" X 6" paper pack and used the back panel of the pack and not the paper inside.  I love it when something just comes together.

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Supplies:

Graciellie Design Coffee and Love Digital Stamp

Elizabeth Craft Designs Postage Stamp Squares Dies

Copic markers:  (Cup - RV95, V91, V93, V95), (leaves - YG00, YG01, YG03, YG05), (cup wrap - E30, E31, E33)), (cup - C0, E01, E04, E11, E13)

Vagabond die cut machine