Love To Crop Blog Challenge SPRING FLING!

Good morning and happy Friday! I am super thrilled to share this special post today because I've been asked by the fantastic Amy at Love To Crop! to be a Guest Designer for her bi-weekly blog challenge, yippeeee!! Amy is an outstanding paper crafter and artist, her blog is packed full of drool-worthy cards, projects and wonderful inspiration as well as lots of fun, challenges and even giveaways!!! Amy is not only ultra talented, she is so very sweet and generous! For this challenge, she will be awarding a prize to one WINNER who plays along with us during the next 2 weeks! Now let's get to it!

Love To Crop! Challenge: SPRING FLING!

You are welcome to use any tools or supplies you wish for your project.  You can make a card, layout, or any 3D project--the possibilities are WIDE OPEN!  It can be any colors and any theme, as long as you incorporate the theme of SPRING FLING -- This can be flowers or spring colors or even using SPRINGS!!

Here is what I came up with, Spring Flower Pot Pocket Card

Flowers cut from "Once Upon A Princess" cartridge, cuttled with "stylized flowers" and sponged with summer sun ink

Make your own pretty Flower Pot Pocket Card!  TUTORIAL HERE

Oh boy, I sure hope you can join in the Love To Crop SPRING FLING blog challenge! You have 2 whole weeks I want to see as many Spring-filled cards and projects you can throw at me cus' I need lots of inspiration for Spring, it's right around the corner, yikes! So head over to Love To Crop! and see all the cheerful Spring inspiration, then come play along and link up your Spring project HERE!

Also entering this card for:
Crafter's Companion Monthly Challenge Blog- #22 SPRING!
Repeat Impressions DCC229 Designer Choice Challenge- Spring Creation with Pastel color combo





Thanks so much for visiting me today! A great weekend to all! HUGS :)

Monkeyin' Around

Hello friends, today I made my card for the Love's To Crop challenge and Amy's challenge this week is a color challenge ORANGE-PINK-OTHER COLOR. I also joined in my first challenge with Paper Playtime, challenge #68 "Say It With Sentiments Challenge using Pet Images! Now, my beagle Maddie is my fur baby but she can definitely be my little monkey sometimes too! And since the ladies over at Cooking With Cricut looked like they were having so much fun monkeyin around, I chose a monkey for my "pet" hehe! 

I went bananas when I found this super fun sentiment from my Unity Stamps collection!

And I just had to make my monkey wiggle it just a little bit, with another wiggle wire attachment--now this lil guy can shake his "monkey" maker! lol I'm proud to say that my flowers are all veryyy old SU! die cuts and paper primas and some equally ancient epoxy stickers, trimmed them to make tiny flowers in the centers, and made the white flower from a 1" circle scrap. I love using old supplies cus I don't have to be so careful and scared to use them--I'm stingy with my "good stuff" sometimes and crafting seems so much more enjoyable when you don't have to worry about a thing, just free yourself and CREATE! Love it. 

Thanks so much for hangin out! Happy Mardi Gras!!! Homemade Jambalaya for dinner tonight yummm!