Let's Play Tag

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  I hope you are enjoying your summer so far and are managing in the oppressive heat happening in many parts of the United States and Canada.  For those of you in other areas that are not so hot, can I come for a visit to get some relief?  Thursday, we had a humidex of 48C or 106F.  Thank heaven for central air conditioning and for an air conditioned car.

This week our challenge to you is TAGS.  You can create a single tag or put a tag on your card or other paper crafted creation. Don't forget we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive challenge blog and would ask that your project be in one of those styles.

This week a random winner will receive a digi or our choice and a badge to display on her blog.  The Design Team will also choose one project as Card of the Week and that creator will also receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Our designers have created some lovely tags for your inspiration and if you want to check out the details, just click on their names and you will be taken directly to their blogs.

I did some playing in Photoshop to create the pram in the background.  I found a photo of the pram (sorry, I can't remember where) and then I chopped it out of the background, which was more work than I expected because I had all sorts of stray bits to erase.  I changed the colour and I found some grunge brushes online and  made it look scratched and sort of like a vintage stamp.  It was fun to do but when you don't have a clue as to what you are doing, it can be time-consuming.  Finally I printed it directly onto the floral paper.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Paper Play Challenges - Ribbon, Lace, Buttons
ABC Challenge - "Y" is for Yesterday
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Create a Tag
Bearly Mine - Tag, You're It
Ooh La La Creations - Tag It

Image:  Baby (The Graphics Fairy)
Card Stock:  Pale Pink and Dark Pink (Recollections)
Papers:  Pale Pink Floral (Coreen Silke from Computer Scrapbooking.com), Bright Pink Floral/Pink (Basic Grey), Vellum (Curry's Art Store)
Tools & Embellishments:  Lace (My Stash), Butterfly Punch (Martha Stewart), Pearl Stickers (Recollections), Narrow White Ribbon (My Stash),Pink Crinkly Ribbon (Gift), Button (My Stash), Flower Dies and Circle Die (Nellie Snellen), Corners (Cut with Cricut)

Seeing Double

This week our challenge to you at Phindy's Place is to DOUBLE UP. We want to see two of something or you can show us a number of pairs. So you can use two flowers, 2 images and/or 2 ribbons, etc. Please note that three of something does not count - it must be exactly two. On my card I have 2 die cuts, 2 designer papers, 2 flowers and 2 tags.  I digitally paper pieced the chair and then added some shading with my Prismacolors.  I also added a little Prismacolor markings to the cream flower so that it would coordinate with my burgundy flower.

Phindy has begun to release a new line of basic stamps that can be used for a variety of occasions and they are just $2.70 each so check out the store. Don't forget to click on Random Surprise on the left sidebar to see if she has a treat for everyone.  And when you do enter a card in the challenge using your newly purchased Phindy image, don't forget you are entitled to a second entry this week so follow the instructions in the Challenge Rules.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Seeing Double
Freshly Brewed Challenges - Animal or Animal Print
Die Cut Dreams - Animals (4-legged)

Image:  Not So Hot (Phindy's Place)
Sentiments:  Computer Generated
Card Stock:  Cream (Wassau), Dark Blue (Provo Craft)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Gatrick)
Tools & Embellishments:  Chalk (Mungyo), Cream Flower (Recollections), Burgundy Flower (My Creation), Cream Pearl Sticker (Recollections), Tag Punch (Martha Stewart)

Guest Designer at Little Miss Muffet

A couple of weeks ago I won a challenge over at Little Miss Muffet Challenges and was pleased to accept an invitation to be a Guest Designer. This week the challenge is SUMMER, which is so timely and appropriate for all of us who are melting in the heat and humidity.

I am using this image from the Little Miss Muffet store called Treehouse Headquarters. I can just picture every child with a vivid imagination spending their summer up there - what a fun place to be but I hope it has air conditioning.  Since this is a card for a child I decided to go with bright primary colours and keep the layout pretty simple, which is difficult for me when the flowers, pearls and lace are calling out to me from my craft cupboard but it showcases the great image.  I encourage you to pop over to the Little Miss Muffet store and check out all the other fun stamps available for purchase.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Creative Stamp Friends - Summer
Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - Summer
Pollycraft - Summer Fun
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Digi Stamp
Dream Valley Challenges  - Summer Theme

Image: Treehouse Headquarters (Little Miss Muffet)
Sentiment: Create with TLC
Card Stock: Red & Green (Wassau), Blue (Recollections)
Papers: Stripe (Sandylion Sticker Designs), Yellow Dot & Red Gingham (My Scraps)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Buttons (My Stash), Sun Punch (Marvy Uchida), Chalk (Mungyo)

Phindy's Place DT Call

We are looking for creative designers to work with Phindy's Place digital images, for a six month term, from 1 September 2011 to 28 February 2012. You will be expected to create a card or project each week to be published on the Challenge Blog (currently Friday) as well as to your own blog and occasionally there may be further requirements such as a blog hop. You are also expected to comment on a proportion of the entries to the Challenge Blog. Membership of the Papercraft Planet Group is encouraged and you need to upload your weekly cards to the PCP gallery so that they can be uploaded to the slide shows for the group.

The ideal team member need not have experience of being on a Design Team, however their commitment and enthusiasm are important. It is important to have a regularly updated blog, to comment regularly on entries to the challenge and it is important to meet deadlines.

What is in it for you? - -

• You will get a generous allowance of digis from the Phindy's Place shop to work with each month, more than enough for each month's challenges
• You will receive an additional discount on designs from the Phindy's Place shop
• You will get the fun of working with brilliant designs, sometimes before their release to the public and be part of a close-knit and friendly team

Successful applicants will receive more specific details of the benefits!

If you would like to apply, please email Anne at raypack@btinternet.com with the following information:

• Your blog address
• Links to any online galleries of your work
• Photos of 3 cards/projects that you feel are typical of your work
• Details of any Design Team/ Guest Design Team experience
• A little info about yourself and why you would like to be part of the team

DT Call closes15 August.

Christmas Wings

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week we want to see cards with WING THINGS.  Your vintage, shabby chic or primitive card could feature fairies, angels, birds, butterflies or other insects. 

We will be choosing one random winner who will receive a digi of her choice and a badge to display on her blog.  The Design Team will also choose a Card of the Week.  The creator of that card will receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Our designers have created inspiration for you with a variety of things with wings on them.  To get the details, click on their name and you will be taken directly to their blog.

This week we are pleased to introduce you to CHRIS VENERUSO who was chosen as the Guest Designer from the June Cards of the Week.

My card isn't as embellished in a vintage style as normal but if you recall, there is method in my madness. If I did what I really wanted to, it would cost a fortune to mail and considering what happened last year with my Christmas cards when the postage went through the roof, I am on a mission to deny Canada Post any more money than is necessary. Besides we had no mail service for a few weeks while the workers were on strike and then locked out so I figure they owe me rather than the other way around.

This sweet little fairy is all dressed up for Christmas and even has her Christmas wings on - shaped just like holly leaves :)

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy - Christmas in July and/or Distressed/Vintage
Paper Play Challenges - Things with Wings
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Image:   Christmas Fairy Holly (Mo's Digital Pencil)
Card Stock:  Buff (Recollections), Red (Bazzill)
Paper:  Memory Box
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Gotrick)
Tools & Embellishments:  Chalk (Mungyo), Lace (Fabricland), Card Candy (Craftwork Cards), Petite Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Poinsettia Creatables (Marianne Designs), Gold Ink (Martha Stewart), Gold Seed Beads (My Stash)

Pretty Pastels

Summer has really landed where I live and it is hot, hot, hot - with lots of humidity thrown in - so it is now very uncomfortable. I think I want to live in a more moderate climate where the weather stays roughly at 72 all year, where there is no snow, little rain and no humidity. I wonder where that is and if I can convince my husband to move - hmmm.

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place should cool things off a bit. We want you to create a card in PRETTY PASTELS so get out those softly coloured papers and embellishments and let's see what you come up with.

You don't have to use a Phindy image but we do hope you will.  If you do, make sure you enter it twice.  There are lots of fabulous images at Phindy's store that would look wonderful in pastels.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Divas by Design - Pastels
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
KB Cute Monday - Something Cute

Image:  Hush A Bye (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock:  White (Staples)
Papers:  Stripe (sandylion Sticker Design), Floral (My Stash)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Pearl Stickers (Dollarama), Die Cut (Nellie Snellen), Chalk (Color Box), Ribbon (My Stash), Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts)

Paper Piercing

Welcome to Sugar Creek Hollow and another Sensational Saturday.  This week our challenge for you is to create a vintage, shabby chic or primitive card using the technique of PAPER PIERCING.  You don't need any special tools to prick holes in your paper because a sewing needle will do the trick.  If you want to use a pattern rather than just pricking holes in a line or circle and don't have any, there are quite a number of freebies out there (just Google "Free Paper Piercing Templates").  There are also lots of tutorials available.

This week we have a wonderful sponsor, PHINDY'S PLACE, who will provide our random winner with a $10 gift certificate to her store.  The random winner will also receive a badge to display on her blog.

I had fun with this card on all sorts of levels.  First, I am on the Phindy's Place Design Team so I love working with her images and this is one that I didn't have.  I thought it would make a gorgeous sympathy card, which are often hard to make. Secondly, I went on a little road trip last week with a couple of gal pals and since I was driving they were held captive while I stopped at a craft store and picked up this new die. Lastly, I found a tutorial online that showed how to use digital images and fonts as pricking templates so I found a great font and then created the border pattern - easy peasy.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Digi Doodle Shops Best - Butterflies
Truly Scrumptious - Things with Wings

Image:  Birds Go By (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment:  Computer Generated
Card Stock:  Buff & Kraft (Recollections)
Paper:  Victoria & Albert
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Doily (Wilton), Open Scalloped Die (Nellie), Chalk (Mungyo), Skeleton Leaf (Graphic Products), Pearl Stickers (Recollections), Victoria Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Scalloped Cutting Blade (Fiskars), Butterfly (Gift from SCH Team Mate)

Christmas Pageant

When I was a child, I looked forward to being in the annual Christmas pageants at church and at school.  I always got picked to be an angel and got to sing, usually Away in the Manger.  When I saw this adorable image at Phindy's Place it reminded me so much of me except that my hair was below my waist and wish as I might, I have never had curls.

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is to use BUTTONS so I created another Christmas card and used these teeny buttons.  The colours are a little more brick red than you usually see at Christmas but I loved the papers and decided non-traditional was just fine.

This week you can use any image again but if you do use a Phindy image (and we hope you will), don't forget to enter your card twice.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Divas by Design  - Die Cuts and Punches
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open (must include butterfly, fairy or angel)
Lil Red Wagon - Christmas in July
The Paper Shelter - Lots of Dots
The Paper Variety - Christmas in July
Truly Scrumptious  - Things with Wings
Your Next Stamp Challenges - Button Up
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Clear it Out Tuesday - Wings

Image: Sweet Carol (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock: White (Staples)
Papers:  Snowflake & Dots (Summertime Designs), Silent Night Sheet Music (Online)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Buttons (Dress it Up), Star Dust Stickles (Ranger), Chalk (Mungyo), Labels 10 Nestabilities (Spellbinders)

Celebrating Canada

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week we have a PATRIOTIC challenge for you.  We want you to celebrate your country and its history and make your vintage, shabby chic or primitive card using the colors of your country as represented by its flag.

This week we will reward a random winner with a badge to display on her blog and a digi of our choice.  The Design Team will choose a Card of the Week and the creator of that card will receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Most of the ladies on the Sugar Creek Hollow Design Team are from the United States so their patriotic cards have a red, white and blue theme.  I am a proud Canadian and have used a classic Canadian icon and done my card in red and white as those are the colors of the Canadian flag.  We are really looking forward to getting a colorful history lesson of the countries of our challenge participants.

As it happens yesterday was Canada Day and Canadians celebrated the 144th birthday of the country. It was fun to watch the festivities from Ottawa, our nation's capitol, especially since the newly married Royal couple are here. And now Monday, is the birthday of the United States so I wish all my American friends a Happy July 4th.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Digi Doodle Shops Best - Anything Goes
Cooking It Up With Katie - Colours of your flag
Lil Red Wagon - Patriotic
Stampin Royalty - Go Patriotic

Image: Mountie (online - do not remember source), National Anthem (Government of Canada web site)
Card Stock: Red (Wassau)
Papers: Maple Leaf (My Design), Stripe (My Stash)
Tools & Embellishments: Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger), Yo-yo Flowers (Hand Made), Button (My Stash), Houndstooth Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Double Loop Corner Punch (Martha Stewart)

Phabulous Phindy Phriday

Today is the first monthly Phabulous Phindy Phriday, which is the name of the challenge we will have on the first Friday of every month at Phindy's Place. You must use a Phindy image but it is Anything Goes from there. You can create a card, a scrapbook layout, an altered item or anything your creative mind can dream up and use whatever colours, embellishments, techniques or sketch you want as long it revolves around your Phindy image. Phindy has lots of phabulous images in the store to work with and if you check on the left sidebar, she often has random surprises that are great deals.

I have gone a little vintage this week and created a card with Mr. Brown Goes Shopping. He is gazing intently at an old truck he really wants to buy.  I distressed everything and inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink, added some gears cut with my Cricut machine, some woven fabric as a ribbon and a couple of little brads - a real card for a guy.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Craft Your Days Away - Vintage

Image:  Mr. Brown Goes Shopping (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock:  Tan & Kraft (Recollections ), Brown (Bazzill)
Papers:  Diamond & Leather (Provo Craft), Definition (Computer Generated)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Walnut Stain Distress Ink (Ranger), Brads (Making Memories), Mesh (Making Memories), Woven Fabric (Fabricland), Cricut, Antique Gold Paint (Creative Inspirations Paint)

Let's Play Tic Tac Toe

It is Saturday and it is another sensational one at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week we want you to create your vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired card or paper crafted project and play TIC TAC TOE.

Using the game board shown below, choose any row horizontally, vertically or diagonally and add the three items in that row to your project.  Just remember that all three items you use must come from the same row and all must be on your project.

We have another wonderful sponsor this week. A Day for Daisies will be providing our random winner with a $12 gift card to their store, which is filled with beautiful digital stamps.

The random winner will also receive a Sugar Creek Hollow badge to display on her blog. The Design Team will choose a Card of the Week and the creator will not only receive a Sugar Creek Hollow badge but will also be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

As always, the Design Team has created some inspiration for you and this time we have all used a wonderful image from A Day for Daisies. If you would like more details on each of the cards, just click on the designer's name and you will be taken right to their blog.

I have used the middle vertical row on my card.  The big flower is simply made using a couple of punches.  For fun I digitally paper pieced the apron.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Flowers

Image:  40's Woman (A Day for Daisies)
Card Stock:  Kraft & Gold (Recollections)
Paper:  Farmhouse (October Afternoon)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Martha Stewart Punch Daisy Around the Page Set, Flower Punches (EK Paper Shapers), Buttons (My Stash), Baker's Twine (Gift from Mary at Mo Joe Designs), Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)

Bedtime Story

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is all about CIRCLES. I've put lots of different round things on this card and really only the ribbon is the only non-round item.

I asked my Granddaughter if she would read to me (she is 4 3/4 and just learning) and she agreed but before she could start, my 2 year-old Grandson went running to get a book.  He loves books and the minute he heard "read", he thought that meant him.  Apparently he even wants to take his books to bed with him so he has tossed the stuffed toys out of his crib.  Now if we could just get him to be a little more gentle with his books.

Don't forget that next week will be our first monthly Phabulous Phindy Phriday - an anything goes challenge but you must use a Phindy image.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Everybody Art Challenge - Anything Goes
Creative Inspriations Paint - Bright Colors
Little Miss Muffet - Reds, Oranges & Yellows
Rainbow Lady's Challenge - Digi Day

Image:  Bedtime Story (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment:  Create with TLC
Card Stock:  Yellow (Recollections), Orange (Bazzill)
Paper:  Recollections
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Petite Scalloped Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Spots & Dots Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Martha Stewart Double Loop Border Punch, Ribbon (Michaels), Buttons (My Stash), Chalk (Mungyo), Circle Punches (EK Paper Shapers)

A Sassy Christmas Card

As I have mentioned, I am on a mission to make as many Christmas cards as I can before December. Since I got really carried away with embellishments last year and they ended up forcing the cost of postage through the roof, my cards this year are going to be more clean and simple. That should make my husband a lot happier since he was the one who paid for all that extra postage and had to stand there and put the stamps on each envelope.

This week the challenge at Sassy Cheryl's is to make a tent card so I used this opportunity to use one of her images I had bought some time ago.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sassy Cheryl's - Tent Cards
Christmas Cards All Year Long - Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations - No Sentiment
Bah Humbug - Scarves & Mittens

Image:  Santa and Snowman (Sassy Cheryl)
Card Stock:  Green (Wassau)
Papers:  Stripe & Spotted (Sandylion Sticker Designs), Red (Lasting Impressions)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Card Candy (Craftwork Cards)

French Postcard

Wow, it's Saturday already and we have a sensational color challenge for you this week at Sugar Creek Hollow. We want you to use PURPLE, KRAFT & BLACK when you create your vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired card or other paper-crafted project.  Don't forget - all three colors must appear on your project.  Black is black but purple and kraft come in a variety of shades so it will be fun to see how creative you can be.

Our random winner will receive a badge to display and a digi of our choice.  The Design Team will choose a Card of the Week and that creator will receive a badge to display but will also be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

The Design Team had fun creating with these colors and have lots of inspiration for you.  If you want more details about their cards, just click on their name and you will be taken directly to their blog.

I have used an image from one of my favourite digi stamp shops, Isabella's Sketchbook. I was on Isabella's Design Team before she had to shut her challenge blog down for personal reasons so it is so exciting to see that she is drawing and when she releases something new, I can't wait to buy it.  Many of her wonderful images are vintage inspired and I love them.  This card also has some lovely gifts from a couple of my lovely Sugar Creek Hollow Design Team members.  They are not only talented, they are so generous.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sew Many Cards - Punch It
Simply Create  - Wings
Totally Papercrafts - Die Cuts or Punches
Stampin B's - Use a Border Punch
My Mum's Craft Shop - Seeing Spots

Image: French Postcard (Isabella's Sketchbook)
Card Stock: Purple (Bazzill), Black & Kraft (Recollections)
Paper: My Mind's Eye
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Pearl Flourish & Individual Pearls (Gift from a SCH Team Mate), Tissue Flower (Gift from Tracy, SCH Owner), Ribbon (Mokuba), Deco Fan Border Punch (Martha Stewart), Corner Rounder Punch (Marvy Uchida), Milled Lavender Distress Ink (Ranger), Lavender Stickles (Ranger)

Black & White for Christmas

This time of year I look for any excuse to make a Christmas card so I don't have to scramble in December. OK, OK so if the truth be known, I still have to scramble but the plan sounds good in theory.

This week the challenge at Phindy's Place is to make a card in Black and White with just a bit of colour. I chose to put the colour on the image since the Christmas ornaments were perfect for that. You could colour your image in shades of black and put a little pop of colour in somewhere else on the card.

We have an exciting change coming up on the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog:

Starting in July we are having Phabulous Phindy Phriday on the first Friday of each month. This will be an Anything Goes Challenge with a twist - you can make absolutely anything, combine it with as many other challenges as you like, as long as you use a Phindy's Place image and have made a NEW project for the challenge - no backlinking please!

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Goes
My Mums Craft Shop  - Seeing Spots
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Things with Wings
Hooked on Crafts - Anything Goes

Image: Peace & Cheer (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment: My Design
Card Stock: White (Staples), Black (Recollections)
Papers: Polka Dot (Recollections), Damask (GCD), Stripe (My Design)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Gold Star, Clear Star & Purple Star Pens (Sakura), Black Gems (Michaels), Circle Punches (EK Paper Shapers), Label 1 Nestabilities (Spellbinders)

Doilies for Sugar Creek Hollow

The week has flown by and it is another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week our challenge to you is to use DOILIES on your card or other paper-crafted project.  Your doilies can be paper doilies, die cuts or doily images. Don't forget that your project must be made in a vintage, shabby chic or primitive style as that is the focus of our challenge blog. 

This week we have a wonderful sponsor, Glitterbabe's Digis, who will provide the random winner with a $10 gift card to her store.  The random winner will also receive a Sugar Creek Hollow winner's badge to display on her blog.

The Design Team will also choose one card as Card of the Week and the creator of that card will receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

Each designer has used an image from Glitterbabe's Digis and created some wonderful inspiration for you.  If you want more details on their cards, just click on their name and you will be taken directly to their blog. I have used the Baby Bonnet and you can find it here.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

AI Factory - Use Something New (Image, Ribbon, Flower Centre)
Shelly's Images - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - 3-2-1 Challenge

Image: Baby Bonnet (Glitterbabe's Digis)
Card Stock: Pink (Recollections)
Papers: Stripe (Sandylion Sticker Designs), Floral (American Traditional Designs)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Scallop Scissors (Fiskars), Circle Punch (EK Paper Shapers), Petite Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Tattered Rose Distress Ink (Ranger), Ribbon & Button & Lace Flower Centre (Gift), Flower (Recollections), Charm (My Stash), Gold Floss (My Stash)

Water Baby

This week our challenge at Phindy's Place is to create a card or other paper-crafted project using the theme of WATER.  After the overly embellished card I did last week with all the flowers and the big bow, I decided to go really clean and simple this week.

You don't have to use a Phindy image but as you can see by the Design Team cards, Phindy has lots of images that fit this theme and there are only a few represented on the challenge blog. I would encourage you to pop over to Phindy's store and pick one of the great images to use in your project. If you do enter with a Phindy's image, don't forget that you can enter it twice.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Truly Scrumptious - Summer Sparkle
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
House of Gilli - Buttons

Image: Seaside Baby (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock: Orange (Recollections), White (Staples)
Papers: Stripe (Sandylion Sticker Designs), Others (My Stash)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Floss (My Stash), Star Punch (Marvy Uchida), Buttons (Dress it Up)

Paper Flowers, Vintage Lace & Bling

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week our challenge is all about embellishments - HAND MADE PAPER FLOWERS, VINTAGE LACE & BLING.

We want you to use all of these embellishments on your card or other paper-crafted creation. If you don't have truly vintage lace, just use something that has the appearance of being old. Don't forget that our challenges are for your vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired projects.  So rummage through your craft stash and challenge yourself to try your hand at one of these styles using the theme for this week.  We can't wait for you to show us what you come up with.

We will be choosing a random winner, who will receive a winner's badge to display and a digi of our choice. The Design Team will also select a Card of the Week and the creator of that card will receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

As they always do, our Design Team has created some gorgeous cards for your inspiration. So check out the challenge blog and if you want to get the details, just click on their name and you will be taken right to their blog.

I am not sure if the lace on my card is truly vintage but I do know that it is old and special. My dear Mother passed away 18 1/2 years ago and when I cleaned out her house I found a bag with lace in it and this piece is from the bag. I have no idea of where it came from or how old it is but I figure even 18 1/2 years makes it old.

The little medallion is special too because it came from the stash of my husband's elderly Aunt who passed away a couple of years ago. The book page that I made the hearts from is actually a scan from Vol. 1 of an eight volume set called Character Sketches, which was published in 1892. I didn't have the courage to take the page out of the book so I scanned it and then made it look as old as it really is.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

AI Factory - Distressing
Crafty Purple Frog - Things of Beauty
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Metal Embellishment
Stamp Insanity - Anything Goes
Paper Creation Ink - Ribbon or Lace
ABC-challenge - 3 Types of Embellishments (Flower, Bling, Metal)
Bearly Mine - Die Cuts & Lace

Image: Fall Fashions Ad (The Graphics Fairy)
Card Stock: Tan & Burgandy (Recollections), Teal (My Stash)
Papers: Teal Rose (K and Company), Book page (Scan from Character Sketches pub. 1892)
Tools & Embellishments: Lace (My Mother's Stash), Medallion (My DH's Aunt's Stash), Metal Brad (Dollarama), Pearl-Ex, Gum Arabic, Bling (Gift from SCH Design Team Member), Heart Shapes (.svg files designed by me), Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge (Cricut), Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger), Fancy Tags Die (Spellbinders)

June Sketch at Phindy's Place

This week we have a SKETCH to challenge you with at Phindy's Place.

This image is one I plan to use again and again.  It is called "I've Got You Covered" and it would be great for a friend, for Mother's Day or even a Sympathy card with the right sentiment.  I hope you will pop over to Phindy's store and pick up a few of her fabulous images.  Her newest collection is called Plump Uns and is a loving look at all of us mature ladies.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

A Spoonfull of Sugar - Flower Power
Anita Be Stampin - Go Crazy with Layers
Party Time Tuesdays  - Anything Goes
Divas by Design - Florals
My Mum's Craft Shop - Things with Wings
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Wings

Image:  I've Got You Covered (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment:  Create with TLC
Card Stock:  Pink and Blue (Recollections), Green (My Stash)
Papers:  Mottled Pink (Provo Craft), Floral (Sandylion Sticker Designs)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts), Petite Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Chalk (Mungyo), Weathered Wood Distress Ink (Ranger), Frond Punch (Martha Stewart), Button (My Stash), Crinkled Ribbon (Gift from Tracy, Owner of Sugar Creek Hollow), Scalloped Square .svg File (Bird's Cards), Cricut

Ruffled Flower Card

Welcome to Sugar Creek Hollow and another Sensational Saturday.  This week we are challenging you to make SHAPED CARDS.  Now everyone will tell you a square or a rectangle is a shape and they are correct but we want you to stretch your creativity and to try making cards in lots of other shapes.  We want to remind you that we are a vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired challenge blog so lets see your shaped cards in one of those styles.  And one other reminder - our challenges go live on Saturday morning at 8:00 am EST so please do not link to a post prior to that day and time.

This week we have a wonderful sponsor, "priscillastyles" Store.  The random winner will receive $10 worth of digis of their choice from "priscillastyles" Store and a Sugar Creek Hollow winner's badge to display on her blog.

The Design Team will also choose a Card of the Week and that creator will receive a badge to display on her blog and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

The Design Team has created some wonderful cards for your inspiration using images from "priscillastyles" Store. I have used the floral bicycle, which can be found in the store here.

For my shape, I used a flower image from the Mother's Bouquet cartridge from Cricut and created a card from it using Design Studio.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

AI Factory - Pretty in Pick
Digi Doodle Shops Best - Anything Goes
Outlawz - POM - Anything Goes
Paper Play - Blossoms and Blooms
Sassy Studio Designs - Pearls & Lace
Southern Girls - Lace & Pearls

Image: Floral Bicycle ("priscillastyles" Store)
Card Stock: Pinks (Recollections)
Paper: Thursday Break (Coreen Silke for Raspberry Road)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Tattered Rose Distress Ink (Ranger), Pearl Stickers (Recollection), Pearl Strand (Michaels), Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts), Petite Scalloped Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Lace (My Stash), Branch Punch (Martha Stewart)

Summer Living is Easy

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is called SUMMER LIVING and I think this little cutie says just that.  Take a look at all the great images in Phindy's store that have a summer theme, pick one of two up and let's see what you can create.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges - Anything Goes
Crafting for all Seasons  - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Digi Doodle Shops Best - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Stripes
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Color My World
Lexis Creations - Spots and/or Stripes

Image: Catch Anything (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock:  Recollections
Papers: Stripe (Sandylion Sticker Designs), Orange and Gold with Squares (Provo Craft)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Chalk (Mungyo), Card Candy (Craftwork Cards), Charm (Arton Bead Supply), Cord (Dollarama), Eyelets (Making Memories)

Tag Card

The challenge this week at Delightful Challenges is to USE A TAG ON YOUR CARD.  This is my last card as a designer for Delightful Challenges as I am stepping down from the design team.  I want to thank Wendy Hall for the wonderful opportunity and her lovely friendship.  Thanks also to the rest of the team for their friendship and I plan to continue lurking around their blogs to see what they are up to and I hope they will visit here once in a while.

The sponsor this week is our own Digital Delights by Louby Loo with a $10 gift certificate to the store.

I had fun making this card and tried something different.  The tag is hand cut from a piece of plain blue card stock.  Then I sponged a couple of distress inks randomly over it and spritzed it with water.  The result was this cool mottled look, which really came alive when I embossed it.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers - Embossing
Paper Sundaes - Pop It Up
Crafting for all Seasons - Anything Goes

Image: Toadstool Bug from Lil Bug Set (Digital Delights by Louby Loo)
Card Stock: Blue & Orange (Recollections)
Papers: Orange with Yellow Dot (Sandylion Sticker Designs), Leaf (Recollections)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolor) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Orange Ribbon (Fabricland), Blue Ribbon (Mokuba), Eyelet (Making Memories), Weathered Wood & Peeled Paint Distress Ink (Ranger), Forest Branches Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)

Krafty Golfer

The challenge this week at Sassy Cheryl's is to colour your image on kraft card stock. I have wanted to try this for a long time but was afraid the ink would smear. I was wrong, the ink does not smear but I need to spend more time playing with the colours. I use Prismacolors and they turned out much darker than they normally do when I colour on white card stock. I had fun with it though so I will practice and hope for a better result the next time.

This will make a great birthday card for my Son-in-Law so I have included a birthday verse inside. He may be a bit annoyed with the theme though because ever since he started his BBQ business, he is so busy in the summer that he has only golfed once a year if that.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sassy Cheryl's - Get Krafty
Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight Challenge - Challenge Yourself
Kaboodle Doodles - Distress, Rip, Tear, Crumple
Stamps R Us - Use a Digi
I Did It Creations - Anything Goes
2 Sisters - Use a Digi

Image: Sassy Boy Golfer (Sassy Cheryl)
Sentiment: Create with TLC
Card Stock: Kraft & Red (Recollections), Cream (Wassau)
Papers: My Scrap Stash
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors and Koh-i-Noor) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Button (Dress it Up), Ribbon (Offray), Deckle Scissors (Fiskars), Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger)

Vintage Chef

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week our challenge to you is to create a MASCULINE card or other paper crafted project.  Father's Day is only a month away so that could be the theme of your vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired item.  Of course, there are lots of other reasons to make something masculine because birthday cards are always in demand and this time of year graduation cards may also be required. So pull out your retro images, papers and embellishments and let's see what you come up with.

This week our random winner will receive a badge to display on her blog and a digi of our choice.  The Design Team will also choose a Card (or project) of the Week and the creator will receive a badge to display and will be in the running for a Guest Designer spot.

All of the designers have created some wonderful masculine projects for your inspiration.  To get more details, just click on their name to be taken directly to their blog.

Last week the Design Team reviewed all the April Cards of the Week and chose Heide D. to join us as a Guest Designer this week so please give her a warm welcome.

I found this fun image online and thought it would make a great Father's Day card, especially for my Son-in-Law who owns a BBQ food manufacturing business and restaurant. He makes smoked ribs, pulled pork, smoked brisket and sauces and rubs. He is always developing new recipes and whenever he cooks for us, we eat very, very well.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - Brads
Pixie Dust Studio - Vintage
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Boys/Men
Creative Craft Challenges - Distressed/Vintage

Image: Create with TLC
Sentiment: My Design
Card Stock: Cream (Wassau), Red (Recollections)
Papers: Gingham (Flour Sack Paper Kit from Raspberry Road), BBQ (Create with TLC)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Scallop Blade (Fiskars Trimmer), Brads (Dollar Store), Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger), Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Star Border (cut with Cricut), Corrugated Cardboard (My Stash)

Christmas in May

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is one of my favourites - CHRISTMAS IN MAY. I love it because it gives me a great reason to get started on my Christmas cards well in advance. I am sure you will feel the same way.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Anything Goes

Image: Spread the Cheer (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment: Create with TLC
Card Stock: Red & Green (Wassau), Gold (Recollections)
Papers:  Plaid (My Stash), Polka Dot (Molly & Max)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Ribbon (Michaels), Chalk (Mungyo), Gems (Michaels), Yellow Stickles (Ranger), Poinsettia Creatables (Marianne Designs)

It's Time to Grill

This week the challenge at Delightful Challenges is to do some MASKING.  It is also new release day at Digital Delights by Louby Loo and the new release is all about summer grilling.  There are a couple of character images along with a cooking set, BBQ accessories, some great sentiments and even a dog just waiting for something to be dropped on the ground.

I had never done any masking but once I saw a tutorial using GIMP, I figured out how to do it in Photoshop and it was quite easy. 

This week our sponsor is Crafty Emma's Store and the prize for the random winner is a £10 gift certificate to her online store.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Cards for Men - Card for Guy & Someone Special
One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes
Scrappy Frogs - Anything Goes
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Use Old Supplies (The papers came from a box of old bits and pieces)
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Boys/Men
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

Images: Grilling George, BBQ Accessories, BBQ Dog, BBQ Cooking Set, Grillin & Chillin Sentiment Set (Digital Delights by Louby Loo)
Card Stock: Cream (Wassau), Red & Black (Recollections)
Papers: My Stash
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolor and Koh-I-Noor) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Chalk (Craf-T-Products), Yellow & Orange Stickles (Ranger), Ribbon (Michaels), Card Candy (Craftwork Cards)

Pretty Pansies

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week the challenge is a 3-2-1 RECIPE:

3 Designer or Patterned Papers

2 Die Cuts

1 Charm

This week we have a wonderful sponsor, Shelly's Images, who is going to provide the random winner with 3 digis of her choice.  Check out her store for lots of great images.

The Design Team have all been provided with one of Shelly's images to create with and I was given this boot full of pansies.  It is finally spring and I see lots of pansies in the gardens on my walk.  I love flowers and these are so pretty.

Image:  Pansy Boot (Shelly's Images)
Sentiment:  Quote by George Chapman
Card Stock:  Recollections
Papers:  Cuddlebeez Scraps
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Button (Dollar Store), Crochet Flower (My Design), Charm (Arton Bead Supply), Pearl Stickers (Recollections), Chalk (Mungyo), Scalloped Rectangle & Rectangle Shaplie (Penny Duncan), Cricut

One Image, Two Cards

This week the challenge at Phindy's Place is to take one image and create two cards with it.  This is a perfect opportunity to get extra use out of a stamp and the results can be be so different so I hope you will try it.

I had this post all ready to go yesterday when Blogger decided to go AWOL and when it finally showed up a while ago, it didn't bother giving me back the posts I prepared yesterday.  Their status page said they had temporarily taken the posts down and were in the process of restoring them but mine are gone so it wasn't temporary.  Not funny guys - I spent two hours creating all the posts.

I usually try to enter my cards in other challenges but since lots of challenge blog posts are gone, I am not going to this week.  

Card 1

I tried something a little different with this one and paper pieced her dress and the wee bows on her shoes digitally.  Phindy doesn't always close lines so once I figured out that I need to put a temporary bridge in before I filled it with the patterned paper, it was easy and lots of fun.

Image:  Budding Beauty (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock:  Recollections
Paper:  Sungarden Kit by Colleen Silke (Raspberry Road)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Labels 4 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Flower Punch (EK Paper Shapers), Ribbon (Michaels), Card Candy (Craftwork Cards), Chalk (Mungyo), Ink (Color Box)

Card 2

Image:  Budding Beauty (Phindy's Place)
Card Stock:  Recollections
Paper:  GCD Studio Designs
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Labels 10 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Doily (Wilton), Cotton Candy & Stardust Stickles (Ranger), Chalk (Mungyo), Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts), Pearl Sprays (Excelsior Wholesale), Lace (My Stash), Pearl Stickers (Recollection), Butterfly Punch and Border Punch (Martha Stewart)

Treat Bag

The challenge this week at Delightful Challenges is to use flowers.  I probably should not admit this but I had this bag all done and then rechecked the challenge only to discover that I was to use flowers so their placement is not quite what I would have done if I had read the challenge properly to begin with.  Let's just chalk it up to a senior moment.  I also intended to fill the bag with cookies, which is why I chose the image but at the last moment, I decided I needed to have homemade cookies in the house like a hole in the head so I filled it with the mini Smarties boxes that my husband had stashed in the cupboard.  Fortunately, I can't eat chocolate so it is no hardship for me to give them up but he may have something to say about it.

Our sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe and the bag I made is from a template you will find in her store.  It comes with a variety of cutting options and I just used the .pdf version and hand cut my bag.  The prize for the random winner is any 3 sets from their store.

I am going to enter this project in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Checks, Plaids or Gingham
Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
Cupcake Craft Challenges - Gingham & Roses
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - Buttons & Bows
Stamp 'n' Doodle  - Thank You
Tuesday Throwdown  - Die Cuts
Papertake Weekly - Punches or Die Cuts

Images: Baking Bear Set, Ticket Sentiment Set (Digital Delights by Louby Loo)
Special Techniques: Bag Template (The Cutting Cafe)
Card Stock: Kraft & Blue (Recollections)
Papers: Gingham (Recollections)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Ribbon (Michaels), Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts), Petite Scalloped Oval Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Tiny Buttons (Dress it Up), Other Button (Dollar Store)

May Sketch at Sugar Creek Hollow

Welcome to another Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow. We have a sketch to challenge you with this week and a few changes.

The changes are simple - we are going back to our roots and we want you to show us vintage, shabby chic or primitive inspired cards or other paper crafted projects following the challenge theme for each week. If these aren't your styles, then this is the challenge blog for you because you will be able to get wonderful inspiration and stretch your creative repertoire. That is what a challenge means - trying something outside your comfort zone.

We are really excited to announce that some of our challenges are going to be sponsored but even though the Sugar Creek Hollow store is closed, Tracy will still offer a digi of her choice to the random winner when there is no sponsor. She will also offer a freebie once in a while so you need to check the challenge blog often.

We have reduced the size of the Design Team but will round it out with Guest Designers. We will continue to choose a top pick each week and then select a Guest Designer each month from that group. From time to time we will feature an invited Guest Designer.

My card this week isn't quite as vintage as I would have wanted but I do like it. I wish my Mother was still alive because I would have sent it to her for Mother's Day and I know she would have been pleased to receive it. Of course, since her favourite colour was blue, I know she would have liked it more if I had used that colour :) Did I ever tell you about her blue glass collection?  There were 800 pieces in all but perhaps that will be a story for another time.

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Craft Us Crazy - Mother's Day and/or Flowers
Crafty Sentiments - Flowers
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
For Fun Challenges - Mother's Day or Lots of Flowers
Digital Tuesday - Ribbon and Lace
Get Hippity with Ippity - Flowers
Bling It On - Inspiration Photo
Dream Valley Challenges - Flowers
Raise the Bar  - Flower Power

Image: Fresh Florals (Vintage Digitized by Create with TLC)
Card Stock: Cream (Staples)
Papers: Basic Grey
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolor) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Swiss Dots and Victoria Embossing Folders (Cuttlebug), Pearl Stickers (Jolee), Chalk (Mungyo), Flower (Wild Orchid Crafts), Dark Green Leaves (Excelsior Wholesale), Light Green Leaves (Gift from an SCH team mate), Lace woven with ribbon (Gift from another SCH team mate), Old Paper Distress Ink (Ranger)

Don't Cross Me

 

The challenge this week at Phindy's Place is EMBOSSING. You can do dry embossing as I have or heat embossing - the choice is yours.  There are two prizes to be won - a random winner and a Card of the Week as chosen by the Design Team.  I hope you will create something with embossing and show it to us.

This wee babbie looked like a little toughie to me so I thought this sentiment from Paulette at Create with TLC would be perfect for the image.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Flourishes - For a child 13 & younger
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Bunny Zoe Crafts - One for the Boys
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Stamps R Us - Masculine
Sparkles Forum - Anything Goes

Image: Bubble Gum (Phindy's Place)
Sentiment: Create with TLC
Card Stock: Recollections
Papers: Gingham (Recollections), Stripe (Sandylion Sticker Designs)
Colouring Medium:  Pencil Crayons (Prismacolors) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments:  Circle Punches (EK Paper Shapers), Buttons (Dollar Store), Swiss Dots Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)

Super Mom

 

The challenge this week at Delightful Challenges is to make a card for Mother's Day. When I saw this image, I thought about every Mother and how we are all Super Moms.

The sponsor of the challenge this week is Simon Says Stamp who are providing a $20 gift certificate to their store as the prize for the random winner.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Creative Stamp Friends - Mother's Day
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Pollycraft - Anything Goes
Crafty Hos' Challenge - Celebrate Strong Influential Women (WWII was won with the help of Riveting Rosies)
Creative Inspirations  - Use a Digi
I Did It Creations - Mother's Day
2 Sisters - For a Mom
Papertake Weekly  - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesday's - Mother's Day

Images: Riveting Rosie, Ticket Sentiment Set (Digital Delights by Louby Loo)
Card Stock: Kraft & Pink (Recollections)
Papers: Floral Stripe (Provo Craft), Text Paper (My Design using word art from Create with TLC), Orange & Pink (DCWV)
Colouring Medium: Pencil Crayons (Prismacolor) with OMS (Taltine)
Tools & Embellishments: Ribbon (Michaels), Card Candy (Craftwork Cards), Chalk (Mungyo)