Guest I-Teamer for Words to Scrap By for May!

Greetings! When I won the March challenge at Words to Scrap By, I was also asked to be a Guest I-Teamer! Wahoooo!

Did you know May is National Photography Month?  Taking photographs and paper crafting are two ways we commemorate life events. This month's challenge is to create a card or project inspired by that oft heard picture-taking phrase Say Cheese! 

Well, I love taking pictures and my family knows I am the one to come to when they need a picture from last week, last year, 10 years ago! And yes- I even have a few original Polaroid pictures!  When I heard the challenge, I just had to pull out this great image from SugarPeaDesigns.com. Selfies are such a common site these days- and ya gotta love the selfie sticks! We tried one out at Christmas and were able to get a large group of people around the dining room table! I love the expression on her face as she poses for her selfie!  And I had to give her a gold phone- in honor of my niece Paige and her gold phone! 

Please head on over to wordstoscrapby.com and see what the rest of the team created and then go make a card!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by and special thanks to Annie, Sybrina and Bobbi for letting me join in on the W2SB fun!

Diane

Post #2 Cardz 4 Guy4

I have another card to share today! It is for the Super Hero challenge at http://cardz4guyz.blogspot.co.uk/.

I am not sure if I mentioned that I love Sugar Pea Designs stamps and dies and Wendy and the DT....well- they like me too--lol! I won a $100 gift card for their birthday celebration- oh my- I was in heaven. You will be seeing creations with their stamps over the next few weeks- here is a picture of the huge amount of goodies I selected with my prize:

The stamp I used for this card is a Sugar Pea Designs set I purchased a while back and boy is this a great set! The image is adorable and there are a lot of sentiments you can create.  I love stamps for the guys!

I kept the layout simple and added NO embellishments- just let the image shine! And speaking of shine- can you see the clear glaze (Sakura pen) on his glasses and lightening bolt?  I love this pen- gives a nice shine but dries super fast and the pen makes application in tiny spots a breeze!
Have a wonderful week-- and how about creating a card? 
Diane

Sugar Pea Designs Sketch SPDSS09

Hi all, 
I am amazed that I have not posted since July 10th!  Summer has been very full, fun and hectic! I have found little bits of time to create but not time to post. I am hoping to get caught up this week... we will see!

I have 2 sets of SugarPea Designs stamps and I have several more on my wish list! You can check out the blog at  http://sugarpeadesigns.com/blog/
Here is the sketch- and you can also find it at 
http://sugarpeadesigns.com/blog/2014/08/11/sugarsketch09/

                                       

And here is my card using one of their super cool images!

Over at the Male Room   http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 
A pretty crazy challenge.... use pink in a card for guys.  Hmmmm, this got me thinking. I have been playing more with my distress inks so I figured I would try a sky scene and except for the die cut stars- this would have been a one layer card- something hard for me to achieve! Once I added the stars, I ended up with 3 mats.  Try this challenge and go see what the DT came up with-great inspiration!
http://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/make-pink-masculine.html

And I would never forget about OWH!  Sandy is asking for less cards so we can all take our tine and try to create mini-masterpieces! There are less contacts to send boxes to (yahoo- this is a good thing!) but we will continue to create cards for our troops until they are ALL home!
The OWH August ODBD challenge is to create a card with stars.
http://operationwritehome.org/august-odbd/

I used the DCWV glittery paper- the glitter does not come off- even when cut! Love that I can use it on my OWH cards! This one will be a Hero card! 

That is all for now and I hope to post again-very soon! 

Thanks for stopping by, Diane