CCSC #3 & Craft Hoarders

This month's sketch over at The Crooked Stamper looks like this:

Here is my version:

This is the last Craft Hoarders Anonymous challenge - Go Green.  Makes me sad - I have really enjoyed how they challenged me to use and enjoy what I have, instead of just buying more.  Swirls embossing folder for the white layer, Grass embossing plate for the green layer.  Lawn Fawn die cuts and sentiment from the pile on my desk.  Come play along with us at Words3ScrapBy.blogspot.com - The Earth has Music!

Earth Day!

We at Words 2 Scrap By are teaming up with Shopping Our Stash to honor Earth Day and Arbor Day.  What an honor for us!  Here is my card:

The animals count on us to take good care of mother earth - it's their home too!  Lawn Fawn Critters in the 'Burbs images and dies.  Stamped in black VersaMark ink, and heat embossed with clear powder.  Distress inked background, images die cut and colored with Derwent water color pencils.  Don't forget to play along with both challenges, Shopping Our Stash and Words 2 Scrap By.  Looking forward to seeing all of your creative responses to the challenges! 

Let's play tic tac toe - embossing powder, die cuts, and coloring for MSC!

Masculine Birthday Card

Operation Write Home is always in need of masculine cards.  Here is one of mine for the OWH April Our Daily Bread Designs challenge:

Basic Grey paper (very old), waxed cotton cord from my beading stash, SU! sentiment. Come play along with us at the Words 2 Scrap By April Challenge - the Earth Has Music!

Black and Silver Birthday Card

The current challenge at The Male Room is to use metallic embossing powder.

 Hero Arts Number Pattern background stamp with Stampendous Sterling Silver embossing powder, Spellbinders die cuts, and Offray ribbon.  Come play along with the Words2ScrapBy.blogspot.com April challenge, The Earth has Music!!

Entering this into the Less is More Color Challenge - Black, and The Male Room Metallic Embossing Powder.  

Clean and Simple Stamping Sketch #6

The sketch and my version:

 

 Paint chips, Unity sentiment, Ranger Manganese Blue ink.   Come play along with the Words2ScrapBy.blogspot.com April challenge, The Earth has Music. 

Butterflies and Polka Dots

Red, black and white for butterflies and polka dots - what could be better?

Carta Bella paper, Martha Stewart punch.  Glitter tape added to butterfly body. 

I am entering this one into the City Crafters Challenge #255 - Polka Dots. Come play along with us at Words2ScrapBy.blogspot.com for our April challenge - The Earth has Music!

W2SB April Challenge - The Earth Has Music

The earth has music for those who listen.

- George Santayana

This month's Words 2 Scrap By  inspiration words can go in so many directions.  I chose to see the words as that eerie calm at dusk, when the day creatures are settling in for the night, and the night creatures are just waking.  

The background is inked with Tim Holtz Distress Inks, and layered with textured black paper.  The birds are cut with a Sizzix die, and mounted behind a black frame that started out as a Sizzix square die, and was cut a second time to make it a rectangle.  Woot woot!  I learned a way to make my square dies cut rectangles!!!  The sentiment is a very old K & Co. metal embellishment.  How do you hear our earth's music?  Link up your creation to Words 2 Scrap By!!