New Release Tuesday

It's Tuesday and that means it is New Release day over in the Bugaboo store. This little cutie is Ice Cream Butterfly Bear. I wanted to use an insect sentiment but most of the ones I have are for bees sooo, I went with that. Sorry.

It made for a cute card anyway. If you want to see what the rest of the gang did with the image, head on over to the Catch The Bug blog.

Sketch Saturday:

It's time for another challenge over on the Sketch Saturday blog.  This week we are sponsored by We Are 3 Digital Shop.  They are offering our winner a $15 gift card for their shop.

I've been making Christmas cards all week long, so I continued the theme. Today I'm using a Bugaboo image: Christmas Blocks. It comes with three darling images in a bloc. I just separated the snowman from the Santa and Reindeer images and enlarged it. I love the versatility of digital stamps!

Don't forget that Jodie is having her Christmas in July sale.  This means that ALL of the digital stamps in her shop are 50% off through July 31st.

I hope you can join in the fun.

OBG: White Christmas!!

It's Oldie But Goodie day over on the Catch The Bug Challenge blog and our featured movie is White Christmas. I can hear it now ... where is the "white" in this White Christmas card?  Patience little Grasshopper, I will explain. But first, for those who haven't read my other posts, let me explain what's going on this week.

It's that time of the year, the annual Christmas in July event over on in the Bugaboo store.  In addition to being a weeklong event filled with inspiration and great challenges on the Catch The Bug Challenge Blog, there are prizes to be won and even new designs in the Bugaboo Stamp store.

Today's challenge features is my VERY favorite Christmas movie ... White Christmas.  I have seen this movie so many times.  It's just not the holiday season without it!

Jodie wanted us to use either photo as inspiration

Both photos are so beautiful and really capture the mood of the movie and Christmas .... so of course, I had to deviate a bit.

MY inspiration comes from the best part of the movie: the songs. Of course we all love the title song but many of the others are funny or sweet. I really do love ALL the songs: White Christmas, Snow, Gee I Wish I Was Back In The Army, and many more. One of my other favorites found in the movie is the song: "Sisters." (probably 'cause I have some)  But I especially love it when Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby sing it while Vera-Ellen and Rosemary Clooney escape on the train. It is so silly!

The song that inspired my card comes nearly at the end of the movie, when things look bleakest for the General.  He is going to lose his beloved Inn. Bing Crosby sings it to Rosemary Clooney. It's called "Count Your Blessings".  He sings, "When I'm worried, And I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep and I fall asleep ..."

So there you have it ... my inspiration.  It's longwinded and complicated but that kinda describes my personality in a nutshell!!

If you haven't heard the song, here is a link to it in YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKxazgio2s

I hope you find time to join in the challenge this week!

More CIJ fun - Bingo!

Yep, it's one of my very favorite crafting challenges ... Bingo

Today on the Catch The Bug Challenge blog we continue our annual "Christmas in July" event over on in the Bugaboo store.  In addition to being a weeklong event filled with inspiration and great challenges on the Catch The Bug Challenge Blog, there are prizes to be won and even new designs in the Bugaboo Stamp store.

Today the theme (in addition to Bingo) is Elf

This is one of the few Christmas movies that I dislike. Although Bob Newhart was delightful as Papa Elf, I am not a huge fan of Will Ferrell.  So I based my card on the color scheme of his outfit on the movie poster.

To complete the Bingo challenge, I used the center of the Bingo board: I added Sparkle, a Bugaboo Image and a Sentiment to my card.

The image I am using is one of my favorite Bugaboo images: Elf 004

Making a card for the challenge is easy, fun AND gets you a jump on finishing off all those Christmas cards before the rush of December (super secret here: I didn't even SEND cards last year ... too stressed out!) But I plan to finish all my cards and send them off this year!  Come join in the fun!

I'm Baaaack

And not in a scary poltergeist-y way either ...

It's that time of the year, the annual Christmas in July event over on in the Bugaboo store.  In addition to being a weeklong event filled with inspiration and great challenges on the Catch The Bug Challenge Blog, there are prizes to be won and even new designs in the Bugaboo Stamp store.

Today's challenge was to pick your favorite from the following movies and create a card to represent your choice.  It was hard to pick a favorite from the three since they are all really good, but in the end I chose Miracle on 34th Street.

How can you not love Edmund Gwenn as the fantastic Kris Kringle who convinces the entire justice system (and indeed the US government) that there IS a Santa Claus! Natalie Wood is so good as Susan Walker too, "I believe, I believe."

Ironically, my card uses the Bugaboo image: Santa Clause. I probably should have chosen The Santa ClausE based on my image choice.

So hurry over to the blog, join in the fun and win some fabulous prizes.