~SMC #27......LET's SEE YOUR EMBOSSING...WET OR DRY~

This weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges is to use wet or dry embossing in your creation! Even though I don't use embossing in my projects that often, I do love the look of it. I guess I need to use this technique more often, it's one of those techniques that slip my mind until after I get my project done, and then I think I should've used embossing in a particular area. Sort of like a V8 moment lol
So for this weeks project I used a new image from Sew Many Cards called Duncan Under Mushroom Umbrella. It's available through the SMC VIP September Club. For more information you can check out the VIP GROUP.
Our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps and the winner will receive 5 digital images of their choice from the SBS Store! So hurry over and play along with us!

Without further ado, my project...lol Thanks for looking and hope you like!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Sew Many Cards VIP Image -- Duncan Under Mushroom Umbrella

"If A Kiss" Sentiment -- Create with TLC

Embossing -- Shimmery Blue embossing received from an Embossing Swap I hosted
Raindrop Embossing -- Fiskars Texture Plates - Raindrops (not sure if I like these or not)

Papers -- DCWV scraps

Papertrey Ink White Cardstock

Copics - B01, B21, B24, B26, B91, B94

BG10, B11

E00, E11, E13, E25

Y11, Y13, Y17

YG03, YG11, YG13

YR12, YR16, YR18

Stitching from Machine

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Smooch -- Kiwi

EKSuccess -- Chalk

American Crafts - Metal Photo Corners - Denim
I'm also entering this into the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge -- U is for Unused Stash (Papers, Fiskar Texture Plates, Photo Corners)
Fairy Fun Fridays -- Embossing Wet or Dry
Cute Card Thursday -- Bird or Butterfly (Ducks considered a type of bird right? lol)
Pixie Dust Studio -- Fur or Feathers
Southern Girls Challenge -- Anything Goes
Stampin' Sisters in Christ -- Stitching Faux or Real
Stamp Something -- Sept Digi Challenge - Use a Digi
Copic Creations -- Shading On or Around Images or both
Stampin' Royalty -- Stitching 
365 Cards:Day 201 -- A Happy Heart - 2 things that make you happy (kisses and Rain)
Stamping Vacation -- No! No! Sparkle
Creative Belli -- "B" themed Embellishments ("BLUE" Metal Photo Corners)

~SWEET BIRTHDAY....HOPE JACARE~

 This week at Sew Many Challenges we're challenging everyone to make a project using a Halloween theme! So we'd love to see you join us and if you need a great Halloween image to use, check out the store at Sew Many Cards or visit our sponsor.....

Our sponsor for this challenge is Doodles by Hope Jacare and she's offering this beautiful Cockatoo rubber stamp to our winner!

Our sponsor team at Sew Many Challenges, also got to work with an image of our choice from Doodles by Hope Jacare, and I chose to use the image, Sundae. Me niece has a birthday coming up this weekend, so I thought it would make the perfect birthday card for her. 
Thanks for looking and hope you enjoy!! 

~SUPPLIES USED~

Doodles by Hope Jacare -- Sundae 

Papertrey Ink -- White Cardstock

Copics - C1, C2, C3, C5

E34, E37, E39, E49

R20, R22, R24, R27, R81, R83, R85

YG03, YG13, YG63

DCWV -- The Garden Stack

Colorbok Chalk Ink -- Chestnut Roan

Stitching by Machine

Stickles -- Candy Cane

Smooch -- Molasses & Kiwi

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Memory Keepers -- Sanding Block

Computer Generated Sentiment using font SNF Delilah

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Karber Weekly Challenge -- Card for Girls

Stamps R Us -- Card for a Child's Birthday

Stampin' Sisters In Christ -- Stitching, Faux or Real 

The Stamp Man -- Distress 

Cute Card Thursday -- Play on Words 

Penny's Paper-Crafty -- Birthday 

~SMC #25....HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY with a lil COURAGE~

Alright I finally got through with my project. It took a little longer than I thought and I'm not quite sure it's what I had in my head, but I know my grandma will like it. She loves the little things even with imperfections. When I was a really little, I had a Fischer-Price Tape player, that I would walk around my grandma's house singing into, and my favorite song to sing to my grandma was Eric Carmen - All By Myself. My grandma is getting up in age now, she's close to 90 and not doing so well with her health, and its this memory that I hold on to, and I know she holds on to as well, because she has to tell everyone about it everytime I go home. So I thought I would use that songs title in my card that I'll be sending to her for Grandparents Day and for her birthday.
Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking!!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Sew Many Cards -- Jovi in Swing

Everyday Little Things -- Tree with Leaves Cut File

Circle text created by Angela Doescher using the Explosive Font

Marvy Uchida Circle Punch - Giga

Nestabilities -- Basic Circles

Flowers -- Hobby Lobby from my dear friend Nancy

Twine

DCWV The Stack 4 -- Grass Paper

DCWV Latte Stack

DCWV Latte Cardstock Stack

Copics C1, C2, C3, C4, C5

E000, E00, E11, E13, E33, E53

R20, R22, R29

YG11, YG13, YG17, YG67

I'm also entering this card into the following challenge

Charisma Cardz -- Inspired by a Song

Tanda Teaser -- Heartfelt
Crafty Catz -- 3 embellies, 2 papers, 1 digi stamp

 Tonight though I want to post my project I made with our sponsor this week...Purple Panda Designs. Kayla was nice enough to let our sponsor team play with one of her images, so I chose to use her adorable Koi image. Purple Panda Designs is a new digital stamp company and we're happy to have them as our sponsor this week!!! So be sure to check out Purple Panda Designs and have a little visit to Kayla's blog as well. You can find it HERE. 
So on to my sponsor project this week.

~SUPPLIES USED~

Purple Panda Designs -- Koi Image

Create with TLC -- WIshing You all sentiment 

DCWV Far East Stack -- Wood Plain, Wind Plain, & Fire

Copics - YR02, 00, 09

Y11, 13, 17

C1, 2, 3, 5, 7

CTMH Edge Distresser & Sander

Stampin Up Classic Ink -- Ruby Red, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie

Flowers -- Hobby Lobby from my dear friend Nancy

Neenah Cardstock

Computer generated Chinese words -- "Courage"

~Runnin' A Lil Behind..Stitchy Stamps & More Inspiration~

This week at Sew Many Challenges we have an awesome sponsor for our "Christmas In August" challenge...Stitchy Bear Stamps!! Stitch is an awesome artist and lady, so you need to hurry over and check out all her images and the fun stuff they have going on at their challenge blog, One Stitch At A Time, as well!! 

Stitch was generous as always and allowed our sponsor team to pick out an image to work with, and I chose "Lil Behind". She is absolutely adorable...the image that is...well Stitch is too, but we're on the image now!!..lol Anyways, as soon as I seen her, I knew exactly what I was going to use her for, my belated Birthday card for my Father-In-Law! Isn't sad when you know a month ahead that you're going to need a belated card lol And I was right! Maybe I can tell him I was distracted by mine coming up on Sunday That I forgot about his?? lol Hopefully when he gets it, he puts the sentiment inside the card with the image..we'll see...lol 

I love checking out challenge entries because you never know what talents you'll come across, and that's exactly what happened today! We had an entry over at Sew Many Challenges and when I went to the blog, I discovered a blog of inspiration through Sketches! Arianne Addicks has some awesome sketches that you can use for inspiration on her blog, and thats exactly what I did with my card. You need to really check out her blog. Not only are her sketches great but her work is amazing!! 

 

So what are you waiting for?? Grab ya some images at Sew Many Cards and Stitchy Bear Stamps and start creating!! We've got two great challenges for you to join in and have fun with!!

Ok so I'll hush now and post my project lol Thanks for looking and hope you like it!!

~SUPPLIES USED~

 DCWV Summer Cardstock Stack

DCWV The Stack 6

Neenah Super Smooth Cardstock

Copics

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher (Staples as Candles)

Smooch -- Moonlight & Kiwi

Computer Generated Sentiment -- Comic Sans Font

Martha Stewart -- Cake Charm

 Stampin' Up Classic Ink -- Taken with Teal

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time -- Say It With Shapes

Rosie-D's Challenges -- One for the Big Boys

Andrea's Stampin' Moments -- Simply Squared 

Create 4 Fun -- Birthday Card

Stampin For the Weekend -- Anything Goes

Stamp Something -- Use Something Digi (Image on front)

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp -- Blooms and Charm (flowers on front and charm inside)

Meljen's Designs -- Brown, Teal & Orange

Paper Romance -- Metal Heads (Birthday Cake Charm inside)

The Craft Den Anything Goes Challenge -- 3 Layers

Digital Tuesday -- Use Your Scraps (Papers are from Scrap box)
Paper Cutz -- Anything Goes

~CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST~

Aaaah I love Christmas!! So when challenges present themselves to help me get some of my Christmas projects completed ahead of time without the hustlin' and bustlin' of last minute creating, I take advantage. Every year I try to make a few new handmade ornaments for our Christmas tree and make a few as gifts. My goal is to have our entire Christmas tree all handmade ornaments, so we'll see how that goes and how long it takes me to get there lol 

This week at Sew Many Challenges, our challenge is to exactly that. Make a Christmas themed project. So I took the opportunity to make another ornament for my tree. For this ornament I used the lovely Bear in Stocking image from Sew Many Cards! I think he's such a cutie looking over the top of the stocking. Reminds me of boys faces when they were younger and would keep getting up and checking their stockings to find that Santa hadn't came yet. With both of them leaving the 'nest' soon, it'll be a bittersweet happy reminder of those times as they're off starting their new journeys!

We hope you'll join us this week at Sew Many Challenges as we have

 sponsoring us!! You have a chance of winning 3 digital images from the Stitchy Bear Store! I'll be posting another project later today using an adorable image that Stitch let me play with this week!! So be sure to check back!

Hope you like this weeks project and thank you for looking as always and for leaving such nice comments! They're all appreciated!

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Bear In Stocking -- Sew Many Cards

Neenah Smooth Cardstock

Stickles -- Frosted Lace

InkEssentials -- Glossy Accents

Doodlebug Design -- Bon Bon Flock
RibbonFX (Hobby Lobby) -- Red/Black Plaid

Copics

Multiliner 0.3

G12, G14

R22, R24, R27, R29

E13, E33, E34, E53

I'm also entering this project in the following challenges:

A Spoon Full Of Sugar -- Christmas In August

Pollycraft -- In Stitches

My Time to Craft -- Glitter and Glitz

Creative Cottage -- Christmas 

The Character Cafe -- Use Dimensional Glaze (Eyes, nose and heart on stocking)
Crafty Ann's Challenge - Christmas In August 
 The Beary Sweet Challenge -- In Stitches 

~SMC #20...IT'S "SEW" GOOD TO BE BACK CHALLENGE~

Welcome back to Sew Many Challenges!! Our team took a small summer break to regroup and have some family time but we're back and ready for some new challenges!! This week's challenge is...."To use stitching, faux or real stitching on your project!" There are some amazing images at the Sew Many Cards store, so head on over if you need some images for your challenges this week!!  
We've got a new sponsor joining us this week! Tiffany Doodles is giving 5 digital images, singles or sets, from the Tiffany Doodles store to the winner!! How awesome is that!

 Tiffany has got some really cute images up for sell in her store, so you have to go check them out. Be sure to read all about Tiffany Doodles at Sew Many Challenges under the Sponsor Spotlight!! Join Sew Many Cards and Tiffany Doodles over at the Crafters Digital Arts Center!

Tiffany let the SMC Sponsor team play with a few images this week and I chose to use the "Let Them Eat Cake" set! I love watching the Food Network when they design these cakes so thought I'd try my hand at it in a different medium lol My nephews birthday is coming up next week, so thought I'd make him a cake using his favorite college football team as a theme. Hope you enjoy!!!

Supplies Used

Tiffany Doodles -- Let Them Eat Cake Image Set

Neenah Cardstock -- Super Smooth White

Sports Solution School Scraps -- Georgia Tech Paper 

Solid Cardstock -- DCWV Cardstock Stacks

K & Comp Collegiate Dimensional Stickers -- Georgia Tech Grand Adhesions

K & Comp Collegiate Clearly Yours -- Georgia Tech

Glossy Accents

Signo Uniball Broad -- White Pen

Stampin' Up Classic Ink Pad -- Night of Navy

Liquid Pearls -- Platinum

Stickles -- Yellow & Frosted Lace

Copics -- Cake Dish - C1, C2, C3, C5

Cake Icing - Y11, Y13, Y17

Dots - B39  
I'm entering this in the following challenges!
Your Next Stamp -- Birthday
Sentimental Sunday -- Anything Goes 
Stamps R Us -- All Male Theme 
Stamptacular Sunday -- Just for Boys 
Secrety Crafter -- It's a Man's World 
C.R.A.F.T Challenges -- Insects
Papertake Weekly -- Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (one or more of these) -- I chose something new as most of project contains all new images and products 
Lil Red Wagon -- Circles, Circles, Circles
Challenge Up Your Life -- Celebrations 
Penny's Paper Crafty -- Anything Goes 
Crafty Creations -- Winged Things 
Ooh La La Creations -- Spots and Dots 
Incy Wincy -- A Bug's Life 
2 Sisters Challenge Blog -- Stitching 
Craft Your Days Away -- Favorite Things (copics, Glossy Accents) 
Crafty Cardmakers -- Birthday
Donnas Den of Crafts -- Something Sweet (Birthday Cake) 
I Did It Creations -- Anything Goes 
Party Time Tuesday -- Birthday Anything Goes 
Scrappy Frogs -- Stitching 
Simple Doodles -- Celebrations 
The Stamp Man -- Easel Card 
Charisma Cardz Challenge -- Easel Card

~HAPPY ANNIVERSARY & SEW MANY CARDS BLOG HOP~

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! It's been pretty windy and cold here in Arizona, so perfect weather to sit in my room and craft a bit. The card I have for you this week is one that I made for my husband for our 18th Anniversary. He likes to put the cards I make him on his side table next to his side of the bed, so I figured what better card for that than the easel card. Hopefully he'll like it when he wakes up!

For this easel card, I used the Owen & Grace Wedding image from Sew Many Cards. I thought this image was perfect and tried to color it to reflect us 18 years ago, as well as our wedding colors. If you think this image is as cute as I do, then head over to Sew Many Cards and grab it for your next project!! If you'd like a chance at winning this image, then join us at Sew Many Challenges for our May New Release Blog Hop going on NOW!!  
Our May Blog Hop is being sponsored by.....

Head on over to win a chance at a $10 Shopping Voucher for Simon Says Stamp, random comment winners, discount at the Sew Many Cards store, and the complete line of new releases this month!!

~Supplies Used~

Grace & Owen Wedding Image by Sew Many Cards

GinaK Luxury Cardstock

DCWV The Luxury Stack

Martha Stewart Heart Border Punch (I just won it in a blog candy giveaway from Stephanie and I LOVE IT!..was perfect for this card I think) 

Prima Flowers - Botanical Mix

Sentiments from Colorbox and DCWV Vellum Quote Books

Kaisercraft - Half Pearls - Yellow

SEI - Pearl Brads - Citrus

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:
Pile It On -- Make It Sweet (How "SWEET" is that Image?)
The Crazy Challenge -- Buttons, Brads & Eyelets (Brads in my Flowers) 
Simple Doodles -- Not a Spring Chick anymore (Vellum Quotes and Paper Stack are OLD)
Secret Crafter -- Friendship (Not just a husband but a friend too)
Daring Cardmakers -- Easel Card
Sentimental Sundays -- For that Special Someone (My husband is that someone Special)
Bee Crafty -- "Hole" Lotta Fun!! (Holes in my punched hearts)
Annabelle Stamps Blog -- Say it with... PEARLS (Pearls on my sentiment and my pearl brads)
Dutch Dare Card Challenge -- Easel Card w/ Repeat Something (Repeated the heart border and the flowers)
Creative Inspirations -- Easel Card 
A Spoon Full of Sugar -- Something 3D (Flowers & Sentiment is popped off card)
Creative Craft World -- Primas 
One Stitch At a Time -- Children Theme (Children Image used)

~SEW MANY CHALLENGES WK #11...SKETCH W/ MOTHER'S THEME~

Look HERE for my Friends Having Fun Challenge

We've got a new challenge for you over at Sew Many Challenges! This week we have a dual theme challenge. Using the sketch below, create a project with a Mother's theme! It could be a new mom, grandmother, mom, however you may interpret it! Be sure to check out Sew Many Cards for some awesome images to use on your challenge! You have until Thursday, 11:59PM EST to submit your project link HERE!

This is what I've come up with for this week!

Our challenge winner this week will win 3 digital stamps from

So on my card this week, I used Cammi from Sew Many Cards

I'll be sending this to my mother in law, who is a seamstress, so I think it's very fitting for her. I think she'll get a kick and a smile from it.

All the papers came from the DCWV The Crafty Stack. I used some random buttons that I had in my stash. I took some floss thread and spun it around the spool that comes with the image. The sentiment is computer generated using the Topstitch Font. I went back later and added Glossy Accents to the tips of the antennas, nose and Cammi's eyes. I used my copics to color her.

We hope you'll join us this week!! Don't forget to check out all of our DT's creations by checking out their amazing blogs, which you'll find in my left sidebar or by watching our slideshow at the top of the Sew Many Challenges Blog!

Have a great week!!

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Blog -- Stitching

Aly's Sunday Challenge -- Buttons

The Crafty Pad -- Stitching

Pile It On -- Spring (Mother's Day is spring isn't it?)

Your Next Stamp Challenge -- Stitching

Sweet Stampin Challenges -- In Stitches

Crafty Angels -- My Favorite Things (Buttons and Glossy Accents)

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges -- Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday -- Touchy Feely

Stamp Something -- Something Layered

The Crazy Challenge -- Don't Call me Flat

Meljen's Designs -- Add those 3D Elements

~SEW MANY CHALLENGES WK#8...SKETCH W/ SPRING THEME~

This weeks challenge over at Sew Many Challenges is being sponsored by the awesome companyOur challenge for you during the week of March 19 - 25 is a Sketch challenge with a Spring Theme!! You'll find the sketch below! So grab your digis or rubber stamps and get to work. As always we would love to see you use an image from Sew Many Cards! All $10 purchases made between now and April 1st will get you an entry in the Copics Giveaway Contest! All the details are HERE

What can you win this week at Sew Many Challenges? Our awesome sponsor Cornish Heritage Farms is giving the winner the three rubber stamp sets you see pictured below!! These are new release sets at that!!! I will tell you personally, they are absolutely beautiful!! Our sponsor team will be posting projects throughout the week made with these stamps. You can find them in our slideshow at the top of our challenge blog as well.
Ok so here's my card for the week. Personally I'm not feeling it. My mind has just fell asleep on me. Hopefully someone out there may find it a little purty. lol I hate when you have something visioned in your mind, and you just can't get it the way you want on paper...ugh! Anyways, I welcome everyone to take our challenge and give me much needed inspiration!!!

~SUPPLIES USED~

Sew Many Cards -- Easter Basket Freebie Image (Posted now on Sew Many Challenges)

CutCardStock.com -- Curious Iridescent Cryogen White Cardstock

DCWV -- Butterflies & Blossoms Paper Stack

DCWV -- Citrus Paper Stack

Basics by Kaisercraft -- Pearls -- Yellow

Walmart -- Easter Ribbon

CTMH -- Sander & Distresser

Smooch -- Kiwi, Molasses

Ranger Stickles -- Eucalyptus, Silver, Yellow

Ranger Distressed Stickles -- Spiced Marmalade

Ranger Liquid Pearls -- Mint Green, Pastel Raspberry

and last but not least -- COPICS

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

Crafty Catz -- Spring

Frosted Designs -- Think Spring

Fussy & Fancy -- Green

Stampin for the Weekend -- Easter

Stamp Something -- Distressed Somethings (edges and top of card)

I Love Digi -- Easter

Sassy Designs by Susie -- Easter

A Spoon Full of Sugar -- Easter

~SEW MANY CHALLENGES WK#6...FREEBIE FRIDAY AND BLOG HOP WINNER~

Lot's of news to tell you about from Sew Many Challenges and Sew Many Cards!!!! So be sure to read through so you don't miss out on any of the fun and goodies!!!!

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My random comment winner from the March New Release Blog Hop is ....

MARY C

Please contact me at Jeri@SewManyChallenges.com to claim your Baseball Bear Digital image set!!! Congrats!!

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This weeks challenge at Sew Many Challenges is ... LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS!!!

That's right. Make a project with a male theme. It can be for a young boy or an adult male!! Our generous sponsor this week, KLM Designs is offering 3 Digital images of the winners choice from the KLM Designs store!!! How awesome is that!!

I'll be back later in the weekend with my project. I'm getting over a sinus infection that ran down into my wisdom tooth, but wanted to post all the details so everyone will hurry over!!

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Don't forget our DT CALL that we have going on right now!! For all the details, email me at Jeri@SewManyChallenges.com

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Also don't forget about the great Copic Giveaway happening at Sew Many Cards. You can find the image with link in my right sidebar!

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FREEBIE FRIDAY

Click the link above or the picture below to take you to the sweet image that Sew Many Cards is offering this week! Get it before it's gone!

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SEW MANY CHALLENGES SPONSORS

A special thank you to our weekly sponsor this week...KLM Designs and our monthly sponsors, Soft Pencil and Simon Says Stamp!

KLM Digi Stamps (KLM Designs) was started by a Mother & Daughter team. Kathryn (owner of KLM Digi Stamps) and Sue (Company’s artist) started designing digital stamps for their own creations. After much response & excitement to their designs they formed KLM Digi Stamps.

KLM carry’s a large selection of designs from clowns, which are the company’s signature design to digital sentiments. All images are delivered ZIP format. Each image file contains JPEG and PNG format files. Images can be resized, reversed and altered to your likings.

"Hello everyone! my name is Elizabeth Pujalka and I´m the illustrator and designer behind Softpencil - Digital Stamps, home of Michu and his lovely friends, where you can find cute illustrations for your crafting needs.
My illustrations are a homage to the Nature and their creatures, where a sweet child, a simple flower or a fragile animal become protagonists.I invite you to know my whimsical world plenty of gorgeous characters and to enjoy creating with them!"