Goodmorning, everyone!

It is truly a beautiful day today! Us Southern Californians are totally being spoiled lately… where else can you have lovely rain for two days and then beautiful clear skies in the 80s the next week?! Sometimes I like to think that we pay for this amazing weather (even though I know that it is just a simple blessing!).

Anyway, welcome to Pile It On #21! This week we have an awesome color challenge for you! Blue, Green and Yellow, that is! I hope that you all enjoy my card for this week’s challenge… it came together surprisingly quickly considering the fact that I never work with these colors together. My mind wandered from pastels to bright to a more warm set of colors that has a more masculine feel. Check it out!

Challenges Used:

• Pile It On: Color Challenge — Blue, Green and Yellow
• Stamps and Smiles: Sketch
• TCP Tuesday: Buttons!
• ABC Challenge: F is for Flying

Supplies Used:
Colors: Blue, Green and Yellow
Stamps: PTI Everyday Button Bits and PTI Fancy Flourishes
Accessories: Buttons, Embroidery Thread and Ribbon
Tools: Fiskars Crimper for added texture

Thanks for checking it out this week! Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Design Team’s wonderful creations! Now Im off to the pumpkin patch :)

I would like to introduce you all to a new challenge that happens every other Sunday over at Aly’s Sunday Challenge blog. This is not your ordinary sketcher that you may find out in blog-land… this is a 10 year old little girl that is quite talented in stamping and creating cards. I encourage you all to go and check out her blog and join in her challenge. Aly has some creative ideas and her sketches are well drawn (and by hand too!). I am sure that her mama is very proud and happy to have a daughter that she can share her passion with!

So to support her new challenge blog, all of us over at Pile It On are challenging you all to join in on this week’s sketch that Aly has provided (along with at least one other challenge, of course!). I sure hope you will join us in welcoming Aly to the challenge world and letting her know how wonderful her and her sketches are! Here is my card using her sketch a long with a couple other simple challenges (listed below).

My Challenges:

• Pile It On: Aly’s Sketch
• Stamp Simply: Kraft and Black Papers…
• Caardvarks: Something Fab with Ribbon



Colors: Black, Kraft and Teal
Stamps: Ashley’s Blossoms by My Cute Stamps
Accessories: Hemp, Button, Eyelets and PTI Vintage Cream Ribbon
Technique: No Sew Ribbon Pleating shown in Scrap or Dare #19

Happy Sunday! This little project is called “Bat Poop!” I created a cute topper using an adorable digital image of a bat from Soft Pencil at Etsy. Then I took a sandwich baggie and cut it in half diagonally (into a triangle). Next, I poured in a tablespoon of yummy chocolate chips, folded the baggie closed and stapled the topper on.

I have three fun nephews that I will be giving them to sometime this month when they come over for a visit. First, of all, if I had had raisons, I would have used that instead of the chocolate chips. Since I had to use the chocolate chips, I thought we could possibly make cookies or celery with peanut butter and they could sprinkle the chips on top for an added treat.

Of course, this project is for this week’s Pile It On challenge , which is to use something 3D on your project plus at least one other challenge out there in blog land. I suppose that my whole project is considered 3D, but I also popped up the cute bat using foam squares. Here are my Challenges:

• Pile It On: 3D Items
• CCEE Stampers: Digital Image
• Fun With Shapes: Halloween

Thanks for visiting!

One of my favorite sayings is “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!” It just makes me smile and laugh every time. There is a specific friend of mine that actually introduced me to that phrase, and I love her in that very way. It was her birthday and I have been working on her birthday gift… I really wanted to make her some cards that would be cute and special to their future recipients. So here they are! I am going to make a set of these three different cards and put them together in some cute packaging for her gift. I cant wait, because I know she will love them.

This week’s Pile It On challenge is to use some kind of pastry on your project. I immediately knew exactly what I would use for my “pastry.” The cupcake and stand image was a downloadable file from the Cutting Cafe, a past PIO Sponsor, called All About Cupcakes. I LOVE the cute stands in this file and was waiting for the perfect use for them! I wanted these cards to be more elegant than usual when it comes to cupcakes. I hope that I was able to achieve that! I personally think they are lovely :)

Here are all of the challenges that I used for these cards:

• Pile It On –Let them eat cake! Some kind of pastry on your project plus at least one other challenge
• Stamps and Smiles — Sketch
• Our Creative Corner – Monochromatic Cards
• One Stop Craft Challenge: Die Cuts
• Whimsy Stamps: Buttons, Buttons who’s got buttons

Welcome to Pile It On challenge #15! This week the challenge is to use Black and White with a pop of one other color (along with at least one other challenge). The fantastic Sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe! You will have a great time searching through their plentiful files of printable stamps, cutting templates, invitations, shaped cards and much more — all of this at an extremely affordable price! Also, dont forget to check out Pile It On’s Design Team Samples using some of the Cutting Cafe’s fun files!

For my cards, I used the All About Cupcakes file that includes tons of fun cupcake images for cards and other projects. Since we had to choose only one color to “pop” off of the black and white, I thought of the color that most reminds me of cupcakes — that color would be PINK! I also decided to use my 3″ Scalloped Circle Punch to create some mini cards. I simply folded a 3.5″ x 7″ piece of paper in half and punched it so that the fold was still in tact. Below are the additional Challenges that I used on this project:

Pile It On — Color Pop – Black & White with one other color
Stamp Something — Your Favorite Embellishment (PEARLS!!!)
Practical Scrappers — Basic Punches