On the Simon Says Stamp blog I saw a pretty card made by Yana Smakula that was just sooo pretty.

I had the Hello Beautiful stamp from the February 2016 card kit.  I did not have the floral stamp set, but since this week’s SSS challenge was patterned paper I thought I would make it with pattern paper instead.  Oh by the way, I did order the stamp because it is sooo beautiful.  I cannot wait to make flower clusters.

I choose 5 different pattern papers with 5 different cardstock colors.  All different, but all beautiful.

The flower print with Navy!

The vintage roses pattern with pink.

The Fruits and Flowers with coral.

Finally the small flower print with pine green.

Thanks Yana for the inspiration!

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Well I had fun doing the Camp Create by My Favorite Things!  They are such an awesome company.  They do so many things RIGHT and the customers like me, know it!!!!

Here is the badge guide and I did each of the five cards!!!!   I love looking at what everyone created.  So many different styles!  Love them all.

Thank for looking at my creations!  And THANK YOU My Favorite Things for bringing us this awesome summer challenge!!!

Final day of camp and I am jazzed with my final card.   When I saw the designers rainbow card, I kept thinking how would this tie into my camping theme.  I remember camping as a kid laying in my cot, looking at the stars and dreaming.  So I knew it had to be a card with the stars.  My Dad worked for JPL and worked on many of the Space Missions plus he loved to take us camping!  This card is for you Dad!

I resisted buying the “Out of This World” stamp and die set, but I kept seeing great cards made from the set.  I bit the bullet and bought it.  So glad I did.   Loving these goofy aliens.

Here is the adorable shaker card.  I used the die of the spaceship as the “see thru to the back window”.  I was afraid that you would not be able to tell it was a spaceship, but no worries it came out fine.  I was a bit sloppy in the tape runner on the inside (which I am not showing you – LOL), but I think if I do this again, I know what to expect.   I am really LOVING this card.

I clearly earned my badge!   So I hope I win the $150 but will be happy for whoever wins because if they did all the cards, they deserve it!!!!

Thanks for looking at my creation!!!!

For this card I wanted to do layers of a forest with the different animals on different layers.

From this angle it is hard to see the different levels of the card.  But the hedgehog is the upper level, then the moose and the background is the owl.    I used that October Afternoon Campfire paper for this card.  Soooo cute.   I did do the partial die cutting technique on this card but it sure looks like I just glued the image on.

I was hoping you could see the layers better from this angle.

I earned my badge on die cutting!

Also posted on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Animal Magic

I had to think long and hard about this one.  I was not sure what to watercolor that looked like Camping.   I finally decided to paint the bear with the fish.

Again I used that cute Outdoors paper by Carta Bella

I tied some twine at the top and then “hooked” a fish onto the twine.  I thought it came out cute.   He has such a sweet smile on his face.  Got to love this fishing bear.

I earned my Water Color Badge

I also posted in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Animal Magic

To continue the theme of camping, I made a slider with a cute fox sliding over to the bonfire to roast his marshmallow.  Too Cute.   I used the new Slider dies from My Favorite Things.  Sadly they ran out of slider discs when I placed my order.  Maybe next month.

I thought this card came out cute.  I used some of that new Outdoors Carta Bella paper.   I love it.

Here is a close-up of the slider.

He is just cute!!!!   Slide on over here you Foxy thing!!!!!

Here is my hard earned badge for sliders!!!!

Thanks for looking!

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I am so excited to play along with My Favorite Things and their Camp Create!  I LOVE the camping theme and decided for each card everyday I would only stick to camping themes.   I have some wicked cool outdoor paper from Carta Bella and from October Afternoon.

Boy did I struggle with this card.  I first copic colored the tent and the fire and then masked them.  Then I used distress inks on the card and then no matter how long I waited, the darn card would not dry.  I used a heat gun, I waited…and waited.  Heat gun again.  ugh!  Everytime I put embossing powder on it stuck to the entire card.    Finally with a paint brush and some determination I was able to finish.   I did not have that wonderful Elizabeth Crafts double sided adhesive, nor her glitter.  So I had to make do with what I had.   It was very hard to get the smaller stars to stick to the never drying damp paper.  Glitter everywhere and a damp card.  Sort of like camping, a damp tent and smoke everywhere.   Welcome to Camp Create!!!!  LOL

But I finished and earned my badge!!!  Whooo Hoooo!

Thanks for Looking!!!!

Oh my lucky stars!!!!  I just saw this on the My Favorite Things blog.  There are having a week long “Camp” for card makers.   I am so jazzed.  I do not know if it is because I was once a brownie who earned badges.  But the idea of earning a BADGE for making a card and the potential chance of winning prizes!   Whoooo Hoooo!

This week as a Camp Create camper, you have three ways to win:

• To be eligible to win a $25 voucher: Participate in today’s craft and upload an image via InLinkz on today’s post. Winners will be chosen randomly from the InLinkz entries.
• To be eligible to win a $15 voucher: Subscribe to our MFTv channel on YouTube and comment on today’s video. Winners will be chosen randomly from comments on the YouTube video and announced in the MFTv episode that will air on Monday, June 27th.
• To be eligible to win the $150 Grand Prize: Earn all five badges for the week by participating in each craft presented this week (via the InLinkz on each blog post). One random winner will be chosen for the week!

I am already one day behind….but as Douglas Adams quote goes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Check back later for my first badge worthy card!!!!

Some nice woman posted a comment on my blog about my last set of cards and told me about this website and their challenge inspired by God’s Word.

I like that they have a clean approach to cards and crafts that embrace their love of Jesus into their creative works of art.    They also provide a free scripture word art that you can use in your cards.  They do not require that you use it, but as a good citizen of supporting bloggers and blog sites, I decided to make a card using this challenges word art.  See below for the image.

So I jumped into making this card and it was not until I had finished  that I realized that it probably would have been better on a masculine style card!  Opps.

Nevertheless, I was just into the creative moment.

I decided that I wanted to use my Minc foiling machine and made the words in green foil.  You can see it better here.

We all make mistakes.  I had accidently let the paper touch some water colors I had out on my desk.  So I had to place the leaves just in the perfect place to hide the yellow paint.  You cannot tell there is a boo boo there.

Next time I will pay more attention to the quote and make it more appropriate for the occasion.

Thanks for looking at my site!  I truly appreciate it!!!!

I recently bought the new Lawn Fawn Dad and Me stamp set because I could not resist those cute bears and mooses.  Moose.  Mooses…Meece.   Not sure what the plural of Moose is.

I also purchase the Carta Bella Outdoors 6×6 paper pad.  The two are a match made in heaven.

I made a total of 4 cards and I love them all!

I love the small strip of campers over the map.  I think my Moose moved off the card as he was centered in the circle.  Opps, runaway Moose.

I put a little fish in the moose’s mouth.  I love this paper with the little stream of water.

This is my favorite card of the four I made.  Not sure if it was the silly hat the bear was wearing or the amazing scene.   So cute!!!!

This was my least favorite.  I think the mountains look too small.  But I love the paper.  It looks like a meadow.

For all the critters I used copics.   The inks I used were Lawn Fawn.

Please note:  No Animals were hurt during the card making.  No selfies were taken.  Respect Wildlife!!!

Thanks for looking!

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