Pile It On! Challenge - Something Old, Something New & Something Blue

It's time for a fun new Pile It On! Challenge...where the theme this fortnight is:

'Something Old, Something New & Something Blue'

Our sponsor this month is Eureka Stamps:

Prize - 2 Digi Stamps of the Winner's Choice!

My somethings are:
Something Old - the papers
Something New - the Stamps
Something Blue - some of the papers

This sweet hot air balloon is from the 'Patch a Flight' set by Woodware...I stamped it directly on to my card blank, then paper pieced it using snippets of papers from the 'Hello Today' pad by Heidi Swapp and the 'Yours Truly' pad by Pebbles Inc. The little sentiment, heart & bird stamps are from the same stamp set.

Here are the challenges I've piled on:

• Pile It On! - Something Old, Something New & Something Blue (The papers, the stamps & the paper)
• C.R.A.F.T. - Inspired by a Film (Up!)
• Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
• Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
• Gem of a Challenge - Love & Romance
• Hiding in my Craft Room - Super Scraps
• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
• Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets
• Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the Pile It On! Challenge.

Toadily Happy!

I picked up a cute Penny Black stamp set called 'Toadily' at a charity shop yesterday...and used it last night to make this riverside scene card. I stamped the frogs on a snippet of white card, then fussy cut them out. I used papers from various pads to create the scene - a whole piece from the 'Hello Today' pad by Heidi Swapp for the sky, and snippets of brown (from the 'North Country' pad by Prima) and blue (from the 'Blue Floral' by My Minds Eye) for the river bank and water. I used one of my Lawn Fawn 'Grassy Edges' dies to cut the grass from a snippet of green card and my Memory Box 'Puffy Clouds' dies to cut the clouds from a snippet of white card. I stamped some bees (from the same stamp set) on to the 'sky' then added my frogs popped up on 3D foam pads...I doodled some ripples and water droplets...then added their 'eyebrows' that I'd cut off! The sentiment is also from the same stamp set.

Challenges for this card:

• Addicted to Stamps - Die Cuts
• Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
• Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
• Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
• One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes
• Penny Black & More - Stamp & Die
• Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes