Hello! It's Creative Crew reveal day.

I am excited about today's post. This is the first of many "Hot Mess" posts you will see!

In this monthly challenge you will see cards or projects that will make a mess, a hot mess of work spaces, fingers, clothes and anything I touch! But from the "hot mess" comes success, a beautiful creation to share with you!

My fellow Hot Mess ~ Success crafters are Barb, Jeanette and Kelly. Make sure you visit their blogs to see their hot mess creations! All you have to do is click on their names above.

For this first challenge, I tried a technique that I have never done before using the Shaving Cream tutorial on Splitcoaststampers!

What I needed and used for my background:

• Shaving cream
• Re-inkers (I used Stampin' Up Night of Navy, Baja Breeze and Bordering Blue)
• Paper plate
• Toothpicks
• Large putty knife

I'm late for my own duel! I had good intentions, since this is my month as hostess for the Dazzlers, but life and no power happened.

This month Tami and I came up with the idea to "use what we have" and come up with our theme after looking at our stash. After some brainstorming, we came up with the unexpected theme of  Halloween in June! We both had Halloween stamps and papers, so we went with it!

In my kit to the Dazzlers was the following:

Images and sentiments: My Favorite Things “Witch Way Is The Candy?”
Papers: The Paper Studio (both DP and solids)
Enamel dots: The Paper Studio
Ribbons: from Michaels
Die cuts: A Muse fence, spider web and bats

Hello!

This duel is all about Birthdays!

Hostess for the Dazzlers is Donna and for the Divas is Judy.

I sent this to my niece Megan for her birthday, and she loved it!

Thank you for stopping by! Make sure you visit all of the dazzler and diva blogs to see what everyone else came up.

Hello!

It's the 28th and time to reveal my card for the monthly "Challenge Your Stash" group on SCS. Each month, someone is the hostess, or challenger, and comes up with a challenge for the group. This could be a sketch or a color combination or a technique or a combination of those.

May was my month and I came up with the following challenge: Use your favorite floral stamps for your focal image. You can make a card for any occasion, but make sure you focus on flowers.

Here is the card I came up with for my Mother's Day cards this year:


I used the stamp set Funky Flowers from My Favorite Things. I stamped and masked my flowers and leaves one at a time to create the bouquet. Time consuming, but worth it! Both my mom, and mother-in-law loved them, and that's what matters!

Thank you for stopping by, and thank you to those that played along this month :-)

Happy dueling day!

The Hostesses with the Mostesses this month are Debbie for the Dazzlers and Judy for the Divas.

Here is the theme they came up with for us:

Falling into new friendships!

The Dazzlers kits included the following items:

Image: My Favorite Things - Sweetest Pumpkin in the Patch

Sentiments: My Favorite Things - Sweetest Pumpkin in the Patch & Chalkboard Greetings

Embellishments:

• Leaves and Pumpkin die cuts/punches- SU! Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Cajun Craze 
• Seam Binding - SU! Always Artichoke
• Ribbon - SU! Crushed Curry
• Jute Twine - Celebrate It
• Button - SU! Brushed Bronze
• Gems - Studio 12
• Amuse Creative candy (chocolate)

Here is the card I created....I hope you like it:


Thank you for stopping by! See you at the next duel (in January)!!

Today is March 15th, time to Duel. The Dazzlers and the Divas at it again.

Hostess for the Divas was LJ and for the Dazzlers....ME!!

Here is the information I sentout to the Dazzlers along with all of the goodies to make our cards this month:

Hi Dazzlers!

March is National Umbrella Month!

We all know that when it rains, it pours so LJ and I thought we’d put together kits with an image including umbrellas.

The contents of your kit include:

Image and Sentiment: MFT - a la modes “The Rain Will Come”

Pink and Silver Dots: Craftwork Cards Candi

Ribbon: Michaels

Flowers: Martha Stewart crafts

Square Rhinestones: from my stash

DP: Paper Pizazz

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Sea salt, Coredinations Blush Red

Have fun creating….and always remember…. “True Friends Help You Weather Every Storm”!!

Terry

Here is my creation:

The Divas and Dazzlers are some of the best friends anyone could ask for. We are there for each other in good times and bad (always seems like there is more bad). I wouldn't trade that friendship for anything!

Thanks for stopping by!

Good morning and welcome to duel day! The Dueling Darlings are at it again, and hostesses April for the Dazzlers and Kadie for the Divas came up with a great St Patrick's Day theme for us.

Here is our message from April:

Hello Duelers!

What a great theme Kadie and I have for you this month!

Being that we post on the 15th, we decided to go with the obvious, St. Patrick's Day! Rather than wishing everyone luck, we would like you to somehow use the enclosed Celtic Blessing. We are indeed blessed to be part of this group!!

The kits are filled with things we hope you will enjoy using to bless another! Please, let us know of a recent RAK you have initiated or been the recipient of!

Happy creating!

I had every intention of taking a picture of the kit before I made my card, but of course I didn't. There was so much included, that I had a hard time using everything, but I tried. The kit from April included:

• 3 gold brads 
• Picture clips in white, black and brown 
• Kaiser paper flowers 
• Assorted ribbon 
• Paper: Heidi Grace Shimmer Foil Clover 
• Karen Foster Shamrocks 
• Lucky Limeade cardstock - SU! 
• Computer generated Celtic Blessing 
• Image: MFT ala mode 'Wishing You Luck"

Good morning everyone! It's the 15th of the month and time to duel!

LJ and I were hostesses this month and came up with a fun theme that everyone would enjoy. I searched the website Jeanette uses to find unusual holidays and found this:

January is "Book Blitz Month". We came up with "reading" themed kits and mailed them out to the Dazzlers and Divas to put together this months card.

The kit I sent included the following items:

Image: MFT Who's That Girl - "Well Read"
Paper - Basic Grey DP "Study Hall" - I only had one sheet, I never buy just one sheet of any paper, but I only had one sheet to split for everyone, DCWV brown solid, Fancy Pants DP "Frigid"
Accessories: CTMH Baker's Twine - Neutral Assortment brown, Buttons - Dress It Up - Lone Stars, Nailheads Metal stickers - Mark Richards from Hobby Lobby, Ribbon - brown from my stash

LJ and I also asked our teams to let everyone know who our favorite author is, or what our favorite book is and why.

Good morning everyone!

Today is November 18th, the due date of the Mystery Swap on SCS.

I was lucky enough to be the hostess this round and chose an image from MFT - Holiday Hugs Snowman.

Here is my card:


Can't wait to see the image that Jeanette has chosen for the next round!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hi everyone!

Today is the day we reveal the cards we made for the Unidentified Image Swap on SCS.

I am the hostess for this round and picked an image from MFT - Miss You a Latte. The images were sent to everyone in the swap to create cards with the papers and embellishments of their choosing. It has been so much fun opening the packages as they have been delivered to see what great creations are inside!

This is one talented group of ladies, and that is putting it mildly! Everyone has their own style and tons of creativity! I love what everyone has created so far (I am still waiting for a few packages)!

Here is my card......and since this was my very first time hostessing, I decided to make one for each and every one of the ladies! I even remembered to make one for myself!

Thanks for stopping in and looking!

I am a member of a "Mystery" swap over on SplitcoastStampers hosted by Forest Ranger (Jeanette). With the return of her last Forest Swap cards we received this "mystery image" of Fred Bear, from the MFT set Fred Bear Goes Camping. No one in the swap knew what image we were going to receive, and we were not able to post our completed cards until they were back out in the mail to everyone.

So here is my card. I hope you all like the finished product!


Image: My Favorite Things: Fred Bear Goes Camping
Paper: SU Basic Black, GP white, Smores DP Reminisce
Ink: Copics
Accessories: black grosgrain ribbon