Progressive Freebie Challenge: June 2023

Good morning!

A new Progressive Freebie Challenge has started at The Outlawz Challenges located HERE. I am a tad late getting this posted, but there is still plenty of time to play along as the challenge will run for one month ending on June 30, 2023

If you are not playing along and wish to join the rules are very simple:

You need to be a member of The Outlawz Challenge Facebook Fan Page and you will need to send us an email to outlawzprogressivechallenge@gmx.com. We’ll send you the image. All you have to do is enter a card/project made with the image supplied before the challenges closes on the last day of the month and you will automatically get the next image. If for any reason you don’t get your project made and you would like to rejoin us, contact us and we will let you know how to jump back in. And as long as you enter before the end of the month you will get the next one free and you will then get them automatically each month you enter a project.

This month’s we have a stunning image from Sandra to create with!

I opted to stay with a mostly achromatic card of black, shades of gray & white but I did add a bit of gold to the eye to make them stand out a bt

Supplies for 5 x 7 card

• Image printed on Hammermill color copy
• Card candy from my stash
• Dies from Sizzix (Classic circles)
• Embossing folder from Spellbinders (Blistered) & Stampin up! (Subtle)
• Ink from Tsuneko
• Sentiment from Close to My Heart (Short & Sweet Sentiments)

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(Hugs) Cara

Great Guy ...

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), "Drift Wood, A Collection of Essays: Table-Talk," Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1857

Good morning,

I had some scraps laying on my worktable and decided to see what I could do with them and now I am sharing my masculine card with you!

Supplies: 4.25 x 5.50

• Brad from Stampin Up!
• Cardstock from Pen & Gear (Base) and scraps
• Circle punch from Marvy
• Scallop border die from A-muse Studios
• Sentiment from Unity Stamps
• Silver Liquid Silk from Fun Stampers Journey
• Sizzlet die “Little Leaves” from Stampin Up1
• Tag punch from Stampin Up!
• Sketch used Cardabilities #126

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Man of the Moment ...

The secret of success chiefly lies in the determination to succeed and the resolve that every repulse, every knock-down he receives in the battle, will only nerve him the more. ~Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)

Good morning,
Today I am sharing a card I made for my husband to celebrate a personal milestone!

Supplies

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio
• Image & Sentiment from Unity Stamps (The Fan{tache}tic Bearded Man
• Ink from Stampin Up! & Ranger Archival
• Silver card candy from my stash
• Stencil from Stampers Anonymous (TH Speckles)

CHALLENGES ENTERED

SIMON SAYS CHALLENGE

Anything Goes

Entry 68

THE THREE MUSES

Masculine

PENNY'S PAPER CRAFTY CHALLENGE

Anything Goes

Entry 15

CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS CHALLENGE

January, Anything Goes

Entry 186

LOVE TO SCRAP CHALLENGE BLOG

January - Anything Goes #153

Entry 141

The Outlawz Crash your Stash Challenge: Glossy Cardstock

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

~ Jim Valvano

Good morning!

We have a new Crash your Stash Challenge starting at The Outlawz Challenges and our Sponsor this month is KLM Digital Designs

Our cue this month is Glossy Cardstock

For this card, I used a bit of alcohol on a cotton ball. Added a couple drops of ink from a re-inker bottle and start tapping and dabbing until I had something I liked.

Supplies:

• Image printed on Stampin Up! whisper white card stock
• Card Candy from my stash
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Cotton ball
• India Ink from Memories
• Isopropyl Alcohol
• Re-inker from Stampin Up!
• Sentiment from Halo Rubber Stamps
• Water color crayons from Stampin Up!

Now come on over to The Outlawz Challenges to play along with us or one of the other challenges that are always in process!
(Hugs) Cara

Day 20, Phoenix Paper Crafters Create Daily Challenge

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown

Today is day 20 of the Phoenix Paper Crafters Create Daily Challenge located HERE .

This card started out with a “Miss you” sentiment but I never used so it has been sitting in my card file for several years. With the Create Daily Challenge I figure now was a good time to change it up so I would use it!

This card always felt masculine to me so I changed out the sentiment to Happy Father’s Day. I also decided a bit of color would go a long way to brightening it up so I used some yellow nuvo drops here and there. I didn’t even think about the ink being water based and the Nuvo drops re-activated it causing the color to change from yellow to a reddish orange in a few areas. While unintentional I do really like how it looks.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara

Father's Day Card .

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton

Good morning

Today I am sharing the Fathers Day card I made for my Husbands Dad.

• Button die from Stampin Up!
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio 8 Stampin Up!
• DP from scrap bin
• Embossing folder “Diamonds” from Sizzix
• Ink from Stampin Up!
• Stamp from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Anything but Average ...

The truth is maybe we are just average. But the way I see it — families where parents get up every morning and go to jobs that are hard so they can get their kids through school and through life, and struggle to make it all work and manage to do it with dignity and a little humor — well, that's not average. That's extraordinary. ~DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler, The Middle, "Average Rules" (S1, E24, original airdate 2010 May 19th), spoken by the character Frankie Heck

Good morning,

Today I am sharing the Father's Day card I made for my Husband of 30plus years.  We have two grown kids and I think between the two of us, we did a pretty good job of raising two decent human beings.

The layout was lifted from a Fun Stamper Journey card map.

Supplies

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!
• EF “Foundry” from Sizzix
• Gears are a die set from Sizzix
• Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil
• Silver card candy from my Stash
• Silver Silk from Fun Stampers Journey

Thanks for Stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Unsung Fathers ...

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. - Billy Graham

Good morning, 

Today I am sharing the card I made my stepfather-in-law. A good man and a good father to those not his own.

Layout from PageMaps

• Cardstock from the Paper Studio and Stampin Up!
• Design Paper from Stampin up!
• Embossing folder from Wedding Suite by Cuttlebug
• Glitter tape from Close to My Heart
• Heart die from Crafters Companion
• Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

I call him Dad ...

The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad!

~Author Unknown

Good morning! 

Today is March 1^st and the start of a new Progressive Freebie Challenge at The Outlawz Challenges.

Each month we send you a free digital image to use in the Freebie/Progressive challenge. Once your creation is completed, upload it into the freebie challenge and you will automatically receive the next month free digi.  We will have one image per month so you have plenty of time to create a project using the image.

If you would like to participate, please register with your name and email address to: outlawzprogressivechallenge@gmx.com

This month we have this cute image “Catch of the Day” from Anne Fenton. 

I felt this image was perfect for making a Father’s Day card for my Step-Father-in-Law. The layout is based Sweet Sunday Sketch SSS264

Supplies

• Image printed on Stampin Up! Whisper White and colored with Copics & ProMarkers
• Cardstock: Stampin Up
• Dies: Spellbinders “Labels 4”
• Ink: Stampin Up! and Memories India Ink
• Nuvo Glitter Drops
• Sentiment: Stampin Up! “Best Dad Ever!”
• Stash: Design Papers, Rhinestones
• Stencils: Stampers Anonymous (TH) “Rays” and “Speckles”, Birds are from a stencil I created with dies an Xpress it Stencil Sheets.

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by The Outlawz Challenges where a new challenge starts every day of the week!

(Hugs) Cara

Fathers Big & Small ...

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

Hi There

My Father-in-Laws birthday is today and here is the card I made for him...

5 x 7 card based on Cardabilities sketch 36

Supplies

Card stock used for base from The Paper Studio

Die: "Birch Tree" from Taylored Expressions

Die: Cross-stitched Ovals from Gina Marie Designs

Image from Biblical Impressions colored with Alcohol markers

Ink from Close to My Heart and Stampin Up!

Kraft card stock and black ripple strip from my stash

White cards stock from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Thanking Dad ...

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Good morning!

A new color challenge starts today at The Outlawz

Our Sponsor this month is Raspberry Road Designs with a $10.00 GC

I picked the challenge this week and the colors are Turquoise, Gold and Black with an optional Masculine Twist.

 

I hope you come check out the site and play along with us.

Here is my 5 x 7  card based on The Deconstructed Sketch #84 and created for my Father-in-Law.

SUPPLIES

Black ink from Palette

Black rippled strip from my stash

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Design paper from The Angel Company

Die "Dad" from Cottage Cutz

Embossing folders "Crackle" from Darice and "Swiss Dots" from Provocraft

Image from Biblical Impressions

Rain Dots from Cloud 9 Designs

Sentiment from The Angel Company

Thanks for stopping by!

(HUGS) Cara

No man stands so straight ...

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras

Good morning

I made this card for my Step Father-in-Law.

An awesome man and father!

Supplies

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Bazzill

DP from DCWV

Image from "Sky is the Limit" by Stampin Up!

Sentiment from "Teeny Tiny Wishes" by Stampin Up!

Dies: Clouds 1 & 2 from Papertrey Inc

Dies: Sunny Days from Spellbinders

Dies: Sunburst from Gina Marie Designs

Palette Ink

To my Husband for Father's Day

To my Husband for Father's Day.

I could not have wished for a better Father to our children.

Thank you for being here and being an active part of their lives.

Suppliesuns

Card pattern #30

Sentiment from "Best Dad Ever" from Stampin Up!

Background image "Antique Ocean Map" from Rubberneckers Rubber Co.

Ship and Nautical Compass images are unknown

Cardstock from The Paper Studio & Bazzill

Copics

Ink from Stampin Up!

A Day at the Beach ...

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Good morning!

Today is Tuesday and that means a new color challenge has started at The Outlawz.

This month our sponsor is Pickled Potpourri and today I am using their image Day at the Beach.

This image is perfect for a card for my Father-in-Law who winters in Florida.

Our challenge this week is tic-tac-toe and I am using Black, Brown, White, Die cuts and Ribbon

card size is 5 x 7

Supplies:

Digi image: A Day at the Beach by Pickled Potpourri

Colored with Copics and Prisma Color Pencils

Clouds created using stencil and ink from Stampin Up!

Sentiment from "Best Dad Ever" by Stampin Up!

Die: "Curved Rectangles" by Spellbinder

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Ribbon from my stash

Thanks for stopping by and if you want to play along at The Outlawz ... just click HERE

(Hugs) Cara

I have entered this card into the following Challenge(s)

Crafty Sentiments Designs: Summer Challenge

Crafting from the Heart: Anything Goes #116

Craft you Passions: Anything Goes #316

City Crafter Challenge: #316 Lets go to the Beach

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge: Week 24, Just for Men

Father's Day for Barry

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Good morning!

Here is another Father's Day card. This one was made for my husband's Dad ... Barry

I stamped the stag head, fussy cut and attached with small bits of foam.

Supplies

Cardstock: Stampin Up!, The Paper Studio & Bazzill

Embossing folder "Forest branches" from Cuttlebug

Image "Stag Head: from Biblical Impressions

Sentiment "Best Dad Ever" from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Entered into the following challenges

UNIKO - Anything goes with a masculine twist

Best Dad Evah!

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown

Good morning!

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! It was hotter than ... well, let's just say it was really really hot this weekend and I have a nasty little sunburn to prove it! Even though I slathered myself in sunscreen.

Anyway, my husband had to work over the Father's day so we will be celebrating tonight when he gets home from work.

Here is the card I made for him. 

Supplies

Cardstock from my stash

DP strips from my stash

Button from my stash

Twine from my stash

Sentiment "Best Dad Ever" from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Submitted to the  following challenges

Uniko - Anything goes with a masculine twist

Fathers day #2

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.

M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

This card is for my husband's father.

Size 5 x 7

SUPPLIES

card stock, sentiment, tag punch & ink from Stampin Up!

Card base, DP, flower & brad from stash

Sketch from Sketch Saturday

Image from Biblical Impressions

Oval dies from Sizzix

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara

Fathers Day

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

My husband is a lucky man.

He has a step father who embraced two children not of his making and loves them as his own.

Size 5 x 7

SUPPLIES

Card stock, image (Lovely as a Tree), Sentiment (Best Dad Ever) and ink from Stampin Up!

Card base from stash

Embossing folder "Woodgrain" from Sizzix

Sketch #230 from Sketch Saturday

Leaves are craft buttons from stash

Fatherings ...

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.

I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joyce Maynard

I made this card for my husband for Father's Day.

I used this adorable Digi: Mustached kitty from Tam Hess @ Cardmaking Artist and an old sketch from Whiff Of Joy.The nice thing about sketches is that they are not only a great way to encourage yourself to try a new design or push your personal comfort zone but also use up those bits and pieces left over from other projects.

Size 5 x 7

OTHER SUPPLIES

Card stock from Stampin Up! & Bazzill

Ink (for nose & ears), sentiment & Button die from Stampin Up

DP (used for kitty body) from DCWV

Border punch from EK Success

Embossing folder "Brick wall" from Darice

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Pixie's Snippet Playground - Week 129

613 Avenue Create
Anything Goes

Crafting from the Heart
Anything Goes

Hiding in my Craft Room
HIMCR #153 - Super Scraps Saturday!

The Pinque Peacock Challenge #6
Anything Goes

Clipper Ship Fathers Day

***EDIT 6-2-13*** SplitCoastStampers has a forum for people to submit their weekly favorites. For the week ending 6-8-13 Mothers Daughter added my card as one of her all time weekly favorites - I was nicely surprised and appreciative!

5-11-13 Paper ala Mode
Ok then ... the challenge is to use a boat!

This will be a card for one of my father-in-laws... Since I make the cards, My husband gets to pick who gets what! fair is fair right? lol

Products from Stampin Up! are The clipper ship stamp from Ships Ahoy, the black & the brown card stock and the word window.

The DP is called Romantic Stripes from Bo Bunny Press

The sentiment is from The Angel Company
The brads and the cardstock the ship & sentiment are on came from my stash.

I kinda - somewhat- sorta followed - used a sketch from Card Patterns