Lucky to be a Guest DT!

Welcome to all the fans and followers of Jax Bean Stalks!

So excited to be back again this week as the guest of The Paper Nest Dolls!  If you are just joining in I will give you a little recap of last week.  I am so LUCKY to be the guest for the entire month of March!  Click HERE to view my 1st post as a guest for Christine the owner of The Paper Nest Dolls.

I had the pleasure of having The Paper Nest Dolls DT join me over on my challenge blog Party Time Tuesdays this past week.  There creations were awesome.  You can see them HERE. They are all so full of talent.  All of you (fans and followers) are so fortunate to have such fantastic inspiration on this team!

This week I couldn't resist using Christine's adorable St Patty Owen.  I am an Irish girl, so I just fell in love with him.  

Speaking of Copics...Have you entered The Paper Nest Dolls contest to win Copics?  I mean it's COPICS!!!  

Enter HERE.

Image: The Paper Nest Dolls

Paper: The Robins Nest

Copics

A Sweet St Patrick's Day Greeting

Greeting fellow stampers!  Hope everyone had a great weekend...and Monday!  Today I am featuring a darling stamp duo from Sweet Stamps.  It is a nice Irish Blessing with a matching Shamrock.  I stamped both images using Memento Ink. 

Memento-Rick Cocoa

Memento-Cottage Ivy

Coved Rectangle-Scalloped Die

Cutting Plate for Big Shot

Close up of the adorable Shamrock

 Hope you can all join our challenge HERE.  Our Theme is...St Patrick's Day.  We will be giving away free stamps!  You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a Sweet Stamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! 

Challenges I have entered:

D.R.S. Designs-Use a tag 

Moving Along With The Times-Lots of Layers

House Of Gilli-Green

Party Time Tuesdays#7 + Baby Bud Designs + The Cutting Cafe

Wow I wonder if I could fit any more of my DT's into 1 card!!!  LOL!!!  I just love all of them so much, that it makes it easy to combined! 
This week over on my challenge blog, Party Time Tuesdays, I challenge my DT to make an easel card, use our talented sketch designer Stacy Koo's sketch and make sure there is a shamrock somewhere on the card.  They did great!  You should go check out there fabulous cards HERE.

We have fabulous prizes this week.  For the entry who has the most Irish card, you will win a $20 online credit to Circle B.  Baby Bud Designs is giving a way a couple of their adorable images too.  Our monthly sponsor is Twosdays Techniques.

Here is my take on the easel card, sketch + shamrocks:

Paper: Digital from The Cutting Cafe Here
Digi: Baby Bud Designs: Beatrice Here
Stamp: Michaels
Extras: Shamrocks from The Cutting Cafe HERE, Ribbon, button.

Don't forget Baby Buds Designs is having a "Ribbon & Bows" challenge HERE.

Creative Clear Stamps: Catch of the Day

Today at Party Time Tuesdays there is a fun new Challenge!  This week we have Baby Bud Designs(3 Digis), Twosdays Techniques(chance for a 6 month membership) and Circle B Enterprises($20 online store credit).  Join the Party HERE.

Now for my Creative Clear Stamps KUDOS card.  I used the Hooked on Fishing Set to create this cute little card to give a co-worker or special friend.  Hope you are inspired to think outside the box.  Have a Lucky Day and thanks for visiting!

Paper: Scrap of DCWV
Stamp: Creative Clear
Extras: Prima Flowers, Ribbon, K & Co Brad

Paper Cupcake-Magical Mondays: Monochromatic

Good Morning/Afternoon-depending what time zone you are in!  I am LATE on my post today...I had a busy week/weekend.  Last week my sister came in from FL for my Dad's 60th.  We had too much fun.  So, needless to say I have a mound of laundry and tons of catching up on my blog.  Thanks for understanding the lack of posts last week. 

I am so excited to announce that I have been choosen as one of the DT members at Paper Cupcakes.  I really love Nina's Digis.  They are very unique and she also has some really great childrens images too. 

It is Magical Monday Challenge over at the Paper Cupcake blog: There's Magic In The Air.  So please come and visit...maybe even play along.  It is Monochromatic....I love this one!  The prize is two digis from the Paper Cupcake store.  Can't beat that! 

Here is my Monochromatic Friend card:

Thanks for visiting!

Paper: DCWV

Digi: Shamrock Latte

Sentiment: google

Extras: Ribbon, Prima Flower, Pearl

Challenges I have entered:

shellysimagesblog-St Patties or Something Green

paperprettiesblog-Ribbon

simonsaysstampschallenge-Anything Goes

alyssundaychallenge-Anything Goes

lilredwagon-St. Patricks Day Green

paperplaychallenges-Green

pennyschallenges-Green
ecpchallenges- Green
stampinsanity-Holy Guacamole
pattiescreationschallenge-Go Green
deliciousdoodleschallenge-St Patricks Day Green

stampinroyalty-St Patricks Green

littleclairesdesigns-Flowers

allsortschallenge-Luck of the Irish

sewmanychallenges-Irish

Party Time Tuesdays PTT#6: St. Patricks Theme + A Box

Good Morning !  Hope you are having an awesome week!  I Love this month!  We are so lucky to have March Madness over at the Party Time Tuesdays blog.  This week we have Lisa Tedder showing us how to make cute little boxes for special gifts and Stamp Fairy provided the Party Planners with adorable images to use on our boxes.  Stamp Fairy is giving away some  digis on the PTT blog for our winner!  Hope you can come and PARTY with us this week!

Paper: K& Co with The Cutting Cafe Shamrock background printed over top.
Digis: Stamp Fairy, The Cutting Cafe: Clover Background, ST. PATRICKS DAY PRINTABLE STAMP SET,

Ink: Memento, Copics
Extras: Brads, Ribbon, Glitter mist

**Lucky Irish Giveaway Winner**

The winner of the cute shamrock set from The Cutting Cafe is:

Congratulations Tammy!!

Commet #4 Tammy: "Fun card Very Irish!" 

Thanks for commenting Tammy!  I will get your information from you....you will receive the set that I used to made the shamrock card. 

PTT#3-Sketchy Tuesdays

Well its Sunday already....but at least we have one more day of crafting!  Who doesn't love 3 day weekends.  It is already mid-morning here in Colorado and I need to get to my crafting room to get started.  I really like getting all my crafting done for the week on Sundays.  This way if I find a fun challenge during the week, I have all my DT requirements finished...and then I can participate.  Do any of you like working ahead? 

Today I have an Irish Blessing card...I am Irish and I just love all the beautiful Irish themed blessing there are to be found. This week at my challenge blog: Party Time Tuesdays, we have a sketch by our fabulous sketch artist Stacy Koo. There is 2 more day to enter and we have Circle B sponsoring the challenge. She is giving away a $20 credit to her fun crafting store. Hope you can find the time to enter!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you have a wonderful day!

Paper: DCWV-Mariposa

Digi's- Sara Paris- Butterfly garden stamps

Stamps: Inkadinkado-Dot Flourishes

Ink-Memento, Versamark

Sentiment-Irish blessing Author unknown

Extras: Flower-Prima, Ribbon, embossing powder

Challenges I have entered:

abc-challenge-O is for oldfashioned

delightfulsketches- Animals

digistamps4joy- Going Sentimental

littleclairesdesigns-Anything Goes

allsortschallenge- Inspired by Nature

doitwithdigischallenge- Distress it

Luck of the Irish GIVEAWAY!!! **BLOG CANDY**

I am really excited this morning. I have this really cute card I made from this amazing set from The Cutting Café. I just love shamrocks. St. Patty’s day is such a fun and festive day. I can already smell the Guinness Stew…Which I will give my secret recipe away if you leave a comment with contact info. It is really an easy recipe!

Now here is what I am really excited about…Love this card??? Well, it can be YOURS…not the card but the set!!! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post. You have till February 18th at 11:59pm MTN. Please be sure to comment on The Cutting Café blog as well….You will have the chance to win 3 sets there. Also…do you what another chances to win??? Go to the “Design Team Page” on The Cutting Café’s site and if you go to each individual member’s blog, they too will be giving away sets that they have featured on their blogs. So ultimately that is 26 ways to win!!!! Good LUCK (of the Irish!)!!

Paper: Paper Studio

Digi: The Cutting Cafe-This 4 LEAF CLOVER SHAPED CARD template - cutting file comes with 2 circle words...each circle word with punch out using a 1.5 inch circle punch..the file also comes with a matching envelope....the 4 leaf clover shaped card is approx. 5 by 4 inches...The file comes in the follow formats: WPC, PDF & SVG

Extras: Brad-recollections, copics

Remember to be eligible to win.  You have to leave a comment here with contact information.  If I draw your name and there is no contact info...then I will move on to the next winner!  Thanks so much for stopping by and playing along with my giveaway!