Ghostly Gifts

Good Morning!  Just a quick post today to share with you the little gifts my daughter will be giving her classmates for Halloween.  I prefer giving pencils over candy because I figure the kids will be getting enough of that on Saturday.  I made 2 1/4 tags and used my favourite Carved and Candlelit stamp set (retired) and sentiment from my new but well used Grateful Greetings set.  I used inexpensive scraps and white paper.  I glued black tabs around the pencil first and then glued that tab between the two layers of the tag.  It took me about an hour and a bit to make 17 of them....while I was surfing ebay.  So what do you think?  I'm sure kids would rather have candy but I think parents (and teachers) will be grateful for something different.

Sweet Snow Swirls

Good morning everyone!  Hope everyone is have a fabulous week.  Mine is busy as usual but I'm managing to get some sleep :-)  Life is better when I'm getting sleep....my husband would probably agree. LOL.

Here's my take on Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  There are so many challenges out there that I have a hard time keeping track of them all.  With limited time I've had to really assess which challenges I want to participate and I usually go for the ones that inspire me the most.  Karen's tend to do that every week!  With my card I was surprised that I didn't use any ribbon or bling!  Just some dazzling diamonds on the snowflake, a few french knots, and some pretty dp.  What do you think of the french knots on the tree? Better than bling?  I added a couple strands of gold metallic floss to detract from the fact that my pink/red floss wasn't a true red? I guess I could have put some ribbon on the second panel but I always worry about over doing it.

Thanks for looking and have a super fabulous day!

Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Real Red, Wishper white, I Wish dp
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive
Accessories: Floss, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punch, dazzling diamonds, Heat and Stick powder
Stamps:  Snow Swirled

Two For One Holidays

Good Afternoon!  Hope you are having a Marvelous Monday and that you had a fantastic weekend.  I spent mine with my Mom and Sister.  And it was relatively relaxing since I only brought two of my three kids with me.  There is quite a noise level difference between two and three kids...at least that's what I've found.

Anyhow, I have two cards to share with you.  The first is for the Card Patterns Sketch #37 introduced to me by Allison at Stampin' When I Can .  It was a great way to show off the fabulous dp and matching cardstock stickers and I'm sure you're familiar with this collection.  The only thing SU! in this card is the Kraft cs.

Now from the same piece of 8.5 x 11 Kraft I had a piece left over that made a very nice 4.25 x 5 card inspired by Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #44.  I'm not really happy with the final product but it was worth a try.  I used the same dp collection and stickers plus I added some ribbon and bling.  SU! supplies include the ticket corner punch, Ruby Red ink, Ridinghood Red cs, and the sentiment is from the Snow Swirled stamp set.  At the very least I have another Christmas card completed for family and friends.

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look.  I'm so glad that you do.  Have a wonderful week!  Cheers!

Beautiful Bling

Another Good Morning to you!  Some weeks I even amaze myself by the amount I can create when I'm inspired.  How many posts this week?  5?  God has graciously blessed me with time this week. This card was inspired by two things:  the Crazy 4 Challenges Sketch and the colours from the sweater of a little girl I saw walking to school.  Now I see how artists tend to observe their surroundings to find a muse. I don't think I've ever used Garden Green before and I use Certainly Celery very infrequently but I LOVE Rich Razzleberry. I tend to stick with colours from the Rich Regals or Earth Elements.    What about you?  Do you like soft pastels, earth tones,  bright or rich?  What's your favourite colour?  (It doesn't have to be SU!, in fact I would love to be introduced to other brilliant colours.)

Paper: Garden Green, Rich Razzleberry, Certainly Celery and Very Vanilla CS

Ink:  Rich Razzleberry

Accessories:  Non SU! Buttons and Bling, SU! 5 Petal punch, small corner punch, embossing folder, dimensionals.

Stamps:  A Beautiful Thing

Rain Rain Go Away!!!!

Well this card is most appropriate for the kind of weather we are experiencing here.  It's raining Cats 'n Dogs!!!  It's raining so hard that there are puddles of water forming everywhere and that's hard to do since most of Kamloops is developed on the mountainside.  Around here you only ride your bike if you are in really really good shape.

Today's card is my interpretation of the Get Sketchy #10!  I wanted to try something a little different and was then inspired to make an umbrella from an Oval.  What do you think? I cut the oval from my old Fiskars Shape Cutter and used my SU! 1/2" circle punch to make the scallops.  I then sponged the umbrella with Bashful Blue and doodled the sentiment.  The inside is doodled with "Hope you feel better"

The embossed panels were made over a year ago when I had my craft pals Maureen and Melisa over for coffee.  Maureen was showing off her cuttlebug and I got to practice embossing on some of my scraps.  Yes Moe, it's taken me this long to use it.  Ideally, I had wanted to make something that would portray rain but I was having a hard time coming up with anything so I settled for snowflakes.  Any ideas? There's silver fibre paper and bashful blue paper in the background.

The card isn't quite as polished as I would liked but it was the follow through of the vision that I cared about the most.  I wanted to see if I could make at umbrella.  Thanks so much for taking a look and I hope I've inspired to you to follow your vision regardless of the results.  Have a fabulous Wednesday!

Sweet Sunday Wishes

Hello and Good Afternoon!  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek at my latest.  This is the card a created for Karen's recent Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  I decided to make something a little more general that will do for birthday's, congratulations, or good luck.  I wanted it to be as fun as the sketch and something that could be given to the male gender. This was my result.

This paper uses the Razzleberry Lemonade dp and Crushed curry card stock.  To give it some interest I used the tole technique for the punch up stars.  The middle star has 3 layers and the corner stars have 2.  I used a simple Best Wishes sentiment from the sincere salutations stamp set, added my last scrap of Pumpkin Pie stripped grosgrain ribbon and added a couple more stars on the left just to give the card some balance.  Unfortunately my two year old got a hold of the card after I finished taking the pictures so it all has to be redone and I have no more of that ribbon!  Oh well at least it was after the pictures were taken.

I think I achieved what I was looking for (although I don't know how men feel about purple but it will do in a pinch.  What do you think?  Hope you are all having a lovely day.  Have a terrific Tuesday.

Accessories:  Large and small star punch, 3/4 circle punch and stripped pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon.

A Sketch Girl Christmas

Good morning everyone!  Yes, I'm managing to post two days in a row and this afternoon I will have a yet another one for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #40 so please check back later.  I had a very creative and productive day on Sunday.

This is my entry for the Sketch Girl Challenge #7 .  Last week I was inspired by Ann over at Creative Antics to take part in the Challenge and at the end of it I was the lucky winner and I am patiently awaiting my parcel.  I'll share when it gets here.  Thanks ladies and thanks Ann.

So here's the deal about this card, it was the last one I made on Sunday and it was getting late.  I didn't want to pull out my stamps and I wanted to use this designer paper with the matching die cuts.  When I saw the Merry Christmas paper I realized I didn't have to stamp anything.  Nothing on this card is SU! (what kind of demonstrator am I??) In the end, I have to use what inspires me.  I just cut, punched, glued and pasted then added some bling to fancy it up a bit.  It's simple but it works and it only to 10 minutes to put together.

Hope you are all enjoying your Tuesday.  I'll hopefully be enjoying some nice warm sunny weather.  Thanks for stopping by.