Anniversary wishes

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Today I've got an anniversary card to show you.   Anniversary cards usually take me quite a long time in comparison to other cards because I want them to be really special.  This one was made a little quicker so it leaves a little bit to be desired IMO.  :/   {I do think the mushy stuff I wrote on the inside to my hubby made up for it!! :) }

Supplies...
~DRS "Song in My Heart Greeting" (I actually used a rubber stamp and not a digi!!)
~AC "Lucky Charm" DP
~Spellbinders Postage Stamp die
~TH "tea dye" ink
~CB Love Language EF
~Brown natural ribbon, button, and baker's twine

Challenges...
Twisted Tuesday #2TC83 - Chevron + ribbon [This is their last challenge :( ]
Shopping Our Stash #166 - A, B, Cs [A-anniversary, B-button, C-Cuttlebug folder -that may be stretching it too much! ;) ]
Word Art Wednesday #146 - anything goes w/ Scripture or uplifting sentiment
Sister Act #71 - anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a blessed day!!

Christmas Greetings!

I know many challenges had "Christmas in July," but since I missed most of them, I'm making my own "Christmas in August"!  LOL

On our trip to England last fall, I loved seeing the phone boxes and the postboxes!  When I saw this image at Delicious Doodles, I had to have it!! 

Supplies...
~Delicious Doodles Snowy Postbox
~Spectrum Noir markers
~My Craft Spot "Joy to the World" sentiment
~Spellbinders Circles and Scalloped Circles
~sparkle gel pen

I added a bit of sparkle to the snow

Challenges...
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Air mail
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #107 - clean & simple
jingle belles JB:13:16 - "Home for the Holidays"
Twisted Tuesday 2TC56 - Christmas + CAS

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Are you in your craft room today??

Are you crafting?  You should be!!  Did you know that  today is National Scrapbooking Day??!!??  Or maybe you are shopping finding all the deals of the day!

Clearly Digi Stamps (Clear Dollar Stamps) is having 4 challenges today on their blog... Clearly iStamp! 

This card fits challenge #2 for the day... balloons!

For this challenge, we did not have to use a CDS stamp, but my sentiment is from CDS.  It is from the Lifting You Up digi set.  I did have some of the balloons from that set printed but not colored, so I grabbed this precolored digi since it was faster. :)  This balloon is from  Love Lifts You (color) from  Imagine That! ...digis by Kris.

 Other challenges for this card...
CAS-ology week 42 - care
Word Art Wednesday #78 - anything goes
Celebrate the Occasion #110 - anything goes
Twisted Tuesday 2TC49 - free for all
Simon Says Stamp - "happy mail"  (knowing someone is praying for me would make me happy!)

Thanks for stopping by!!  Now I'm off to create some more! :)

Another teenager!!

Tomorrow, my daughter turns 13!   I'll have 3 teenage girls in the house!   I'd better get in the bathroom while I can!!  LOL  Not really.  She is not a girly girl and would rather think about horses than hair and nails, etc.  

Here is the card I made her...

I used...
~Doodle Pantry Western Combo Images KIT
~cowgirl DP from ???
~sentiment from My Pink Stamper "Family and Friends" set
~Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes embossing folder 
~Spellbinders Circles and Scalloped Circles
~Paper Studio button brads
~ribbons, button, and hemp from stash
~Cutter Bee Piercing Bug
~MS marker

Challenges...
Clear It Out - birthday card with 2 or more ribbons
The Cuttlebug Spot - "Cute as a Button"
Twisted Tuesday 2TC44 - Paper piercing with brads or buttons
Sweet n Sassy SNSDC93 - for a child

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!!!

Love hearts and a bear

Here's a Valentine that will probably be for one of my kids.  When they were little they would give Valentine's to just a few friends (we home school so they never had classmates to give to), but Valentine's Day has never been a huge deal for us.  Sometimes I get some roses! :)
Since I started making cards, I have to make Valentine cards for challenges, so my kids now get a card!! :)  I imagine this one will go to one of the girls rather than my son!!

Paper Pretties ConBEARsation Hearts digi

Isn't he cute??

Challenges...
Sweet Sketch Wednesday #191 - sketch
Paper Pretties PWC243 - square card
Shopping Our Stash #87 - Love, Valentine's, Red, Hearts, etc!
Crafter's Companion Feb challenge - love is in the air (I used a Darice "Dot Background" embossing folder and SN markers)
Spectrum Noir challenge - love
Twisted Tuesday 2TC42 - free for all (my 3rd entry in this one)


Supplies...
~Treasures Kraft CS
~Cutmates Cotton Candy CS
~Fancy Pants Love Story DP
~CM square punch
~Spellbinders Postage Stamp
~Paper Pretties ConBEARsation Hearts digi
~Spectrum Noir markers
~Darice Dot Background embossing folder
~ribbon from my "short piece" box

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Christmas thank you

I had a moment of panic --actually more like several hours of panic-- this week.  I'm ashamed to admit that I am just now writing my Christmas "thank you"s to church folk. *red face*
I'd put it off tooooo long, so I got the thank you cards I had made, grabbed a nice pen, was all ready to write, and then could NOT find my list!!!  What if I forgot someone?????  Thankfully, I eventually did find the list but then realized I needed a couple more cards, so I made some including this one....

Supplies...
~MME Sweater Weather DP (I just LOVE this 6x6 pad!!!!!)
~PTI sentiment
~Spellbinders Ovals and Scalloped Ovals
~AC ribbon
~white gel pen
~buttons and hemp cord from my stash

Challenges...
The Sweet Stop: SS195 - sketch
Sentimental Sundays #139 - thank you
Die Cuttin Divas #100 - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - anything goes
Twisted Tuesday 2TC42 - "free for all" anything goes (my second entry here)
Merry Monday #47 - tic tac toe (I did across the bottom - designer paper, red and green, ribbon)
  *not sure if this really qualifies for MM since it not technically a Christmas card though it is for Christmas :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Just a note

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I intended to post this last night, but got watching the 1983 mini series of "Jane Eyre" with my girls and time got away from me.  (Timothy Dalton is amazing as Mr Rochester, IMHO!)   Are we the only ones, or do you start speaking "properly" after watching something like that?  For example, my daughter was telling us how someone had been "ill treated."

For this card, I tried a new technique for me.  I LOVE embossing, and I dry emboss on almost every project I make!  But this has a little more... it is inking and double embossing... I inked the 'flat' side of the embossing folder with the lighter ink and embossed.  Then inked the raised side with the darker ink and embossed again.  I love the effect, but do you all see my error????  Grrr!!  Next time, I'll use swirls or flowers instead!  Just hold your computer in front of a mirror and it will be right. LOL  You won't be able to read the sentiment, but oh well!  Live and learn! 

Supplies...
~Paper Studio Music Notes embossing folder
~Tim Holtz 'tea dye' and 'vintage photo' distress inks
~TPC Studios clear sentiment
~ribbon scrap

Challenges...
Paper Pretties PWC 242 - new technique
Twisted Tuesday 2TC42 - anything goes
Paper Playtime Ch#2 - use brown

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #173

For my Daydream Designs Blog Hop post, CLICK HERE.

Happy Thanksgiving to you!!   Only two more days until many of us will eat waaaaaay too much!!!  I will have to say that a turkey dinner is right up there on my list of most enjoyed meals!!  The mashed potatoes and gravy are the best part of it all, IMHO! :)

All the talk of food aside, be sure to count your blessings this week!!!


This week at Tuesday Morning Sketches our sponsor is Digital Delights... they have digi stamps, digi papers, SVGs and more!  

Here is our fun sketch by Bonnie...

 Here is my card...

~Digital Delights Fall Pumpkin (colored) Digi Stamp
~DCWV "Rustic" DP
~Spellbinders Petite and Scalloped Petite Ovals
~banner cut in MTC
~stamp from ??

Challenges...
Celebrate the Occasion #89 - use pumpkin
Twisted Tuesday 2TC33 - thank you theme w/ 'food'

Be sure to check out my amazing fellow designers' creations for inspiration then play along for your chance to win!!
Angela

Bonnie  

Cheryl

Dawn

Jessi

Laura

Melissa

Silke -November guest designer



Thanks for stopping by!!!

The better half's birthday

Tomorrow, my wonderful husband gets one year older!  Actually, he will only be one day older than he is today, but tomorrow is that official change-of-age day!  He'll be 46.  Yep, he's a year younger than I am, and he loves to remind me of it, too! 

We took him out for dinner this evening since our daughter has to work tomorrow.  We are saving his "birthday cake" for tomorrow... but it's not a cake!   My family doesn't usually ask for the normal birthday cake.  It might be Turtle or Oreo cheesecake or homemade cinnamon rolls or French Silk Pie!!!  My hubby loves coconut so he is getting a Coconut Cream Pie! 

Here's his card...

It says "You're mine... hook, line and sinker!"  I obviously pressed the stamp too much!  Hard to tell when stamping with Versamark. :/  The front is 'fun' but the inside is more romantic!

~MME Sweater Weather DP
~Mulberry Wood "Gone Fishing" image (I got this free from Crafter's Companion with my order a couple of weeks ago!!  Thank you, CC!!!)
~Stampendous embossing powder
~Stars embossing folder
~sentiment on tag from There She Goes "Bear Hugs"
~ribbon, brad, tag from stash

Challenges...
Cards for men #23 - anything goes
Crafter's Companion November challenge - favourite colour combo + must use CC product  (Hard to choose but I have always loved navy/white!  My stamp is from CC)
Twisted Tuesday 2TC31 - Guys week "Bring on the tools" use tool image, etc. or use tools (I used my heat gun and Cuttlebug)

Thanks for dropping by!!!

Black & White Anniversary

I wanted to make an anniversary card and went looking for inspiration.  I was able to combine several challenges for this card...

Closeup of the stamp

Challenges...
Mojo Monday 265 - sketch
Stampin Sisters in Christ #163 - time: clocks, etc. or black/white -- I obviously did the black/white but I think it's cool that it is an anniversary card... celebrating the time of a marriage! :)
Playing in Paradise #91 - Happy Anniversary
The Stamp Man November Challenge - emboss it
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Get in shape -not square
Shopping Our Stash #75 - 3D or handmade flower -- this flower is actually an up-cycled silk flower
Card Crafter's Circle #47 - patterned paper
Twisted Tuesday 2TC30 - anything goes

My "recipe":
~card cut with MTC
~music DP I've had FOREVER
~Fiskars stamp
~Allegro embossing folder
~flower, ribbon, and brad from stash

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Fun Christmas card

I'm getting a pretty good stash of Christmas cards though most of them will be too bulky to mail!!!
My daughter is even getting some made... check out hers in the post below.

 I thought I'd go with a fun theme for this one...

Challenges...
jingle belles JB-12-18 - Holiday B-I-N-G-O (I did the bottom row-dry or heat embossing, tree, ribbon)

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 66 - Use your favorite things -I LOVE embossing!!!! and snow!!
Twisted Tuesday 2TC21 - Cooling off and Getting Inky - something that cools you off (falling in the snow does that!) and ink the edges
Krafty Girls - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
Merry Monday #30 - sketch

I intended to play along with Playing in Paradise #81 but forgot they close at noon! :(

We started our kids with skiing lessons last year and when I saw this stamp, I had to have it.  It's an ippity by unity set called Pain and Pride.
~Paper Studio DP, Kraft paper
~Swiss Dots and Distressed Stripes embossing folders
~April Showers cart for the tree
~AC ribbon
~Color Box Cat's Eye inks


Thanks for stopping by!!!

Home Tweet Home!

I am playing with more of Diane's images from Daydream Designs!!  :)  I printed out several and then went looking for challenges to inspire me to use them.  This will be a card for someone who gets a new home. 

Challenges...
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC219 - square card
Stampin' Sisters in Christ #152 - home
Freshly Made Sketches #48 - sketch
Twisted Tuesday 2TC19 - "Are you blue?" -use blue and one other color Oops!  I misread... it is supposed to be predominantly blue and the twist is have only one other color. 

Though it's not, the ribbon looks almost neon!  LOL

I used an image from the Birds and Bees Digi set.

Thanks for stopping by!!!