Color Dare 88

Color Dare 88

Riding Hood Red

Old Olive

Neutral of Choice

Since I was in the mood for a circle card, I immediately went with this week's Waltzingmouse Sketch.  It was a perfect fit for what I had in mind, and I was doing a big happy dance as this doesn't happen to me very often!!  My one creative gene must be spreading some Christmas cheer early LOL!

Out came my newest addiction - the lacy circles.  I paired that with my combination double dot embossing folder kick as they were the perfect look of falling snow to go with the snowflake.  My tag migrated a tad from the sketch so hopefully the mouse police will be buried in the snow overseas and scared to venture out and check up on me :)

The rest of the Team has lots of inspiration for you.  You can check out their creations here:

• Glenda Wyatt at Paper, Scissors, Rocks 
• Heater Prince at Princess Scrapper Stamper
• Joan Jeffery at JJ's Creations
• Melissa Hubert at My Paper Obsession
• Nance Lempinen-Leedy at Canopy Crafts
• Riley Fitzgerald at Stampin' With Riley  (our leader)

We'd love you to join us!  Simply create a card using this week's colours and add your card to InLinkz on the The Colour Dare Blog.  If  you are uploading to a public gallery, please make sure to use the keyword CD88.   Each week, Riley will select a Featured Stamper and showcase your card on her blog.

What's In It?
Stamps: Fancy Flexible Phrases
Paper:  Old Olive, Read Red, Linen Cream
Ink: Black
Accessories: Swiss Dots and Seeing Spots Embossing Folders, Lacy Circle and Circle Nesties, Cuttlebug Snowflake Die, Martha Steward Snowflake Punch, Red Button, Glue Dot, Twine, Red Twine, 5/8" Grosgrain Cream Ribbon, Dimensionals

Verve Project Parade Triple Play Part II

I had so much fun making the mailbox for my daughter's student teacher I had to make a few more.  I have several friends who are elementary school teachers so these will definitely come in handy :)   They are also going to be an entry in Verve's Triple Play Project Parade. 

I kept the design the same for all of them, just switched up the DPs and colours on each one.  Had a ball making them and wish I had a few more so I could dole them out to a few more teachers or moms with small kids.

However, the fun ended when I had to try to take a picture of all three of them at once. As you can see, I ended up using the light box again as my windowsill could not accommodate three of them at one time without a major structural engineering feat in order to get a photo platform LOL.  I tried my best to show you as much of the mailboxes as I could, and thought I had mastered it, but just noticed the one on the right wasn't angled properly so it got cut off a bit - ugh. It has the same design as the other two on the side, just used different colours. The finishing tough was a snowflake added to both sides of each mailbox "flag" :)

Thanks for coming by today :)  Have a fabulous Sunday!




What's In It?
Paper:  Echo Park, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, 
Accessories:  Circle and Label 16 Nesties, SU Border Punch, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Half Pearls, 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Double Sided Sticky Tape, Glue Dots, Dimensinoals

Inkspirations Challenge 51

Keesh came up with a wonderful sketch this week.  Love the large circle as the sky is the limit as to what you want/can put in it.

I paired this week's sketch with an old Just Add Ink colour combo. Loved this combo because it had wonderful spring colours.  After all the snow we got and then subsequent torrential rainfall, they were the perfect pick me up LOL!

This is the card I made for my daughter's student teacher whose last day in the classroom was this Tuesday (the gift set I made her was in yesterday's post).  She was a total sweetheart and the kids all loved her.  Any child who gets her will leave her classroom being touched by a truly wonderful teacher.  

As per the need for a weather pick-me-up, and staying with the spring colour theme, I decided to make another button bouquet.  The colours were perfect for some pink and blue flowers :)  Love how these two dotted embossing folders work together...happy sigh :)  A pink bow and some green butterflies provided the finishing touch to a splash of spring amidst her winter gift set LOL!

The rest of the Design Team has some great inspiration to get you going on this week's sketch.

Cindy Kirsty Makeesha Renée Brandi Carrie Helen Ilina Lee-Anne Marisa

In addition, each week Keesh will select a winner and an honorable mention and post their cards on the Inkspirations Challenge blog.  We'd love to see your card featured, so come and join us this week.

Off to clean my craft room as you can't see the floor or the guest bed after my all my craft fair preparations!  Have a fabulous day!

What's In It?

Stamps: Flower Filled, Small Script

Paper: Certainly Celery, Kraft, Pretty in Pink

Ink: Certainly Celery

Accessories:  Seeing Spots and Swiss Dots Embossing Folders, Scalloped and Circle Nesties, 5/8" Pink Satin Ribbon, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Half Pearls, Buttons, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

Verve Triple Play Contest

This is my entry for Verve's Project Parade Challenge.  This time Julee's challenged us to a Triple Play contest in which you have to create a trio of things - three tags, a gift set with three items, etc.

This trio was a gift for my daughter's Student Teacher who wrapped up  her teaching stint on Tuesday.  Since she will be teaching at the primary level, I decorated a Target mailbox I've had in my stash for some time and turned it into "Santa's Mailbox".  I figured it would be a lot of fun to put in her classroom (kids can write letters to Santa etc.). Here's a side view as it really doesn't show up in the picture.

I paired it with a matching coaster box (here's the link to the tutorial on SCS) full of Lindt chocolates and some Christmas cards. Unfortunately, I ran out of the matching DP for the cards - ugh - so had to go with this card instead and tossed matchy, matchy out the window.  A great way to mess with my anal side and stretch me a bit LOL!  I happy to report, she loved it.

Thanks for stopping in today, and sorry for the dark picture.  I had to resort to my light box as I couldn't get all these items on my window ledge at the same time LOL!





What's In It?

Card
Stamps: (SU) Best Yet
Paper: Read Red, Brushed Silver, White
Ink:  Black
Accessories:  SU Scalloped Border Punch, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Half Pearls, Dimensinoals


Coaster Box
Stamps:  (SU) Season's Sketches
Paper:  Night of Navy, Real Red, DP
Ink:  Black
Accessories:  Square Coasters,  Echo Park Wintertime DP, Cuttlebug Snowflake Die, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Marvy Snowflake Punch, Labels 16 and Square Nesties, Zip Dry Glue, Crop-a-dile, Half Pearls, Raffia, 1/4" Navy Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals

Mailbox 
Paper:  Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Echo Park Wintertime DP
Accessories:  SU Border Punch, Label 16 and Circle Nesties, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, 1/4" Night of Navy Grosgrain Ribbon, Glue Dots, Half Pearls, Dimensionals

Color Dare 87

Color Dare 87

Chocolate Chip

Concord Crush

Perfect Plum

I loved this colour combo of purple and brown. Such wonderfully rich colours and they work very well together.  I used cream as my neutral and paired it with this week's 2 Sketches 4 You tag sketch.  This is such a wonderful sketch I know I'll be using it for more tags - the possibilities are endless :)

Keeping in the Christmas mode, I decided to use snowflakes.  The brown panel is crimped and I used my Seeing Spots embossing folder for the concord trim on the top and bottom of the tag.  If I had some chunky glitter, I would have put that on the snowflakes as well.  May have to use my 40% coupon from Mike's to get some thanks to all the enabling bloggers out there LOL!

The rest of the Team has lots of inspiration for you.

• Glenda Wyatt at Paper, Scissors, Rocks 
• Heater Prince at Princess Scrapper Stamper
• Joan Jeffery at JJ's Creations
• Melissa Hubert at My Paper Obsession
• Nance Lempinen-Leedy at Canopy Crafts
• Riley Fitzgerald at Stampin' With Riley  (our leader)

We'd love you to join us!  Simply create a card using this week's colours and add your card to InLinkz on the The Colour Dare Blog.  If  you are uploading to a public gallery, please make sure to use the keyword CD87.   Each week, Riley will select a Featured Stamper and showcase your card on her blog.

To those of you who have been asking, the school's craft fair went pretty well.  A little more advertising would have gone a long way as traffic was a bit slow at times, but seeing it is the first time the school has done one and they had over 40 vendors, they did a great job.  However, they are dangerous places to sit at for five hours as you can end up spending more money than you make LOL!  I'm pleased to say, I restrained myself to one pendant necklace which I just love and I can't wait to wear :)


Thanks for popping in today and I am so looking forward to being able to create again rather than mass produce!!  Have a fabulous day :)

What's In It?
Stamps: Small Script
Paper: Cream Linen, Concord Crush, Perfect Plum, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Black
Accessories: Labels 4 Nestie, Crimper, Cuttlebug Snowflake Die, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Half Pearls, 5/8" Cream Grosgrain Ribbon

Inkspirations Color Challnege #50

First of all, I want to wish all my American followers and visitors a Happy Thanksgiving!!  We have long passed ours (it's in October in Canada) but it is always wonderful to reflect on what we have to be thankful for, and that includes all of you who take a little bit of time to come and visit me on my blog :)  Enjoy you time with family and friends and eat some turkey for me LOL!

This week, Keesh came up with a lovely color combination. The razzleberry with the pear pizzaz and the pop of turquoise is totally delicious.

Sorry about the simple card and the use of my "go to crutch" (aka my Swiss Dots embossing folder), but I had to keep things simple this week as I 'm crazy busy trying to finish things up for the craft fair tomorrow.

Pulled out this wonderful Watercolor Trio silhouette set for the main image panel and added some turquoise ribbon for a pop of color.  The inks are actually Eggplant Envy and Certainly Celery as I don't have them just yet, but they worked pretty well :)  

The rest of the Inkspirations Team has some wonderful samples to get you creative juices going. 

Cindy Kirsty Makeesha Renée Brandi Carrie Helen Ilina Lee-Anne Marisa

In addition, each week Keesh will select a winner and an honorable mention and post their cards on the Inkspirations Challenge blog.  We'd love to see your card featured, so come and join us this week :)  If you are loading to a public gallery, please us the keyword Inkspirations.

Have a fabulous day, and happy Black Friday shopping to any of you who are willing to brave the crowds!

What's In It?

Stamps: (SU) Watercolour Trio

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery

Ink: Eggplant Envy, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery

Accessories: Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, 5/8" Turquoise Satin Ribbon, Circle Nesties, Button, Glue Dot, Dimensionals

Color Dare 86

Color Dare 86

Pumpkin Pie

Baja Breeze

Wild Wasabi

Cajun Craze

Loved the mix of fall colours Riley used this week with the pop of blue thrown in.   
I combined this week's Color Dare with Card Positioning Systems' sketch 193.

The pumpkin image is Verve's Bountiful Harvest and I coloured them with Twinkling H2O's and added some black half pearls to the end of each vine for a little something.  I think my ribbon may be closer to Bordering Blue than Baja Breeze, but it still looks good with the other colours so it must be a fairly close match - or so my story goes and I'm sticking to it :) 

If  you look at the bottom left corner you will see white stuff on the ground.  Yup, we got 5 inches of snow last Friday night and with the cold temps sticking around (-8C today with the wind chill -- that's 16F) it's still here.  Bummer is, Saturday was quite warm so the sledding hill at the school is now grass but the there is plenty on the ground elsewhere for the kids to play in.  They say we are in for a pretty bad winter this year, and we sure started off with a bang by having snow so early.  Will have to see what the rest of winter brings.  Thankfully, mommy is on the ball as we have snow boots and snow suits all ready to be used :)  Just a bit slow on mounting the snow tires, but they go on next week once my craft fair is over and I can join the life of the living again LOL! 

The rest of the Team has lots of inspiration for you.  You can check out their creations here:

• Glenda Wyatt at Paper, Scissors, Rocks 
• Heater Prince at Princess Scrapper Stamper
• Joan Jeffery at JJ's Creations
• Melissa Hubert at My Paper Obsession
• Nance Lempinen-Leedy at Canopy Crafts
• Riley Fitzgerald at Stampin' With Riley  (our leader)

We'd love you to join us!  Simply create a card using this week's colours and add your card to InLinkz on the The Colour Dare Blog.  If  you are uploading to a public gallery, please make sure to use the keyword CD86.   Each week, Riley will select a Featured Stamper and showcase your card on her blog.

What's In It?
Stamps: (Verve) Bountiful Harvest
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Recollections DP, Wild Wasabi 
Ink: Black
Accessories: Labels 3 and Circle Nesties, 1/4" Blue Grosgrain Ribbon, Twinkling H2O's, Aquabrush, Half Pearls

Bookmark For My Daughter

Seeing as I'm is mass production mode for this Friday's school Craft Fair, I thought I'd show you one of the bookmarks I'm giving my daughter for Christmas.  She is an avid reader and loved some of the ones I have made for others, so I thought I had better make her one.  In fact, I should probably make a few for her as she always has a book or two on the go -- needless to say, I' m very thankful for our local library!!


Must admit I took a break from cards and projects today to redesign my blog a little.  One can only take so many hours in a row of repetitive crafting (note I said repetitive crafting LOL!).  Mass production of many cards for twelve to fourteen hours a day for many days in a row gets a bit dull after a while!  I needed a creativity break and when I saw my favorite colour (green) with polka dots and a scalloped border I squealed with delight!!  It gives me warm fuzzies every time I see it -- what can I say, simple things in life give me great joy :) 

Gotta run, have tons left to do for the Craft Fair!!  Have a fabulous day :)






What's In It?
Stamp: Elzybelles
Paper:  Bordering Blue, So Saffron
Accessories:  Circle and Scalloped Circle Nesties, Martha Stewart Daisy Border Punch, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Grosgrain Ribbon, Half Pearls, Twinkling H2Os

Inkspiration Sketch #49

Keesh came up with another fabulous sketch this week.  I combined her sketch with last week's ColorQ challenge as I just loved the mix of earthy fall colours.  There were six colours in the mix this time round, but they all blended fabulously together so though it looked daunting at first, it was actually an easy mix to work with.

I played around with various lets and finally settled on another of my favorites, PTI's Turning a New leaf, because by default Fall reminds me of leaves and I'll use any excuse to use this set LOL!

Love this polka dotted Recollections DP from Michael's and just realized I used it on my very first Inkspirations DT sketch a few weeks back - sorry about that - but it's a great match to Cajun Craze :) !  Cutting out the leaf wasn't as bad as I thought it would be and I was lucky enough to have three brown buttons in my stash.

The rest of the Design Team has some great inspiration to get you going on this week's sketch.

Cindy Kirsty Makeesha Renée Brandi Carrie Helen Ilina Lee-Anne Marisa

In addition, each week Keesh will select a winner and an honorable mention and post their cards on the Inkspirations Challenge blog.  We'd love to see your card featured, so come and join us this week :)

That's it for today.  Back to mass producing....have a great day :)

What's In It?

Stamps:  (PTI) Turning A New Leaf

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Recollections DP from Michael's

Ink:  Always Artichoke

Accessories: Scalloped Oval and Oval Nesties, SU Border Punch, Corner Rounder, 5/8" Saffron Satin Ribbon, Buttons, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

Celebrating Mercy's 100th Sketch

Had to play along with Mercy's sketch this week because it is her 100th sketch!  I have used so many of her sketches, I'd be lost without them!

I pulled out this fun Recollections leaf DP as my starting point.  It reminded me of a jungle (sorry it's basically covered up here but the leaves look very tropical) and thus out came this cute little raffie from Wild About You.

Rest is pretty self explanatory.  In looking at the picture, I realized I forgot to outline the giraffe's eye with my black maker so it stands out more - ugh.  Just  pretend it is there, as I don't have time right now to take another picture.  I'm madly making cards for our school's craft fair next weekend and have lots left to make.  Time is slipping by waaaay too quickly and my craft area is quite the disaster right now!  I've also taken over the dining room table for assembly work so I'm spreading out around the house LOL!  Hope it is all worth it in the end and people are ready to spend some cash at the craft fair :)  

Got a wonderful treat the other day when my CAS Christmas card seen here made Nancy's Riliey's iPicks.  The perfect pick me up (no pun intended LOL!) amidst the chaos of mass production LOL!

Gotta run.  Have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping in (((hugs))).




What's In It?
Stamps:  Wild About You
Paper:  Recollections DP, Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Old Olive
Ink:  Brocade Blue
Accessories:  Scalloped Oval and Oval Nesties, Seeing Spots Embossing Folder, 5/8" Orange Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals