my friend ~ my enabler

If you are like me you probably have someone in your life who enables you just a little bit. Well I am special and have two friends who do that to me. Not to mention any names but Arielle knows my love of digital images and coloring them and is always showing me something that I have to have. My other friend Amy is always showing me stamps and papers I just have to get.

Today is no different. Yesterday she had me buy that adorable little Mummy and today it was all about this cute little witch over at The Flower Basket Challenge. They have challenge #4 up which is called black out and you get this cute little witch FREE.

How could I resist a new challenge and a free Witch? I used this weeks card sketch from Card Patterns along with some Cosmo Cricket "matilda" papers and some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon. Don't you just love this black one. I made orange and black to celebrate Halloween.

So now that I have rambled way too much here is the card.

Well I think this will be the last Halloween card for me for this year. All my other ones went postal today to some family and friends.

Enjoy!

my lil' punkin ~ sssc90

Some of my blog friends are such enablers. While doing a little blurfing on Sunday I came across this cute card by Arielle and immediately had to go and buy this little mummy digital over at Mo's digital pencil.

I decided to use him for this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I grabbed my Copic markers and some BoBunny "whoo-ligans" papers and started creating.

I hope if I have enabled you just a little bit you will play along with this sketch challenge too. This card will be going postal this week to my lil' punkin Micah who will be going "trick or treating" as a little monkey.

Enjoy!

fall is in the air ~ sasya's sketches #31

We are having the most beautiful fall weather right now in Minnesota and the colors outside my craftroom window are amazing.

It is Wednesday and time for another fun sketch over at Sasya's Sketches. I decided to do a Fall/Halloween kind of card this week.

I used some of my Cosmo Cricket "matilda" paper for the base of the card along with some leaves that I stamped out and fussy cut. The pumpkin is a QuicKutz die and the bingo card is by Jenni Bowlin.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card and I hope it inspires you to play along with us this week.

Enjoy!

happy halloween ~ thinking of you

Okay a couple more cards to share with you today. The first card is for the very first baby bud design challenge and that challenge is to create an Autumn or Halloween card.

For my card I am using this cute "Autumn" digital stamp. Isn't she just adorable with all that curly hair. Papers are by KandCompany.

I used glossy accents on the buttons and spica glitter in her curls.

For my next card  I used the sketch from WaltzingMouse for my inspiration. Isn't this a fun sketch?

For my card I used papers from the Cosmo Cricket "togetherness" collection along with a butterfly from PTI, and rub-ons by pebblesinc.

Enjoy!

trick or treat ~

It is Wednesday and that means time for another sketch challenge over at Sasya's Sketches.

While I was at work on Saturday I picked up the new Cosmo Cricket "matilda" 6x6 paper pad and chipboard. I thought they were perfect for this sketch.

As you can see I added some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon and some of the Cosmo Cricket "tiny type" stickers.

Here is the sketch that inspired me to create this card.

I hope you will take some time to check out all the DT samples and even play along with us this week.

Enjoy!

ESS #100

I meant to get a couple of cards posted last night and as you can see that did not happen. My first card is for this weeks sketch challenge over at Eat Sleep Stamp.

For this card I used the new Cosmo Cricket "matilda" 6x6 pad along with the chipboard and some tiny type stickers.

Enjoy!

just because

Last night while watching some TV I decided to make a couple of cards using some of the new things I have picked up in the past week.

I went to Archivers for the make-n-takes yesterday and really liked the card that we created using half of one of their gatefold cards and a 5.5" circle. So decided to try making a Christmas one. This is a 3.5 x 5" (4 bar) card.

For this card I used my SU bird punch, Memory Box "mistletoe" papers, the card stock is a yummy color from French Papers "basis pop-tone" collection called sno-cone. I love the really soft color, the sentiment is a pebblesinc. rub-on.

My next card uses a new Halloween stamp set I bought at Archivers yesterday called "bootiful boots" by stampendous. I colored them in with copics and then added glossy accents on top. The embossing folder is from QuicKutz and the wrinkle ribbon is some that I made last week.

I love how the boots have turned out. I added some silver to the buckles on the boots too.

Oh today is my 35th wedding anniversary and I was going to post  a picture of the two of us from that day and decided I wouldn't put you through it.

Enjoy!