saturday

That nice weather we had this past week is now a thing of the past and we are looking at cold and snow mixed with some sleet this weekend.

Archiver's had free make n' takes starting today so I went and made the card and the tag and then I shopped. They had just got in all the new My Minds Eye Stella and Rose collections and I picked up all 4 of them in the 6x6 pads.

My first card uses papers from the "Hazel" collection. The sentiment is a sticker from SRM "wishing you well", the lace is May Arts mixed with some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon in tiger lily. The stamp is Hero Arts which I also picked up today along with a couple others.

I used this weeks sketch over at Just Add Ink for my inspiration on my card.

The next card I created is a just because card and then I found a new challenge blog called Use it Tuesday and new I had to enter this into their first challenge which is to use a new image that you have never used before. I bought a new Hero Arts  stamp at Archivers today and wanted to play with it...so I created this card.

The stamp is called "large blossom" and I colored it with distress inks and water. The ribbon is my handmade wrinkle ribbon, sentiment is an SRM sticker from the "wishing you well" collection and the embossing folder is SU "vintage wallpaper".

Now this last set of cards is 3 of 5 that I made for my older sister Sharon. She told me on the phone she needs more kids birthday cards so that is one of my projects this weekend.

Isn't that little monster cute? I love the googily eye I put on them. I colored them with copics, embossed the backgrounds with sizzix embossing folders, the balloon is a QuicKutz die that I picked up today. The sentiments are rub-ons by Pebblesinc.

Enjoy!

noel ~ jolly good fun

Happy Tuesday and if the weatherman is right I should wake up to a couple more inches of snow on the ground today. We are having some weird weather here in Minnesota lately. Yesterday, it was 41 degrees and raining most of the day. Sure hope it isn't a skating rink out there this morning.

I have a couple cards to share with you and the first one uses some kraft cardstock and "mitten weather" by Cosmo Cricket.

I added a Martha Stewart snowflake and a PTI vintage button from the "holiday mix". My card was inspired by this weeks sketch 118 over at Clean and Simple.

This next card was fun to make and an easy one to color up. I used some BoBunny "midnight frost" papers, a couple Martha Stewart Snowflakes, buttons are from PTI and the embossing folder is by Sizzix.

My inspiration came from this weeks sketch over at Just add Ink. Isn't this a fun and easy sketch with lots of possibilities?

I hope you enjoy and I will be back tomorrow with this weeks Sasya's Sketches Challenge #39.

I hope you will leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my cards. Good or Bad I want to hear from you.



happy birthday ~ Pam

I created a birthday card for my BFF Pam before my computer crashed using the sketch challenge from a new blog I found while blurfing called Just Add Ink. I just hope it is still an active challenge.

 For my card I used a new 6x6 from BasicGrey called "curio". If you have not seen this one yet get ready to fall in love. I also used some one of the diecut shapes from the same collection. The snowflake is Martha Stewarts new Snowflake punch, the badge is by American Crafts and notice the beautiful Apricot wrinkle ribbon I made. If you are interested in the ribbon send me an email and I will get back to you with cost and colors available.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Enjoy!