Relax

It is a really quiet day here at my house so thought I would spend

some- time creating some of my favorite kind of cards. I love cards that use photographs. I think they take us back to simpler times. I love this picture and finally got a chance to use it with some Graphic 45 paper that I had in my growing stash. I love this company's papers, the nice thing is that they are all two sided. I was originally going to use this paper for a recipe book, but not sure I am going to make those for Christmas so I took a small piece from my stash.

Hope you are all having a relaxing long holiday weekend and spending time doing things you love to do.

As the card says; BLISS - take time to Relax!

Day 85 - Super Sketchy Sunday

Okay, first I must admit that I am totally in love with my new stamp set from Paper Trey Ink. I just love all the little tea pots and the sentiments that go with them. So you might be seeing it a few times more in my blog post.

Today's challenge over at "365 Cards" was to make a card using the following sketch. I have to admit I am a little new at using sketches so am never sure if we must follow exactly or if we get to make it our own. Today I will stick to the sketch and to change things up I will also show the inside of my card.

The paper and button are from the BasicGrey "Bittersweet" collection, the ovals are nestabilities and the tea pot and sentiment are from PTI.

Enjoy!

Present for a Friend

I went over with some girlfriends to visit one of our friends we hadn't seen in a few weeks and I made her this tea bag holder that I saw on SCS. Immediately when I saw one of the samples someone had created I had to order the Tea set from PTI. I am in love with this little set and see myself using it alot.

Enjoy!

Day 84 - Card Recipe #2

First I want to thank Maz for giving me the Lemonade Award today on her blog. I thought that was so sweet of her to do. Now if I can figure out how to cut it and paste it here I will.

Today's challenge over at 365 Cards was to follow the "recipe" given by Pam and to create a card using only those "ingredients".

The ingredients are:

1 - 3x3 card

1 - flower

1 - brad

1 - ribbon

1 - sentiment

and NO PATTERNED PAPER

This challenge was easier than I thought it would be. I used a hero arts paper flower, american crafts jumbo brad, may arts ribbon and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink.

Have a good Saturday everyone. I am spending the day with a few of my goodfriends.

Day 83 - Make It Match

Today's challenge over at "365 Cards" was to Make it Match. Which means our card and envelope should match. I knew since this was the challenge I wanted to make the card simple so it would be easy to create the envelope without being too much.

I used Making Memories Chloe's Closet paper, brad and flower. The stamp set is by fiskars.

Enjoy!

Day 82 - Living on the Edge

Okay, I have to admit that today's challenge over at "365 Cards" gave me a wee bit of a problem. The challenge was called "living on the edge" and we had to decorate 3 sides of a card.

I decided that it's a good thing that I work part-time at Anchor Paper as I went through so much cardstock trying to come up with an idea that I threw away 3 cards before I came up with this. Anchor sells cardstock by the piece, by the pound or by the ream.

I created the background paper a few days ago while I was sitting in my craft room listening to some new music that I got. It's an old stamp that I pulled out of the background drawer in my stamp area. The stamp is by Impression Obsession. I colored it with my tombow markers, which I still prefer to use over Copics (because I don't have the hang of them or anywhere near as many color options).

The edge is the new Stampin' Up lace punch, the butterflies are from Martha Stewart, and the sentiment is also from Anchor Paper and it is the Stamp of the month for May, by American Crafts. If you have not tried their clear stamps they are wonderful.

Thanks for stopping by and leave me a comment so I know you were here.

Enjoy

Day 81 - It's Hip to be Square

Today's challenge over at "365 Cards" was to use 5 squares on your card. I was so happy to find these square brads by American Crafts in my doo-dad bag. The hard part was picking the colors.

The stamp is from Anchor Paper and it was part of the stamp set for the month March called "Orchid Greetings" by Stampendous.

Enjoy!

CPS #116

This card was done using this weeks sketch over at CPS. It gave me a chance to play with some new Crate Paper that I picked up at Anchor Paper Express, the cardstock, the hero arts stamp (flower), the Stamp of the Month (just because), and the ribbon were all purchased there. I loved this sketch it was fun and for the first time I actually understood what I wanted to do on the card.

Enjoy! Please post a comment if you like it I know quite a few of you just lurk (judy, kelly, jude, & pam to name a few).

Day 80 - Your So Plaid

Today's challenge over at "365 Cards" was to create a card using something "plaid" on it. Since Father's day will be here before we know it I thought I would make this card for my Step-Father Larry whom I call POPS. I love making cards for people using a photograph of them so I dug through my old photos and found this one from 1968 and even the shirt has some plaid in it, although you can't tell too easily from the photo.

On the inside of the card I put; "I never got to choose you, You just became my 'dad', So I'm grateful to my mother, for the great taste that she had."

All paper is BasicGrey ARCHAIC it is the only one I could find with a plaid in it. The buttons are also BasicGrey and the twine is from SU. I distressed all the papers and photo with Ranger Distressed Vintage Photo.

Hope you Enjoy!

Day 79 - Monday's Manufacturer

Today's challenge over at "365 Cards" was to create a card using our favorite paper manufacturer. Well to be honest my favorite paper company is BasicGrey, but my friend Tami kind of started a challenge between us here so I decided to follow along and also do "Graphic 45", they are among my top 5 paper companies and I am trying to put a class together using these papers so this challenge gave me a chance to play with some of the papers I picked up recently.

I used Graphic 45 Fashionista Collection - debutante and haute couture, these are all double sided so I used all sides. The ribbon is from May Arts. The old safety pin is from Tim Holtz, the saying is one I found and typed up, and I distressed everything with ranger distressing inks - fired brick and vintage photo.

Hope you enjoy and if you do please leave a comment so I know you stopped by.

Card Patterns - Sketch 15

This is my take on this weeks sketch over at Card Patterns. I am fairly new to using sketches so hope that I am on the right track with translating what I see in the sketch. If I am heading in the wrong direction please let me know.

This weeks card I used some new papers I picked up by Crate Papers, The little blue bird is a sticker from a new book of "remarks" by American Crafts. The Yellow bird is one of my Spellbinders nestabilities shapeabilities, I typed the sentiment on the computer using a donna downey font that I bought, the ribbon is from American Crafts, the bling is from Element Essentials, and the ink is Distressed Antique Linen and Vintage Photo by Ranger.

Enjoy!

Playing with New Toys

My friend Jan who is a Stampin' Up Demonstrator gave me an awesome card that I knew I had to cardlift which made me purchase the new punch and flower embossing plate from Stampin' Up. Here is the card I made I changed the colors from Jans original sample.

Day 78 - Super Sketchy Sunday

Today's challenge over at 365 Cards was to use the following sketch to create our card. I had a hard time with the corner portion of the sketch so ended up using these two flowers that were done on the Cricut and then I punched the butterfly out of the Spellbinders Shapeabilities "Butterflies" die. I love the two dimensional effect you get and it is fun to combine two different papers so you get a little bit of shading. I used my Rangers Distressed Vintage Photo over most of the papers and the butterflies, the "just because" is from the American Crafts new clear stamp set that is the stamp of the month at Anchor Paper (where I work part time) it was a great deal 16 stamps for $6.99.

Enjoy the card and have a great Sunday.

For A Friend

This is a card I made yesterday for a friend. I am trying to decide if the word friend is too large for the card. I am thinking of taking it off and putting another sentiment on it. What's a girl todo?

Teddy & Me

Just got home from visiting with my niece Shannon and her family. I try to go over every week as they are like my kids and grandkids. Micah is getting really big and it is hard to believe that he will be 2 months old tomorrow. Where does the time go. His sister Cassie is almost 9 and that is really hard to believe as it seems like yesterday she was running around our house calling me Uncle Sherry.

Thought I would share a picture of Micah today. Cassie left early to go to a friends so I didn't get a picture of her, but will get one next time.

Have a great Saturday!

Day 77 - Make a Note of It!

Today's challenge over at 365 cards is to "Make a note of it". I had fun making today's card because I love making kids birthday cards. Hope you enjoy! Leave me a comment so I know you stopped by.

Today I am off to visit my niece Shannon and her family. That means when I get back I will probably have new photo's to post of Micah (8 weeks old) and Cassie Jo ( 8 1/2 years old).

products used today: Cosmo Cricket "Cogsmo" line for paper, rubons and tag. American Crafts large brads and Stampin' Up note punch.

Tea Bag Holder #2

I just learned how to make these cute little tea bag holders and am having so much fun doing so I decided to make another one. My friend Tami noticed the one that I had placed on my blog a few days ago and commented on how she liked it so I thought I would make another one to share.

Enjoy!

Day 76 - Four Corners

Well after doing my card yesterday and putting it on my blog at 6:00 am and then checking back last night at 9:30 only to realize that I didn't get any comments did I realize that I forgot to go back onto 365 cards and link my card up.

Today I will try to remember and do that. Today's challenge over at 365 Cards is to to put some kind of an embellishment in each of the 4 corners. I wanted to use my new QuicKutz embossing folder which is real simple and elegant so I used Neenah Classic Crest Natural White for the base of my card, 2 green lasting impression buttons, the photo corners were made using BasicGrey "Perhaps" and then I stamped Happy Anniversary using Colorbox Olive Pastel ink.

Simple and easy for a Friday.

Enjoy!

Day 75 - Imagine This: COFFEE

Today's challenge over at 365 cards was to use something coffee related. Since I happen to love coffee, I just happened to have a couple of stamps lying around in my stamp room.

The paper is Memory Box - Rhubarb Tart (thanks Tami for getting me addicted to this new stuff). I also used Neenah black linen and Neenah Classic Crest solar white cardstock. The stamps are from stampendous and I paper pieced the cups, pajamas, and bunny slippers. The ribbon is from American Crafts and I colored the monkey with CTMH chocolate brown.

I hope you enjoy and if you do please leave a comment so I know that you stopped by.

Tea Bag Holder

Today the SCS newsletter had a tutorial for making a cute tea bag holder. It was so simple and the instructions were wonderful. I just had to put one together using a new favorite paper by Jenni Bowlin, the stamp sentiment is from American Crafts (stamp of the month at Anchor Paper this month), Ribbon is from May Arts, buttons are from Autumn Leaves, and the ink is Ranger Distressed in Vintage photo and Antique Linen. The little pocket on the inside perfectly fits a tea bag on each side. Just too cute if I do say so myself. And besides a good cup of Caribou coffee I do enjoy a good cup of tea once in awhile. Enjoy!