Shape Up

I am so loving this new set of Holiday trees by Pink Petticoat that I am once again using it on a card.

This card is for Day 230 over at 365 Cards and today's challenge is to make the dominant shape on your card a semi~circle. Well I don't know if mine is dominant but I think you can tell what it is.

I paper pieced the tree and added some matte accents to the star, distressed all the edges of the papers, added some basicgrey buttons that I threaded with some of the left over paper that I printed and then added faux stitiching around all the outside edges.

Enjoy~

Home

I made it home safely yesterday after visiting with family up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Poor little Micah was running a temp and not feeling up to par. He had his 6 month shots the day we left. Little man is in the 95% range for height and 75% for weight. His Dad says he is going to play football for Nebraska ~ I just nod my head and think Hockey for the UofM (University of Minnesota).

My card today is for the Paper Play Challenge ~ week 39 and the challenge is to use your favorite embellishment on your card. Well my favorite is buttons with ribbon running a close second.

I was so excited when I got home to find that Pink Petticoat had released another button tree digi stamp and papers set. I added some buttons and ribbons all papers are from the digi set. The papers in this set are amazing I know I will be using a lot of these on my Christmas cards this year.

enjoy~

MOJO Monday ~ More Like SNOWDAY Monday

Here is a quick card before I head out the door on this cold snowy day here in Minnesota. It is Mojo Monday Week 108 sketch and my card using the new BasicGrey "Nook & Pantry", I created the flower using a scallop punch. After punching out the flower I added some glimmer mist to give it a little bit of a green shine to it. The button is BasicGrey, the pearl is KaiserCraftand the ribbon is from my stash.

Enjoy~

Autumn Colors

I have been going through all my drawers and drawers of ribbon and sorting by colors and came across this beautiful orange wide ribbon that I knew I wanted to use on a card and I knew immediately that I would use a dark dark brown cardstock.

Here are the two cards I created using a cuttlebug embossing folder and pumpkin emboss and cut die. The inside is basicgrey "indian summer" paper and Happy Thanksgiving from The Cutting Cafe. The more I use these wonderful digi stamps from Regina the more I like them.

Okay, this is going to be it for me tonight I need to get packed and try and work on the mini album I am doing.

Enjoy~

SNOW

I woke up to snow on the ground yesterday and it was chilly all day long, thankfully the snow was gone by the early afternoon. Tomorrow I am heading out to Wahpeton, North Dakota with my niece Shannon and her kids to visit family. Looking at the weather reports it sounds like it is supposed to snow there today 1-2" and tomorrow 1-3". FUN NOT.

Here is a card I made for the FTL63 I love the sketches here and they are so much fun to do. Just Clean and Simple the way I like it.

For this card I used my new BasicGrey "Nook and Pantry" 6x6 pad and felt woolie (I added an orange dew drop to the flower center), the sentiment is from The Cutting Cafe Happy Thanksgiving set.

Hope you enjoy ~

Sweet Sunday

I was going to post this card earlier this morning but was having problems with the old laptop not wanting to load fully and then when I got all that straightened out my camera decided the battery needed a little bit of a charge.

This is the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #39 and I decided to pull out my Earth Love paper, chipboard, and ribbon by Cosmo Cricket (thanks Lindsay).

It is another chilly day here in Minnesota so I plan on staying inside and working on a mini album I am making for Cassie's BFF Kalley. I have a pot roast in the oven for dinner and all is good.

Enjoy~

Nook & Pantry Oh My

I just got home from spending the afternoon and evening with my friend Tami at Archivers for their scrap mania. First we stopped at Starbucks to get a little java to get us going. Well you know you have to shop when you first get there and while we were wandering around the Roseville store I noticed they were putting out new papers and guess what? It was the new BasicGrey "Nook and Pantry" collection. All I can say is oh my goodness. I bought a little of everything as I am going to use it to make a couple of cookbooks for the upcoming holidays.

Here are a couple pictures of my goodies.

Besides shopping I worked on a new mini album for my niece Cassie's best friend Kalley. It will be her 10th birthday in a week and I promised to make a scrapbook showing all the different things they did together this summer. I wll share pictures as soon as it is finished.

enjoy~

First Haircut

Well Micah got his first haircut at 6.5 months as he had some really long hair on top and it started to look like a little mohawk. These pictures are the before and after.

My sketch is from Pencil Line Sketch 155 all paper is Lil' Man by Cosmo Cricket, the letters are American Crafts Thickers, button is by BasicGrey and zigzag ribbon is from a piece I got out of my stash.

Notice the date of his first haircut in the upper right hand corner. Okay that is it for today ~ leave me a little blog love and tell me what you think.

Enjoy~

Pick Five

The challenge today over at 365 Cards is to pick 5 items to put on your card not including the cardstock. I had to restrain myself from adding a sentiment to the front and threading the buttons. (I will add a sentiment after I post the card ~ is that cheating Rose or Gloria?)

For this card I used Epic Black cardstock, 2 pieces of Jenni Bowlin patterned paper, and 3 Jenni Bowlin buttons from the same collection. I just love these chipboard buttons. For the scallop I used my Stampin' Up border punch.

Hope you enjoy~

Cat and the Lamp

I found another new sketch challenge blog thanks to Michelle and decided to give it a try. If you haven't done their sketches before give it a try. It is called Sketch Girl and this is sketch #6.

This card uses memory box papers and stamp. The paper is from the "Twilight" collection and the stamp is called Cat and Lamp. My friend Tami introduced me to them awhile back and I have been hooked every since. Check out Tami's blog she is the guest designer every Friday over on the Memory Box website. Stop by and give her some love. This card is for her next time we get together.

Enjoy~

My Sweet bubba

While I decide what card challenge to try today thought I would share a picture of my sweet Micah ~ aka "Bubba" aka Micah Milk face.

Isn't he just too sweet.

Hump Day

It's Wednesday and that means it is Wacky Wednesday over at Paper Popsicles. I love the sketches that they use over there and imagine my surprise today when I went over to see what the sketch was and found out I was the winner of last weeks challenge. How cool is that and I got a Gift Certificate to use in the store.

Here is this weeks sketch and my card. Since it is definitely Fall here in Minnesota decided to do a fall theme.

For this card I used my Fiskars border punch and added a little faux stitching to it. For the sentiment I used a digi stamp from The Cutting Cafe Autumn Days set, the leaves are from QuicKutz, and the cardstock is from Anchor Paper. I added some Ranger distressing ink to all the leaves and the circle sentiment to age it a little.

Enjoy~

Just for Ewe

I found a new challenge blog called AllSorts while blurfing earlier this week and decided to give it a try. The challenge was to use Kraft cardstock and the sponsor this week is Pink Petticoat. The design team over there was using the set from Pink Petticoat called Big Fella and since I own that set thought I would play along.

Along with my kraft cardstock I used some basicgrey buttons, scrappers floss, I paper pieced the little ewe with modern milan by me&my big ideas, I colored in the legs and face with a black glaze pen and then used my white signo pen to add some eyes, I added a fiskars border punch and some faux stitching.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Enjoy~

Halloween Memories

When I started making this frame for Cassie I realized that I didn't know what her costume would be this year so I decided to make the frame using a picture that we took of her at the pumpkin patch and I think this picture is from 2004 or 2005. Once Halloween comes this year I will take one of the pictures her Mom gives me and fit it into the frame before I give it to them.

 For this frame I used "Halloween This and That" by The Cutting Cafe which is where I got the stars and the cats, I added some BasicGrey buttons, and tied with orange and black floss, the letters are Thickers by American Crafts. I added some faux stitching with a white signo gel pen. The frame is from Michael's.

Hope you enjoy~

Thankful for Family

Today I want to share with you one of the new releases over at The Cutting Cafe called "Autumn Days" this set was perfect for this weeks challenge Sketch #107 over at Mojo Monday.

For my card I used kraft cardstock as the base of this A6 card along with some Pop-tone green and orange cardstock, the pattern paper is Eerie by BasicGrey, ribbon is from May Arts, I used the Nestabilities small oval, added some dew drops, distressed the edges of my paper and oval with Ranger antique linen ink, and colored the pumpkin and leaves with colored pencil and gamasol.

Enjoy~

Lil' Man Micah & Some Good News

I don't' have a card yet to share with you today, but I do have this fun little frame that I decorated with Cosmo Cricket lil' man papers and I inserted a picture of my favorite little guy Micah.

Last month during scrapfest I took a class at a local scrapbook shop that was being taught by Lindsay and Julie from Cosmo Cricket and they had this great frame that one of their design team members had created. My friend Bonnie and I both loved it and said we were going to do this. Well Bonnie did hers right away and I did not as I could not find the frame. Bonnie found this little wooden frame at Michaels and a little train cut-out at Michael's and so the train frame was born. I love how it turned out and hope you do too.

This was so much fun to make and now I need to create one for Cassie. Hopefully, I will get that done in the next couple days and will be back to share with you.

Now my good news. Regina over at The Cutting Cafe asked me if I would like to join her design team and of course I said YES. I feel so honored that she would ask me and can't wait to play with all those fun digital images.

Enjoy~

CPS 136

It was a grey cool day here in Minneapolis and I was off early this morning to spend time with my babies Cassie Jo and Micah. Cassie is getting so big now and Micah who is 6.5 months old now has 8 teeth and is really trying hard to learn how to move around and does it by laying on his back and then wiggling until he moves. Poor baby is going to rub the hair off the back of his head if he keeps it up.

Here is a card that I started working on early this morning and finished up after dinner. I love this sketch and knew that I had to use the Cosmo Cricket "Earth Love" for it.

I also used neenah natural white cardstock, a tissue paper flower I made using layers of white tissue paper that I sprayed with Orange Glimmer Mist, a random button from my collection and some orange floss. I inked the edges of all the patterned paper with Ranger Antique Linen ink.

Enjoy~

Day 217 ~ Stampin' Saturday & Meeting a Friend

I had to work today at Anchor Paper and the store was really busy with everyone planning wedding invitations and Christmas Cards and I had a wonderful surprise in the afternoon. Janice whom I met through 365 Cards was in town to visit her sons for the weekend and she stopped by the store along with her son Justin. Janice was just as sweet in person as she is during our chats online through email and her Son was so nice and oh so handsome. She did some shopping while I worked as her personal guide through the store. Sorry Michelle I would not let Janice take that photo you wanted.

Thought I would do a quick card today and decided to do the challenge over at 365 Cards which was to stamp on your cardstock in the same color. I might have cheated as I stamped Versa Mark on my Orange Pop-Tone paper. The designer paper is from BasicGrey "Eerie" and the ribbon is Bo' Bunny. The sentiment and leaf are from Creative Cafe November set.

Enjoy~

Fall to Layout #62 ~ Happy Holidays

Just a quick card that i made today using the newest sketch over at clean and simple.

For my card I used making memories patterned paper and rub-ons from the "mistletoe" collection, neenah red linen, and may arts ribbon.

Enjoy~

Lazy Day

Okay I need to admit that I am feeling tired today and am a little lazy so won't be posting a new card today, but I will share with you the projects I created for October Card Club at Anchor Paper on University Avenue.

If you live in the area and want to join us please call Anchor Paper to sign up. You make 9 projects total for a cost of $20. Card Club is always the 3rd Sunday of the Month and runs from 1 - 4 pm.