Christmas Colors at the Color Dare

Only 17 more sleeps until Christmas?  Are you kidding me?  I {need} to get my stuff together and get my shopping done...*sigh*  Are you ready?

This week's combination from Riley at the Color Dare is a perfect one to use getting some of those last-minute Christmas cards done: Old Olive, Riding Hood Red and a neutral of your choice.  I totally love this combo.  :)

I paired these colors with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch - loving all these layers - and tried to keep it CAS:

Stamps: Snow Wonderful (Verve), Ms. Holiday Cheer (CTMH)  Ink: Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Versamark  Paper: Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, SU! DSP, Basic Grey DSP  Accessories: Baker's twine, paper piercer, buttons, Winter Wonderland embossing powder

Enjoy your day - I am off to the gym this afternoon for my dose of torture and then hopefully I can get some shopping done???  If you have time to play with us this week, we'd love to see what you create so make sure to link us up so we can leave you some lovin'.  See you tomorrow for a new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!

Eat, Sleep, Stamp & Picture Perfect Creations

Happy Monday, everyone!  Welcome back for another week and a brand-new Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo.  This week's combination has a distinctly "fall" feeling to it:

Guess what I did next?  Ahhhh...You all know me so well...*grin*  I found a delightful sketch over at Eat, Sleep, Stamp and a-crafting I went:

Stamps: Vintage Labels  Paper: Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Cajun Craze DSP  Ink: Cherry Cobbler  Accessories: Oval punch, paper piercer, Birds and Swirls embossing folder, Square Lattice embossing folder, Sizzlits Lots of Tags Label 1, adhesive pearls, Sizzlits Little Leaves, Flower Buttons Die, buttons, baker's twine

I hope you can take some time to play with us this week - we all love popping in and checking out your blogs.  I'll see you back here on Wednesday for another Color Dare!

Sentimental Sundays' Anniversary Challenge

Hello crafty peeps!  How is everyone doing this fine Sunday morning?  Can believe that in exactly 3 weeks, Christmas will be OVER?  YIKES!  I am soooooo far behind, I think I'm ahead.  *sigh*  Oh well, it's all good and it {will} get done, right?  Right????  (please nod in agreement even if you don't...:)

Anyhow, this week's challenge over at Sentimental Sundays is a pretty simple one and another kind of card I don't usually make - Anniversary.  So, let's see those anniversary cards - don't forget your sentiment!

I absolutely {LOVE} this week's Color Throwdown combination because you could use it for so many different kinds of cards: wintry, boys, sympathy...very versatile:

My sketch comes courtesy of Julee at Mojo Monday - my card is a VERY loose interpretation of the square sketch:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Fresh Cuts (SU!)  Paper: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Whisper White, SU! DSP  Ink: Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist  Accessories: Nesties, adhesive pearls, paper piercer, bashful Blue satin ribbon, button, twine

I hope you are all enjoying this Christmas season - we'd love it if you could play with us this week at Sentimental Sundays - everyone needs to take a creative break, right?  I'll see you back here tomorrow for a brand new Picture Perfect Creations Color Challenge!  Toodles!

Red & White Friday Fun

Hello everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed your week and are looking forward to the weekend...how many of you are going to be Christmas shopping?  I don't {want} to go out but I may have to...*sigh*  I have had a busy day today and would like to just stay home and hibernate but we'll see what the rest of the family wants to do.  Maybe they'll all go away and leave me alone in the house... ah, a girl can dream, can't she?

Anyhoo, today's card is a combination of the Play Date Cafe's fabulous color combination and clean&simple stamping's sketch:

Don't you LOVE red and white together?  So bright and uplifting for any time of the year...

Stamps: Tiny Tags  Ink: Cherry Cobbler  Paper: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler  Accessories: Paper piercer, Northern Flurries embossing folder, Seeing Spots embossing folder, oval punches, adhesive pearls and rhinestones, baker's twine, button, Cherry Cobbler seam binding, ribbon slider (Hodgepodge Hardware), sponge dauber

Thanks for peeking tonight - dinner's almost ready and then I think I'll spend some time on the couch watching a movie... we have "The Expendables" that I haven't seen yet so maybe I'll pop it in.  Enjoy your evening - see you Sunday!

Happy Birthday at the 4 Crafty Chicks!

Here we are at Thursday again!  How did that happen?  The week seems to go by so quickly and now that the countdown to Christmas is on, the time seems to go by a whole lot faster.

This week's challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks is brought to us by Leanne and she has given us a birthday theme to work with.  I don't make many birthday cards on a regular basis and my supply has been dwindling so I was glad to have the chance to make one to add to the box.  :)

I have had so much fun using Arielle's colourQ combinations over the last few weeks I thought I'd pop over and see what she had for us this week and, boy oh  boy, is it a doozy:

Are you all laughing at me again?  You know how much I *love* the wonderful Pacific Point...(insert eyeroll here).  BUT, not one to give up a good challenge, off I went in search of a sketch to inspire and found the perfect one over at Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge:

I rotated it 90 degrees and voila:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy (SU!)  Ink: Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Soft Suede  Paper: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point, Soft Suede  Accessories: Paper piercer, Soft Suede grosgrain ribbon, button, twine, Twizzle embossing folder

Thanks for stopping by today - if you have some time so play along with us at the 4 Crafty Chicks, we'd love to see what you create so make sure you link us up with inlinkz.  Enjoy the rest of your week!

Thank You, Thank You - What a Week!

Hey there everyone!

I just wanted to take a few minutes to send out THANKS for some badges I won over the last week:

#1 - The Play Date Cafe honored me with the "Cream in our Coffee" badge for this card:

#2 - Paper Sundaes honored me with the Top Three for this card:

#3 - I was crowned the Colour Queen over at Arielle's colourQ challenge for this card!

#4 - I was a Pals Paper Arts Artists Pick over at Pals Paper Arts for this fun card:

I am so excited and honored for the recognition - I create for fun but it really is nice when others think your stuff isn't hideous!  LOL  I hope you will check out some of these challenges if you haven't already - they have WONDERFUL design teams and their work is always inspiring! 

I am ready to watch Survivor tonight - with my blanket and tea and cold medicine.  :)  Enjoy the rest of your day!

Clean and Simple for the Color Dare

Welcome to December, everyone!  You all know what *that* means... only 24 more sleeps until Christmas!  ACK!  Have you started shopping yet?  I have {just} started but I wish I was done!  LOL  I think the majority of my shopping will be *virtual* shopping this year...not really interested in braving the crazy people in the malls! 

So instead of Christmas shopping, I have been busy crafting!  That's what a girl *should* do, right?  :)  This week's color combination from Riley at the Color Dare is an interesting one: Concord Crush, Perfect Plum, and Chocolate Chip.  At first, I thought, "Cool... two purples and chocolate... easy peasy."  Well, not so easy 'cause when I pulled out the Concord, I realized how much of a blue-purple it is.

I found this lovely, CAS sketch over at clean&simple stamping and knew it would be perfect:

Stamps: Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Chocolate Chip, Perfect Plum  Paper: Concord Crush, Whisper White,
Perfect Plum  Accessories: Paper piercer, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Nestabilities, sponge dauber, button, baker's twine

That's it for me today - thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out the rest of the DT's creations...their links are to the left.  Enjoy your day - see you tomorrow with a new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!