Recipe Challenge at There She Goes!

Welcome to the weekend everyone!  I have a quick card for you all today for this week's There She Goes challenge - create a card or project with the following recipe: A snowflake and a bird (it must have both images), and at least one kind of ribbon or a button.  Easy peasy, right?

I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch and the color inspiration came from a new My Mind's Eye paper pad, 12 Days of Christmas:

Stamps: No Peeking (out of stock), BOL Holiday Additions (out of stock) - both TSG  Paper: Lucky Limeade, Riding Hood Red, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, 12 Days of Christmas (MME)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Embossing powder, Snowflakes embossing folder, paper piercer, Snowflakes die (Sizzix), button, twine, Copics

That's it for me - lots to do today!  Get ready for a fabulous week of sneak peeks for the TSG release next week - Jess has some FANTASTIC sets for you all this month.  :)  Later!

Paper Piecing With the 4 Crafty Chicks!

Welcome back!  How's your November going so far?  The boys all had last week off from school so we spent some of the time away visiting family and now we're back for the long stretch before Christmas (which will be here before we know it!)  Tamie is our hostess with the mostest this week at the 4 Crafty Chicks and she is challenging you all to show us some paper piecing.  This is such a fun technique and always looks so fantastic.

For my card, I used Arielle's Colour Q combo and Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch (both from last week). I was also able to play along with TCP Tuesday's Challenge "Food Fight." For this challenge, I had to use a TCP stamp with food in it - I got to use my cute "Forget About the Cake" set with that cute-as-a-button, flopsy-eared bunny and paper pieced the cake:

Stamps: Forget About the Cake, A Girl and Her Cake (TCP)  Ink: Soft Suede  Paper: Soft Suede, Peach Parfait, Very Vanilla, Dusty Durango, various DSP scraps  Accessories: Apron border die (TCP), Copics, button, twine, paper piercer

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your day!  I hope you will play along with us this week.

Oh Baby!!

Welcome Back!  How's everyone doing today?  I have been VERY lazy this week - the kids have a week off for Fall Break and we've done a whole lotta nuthin'!  It's been soooo nice to sleep in a bit and take the day as it comes...slow and leisurely.  :)

So...it's time for another 4 Crafty Chicks challenge and I'm your hostess with the mostest this week and I want to see some BABY-themed projects.  I don't have many friends who are still having babies but it's always nice to have one or two cards on hand just-in-case!

I used a PERFECT color combo from the gals over at the CR84FN Color Challenge and the sketch is one of Julee's Mojo Monday masterpieces:

Stamps: To The Moon, Tag Time (Verve)  Ink: Pink Pirouette, Versafine Onyx Black  Paper: SU! DSP, Basic Black, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette  Accessories: Sewing machine, Curvy Bookplate die (Verve), Circle Nesties, Tipsy Hearts die (Sizzix), button, twine, metal clip pin

I hope you will play along with us this week - have fun!  Thanks for stopping by.  :)

4 Crafty Chicks #62 {Die Cuts}

We've got a fun challenge for you this week at the 4 Crafty Chicks.  Leanne is our hostess with the mostest and she wants to see die cuts on your card/project.  Use your spellbinders, your sizzix, your Tim Holtz... whatever you've got - we want to see 'em!

For my card I used one of this month's Viva la Verve sketches (rotated, of course...) and my circle nestabilities:

Stamps: Words of Wisdom (Verve)  Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Purely Pomegranate, Lost & Found Two - Blush DSP (MME)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Pink Pirouette  Accessories: Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon, sewing machine, Nesties, buttons

Thanks for stopping in today - I'm guessing there will be many of you playing along this week since it's a pretty easy one, right?  I can't wait to see what you create!  Later, gators!

A Double Dose of Viva la Verve-aliciousness!

Happy Hump Day everyone!  How's your week been going so far?  Things here have been busy and the weather is getting progressively cooler...a definite chill in the air which can only mean one thing - the white stuff is inevitably on its way.  I'm not exactly looking forward to it but it makes everything look so pretty.  ;)

This morning I sat down to get a couple of cards done for this month's Viva la Verve Sketch challenge.  I had two left to do and wanted to get them out of the way before I forgot about them!  I LOVE the colors in this week's TCP Tuesday challenge (my favorite kind of challenge!) so I had to use them along with one of my new TCP sets, "Oh Chute!"  Isn't that bunny the cutest little thing you ever did see???  I must apologize to Maureen right now for totally missing the ribbon/bow part of her Week Three sketch - I took a few other liberties with the sketch as well...please forgive me, Moe?  I can send chocolate if that will help... ;)

Stamps: Oh Chute (TCP)  Ink: Early Espresso, Memento Tuxedo Black  Paper: Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Early Espresso, Whisper White, SU! DSP and Happy Days DSP (Echo Park) Accessories: Circus Panels Cut-Ups die, Circle Nesties, paper piercer, twine, button, Copics, Clouds border Cut-Ups die, Square Lattice embossing folder

Now for my second card - this one combines the Viva la Verve Week Five sketch with this week's Color Throwdown combo.  I've also used the There She Goes challenge "Au Naturale" to use twine, canvas, or some other "natural" material on your card.  Oh...yeah... I made a few adjustments to this sketch too... GOSH, can't I just leave a sketch alone?  LOL

Stamps: Follow Your Bliss (There She Goes), Graph Paper Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Old Olive  Paper: Miscellaneous DSP scraps, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Baja Breeze  Accessories: Loopy Blooms die, Rounded Scallop Frame die (Verve), World's Best die (tag, TSG), twine, button, sewing machine

So, there you have it - that's how I spent my Wednesday morning.  Now I guess I'd better get the *real* work done 'cause it won't do itself.  :)  Have a fabulous day everyone and don't forget about the new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge tomorrow morning!  See you then!

Friday Fun With Acetate!

Oh my gosh - I am so excited to show you what I created for you all today!  I was surfing the web this morning and posted my Facebook status as being soooooo happy to have received a TON of happy mail yesterday - a yummy Verve order, a TCP order and some goodies I had ordered from Scrappin' Great Deals. (I know - awesome, right?)  So, my friend, Miss Jenny Peterson chimed in and suggested that I put some of those supplies to good use and participate in this week's TCP Tuesday Challenge #182 to use acetate in a project.  You know - acetate?  That clear, plastic, transparency stuff?  It just so happened that I had a whole box of them in my filing cabinet so I was in luck.

Initially, I wasn't sure what to do with it... Use it for die cuts?  As the base of a card?  I popped over to Splitcoast for some inspiration and came across this tutorial to make your own note card holder and  I had one of my "light bulb moments."  OK - so today is my anniversary... 16 years of wedded bliss.  We have had our ups and downs like any couple, but for the most part, the years have flown by and have been filled with much joy and happiness.  SO, I thought I would make some "tickets" using my NEW TCP stamp set, "Admit One, " and my new TCP Cut-Ups dies (Big Ticket, Circus Panels, and Circus Border) and then make one of the little boxes to hold the tickets.  Fun, right?  I LOVE the colors for this week's CR84FN Color Challenge and HAD to use them for this project:

I started by making the little box using some acetate for the sides ... please excuse the holes in the acetate.  I originally had a handle on the box but didn't like how it looked so I took it off!  LOL

Then I got busy making four tickets to put in it.  I think I will make some more but I figured that was a good number to start with.  I LOVE how versatile this "Admit One" set is... I was even able to stamp our wedding date on the tickets!

After I used the Big Ticket die to cut the tickets out of white cardstock, I mounted them on some DSP from Pink Paislee and My Mind's Eye and then mounted the whole thing on acetate.  When I decide what sort of "treats" the tickets will be good for, I will just write them in.  Don't you LOVE it?  I am SOOOOO happy with how it turned out and SOOOOOO easy.  You could make just the tickets and give them to your kids as "rewards" - good for one meal of your choice, good for one day of dishes done by mom.... you get the idea!

I had so much fun this morning - THANKS Jenny!!  And thanks for the challenge, TCP - it *was* a challenge for me but a really great one.  Enjoy your weekend, everyone.  See you next week!

{Day Three} of There She Goes Peeks!

*Please scroll down for my 4 Crafty Chicks post - Thanks!*

Kids love to countdown the days until Christmas is finally here and with this new set illustrated by Torico, you are going to have just as much fun creating a countdown advent calendar! With 25 different adorable holiday images and two sets of numbers the possibilities are endless! To make this set even more useable, there are two decorative circles and two decorative squares that were designed to be used with a 1 3/8” punch!!

No Peeking! is a 6x8 set that includes a total of 53 stamps and will sell for $24.

I was able to use three of the images inside of the fantabulous stitched frame for my card.  No sketch, no color challenge - this one's all me.  The sentiment is from last month's release set "BOL Holiday Additions"

Paper: Season's Greetings DSP (Echo Park), Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla  Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black  Accessories: 1-3/8" Square punch, Very Vanilla satin ribbon, World's Greatest die (TSG), button, twine, Nesties Squares, paper piercer, Copics

Would you like to win the new No Peeking! stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post. 

You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday October 29th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.