Happy Saturday - A Little TAWS and DS109...

Hey all! How's the weekend treating you so far?  I'm getting a haircut (much needed!) this afternoon in preparation to see Les Miserables in Edmonton tomorrow night with my oldest DS!  So excited!  I've seen it once before in the early 90's (I know...I'm old:) but this time will be special. :)

In the meantime, I've got a quick card to share with you this morning.  I used this week's Deconstructed Sketch and one of the stamps from The Alley Way Stamps' Pillow Talk to create the horizontal panels seen on the sketch.  The sentiment is from Life is Short and, instead of a bow, I stamped a couple of the crayons from Learning Curve, tied 'em up with some yummy Limeade Baker's Twine from Trendy Twine and popped them on there:

I stamped the background in a rainbow pattern to get a few more "crayon colors"  in there.  :)  I hope you all have a fantastic weekend - thanks for stopping by!

 

4CCC-150 {3-D Projects} & DD60

It's time for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks' Challenge and this week I'm your hostess with the mostest - aren't you lucky?  This week, we're looking for some amazing 3-D Projects - boxes, bags, canvases, knit, crochet...you decide.  This is a bit of a departure from our usual challenge but I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

For my project, I made a fun little bag of treats - I found these yummy peanut butter-filled pretzels at Costco and filled a little cello bag full, added a bit of an "envelope" for it and voila!!!  I used an image and sentiment from The Alley Way Stamps' set Land HO and combined it with this week's Dynamic Duos color combo - perfect for a tropical bird:

And a quick side view:

I hope you will come and play along - we'd love to see what you create that ISN'T a card.  :)  Thanks for stopping by!

 

BE Inspired #32 & Mojo Monday 300 (again...)

Hi everyone! Did you all survive your 4th of July holiday?  I hope you all enjoyed some time off with family and friends...that's what holidays are all about.  :)

It's time for a brand new BE Inspired Challenge over at The Alley Way Stamps blog.  This week's picture is a fun one - so many fun ideas swirling around in my head:

This will come as no surprise to anyone (giggle), but I decided to go with the colors in the picture.  I know - I can hear you all gasping and falling out of your chairs because that is so unexpected from me.  ;)  I thought the neutrals worked well with the orange hues in the polka dots so went with it:

The stamps are from TAWS All About You and this month's freebie set, Iconic.  I used the Mojo Monday sketch again just because it's so darn awesome (and there are goodies up for grabs just for playing along!):

Thanks for stopping by today - enjoy your weekend!  See you next week!

 

4CCC-149 {Dry Embossing} & Mojo300 & Fusion 13

Happy Independence Day to all my wonderful American friends!  I'm sure you will all be busy celebrating today so when you are all finished with that, I hope you will join us for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge.  This week Leanne is our hostess-with-the-mostest and she's got an EASY one for us all this week: Dry Embossing.  Use a stencil, embossing folder or whatever else you've got that you can dry emboss with.  I know most of you have a bunch of embossing folders so get 'em out and use them!

For my card I used a couple different folders - a fantastic woodgrain one from Stampin' UP! that I used on the birdhouse and the big flag and then a leafy branch one on the white layer.  I thought it was kind of like the trunk of the tree and the branches/leaves that a birdhouse would hang from.  The stamps are from two different TAWS sets, Tag-alongs and Bird Brain:

The sketch is this week's Mojo Monday sketch - celebrating 300 sketches!!  Wow...I can hardly believe Julee has been blessing us with fabulous sketches for so long - thanks, Julee.  :)

And the card was inspired by this week's Fusion Card Challenge Inspiration picture - the colors of the birds and the bird theme:

Thanks for stopping by today - enjoy the day and upcoming weekend!  We're heading out to visit my parents for some much-needed R&R...see you next week!

It's YARR Birthday! {DD59} & {JUGS195} & {RS70}

HELLO!!!   I hope everyone had an amazing weekend - we celebrated Canada Day with a long weekend and the weather was absolutely gorgeous so I wasn't inside much but I did manage to find a few minutes on Sunday morning to whip up a few birthday tags to add to my stash.

I am loving the two pirate-y sets from The Alley Way Stamps' new release...Blackbeard's Loot and Land Ho! work perfectly together and when you combine them with bits and pieces of other sets, you can use then for almost any occasion.  My sentiment uses a word from each of these sets: Blackbeard's Loot, All About YOU and Wish BIG. 

I also combined three challenges this time:

• The colors are from Dynamic Duos - I chose Real Red as my other color.

• Normally I would have just made one card but this week's Just Us Girls challenge inspired me to create the four tags:

• And the sketch is from the Retrosketches crew - slightly adapted to make a tag:  ETA: *and I realize now that I totally CASEd Kasia's card... I didn't even notice until I went back to the RS blog that I'd used the almost exact same images/shapes.  Funny how you think you have a fabulous idea but then realize it was someone else's first. ;) *

And here's a close up of each of the two designs - basically the same but a bit different with the background stamping:

Alrighty - that's it for me.  Thanks for stopping in today!  See you on Thursday!

 

Blog Hoppin' With The Alley Way Stamps!

WOOHOO!!! It's a BLOG HOP!!! And YOU could win all three new TAWS sets - so exciting!

YEP!! So if you want to be that person.. all you have to do is comment on the hop! Here are ways you can win - you can pick and choose which ones you want to do, but the more you comment, the more chances you have to win:

1-Comment on The Alley Way Stamps Blog 
2-Comment on the DT girls blogs (below)
3-Post about it on Facebook or your blog
4-Like us on Facebook (leave a separate comment for each that you do)

You have until tonight at 9:00p.m. TAWS time to leave your comments. This month we are doing something fun - Trendy Twine has given us some twine to play with so be on the look-out for some creations using the twine in a fun and different way.

This fun mini set, Iconic, is FREE when you spend $40.00 or more during the month of July!! Nothing to do but shop & this little guy will be added to your package:

For my card I used one of the robots from last month's release, Bot Time, and combined it with a couple of the images from Iconic, this month's set that can be your for FREE when you spend $40 or more (before shipping) in the TAWS store!!!

Fun, right???  There are some other awesome images in this freebie set - you're gonna WANT it... ;)

Off you go to the last stop in the hop - Miss Stacey's blog!   If you just *happened* upon my blog, please go back to the beginning as see what the rest of the team created  - you won't be sorry you did.  :)  Happy Canada Day tomorrow to all my Canuckian friends!

4CCC-148 {Cupcakes} & TAWS Day Two Sneak Peek & RS69

Here we are again - another Thursday and that means a brand-new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge!  This week, Lori is our hostess-with-the-mostest and she must be in a celebratory mood because the theme this week is "Cupcakes."  Who doesn't love a yummy cupcake?

But do you know what else today is???  It's Day TWO of The Alley Way Stamps new release sneak peeks!!!  Do you know what *that* means?  You could WIN today's set just by commenting at the TAWS blog so don't forget to pop over and see what the other girls created using this school-inspired set.

For my card, I decided to go in a different direction.  I love one of the sentiments that comes with this set and it is PERFECT for all those super-awesome people in your life.  I made this card for one of the ladies that works with my son, J., at school.  Many of you know he has autism and the gals that work with him on a daily basis really are "out of this world." 

 The sketch is based on this week's RetroSketches...very "loosely" based:

Thanks for stopping in - I hope you will play with our cupcakes challenge at the 4CCC.  Don't forget about the TAWS blog hop on Sunday where you could win all THREE new sets!  See you then!