Childhood Memories at Sentimental Sundays

Welcome back for another Sentimental Sundays Challenge.  This week's challenge theme is "Childhood" - however you choose to interpret that theme - and don't forget your sentiment!

I decide to use one of my Pure Innocence girlies and the Little Paper Shop's Color Challenge for my card:

I also used Laura's sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You:

Stamp: Start Your Day With Whee (MFT)  Paper: Rose Red, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, SU! DSP  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Old Olive  Accessories: Copics, clear embossing powder, paper piercer, Leafy Tree embossing folder, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, sponge dauber

Thanks for stopping - enjoy the rest of your day!

With Sympathy at the 4 Crafty Chicks

It's a brand new challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks!  This week's hostess-with-the-mostess is yours truly and this week I am challenging you to make a sympathy card.  I always find that this type of card is one of the hardest to make and I don't make them very often but they are always nice to have on-hand for those unexpected moments.

I immediately knew I wanted to use Basic Black, Very Vanilla and Basic Grey and the SU! set, Thoughts and Prayers, for my card so I went in search of a sketch and found this lovely one at Unscripted Sketches:

I had to rotate the sketch 90 degrees to accomodate my tree image and added some ribbon and paper piercing to create this:

Recipe - Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers (SU!)  Ink: Basic Grey, Versafine Onyx Black  Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Basic Grey, SU! DSP  Accessories: paper piercer, black satin ribbon, dimensionals, Beautiful Wings embosslit, adhesive pearl, Victoria embossing folder

Take a few minutes to stop and see what the other Crafty Chicks created - they all did a fabulous job with this challenge.  I hope you will play along with us this week ~ I know it's not a really *fun* theme but it's one we will all need a card for sooner or later.  Enjoy your weekend - we are off to visit my mom and dad this afternoon but will be back on Sunday with a new Sentimental Sundays challenge.  See you then!

Wonderful Wednesday - Color Dare #84 and TESC #133

Here we are again - it's Wednesday and you know what that means, right?  Riley's new Color Dare color combination.  This week's combo was fun to work with: Soft Suede, Night of Navy and Pear Pizzazz.  I originally thought I'd make a nice sympathy card but when I discovered this stamp in my stash of new goodies, I knew I had to use it.  Once I had the image, I went in search of a sketch.  I found one that fit the bill over at Taylor's Sketch Challenge:

Recipe - Stamps: Ornament Trevor (CC Designs), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)  Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, SU! DSP  Ink: Night of Navy  Accessories: Paper piercer, Optic Dot border punch, Copics, buttons, Pear Pizzazz poly-twill ribbon, Swiss Dots embossing folder 

Make sure to stop and see what the rest of the design team created with these fabulous colors - I'm sure they will awe and inspire you.  Thanks for stopping by today - see you tomorrow for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge.

Colour Q Meets Mercy's Tuesday Sketch

Hey everyone!  Welcome to another Tuesday - it's a lovely, sunny, fall-ish day today here in Central Alberta and I'm SO looking forward to the weekend.  First things first...I have to say THANK YOU to all the ladies over at the Colour Q for choosing me as a Colour Q Courtier for this card.  I am so excited that you loved it as much as I did!

I'm not sure how Arielle finds such great inspiration pictures but I am totally LOVING this week's Colour Q combo (even if that Cajun Craze is in there AGAIN...do you really love it *that* much, Arielle?  ;)

And Mercy's Tuesday Sketch looked like an good-and-easy one to incorporate all of those colors:

Stamps: Utopia Collection (Kaisercraft), Psalm 121 Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke  Paper: Whisper White, So Saffron, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze  Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Always Artichoke seam binding, button, twine, paper piercer, corner rounder, Copics (G99, E08, E29, E79, YR23, YR31), Labels Five, sponge dauber

Thanks for stopping by - see you tomorrow for a new Color Dare! 

PPC #38 Meets Connie & Mary!

Hello everyone!  Here we are at the beginning of a brand new week - are you ready for it?  We've got a short week of school with Remembrance Day on Thursday and then the kids have a PD Day on Friday so no school that day either.  Sometimes I wonder when they *do* go to school!  LOL  Anyhow, I think we're going to make a trip down to visit my mom and dad again - Josh asks daily to go visit Gran & Gramps.

This week's color combination from Megan at Picture Perfect Creations had me confuzzled for a little while before I found a sketch to go with it:

While out and about in Blogland, I came across a new-to-me challenge, Create With Connie and Mary, and this week's challenge is a sketch:

I interpreted the sketch very literally this time...didn't have time to overthink this one:

Recipe - Stamps: Flowers in Silhouette (SU!), Celebrating You (Verve)  Ink: Bravo Burgundy Paper: Very Vanilla, Bravo Burgundy, Baja Breeze, Concord Crush, SU! DSP  Accessories: Divine Swirls embossing folder, Oval Nesties, paper piercer, adhesive pearls, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by - enjoy your Monday!  Make sure to stop and see what the other PPC Creators created with these colors.  See you on Wednesday for a new Color Dare.

Totally Stampalicious Goes Monochromatic

Are you ready for a challenge?  When I saw this week's challenge at Totally Stampalicious, I was a little bit scared.  I admit it ~ I like colors.  Lots of colors.  But blue isn't one of my favorites... not sure why but I will go to almost any other color before I go to blue if given the choice.  So, when asked to make a monochromatic, BLUE card, I paused.  But, not one to give up before getting started, I set to work.

I blog surfed for a bit and found a sketch that would fit my image perfectly over at Eat Sleep Stamp:

Recipe - Stamps: Let it Snow Stella (Totally Stampalicious)  Ink: Not Quite Navy  Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, SU! DSP  Accessories: Paper piercer, Nesties, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Bashful Blue satin ribbon, adhesive pearls, dimensionals, Copics

Thanks for stopping by this morning - have fun creating a monochromatic blue card.  Enjoy your Monday!

A "For Fun" Sunday Card

Hey there crafty peeps!  How's your weekend treating you?  Things here have been pretty quiet - did some baking and cleaning yesterday while DH and DS#1 were at a volleyball tournament and then got a *little* bit of extra sleep this morning...WOOHOO for the time change!  I have to make some cookies today but wanted to make a quick card before I do.

The Play Date Cafe's combination this week is so pretty - a final ode to summer... *sigh*

I decided to use Groovy Guava, Certainly Celery and Whisper White.  Off I went in search of a sketch and found the perfect one over at Just us Girls:

At first glance, my instinct was to interpret the sketch VERY literally and make a flower...but that's BORING, right?  *grin*  So, I dug out my Beautiful Wings embosslit and made it into a butterfly:

Recipe - Stamp: {Topiary} Little Paper Shop  Ink: Groovy Guava, Certainly Celery  Paper: Certainly Celery, Groovy Guava, Whisper White, SU! DSP  Accessories: Buttons, sewing machine, Leafy Braqnch embossing folder, Beautiful Wings embosslit, Beaded Ovals Nesties, dimensionals, Groovy Guava ribbon, sponge dauber

Thanks for stopping by this morning - I'm off to bake Chocolate Chip/Peanut Butter Chip cookies!  Yummy...see you tomorrow!