Today, my SCS friend Judi Rose is the FS!! How sweet is that??
I love her layouts, her CAS cards, her wonderful sense of humor, and her generosity!! These are the two cards I made this morning that are cases of two of hers. There is more info on my SCS gallery. Congrats again, dear friend. You are so deserving of this honor. Enjoy your week !!
On the left is a card I made for the challenge yesterday, punches and ribbon.
On the right is the card I made for today, and it sure could have been for yesterday too!!
Have a fab day, enjoy the sun if you have it!!!!
I think you can figure out the ribbon used here. The TRIM part is such fun! Trim refers to border punches..... I just got the MS Lattice punch, so I used it twice, on each edge to make a full lattice. Since I was using a new punch, I also just got the MS butterfly, so this is here too.
Looks pretty simple, but it took about an hour to make. Guess an easy idea takes more time. Once I get the hang of this punch it will go faster. Thanks for looking today, and for your nice comments (it sure encourages me!!). Have a good one!
Happy Thursday! Time for the Treehouse Thursday Challenge. This week's challenge is to use Paper Piecing in a card or project.
The colors are just so earthy, bright, and gorgeous, aren't they?? I took these colors and a wonderful image (Southwestern is close to Mexican, right???) from Rubbernecker for my card today.
I made a layout based on the decorations of the clothing (blanket? serape?). I just love this Native American woman. I dressed her in bold colors of yellow, blue, and green. She has a copper bead on her neckpiece, and copper beads on her belt. Her hands are open in a wonderful gesture that I took to be PEACE. With a copper pen, I faux stitched and added a sentiment. The bottom border is from EKSuccess, called Zig-Zag.
Today's hostess for the Doubledog Dare Challenge is Joanne (sleepyinseattle) who DARED us to make a St. Patrick's Day card. Easy peasy!!
Inside, it says "I don't look all that Irish!"
Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday teaparty takes us to NO to the Mardi Gras, where masks are the costume of the day. I think this mask is hysterical. I hope you like it.
The Color Challenge today is a pretty weird combination ....... one I would never consider! The two plums, pale and perfect, and Soft Suede. I used one of my all-time favorite images with some markers, punches, pearls, and a shiny satin ribbon.
So Holly posted the TLC260, a matchbook candy holder, and I made one to match! This tutorial is such fun and so easy!! I'll be making these for my mom and all the grands!!! I think these are so cute!!
The FS at SCS today is HamiltonGal, Laurie. Her gallery is a lot of fun, and I found nine (!) cards I'll be casing this week.
I think these both make nice St. Patrick's Day cards to add to those I've already done. I don't send out that many, so I'm almost there.
Today, in addition to valentine's Day , is DH's birthday. We'll be busy the rest of the day, so there'll be no comments. Have no fear, I'll be looking at your posts tomorrow! Have a Happy!
The Inspiration Challenge today took us to an interesting artwork site:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Geninne
Rather than send you there to see what inspired me, I put a picture of it beside the card I made this morning so you could compare. I made this a Spring/Summer deer, rather than winter. It will go to my uncle who lives in NH, who is VERY dear to me. He lives surrounded by lovely woods with few neighbors, and often has deer in his yard. I think he would like this. That's it. Have a great day.
The RESQ32 Challenge is to try a new technique.......faux snakeskin. Now before you go EEEEEEEAWWWWWW!!, take a look at how this tutorial works:http://resqchallenge.blogspot.com/.
Isn't that fabulous, mostly because you KNOW we all save everything, so you surely have some of this netting stuff!!
This is my card for the challenge. Inside it says,
"He had a CAR???????"
My friends know I only make humorous St.Patrick's Day cards, so they will expect this. If you join the challenge, add RESQ32 to your keyword.
Today I started cards for the next holiday. I don't make or send out a lot of cards in March, but the ones I do send out are to friends who expect them. I like to make them humorous, and do something no one anticipates. I love to use animal images, and this chicken really appealed to me this morning.
I made this one for the WT challenge on SCS ... to use odd numbers of things. As you can tell, there is just one of each item... ribbon, brad, tag, image. This was fun to paint. I really love Penny Black stamps because the faces are always so cute. I hope you like this. You'll be seeing green cards for a while!!
* be sure to check out my THT036 below *
Today is the day TreehouseStamps is releasing a whole group of new digi stamps. Here is one of the images from the set called "Hello Friend". I just adore this happy face!!
The background is also Treehouse DP called Flower, and it comes in a variety of colors. I hope you can see the glitter on the wings, and the sweet pink cheeks onthis high flier!! Be sure to check out the whole DT and go to the store here:
I think the sketch challenge today at SCS makes the cutest little birthday card for a little boy! My cousin's son, Chase, is turning one year old. Doesn't time fly! Especially when you look at someone else's children!!
I figured out how to cut these sailboats with my punches to make them out-of-the-box. It's a look I really love. The dp came from Ireland, via Sabrina (cook 22), and it's just wonderful!
Have a great day today..... we are awaiting a snowstorm, schools are closed or are releasing early, and there has been a run on snow removal stuff and food. We are hunkering down. Ah well, it IS winter!
(I cut down from the top of the sail on either side. I fitted my punch around the image, and with tweezers, lifted the sail up so it wasn't punched. Clever, huh?)
Tuesday is Doubledog Dare Challenge day. This week's hostess is Joan (joan ervin) who DARED us to make a get well card. 'Tis the season, I guess. If you made it this far, there's no saying a winter cold won't strike - winter is FAR from over.
We hope you will join us in this easy peasy challenge, and please add DDC to your keyword so we can enjoy it.
This is also for the CC today on SCS. The colors are Sage, Durango, and Chocolate Chip. I got to use my Outlaw dp from SU! and some vanilla, and it really was a quick CAS card. Hope you like it, and that you are having a wonderful day. Hugs to you all!
Here's a sneak peek of a new digi set called "Hello Friends" that will be available on Feb. 11th at Treehousestamps. I used this fun image for the TLC this morning at SCS for a technique by Holly McMillan. It's Frosted Windows, and involves vellum, which I don't use very often.
I added a bee hive and comb, some little tiny bees, and a prima with brad. I don't use my Nesties often enough either, so this was an event!!! Don't forget to check out Treehouse for their new arrivals!
For the CAS today, theirs was an inspiration site of old fashioned candy. For us oldsters, it wasn't old fashioned at all!! We had a penny candy store just a few houses away, and for a penny, you could get a LOT!! I loved buttons, so that's what I used here, and of course I had to use RED! This card took 5 minutes, and only one little stamp, a punch and some ribbon! Have a great day!
And just how cute is this image??? For the Treehouse Thursday Challenge, I have used this stamp from Whiff of Joy called Angel with Heart. This image is available at TreehouseStamps.com if you would like one too.
The challenge today is to make a card using RED, white, and pink. Right up my alley, right? I painted the image in SU colors, cut out the oval with my CM cutting system, and put lace all around. Very girlie! Finished it off with punches, heart brads, and corners.
Please join us by uploading with THT035 in your keyword, and check out the rest of the DT's work!! See you next week.
Our inspiration today comes from this image from Better Homes and Gardens, where you can see a variety of wonderful Valentine gifts. As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat good old CANDY!! My card follows the theme of hearts, candy and my favorite color, RED. I made an easel card with a calendar, highlighting the date with the stamped heart. I think this card would be perfect for my DH whose birthday is that day!!!
The theme for the Creative Belli Challenge this week is RIBBONS. There are no restrictions! We want you to use whatever you have on hand in your stash. Using what we have is so smart ... it gives us new space for MORE STUFF! LOL!Today we are being sponsored by Sweet & Sassy Stamps. They have very recently gone digital. If you want your images quickly, easy to store, and less cash outlay, digital is the way to go. Be sure to visit them, and tell them we sent you! My card features one of their new digis called Benjamin Bunny.
http://www.sweetnsassystamps.biz/shop/
Speaking of visiting, please go to my sidebar and visit the DT to see what they have done. Join us in using ribbon on your card or project, and be sure to put CBC in your keyword. If you link your card to our Belli blog, http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.com/there is a $10.00 prize offered by Korin at Sweet & Sassy!!! Have fun!!
Here is a sneak peek of the new Hello Friends set by TreehouseStamps that will be available February 11th, here:
