Autumn Love

There's a great challenge going on over at Tonic in support of OWH's birthday bash celebration, so I wanted to join in for this one. The challenge is to use your favorite Tonic punch and create an autumn-themed card. I really had to put my brain into overdrive to come up with this card, because the only Tonic punch I have is the double hearts you see on this card! Hearts and autumn...........hmmmm...........it took me a while to come up with an idea for a card. I used 2 stamp sets to coordinate the hearts punch and autumn theme and I thought "sending love when autumn leaves are falling" would work. The "sending love" is from a new SNSS stamp set called "Christmas Tags" and the bottom sentiment was done using a Paper Co Studio stamp set, and was done using True Thyme ink, stamped off once for a more subtle look. After cutting out the leaves, I sponged them with color and embossed them using clear detail ep.

Huge thanks to Tonic for having this great challenge in support of OWH, and be sure to click the link to get the rules for playing along!

That's it for me.............but I'll be back soon with more :)

Carol

stamps - SNSS Christmas Tags, The Paper Co Studio Autumn

paper - K&Co Tim Coffey Fall, white, orange, black, rose red, so saffron

ink - Versafine onyx black, Versamark, Ranger distress fired brick, vintage photo, antique linen, peeled paint, tattered rose, Memento tangelo, dandelion, SU! true thyme (retired)

accessories- Tonic hearts punch, Spellbinders leaf dies, brown & green Tombow markers (veins on leaves) clear detail ep, foam tape

SNSDC22 a Color Challenge

The friday challenge over at the SNSDC this week is a color recipe of red, purple & yellow, plus one neutral. I used this fun Cheese for Cocoa digi image for my card, and colored him with Copics. I used 2 different dp's from an Echo Park pack and added a strip of embossed red cardstock across the middle. I stamped the sentiment and used a ticket punch and 3 eyelets in the challenge colors to attach it to the image panel. I used some glossy accents on the ribbon for shine.

You don't need to use a SNSS digi image to play along with our challenges, but we sure love to see them when you do! If you play along with this challenge, please use the keyword SNSDC22 when uploading to the galleries. Be sure and check out all the rest of the DT's fabulous creations by clicking here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous Friday!

Here's the Mouse Again!

It's Thursday which means it's time for another Crazy4Cocoa & Friends challenge! This week the challenge is to use die cuts on your card. If you don't have any dies, just use punches. I used Cocoa's Christmas tree digi image for my card, cutting him out by hand and popping him up on 2 different labels four die cuts. The dp is by Bo Bunny and I just let the paper do most of the work for me. I turned one corner down, and stuck a piece of matching tan cardstock into the corner just for a little interest. Then I used a tiny brad to hold the corner down. The bottom border was done with an EK punch in matching red cardstock, and it was just enough to break up all the green.

Thanks for stopping by today and if you find time to play along with us, use the keyword C4C17 when you upload to the galleries.

I wanted to take a minute to say thank you to all of my wonderful friends who sent cards and extended such thoughtful birthday wishes to me on Sunday! You made my birthday VERY special, and I thank each and every one of you for remembering :)

Have a fantastic Thursday!

Carol

Halloween is coming!

I have a couple Halloween cards to share today and both were made with free digital images. This cute little bat is a pre-colored digi from Fimolas-arts. I love colored digis, because I can put a card together in no time at all! For this I used Labels eighteen die cuts, and stamped a little tag for the sentiment. The pumpkin border was done with an EK punch and all I had to add was a little piece of ribbon! Quick and easy!
And this adorable image is from Marlene of Disguised As A Grownup. She made a few of these "nerdy kids" Halloween images, but this was my favorite. I think she's the cutest little thing! I embossed the green galore piece with a spider web ef from SU! and used the EK pumpkin punch for the border. She was colored with Copics and I added some yellow stickles to the kitty's eyes. The spider-web ribbon and orange trim were from my stash, and the sentiment is from a SU! set. Marlene offers a lot of free digi images for 24 hours, so if you like this one, head on over and become a follower so you won't miss out on future freebies!

That's it for me today, so have a happy Wednesday and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Happy Sunday!

This is for the Sweet Stop sketch #127 found here. I found these adorable country pumpkin images in the SNSS store recently, and couldn't wait to make a card with them. I printed them out and colored them with Copics and fussy cut them out. The larger one is popped up with dimensionals. I used some retired SU! Halloween papers, and punched out some leaves with a MS punch and an EK punch. The larger ones were sponged with fired brick, vintage photo, peeled paint, and tattered rose inks and I used a stenciling tool to create the veins. After they were inked, I covered them with clear detail ep and embossed them for a little shine. I added some veins to the smaller leaves, but didn't ink or emboss them. The tag was created with my Cricut, and I used another EK punch for the zig-zag, weaving bakers twine around it. The pumpkin border was done with an EK punch, and the white panel was done with a SU! square lattice ef.
This is for today's OWH sketch challenge #88 found here. I had the sentiment panel made for a while, so I just embossed some panels and added it to the front, along with a shiny heart brad. Quick and easy, and don't you love those hearts on the white background? That's an embossing folder from Sizzix that I won from CircleB Enterprises just by playing along with one of the Stars & Stamps birthday bash challenges! Woot! I love it!

That will do it for me today, but the sun is shining here in PA so I was finally able to get a few good photographs for a change! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we can enjoy the sun for at least a day or two!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Sunday!

Carol

SNSDC21 Border Punches

Happy Friday everyone - I'm here with my card for the SNSDC21 and this week the challenge is to use border punches. I used this SNSS Rhubarb Honey Bee image along with a sentiment

from the Bee sentiments 2 set. I colored Rhubarb with Copics and matted him on a petite oval scalloped die cut and added a punched border using a SU lace border punch with a scrap of polka dot dp. The sentiment was done with word window and fancy label punches and the background was done with a CB embossing folder on a scrap of yellow card stock.

Get those border punches out and come play along with us, and if you play along each week, you could win a nice prize at the end of the month! You don't need to use SNSS digi images, but we sure love to see them when you do! When uploading to the galleries, please tag with SNSDC21.

Thanks and have a great Friday!!

Carol

C4C16 - A Color Challenge

Hello and welcome to another Crazy4Cocoa & Friends challenge! This week we're challenging you to a color recipe for your cards. Use grey, white & teal (or blue). For my card I used this cute SNSS called Rhubarb's Birthday and colored him with Copics. I used some teal cardstock from Recollections, along with a scrap of double-sided black & grey. The ric-rac strip on top of the SU! ribbon is the reverse side of the grey striped DP, done with an EK chain punch. I used a retired corner punch for the main image, using gray and teal card stock panels to add a little interest. The starbursts were done with a mini punch, and they have Geo Sparklers stickers in the centers. The sentiment is from the SNSS Poppies & Greetings set, and was layered with circle punches, and a Quickutz bottlecap die cut.

If you play along with the challenge, please tag your creations with C4C16 when uploading to the galleries.

Carol

I'm still at it!

This card is for the SC351 sketch challenge found here. That's green galore card stock I used with the black, and a CB embossing folder.I used a sentiment from MFP and layered it with SU word window and fancy label punches.
This is for another Stars & Stamps challenge sponsored by Michelle's Scrap where "anything goes." I used one of Sandy's free state digis that's available from OWH. This one is Kansas and I used a new Sizzix diamond ef that I won from CircleB Enterprises for playing a previous challenge at Stars & Stamps. (thanks Veronica!) I colored it with Copics and added a chipboard button with bakers twine to the center.
This is for the Sweet Treats challenge over at the Stars & Stamps blog. This challenge is sponsored by Michelle Perkett Studio. I created the sweet treats by using MS cupcake punch, and used some scraps of PTI dp and pink cardstock. I also used an EK chain punch and SU! fancy scalloped border punch. Sentiment by Hero Arts. Quick and easy for this one!
And here is another card done for the Missouri state digi contest. Sandy drew this gorgeous digi of the Missouri state flower and it's free! I used royal purple and shimmer grey cardstock for this, embossing with the Swiss Dots ef, and adding some gray ribbon. The image was colored with Copics.

I think I've turned into a card-making maniac with OWH's birthday celebration! LOL

I'll have a new Crazy4Cocoa challenge for you tomorrow, so stay tuned, and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

2 Challenges and a Birthday

Today a special friend of mind is celebrating his birthday. He's a retired firefighter so I thought this pre-colored digi image by K&K would be cute for his card :) Happy Birthday Danny, I hope you have many more happy birthdays for celebrating!
This card is for the OWH Stars & Stamps challenge being sponsored by Robin's Fetish to "try something round" on our cards. The round item on my card is this cute Cocoa mouse image by SNSS. I stamped it on watercolor paper, embossed it with clear detail ep, and colored it with Tombow markers. The candy cane on the sentiment panel is a Jolee sticker, and I embossed the chevron DP with a similar embossing folder to give it a little dimension. Sentiment is by Inkadinkado and I used Spellbinders circles and ribbon tags die cuts. Ribbon is from my stash.
I made a red & gold version of this card last week, so I wanted to try it with silver and blue for this challenge. May Arts ribbon is sponsoring a challenge over on the Stars & Stamps blog to create a Christmas card for our troops (and/or heroes) and wrap it up using ribbon. I wove the ribbon through the Spellbinders fancy tag diecut and I love using ribbon in this way because it goes through the mail without extra postage. I used 2 lengths of ribbon, and fastened it down with Scor-tape. The mat behind the sentiment panel is metallic silver which explains this wonky photograph. The reflection just doesn't make for good photos, but the colors are real pretty IRL. I used a SU fancy scalloped border punch, SU! snow swirled stamp set, clear ep, versamark ink, square and round silver brads and a snowflake embossing folder for the background. The ribbon came from Michaels.

That's it for me today but I wish you all a wonderful Tuesday!

Carol

A Yummy Birthday Celebration

Welcome to another Stamps R Us challenge. This week we're celebrating birthdays in honor of Operation Write Home and the Paper Shelter is our sponsor. I'll be sending this birthday card to OWH for our military. If you decide to play along and send your card to OWH, please avoid using glitter, as glittered cards are unacceptable! You can get all the details by clicking the OWH link above.
I'm using this pre-colored Paper Shelter digi called "yummy" and if you've never tried using colored digis before, this is something you'll definitely want to try! The Paper Shelter has oodles of gorgeously colored digis that you'll love to work with & this card went together in no time! I sponged the image with angel pink ink while it was in the die, and matted it with Close to Cocoa card stock. I added a computer-generated sentiment and a big piece of ribbon and tied it up with a button and some brown hemp.
Please check out the Stamps R Us blog for more fabulous DT inspiration. As always, you'll have 2 weeks to complete your birthday card and there will be a generous prize for one randomly drawn participant.
Thanks for stopping by today and have a fun, creative day!

Carol

Getting Sketchy

While the race has been in a rain delay all afternoon, I made a couple cards. This one is for the Sweet Stop Sketch SSS126. This week there's a spin on the sketch and it's "starstruck." There's a lot of room for interpretation, and although I didn't actually use any stars on my card, this little chickie dressed up in disguise for Halloween is a star in my eyes :) (cough cough!) I know - that's really a stretch, but I needed to make some Halloween cards for the grands :) I thought that big white circle looked too white against all the colors of the background, so I drew in tiny spiders all around the edge. The chick and her glasses were all colored with fluorescent Copics and I dotted the eyes with a white sharpie pen. The dots are stickers, and image and sentiment are from SU! Twick or Tweet.

This card is for the Stars & Stamps sketch challenge 87. I really burned myself out making so many challenge cards last week, so I haven't been keeping up with the daily challenges over there for about a week, but I always try to get the weekly sketch done. This one was easy peasy, so I played along and made a few cards with this design. I just used 2 different embossing folders, and 2 shades of teal, along with a matching sentiment and a brad.

OK, it's time to get dinner going, so I may be watching the race at midnight if they don't soon postpone it! LOL Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

Carol

Christmas and Hydrangeas

I posted these cards over on SCS today and forgot to post them on my blog! LOL I made this for the QFTD78 challenge, and this week it's Dianne/eured99. I used this card of Dianne's for inspiration to create mine. You can see that I added a lot more to my card than her simple one, but this usually happens when I make a card! I used the snow swirled stamp set from SU! and embossed everything with gold. I edged the white layers with a gold paint pen, and the rest is pretty easy to figure out.
The Friday Free4All over on SCS today was to make a card using "mostly blue." I used this gorgeous free digi I d/l from tidbitstrinkets and colored it with Copics. A piece of green dp and some not quite navy cardstock and a computer generated sentiment was all this card needed.

I caught a story on tv recently where Madonna made a rude remark about loathing hydrangeas after someone had just given her a bouquet of them, so I decided to make this card because I love hydrangeas! My grandfather used to grow them in his yard, and I marveled over his beautiful "giant blue snowballs" as I used to think they were! LOL I'll always have those fond memories of his gorgeous hydrangeas and I'd be beyond grateful if someone gave me a bouquet of them!! Really!!

Here's wishing you all a happy weekend :)

Carol

SNSDC20 Inspirational Photo

This is the photo we're using for the SNSDC20 challenge this week. When I saw this picture, it screamed party time to me, so I made a birthday card. I know the girl is screaming, but that isn't what really inspired me :)
I used this adorable Rhubarb's Balloons digi image, coloring him with Copics, and made a tag from the image. The image only has 2 balloons, but I added a 3rd one by stamping 3 balloons using the Polka Dot Silhouettes clear stamp set, and then punched them out using a MS punch. I adhered them using dimensionals, and drew in a 3rd string. I added an eyelet and some colorful bakers twine, and embossed the background using a birthday ef. The pink is bazzil card stock.

I hope you find some inspiration in the above photo to create a card and play along with us. Using SNSS is not required, but we sure love to see them when you use them! Tag your creations with SNSDC20 when uploading to the galleries!

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to stop by the SNSDC20 to see the rest of the beautiful creations the DT has made for you!

Happy Friday everyone!!

Carol

C4C15 - Add a Touch of Gold

It's time for another Crazy4Cocoa & Friends challenge over on the SNSS Connection. This week's challenge is to add a touch of gold to your card. I colored the leaf with a gold paint pen, added some gold brads, and embossed the sentiment panel with gold embossing powder. The image is Apple Cocoa and he was colored with Copics. I used a white sharpie pen to add some accents to the apple. The dp is by Basic Grey 2 scoops, and I added some embossing with the plaid, and square lattice ef's. The sentiment was computer generated.

If you're in a mood for some gold, grab those Cocoa, Rhubarb, or other critter friends and create something to play along with our challenge. Please use the keyword C4C15 when uploading to the galleries.

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Carol

Just one more

I only had time to finish one more card for the OWH Birthday Bash VCMP challenges. This is challenge #15 Splish Splash, which is being hosted by Michelle over on Caffeine and Stamps. The challenge is to make a black and white card with a splash of color. I think I accomplished that with my card. The flower is layered with dimensionals and has a tiny button brad in the center. The sentiment was computer generated.
And this is why I didn't get around to finishing the rest of the challenges. I spent the better part of the day stamping the backs of these cards with the OWH stamp, tucking them in envies, and sorting them into categories which makes it so much easier for my shipper to sort through them! It takes a lot of time to do this, but I can only imagine how overwhelming it is for OWH'S shippers if they have to process all of their received cards like this, and then re-package them for sending to our soldiers! My hat's off to all of you great volunteers who work so tirelessly to place these cards in the hands of our military! Now to print a packing slip, and off she goes!

Have a fabulous day everyone!!

Carol

More OWH VCMP challenge cards (whew!)

I'm still at it here, trying to wrap up the VCMP over at the Stars and Stamps blog in celebration of their 2nd anniversary. This is challenge #11 to "keep it clean" and Jen is hosting this challenge on her blog The Sparkle Within. The challenge is basically to make a CAS card. I used random leftover strips of card stock and adhered them to a scrap piece of card stock and simply added ribbon and a sentiment. Easy peasy, and makes great use of those leftover scraps. I made 2 for this challenge.
This is for challenge #12 Daddy's Child - to make a card for Daddy to send home to the children. This challenge is being hosted by Tami over on Tami's Craft Connection. I used a Greeting Farm image and computer generated the sentiment for this entry.
This is for challenge #14 Cold Temps, Warm Heart - to make a winter love card. This challenge is being hosted by Theresa over on Playing with Pictures and Paper. I had this image colored for a long time, and just added an embossed background and a snowflake brad.
And this is Ciara's 9-11 challenge to make a card with a dog. Sandy over at A Colorful World is hosting this challenge and there's a sad, touching story about a dog that you'll want to read by clicking the challenge link. I used a free digi that Sandy made, and colored it with Copics, adding a few scraps of remnant DP.

There are still a few more challenges to complete, and I don't know that I'll have time to complete them all, but even if I don't - it's been fun with all the new challenges!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a great Tuesday!

Carol

More Cards for the OWH Birthday BashVCMP

Here are a few more of the challenge cards for the OWH Birthday Bash VCMP and I'm not done yet! This card is for the #4 Pick a Number challenge over on Julie's blog Handmade By Julie. Julie's challenge is to choose a number between 1 and 85, go to the list of sketch challenges and pick the coordinating sketch challenge with the number you've chosen, and then make a card using that sketch. I chose the number 65 so I'm using sketch #65 for my card. I used PTI Berry Sorbet cardstock and ribbon, and a scrap of polka dot DP, along with a SU! sentiment.
This card is for challenge #5 Falling for You over on Sybrina's blog Scrapping with Purpose. The challenge is to use your own interpretation of something "falling." Not that I visualize falling pumpkins, but I do think of them whenever fall draws closer, so instead of things falling, I went with a fall theme. I used this SNSS Fall Time Cocoa set for my card, paper piecing the pumpkin.
This card was done for the #7 challenge to make a non-traditional colored Valentine over on Dixie's blog "What's Next." I used Pacific Point cardstock for the base, and you don't often get a lot of blue Valentines, so this one is very non-traditional..........even if I did emboss a ton of hearts on it :)
And this card is for challenge #9 to use this week's #86 sketch challenge over on the Stars and Stamps blog, and make an "any hero" card. I used an A Muse stamp set for the sentiment and all Bo Bunny liberty DP, along with some real red and navy card stock.

I still have quite a few of the challenges to finish, and I don't know that I'll get around to doing them all, but I'm adding a sizable stack to my next OWH box!

Thanks for stopping by again.........there will be more posted soon.....hopefully :)

Carol

Starting a new week

Yesterday was a difficult day for me with re-living the events of a decade ago, but I need to move on now and post some of the cards I've been making for the OWH birthday bash challenges. I haven't had time to finish them all, but here are a few, and I will post a few more later as I complete them.

This card is a CASE of one of Kelly Rae's card found here. There are so many cards, I'm going to keep this post brief by not listing the supplies. If you need to know them, shoot me an email at Carolee925 at g mail dot com and I'll be glad to fill you in on the details.
This is for challenge #1 Garanimals - which is to make a card for kids using animals. The blog hosting this challenge is Linda from "It Was Here A Minute Ago." I used a pre-colored Paper Shelter digi image for this card.
This card was done for the #2 Celebrating Nature challenge. Lisa from "Stamping with a Mission" is hosting this challenge to create a card that celebrates nature.
This is for challenge #3 Unique Christmas - which is to make a Christmas card with non-traditional colors. This challenge is being hosted by Barb at Paper Therapy Ponderings.

I'll be posting more as the day goes on and I finish up more of these challenges, so stay tuned and thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll find time to get in on some of these challenges and make some OWH cards for our military too!

Carol

A Day of Remembering...9.11.01

Today is the 10th anniversary of the day that changed America forever with this attack on New York City. I will always remember where I was when this senseless terrorist act happened, and I'll never forget all the lives lost, or the pain, anguish, and suffering so many Americans endured that day. I will be taking the time today to remember those brave souls who ran into those burning towers to save lives and never came out. I'll also remember all the innocent people whose lives were lost while working in those twin towers and the Pentagon, as well as those passengers flying on hijacked airplanes who were gone in the blink of an eye. My prayers are for them and their loved ones left behind who endured unthinkable suffering and losses.

Thank you president Obama, along with our brave military, for finally giving this country a sense of justice by eliminating the mastermind of this horrendous attack upon the American people. We will never forget.

I Received the Butterfly Blog Award!

My sweet friend Mary Anne over at Lakeside Stamping passed this award on to me, and in receiving it, I'm supposed to answer some questions and pass it on. You're all probably tired of me answering these questions, but here goes :)

Name your favorite color - PURPLE!

Name your favorite song - Someday by Rob Thomas

Name your favorite dessert - Baileys White Chocolate Cheesecake

What annoys you at the moment - politicians

Your favorite pet - we had 3 dogs - a mini doxie and 2 chihuahuas, and they were all favorites

Black or white - Black

Your biggest fear - being trapped

Best feature - my sense of humor

Everyday attitude - easy-going

What is perfection? - nature

Guilty Pleasure - It used to be chocolate, but now I have to avoid it........sigh

When you're upset you - vent, cry, eat, retreat, stamp......all of these and more!

And now I'll pass this award on to some other wonderful bloggers! Enjoy ladies!!

Designing Keepsakes

Stamp Tramps

airebornewife

Enchanted Ladybug Creations

Disguised as a Grownup

Benzi Stampz

the-purple-place

Creative Crafts by Lynn

She's Gone Digital

She Who Must Stamp

Jennifer Lowery

Carol

SNSDC19 Sports Theme

Here's Cocoa again! LOL There's a new challenge over on the Sweet'nSassy Digi challenge, and this week the theme is "sports." I used this cute Cocoa Loves Football image and colored him with Copics. I used some DCWV dp, a few pieces of chocolate cardstock, and embossed the vertical panel with a CB ef to look like the football. I colored the image with Copics, added 3 colors of hemp and a few eyelets for interest. The sentiment was computer generated.

I hope you'll find time to play along with us. You don't need to use SNSS digi images, but we sure love to see them when you do! When uploading to the galleries, please tag your creations with SNSDC19. You can check out the rest of my DT's fabulous creations right here.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful kick-off to the weekend! (pun intended)

Carol

C4C14 - Let's Welcome Autumn

Happy Thursday everybody! It's time for another Crazy4Cocoa & Friends challenge! This week we're challenging you to make a card with an Autumn theme. For my card I used the Fall Time Cocoa clear stamp set, and paper-pieced the leaf. I used all K&Co autumn dp for the card, along with some really rust, and a few scraps of unknown green card stock. Cocoa was colored with Copics and I used an EK border punch on the horizontal panel, adding a few of the punched leaves and acorns for accents on the image and sentiment panel. The ribbon is retired CTMH.

If you play along with us, please use the keyword C4C14 and keep in mind that you don't have to use only Cocoa images. You can now use any of those cute animal "friends" of Cocoa that you'll find in the SNSS store.

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great day!

Edit: I'm going to enter this card into the mid-week throwdown at the Stars & Stamps blog since their challenge is to make an autumn-themed card! This card is going into the next OWH box I'm working on :)

Carol

Lattice Dimensional

Julie created a tutorial for making a lattice dimensional card over on the Stars & Stamps blog for another birthday bash challenge today. I gave it a shot and ended up with 2 Christmas cards. I used some ruby red metallic papers to create the frame, sentiment panel and mat. I added some silver metallic punched snowflakes inside of the "window" along with some Geo Sparklers snowflake stickers. The white panel was embossed with a sizzix ef, and the sentiment was computer generated. Sorry about the glare, I couldn't seem to eliminate it.
This card was my first attempt at the challenge! LOL The lattice work was too close together and almost completely covered the image, so I snipped them off and just left the framework around the embossed image to stand alone. I thought this would make a nice Christmas card just the way it is, so I added some liquid applique to the embossed image for a little interest and contrast. I used a Spellbinders labels eighteen to create the frames for both cards and a CB ef for the image on this one.

It's still raining here in PA, so it was another afternoon of stamping fun :) Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all enjoy your Tuesday!

Carol

A few More...........

There's a slow, steady rain here today in PA, so I'm stamping the day away. I made this card for the OWH Birthday Bash challenge #4, which is being held over on the InspiredStamps blog. for the month of September. The challenge is to make a "missing you" or "love you" themed card, link it up over there, and then send it to your OWH shipper for use by our soldiers.

I used an older S&S sketch for my card and used all BoBunny dp. The stars were cut with a punch and I added a mini star brad to each one. The sentiment is from SU! and was done in night of navy ink. I also used navy and real red cardstock for mats.
This card was made for the S&S challenge #5 in the OWH birthday bash found here. Sandy made 2 new state digis and they're free! This challenge is to d/l one (or both) of the free digis and make a card. I used plum pudding card stock from PTI, along with a scrap of pale yellow. I colored the image with Copics, and added some embossing with the CB swiss dots ef, and finished it with a little piece of yellow gingham ribbon.
This card was made for the SNSSIC3 challenge found here. If you click the link, you'll see the beautiful inspirational photo we were to use for inspiration. I made this sympathy card for a friend of mine who needed one. I used the SU Hello Doily backgrounder stamp and embossed it with Versamark ink and white EP. I chose pumpkin pie card stock along with some cool caribbean for this; embossing the horizontal panel with a TH damask ef, and punching the edges with a SU scalloped punch. This was colored with Copics and I added a MS punched butterfly with a couple of Kaiser pearls. I had a tiny piece of sheer ribbon left in my stash - just big enough to tie a knot, but not a bow!

I've been having issues with my colors here on blogger for a few days. Everything I highlight in red turns blue when I hit the publish button? Ah well, I guess that works just as well.

I hope you're all having a great Labor Day holiday here in the US! Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Stamps R Us Friendship

There's a new challenge going on over at the Stamps R Us blog and "friendship" is the theme. Our sponsor this week is Karber stamps and you can find them right here. I'm using the Leslie-think image and she was colored with Copics. The dp's are from PTI and Recollections. I used a labels eighteen for the image and sponged around it with Tumbled Glass ink by Ranger. The sentiment was computer generated, and the punches used were by SU! and EK. The 3 dots are acrylic stickers.

I hope you'll join us for this "friendship" challenge because there's always a generous prize offered to the randomly drawn winner for playing along!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carol

Playing Catch-up Again

I have a few challenges to get caught up on, so here's 3 for starters. First up is the sketch challenge #85 from Stars and Stamps. This is the weekly sketch they post on Sundays, but OWH is also celebrating their 2nd birthday this month with a challenge for each day of September. This card used a free digi image that I d/l and have no idea who to credit for it because there's no name attached to the file. I used the swiss dots and square lattice efs and added some geo sparklers stickers at the bottom just for interest. The sentiment panel was done with petite ovals by Spellbinders.
This card is for challenge#2 of the OWH birthday bash, and this is a case of Ardeth T who has some sample cards right here. I cased one of her cards from the link and used another free digi image I d/l, and again I can't locate the designer. The only name on the file is hobby-palies, so if anyone knows who might have designed this, please leave a comment and I'll give proper credit. I used BoBunny liberty papers, along with navy cardstock. I colored the stars on the sentiment with markers, and added some mini star brads to the corners along with some embossed stars done with a CB ef.
I combined 2 challenges for this card. First is the Sweet Stop Sketch SSS124 as well as another Stars and Stamps birthday bash#3 challenge to use eyelets. I used this cute SNSS digi Berry Sweet Cocoa image and colored him with Copics. I used the square lattice ef again, along with some DCWV glittered green cardstock and edged the white circle with a gold paint pen. The strip across the bottom is just a narrow strip of cardstock that matches the other vertical panel. The dp was a scrap from my stash. I added 3 eyelets to the bottom instead of brads or gemstones.

I hope to get more challenges finished up tomorrow, as it's supposed to rain most of the day and I'll be indoors chilling :)
I hope you're all having a great holiday weekend, and thanks for taking the time to drop by :)

Carol