Autumn Wheelbarrow

 

Today is the 15th and this is my card for our The Creative Crew!  We are a group of 7 and all one team--Jeanette, Carol, Darlene, Lorraine, Terry, Tracie and me. Each month will be a new challenge posed by one of the members sending out a kit.  This month is the start of the second round for our group.  Jeanette gave us a challenge this month to use our own supplies to create something you (I) love.  It might be a favorite stamp company, a favorite color scheme or embellishment, spending time in nature, grandchildren, etc.  I decided to go with my favorite time of year--Fall!

I love all of the colors of fall and I like the crisp fall air.  It also means that Thanksgiving is on the way and that is my favorite family holiday!  I also enjoy taking walks and hikes in the fall with the leaves under my feet and many times, falling all around when hiking.  I also like exchanging my polo shirts in the main closet with the pullovers from the spare bedroom closet--and even putting my birks away and pulling out my fuzzy slippers!

I picked a sweet image from Great Impressions, but it does not have a name on it.  The old wooden wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins and leaves all around is such a quintessential autumn image! I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers and die cut with with a Spellbinders Label 8 die set.  I found some patterned paper with some sweet autumn words and layered with fall colors.  I added some twine behind the die cut image and a few orange enamel dots around the image. This was fun card to make!

I hope all of The Creative Crew Gals enjoy my card this month.  Please be sure to stop in to see what fun crafty cards are posted this month.  All of the blogs can be found on my left sidebar.  Our teammate Lorraine does not have a blog, so please check out her card in her SCS gallery.   I am sure you will enjoy all of the wonderful creations this month!   

We will be back in November with the image Lorraine will be sending out.  Be sure to check in with us on the 15th to see what fun she has planned!

Image/Sentiment:   Great Impressions Rubber Stamps Wheelbarrow

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  The Paper Cut Cougar Opaque 100# White, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso; Flair Designs Autumn Words Patterned Paper

Ink:  Hero Arts Intense Black

Accessories:  Copic Sketch Markers; Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 8 Die Set; Orange Enamel Dots; Stampin' Up Twine

Changing of the Leaves

Today is third Wednesday of the month and this is my Ready, Set, Go Challenge Card! The 3 Musketeers--Kelly, Jeanette and me--are back with another challenge for November-our 30th month!  That means we are well into our third year--YAY!

Kelly provided the challenge for November: Kelly purchased three wooden leaves a few years ago while on vacation in Tennessee in the winter!  She admired the blanket of snow--remember, Kelly lives in Miami, Florida!  She also loved the changing of the leaves and the gorgeous colors of autumn. She sent each of us one of the wooden leaves and challenged us to use it on a card. 

Ready? Set? Go!

I think the wooden leaf is so pretty and I love the veins in all parts of the leaf.  It looks like a maple leaf and they are gorgeous in the fall.  We have two maple trees outside our dining room window and they are stunning to look at in October-November.  However, this year we had 6 inches of snow on Halloween, while most of the leaves were still on the tree. Now, they are on the ground, mixed with snow.  We did not get them picked up this fall so we will have a larger project in the spring.

My card highlights the leaf, along with some fall patterned paper.  I added the word cherish.  I cherish my 3-M friends.  I also cherish the seasons we have in Wisconsin, even if they have been mixed up the past few years.................

Here is the inside of my card.

Please be sure to check out the other Ready, Set, Go cards.  Here is a link to Jeanette's and Kelly's blog.  I am sure you will not be disappointed and will see a couple of great cards! I hope Kelly and Jeanette like my card.  I am up for the next theme, so be sure to check back to see what we are up to on the 3rd Wednesday in December!  

Image/Sentiment: Stampin' Up Warmest Words

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  Stampin' Up Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie; Flair Designs October Days Patterned Paper

Ink: Stampin' Up Early Espresso

Accessories:  Stampin' Up Linen Thread, Oval Punches; Wooden Leaf

October Lovely as a Tree

This is my One Plus Twelve, month ten!  This was the brainchild of Kelly and she asked Jeanette and me to join her in this challenge. We are to use just one stamp, to make a card every month--but we may add a sentiment if we want!  One Stamp/Twelve Months-here we go into our 10th month of one plus 12.  We are to post on the 3rd of each month.  

As a mentioned for my first card in January,  I picked my favorite Stampin Up set--Lovely as a Tree.  It is now retired and it does make me a bit sad....  For my challenge this month, I went with some October patterned paper and then used my Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves ink pad.  I added some of my new Ink on 3 Liquid Pixie Dust on the trees, though the sparkle is hard to see in the photo-but sweet in person!

Here is the inside of my card:

Please be sure to check out the other One plus Twelve cards.  Here is a link to Jeanette's and Kelly's blog. I am sure you will enjoy checking out what stamp set is picked and will see a couple of great cards! I hope Kelly and Jeanette like my card and that you might too! We will be back each month, so be sure to check back to see what we are up to on the 3rd of November.  Only two months to go!

Image/Sentiment: Stampin' Up Lovely as a Tree

Cardstock: Recollections 110# Ivory; Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie; Early Espresso; Flair Designs October Days Patterned Paper

Ink:  Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves

Accessories: Dies by Dave Trees Die; Taylored Expression Weather Embossing Folder; Ink on 3 Liquid Pixie Dust; Bronze Brads

Coffee!

If you are looking for my Card a Week Challenge card, please scroll up.

It is time for another The Three Musketeers post. We are ready to showcase the card we all created with the image that I sent for April--for Card #56!  That means we are well into year #5--can you believe that?!  All three of us sure have enjoyed the challenges every month and we hope that it continues for a long time!  Jeanette will be up next for the May challenge and I cannot wait to see what she picks out.  Be sure to come back to see what we create!  

For our card this month, I sent out this cute Whipper Snapper Design image with a sweet kitty along with our favorite--a cup of coffee!  I used some coffee designs background paper and added a pop of color to the lid and the cup wrap along with the enamel dots embellishments.  I think this image is so darn cute!

Here is the inside of my card:

Please check out the other Musketeer's cards.  Here is the link to Jeanette's blog along with Kelly's blog.  I am sure you will not be disappointed and will see a couple of great cards!  They may post today or tomorrow, so be sure to check out their blogs for their card!

Image/Sentiment:  Whipper Snapper Designs Kealy and Good Idea Sentiment

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  Recollections 110# White; Stampin' Up Crumb Cake, Early Espresso;  Flair Designs Coffee Talk Patterned Paper

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Copic Markers; Stampin' Up Early Espresso 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon; Blue Enamel Dots

Coffee, Cupcake and Confetti

I am back with another card for this week's {PIN}Spirational Challenge. 

The Challenge runs October 13th to the 26th 

Here's the photo to inspire us:

Aren't all of those mugs so pretty?  Great Colors and they hold an awesome beverage.........................

 Our sponsor this week is Fresh Brewed Designs

They have some great images, so please be sure to go and check them out!

Here is the inside of my card:

Image/Sentiment: Fresh Brewed Designs -- Coffee, Cupcake and Confetti Digital Image

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  Gina K White; Stampin' Up Basic Black, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler; Flair Designs Coffee Patterned Paper

Accessories:  SU Basic Black 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon; Copic Markers; Coffee Cup Brad; SU tab Punches; 


I hope you will play along with the {PIN}Spirational Challenge, too!  Be sure to go to the challenge blog and add your creations for the challenge this week! You can also check out the rest of the DT Creations with the links on the left sidebar.

Autumn is Coming!

This is the card I made for our bi-monthly swap at my local stamp and scrapbook store called Polka Dots, in Mukwonago.  The theme this month is a fall card.  This is a favorite Whipper Snapper autumn image--I love the sunflowers! Autumn is indeed coming, though you would never guess by the temps in the 90's the past week or so.  Can we save a bit of that when it gets cooler?!

Here is the inside of my card:

I hope everyone likes my card!

Image/Sentiment:  Whipper Snapper Designs Sunflower Mix

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock:  Gina K White; Stampin' Up Early Espresso, Only Orange, More Mustard; Flair Designs-Autumn Words Patterned Paper

Accessories:  SU Orange Button with Brown Baker's Twine; Copic Markers

Bugaboo JJ-Coffee to Go!

This is my card for the February mystery image swap.  This great image was provided by Joanna and it just makes me smile!  Joanna challenged us to make a project to celebrate the National Cafe au Lait Day, Feb 17th.  I hope you had a great celebration with whatever you drink!

I have a few types of coffee related pattered papers and some similar embellishments.  Yes, I do love my coffee and latte and savor them every morning!

Thanks Joanna for the fun image and sentiments to make this card!

Here is the inside of my card.  Joanna sent a variety of sentiments and I think this one is perfect!

 

Image/Sentiment: Bugaboo  Stamps JJ Coffee to Go/Sentiment-Endless Creations--A cup of Coffee Shared

Cardstock/Patterned Paper: White; Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive; Flair Designs-Coffee Talk, Hot Off the Press-Yummy Coffee Beans Patterned Paper

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Coffee Twill; Ivory Mug Brad; Copic Markers

Mystery Revealed ~ Pizza

This card is for a Mystery Swap on SCS. A group of us are doing a bi-monthly swap where we all use the same mystery image, sent to us by the hostess. This swap was created by Forest Ranger—Jeanette and we are now ending our second cycle.   Jeanette is the hostess this month and she picked a cute image for a newer stamp set to her by Sugar Pea Designs.   Jeanette will swap the cards--then send us the next image, which I provided this time.  I can't wait to get the swap cards back to see how everyone else used the same image. Then everyone gets to do it all over again with my image!

I thought this image was too cute and I knew I wanted to do a Z-fold card to highlight the Pizza Themed Paper!

Here is the card partially opened so you can see the heart scallop punch that I used on the edge--if the pizza is a heart, I did need to use a few more on the card!

Here is the inside of my card:

Image/Sentiment: Sugar Pea Designs Pizza

Cardstock: Recollections White; Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry;  Flair Designs Keep on Cooking-Pizza Party Patterned Paper

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Copic Markers; Antique Brass  Brads;

{PIN}Spirational Challenge

 

I am back with another {PIN}Spirational Challenge

The Challenge runs November 11th to the 24th
 

Here's the photo to inspire us:

 

 

I just love the fall colors.  I also love some of the later blooming flowers, like sunflowers.  One of our sponsors this week is Fred She Said. They have some great images, so please be sure to go and check them out!

  

Here is the inside of my card:

 

Image/Sentiment:  Fred She Said--Fall Flowers Digital Image

Cardstock/Patterned Paper:  Gina K White; Stampin' Up Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze;  Flair Designs-Autumn Words Patterned Paper

Accessories:  SU Deco Labels Framelits; Brown Button with Orange Baker's Twine; Bronze Brads

I hope you will play along this week with the {PIN}Spirational Challenge, too! Be sure to go to the challenge blog and add your creations for the challenge this week! You can also check out the rest of the DT Creations with the links on the left sidebar.

Three Musketeer's Inaugural Card

This is my first post for a new adventure--The Three Musketeers!  Interesting name, right.  Well--check out this picture.............................

Can you tell who these individuals are?  Jeanette is on the left and Kelly is on the left; and yes, I am in the middle.

This was an idea of Jeanette's and it is a form of a mystery swap, with the three of us. I am not sure who came up with the name and the picture--I think it was Jeanette.....  But, it was my idea to have one of Kelly's daughters photo shop our faces into the image Jeanette found.  I understand while she was creating, she was laughing her butt off and when Kelly saw it, she did the same!  Well--I know when it was sent to me, I laughed very hard myself!  So, here we are! 

Each month, one of us will send the same stamped image to the other two ladies and all three of us will created a card.  We are only getting the image--no additional items. We hope to post the 9th of each month, but that may change in the future. 

Jeanette started out our journey and she sent us this cute Sugar Pea Designs Image.  I fussy cut the image and layered it over background paper with autumn words. The top is an embossed background of fall leaves.   Jeanette sent the sentiment along with the pumpkin image I added to the inside of my card.  

I hope both of my pals like my card this month! I sure had fun making it and am excited to be a part of this new voyage!  Is that what Musketeers go on? A Voyage?

Here is the inside of my card:

Please check out the other Musketeer's cards.  Here is a link to Jeanette's blog along with Kelly's blog.  I am sure you will not be disappointed and will see a couple of very cute cards. This will be a fun escapade and I hope you come back and join us next month. It will be my turn to send the images and they already have them.  I picked out a bit of a challenging image, so I am excited to see what my two friends create! 


Image/Sentiment: Sugar Pea Designs Bountiful Blessings

Cardstock: Recollections White; Stampin' Up Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze;  Flair Designs Autumn Words Patterned Paper

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Copic Markers; Acorn Brad; Quickutz Leaves Embossing Folder; SU Punches, Pumpkin Pie Brads, Pumpkin Pie 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

It is the 28th of the month and it also is Thanksgiving Day, so I am here to welcome you to another round with the Calendar Girls!

Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers.  Jeanette decided on the theme for this month and here is the challenge for the group:  

We're going to go with VERY EASY and NO STRESS for the November theme, since we'll all be busy with Thanksgiving, etc.

Sooooooooooooooooo.... we'll go with Terry's suggestion: Thanksgiving theme......anything goes.......food, thank you card, Thanksgiving anything. And as a wee bit of extra fun, let's include Barb's suggestion: share a story of the best or worst food we have eaten on that day in the past. 
 
I inked up a Thanksgiving image that I got a couple of years ago and had not used it yet.  It was designed by one of the ladies who is in a thread I frequent on SCS called the SOTC--Sisterhood of the Traveling Stamps.  Lorie Souther created this cutie for Peachy Keen Stamps.

Here is the inside of my card: 

 

We were asked to share a story about our worst or best food we have eaten.  I love turkey--white meat only!  I also love stuffing and the special mashed potatoes that are made with sour cream and cream cheese--no calories there!  One of my favorite side dishes my SIL makes is sweet potato soufflé--it is a recipe that is made at The Fireside Dinner Theatre in Fort Atkinson, WI--which is two blocks from my brother's house.  Yum--and again, low calorie.......  So--you see that I really, really like most of the food that is served at our Thanksgiving meal--and I am trying really had to come up with a worst meal.  But--about 30 some years ago, I took a train trip with some friends to New Orleans.  We left that left the afternoon before Thanksgiving and we arrived late Thursday morning.  We found restaurant that had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and the dressing had oysters in it.  I just could not eat that....................

Image/Sentiment—Peachy Keen Stamps Country Bumpkin Stamps-Tanner Turkey

Cardstock—Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Crumb Cake; Gina K White; Flair Designs Thanksgiving Words Patterned Paper

Ink—SU Chocolate Chip

Accessories—SU Tangerine Tango 1/4" Stitched Satin Ribbon; Tangerine Tango Round Brads; Copic Markers; A*muse Word Window Die; Creative Memories Corner Rounder

Please check out the blogs of all of the Calendar Girls—there are 10 of us, so it might take you a bit.  I am sure you will enjoy all the Thanksgiving creations! All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us this month!

Wine Glass ~ Half Full or Half Empty?

This is the second of the two cards that I made for Samantha’s “After 5” Swap.  We were to use anything that you consider after 5:00—like drinks, romance, evening, anything at all!  Samantha has hosted four previous swaps—with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and now 5 in the title of the theme.  I hope #6 is a good one!

Image/Sentiment—Rubbernecker Stamps-Glass is Half-full…….

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Bravo Burgundy, River Rock, Pretty in Pink; Flair Designs Keep on Cooking Collection Wine Country

Ink—SU Bravo Burgundy

Accessories—SU Bravo Burgundy Grosgrain Ribbon; Wine Glass Brad;