Script Christmas Tree

This is the final card I made for Kat’s recent swap.  Enjoy the Christmas Card.

I bought this stamp and matching Shapeabilities by Spellbinders last year and had not used them yet.  This is a pretty simple card as I think the words of the stamp are pretty powerful.

Image/Sentiment—Heartfelt Creations Script Christmas Tree

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Cherry Cobber, Garden Green; K & Company Hannah Small Striped Designer Paper

Ink—SU Garden Green

Accessories— Holiday Tree Shapeabilities; Rhinestone Square Brad; Cherry Cobbler Quilted Satin Ribbon

Winter Wonderful for You

This is number three of the cards I made for Kat’s recent swap.  There were four categories—Fall, Thanksgiving, Winter and Christmas—of course I took a spot in each!

Here is the Winter Card:

Image/Sentiment—Unity Itty Bitty-Snow Wonderful

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist; Snow Designer Paper

Ink—SU Night of Navy

Accessories— Blue Snowflake Brad; White Grosgrain Ribbon

Thanksgiving

This is the second of the four cards that I made for Kat’s recent swap.  There were four categories—Fall, Thanksgiving, Winter and Christmas—of course I took a spot in each!

This is the Thanksgiving card.

If you are a frequent visitor to my blog, you will know that this is one of my favorite lines of stamps.  I have about 8 or 9 of them and love to ink all of them up.

 
Image/Sentiment—Paper Inspirations Thanksgiving Calligraphy

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake; Simple Stories Homemade Happiness Designer Paper

Ink—SU Cajun Craze

Accessories— Bronze Brads; Crumb Cake (Kraft) Ribbon

Fall Blessing for the Crafty Gals

It is the 5^th of the month, so I am back with another challenge of the Crafty Gals!  We are a group of bloggers who have monthly challenges, caring comments & fun chit chat on SCS—our favorite stamping site to visit.

This month, the challenge was posted by Jackie.  Here are the details of her challenge:

"Fall Blessings"

November is for Thanksgiving & we all have so many things to be thankful for so my challenge for you this month is to create a project to showcase our Blessings. It can be a card, shadowbox, picture frame, scrapbook layout, mini album, etc. Please make whatever your heart desires as long as it features what you are thankful for & I also want you to use a Fall theme for your creations. I can't wait to see all of your wonderful works of art! Have Fun & Happy Stamping!!!!!

I love fall as the colors are outstanding in Wisconsin.  This year was one of the best for the colorful leaves and our 2 maple trees did not disappoint.  I am thankful for nature—and fall is a time that nature is headed for a deep sleep in order to pop out in the spring.  I love to spend time outdoors and enjoy all of the seasons—planting flowers in the spring, enjoying walks, hikes and biking in the summer, planting tulips (I planted over 200 bulbs this year) and enjoying the colors in the fall, followed by snowshoeing in the winter—hope the snow comes this year!

I had fun making this fall card and I hope Jackie I met the challenge!

Image/Sentiment—Stampin’ Up Serene Silhouettes

Cardstock—SU Riding Hood Red, More Mustard, Chocolate and Whisper Very Vanilla; Echo Park Paper Fall Fever

Ink—SU More Mustard

Accessories—Thanksgiving Ribbon; Orange Felt Oak Leaf; Brown Pearl

Please check out the blogs of all of the Crafty Gals.   All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar and I hope you will enjoy all of our creations. Thanks for joining us!

Nature Turns to Gold

This is the one of the four cards that I made for Kat’s recent swap.  There were four categories—Fall, Thanksgiving, Winter and Christmas—of course I took a spot in each!

This is the Fall card:

Did you see the gold brad in the corner?

Image/Sentiment—Inkadinkado Fall Gold

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Early Espresso, So Saffron, Soft Suede; Echo Park Fall Fever Designer Paper

Ink—Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves

Accessories— Gold Leaf Brad; Brown Satin Ribbon; Brown Button with Brown Bakers Twine

Crafters of Faith ~ Thanksgiving

Today is the last day of the month and I am here to welcome you to my Crafters of Faith card!   I am blessed to have you stop by and celebrate an early Thanksgiving with all of us! The Crafters of Faith blogging group is a joyous blending of Christian friends ~ joined together to fellowship, share our faith, build friendships and craft together! If you want to see all of the creations, there is a blog list on the left side--please check out all of the cards.

"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances,
for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." I Thessalonians 5:16-18

Wow, it's hard to believe that there is only 3 more months left of 2012...where has the time gone?? Some of you may know from reading my blog this week that Autumn is my favorite season of the year. In Southern Ontario it is quickly making its appearance and where I'm from the color of the changing leaves can be quite spectacular. It's so inspiring--I just love it! Autumn also includes my most favorite holiday celebration--THANKSGIVING!! It's hard not to love a holiday that calls on us to give thanks for our blessings. I realize not everyone around the world celebrates this holiday, and our friends in the U.S. don't celebrate until November, so for this challenge you can choose to make either a card for thanksgiving OR a thank you card for someone who has been a blessing to you. Please use at least 2 designer papers and 1 embellishment, and most importantly, have fun! I can't wait to see what you've created!

Here is the card I created for you. 

I think this is such a cute and funny image………… I even added a Thanksgiving brad on the inside of my card:



Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you do check out the other creations from the wonderful ladies in the Crafters of Faith group!

Image/Sentiment—Stampabilities Eat Beef

Cardstock—Gina K Vanilla; Stampin’ Up Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive; Flair Designs Thanksgiving Words Designer Paper

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Copic Markers; Orange Brads; Brown Satin Ribbon; Brown Button with Orange/Brown/Cream Bakers Twine; Nesties Oval and Big Scallop Oval; Gobble Brad on the inside

Calendar Girls ~ Happy Halloween

It is the 28^th, 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. 

Tami is our hostess this month and here is her challenge.  We are all about the month of October! I have three little challenges for the girls this month.

It is the tenth month of the year, so please have exactly ten ( 10 ) items on your card. No more, no less! The ten items do not include your card base. Your image stamped on a piece of card stock is counted as one item.

Our due date is the 28th. So, that is going to require two ( 2 ) circles needed on each card and a minimum of eight ( 8 ) different colors.

Are you scared yet?! LOL Start taking a peek….there are a lot of different elements and colors on our cards! I am so looking forward to what you all create, as I do each month.


I thought this was a fun challenge—counting layers, checking the colors and making sure I had 2 circles.  I do have exactly 10 items—not counting the base layer.  Do you count 10?  If you only see 9, check for the tip at the end of my post today.

Here is the inside of my card—this does not count in the total of 10 layers—and that is good!

Image/Sentiment—Outlines Witchy Dog/ Peachy Keen County Bumpkin Stamps Jack Delight

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin’ Up Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black; Echo Park Paper Happy Halloween Bat Festival, Trick or Treat Designer Paper

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Copic Markers; Dimensionals; Circle Nesties; Black Button with Orange Twine

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 of the beautiful creations for Tami’s Challenge. All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us!!!!!!!

Note—The witches hat is cut out and popped up on the dog’s head=item #10

SOTC Swap ~ You're #1

This is a card that I made for our monthly SOTC—Sisterhood of the Traveling Cards--Swap on SCS. Kadie is our hostess for October. 

Here are the details from kadie:  Your theme is YOU’RE #1. Your challenge is to create a card of congrats or encouragement. Use any image to relay a “way-to-go” theme!

Image/Sentiment—MFT Pure Innocence Baseball Boy/Amuse-You’re The Best

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin’ Up Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, More Mustard; Crate Paper School Spirit Collection-Pep Rally Patterned Paper

Ink—Memento Black; SU Cajun Craze

Accessories—Baseball brad; Brown button with Bakers Twine; SU Punches; Copic Markers

Joy, Hope and Wonder

This is the second of the two cards that I made for Roxane’s Deck the Halls swap cards.  I went with a vintage color theme for both sets of cards.  Today’s card uses current Stampin’ Up colors along with a vintage designer series paper—Deck the Halls.

Image/Sentiment—Penny Black-Joy Wonder

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Cherry Cobbler Crumb Cake, Deck the Halls DSP; Gina K Vanilla;

Ink—SU Cherry Cobbler

Accessories— SU Cherry Cobbler Quilted Satin Ribbon, SU Button with Russet Twine

Joy to the World

This is the one of the two cards that I made for Roxane’s Deck the Halls swap cards.  I went with a vintage color theme for both sets of cards.  Today’s card uses the retired Stampin’ Up Cranberry Crisp and True Thyme—those are some of my favorite Christmas Colors!

Image/Sentiment—Penny Black-the World

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Cranberry Crisp, True Thyme; Gina K White; Carta Bella Christmas Day Ornaments DSP

Ink—SU Cranberry Crisp

Accessories— SU Cranberry Crisp &  True Thyme Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon; Cranberry Brads

Do Ghosts Dance?

This is the second of the two cards that I made for Samantha’s recent Falling For Fall cards.  I laughed out loud when I saw this stamp in our local stamp store and just had to have it!  I love the pun!

Image/Sentiment—Unity—Shake Your Booty

Cardstock—Gina K Black Onyx, Pumpkin Spice and White; Reminisce Verbal Creep DSP

Ink—Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—Black Button with Black Twine; Stampin’ Up Punches; Nestie Ribbon Tag

Colorful Maple leaf

 

This is one of the two cards that I made for Samantha’s recent Falling For Fall cards.  I love fall as the colors of the leaves are so pretty and this year, despite the drought and worries that the colors would be less than stellar—the leaves are outstanding!  And, we have had little wind, so they are staying on the trees for us to enjoy!

 

This is a pretty simple card—the colors of the ink and the wording of the paper is what stand out.

Image/Sentiment—Hampton Art Stamps-Maple Leaf

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green; Gina K Ivory; Flair Designs Autumn Words DSP

Ink—Kaleidacolor Cappuccino Delight

Accessories—Acorn Brad; Brown Taffeta ribbon



Dueling Darlings Love Our Leaders!

It is the 15^th of the month and that means another Dueling Darlings challenge.  Our hostess this month for the entire group is Melina.  We have lost a few members in the past few months and have an uneven number of members on each team.  Melina stepped up this month and sent a challenge to the Divas and then a different challenge to the Dazzlers. 

The Diva theme is in honor of our leader Kelly.  We were asked to use animals as our theme and then to be sure to add a button on our card.  Kelly loves animals and we all know she loves her Riley’s!  So, that was an easy choice for me.  And, I too love buttons and have a couple of drawers of them—so I had a few choices there too!

The sentiment was not hard either as I am so grateful to be a part of this group and even more grateful to call Kelly a friend!  She is so kind, funny, creative, inspirational, a great mom, loving wife, wonderfully spiritual, a caring friend and my list could go on and on and on………………..  Now-the one thing I need to hope for is that we get to meet in real life sometime—that is on my bucket list!

So—Kels—this one is for you!

 Here is the inside of my card.

Image/Sentiment—Stamping Riley/Stampin’ Up Small Script

Ink—SU Chocolate Chip; Memento Tuxedo Black

 Paper—SU Chocolate Chip, Really Rust; Gina K White, Turquoise Sea; Simple Stories Harvest Faire Made with Love & Handmade Happiness patterned papers

Accessories—SU Oval Punches; Rust Brads; Brown Button with Rust Twine; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon;  Copic Markers;

 Please be sure to stop in to see what all of the Divas as well the Dazzlers have created this month.  All of the blogs are on the left sidebar of my blog.  I am sure you will enjoy all of the creations for our leaders! Thanks for joining us!!!!!!

Veni, Vedi, Visa!

This is the second of the two cards that I made for Kristyn’s “Get your Fashion Diva On” Swap.  I do not have many fashion images—but I have quite a few sentiments.  I love this designer paper—perfect for this swap!

Image/Sentiment—Inky Antics Stamps

Cardstock—Stampin’ Up Regal Rose, Elegant Eggplant, Pink Pirouette; Karen Foster Designs Shopping Bags

Ink—SU Regal Rose

Accessories—SU Elegant Eggplant Ribbon, Top Note Die; Punches; Hanger Brad; Eggplant Brads; Pink Button with Bakers Twine

Unidentified Image Swap ~ Behind Every Successful Woman....

 

This is the card for the 4^th round an Unidentified Image swap on SCS.  It is a group of ladies who are a part of a bi-monthly swap where we all use the same image, sent to us by the hostess.  The unidentified part is that we to not discuss the image at all until the day they are to be posted--today!   The images for this round were provided Terry.  She will swap the cards and include the next image that Jeanette, our next hostess, provides in our return envie.  And then we get to do it all again!!!!

The image the Terry sent was so cute and I hoped I had some coffee related DSP to use—but in checking my stash, I did not find any.  Guess that means I need to look for some next time I am shopping. I then checked out the gallery on SCS and found some wonderful cards made with this set.  So--I went to plan B and decided to look for online for something to highlight on my card.  I decided to use the logo of the main company we all think of when we think of coffee, lattes, cappuccinos, frappes, etc………….  I did find some coffee related twill in my ribbon stash, so that was added.

I think this card turned out cute—and I hope Terry as well as the others in the swap like it also.  

Image/Sentiment—My Favorite Things-MFT—á la modes Miss You a Latte/Gina K Designs-My Cuppa Joe

Cardstock— Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Handsome Hunter, Designer Series Paper; GP White

Ink—SU Chocolate Chip; Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories—SU Chocolate Chip Designer Brads; Copic Markers; Coffee Twill; Starbucks Logo