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This is for you, Linda!
Yes, I really do send Halloween cards. I also give them to my hostesses and customers in October.I absolutely LOVE making them!
I have used SU Batty For You, SU Sanded background (which looks like a spider web!), CTMH Halloscream, CTMH Halloween Dingbats and two Michaels dollar stamps.
To see more Halloween cards, click on the label marked Halloween on my sidebar!
Another co-worker asked me to make a card for the woman who breeds the dogs he is getting his puppies from. He said she is being super amazing, giving the puppies all kinds of extras to bring home, so inside I stamped "You are Ter-RUFF-ic!" He picks up his puppies on Saturday, so hopefully she likes the card.
Stamps: Puppy Love(CTMH)
CardStock: Taken with teal, real red, white
Ink: Taken with teal, real red, chocolate chip
Acc: Red grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals
This is day 8 of Paula's 12 Days of Christmas challenge. It is a Gate Fold card, and you can find the tutorial HERE on Beate's blog. The finished card measures 4"x4".
Card Stock/Paper: Handsome Hunter, Sage Shadow, Wintergreen designer series paper (SU)
Stamps: New Fallen Snow (CTMH)
Ink: Handsome Hunter, Versamark
Acc: White EP, stampin' dimensionals
My friend, Paula, over at Scrapping Buddies, is doing a 12 Days of Christmas challenge. You can find the challenge HERE. Each day she will issue a challenge for a Christmas/Holiday card in hopes of inspiring us to get our cards done early...or at least on time! We are already on day 4, so here are my first 4...
Challenge 1~Traditional Red and Green
I used my Season of Joy set for this challenge. I like the simplicity.
Challenge2~Swirls
The swirl is from Season of Joy, the sentiment is from Very Merry Messages. Paper is Imaginessence, card stock is River Rock. I embossed the swirls and sentiment with clear EP.
I used SU Lavendar Lace, Almost Amethyst and Lovely Lilac as my colour pallette. The stamp set is New Fallen Snow from CTMH.
I don't know who makes this paper. I cut strips at different lenghts to create the tree. The sentiment is from Season of Joy. The card stock is Always Artichoke (SU).Here are the final cards for Angel's 31 days of Angelocity.
This one is for sketch #31.
This is for Angel's last sketch of her 31 Days of Angelocity.
Card Stock: Cool caribbean, Whisper White (SU)
Paper: Just Chillin' (CTMH)
Stamp Set: Bugs & kisses (SU)
Acc: Rose Red brads (SU)
Well, I am catching up with Angel's sketches. These are very fun, and the blog candy give-away is tremendous!
This card is for Sketch #25.
Card stock: Cool Caribbean. Whisper White (SU)
Paper: Just Chillin' (CTMH)
Stamp: Block Party (SU)
Acc: Burgandy grosgrain (SU)
This card is for Sketch #30.
Card Stock: Bravo Burgandy, Whisper White (SU)
Paper: (SU)
Stamps: Season of Joy (SU) and Merry and Bright (Stampendous)
This is for sketch #29.
Card Stock: Sage Shadow, Whisper White
Paper: Wintergreen (SU)
Stamp Set: Season of Joy (SU)
Acc: silver brads, pop dots, 3/4" circle punch (SU)
This is for Sketch #11.
Card Stock: Real Red, Glorious Green, Whisper White (SU)
Stamp Sets: Season of Joy (SU)
Acc: pop dots, 3/4" circle punch (SU)
This is also for Sketch #11.
Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Very Vanilla
Stamp Sets: Autumn Fun, All Year Cheer III (SU)
Acc: paper piercer, pop dots (SU)
Technique: Rock'n'Roll
Here's another LO I did last weekend.
The paper is Enchanted from CTMH; the alphabets are Typewriter Keys and Rustic from CTMH.
I have a craft show tomorrow that I need to get ready for. I always leave everything til the last minute...bad habit!
This is one of the cards I did this weekend. The paper is from the Just Chillin' set by CTMH, the snowflake is from the set New Fallen Snow (CTMH) and the letters are from Typewriter Keys, also CTMH.
This week has been horrid. On Monday, I realized that someone stole my beautiful double stroller! I cannot afford to have it replaced...it was a Peg-Perago double stroller. I am so pissed off! I NEED that for my day care.
I am really upset by this. It bothers me that someone would waltz into my yard and steal somethinbg that is so necessary in my life. Consequently, I am pretty depressed and haven't taken the kids out for a walk all week.
I thought I'd share some of the LOs I've done for my mom's Heritage album.
The paper is from the More To Adore collection from CTMH.
The colours are Blush, Chocolate, Hollyhock and Vanilla Cream.
The brown brads are from Bazzill.
The first LO won first place at the County Fair.
I adore this photo of my mom as a baby! Look at those rosy cheeks!
Ok, by now you all must know I am a paper whore. That's right, I said it. I love patterns and I love putting patterns together.
After designing my last halloween layout, I had some paper left over so naturally, I made some cards. This paper is from the Enchanted collection by Close To My Heart and is so YUMMY! I have, in fact, ordered another pack of it!
Lots of sanding and distressing with these cards. CTMH paper is white core, so the sanding looks so cool! The sentiments are from the set Hallow-Scream, also from CTMH.
Tracy's Happy Place has her monthly challenge up and you can see it HERE. Tracy says,"Well for this months Challenge I want you to create a card using a stamp or stamp set that you bought and have not used in 'forever' or have never picked up since you bought it!" Well, I bought Cobblestone alphabet from CTMH last March. HAD to have it! I never used it. Until today, that is! Can you believe that? How many months is that-7? Jeez! So here is my challenge card, using my 7 month old Cobblestone alphabet, Groovy Guava and Basic Black card stock, ink and ribbon. (I also used Brocade Basics on the background-it is embossed with clear EP).
Among other things I did this weekend, i managed to complete 2 more layouts for my mom's Heritage album. These are pictures from my mom's childhood. I titled one "I've Got a Secret..." because it looks like she does! My mom will do all her own journalling.
The whole album is being done with the More to Adore line from CTMH. 
Whirlpool of Imagination is challenging us to create a project with a dog theme, for the "Dog Days of Summer".
I really like how this card turned out.
Stamp set: Puppy Love (CTMH)
Card stock: Chocolate Chip, River Rock
Ink: Chocolate Chip, River Rock
Acc: Brads (CTMH)
This was made for Colleen's Thursday Throwdown. We were to use her sketch to create a card. I used paper and brads from CTMH and the sentiment is from the set God's Blessings by Stampin' Up.
What you will need:
-paper trimmer
-stylus or score blade
-4" x 8" neutral card stock
-hand-held circle punch
-ink
-stamps
-15" of ribbon
1-cut card stock 4" x 8".
2-With the 8" side against the trimmer, score at 4" (middle).
3-Turn card stock so the 4" side is against the trimmer. Make a little mark at 2" at the top and the bottom. This will show you where the middle is.
4- Position the card stock so that the top middle is at the score line on the trimmer and the middle is at the score line of the trimmer. This will be a diagonal. Score from top to middle. Do this on all 4 sides.
I have marked in black where your score lines are. Your card stock will look like this.
5-Random stamp the whole surface of your card stock.
6-Fold the scored edges inward.
7-Take your hole punch and punch through all 4 layers at the top.
8-Pass your ribbon through the holes and tie.
9-You can add a tag, if you like.
Your finished triangle box should look like this!
I put 2 doggie treats in mine and gave it to my neighbor (for her dogs).
Was feeling so creative last night after my chemistry exam that I whipped up 5 cards! 3 using my TAC bug set and these 2 using CTMH!
I think this Friend To Friend set is so cute! I used Chocolate, Bamboo and Desert Sand cardstock (CTMH) and Cranberry, Chocolate and Desert Sand ink (CTMH). I stamped and cut out the flowers and added the chocolate and bamboo brads (CTMH). I LOVE this card!
Used Close To Cocoa and Old Olive card stock (SU) and Always Artichoke (SU), Bamboo and Desert Sand (CTMH) ink. The sets are Jungle Leaves and In The Wild (CTMH). I stamped and cut out the leaves and popped them up with pop dots.
I had to whip up a birthday card for an 8 year old boy. I used the set Flyin' High from CTMH and Birthdays Are The Best from SU. The paper is also CTMH.
(Flossie, I've got lots of CTMH stamps...go to my sidebar, under my slideshow, you'll see LABELS...click the one that says CTMH, it will show you all the cards I've done using those stamps).
