SOS Challenge 15 - Sassy, Snarky and LOL - 2011 365 #116

This weeks challenge over at the Shopping our Stash blog is Sassy, Snarky and LOL...these are my favorite type of cards to make...they are so much fun, especially if you have friends who have a sense of humour...I am all about laughing it up in a card instead of the sappy, emotional kind of stuff, so here is my attempt at this challenge:

I used the Tim Holtz crackel on the orange paper to do the crackel effect and then went over it with the burlap distressing ink...not quite crackely enough for what I was going for, but maybe next time?  I used my hoarded Chatterbox papers cuz I was in an orange and pink mood and no company does it better than Chatterbox for these kind of combos...the stamp set is from Stampin up...one that I just don't use often enough...and I coloured her with Copic markers...so come on out and sass it up with the girls this week!

Opus Gluei #112 - Everything is coming up roses - 2011 365 #115

Hello to everyone in bloggie land...this is a virtual me as I am on a cruise somewhere off the coast of Alaska right now (hopefully relaxing with my feet up somewhere??)...thank goodness for the scheduled post thing - what amazing things technology can do for us...anyway, this is my card for the Opus Gluei challenge this week - Everything is coming up roses...come and play with us if you have a few minutes...it's a great place to create and the Poobahs come up with some wonderful stuff....I made the rosettes from cut circles and added pearls in the middle...the little rosette ribbon is cream in real life, but looks more whiteish in the picture...I used a new spray mist that I got not too long ago called Fireworks and it seems to spray really nicely...hopefully that keeps happening...don't have too much luck with my spray bottles...they are always clogged up...anyway...thanks for looking and don't forget to join in this week!

Shopping our Stash challenge 14 -red, ribbon and roses - 2011 365 #113

This is my attempt for the red, ribbon and roses challenge over at Shopping our Stash this week.  This is my first try at making these spiral flowers.  I always envy them on other people's projects and figured this was a good time to give them a whirl.  I think they turned out okay??  The stamp is on the card three times, but I am not sure if you can tell from the picture or not?  It turns out that Tim Holtz distress inks don't soak in to this kind of Basic Gray paper fyi...it just sits on top as if the paper is coated in wax or something...part of the reason the stamp is not so great...but what can you do?  live and learn is what the stamp should say instead of live llaugh love...so if you are not doing anything right now, come on and join us in this week's challenge...you don't need to use all three elements of the challenge...one or two will do...just come on and play!

SOS challenge 13 - You are the weakest link - 2011 365 #111

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is the Weakest link...the item that sucks you in most even when you say that you are not going to buy anything else.  I am the weakest link...for sure...I can't resist new copic marker colours, basic gray paper, bling, ribbon and crocheted things...or bella stamps...plus nestabilities, but I didn't use these this time....but they do appear on many of my creations... this was my first attempt at paper piecing and it wasn't nearly as bad or as difficult as I thought it would be...was kind of worried about the chair and all the little pieces, but it was rather easy...so come on out and join in the fun...I know you have tons of stuff that you said you weren't going to buy just sitting there calling out your name to be used...

opus gluei #111 Oh I Do Love To Be Beside The Seaside - 2011 365 #114

This is my attempt for the sea side challenge over at the Opus Gluei this week...we are going on a cruise to Alaska next week and it is all I can do to stop thinking about it, so when this challenge came by, I had to jump on board (pardon the pun).  I cut the fish out of the Life's a Beach cartridge on my Cricut machine (a lonely little machine that just doesn't get used enough....but I am trying to commit to changing that project by project...then I sprayed them with an array of mists...gold and orange, a couple of greens and some blue...I sprayed it all with the Goosebumps spray which is supposed to add texture, but I didn't really notice anything different...the ship was done on the same cartridge as well...so come out and join us with your projects from the sea and let us take a look at what you have done!

SOS challenge 12 - Denim, Dogs and Digis - 2011 365 #110

This is my attempt at denim, digi's and dogs for challenge 12 over at Shopping our Stash...I don't do digi...tried it, but just don't get the hang of it (can't for the life of me figure out how to size those pics so they fit on my card), so I used my Cricut again to cut this out...that is as close to digi as I am going to get...opened up a new cartridge that I just had to have too...three years ago (Forever Young...kind of cool...wishing now that I had looked at it more closely sooner...oh the purses you can make and I used the trusty old Paper Pups for the dog).  The denim is a sticky denim paper that I stole from my mom's house - thanks mom...it worked out perfectly...and I sacrificed another piece of the hoarded chatterbox scraps...I will use up all my scraps...I will...now you don't have to use all three items in your project...one or two are fine...I just like it to be as much of a challenge as possible, so I try to see if I can fit in all three....makes it more fun for me...come on down and try it out!  Use up that stuff that you have hiding in all the nooks and crannies of your scrap space!

2011 365 #112 - book for my mother in law

 My mother in law is building a new house and asked me to come with her to pick out her colour samples, so I made her this book to keep all of her colours and swatches organized...the front is out of this cool vinyl paper that looks like leather...on the inside there are pocket pages after every room heading to keep bits and pieces and there are sticky dots in the envelope in the front so she can stick samples of fabric or carpet in the book on the pages she likes...

I am entering this in the following challenges:
The Crafty Purple Frog - anything but a card
Cooking it up with Katie - something old (the leather paper is from when I first started scrapping) - something new (the paper scraps and thickers) and technique (binding the book - haven't done that in ages and felt it was just time to start using that stuff up)
Crafts and me challenges - anything goes...I just discovered this blog and it looks interesting...so here goes!
The sisterhood of crafters - must be handmade - check!

Shopping Our Stash challenge 11 - violets, violins and vellum - 2011 365 #108

Here is my entry for violets, violins and vellum over at Shopping our Stash...I learned during this challenge why I never use vellum (that stuff is so finicky and no matter what I use, I can still see the adhesive) and that I hate the colour purple...it matches nothing - not even other papers in the same package as it came in...the violin was cut out on my Cricut using the Quarter Notes cartridge (had to open it up for this challenge...yippee...that machine is finally being put to some use)..the flowers really are the same light purple as the background paper, but they almost look brown in the picture??  not sure why... hope you join in with us this week...dig out all of those pieces and bits and get creating!

2011 365 #109 - Luka and me

This page started out as a card for the napkin fold technique...my mom and I were trying out this technique for the forgotten technique challenge at Shopping our Stash last week...she made hers into a card and I threw mine on to a piece of black cardstock and decided to make it into a scrapbook page...I saw the challenge over at Our Creative Corner for a red and aqua colour challenge and decided to finish off the page so that I could submit it...thanks for looking!