2011 365 #097 birthday card

I made this card for one of my friends at work...she is turning 30.  I used the sketch from The Sweet Stop and am also entering it in The Shabby Tea Room for my favorite things challenge...I used my favorite kind of paper - Basic Grey, my favorite embellishments - home made flowers made by my mom and my favorite stamp company - Lili of the Valley...thanks for looking...I know it is a little busy, but it was a rush to get it done in time for work...

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 6 - scrap attack 2011 365 #095 & #096

The Shopping Our Stash challenge this week is to use only scraps from your craft area...I have tons of scraps in a bucket and these card were only made from that stash (told you there were lots)...I hold on to all of my little pieces just in case I need a little piece of this or that...I made two cards from the scrap pile...you may recognize these scraps from several other projects on my blog (I purposely used "newer scraps" so you could tell they were really from other projects..but that is just how I am)...all of the frames were in a ziploc bag from when we first discovered nestabilities and all their wonder and glory...the hearts were from a basic grey pack...the flowers were left over from my teachers' projects, the turtle was already coloured cuz I had made a birthday card with it, but this one had a bit of an ink mishap...decided to save him with some random inking...don't know if I made it better or worse? ...the papers were already cut...can't get much more scrapped in my house than that...even the card bases were salvaged from other projects!  I hope you will join in the fun this week and use up some of your specially saved supplies in a project that they were specially save for! 

2011 365 #094 Hello Kitty graduation

I made this card mainly for the card contest at the Scrap Yard in Stonewall...I took it out there today...I used my neglected Cricut to make the Hello Kitty and some scrap gems for teh hat and sentiment...the doily is a clearance sticker from Michael's that I got a while back...

Tagging along with Opus Gluei and the Jingle Belles 2011 365 #093

 This is my first post as a "Poobah" with the Opus Gluei girls...how exciting!  The first challenge they are doing with us newbies is a "Tag along" challenge.  We are joining up for this challenge with the Jingle Belles and making a Christmas card...with a tag inspired by the Christmas card...This is my submission...I hope you join in the fun and play along with both challenges this week!

Shopping our Stash Challenge 5 - Hello Kitty Birthday -2011 365 #092

This is my submission for the Shopping our Stash tools of the trade challenge...now I know why those tools sit in a drawer and will be going up for sale at the next scrapbook garage sale!

I used the Fastenator waste of $$$ for the staples, the I-Top waste of $$$ for the Hello Kitty brads, my Distresser from Zutter (which I thought was a waste of $$$, but I am starting to become fond of the effect), home made Pearl-Ex (remember Pearl Ex??  anyone??) glimmer mist, an unused Cuttlebug folder and an unused Cricut cartridge that I just had to have 5 years or so ago. The Happy Birthday is a Martha Stewart punch that I haven't used and the paper is from a Hello Kitty paper pack that I bought before the Cartridge (which is probably why I had to have the cartridge). The flowers are from a giant Prima pack that I paid way to much $$$ for and never opened...so I decided to start using everything up... why not?  I made this card for my neice's 3rd birthday...I wish Hello Kitty had a teapot for her tea party...but a flower will have to do.
Thanks for looking!

SOS Challenge 4 - SOS - 2011 365 #091

 This is my card for the Shopping Our Stash SOS challenge...the challenge is to use SOS titled items (stickles, ocean, stamps etc.)...I used the following for this challenge:

• sea shell ric rac - this is the first embellishment I ever bought for scrapbooking and never used
• ocean theme
• stampin up stamps that have never seen ink - there are three from this set combined on this image
• SEI paper - this paper is so old that I bought it before they made double sided paper... yup...there was a time before the coordinated double side that we all know and love!
• Stickles and sparkles - I used copper stickles and yellow glitter to make the sand...it is quite blingy in real life!
• Scalloped edging - just cuz I like that
• Stripes
• and the pretty home made flowers that my mom crocheted for me...with some sea shells on top.

Hopefully that is enough SOS inspiration for you to hop on board and join in this week's challenge!

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:

Quirky crafts: brown blue and green

a spoonful of sugar: splish splash
anything goes challenge: here comes summer
Deep ocean challenge: anything goes as long as there is an ocean image

2011 365 #090 you have to kiss a toad

 Okay, so this is the card that I had really wanted to do last week for the Opus Gluei midsummer's night challenge, but I am going to be completely honest with you all...I couldn't find my paper...I knew I bought it , but I looked high and low and could not find it anywhere...hence the donkey card...but my day was saved when the challenge for Opus Gluei was girly girl this week...yippee...what fairy princess doesn't want to kiss her toad???  That to me couldn't qualify more for the girly girl category...Paper sundaes was also doing a girly girl theme, so I am entering this card in both of those challenges...the sketch that I followed was from The Sweet Stop....and the inspiration photo and colours are from the Shabby Tea room (pink, green, neutrals and flowers)...I know the green outweighs the pink in this pic, but it still has the feeling of the inpiration photo in my opinion...thanks for looking!

2011 365 #089 - father's day card

 I made this card for a friend of mine at work.  She needed one for her husband for father's day.  She asked me if I could make her a hockey/lacrosse/soccer card...wasn't quite sure how I would pull that off until I found the all sports cartridge at Michael's on Saturday and Voila...soccer/hockey/lacross people all on the same card....all her kids are generally number 13 in the sports that they play, so I threw little 13s on each of them...I hope she likes the step card look!

I am entering this card in the following Father's day Challenges:
Creative Inspirations

One Stop Craft Challenge 
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge
The Alphabet Challenge

2011 365 #088 - midsummer night

This is my entry for the Midsummer's night challenge at the Opus Gluei...it did say right in the challenge that I could use a jack's ass and so I did...what more can I say???  Thanks for looking!  Maybe I will whip up something more faerie-ish later..ta ta for now...

Shopping our stash Challenge 3 - UFO - 2011 365 #087

Challenge 3 at Shopping Our Stash is a UFO challenge...unfinished objects...one of my goals this year has been to finish all of my unfinished and unstarted projects that I have laying around my craft area...I have cleaned up lots of them to try to achieve my 1000 projects in 2011 goal, but this one has been hanging around for about 4 years or so...I found these super cute apples at our Dollarama and just had to make them up for the teachers for the end of the school year...I thought they would be just perfect....move along 4 years and here we are at the end of another school year...but this year my youngest is done elementary school, so I figured that I had better finish them off...and along comes the UFO challenge...wahoo..two birds with one stone and 4 more projects finished for this year...won't you join in this week and show us what you completed?

2011 365 #086 dance teacher thank you cards

 I made these cards this morning to say thanks to the two ballet teachers, the tap and jazz teacher and the irish teacher...yippee, dance is almost finished for the year...recital tomorrow and we are done for the summer!  I used the sketch from the Sweet Stop  ...I love their sketches....I cut the shoes out on the Cricut from the Twinkle toes cartridge (finally used it!)...the paper is Basic Grey and the flowers are Prima resin ones that I was hoarding...used the Bow Easy to make the shoe ribbons...I am entering these cards in the following challenges:
The Sweet Stop - sketch
Stamptacular Sunday - pink, black, tan and white
Crafty Catz - lots of circles
Basic Grey Challenges - shabby chic
Thanks for looking!



2011 365 #085 - got mail?

This weeks challenge at the Opus Gluei was to decorate something to go in the mail...I did this extremely tacky envelope...the girl at the post office laughed at it...ha ha on her, cuz now they are going on strike...maybe she should have been nicer to me???  you can find the challenge here...come play along!  Thanks for looking!