2012 365 #184 - odds and ends

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is odds and ends - I love these kind of challenges to use up the bits and pieces left over from all my other projects...everything on this card is odds and ends...I have one paperclip, one tag to stamp, the flowers are leftovers from my father's day project, the last of this baker's twine, I got the record keeping tag at a crop and only one pin and these last two buttons...phew - even the paper is scrap and the last card base in the box!

2012 365 #183 - just beachy

phew, I didn't think I was going to be able to get a project done for this week's challenge at Anything But A Card, but here it is...things have been so crazy and when I went in to check out what the challenge was, the beach theme just floored me...then I remembered I had these coasters lying around (that were supposed to be used for Christmas last year) - and I love this stamp set so it was a perfect match!

Tried out my new spectrum noir markers on this project...still not sure if I like them as much as my copics, but the colours are way more intense, which gives it all a different kind of look...don't like that they re-activate the memento ink and make it spread...anyone have any suggestions on base ink to use for this type of marker? I don't have that problem with the copic markers??? I thought they were the same kind of ink, but I guess not??

2012 365 #182 - partridge in a pear tree

This weeks challenge at Shopping our Stash is called leaf it to me - use some leaves on your project - easy, right?  The only thing better than old stash using is free stash using...my friend gave me this piece of partridge paper (only one - which totally breaks all my rules of always buying 2 of each) and I wanted to hoard it because I love the colours, but instead, I cut it up and made a card - go me! I used the lattice spellbinders (for the first time) for the leaves on my tree and my birch tree memory box die that I just had to have and have never used...the back of the paper was this green leaf pattern (background of this card - such pretty combo) - and I finally broke open my little package of birdies too...coloured them with my Tim Holtz markers and put a little smooch on top...play along, won't you?

2012 365 #181 - oh Christmas tree

This week the Opus Gluei girls challenged us to make a 3-d project.  It has been sooooooooo busy in our house this week, that I ran out of time for an original idea (I did have something planned, but there just was no time to complete) so I pulled out our latest stamp club project and decided to use that instead...not my idea - it is actually in the catalogue as a project idea, but it is made by me and super cute!  I will have to do some more of these because I am in love with the pop up aspect of this kind of card...***the reason that we were so busy is that my sister had her much awaited baby on Saturday morning and I had to visit (welcome to the world Sawyer)...oh and the hubby was awarded with a pretty fancy medal from the province for all the great work that he does on Friday night at a dinner...those great things that happen take away a bit from the crafting time - but are well worth it!
Come on out and play with us a while, won't you?

2012 365 #180 - so grateful

This weeks challenge at Shopping our Stash is a Thanksgiving or Thank you card...Thank goodness for our stamp club...it is like she knows what our challenges are going to be and sets up my cards perfectly :) - especially as this colorado low coming through has grounded me with a huge low pressure headache and it is making everything torture this weekend....oh well, can feel the system letting up on my brain a bit this morning, but until then, I will use another stamp club card....this one is along the style of what I would have done anyway, so it is a bonus that she gave us the idea!  Now out to shovel...maybe fresh air will help the headache out! 

2012 365 #179 - Penny

This week's challenge at Anything But A Card is to use time or stitching on your project.  I chose to do fake stitching to try out my sew easy stamper...not overly impressed with the look of the outcome of the stamper, but it was fun to play with anyway...my time aspect for this challenge is how time flies...It seems like just yesterday that we picked her up from her little farm and now she is such a big part of the family...she is still a cutie and a pretty smart pooch too!  Let's see how you can conquer this challenge!

2012 365 #172 - happy hexagon

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use products that you considered "The best deal ever"....of course, I say that about pretty much everything that I buy for scrapbook supplies, so the decision of what to use was a hard one for me this week...I love these corrugated cards...made lots of things with them over this past week...The hexagon dies are also a "best thing ever" deal as I spent one whole weekend cutting out hexi's for a different project with a template and it was a nightmare...then lo and behold, I found these nestabilities and now I am in heaven...so let's see what your best deal ever is!

2012 365 #171 - make a wish

This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei is a silhouette or a number...I chose the first because I have the perfect, hardly used stamps for this challenge and just had to pull them out of hiding and let them see the light....

Let's see what you can come up with for this challenge!

2012 365 #173 - Start of the Christmas card season

Whipped up a few Christmas cards at a crop last weekend - loving these corrugated cards (sorry mom, but I like them even though you said they look like a chopped up box)...what do you guys think??

2012 365 #177 - birdie christmas

I tried an experiment with dyeing this ribbon by just rubbing it through the ink pad...it turned out okay, but I think it could have been covered a little more (and maybe I should have used white ribbon and not cream???  only had the cream with me at the time though)...just a simple card but I love the stamp and had to try it out...

2012 365 #175 - magical Christmas

This card was made with only scraps left over from a few other projects at a crop on the weekend...the colour combination is kind of growing on me.....

2012 365 #178 - be a deer

this pattern was copied from a paper crafts magazine...I thought the idea was cute and I was experimenting with my new deer dies that I bought a little while back...one of the cards looks like deer going to target practice in my opinion...maybe we will have to give that card to a hunter friend of ours for Christmas...he might find it humourous???

2012 365 # 176 - memory box card

we made this card in a memory box class...it took up about 5 minutes to make and it turned out kind of cute...i think i would tweak it a bit, but the idea is neat...

2012 365 #174 - hedgehog christmas

I thought this stamp was super cute and I happened to have the sentiment left over from a piece of paper that I had already chopped up and thought it worked out perfectly...I am entering this card in the Penny Black cute Christmas challenge.