2012 365 #194 - priceless

This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei is a free for all challenge - do anything, just play along!  I love these kind of challenges...the pressure is off and I can make whatever I fancy!  I got this new stamp set just before Christmas and have been itching to use it...so much fun...of course Christmas and then the stomach flu for my girls (had to cancel my oldest's 13th birthday party an hour before it was to start - or it would have been a barfday party) got in the way of my creativity, but everyone seems sort of back on track today so I got it done at last! Hope everyone had some wonderful holiday time and to a fabulous new year on the way!

2012 365 #192 - tag you're it!

This week's challenge at Anything but a Card is anything goes (as long as it is not a card) or your favorite project from 2012 - I almost forgot to do this project this week with all the Christmas craziness going on...whipped these little tags up in about 2 minutes as we were wrapping gifts and ran out...not too fancy or anything...just practical! merry Christmas to all of you! hope your holiday time is fabulous and you have a wonderful new year!

2012 365 #193 - quick Christmas cards

I whipped up some last minute (14 cards done in 25 minutes...really mean it when I say whipped!!!) Christmas cards using the Sketch from Artful Delight....what a fun and quick sketch to whip up some bulk cards quickly!  Love playing along with them!!!

2012 365 #190 - up yours :)

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use a winter theme, but not a "holiday" one...I chose Stella cuz she is so much fun!
This is the last of the cards from the Death of a Paper line project...I love this stamp and had to use it at least once this season...she is one of my most favorite sarcastic ones....hope you join in this week!  It is an extra long challenge so you can get some holiday fun in too!

2012 365 #191 snowman poop

I totally stole this awesome idea from Karen (she entered it in our Anything but a Card Challenge last time round)...my girls and their friends are so into tic tac candies and everyone has a package in their school bag....so when I saw this idea, I knew it had to be the project of the year for the "token" kids gifts that they hand out to their friends...I always try to keep those gifts under $2 cuz they always have tons of people they want to give to, so off to Costco I went and 24 packages of tic tacs later, the girls are beaming....thanks for the awesome idea Karen!

2012 365 #189 - Joy to the World!

The challenge at the Opus Gluei this week is to use a Christmas Carol to inspire your project.  I went for the "Joy to the World" aspect with some frolicking reindeer to lighten the Christmas mood....my dad bought this stamp and die set for Christmas this year and I get to use it before Christmas! Wahoozle! Hope Santa is good to all of you this year!

2012 365 #188 keep calm and shop on

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use a sentiment as a focal point on your project and not images....I was rummaging through my stamp sets and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to break this one in (first dip in the ink pad for this stamp) and another card from the death of the paper line leftovers (they are almost used up...maybe enough for 6 more cards and then it is completely kaput!  wahoozle!


not many shopping days left till christmas...not done yet...what a busy year...cards aren't made (kids don't even go for christmas pictures until december 18th, so they will be late anyway)...still have presents to buy, the tree is not up, baking is not done....crrraaaazzzzyy! not our usual holiday standard, but no one is sick and we are busy with fun stuff, so I guess that is a good sacrifice to have to be made....just thought this phrase would be appropriate in our house this week! Hope all your holiday plans are going well!

2012 365 #187 - star light star bright

The challenge at Anything But a Card this week is celebrating the light or holiday projects....I decorated my wall at work (shhh don't tell anyone) with these stars cut out with the bigshot die from Sizzix...I made about 50 of them...over half are 3-d and the other half are one sided...I thought they could add some neutral festive flair in a really boring office environment without offending any religions or beliefs of any sort...hope it worked!

2012 365 #166 - death of a paper line

Not sure why this didnt post when it was supposed to, but better late than never, I suppose!  It showed up in my blog roll and then reverted back to a draft??? what's up with that?

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to do holiday/winter cards or projects using up your stash....okay, so I have been slacking it lately on using my old stash...things here are crazy and I have had no spare time to speak of....so I decided I would cut myself out two hours on Sunday morning of crafty time before Lauren had to go to her tap exam practice...well I guess the busy-ness has taken a toll on all of us because we slept in until 11:10 (which has not happened since Emily was born in 2001 - she is always up by 8:00 or as soon as it gets light out...even the puppy was still sleeping when Emily woke it up...) - needless to say our day changed in a dramatically different way (Lauren's dance class starts at 11:00) - so glad it was not next week for her exam...so once lunch was done I made up my mind to do an hour "paper line kill"...not sure if you have ever done that or not, it's kind of fun....grab an old paper line and off with it's head! I gave my self one hour on the timer (or the washing machine load - as it happens to be at my house), picked the line and away I went....I got to card number 14 (at the 43 minute mark) when the girls yelled to me "MOM....MOM...THE DOG JUST ATE A HOLE IN THE LIVING ROOM CARPET!!!! MOM!!! COME QUICK!!!" (I thought they had the puppy with them watching a movie in the basement...she isn't usually left unsupervised in the house) needless to say the end of my crafting hour was now at 43 minutes! So now we are going to be spending the next little while trying to figure out what to do with the carpet in the living room...poohey...I like my carpet and it looked good...not the Christmas present I was hoping for this year....humbug! But I did cruise through 14 Christmas cards and most of a paper line (most of the pages were already cut into and the sticker sheets etc were already robbed from...this was just the residue of Christmas card making from 2 years ago) that I am quite tired of looking at!

2012 365 #185 - monkey see, monkey do

This was my week to set the challenge over at the Opus Gluei, and I chose monkeys!  I love these coffee cozies that my mom made for my birthday and they totally inspired me into making a card for them!  I love this stamp and sentiment....they are definitely in my most adored pile...so stop monkeying around and get swinging on a monkey project for all to see!