#11 -Valentine

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use red or hearts or valentines etc...this idea worked so well in my head, but when it hit the paper it was a whammie...not liking it at all....oh well...at least it uses up some hearts I have had for years and the end of my last kit (yeah...now I can start the next one...this is a hard commitment for me)....I get bored too easily with one type of paper....play along with us, won't you?

#10 bling is the thing

BRRR...it has been so cold here this week....hope my peeps in the freezing lands are keeping warm....a few days last week that were in the -43C range with the windchill...a band concert in -33C actual temperature and ski trip meeting in the same...nice to stay home and craft a bit in the warmth of the house this weekend....anyway....This week's challenge at the Opus Gluei should really brighten your day in one way or another....it is all about the bling....use twinkly shiny blingy things on your projects...this is what I came up with...so much bling this card barely stands up....love using up some of my hoards of bling....what can you come up with this week?

#9 Butterfly ribbon

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use your oldest ribbons...I am not sure if these ones are my oldest, but they are sure in the running...I got them at least 5 or 6 years ago in a huge package from Costco...there were 48 kinds of ribbon in it and I had to have it...why?  I will never know...I truly didn't even like half of the ones included in there, but my need to possess took over and into my collection they went...unused...until today...I stuck 9 strips to a piece of cardstock and ran them through the big shot with my border die...easy right???  Not so....it turns out they are way to thick for a border die so I had to cut around the whole outline with an exacto knife....and the butterfly was a nasty experience as well, but the outcome is nice....and then to top off a 10th, I used a pretty white one to tie it all together...all of the papers and letters are the remainder from a kit I bought and am trying to use up...

#8 Ribbon and fibres

This week's challenge at Anything But a Card is to use ribbons, twine, fibres etc...I use lots on this page but they kind of blend in...there is some grey pleats on the left next to some white chain cord...on the top there is some yellow ribbon embroidered with grey floss...on the right there is some shiny grey ribbon under the letters and at the bottom there is some fuzzy ric rac and yellow with white bakers twine...there is also some tulle under the pins and the flowers...I used the sketch from Artful Delight this month to do this page.  Hope you like it and play along....the supplies are all from a kit at my LSS that I had left over after using the ones I really liked...Not too fond of this line, but my goal is to use up the old before starting the new...and not to have any leftovers behind, so it forced me to play with it and think outside the box...I like the results though!

#6 Suits me to a "T"

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is "suits me to a "T"- using at least two things that start with the letter "T"...it can be products or images etc...
This was a fun challenge, but I didn't think the letter "T" could stump me so easily....who'da thunk it? Maybe it was just the blizzard we were having on Friday night (or not quite a blizzard for the technicality junkies out there - missed blizzard status by 9 minutes according to environment Canada) that stumped me....oh well...here are my "T"s - three tiny teal birds teetering on a tightrope tweeting thanks....hope that cuts it... ;) going to dig my way out of my driveway now...just two three foot snowbanks to get through!  Hope you are all keeping warm and playing along inside!  p.s. - this whole entire card is made of scraps... yippee!

**special thanks to our awesome neighbours who used the snow blower on our driveway yesterday!  No shovelling needed now!  Wahoozle!**

#5 pretty in pink

This week's challenge over at the Opus Gluei is to use predominantly pink on your projects...wahooo! I love working with pink..it is one of my favorites and a go to colour for me (good thing I have two little girls, so pink is acceptable in most crafting projects)...I am trying this year (again) to use up many of my older supplies and kits that I have...my goal is to finish up one whole kit before moving on to other projects, so all of the pieces of this card are from a kit I got back in October (that is almost done)....

#7 - birds of a feather

This is my interpretation of the sketch from Artful Delight...I love this blog and the kits they make up are just amazing...hoping I can fit some of them into my budget this year because when you see them, the ideas just start flowing...their design team is fabulous too...I don't play nearly as often as I would like to with them, but I did get a card done today (we are sort of snowed in, but not totally....just enough to stay inside in pjs for most of the day)...hoping it is close enough to the sketch to qualify for their challenge this month!

you know you are Canadian when....

you know you are Canadian when....you have to stop for slurpees on the way home in a raging blizzard....bbbrrrrr....keep warm my Canadian peeps!!!  Hoping tomorrow will be a snow day!

#4 - with sympathy

I whipped up some quick sympathy cards based on a card from the Stampin up catalogue as my hubby needed one for someone at work...thought I would do a couple cuz you just never know when you are going to need on of those kinds of cards (and I don't like making sympathy cards)...they just can't be fun and sassy....but I like the way these ones turned out.

#3 - Button button

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is to use buttons on your project.  I am pleased to say that everything on this card is from the scrap pile in my newly cleaned scraproom (my annual clean out is complete....yippee)....even the buttons were from a package that I had used most of...now there are no more tealy coloured ones :( ...play along with us this week, won't you???

#2 - Things with wings

This week's challenge at Anything But A Card is "Things with wings"....I took the challenge a little abstractly and thought I would do a page for my daughter's broken arm (it happened in the spring and it is healing nicely...still no trampoline for a few more months, but otherwise it is completely fixed)....I threw in some butterflies to complete the wing part of the challenge just in case I didn't have enough wingy type things....even one of the butterflies has a broken wing...just for fun...why don't you play along with us...it is a new year, after all??

#1 White on White

The challenge for Shopping our Stash this week is White on White.  White on White is something that I love to admire from afar - some people are uber talented at it - me, not so much...but all of this white stuff was actually sitting on my table begging to be used (it appears I never use the white accessories) - the ribbon is super old, the flowers were crocheted by my mom 2 summers ago for me and the buttons are all vintage from an estate sale...hope I pulled it off in some fashion....this is a real challenge for me...not my style at all - but I found it a fun challenge anyhow!!  Let's see your super talented creations for the new year!