Anywhere

Today it was overcast at my house :-( which means my photos look funny, I really & truely did use the right colors but they just don't look it. Here's my creation:

This is the Marvel Cave at Silver Dollar City with my fam. And I had to add black to the color combo to work with my photos this week.

Gypsy font for "Anywhere", Basic Grey ambrosia for printed paper, background grey paper & other lettering

cardstock-poppy parade from Stampin Up; black ink-CTMH: bats-Making Memories Spook Alley

Please join us this week using PPC's Color Combo for ANY crafty project!

PPC Crafty Color Combo

I really really wanted to use this stamp set, kind of obsessively like and this week's color combo worked perfectly for it. This stamp set is called Connections from Close To My Heart and the Thank You stamp is from A Huge Thanks (also CTMH)

Here's my creation:
Details:
Color Comb:
Products Used: All CTMH

Crop Chocolate Crop Challenge #3

The third challenge of the weekend was an Easel card. I've made one before but it was SO bad that I threw it away! That's right, it was terrible. But today's turned out much better than that one, so I'll show it to you:
the birds & words are rub-ons, which I'm not normally friendly with but these from Fancy Pants are great
The ribbon is from American Crafts and, I thought, matched beautifully
This paper I got from Crop Chocolate for a nice price and free shipping (even nicer!); the bling is from CTMH; the brads from Hobby Lobby; the center of the button is two Dew Drops; and the button is misc.

ChallengesFromTheAttic #3

Challenge #3 From The Attic is to use a Tree. I love trees! I have just under 5 acres of trees on a beautiful hillside in Arkansas; we built our house right in the middle of the property. Hickory, Oaks, Cedar, Dogwood, Red Buds, and more that I don't know - they're everywhere and I love them all. But these pictures were taken at my friend (Wendy)'s house at Easter this year. That's my oldest in tree trying to get an egg his favorite Uncle (Jimmy) hid up there for him to find. The other two kiddos are my younger son & my neice who are the same age and very good friends. These eggs got hidden & found about a dozen times!


Products Used: Printed Papers-CTMH Splendor; Cardstock-CTMH Chocolate; Topiary, Buttercup & Watermelon; bird paper-ki Friendship; Cricut Cartridge-Cindy Loo

You're the Cherry on Top!

umWowStudios surprised me today by making me the winner of their latest prize package! Yea Me! Which was perfect timing since I'd planned on making a card (really made two, heehee) using her sketch tonight. Here's my creation:
The Details:
SketchMania#13:
So go make something yourself & get it submitted for the next prize!

Products Used: Printed Papers-Basic Grey Lemonade; tag-Boxer; ink-Creative Memories Pen; greencardstock-Stampin'Up!, bling-misc; ricrack, Liquid Glass & hanger-CTMH white

PPC-CC#32

Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo this week really got me going! Here's my creation:
And the details:
The Color Combo:
Products Used: Cardstock-CMTH; Printed Paper-Making Memories Spook Alley; Spider-Making Memories Toil & Trouble; the awesome scarecrow-DigiStamp (by Cocodingo).

Technique used: waterbrush pen with ink pads. Fill your waterbrush with water, squeeze your ink pad to put ink on the inside of the lid, dip the waterbrush into ink on lid & color away. The best way I've found to use a DigiStamp is to print it with a laser printer (not an ink jet) the laser printer will heat your image to the paper (where as a ink jet just sprays it on, causing smearing & bleeding).

Challenges From The Attic #1

Challenges From The Attic is a brand spankin new crafty blog site from me! Please go check it out, become a follower & join me in my madness for paper & ink! Here's one of my designs for the first challenge:
Products used: Printed Paper-CTMH Bella; Cardstock-CTMH Cocoa & Desert Sand; brads-misc; Cricut Cartridge-Cindy Loo (which I won from www.scrapbookpal.com); flowers-Prima

Sketch Mania #11

I struggled with Sketch Mania this week & I'm still not really sure about my pages, but in the scrapbook they go. Here are my creations:

The Details:

Page 2:

umWowStudio's Sketch Mania #11:

Products Used: Printed paper, cardstock, brads - CTMH; other cardstock-misc; saying - Making Memories clear creations travel; acetate overlay-Making Memories slice

PPC-CC#31

For this week's color combo from Picture Perfect Creations Crafty Challenge, I used another DigiStamp - I just love the way these turn out. Take a look at my creation:
The Color Combo:

Products Used: Cardstock & Ink-CTMH; Printed Paper, Saying & Brads-Making Memories Rouge Collection

You Make Me Smile

Yes, I'm still working on cards for Operation Write Home & for the crazy No Paper Buying Challenge... only one am I about finished with... that's right you are looking at numbers 97 & 99 of the 100 projects on the Challenge! WAHOOO! Just two more after these, I'm so close

Products Used: Printed Paper & Stamp Set-CTMH Twitterpated; Ink-CTMH Cocoa, Chocolate, Sweet Leaf & Garden Green; Embellys-CTMH

4CCC-2

4 Crafy Chicks Challenge this week was a color combo... I made 4 cards!

Prodcuts Used: Printed Paper & stamp sets-CTMH; black ink-StazOn; cardstock-misc; Cuttlebug; ribbons-misc

These are a part of the No Paper Buying Challenge, see my Aug. 1 post for details

4 more for Operation Write Home!

Today between laundry & doing concrete work, I got 4 cards made... two of this one:

and these two:
Products Used: everything is CTMH except the twine is plain ole twine

These are a part of the No Paper Buying Challenge, info is on my Aug. 1 blog post

Girly cards for Operation Write Home

A trio of Girly cards for OWH this time

Details
Details
Products Used: All Printed Paper-Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday; Cardstock-CTMH in Twilight & Hollyhock; white ink-CTMH; White Embossing powder-SU!; flowers-Prima; all brads-CTMH

These all count toward the No Paper Buying Challenge, for more info see my Aug. 1 post!

Sketch Mania #10

Sketch #10 from Sketch Mania at umWow Studios is currently up... give it a try!

Here's my creation:

The original sketch:

Products Used: all CTMH except Vellum from Paperbilities

This is another for the No Paper Buying Challenge... for more info see my Aug. 1 post

Unscripted Sketches #72 for OWH

Unscripted Sketches #72 worked perfect for three cards for Operation Write Home.

My sweetie picked out the boy's clothing colors for this one and my son chose purple for the flower:

This is my first shot at coloring the little boy:
Here is my favorite:
Products Used: Printed Paperse-Basic Grey Urban Prairie; ink, liquid glass & color pencils-CTMH; yellow floers-Jolee's by You; ribbon from Hobby Lobby

These three count toward the No Paper Buying Challenge. For more info, please see my Aug. 1 blog

Winnie the Witch

Isn't she a cutie? Sypder did it again! I just love her DigiStamps

The Details:

I figure she was skipping along & spilled a little candy out of her bucket.... it's what I use to do when I was dressed as a witch :-)

Products Used: Cardstock-CTMH; ink-CTMH; silver pen-Creative Memories; Candy & Bat stickpin-Making Memories

This is another for the No Paper Buying Challenge! For more info, please see my blog post from Aug. 1

Operation Write Home Tuesday Nite Second Edition

A little more action on the Operation Write Home cards... finish my original commitment of 50 so I guess I'll start working on another....hummmmm....50? Wow, that seems like A LOT! Let's just see how many I get done from this point on....

Paradise card #1

(sorry that picture is a little fuzzy, guess I'm getting tired)

Paradise card #2
Products Used: Printed Paper-CTMH Moon Doggie; stamp set-CTMH Extreme Happiness; ribbon & "claim check"-CTMH, ink-CTMH Cranberry & Cocoa

Two more for the No Paper Buying Challenge. For more info on that, see my Aug. 1 blog post!

Operation Write Home Tuesday Nite

This makes card #48 for Operation Write Home! Yea Me, lol and for the No Paper Buying Challenge it's #75 of the 100 I need to make :-)

Products Used: printed paper-CTMH Back Country; stamp set-CTMH Treetops (one of my favorites); misc twine & cardstock

cards for Operation Write Home

Here are 4 more cards for my 50 card commitment which I should be able to finish up this weekend :-) so I'll probably shoot for more.

Products Used: CTMH (except flowers)-Magic Moments kit, Be Yourself stamp set, Garden Green fibers, Glitz stardust glitter glue, Topiary brad; Creative Memories-word stickers "friends" * "make a wish"; Prima flowers

These 4 cards count toward the No Paper Buying Challenge. For more info check out my Aug. 1 blog post

4CCC-1

My first attempt at watercoloring a DigiStamp (from Spyder's Corner) using a BRAND NEW Weekly Challenge Blog called 4 Crafty Chicks.

Here's my creation:

The Details:

4 Crafty Chick's Sketch:

Products Used: Spyder's DigiStamp-Halloween Pumpkins; Printed Paper-Making Memories Spook Alley; Stamp Set-CTMH Beware; Ink-CTMH Black; Shimmerz, Stickles & Liquid Glass

This is a part of the No Paper Buying Challenge. For more info, see my Aug. 1 blog post