Sweet Baby

Happy Thursday! Hope you all had a great and safe New Year! After three days in the house, I ventured out today for coffee and more library books. Ahhh, winter vacation is sweet! *smile*

Between reading and puzzling, I did make a card yesterday for Freshly Made Sketches #67 challenge. Isn't that a great "go-to" sketch? Easy and quick, could be simple or pile it on! I finally got around to using my retired Stampin' Up! Nursery Times set. I bought it when it retired (very rare for me!) because I liked the vintage feel, even though I'm not much of a "colorer." Speaking of Stampin' Up!, have you seen their new Spring mini catalog that is available today?! Oh my, so much goodness! I'm trying to wait until Sell-A-Bration starts, I think the 22nd?, so I can get some free stuff, but it's NOT easy!

Well, the sun is finally shining today, so maybe I'll head back into the stamp room and try to get crafty! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hug and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: SU Nursery Times & Itty Bitty Banners.

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake, Pink Paislee London Market, My Mind's Eye Love Me, Basic Grey Basics Manilla.

Ink: Staz-On Brown.

Accessories: SU Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, Pure Color Pencils (retired), Big Shot, Bitty Banners Framelits, Delicate Doilies Sizzlits, Circles #2 Originals Die, Scallop Trim Border Punch; Canvas Home Basics mini clothespins.

Happy New Year 2013!

Happy New Year 2013!

A secret...I actually saved this card as "happynewyear2012"! Oops! Am I the only one who has trouble making the change?!

I used the awesome Retro Sketches #44 for the CAS layout on this one. The pink glitter and pink star wand really match better in real life, so I'll blame it on the lighting! *smile*

Hope you are having a wonderful day! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Countdown.

Cardstock: SU Pool Party and Whisper White.

Ink: SU Pool Party & Lucky Limeade; Versamark.

Accessories: SU Heat & Stick Powder & glitter; "star wand" from a friend (Thanks, Valerie!).

Sparkle!

Hope everyone is having a sparkly good day!

CAS-ual Fridays #83:

It's CAS-ual Fridays time! Yes, a little bit early this week for something special!

We are teaming up with 10 Minute Craft Dash, so you can link up to both challenges, double your fun, and double your chances of winning a gift certificate to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! Cool, huh?!

So your challenge this week...get your idea, gather up your supplies, set the timer for 10 minutes and dash to complete your card! Not at all stressful, right?! lol! I usually take *forever* to complete a card, but I had the idea to use the circle/line stamp from the Woot Woot stamp set to make a tree, so this was a quick, simple card to make! I didn't have any red gemstones, so I used my Stickles. I didn't count the drying time in my 10 minutes, shhhh. It just set up overnight. *wink*

This challenge will run for two weeks for the holiday, so you have PLENTY of time to make your 10 minute dash card, and I can't wait to come check it out! hehe! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Cozy Christmas!

 Happy, Happy! 

Can you believe Christmas is only a week away?! 

I can't even begin to describe how NOT ready I am! hehe!

So let's think about fun cards instead! 

I have a couple of cards to share for CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! 

I seemed to have been in a *krafty, cozy, old-fashioned* mood for these. 

That's what I love about these stamps, though, they are perfect no matter what your style is!

For the first one below, I used the Snowflake Greetings set. I love how Laura Bassen made snowflakes with emboss resist here, so I thought I would try something similar. I used two pieces of cardstock as my mask and inked up the space in between to create the horizontal lines. The green and red are a tad too dark, wish I had done them lighter, but that's a lesson for next time, right?! 

For the next card below, I used the Merry Kiss-mas set, such a fun one! I used the long "oh by gosh by golly..." stamp with cherry cobbler ink on the wide natural cotton twill tape, love that look! 

Take care and thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Merry

Playing along with CASE(E) this Sketch #9, a super and fun CAS sketch. Love that Tim Holtz tinsel twine. I made a hole in the card front with my "old-fashioned" hole punch/eyelet setter set, ran the tinsel through and tied it in a bow. Super simple.

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs and prayers going out today.

Recipe

Stamps: Making Spirits Bright by A Muse Studio 

Cardstock: SU Whisper White

Ink: SU Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Tim Holtz Winter Tinsel Twine.

CAS-ual Fridays #82: Even the Score

It's CAS-ual Fridays time! 

We have a super fun challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays this week...

Even the Score...create a CAS project using creative scoring!

The winner will receive a prize from this week's sponsor, Scor Pal!

I immediately thought of making a Christmas tree for this one! 

That seems to be a recurring trend, maybe because I didn't put up a tree this year? Doh! 

I'd like to say I just scored some random lines and made a perfect tree the first time! 

ha! 

That didn't happen!

I tried several different times on white, even colored some lines with green chalk, then tried a couple of times on green cardstock, but I could not get lines I was satisfied with. Grrrr.

I finally gave up and drew some lines in pencil on one side of the cardstock, then scored over the pencil lines. I didn't use a ruler (like my normal OCD self would do), because I wanted it to look more natural. I even thought to take a picture of it before attaching it to the card front. Score! 

(See what I did there?!)

Head over to the CAS-ual Fridays blog to check out the other amazing scored cards by the Girl Fridays and to play along with us! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Snowflake Greetings

Cardstock: SU Summer Starfruit, Old Olive, Whisper White.

Ink: SU Early Espresso.

Accessories: Scor Pal, May Arts ribbon, Crop-a-dile, foam dimensionals.

Season's Greetings

Happy Wednesday! Students had a half-day today while teachers had training, but we got to leave early (3:30, a Christmas miracle!), so I raced home and crafted for an hour! Yahoo! I was very grateful for the much needed crafty time, some bad days because of a little screw-up has me hating myself! boo!

Back to crafty time...I played along with the Unscripted Sketches #188 challenge...what a great CAS sketch! I planned on making a lot (didn't happen!) of cards quickly, so I cut up a page of images from the October Afternoon Make It Merry 8x8 paper pad. What an awesome pad that is! I got mine from Paper Issues with 20% off by using Amy's discount code of Amy12. It arrived SO quickly, 3 days, and packaged so cutely! Thanks, Amy and Cassie!

Okay, better call it a night. Tomorrow will come bright and early and I need to be bright and cheery and fully rested for those little students! hehe!  Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake, October Afternoon Make It Merry paper.

Accessories: SU Pearls, My Mind's Eye Winter Wonderland Washi Tape.

8 Happy Nights...Night 3

If you've been over to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, you've probably noticed 

the 8 Happy Nights celebration Michele has put together for Hannukah!

I've created a couple of projects for night three!

My bag above is a simple little gray houndstooth bag from the Dollar Tree (couple of years back, 3 for $1), and I just added a white cardstock tag with silver embossing and a yummy ribbon. Instead of cutting the white cardstock into a tag shape, I removed the handle from the bag, laid the white cardstock over the holes in the bag and punched new holes on top. Lastly, I just threaded the bag handle back through all layers and tied on the *pretties*.

The card below is super simple with more silver embossing. Sigh, love that stuff. 

Head over to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps to check out more of the cards for the 8 Happy Nights. 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Bag Recipe

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays 8 Happy Nights.

Cardstock: SU Whisper White.

Ink: Versamark

Accessories: Silver Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, White DMC Perle Cotton, Crop-o-Dile, Michael's $1 ribbon, Dollar Tree gift bag.  

Card Recipe
Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays 8 Happy Nights
Cardstock: SU Pacific Point, Going Gray (retired), A Muse Studio Chevron paper.
Ink: Versamark.
Accessories: Silver Embossing Powder, Heat Tool.

Merry & Type *25*

Happy Sunday! As usual, I didn't get everything done I needed to, oops, but I did get time to play with one new Stampin' Up! stamp set, Merry & Type. I love, love, love this set and need more time to play! *smile*

I paired up a couple of awesome challenges...The Play Date Cafe Challenge #160 and Retro Sketches #41. Blue is my fave, so no way I could miss this one! 

Looks like a *real* cold front is finally coming through. It was in the 70s earlier and I had the windows open and was wearing shorts. Now it's 48 degrees and we're headed for 30 degrees! Brrrr! But I love it for setting the holiday mood! Looks like some of you are getting snow out there too!

This girl is up past her bedtime, so nighty night! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Recipe

Stamps: SU Merry & Bright

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake & Comfort Cafe DSP; Lily Bee Design Christmas Cheer paper.

Ink: Midnight Muse.

Accessories: SU Twill Ribbon, Linen Thread, Vintage Trinket Brads, Extra Large Oval Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits, retired canvas die cut, vintage button.