Stamp & Scrap October Week 2

The Twist:

The twist is for you to choose!  You can use a "Trick" (your favorite technique or tip) or a "Treat" (your favorite embellishment).

Challenge Directions

Use the above pictured sketch as inspiration for your card, layout or project and include the twist.

Paper Roses

 Go to Penny Duncan's Paper Roses

It is my first try making paper roses. I searched the internet to infinity and beyond trying to find a free tutorial on how to make these paper roses I see all over cards and scrapbooks. To be honest I couldn't get the center twisted tight as was shown in the video I had found but I am happy they look like flowers at all. I need to search for videos on how to color them so they look even more real but for today I am excited about how they came together!

I cut these flowers using my Cricut machine & my Sure Cuts A Lot program using an svg file I made of the pattern.

 

Hostessing Anysoldier.com Thanksgiving Card Swap!

Decided to do a second set of cards for the Anysoldier.com Thanksgiving Card swap I am hosting. So far I need 8 more people to join to have the normal 20 volunteers. But no luck yet.

Need to search the internet for ideas...

Paper Flowers

What have I been doing today? With just a few items I made these adorable little paper flowers! I found the tutorial for these online and will post the link as soon as I relocate where I found the idea for these flowers! I could just make dozens & dozens of them! 

FLAT STANLEY!!

Flat Stanley Visits 2009

Last fall we had a special visitor come to visit. It was Flat Stanley! Flat Stanley was sent to me by an Elementary student from New Castle, Indiana. We took a tour of my city for a week and then he returned to his town. Well GUESS WHAT?? I am having another Flat Stanley come to visit me this year! I am so excited! I can't wait to BLOG all about Flat Stanley's visit! Here is some pictures from Flat Stanley's visit last year!

Stamp & Scrap October Week 1

Create a project using:

1 Christmas Sentiment
2 Christmas Embellishments, and
3 Christmas Colors

In this card I used my Cricut machine to cut out the frame,  and the Sentiment. I used a Martha Stewart snowflake punch, made an accordion flower using the technique I learned at Simply Scrapping, and finished it off with a bow!

Horse - Happy Birthday!

I was trying to come up with a birthday card for a teen boy when I first picked out my color scheme for this card. By the time it was finished it didn't look so boyish to me any longer. I used an old horse charm from an earring that had no mate as an embellishment. The ribbon I received from winning the drawing for the Back To School Challenge Home Ec.

Color Combo Challenge

October Week 1

Using the color graphic above, use our color palette to inspire your card, layout or project.  Please use only the colors listed above & add our twist for the week:  Stripes or damask prints.  The object is to give your project an elegant feel.

Card Corner Challenge Week #1

October Week 1 Challenge

Challenge is make a card using

White. 

Black. 

And ONE other color. 

WINNER! WINNER! Chicken Dinner!

At one of the scrap sites once a month all the peeps that make cards  have their names entered into the monthly drawing for a special RAK of gifts. And September's WINNER is...

ME!!

That's right and for winning in the month of September I won a FREE MONTH of CLUB Inbox for the month of October from Catherine Pooler a  Stampin Up Demonstrator. I can't wait to see all the special tutorial videos!

Go to Stampin Up

BacktoSchool Challenge 2010 - Home Ec. Winner is...

That's right I took the GOLD! Here's what I won! I can't wait to use these ribbons in my cards! As you can see from my ribbon stash before I can use the ribbons and fabric flowers!

 

Heres my ribbon stash before.

Sharing Appreciation

 Go to Anysoldier.com

Thanks to the Hostess of the Halloween/Fall Card swap for sending me a letter of appreciation. I was tickled to have received such a special gift!

Halloween/Fall Card Swap 2010

These photos are what I received from all who participated in the Anysoldier.com Halloween/Fall Card Swap! Only 20 ladies joined in on the swap but wow what a turn out of cards!!

Go to AnySoldier.com 

Thanksgiving card Swap at Anysoldier.com

I am so proud of myself I finished my 20 cards and letter inserts for the card swap that I am hosting. My card idea came from a card I designed for one of the Color Combo challenges I participated in at Simply Scrapping.

Card Corner Challenge

The Sketch 

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Here's what I created from the sketch. I had wished I didn't add the blue rose on top but it was to late to change once it was placed.

BacktoSchool Challenge 2010 - Grand Prize Winner is...

ME!! I know I can't believe it myself. When I entered the challenges I had no idea that there were even prizes to be won. I wanted to go out of my comfort zone and make cards I wouldn't normally have thought of for my Anysoldier.com card swaps. By doing these challenges I have realized something, I'm not so bad! Lol! I kind of like some of my cards! I wish I would have discovered these challenges before my last card swap. It was the All Occasion swap I think I have surpassed  a set of 20 cards. I have always been artistic I colored my parents siding in Crayola's as a young child. They so badly needed my design expertise at 4 years old or at least an Extreme Makeover show in the 70's! I remember my mother had this old table cloth that was like a plastic feeling matierial and I would place a piece of paper on top of it and rub my crayons on it to get the impression of the flowers on the cloth onto my paper. Not sure what I wanted the embossed crayon notebook paper for, but I liked it! I have had my Cuttlebug machine for 2 months now, I had no idea that they had a machine to give me embossed effects! So Great! I think it is my new best friend! Last Fall my bestie was the Cricut machine, I feel I have moved up! I will admit though I have tried to incorporate cut out images from the Cricut into my cards. To be honest I try to use up as much stuff as I can that I already have so that I can feel better about needing/buying new stuff! Speaking of new stuff, I have been saving for years to make a scrapbook and the piles are only getting bigger. I do not know why I am intimidated by making an entire scrapbook but intimidate -  eliminate because I won the Grand Prize for the Back to School Challenge 2010 at Simply Scrapping Crafts! I cannot wait to make a Scrapbook with this AWESOME prize!

Card Challenge Week #3

September Card Challenge Week #3

White- Image printed on white paper
Holly- Ribbon
Gold- Design in Ribbon
Brown- Layout on Brown card

Vintage- The picture is a Vintage Christmas photo

Used Icicle Stickles for some sparkle on the sleigh and the reindeer harnesses

Color Combo Challenge

Color Combo Challenge Week #2

The cut out image of the cross and the couple are from Cricut cartridges. I had them in a box wondering when I could use them  for something.

Color Combo Challenge

Color Combo Challenge September Week # 1

My love for Monkeys goes way back to childhood. When my favorite stuffed Monkey was left in the rain and my mother made me throw him away. I cried so hard for I had lost my best friend.

Stamp & Scrap Challenge

 

 Stamp & Scrap Challenge September Week 4 Challenge

Make a card using the "Stamp & Stitch" technique.

My embroidery thread  came in handy for this challenge.  I was taught some basics of embroidery by hand when I was 10 years old by my step Grandmother, Georgia Dessie. She will always have a special place in my heart.

Color Combo Challenge

Color Combo Challenge September Week # 3

For this challenge I decided to use the stamp I have in mind for making my 20 Anysoldier.com Thanksgiving cards.  I am glad I did! I think I have the perfect layout for the cards!


Also submitted in  this challenge:

Go to Shirleys 2 Girls

Card Corner Challenge

Card Corner Challenge Week #1

 Challenge is to use PINS on your cards.

 

In my card for the pin I used an angel hat pin, the ribbon I received on a vase full of flowers from my husband and had it stashed in my craft box.

Crappy Birthday

I found this idea on the web and changed it up! Doesn't everyone have someone in their family that this gift works perfectly for? Well I have the perfect older brother to give this to! I can't wait to hear about his reaction!

There is a roll of  Charmin toilet tissue wrapped up with this special Birthday greeting attached.

Card Corner Challenge Week #2

Challenge: Use (a) pleated accent(s) on your card!

So happy to use up some more of my left over cutouts from when I first received my Cricut machine! I thought I had to cut everything out on one sheet. So I have lots of bells, soldiers and candy canes to use up!

Weekly Challenges

Stamp & Scrap September Week #3- Faux Suede

In this card I thought this cute little baby shoe stamp would be great in suede! I border punched brown card stock for the lace effect, stamped colored and embossed the bear stamped image, and used my Cuttlebug for the die cut of the phrase.