Have Heart

Time permitted me this week to get to  play some challenges I've wanted to do and this time it is CAS-ual Fridays CFC74. The challenge is to create a clean and simple card with a heart.

I colored my heart with Copics and left it alone. I could not imagine that it needed one more thing.

I love this stamp and have used it three times, one being when our city had our W.C. Handy Festival (jazz)
in July. It was just perfect then and it is also great for the community choir where my hubby and I are members or the church choir. I think I know just the person that needs this card.

Recipe:
Stamp-Stamps Happen, Inc./The Magic of Music
Paper-PTI white cardstock
Accessories-Copics

Jing, jing-a-ling

Are you singing yet? I sure am. If you aren't familiar with this song, you can find it here.  My card is for the usual Friday challenge I play on Splitcoaststampers, Queen for the Day.  The new queen is Shirley aka wannabcre8tive. This card is the one I cased from her wonderful gallery.

Recipe:
Stamps-Stampabilities/Jingle All the Way
Paper-PTI white cardstock
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories-Cuttlebug Baubles and Bows embossing folder, Copics, clear gem, Martha Stewart fir punch, Spellbinders Labels 4 die, Martha Stewart hydrangea punch

Set of Fall Leaves

As hostess again this week at CCEE Stampers, I have asked that we do Fall colors with leaves and a punched border. I have been on a Fall card making binge this week. I think this is my fourth one. But, I do love the colors and it was fun to make. This, after a failed first attempt. Do you ever make a card you just don't like at all and can't stand to upload it? I did, and finally I made another (this one) which I like much better. The other one will probably go to the trash.

I hope you'll check out the rest of the awesome cards the DT did this week at CCEE Stampers. There is a lot of pretty Fall color over there.

I want to enter this card into these challenges:

 Little Red Wagon where the challenge is Fallin' for You..they want a Fall themed card (leaves, fall colors, etc.).

Papercraft Star challenge 116-Fall Leaves


Recipe:
Stamps-Hero Arts/Real Leaves (set of 4), Sentiment stamp/Stamps by Judith
Paper-PTI white cs, Stampin'Up! Kiwi Kiss and Cherry Cobbler
Ink-Memento Rich Cocoa, Tangelo, Potter's Clay, Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart, Rhubarb Stalk,  Stampin'Up! Soft Suede
Accessories-Martha Stewart Fall Leaves edge punch, Button and raffia

Fall Wreath

I wanted to use my leaf stamp to make a wreath. It is a Stampabilities stamp called Fall Leaf.
The sentiment is Stamps by Judith. I had to do some masking to make it work. Added a button and raffia to the center. That is a cardstock strip going across the card behind my focal image, not ribbon.

I'm entering this card, my second entry, into the CASology challenge #14 where the cue word is 'leaf'.

Little Red Wagon has a challenge #154 - Fallin' for You---They want to see Fall leaves, colors, etc.

Recipe:
Stamps-Stampabilities/Fall Leaf, Sentiment is Stamps by Judith
Paper-PTI white cardstock, green is unknown
Ink-Memento Potter's Clay, Rhubarb Stalk, Rich Cocoa, Pear Tart, Dandelion, Tangelo
Accessories-button and raffia

Fall Greetings

 No, the sentiment was not stamped crooked, just the way it is supposed to be..a little wonky. :-)

The CASology challenge #14 uses the cue word 'leaf'. Nothing better than that to have the opportunity to make an autumn creation.

 



I used a woodland branch die from Memory Box and punched a few leaves with a Martha Stewart fall leaves edge punch (remnants).

Stamp-Inkadinkado/Autumn Foliage set
Paper-PTI white cs, Stampin'Up! Chocolate Chip, scraps for leaves
Ink-Stampin'Up! Chocolate Chip

Fall Birthday Card and A Winner





I have a friend having a birthday this month and I wanted to  make a card similar to what I thought she would make. Well, that is quite impossible. If you know Carol at Chocolate Crafts and Bears, Oh My, then you know that is quite a big job. Wow! Can she ever make a super card and so many other crafty things. Take a look. I took my idea from this card of Carol's because I had an image a bit like hers, also a punch like hers.

 

Carol likes a lot of sparkle and gemstones on her cards so I tried to do that, too. I colored my image with Copics and sponged around it. My recipe is below.

 

NOW, it is time to announce the winner of my blog candy. Thanks to everyone who joined in  and the winner is ..............................
 

 Deepti Stephens

Congrats, Deepti!  Please email me at the email address under my profile so I can have your address. Remember you only have two days per my original post or I will have to choose another winner. 

 

 

Recipe:

Stamps-Great Impressions (wagon scene)-no name, Stamps by Judith/Dots, Sweet 'n Sassy/Poppies and Greetings (sentiment)

Paper-DP is Final Edition by Imaginations, Bazzill/Palo Verde, Rust color cs is unknown, PTI white and vintage cream cardstock

Ink-Memento Rich Cocoa, Versa Magic Sea Breeze

Accessories-Lush orange gemstones, Gold Stickles, Laurel Leaf Punch Around the Page by Martha Stewart, Woodland Branch PATP with Bird and Branch Corner/Martha Stewart, stick pin by Dritz, EK Tools Pumpkin Patch large edger punch (used one pumpkin only), Spellbinders Shapeabilites Foliage, Offray Yellow/Gold grosgrain ribbon

 

 

Feeling Crafty

I thought I had lost my mojo but I got up today wanting to make a card. I took a look at the inspiration challenge on Splitcoaststampers and away to the craft room I headed. The inspiration came from a web site/online store called Magpie. This is my inspiration.


I love the birch tree images but didn't have one of those stamps so I just decided to make my own.
I cut white cardstock for the trees and did some markings on the tree with my Copic. My friend, Davi at Alstroemeria's Artistry uses modeling paste on some of her cards and I always love what she does with it so I smeared some on my trees for texture. I really do like it and will use it more. I found mine at Hobby Lobby.

The branches were cut from a Memory Box woodland branch die. I only used small bits of it.  As you can see, the snow in the woods has been travelled quite well by the deer and animals. Plus, some snow fell off the trees onto my deer. The deer was a partial stamp that had two more deer but it was too large and I colored, cut out, and attached only one. Of course, there had to be a little bird in the tree.

Recipe:
Stamps-Penny Black/Gathering, Hero Arts (barrel of stamps-think it is Birds and Branches), Hot off the Press/Christmas Words
Paper-Stampin'Up! Cherry Cobber, Crumb Cake, and Chocolate Chip cardstock, white cardstock
Ink-Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories- Liquitex modeling paste, Copics

Decked Out

My card is for the new Queen for the Day on Splitcoaststampers. It is Denise aka resqbarbie. I chose this card to case and honor her. Of course, I made several changes but mostly kept her layout.

Recipe:
Stamps-Rubber Stamp Tapestry (peg stamps)/Cardinal in Holly, Hot off the Press/Christmas Words
Paper-Stampin'Up! cherry cobbler and old olive, white cs
Ink-Stampin'Up! cherry cobbler, Memento bamboo leaves
Accessories-Copics, Flower Soft braid, gold metal brad

Chipboard Challenge-CCEE Stampers

Yours truly is the hostess for the month of October at CCEE Stampers. For the first week, I chose to use chipboard as the challenge. The chipboard I'm using is Chipboard Pennant from Paper Accents. It is the container to hold my pumpkins. I had to cut the pennants down a bit as they were 4" x 6". I covered the chipboard with a patterned paper.

The pumpkins were punched with a Martha Stewart Jack-O-Lanterns border punch and each one cut out and I layered yellow cardstock on the back for the eyes and mouth. They were then attached to the toothpicks with pop dots. I really wish my pumpkins were smiling, not scary.

Below the pumpkins, I used an adhesive border from Martha Stewart called Elegant Witch. I cut out my banner for the sentiment and die cut some ivy to place in the container. That finished it!

Hope you'll join us this week for this fun challenge. Just make your card or project and upload to CCEE Stampers using the inlinkz tool.

My card fits the Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It challenge which is odd numbers. I have 5 pumpkins for my odd numbers.

I'm entering my card into the fun challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More-Halloween

Recipe:
Stamps-Studiog clear stamps (sentiment)
Paper: Stampin'Up! Dusty Durango, Black cs from Hobby Lobby,  scrap yellow cs, The Paper Studio Halloween Chevron, Cosmo Cricket/Love Notes-Tenderly
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories-Martha Stewart Jack-O-Lanterns border punch, Marianne Design Creatables bird, ivy, vine, birdhouse die set, Martha Stewart adhesive borders/Elegant Witch, toothpicks, chipboard pennants

Let's Go to the Zoo

 

 

When I saw the CASology challenge #13 this week had the cue word zoo,  I was so happy because I knew I would get to use one of my favorite stamps. I just love this whimsical lion and he gives me such a chuckle. The last time I used him, some thought he was a kitty....nope, a ferocious lion.

 

 

My recipe:

Stamps-Stamps by Judith-Whimsical Lion F-265-HK, Hero Arts 'Take Good Care Greetings'

Paper-PTI white cardstock

Ink-Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories-Cappuccino twine from The Twinery, Copics E70 & E71