3 Challenges in One!!! (2 Sketches 4 You, Card*A*Licious, and Non-Trad Valentine)

• I've been super busy this week (and next week will be worse!). I don't know if sub-consciously knowing I was busy, I came up with this card that combines 3 challenges:

>Kazan's sketch for this week (week of 2/2/09),

>Card*A*Licious Challenge (3 patterned papers + orange letter stickers),

>One of the February Card Challenges at Scrapbook.com is to make a Non-Traditional Valentine

The background paper is Creative Imaginations that I picked up at Craft Warehouse yesterday at lunch! The other patterned papers are Me and My Big Ideas. I actually used 4 patterned papers if you are really counting! The cute flower brads are Making Memories. The book plate is a sizzix and the butterfly is one of the new quickutz revolution 3-D Dies ~ so I actually through in using a new die in this card too! Kind of scary!

My 2 good friends will be here at 8 a.m. for a day of scrapping! Breakfast will be ready for them ~ a egg and sausage casserole and overnight french toast with strawberries! I've got a bunch of other yummy food ready and Gail is bringing pork tenderloin for dinner!

I'm going to try to finish the calendar I'm making my parents and then work on some more valentines. I make them to sell for the Governor's food drive in February and even though we had a lot when we started the week, the stash is dwindling! Which means money for the food bank!!! Yay! But more work for me!

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!

2 Sketches 4 You Design Team Application Cards/Cardalicious 9/Some New Techniques!

I had an awesome time yesterday with my friends, Bonnie and Gail. While I didn't get my calendar finished, it is close! We are talking about getting together in 2 weeks so I could for sure finish it then!

I've made a few cards in the last few days! The first one "I love you every day" was for the bonus of group of the January card challenge at Scrapbook.com. You were supposed to do some techniques from Scrapperlicious' blog under tips and tricks. This is the first time I've tried things like mesh with the flowers (it is underneath the flowers), extreme distressing (you punch holes in stuff), making that little notebook page look torn out. I was really freaking about punching holes in good stuff but now I am really pleased with how it turned out. I used cosmo cricket christmas paper (my sister, Teresa and I both got this free bunch of cosmo cricket on the day after thanksgiving when we went shopping!). The love stamp and the notebook are both Teresa Collins (I love how her stamps stamp well and clean up so nice!), the clock is a Maya Road stamp. I had those cool buttons that I put on the flowers and the fan in my stash (when I was buying tons of buttons and then never used any!). I really branched out on this one and I'm glad I did!


These next 2 cards are ones I did using Laura's design team application sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I submitted "my dear." As you can see from an earlier post, I worked on several for this sketch and it was a little hard to make my decision on which one but with the help of my sister, Teresa who does awesome work (Tsscrappinblog.blogspot.com) and her friend Donna, I picked the dear card. Donna, if you are out there, THANKS!!! Someday I hope to meet you! The sweetheart card uses doilies that I picked up at Target and Party City, Ribbon from Michael's, Bo Bunny paper from a previous year, and the candy hears are cut with quickutz.



"My Dear" uses October Afternoon patterned paper, the dear is a revolution (borrowed from my friend Jennifer), and the words are with letter stickers. This one also qualifies for Cardalicious 9 which was to use letter stickers, say "for you", and have green on it! I'm just a week late with it! The heart and grass are sizzix originals.









And here is the sketch, which as you can see I am absolutely in love with!















"Thank You Friend" is for Kazan's Design Team Sketch. I thought about this one quite awhile and finally landed on this card! The patterned paper is Me and My Big Ideas. Friend is cut with the cricut Mini-Monograms cartridge, the birds are quickutz revolution. I had gotten the foam/sparkly crowns from Michaels around halloween!








Here is Kazan's Sketch! Does it look like it?
















Shaina cut her leg at her dad's today falling off the tree fort onto a chain link fence. She had to get 4 stitches but she is better now. I took pictures of the stitches with my camera phone so her brother could see them! Last weekend she lost her cell phone and some stole it so I had to cut off the service and order a new phone (thank goodness I bought the insurance!). And yesterday, while my parents were visiting my other sister in California, their car got broken into and my mom's purse got stolen! I hope the next week goes better for everyone!

2 Sketches 4 You week of 1-5-09 (Kazan 17 and Peet Bonus Sketch)

I started out the week getting most of these done monday evening after work with more ideas brewing BUT my son got sick, my parents came to town, and it has been a busy week at work. If I get some more done I will post them later this week!

My first one is for Kazan's sketch 17. I don't have a lot of "wavy" type things so I did some ribbon (very loose interpretation of this sketch, I know!). I had just gotten this cute little daisy bucket stamp at my local scrapbook store and had these little lady bug buttons in my stash. I thought that they teamed up with the flowers and the stamp and would make a cute valentine card for a young girl! The flower is a quickutz revolution cookie cutter. I'm really into the black and white look so I used that again! I feel like I'm a broken record (some of you younger people probably don't know what a record is!). Hopefully, I'll break out of this black and white rut sometime soon!






















Peet did the bonus sketch this week and I thought it was so cute. Here I am using black and white again! The background paper is from the DCWV Glitter Stack, and the valentine words are a printable stamp from reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com (I've used them a bunch in my previous post with shakers! They are very fun). The heart is a quickutz revolution cookie cutter. Love is a sizzlet. The i, heart, and u are cut with sizzix originals (metallic paper on chipboard) and pinned them on the ribbon with a safety pin. The flower is felt also cut with a sizzix original ~ I'm loving that too ~ I've never tried it until now!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Some Fun Cards!

I was so excited to get some "printable" stamps from reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com! The background words are from the Holiday Big Words Set and the round circle one is from one of the New Years Sets. They are totally cool. You just print them and out and can do all kinds of things with them!

February is when our state government offices have a big push for the food drive and myself and another gal make cards to sell all year but they really go during feburary for valentines so I've got a couple here to show. The cupid and love you are quickutz revolution cookie cutters!


The New Years Card also has photo corners from quickutz and the 2009 is cricut Don Juan - really liking that cartridge!












The next 2 cards are made with stuff in my stash and scraps ~ on scrapbook.com one of the things in the January card challenge is to do cards with mostly black. I've been really liking how black looks with other colors so this has been fun! The marriage saying and love and kisses came from a K and Company set of rub ons I bought several years ago when I did a wedding book for my parents (for the 50th anniversary!). I was cleaning some things up and found them and thought I would use them! I also found these flower stickers! It's good to go through things once in a while!