Black & White Challenge

*Edited to include: For whatever reason, I didn't publish this post. The challenge is over at Cardmaker but they have 2 per week so there's something going on!!**

This card is for a challenge over at CardMaker Magazine. You have until Sunday at midnight (CST), June 13 to complete your card using only black and white.

Anyway, this card was super fast!!!

Happy Father's Day!

I made this card for a challenge of at CardMaker The challenge was to follow a sketch. I think my Dad will like it!

Happy Father's Day Daddio!!

Merry Sock-mas!!

Let me just say that I love this stamp set! I made this card for a paper piecing challenge at CardMaker. I pieced the following parts: light brown monkey parts, red mouth, red on his Santa hat and the ribbon on the package.
I think this picture shows off the card better than the top. There are 3-D dots under the package and the sentiment. AND!!! Stickles on the "fur" of the hat.

Graduation Cards via Stamp Club

I am in a Stamp Club with a few of my friends. I was the May hostess; with graduations and allergies/colds, we were a small group. While I missed my friends, I did not miss lugging the extra leaves for my table! :) We did "stamp a stack" to be able to produce several similar cards quickly. Perfect! Because I needed 3 graduation cards for the coming weeks. The stamp set is Bitty Birthday from SU. And! Look close... that's the Manhattan Flower embossing folder--Love!
Here's our tiny group, minus Lora. That's my Mom on the left (she's going to be impressed with this picture!) and my good, good friend Leslie and me on the left.

If you've been here before, you know that that's Miss Irene in the back ground.

Haha!

Cupcakes O' Plenty!

I made a pack of cupcake "Happy Birthday" cards for a swap I joined at CardMakerMagazine.com. The challenge was to make 6 birthday cards; they had to have a cupcake of some kind.

I love these colors together... pretty "loud" but birthdays should be LOUD, don't you think?

Supplies:

Paper: from my stash

Stamp: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Punches: Modern Label, Lattice Border Punch

Other: Prima flowers, brands (from my stash)

Happy Easter Inchies!!

For Easter, I gave my Grandma the charm pictured below; it holds 1"x1" pieces of paper or things or... whatever you want to add.

(NOTE: I didn't take this picture, I borrowed it from the SU website. I hope I don't get arrested!)

So, these are the inchies I made for her. (Sorry I forgot to flip this one.)

This is my Buuterflies and Birds stamp set again with that lovely Rich Razzleberry ink... Did you hear?? Rich Razzleberry made it into the "normal" color line of SU inks! *swoon* I also colored the back inchie with my new glitter pen from my friend Barbara... thanks BB!
Now, I made the top one... pretty basic but I love it because I got to glitter it with my new glitter pen. The bottom one was made by Jane; I got it from an inchie swap I did over at CardMaker. I gave it to my Grandma because I thougth she would love it... she did!! Thanks Jane!!



Now these... Grandma and I both LOVE LOVE Christmas and of course, glitter!! So I knew she would love these! I used my Delightful Decorations set for the first two, and an old Creative Memories punch for the third one. The last one is just my writting. I also sprayed those last two with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Marshmellow... I love that stuff!!



*Sorry these photos are so horrible. I didn't realize until now and the inchies have been gifted.*
This is hands down, my favorite set!! They are really pretty purples with a Chocolate Chip, embossed "U". This was left over paper from my bucket reformation; love it!!
I just love this little owl from my Butterflies and Birds set (do I sound like a broken record??). This paper is super gorge too! It's 'That's Amore' from Close to my Heart. The word is just my handwritting (I have to say that I am not super impressed with my penmanship but others seem to enjoy it on occasion so...). Oh, and if you look close, there's more glitter pen on the owl!


Grandma loved them!! She also had this really cool, vintage necklace that had tons of layers of silver strands. It was perfect!! I am ashamed to say that I didn't snap a picture of her on Easter morning... I don't even take my camera--- Eek!! I will snag a picture soon. With this many inchies, I am sure she will sport it often AND-- I will make her some more as the ideas come to me.

Christmas Gift Tags

I must say, I love, LOVE chocolate chip and real red (ink from Stampin Up!) together; they are the perfect pair! In my opinion, of course.
Now that I have Stamp-a-ma-Jig, I won't have the off center image like above but... of course I meant to do it this way, this time! Of course I did!
And, don't forget Dasher!! He's so fancy!!
And that ribbon is left over from our wedding... mmm.
And, the Delightful Decorations Ornament punch!! Talk about making cool tags, fast!!

I made all these tags for my Grandma's birthday last year. I think I got alot of my love for crafts from her so I knew she would LOVE a tin o' tags for her birthday... And she did; she said she used them all!!! (I guess she knows what she's getting next year for her birthday!)

First Ever! CardMaker Sketch Challenge!!

This is a card I made for a new Sketch challenge over at CardMaker. I cased the "quilt look" from Mel O'Donnell. I just loved it! BTW-- this is my first "sketch"... I like it! I attempted to ink the edges of the "quilt"... I'm not a huge fan of that technique on this paper.

The Good Stuff:
Paper, ribbon and brads... from my stash
Sentiment: Teeny Tiny Wishes from Stampin UP
Other: Sizzix book plate (brown part around the sentiment)

Pizza Box-Box

This is a box that I created for a challenge over at CardMaker. I am going to give this to my Grandma Uptergrove for Easter. She loves crafts!! I was thinking the other day... some of my earliest memories of Grandma and Nana are of us making crafts after church and dinner on Sunday afternoons.... so that's where I get this madness!!

Cards for Grandma's Bazaar

Here are a couple of cards that I made up (6 pack of each) for my Grandma's Church Bazaar. It's a craft show/fundraiser for her United Methodist Women's Fellowship group. They were a pretty big hit; I am not sure they even made it to the event! I have already started on the cards for next year!