FYI - MelJens is hosting OWH today for their weekly challenge!! WOOHOOO!!! Let's see if an OWHer can WIN!
These cards have been in partial progress for a bit - and I finally felt better enough to sit at my craft table. (I got sidetracked with a flood in the bathroom (toilet runneth over) that left me pretty wiped out, but I did get some cards done - and that felt a little back-to-normal! These are for challenges that are still listed on the Stars and Stamps blog sidebar - you have til tomorrow night on a bunch of them and can win some great prizes! (disclaimer: not all have prizes! But they're all wonderful for inspiration!)
Here's another Sparkle image....I love love love this one. Fortunately we're extending OWH's fall theme deadline to October 15th - not Thanksgiving cards, but fall! So I have time to make a couple more with this image.
I finally broke down and bought a couple Sparkle Creations stamps....soooo much fun to color! The rubber is nicely etched and stamps up well, and my only complaint, if it is one, is that the images are quite large. Which makes for easy coloring! Even if it doesn't show off my patterned paper very much :) I decided to make an Easel card, which is this past week's midweek throwdown on S&S. Tomorrow's a new challenge, so I'm making it just under the wire!
Okay, all of you who love sketches, get ready, get set, GO! SRM Stickers is hosting OWH today with a sketch - it's a really cool one!
I finally got around to finishing this card - I had the image in mind for Barb's challenge at Paper Therapy, but just hadn't gotten my act together! The challenge was to use a penguin and oldie moldie purple paper, which this even happens to be oldier and moldier - it was someone else's "ugly" paper sent to me to dare me to use it. LOL! I stamped it with snowflakes....just to make it tolerable. LOL!
I took a break from OWH challenges and took on the Mojo Monday sketch this week...love it!
I love Marina's images and hope she gets more posted...they are so stinkin' cute! This sweetie can be dressed up for any holiday...here she is ready for Christmas! Please forgive the bad embossing; no matter what I do, I can't seem to emboss cleanly! Ugh. But the card was great til I added that part. LOL. I used the sketch from the Wild Flower Patch. This one's for the Christmas card OWH challenge at The Stamping Bazaar - go play along, and you can win some ADORABLE images Marina made with OWH in mind :)
It's definitely fall here in western Washington! It's chilly, wet....and I could use a cuppa cocoa :)
This card uses a RAKd image....and more of the DCWV papers. Mmmmmm yummy colors, I love fall!
I'm loving the little DCWV ministack I treated myself to for fall cards....I'm trying to see if I can use up tons of it so I don't have leftovers (just like the giant pile of Christmas papers - how many can I use up???) This is a birthday card using a sweet little digi, Birthday Chloe, from InStyle Stamps - isn't she the cutest little thing? Those adhesive blings on the left, by the way, started out shocking pink (and on sale) - a little copic marker and they're now all matchymatchy to the ribbon :) LOVE my copics!
This is a pretty simple card for the likes of me and my layers. It was for a one-layer challenge...and I kinda like it! I had a little surprise with that masking; I had punched a border strip to block off the snow, and the distressing pad actually pushed a little ink through the holes!
My final ode to Halloween cards....and even on these I can't seem to bring myself to use a Happy Halloween sentiment! I just don't like the holiday much. Well except for the kiddos coming to my door, that's a ton of fun :) I used some images from Rick St Dennis - I was given one of each to play with, not sure if they're in Rick's store yet or not; they weren't the last time I looked. CUTE though.
I'm not sure there's much more left now...lol! I call this "Ode to Dixie."Not that she's my love or anything - she just hates hearts. So here's a mushy mushy mushy card....with no hearts at all.
With the "sentiment only" challenge, I countered the last card's complexity with some sheer simplicity! Well, it coulda had less layers. But you know what I mean :)
I think I overembellished....but whoever the little princess is who gets this from her deployed Mommy or Daddy is going to be so excited by it all, even if we know it's just a tidge overdone :)
I bought this sentiment stamp just because I have these little RAKd mooses. Meese? It's for the "Oh Baby" challenge on FB.....
The current challenge on Facebook is to use one of our S&S Sketches....since I already had a bunch of these pumpkin images colored, they were perfect to crank out some simple cards quickly!
Okay, I gotta get more sleep. I read the Designed 2 Delight challenge blog post and went off to make my card...and totally didn't 'get' it. LOL! The 2 in their name confused me, so when they said "use any Designed 2 Delight Images," my brain read: "Use any 2 Designed 2 Delight images." Yes, my brain inserted an extraneous piece of info that led to my creation!
I fell off the bandwagon of getting their freebies (if you use the freebie each week, they email you the next one). So I looked at the two D2D images in my digis folder....and here's what came out for my card - an AnyHero thanksgiving card:
I really need to take more time to read instructions....the actual instruction, of course, was to use one image, and they suggested getting their halloween one to keep on the freebie wagon. But I think I'm going to get off the train, it's too hard to remember my followthrough with everything I've got going on right now. Just check out the mail I had to sort after stamping with friends all day....the 2nd photo is what the pile of boxes becomes when it's finished.
Woohoo, the Facebook party is underway! This is my entry (not that I'm going for prizes, but I gotta play, ya know!) for the "indian summer" challenge - use a summery image and make it autumn. I've been wanting to ink this stamp up for ages and it was time!
I am sooooo excited...it's been a long wait, but oh how thrilled I am at the outcome. Kimber McGray, longtime friend of OWH, asked for submissions for a book that she was pitching - and she wanted to talk about OWH in it!
I was ecstatic that she chose one of my cards for the book - it's a little winter one I made last year. And I can finally post it here:
If you haven't seen the S&S blog tonight - go check it out! Rick St Dennis is now making stamps, and donated some digis to OWH! Here are the sample cards I made with them today:
Are these not the cutest digiflowers! I {heart} them.... :) Her challenge this week is a recipe challenge:
Here's my card for this week's sketch....with a pink color scheme and birthday theme for the OWH celebration! I used a little dragon from MelJenDesigns - so sweeeeet :)
The Midweek Throwdown challenge is a perfect match to stuff sitting here on my desk: this tag from Elle's Studio and a little digi from Elizabeth Dulemba!
I finally got 'round to CASEing our own Martie on the S&S blog...I loved both her black and white combo card, as well as how she uses such sweet simple images layered on background paper combos. The floral is a piece I stamped when I was at Impress one night using their stash stamps. Sentiment is a sticker. Poppies are a digi by Tammy at A Day for Daisies.
Tonight I'm catching up on some challenges - I only got *one* package of cards today! Unheard of lately. But I'm taking advantage of a night off with some craftiness.
These are cards made for the Christmas card challenge on Cowgirl Up - they're collecting cards but I won't be mailing mine over to them, lol. :) This first pair is made from scrap pieces leftover from last year - those little snowmen are stickers! Yes, stickers! I layered them on scallops last year. And they've sat in my stashbox ever since.
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