Goodbye Summer; Hello School - PSC89

Hello friends and Happy Wednesday.  Things are looking much better here at the Cat House.  Hehehe!  I think all the kitties are back to being well, although Corey has a visit scheduled on Thursday to get 2 booster shots.  Let's hope that getting him in the crate will go better than it did on Saturday - cause it didn't!  These little guys are just too smart to bamboozle them.  ;)  At least he's speaking to me again.

Time to show you what I've been up to for Perfect Sentiment Challenge this week.  Labor Day is just around the corner and for many that means the end of Summer and back to school.  This week we want you to create a card with either a Summer theme or a Back to School theme.  Don't forget to include your sentiment on the front.

I sure hope all the kids are ready to learn and have a fabulous school year.

For this card, the materials I used were:

• Image - Paper Shelter - Learning is Fun
• Sentiment - Computer Generated
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Groovy Guava
• Designer Paper - Basic Gray - Hopscotch
• Accessories - Ribbon from my stash; Stampin Up Oval and Scallop Oval punches; I can't remember who the manufacturer is of the corner die.  I'll have to look that up.
• Copic Markers - B91, B93, B95; E31, E33, E35, E37; E40, E50, E51, E53; Y21, Y17, YG01, YG21; YR00, YR02, YR12, YR15, YR24, YR82; Spica Gel Pen Gold.

 Our fabulous sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter.

Her images are so adorable, so make sure to check out the store and see what she has.  The Paper Shelter will be awarding a $20 gift certificate to one lucky random winner!

Now, it's time for you to get inky, so hop on over to the Perfect Sentiment Challenge blog for some inspiration and see what the rest of the Design Team has been up too.  Then get your stamps, ink, and papers out and see what you can come up with.  You could be one of the Perfect 3 this week.  Good luck!

I am submitting this for the following challenges:
Creative Craft Challenges2 - anything but a square
Scrap-Creations - Back to School
Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
By Lori Designs - Back to School
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Back to School
Whimsey Stamps - Clean and Simple
ABC Challenges - no flowers
Card Mania - Use Ribbon
Cutie Pie Challenge - Anything Goes
Created With Love Challenge - Anything Goes
Love to Create - Back to School
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Ribbon Girls - Girly cards

Christmas Wishes - PSC 88

Hello friends. Thanks for stopping by.  We've had some sickies in the Cat House the last couple of weeks, but hopefully everything is under control now.  Casper got some meds on Monday and I was actually able to give it to him in a syringe without much of a struggle last night. I watched what the vet assistant did to give him the meds and did the same thing and it worked great!  Corey gets to go to the vet next Saturday for a couple booster shots for him and then I hope it's just normal life with no visits to the vet even though they are very nice and caring.

Getting on to the business at hand.  It's Wednesday and time for another Perfect Sentiment challenge.  This week we've made it pretty easy for you.  The theme this week is to make a Christmas card, but don't use any red or green.  Easy right!  I was so glad to do this card because I'm so far behind in getting my Christmas cards done.  It was a little hard in picking the colors to use for it, but I think it turned out pretty well.

Materials Used:

• Image - Tracey Malnofski's - Happy Happy Snowman
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Joyous Celebration
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Bashful Blue; Xpress It Blending Card; Shimmer c/s - don't remember where I got it.
• Designer Paper - Stamping Up Frostwood Lodge - Background and Diagonal Strip - my stash
• Accessories - Lace from Wild Orchid Crafts; Bling from my stash; Cricut Frosty Lace cartridge for the snowflakes; Stamping Up small oval and large oval punches; Nestabilities Large Oval Die and Big Scallop Oval Die; Blue stickles; Spica Gel Pen - Silver
• Copic markers - B0000; B000, B01, B12; E11, E13, E18, E21, E50, E51, E53; Y11, Y13, Y18, YR01, YR02, W0, E3, W6, W7

This week our sponsor is none other than The Perfect Sentiment Challenge!

One lucky winner will be awarded 3 free Christmas digital images from the PSC website.  Great for you to get started on making your own Christmas cards.

Don't forget to stop by the PSC blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team has in store for your inspiration.  Then get inky yourself and create something for the challenge.  You could be that lucky random winner or be chosen as one of the Perfect 3!  Good luck!

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Scrap-Creations - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
SweetStamps - Anything Goes
Through the Craftfoom Door - Anything Goes
ABC Challenges - Lots of Layers
Crafty Boots - Christmas in August
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Anything Goes & Cute
Fashionista - Christmas
Lexi's Creations - Sparkle and Shine
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Square Card 
A Gem of a Challenge - Punch it Out
All that Stickles - Outdoors and Baby Blue Stickles
CMC Copic Challenge Group - Anything Goes with Markers
One Stop Craft Challenge - Add Strips
The Hobby House - Christmas
Totally Gorjuss - Die cuts & Punches
Delicious Doodles  - Christmas in August
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Scary Pumpkin - PSC86

Good morning and welcome back after our vacation.  It's been nice, but I sure have missed posting.  I am running a little late getting my post up.  I guess that happens after vacations.  ;)  So I'll get right to the task at hand. This week our challenge is to create a card for the occasion of your choice using your favorite technique which can be anything from heat embossing, dry embossing, fussy cutting, sewing, paper piecing, etc. Please include what technique you used.

Here's my card:

I like paper piecing and don't use it enough.
Materials Used:

• Image - Robyn's Fetish - Scary Pumpkin
• Sentiment - K & Co - paper ribbon
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Basic Black; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Blackbird; Polka Dot - Making Memories
• Accessories - Little Yellow Bicycle - Felt Bat; Bling from my stash; Nestabilities - Classic Circle Die
• Copic Markers - YG03, YG11, YG25; YR02, YR16, YR09; W3, W5, W7
• Spica Gel Pen - Black and Gold

This week our sponsor is Robyn's Fetish

Our Sponsor

Prize: 5 Free Digis

 

Now it's your turn.  Head on over to The Perfect Sentiment Challenge Blog and check out what the rest of the DT has to show you and then get busy and create your own card.  You might be the random winner of the prize or one of the Perfect 3.  Good luck!

 

Roxie - Simply Betty Stamps FB Fan Page Challenge

Hello my friends and Happy Friday Night!  So glad to have a weekend here and with not much going on so I'm hoping I'll have lots of time to play.

Before I go get lost in my stamp room, I want to show you my card I did for this month's Simply Betty Facebook Fan Page Challenge.  The deal as always is that we get a free digi from the amazing Betty but we have to use the image to enter the Fan Page Challenge that month.  If you don't, then you have to sit out the next month.  The good thing is that if you can't do the challenge, you can always purchase the image.  Check out her store at Simply Betty Stamps and see all the amazing digis and rubber stamps she has for you.

So, here's my card.

The sentiment words are from Betty, but I generated them on my computer so they would fit on the tag. Cardstock base is Stampin Up Pale Plum and the image is printed on Xpress It Blending Card.  I dug into my stash of designer paper and found these from Imaginisce - A Shore Thing, and Getting Hotter - needs water.  I used bling and Stickles for the bubbles and stickles also on the fins.  The image was colored with Copic markers - B0000, B000, B01, B02; BG0000; E01, E02; V0000, V000, V01; YG0000, YG00, YG03, YG06, YG21.

Here's a close up of the image --

My layout is from My Favorite Things.

That's it for today.  Just a reminder that Perfect Sentiment Challenge will be back on Wednesday, August 7.  I hope you'll come join in and play with us again.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Simply Betty Stamps - FB Fan Page Challenge - Use image - Good
Just For Fun - Anything Goes
The Crafter's Cafe - Anything Goes
Crafty Catz - Pastels
Delicious Doodles - Anything Goes
Digi Haven - Life's a Beach
Paper Crafting Journey - Punches or Die Cuts
By LORi Designs - Designer Paper
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Pollycraft Challenge - Fun in the Sun

Santa's Helper

Happy Sunday my friends.  I hope you've had an enjoyable weekend.  I always do when it includes play time in my stamp room.

I did take some time out yesterday to go to the theater with my daughter and her family to see Wicked!  I know, I know, everyone else has seen it already.  I think I must be the last person in the US that has gotten to see it.  We all thoroughly enjoyed it.  I was trying sometimes to figure out which was the Good witch and which one was Wicked.  ;)  After the show we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and that was soooooo yummy!  I had their grilled salmon and it was very tasty.  Filled me up so there was no room for dessert.  Boo hoo!

Well, enough about that, time to get to my card.  This is another Christmas card.  I do have a lot of these to make, so there will be more of them in the weeks and months to come.  I used a My Favorite Things sketch for my layout even though it is an old one. I'm trying to catch up for this year with all the Wednesday Sketch challenges.

Since it's a Christmas card, this time I did use the traditional colors for my card.

Recipe:

• Image - Sassy Studio Designes - Santa's Helper
• Sentiment - Computer generated printed in gold
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Real Red and Old Olive; Shimmery cardstock, but I can't recall where I bought it from and the package is not marked
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up Candlelight Christmas
• Accessories - Classic Oval Die; Lacy Rectangle Die; Pennents and Flags Die; Memory Box Honeysuckle Border Die; Stickles - Yellow; Liquid Pearls - Yellow and White Opal; Red Sparkle Twin
• Copic Markers - B0000; E40, E41; E50, E51, E53; R24, R37, R46; G14, G21, G24; Y06, Y15, Y23

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Hiding in My Craft Room - Christmas in July

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July
Card Crafter's Circle - Christmas in July
Clearly iStamp - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
CreativeCornerChallenges - Christmas in July
Graph'It Markers - Blonde Hair
Jellypark Challenges - Christmas in July
Stampin' for the Weekend - Sparkle and Bling
Crimbo Crackers - Always Christmas - Anything Goes
DLART - Christmas in July
Paper Crafting Journey - Dies and/or Punches
Crafting By Designs - Christmas
Crafting for all Seasons - Christmas
Divas by design - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Holiday of Love

Well, now I'm on a roll working on Christmas cards and I have a few more to show you.  Only one today.  I'll put the next one up tomorrow.  I was looking at challenges and found this pretty color combo one using my favorite colors - purple on The Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge. Not traditional Christmas colors. 

 After picking these colors, I searched for a sketch to use and found this on on Try Stampin on Tuesday.

After all that searching, I was able to come up with this card:

Love this adorable image by Elizabeth Bell.
Materials Used:

• Image - Belles & Whistles - Angel Daniella
• Sentiment - Stamp from my stash. I have no recollection of where it came from.
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Orchid Opulence; Xpress it Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up - Holiday Treasures
• Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Ribbon from my stash; Wild Orchid Crafts - Flowers; Stickles -Yellow; Nestabilities Big Scallop Oval Die and Nested Lacy Pennants Die
• Copic Markers:  B0000; C0; E50, E51, E53; R46; V000, V01, V04, V06; Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18, Y35; YG11, YG61, YG63; Spica Gold Gel Pen

I'm submitting this card for the following challenges:

The Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge - Color Combo - Christmas in July
Try Stampin' On Tuesday - Sketch
Hiding in My Craft Room - Christmas in July
One Stop Craft - Flowers or Ribbon
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July
Card Crafter's Circle - Christmas in July
Clearly iStamp - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
CreativeCornerChallenges - Christmas in July
Graph'It Markers - Blonde Hair
Jellypark Challenges - Christmas in July
Stampin' for the Weekend - Sparkle and Bling
Crimbo Crackers - Always Christmas - Anything Goes
DLART - Christmas in July
Paper Crafting Journey - Dies and/or Punches
Crafting By Designs - Christmas
Crafting for all Seasons - Christmas
Divas by design - Anything Goes

Piece of Cake

Happy Tuesday!

I played in two challenges this week:  Sketch from My Favorite Things (MFT)

and Photo Inspiration from Mark's Finest Papers. 

It was fun, but I really had a hard time with the sketch.  I knew what I wanted to do, but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.  I really, really need more time to devote to stamping, looking at layouts, figuring out new designs.  Unfortunately, working 8 hours a day, doesn't leave a lot of time for it and so I make do.  Oh well, I still have fun with what I do, and I hope you enjoy it too.

Materials Used:

• Image and Sentiment - See D's - Piece of Cake.  I'm not sure if they are still in business.  This is a pretty old stamp set, but I really like it.
• Word  Background - Whipper Snapper Designs - Party Words Background - another old stamp
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Basic Black, Pretty in Pink, Pixie Pink; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found Blush
• Ink - Tuxedo Memento Black
• Accessories - Marvy Large Oval Punch and Marvy Large Scallop Oval Punch
• Copic Markers - R81, R83, R85, RV00, RV02, RV04, RV13, W0, W2, and W4

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Mark's Finest Papers - Inspiration Challenge - Photo
My Favorite Things - Wednesday Stamp Club - Sketch
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes