Remembrance - IAS

 Good morning, my friends. I hope you are having a great Sunday. The sun is shining here even though the temps are a little on the chilly side. Did you all remember to turn back your clocks? I did, but my kitties were still on daylight savings time. I'm sure they'll get used to it soon enough.

Today I have a card to share with you for International Art & Soul, which is a challenge just for the fun of it. We love to make crafts and share them with our friends. I hope that you'll come and join us and let us see what you can make. Today is the start of challenge no. 121.  Our challenge this fortnight is Remembrance and has been chosen by DT member Sall. This was so appropriate since we celebrate Veteran's Day this month.

 

This was a pretty easy card to make once I chose my image. The design just sort of came together.

Materials Used:

Image and Sentiment - Stampin Up. Bloom With Hope

Cardstock - Stampin Up Real Red and Gold Foil; Xpress It Blending Card

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Stampendous - Frantage glitter and embossing powder - white

Copic markers - G21, G24; B0000, B000; N6; R14, R24, R37

I hope to see your creations remembering someone from your life. Come join us.

 

Hotwheels Vintage Sports - CYS

 Hi, my friends and happy Friday eve. Are you all ready for Trick or Treating this weekend? We don't have any small children on our block anymore so I'm not expecting anyone to come to my door and haven't prepared anything either. Our church did a Trunk and Treat on Wednesday night so the kids did have something to dress up for.

I do have a card to share with you today. I made this card some time ago and I cannot find where I wrote down the ingredients for it. I know that the image is from Lili of the Valley and it's called Vintage Sports. The cardstock looks to be Stampin Up Real Red and the few sequins I used are also from Stampin Up. I used my Copic markers to color the image, but have no idea what colors I used. Sorry. I need to do better with writing down my supplies.

I made this card for the Splitcoast Stampers Challenge Your Stash group. The idea is to use only items we have in our stash to make our cards and not go out and make any new purchases for it. Our hostess for this month was Sue (stampinspooky) and her theme was to make a masculine card with at least one layer and to use an embellishment. I think I nailed all three of those requirements. I call it Hotwheels!

Boo - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello, my friends. Happy Sunday. Wow! This has been a really busy week. The week included my birthday which meant a couple of lunches. The kids came for dinner tonight, so there was on-going cleaning the house all week since I can't do it all in one day. I got it all done (well, most of it) and we had a lovely dinner (I thought). I hadn't made spaghetti in awhile, so that's what we had with plenty of sauce of the best meatballs. Brownies with fudge frosting for dessert. Also, got the Halloween decorations out since the kids were coming. All this is why I was late getting this post done which should have been on the  21st (which was my birthday date). 

This was for the Creative Card Chicks challenge group on SCS. Each month the hostess sends out a kit to the rest of the group and then we make a card or more with the items that she sent. This month our hostess was Kelly (ScrappinCEO) and she sent a fun Halloween kit. I did use my own image for the card, which was okay with Kelly. It was our choice. 

Materials Used:

Image - From my stash

Sentiment - From my stash

Cardstock - Black

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Designer Paper - Graphic 45 Midnight Tales; Stampin Up Halloween Night; Be Dazzling

Bling - Stash

This was a fun card to put together. I don't usually send out Halloween cards, but I may put this in my stack to send to a friend next year.

Celebrate You - IAS

 Hello, my friends. It's Wednesday which means I am very late with getting my post done for International Art & Soul. It should have gone live on Sunday, but life gets in the way sometimes. The theme this fortnight was to use mostly orange and yellow which was chosen by DT member CG. I had a time with this challenge until I came across this pattern paper and thought it went very well with the theme. I chose the image which is a new one that I've purchased because I'm always in need of a birthday card and there are so many in October.

Materials Used:

Image - My Favorite Things - Birthday Cutie

Sentiment - Same as image

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock - StampE5in Up Soft Suede

Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Reunion collection

Accessories  - flowers from my stash; border punch; Scallop Oval die

Copic Markers - B0000; E23, E25;  E50, E51, E53; Y13, Y15, Y18, Y26; YR02, YR04; YR20, YR21

That's all for today. I hope you will pop on over to the IAS challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team has created to inspire you and while you're there, add your mostly yellow and orange creation. You could be the Winner or one of the Top 3.

Double Scoop

 Hi my friends and Happy end of the week! I'm glad to see this one go. I think I'm finally over the crud that I've had for the last three weeks. Spent today trying to upload/download? the new upgrade for RootsMagic. No go. Spent hours trying to get connected to a support person. No luck. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow. Maybe not. It's just so frustrating.

Anyway, some happy thoughts. I decided to play along with the Outlawz' Monday Greeting card challenge. The theme was to use blue and yellow. I found this designer paper and it inspired me to create this card.

I kept it pretty simple.

Materials Used:

• Image - My Favorite Things - Double Scoop of Cute
• Sentiment - Same as image
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Designer Paper - Authentique - Essentials Collection
• Cardstock -  Stampin Up - Crushed Curry
• Accessories - Bling from my stash
• Copic Markers - B14, E13, E15, E23; E50, E51, E53; R46; R11, R12; Y15

I've also been purging my craft room this week. Time to scale down and find new homes for stamps, papers, and whatever else I think needs to go.

Friends Warm Your Heart - Stash

 Hello again my friends. I hope you are all doing well. We finally got a nice rain today after being dry for awhile. It doesn't usually take too long for the rains to come here. We get moisture coming up off the Gulf a lot. 

I do have a card to share with you today. This one I did for the Challenge Your Stash challenge on Splitcoast Stampers. There is a hostess for each month. The hostess picks the theme and then we all make a card following the theme and ONLY using items from our stash. We are not to go out and buy something new for the challenge. That's why they call it Challenge Your Stash. I must say it will be hard to go out and buy new things right now. I took a trip to Michael's yesterday and was surprised at the lack of stamping/scrapping items for sale. The pandemic has certainly taken its toll on them. I know that there is a big back log of items coming to the US from China, so once the shipping industry gets itself in gear, there will probably be a ton of stuff at the craft stores.

This month our hostess was Jeanette and her theme was to use something that began with the letter "S." That was an easy one. I pulled out this Build a Snowman stamp set and put this one together. I love how it has little clothes to cut out and can dress him/her however you like. Blue also seems to be a good color for winter and snow since it's kind of a cold color. I used the Bashful Blue cardstock from Stampin Up and a piece of designer paper that was in my stash as well as the ribbon. It might also be Stampin Up. Colored with my Copic markers. 

A fun challenge and another winter/Christmas card done.

Floral Butterfly - Creative Card Chicks

 Hello friends. Happy Sunday. I hope you are all well and enjoying your day. The weather here has been great the last few days, but will change starting tomorrow bringing rain. It's okay. We need it and I have no plans to be out and about. It will help clean of my milkweed plants. I had an infestation of aphids this last week and sprayed them all (over 60) with a combination of blue Dawn, vinegar, and water. It killed the aphids. Now I hope it doesn't kill my plants. They all seem to be doing okay after I washed them off to get the dead bugs off them. I still have seen some aphids on other plants, but not so many that I can't just squish them dead. I go check on them every day. I'm hoping that these will winter over and I'll have a good supply to start off next spring. I released the last Monarch of the season this morning.

So, on to my card for today. I'm a few days late getting this one posted. It is for the Splitcoast Stampers Creative Card Chicks challenge. Each month the hostess sends out a kit containing images, designer paper, and embellishments - bling, ribbon, flowers, etc. to each of the members and then we make at least one card from the kit. This month, I was the hostess and used the Heartfelt Creations Floral Butterfly collection for the images and they also have the dies to match. This collection was perfect since I love butterflies and flowers.

Materials Used;

• Images - Heartfelt Creations - Floral Butterly collection
• Sentiment - Stampin Up
• Card stock - Papertrey Ink - Lavendar Moon
• Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up, Beyond the Garden
• Accessories - Pearls from my stash
• Copic Markers - E21, E23; E93, E97; R11, R12, R81, R83; E20, E21, E24; Y15; N5

That's it for this card for today.