Color Inspiration #32 a Two-ffer

Okay I have to admit I didn't like this card when I finished but the kids did. I showed it to my husband and he said, "Ya know it's missing something, why don't you throw a brad on it." A brad, are you kidding me, I can't believe he even knew what a brad was!!!! And the worst part was, he was right!!! I said nothing......but, "No, something sparkly!!" So my silver deer got a ruby nose. NOW, I like the card. I can't believe I didn't think of it in the first place.


This weeks Kristina Werner's colors are awesome. The first thing I thought of was to do something with ornament's. Well I was not the only one with that idea. So I nixed that idea and went back to the drawing board. Kristina mentioned that we should use some sort of gold or silver. A few years back the local dollar store had paper packs with different shades of silver in one kit. Gold, green and red. So I have one of each. The stencil is a CTMH. I've had that one for a few years. The red back ground is shimmer Bassil and I used Riding hood red for the trim. Oh and the ribbon is SU's Very Vanilla. The hardware.....from the dollar store, I've that for awhile too.

Here's where the two-ffer comes in. I used CPS 92 for this challenge.

Color Inspiration #31

WOW, Color inspiration number 31!! These colors were a challenge for me and my snow man. But I think he turned out ok! This clear stamp set is from Inkadinkado. I just like saying that, rolls of the tongue! I embossed the scarf and hat in purple and used a little watercolor blue just to make my man POP! I learned that from Kristina. I think it was this month. Then I used a snowflake Die from cuttlebug. And SU ribbon. I also stamped his nose in Pumpkin pie and cut it out.

When Bad Days Turn into Good Days

Yesterday I woke up puking my guts out with, probably the worst migraine I've had in a year!! When I started to feel a little better I logged onto the 'puter to visit Kristina Werner site. Imagine my surprise when I saw my own card in the top 20!!! I did a silent happy dance all around the living room. My yesterday 12 year old and today 13 year old thought I was nuts!!!

So here we are today, my baby is thirteen and I've had over a thousand hits on this blog since yesterday!!! WOW!! And I feel great! Yesterday, not so much! We're havin' everybody here for supper. We were suppose to have a street hockey game with everybody but it's pouring outside!!!

So it'll be playstation tournament's!!! I'll post some picks of my 13 YEAR OLD (OMG) tomorrow.

I just needed a minute to vent, 13 years, fly's by ya!!!!!!!

CPS #90

So I was at Ceecee's last Friday night and we did some coloring techniques with some PrismaColors and Watercolor crayons. This little one was my practice sheet. I just couldn't not use it!!!! What a better way than in a CPS challenge. We are also going to see Twilight in two weeks and I just can't wait!!! Loved those books.

I think the lighting is better this week.

Color Inspiration #30

These colors in this week color inspiration are great, but they just don't scream snowmen to me, they scream CHRISTMAS TREES!!! This CTMH set is called Evergreen. I love it! I wanted to make the trees pop, with the colors being subdued, I popped the background instead.

I'm working on lighting. Trying to get my hands on another lamp.

Weekend Sketch Challenge #65

It's weekend sketch challenge time again. The best part about doing these challenges is that my work table faces the TV and I get to watch Brett play for 3 hours!!!!! Today, the JETS are winning 47points!!! The Rams have 3! I know. The hard part about doing these challenges is that the computer is opposite the TV. So every time Brett is up I have to stop typing. This makes for long blog times.... All is good. Brett looks like he is having a ball on the field today. The only thing that could have made this game better is if I was there. Like in October. I keep hinting I want to go back. But, hubby is not biting. Okay, I can ramble about football all day.

This sketch is different from anything I've tried before But it was fun to do. I needed a masculine card for my dad and this is what I came up with. Don't you love it when you open the scrap draw and all the right pieces are just staring at you?? Most of this paper is from Chatter Box. I love their stuff!!! SU's Pun Fun. I used Staz On Olive Green Ink and Watercolor pencils.
Brett's up, I gotta go............................

Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #41

I GOT CUPCAKES!!!!! I needed a birthday card and what better way to say birthdays than with cupcakes???? And TECC? I found 6 Jolee's Boutique Dimensional Stickers (EK Success). I also used the rest of a DCWV sheet I had and the rest of the pink brads. Here's what I came up with. Again the lighting...I know. I need another light. I'm working on getting one.

CPS #89

I've got two paper packs which I've had for a couple of years and I promised myself I would use them this Christmas. This one was a gift I got from my mom, I think it's from Avon. I was a little stumped with the sketch (CPS89) but only because I was tired....I think?

I was happy with the end result.

Color Inspiration #29

Oh my, this was a challenge. This weeks color inspiration #29 has great colors. Since I'm on my snowman theme, I really did try to apply these colors but I just couldn't do it. These colors reminded me of dried flowers. So I used the next best thing. Stamps. I used SU's Bloomin' Beautiful and a water brush with this weeks colors.

I'm still working on lighting......

Weekend Sketch Challenge #64

I've stumbled across this weekly challenge (Fresh & Fun) a few time and since I need tons of Christmas cards I thought I'd give it a try. Snowmen of course.



SUPPLIES

Staz On
Stampin Up's Flaky Friends
Martha Stewarts Snowflake punch
DCWV Winter paper pack (Which I've had forever and promised myself it would get used this year)

TECC40

It should be cupcake time. But I think I like snowmen as much as Taylor likes cupcakes. and..... I'm waitin' on some cupcake stamps (shhhh). This week sketch is great. It was really easy to put this one together.
The stamps are from SU and I used my Cuttlebug.

Now, if only I could get the lighting right!!!!!

Halloween Card, Just for fun

This year the theme in the grade one class is PIRATES!!! I know.....everything revolves around Pirates. So, it just seems obvious that I would make this card for my daughters class. Turns out is was a hit!!

CPS 88

Well I think I'm very late on this. I don't know why I thought I had until tomorrow??? I know a new CPS sketch comes out ever Sunday. To much to do in not enough time, I guess. But I finished it. This idea came from something I saw on Debbie Olsen's blog. I loved the idea and I had some CTMH Scultping Foam. Never used it, so I gave it a shot. It was very daunting at first , then I didn't know how long it would take to try. When I decided it was finally dry I painted it with LuminArte H2O's. But the funny thing about this stuff is that it actually feels like foam when it dry's. I expected it to get hard. I'm rambling. I wanted to use this tinsel red thread I've had forever. It was great but it kept getting stuck in the machine. See, this is why I'm late.

Santa's close up! He's from Papertrey INK.