HYCCT03 & HYCCT08 Challenge Cards

Howdy and good mornin'!
I was very busy creating last night while watching t.v. This morning I have two cards to show you that I made for the Hope You Can Cling To challenges going on all month over at SCS to support Breast Cancer Awareness month. If you haven't already done so, go check it out! My first card is for HYCCT03 - Uncentimental - to create a card without a sentiment. This really wasn't too much of a challenge for me because I very often create such cards for Operation Write Home to make them more versatile.
Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: Patterned Pines (SU!)

PAPER: Whisper White, Garden Green, Pink Passion (SU!); Happy Holidays designer paper (FancyPantsDesigns)

MARKERS: Garden Green, Tempting Turquoise, Pink Passion, Rose Red (SU!)

THE REST: Bigz Top Note die and Big Shot, dimensionals (SU!); Rhinestone gems (unknown)

I used markers to ink up my stamps. I stamped the trees twice Once on the diecut panel and again on a scrap of WW cs and then cut them out and popped them up! I am loving how this turned out!!
My second card is for HYCCT08 - Fab Flower Power - to use a flower on your card that has been handmade. So, I whipped up this little crocheted pink flower to attach to my card.
Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: Be Yourself (CTMH)

PAPER: Whisper White, Certainly Celery (SU!); Bon Bon Mat Deck (K&Company)

INK & MARKERS: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose (SU!)

THE REST: Handmade crochet flower; Button (basicgrey); rickrack, embroidery thread


Welp! That's it for now. I gotta get some housework done, but then I will be back! Thanks a bunch for stoppin' by! See you again real soon!

CC277 and SC287 Masculine Birthday

Good afternoon All,
I have a quick post for today. I've been busy entertaining my youngest son and his girlfriend all week! Fun times! I needed a masculine birthday card for my dad and I thought this week's color challenge over at SCS would work perfectly! This week's sketch challenge also lended to a great layout design! So, here is what I came up with. Check out the links to learn more about these challenges. Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: CTMH

PAPER: Dust Durango, Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, Whisper white (SU!); designer paper (Basic Grey)

INK and MARKERS: SU!

THE REST: Hemp twine from my stash, Cuttlebug and embossing folder

That's all I've got for now! Thanks for stopping by!

Home Decor Altered Key Holder

Good Evening All,
I wanted to show you these pics of this altered key holder that I made. I have been seriously working on it for about 2 weeks. It was one of those projects that while I had a picture in my head of what I wanted to do it was more difficult getting the right combination of elements!! lol!
I found this key holder plaque on a clearance shelf in TJ Max or Marshalls for $5. It was kinda beat up and it was mauve and off white in color with a picture of a rowboat in the top. It also had white hooks that were attached crooked so I replace them. I repainted the frame with several coats of brown and black acrylic paint and added 2 coats of matte finish Krylon spray. I used lots of different company products, too many to try and list them all. The 1st and 3rd sentiment stamps are from SU! and the middle is from CTMH. I used BasicGrey's Origins collection designer paper. Cardstock was from my scrap pile. Most of the punches and diecuts are from SU!, Marvy, and Spellbinders. I will be hanging this in my kitchen on the wall next to the door that leads to my laundry room and garage. I am super please with how it turned out and that it is finally finished!!
Thanks so much for stoppin' by!

Mojo141, WT273 and CC273 House Warming

Good afternoon All,
I have a project for you today that incorporated 3 different challenges. First I decided on the Mojo Monday sketch challenge, mostly because I love the layouts they come up with! Then I went to Tuesday's color challenge over at SCS. Since I needed to make a gift tag for a house warming bottle of wine, Thursday's Ways to Use It challenge fit perfectly! Check out these links to get all the deets for the challenges! I also was very much inspired by this wine bottle tag!! Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: Good Neighbors, Fourteen Phrases (SU!)

PAPER: Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Barely Banana, Whisper White, Soft Sky (SU!); Infuse designer paper (Basic Grey)

INK: Close to Cocoa, Garden Green (SU!)

THE REST: punches, hodgepodge hardware (SU!); Clear buttons (CTMH);Nestibilities; Cuttlebug; Hemp Twine; Velvet ribbon; rhinestone gems

This was lots of fun to make! Thanks for stoppin' by today!

WT270 Be Yourself Framed Art

Good afternoon All,

We are having the most beautiful weather here in Las Vegas: Sunny and 95! I just thought I would share with you today this framed art piece that I created for my youngest daughter's upcoming birthday. I had already made her card using this CTMH stamp set and I was rolling this idea around in my head for a few days. I wanted to do something kind of 'shabby/chic/trendy' ish...if that makes any sense! I started this on Thursday to go along with the Ways to Use it Challenge to use an edge distresser. I used my edge distresser on all of the layers of designer paper. I stamped the images several times in different color inks and then cut the clothing out and paper pieced them. This was very tedious, but I like how it turned out! Kinda like cutting out paper dolls! One thing that I like about CTMH clear acrylic stamps is that I could bend the words to contour the images. I put this in a regular picture frame so I couldn't use too much dimension. I also sponged the mat with pretty in pink ink. Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: Be Yourself (CTMH)

PAPER: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Sahara Sand, Sweet Pea designer series paper (SU!)

INK & MARKERS: Chocolate chip, pumpkin pie, pretty in pink, sahara sand, so saffron (SU!)

THE REST: So Saffron wide grosgrain ribbon, punches (SU!); Nestibilities, Cuttlebug, edge distresser

Well, that's it for now! Thanks a bunch for swingin' by today! See you soon and Happy Crafting!!

Splitcoaststampers challenges SC279 and CC269

Good evening All,

I started off the day great by getting a card made using this week's color and sketch challenges over at SCS. By 10:30 am the day then took a turn for the worse...but some how I managed to get through it! So, I am just getting around to uploading my card and posting to my Blog! The colors for the challenge were Cameo Coral, Lovely Lilac and Gable Green. It took me till I finished my card to warm up to the Gable Green in this combo...what do you think? The sketch, on the other hand, I loved immediately! I still had this CTMH stamp set out on my table so I used it again. Love these ladies! Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: Be Yourself (CTMH)

PAPER: lovely lilac, cameo coral, gable green, whisper white (SU!); Dill Blossom designer paper (s.e.i.); provo craft designer paper.

INK: Cameo Coral, Lovely Lilac (SU!)

THE REST: brads, ribbon (michaels); dimensionals, embossing folder (SU!), cuttlebug

OK...that's it for now! I'm off to watch some t.v. with my honey! Thanks a bunch for stoppin' by!

Mojo Monday 137 One of a Kind

Good afternoon All,
Well, I got right on the ball this morning and created my card for this week's Mojo Monday sketch challenge #137! I whipped this little beauty up in about an hour, which is record time for me! I love this stamp set from CTMH called Be Yourself! The images are just fantastic! This was a great sketch to work with, as always! Here is my supply list:

STAMPS: Be Yorself (CTMH)

PAPER: Chocolate chip, whisper white (SU!), Sugared designer paper (Basic Grey)

INK: Bravo Burgandy (SU!)

THE REST: punches, ribbon (SU!), Dew Drops (The Robin's Nest), rhinestone brad (unknown)

A short but sweet post for today! Thanks a bunch for stoppin' by! I hope to see you again soon!

SC258 and Some Quick Pics

Good afternoon,
It looks like this will most likely be my last post before Christmas (if everything goes as planned). I will be flying back to New York tomorrow and hopefully staying until the 25th or so, but that depends on when the banks can close on our house here in Las Vegas. We will need to come back for that, but no date has been set...I was able to fit in some mad stamping while I was packing up the apartment, I just wanted to make sure I had enough Christmas cards made to take back with me cuz now my stamping stuff is sitting in a storage facility :( This first pic is of the cards I made using this week's Sketch Challenge #258 over at Splitcoaststampers. I made a dozen using 2 coordinating sheets of designer paper from My Mind's Eye and a Christmas Fluffles image (Stampendous) and a CTMH elf image. All Cardstock is Stampin' Up! and the images were colored in using my SU! markers. As you look at my photos, notice that all were made using just paper, stamps and ink. No ribbon, brads or buttons so that I can mail these quickly and easily in a regular SU! envelope. Yesterday I spent over an hour in line at the post office to mail some of my cards that were embellished and needed padded envies and extra postage, yikes! The next 2 pics are cards and the last 2 pics show the gift card holders that I made. For all of these I used designer paper by My Mind's Eye and SU! cardstock, ink and markers for coloring. All of the white circles are punched using SU! 1&3/4" punch and then mounted on a Spellbinder's nestibilities scallop circle die. I chose to make them all the same size to make thing go quicker. Each group of cards was made in 3 - 4 hours which for me is like Speedy Gonzalez!! Woot! Woot! The ornament cards used SU! stamp sets as well as the sentiments for the reindeer cards. Reindeer image is from CTMH.

For the gift card holders I used a Changito monkey and a Penguin Pals stamp by Stampendous and the 2 snowman image is a stamp that I got from the $1 bin at either Michael's or Joann's last year. The sentiment inside is from a SU! set.
Well, that is all I have time for, I got a couple more things to do fast-fast and then I gotta shutdown my PC and prepare it for storage. Someday I hope to get a laptop so that I can have a computer with me all the time...someday. Happy Holidays to you all and wish me luck with the purchase of our house here in Las Vegas as well as the sale of our house back in New York!
Thanks a bunch for taking time to stop by!!