Peace-Hope-Joy - Merry Monday #100, The Challenge #2

Happy Tuesday afternoon!  I had a wee bit of time today to play with my 'rubber toys' today.  Not nearly as much time as yesterday unfortunately, but so it goes!  I played along at Merry Monday and with Lesley Croghan's 'The Challenge', which you can find on her blog, Always Playing With Paper.  I like the idea of making Christmas cards all year long, and haven't used the Merry Minis set nearly like I should have!  It was perfect for The Challenge!  That's the main reason I didn't use the sketch from Merry Monday, although I did love it!

 

I used Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo and Naturals White for my card.  I dug out a VERY ANCIENT sentiment from a set called So Many Sayings.  It went perfectly with my images.  Using various punches helped speed up this card even more... really love that!

Seeyou tomorrow hopefully!  Thanks for visiting!

xo Anita

Happiest Birthday - CTD267

Good morning everyone!  

It's Remembrance Day here in Canada today... the day we remember and are thankful for those who have served and are serving to defend our nation's freedom.  They all deserve our deepest and heartfelt gratitude.  

I have a quick card today.  I used the colours at Colour Throwdown as inspiration.  

 Here's my card!

The picture isn't showing the Very Vanilla the very greatest... but the button and sentiment strips are Very Vanilla.

This was a pretty simple card to make.... and I think I'll make it again but with a different colour combo... maybe some softer colours and a different embossing folder?  

Seeyou later!  xo Anita

Oh, Hello - DD#76

Happy Wednesday!  I had a wee bit of time (my daughter decided one hour was long enough to nap!) this morning to make a card, and this is what I came up with.  Honestly, I think it took like 45 minutes total! (choosing stamps, supplies, layout, Dynamic Duo colours, and the execution of it)  That's not a bad way to spend 45 minutes!  I loved it!

It's really a very pretty card isn't it?

 

 

I LOVE this embossing folder.  So elegant!  And the colour combo of Wisteria Wonder and Perfect Plum is just stunning.  Perfect Plum is not one of my most used colours (for that matter Wisteria Wonder isn't either!), but together they are great!  That's the thing I love about challenges.  They make you do stuff you wouldn't normally do!  Which is not necessarily always a good thing... but in card-making and stamping... it's great!

 

OK... time for lunch!  Seeyou tomorrow I hope!

 

xo Anita

Comfort Cafe Scraps Cards!

Good morning!  Monday is off to a great start so far!  Lots of chores out of the way already, and here I am, on here, avoiding the rest of them!  Here are some more cards I made using scraps of the Comfort Cafe DSP.  I love these kinds of cards to use up a variety of leftover pieces of paper, too small to do much of anything else with!  Perfect!  Here they are!  There's a bunch of them!!!

I did some sponging around the edges on this one, for some added depth!

 

Starburst or sunburst cards are so easy to make as well.  I followed Dawn Olchefske's video tutorial... and before I knew it I was churning these babies out!

 

The two cards above are very similar of course... I just made it mailable by switching out the dahlias for ribbon and brads!

Same story for the two above!  The one with buttons isn't really mailable, so I used a twine bow, which looks great as well!

 

I really like the simple 'thinking of you' card above.  Very easy and very nice.  By switching up the sentiment you could also have some really nice notecards or 'just because' cards!

This one is also really not that mailable, but I switched it up on my cards last Friday by tying a piece of ribbon around the sentiment flags, instead of the button and linen thread!

Hope you enjoyed todays cards!  I CASEd them all from here and there around the web... just collecting ideas for scraps of DSP!  Just sharing the love!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for my Stampin' Celebration Inspiration Challenge post.  It's an absolutely awesome photo inspiration challenge!  See you then!

xo Anita

Spice Cake Scraps Cards

Happy Friday!  Finally!  This week has been crazy and I am soooo glad it is almost over!  As promised I have some cards that you can easily whip up using your scraps of DSP.  I needed to have some cards on hand for myself and these were a cinch to whip up in a flash!  Let's get right to it!

All my cards were made in no time at all.... and I actually used the basic layout and made another set using different DSP!  I'll show you those in the next couple days.

Have a great weekend everybody!

xo Anita

JUGS206, HSSCC168

Hello again!  I'm back for just a quick sec before I go round up all the school kids in the bus again!  My little junior pre-schooler is all tuckered out after her morning at preschool, so I tucked her happily in bed and there she shall remain till I wake the little sweetie!  Works perfectly for me... more time "working" in my office!

I really wanted to play along at the "Just Us Girls" challenge site this week.  They had a great technique that I wanted to give a whirl, and I loved Marisa Ritzen's card that she made using it, so I went right ahead and used the same stamp set.  Love that set, by the way!   I have followed Marisa's blog for a few years and always love her cards... and she's a Beautiful British Columbian.... just like me!  Just an hour or so down the road!

Anyway... on to what you are here for!  Here's my card!

I used the colours from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge.  I could have gone Christmas with them, but decided to be different!  Flowers that I stamp are the only ones that survive around me... I have definitely not inherited my mother's green thumb!  My husband is the gardener around here, and if I do happen to touch something in the garden... it seriously dies!  Failure to thrive or something!

The grid technique was really fun to do... the end result is somewhat imperfect when you stamp over it... which is really quite perfect for me!  I stamped the grass in Baked Brown Sugar very lightly, this is like third generation stamping!  I coloured the flowers with my SU! markers and did the whole "huffing" thing... which made me feel somewhat light headed!  It's a big stamp!  Some ruffled trim and ribbons, a sentiment from the Six-Sided Sampler on a flag banner.... and I was done!  Easy peasy!

    

 

I have also decided to try out for the JUGS design team.  I love being crafty and getting inspired by other people, and like to think that maybe others could be inspired by me!  Isn't that what this is all about?  Sharing our love of papercrafting, learning by doing and helping others love it as well?  I also love all the new 'friends' I make by doing this!  I love to share and share what I love!  

Wish me luck!

Thanks for looking!  Have yourself a fabulous day!

xo Anita

My Friend - DD #70

Hey everyone!  I've got a simple but beautiful card to show you today.

I haven't done watercolouring in a while, and I've forgotten how relaxing it is!  It is so easy to do and your finished card has so much impact... I've really got to try to do this more often!  

Take a look!

I used the colours Pistachio Pudding and So Saffron along with my Pleasant Poppies stamp.  A little ruffled trim and some ribbon peeking out from underneath my sentiment... and voila...  done, and done!

I am linking up to the fabulous Dynamic Duos challenge today, since that is where I received my colour inspiration from!  Love their colour combos.... 

Thanks for peeking in!  It's almost Friday!  Yay!

xo Anita

PP163, PPA171, FMS103

Hello... Happy Monday!  It's the start of a brand new work week... so I'll just get the show on the road here, as I have lots of fun things to do.... and some not so fun.... my Big Shot bit the dust this weekend.  It is five years old, so it was bound to happen sometime.  My husband took it all apart and found that it needs a couple new parts.... so we'll see what that costs!!!! (fingers crossed!)

I am linking up with three challenges today.  I needed to make a birthday card for my niece, she'll be having a birthday in a couple weeks, so I played along at the Paper Players with their CAS For Kids challenge!  I used the Freshly Made Sketch and the fresh colour combo from the Pals Paper Arts.  

Here's my card!

It's a pretty easy card to replicate... and I have to be honest.... I am not totally happy with this because I had wanted to run the card base through the Big Shot with an embossing folder.... but ALAS.... BROKEN BIG SHOT!!!  Boo hoo!  So I went ahead with the sponging and no embossing, and I guess it looks alright, but still.... you know when you had something different pictured in your mind, right?

 

Now... go check out those blogs for yourself, get inspired by all the crafty creations, and link up your own card or project!  Thanks for taking the time to look at mine!

Have a great week!  xo Anita

Whoooo's Celebrating?

I promised you another card using that adorable owl punch, and here it is!

I CASEd this card from Mary Fish I believe.  It's pretty much a direct case, except I changed the sentiment.  Why re-invent the wheel?  I loved her card, now i love mine too!

 

I also put a little party hat on this guy.  I free handed that thing, but the pennant punch would totally work.  Doesn't he look ready to party?

Thanks for coming by!  See you tomorrow for another fun birthday card.  

And.... make sure you come by on September 1st for an EXCITING announcement!!!  Eeeek!

xo Anita

Happy Birthday!

Good morning stampers!  Today's card features the Botanical Blooms set and the colour combo of Marina Mist, River Rock, Tangerine Tango and Cajun Craze!  It may seem like an odd combo, but the flowers look great stamped in Tangerine and Cajun.  The Marina Mist looks pretty bright on here, so my picture is probably off a little, but it looks stunning in real life!  This is one of those very simple, fast cards you can whip up when you suddenly need one in a pinch! 

Thanks for looking!  Have a great weekend!

Worm Wishes On Your Bug Day!

Hello!  

 OK... this card is seriously one of my very first cards that I made a few years ago.  I used the Seeing Spots stamp set to create the background.  It WAS the very first stamp set I ever ordered!  I used it alot to make backgrounds on my scrapbook pages.  Those were my pre-MDS days!  And how could I not LOVE the Bugs and Kisses stamp set?  Adorable, no?

This card is pretty self explanatory.  My colour combo is Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise and Certainly Celery.  I used my square punch to speed the process up even more.  Easy peasy!

See you tomorrow!

Happy Day To You

Super easy card again using the oh-so-useful postage stamp punch and square punch.  This picture doesn't really do the card justice at all.  It is definitely a CAS card with BIG impact!  It is absolutely beautiful in real life.

For You

Hi Mom!  Another gorgeous card for today!

Postage Stamp Birthday!

The card for today was so fun to make.  And super easy too.  Hello?  Postage stamp punch, anyone?  This card was another in the set of cards that I CASED from Dawn Olchefske.  I used up a ton of teeny weeny pieces of paper making this card!

Everyday Enchantment

Another Dawn Olchefske CASE.  This card is absolutely gorgeous in real life.  I made this for my mom (in-law) for her birthday. (Not her birthday card, but in a set of cards that I gifted to her!)

Celebrate, It's Your Day!

I CASEd this card from Dawn Olchefske.  I had it saved in my folder for a long time before I ever got around to making it, so don't have a direct link, but with some searching on her blog, you could probably find it!

Love this card... and I was done in a snap too!  For the flower over the bow, I simply cut my Lace Ribbon Border Punch up to get individual flowers.  For my flagged banner ends, I used my square punch.

Dynamic Duos #56

I made this card using the colour challenge from the Dynamic Duos blog.  It’s a beautiful, classy combo.  I decided to create a thank you card using it, and it turned out so gorgeous and elegant.  I am in love with the final result.

Here’s the challenge…

                               

 

Here’s my card.  I used a few things that I hadn’t even had a chance to try out yet, so this card was a lot of fun to do.  With school almost out, I will hopefully have more time to sit down in my ‘office’ and ‘work’, and give all my goodies a good workout!  I CASEd this card from the new catalogue.  The general layout was the same, I just turned it on it’s side, changed the embossing folder, stamped sentiment, colours, and embellishments… and had my card!  Put like that, the end result really looks absolutely nothing like what I was originally inspired by, but nonetheless, that is how it came to be!

So... here's my card...

I absolutely love it.  When I told my husband to 'look at the card I made'... he looked... and then looked again!  That's something!  He's so used to 'looking', but this time he really 'looked'!

Thanks for taking the time to stop in and take a 'look' of your own!

Happy Holidays!

A Christmas card in May!  No rhyme or reason to the cards that come on this blog... just trying to get my cards on here for my own visual reference!   

This card is made with all SU! supplies.  It's one of the cards I made while on the DT from Carrie Gaskin.  It also uses the faux tile technique which ends up being really pretty when finished!