Loving This Paper

Last week I made a card for my hubby in THIS MUSHY POST.  I loved that paper so much that I had to make another card using it.  I did something cool with that flower.   It is a piece of chipboard that I painted off white.  I then took some white tissue paper and decoupaged it on top.  Then I distressed it with Vintage Photo ink and Colorbox ink.   I also decided to add a funky edge along the bottom by cutting it with my Creative Memories cutting system.   I just love this card.  I think it's the paper.

Thanks for popping in today!

What's In It?

Stamps: For You Heidi Grace

Ink: Colorbox pigment, Tim Holtz Distress ink

Paper: MM Love Story Notes, Vanilla

Other: Sizzlet Lots of Tags, MM brad, Prima flowers, dimensionals, vintage brads, paper piercer, CM cutting system, sponge

Missing

A few weeks ago the CAS challenge on Splitcoast was to make a card using a sketch.  This is one that I made and sent to my dad.  I had made everyone in my family a card except him so I thought I better not exclude him. This is a really quick card and so is this post.  I will have a few posts over the next few weeks while I am on vacation.  Enjoy!

What's In It?

Stamps: Inkadinkado sentiment, Verve Serenity

Ink: Mellow Moss, Choc Chip

Paper: Kraft, Wassail DP, Mellow Moss, Choc Chip

Other: Labels Nesties, Cuttlebug EF, satin ribbon, sponge

Turkey Time?

I don't think so.

The challenge today at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge is to create a card or some other sort of project that can be used at or sent at Thanksgiving time...put a TURKEY on it and get entered TWICE to win this week's fabulous prize!

Well, I made card that is Thanksgiving themed, but it doesn't have any turkey on it.

The chances of me ever having a turkey stamp are pretty slim.

  I don't like turkeys.  Oh, I like to EAT turkeys.  It sort of a "revenge" thing.  See, when I was a kid I was tormented by a turkey.  Yes, the following is a true story.  No matter how far fetched it may seem it is totally and completely true.  My family will vouch for that.

 So here goes..... When I was in high school we lived out in the country.  It was my dad's escape back to the country boy in him. My dad would always get these "ideas." One blessed year he decides we are going to raise turkeys and then sell them.  I think we had around 25 of them and one "rooster."  This rooster liked to get out and walk around the yard.  I soon learned that he would run right towards me like he was going to attack me.   I would have to check to make sure he wasn't out when I wanted to leave the house.  My family thought it was funny.  Aren't they nice?  Believe it or not, I hold no emotional scars from them.
Well, one day when I was leaving the house HE was out.  I think I had to go to work so I made a dash for the car.  He chased after me and then proceeded to circle my little car, pecking at it.
We later discovered that he would attack my brother's  RED and blue basketball too.  I think this turkey was part bull and the color red made it attack.  I have RED hair!  That is my theory, anyway.

The day we loaded those turkeys up into my dad's truck to be hauled off to the butcher was a happy day for me.  He joked about keeping the "DEVIL TURKEY" around.  In the end he became a Thanksgiving dinner:)
Honestly, those turkeys that we raised were the best turkey I have ever eaten.

I hope I didn't offend any vegetarians or turkey lovers out there, but you can see why I may not be that fond of the little fellows when they are alive.

 I do have a picture of a turkey to share though.  This was created by my son for school.  He was to disguise a turkey so that it can't be recognized and eaten at Thanksgiving.

He decided to put it in camouflage to make it look like the turkey is the hunter.  We also added  glasses with a fake nose and mustache.  That part cracks me up.

I hope you will join in our challenge this week.

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What's In It?

Stamps: Tall Oaks (Verve)

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Paper: K&Co Classic and scraps from my stash

Other: Copics and Prismacolor pencils, blending stumps, baby oil, crystal effects, vintage brads, recollections pearl, TPS button, twine, dimensionals, paper piercer, vine trim ( Papierloftet)

Please send a card....

 Good Morning!  We are heading out for vacation today.  I don't have a card to show.  I did make one REALLY quickly this morning for a little boy that I read about HERE.

Please take a few minutes this weekend to make a card for Noah.  We will be around this area while we are visiting family.  I felt compelled to make a little something for him.   I am soooo thankful for my 2 beautiful, HEALTHY children.

I will have several preposts  for your viewing pleasure (hopefully) while I am gone.  Take care friends and cross your fingers that we get a deer.  It is how we feed ourselves throughout the year.

Hugs!

Twinkle, Twinkle Big, Bright, Beautiful Star!

I just have a very quick post today.  We only have 2 more days til our vacation and I have sooo much to do.  I read a blog by Shawne, who is an AMAZING artist for Clear Dollar Stamps.  This is another stamp company that I truly want to try out.  However, I have so many wants and so few monies.  Isn't that the way it goes.  Anyways, they have started a new Challenge and she invited me to participate.  The challenge is to use 5 of anything on your card.  Mine has 5 pearls, 5 Tiny Tinkles and it did have 5 layers, but I had to remove one cause I messed up....SHOCKER!  This is also for the CAS challenge on Splitcoast which is to use white and ONE other color.  I was so excited to get to play with the Verve Stamp set I just won from the last release party.  It's so pretty!  Alright, now go check out the challenges and play along!

Stamps: Star of Wonder (verve)

Ink: colorbox silver

Paper: white

Other: Tiny Twinkels, dimensionals, silver EP, Melissa Frances Pearls, TPS pearl brad, circle nestabilites, dazzling diamonds, 2 way glue pen, Quickkutz EP, May Arts satin ribbon

Who Knew?

Who knew that when I received a blog award  last week I would spend the next few days feeling like one of those celebrities that DOESN'T thank their adoring family? ( I am SO NOT a celebrity, but you know what I mean)

Who knew that my sweet husband, the "Leaf Nazi," was so sensitive?

Who knew that he would feel so hurt by the fact that I didn't name him as my best friend?

Who knew that I would spend the next few days explaining myself and trying to make up for it?

I SHOULD HAVE. Because I know that ONE word answers never tell the whole story. I am giving myself permission from now on to speak at will:)

As I explained to my husband, there is a very good reason why he isn't my best friend...It's because that "title" doesn't really describe all he is to me.  He is so much MORE than my best friend.  He is my SOULMATE.  He is the other half of me.  He is the person that, as cliche as it sounds, completes me.   We have so many differences in how we are and that's what makes us great.  We look at things in different ways, but always TOGETHER.  He has helped me to grow to be a better person.  To set goals for myself and to think more seriously about life.  While I have helped him to laugh a little more and not be so set on looking to the future...to living in the "now."  He is the person I admire the most.  I would rather be with him than anyone.  He makes me laugh, smile and literally melt inside.  He is the person I enjoy growing with each and everyday.  Creating this wonderful life we have together.  I can not imagine my life without him.  It's hard for me to even put into words what he is to me because he is MY EVERYTHING.    So I made this card for him and snuck it in his briefcase today.

The inside has the two hearts stamped together.  That's what we are...2 hearts that fit perfectly together.  Sorry to get all mushy on you, but I needed him to know PUBLICLY why he isn't my best friend.  He is so much more!  This card could not have come together more perfectly.  It is very symbolic of our relationship.  All the pieces stitched together, the two seperate hearts that fit and the sentiment.  I think it is my favorite card ever.  I am so glad I get to give it to him.  I used Beate's Weekend Sketch 105 and stole the idea of the punched edge from Laurie Schmidlin.  

Thanks for popping in today for my mushy love story.  Hope you are having the same fabulous weather that we are here.

What's In It?
Stamps: Hearts Afire (verve), Always
Ink: Choc Chip Craft, Vanilla Craft
Paper: DCWV red, MM Vanilla Love Story, choc chip
Other: Fiskars border punch, dimensionals, sponge, clear EP, Circle Spellbinders, Janome Sew mini, Sizzlet Lots of Tags

Time To Get Sketchy

WOWZER!  Holy Pacholie.  Whoa!  These are all the things I thought when I saw this sketch challenge.  Honestly, it's pretty tough.   But, then I started thinking about what I have learned about sketches since participating in so many challenges.  You don't have to take a sketch so literally.  Think about what else you can see in them.  They are really just a creative "diving board."  So are you ready to "jump in" over at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge.  I think it is going to be so interesting to see what people come up with.

Here's what I saw in that sketch:

This is a little wall hanging that I made with some old chipboard and a new PTI set.  As usual, I think it's so much cuter IRL.  I added some crystal stickles to the edges of the snow and the snowman, but you can't tell from the picture.

Here it is hanging in my kitchen:

One final close up of the details:

So how creative can you get today with this sketch?  You have a chance to win something from

ALL THAT SCRAPS

Here is the prize

Make sure you head on over to see the Design Teams creations and leave them a little love.  They are conveniently located on my left side bar.

Have a great Sunday!

What's In It?

Stamps: Holiday Tree (PTI)

Ink: Vanilla Craft, real red, versafine black, always artichoke, vintage photo Tim Holtz, white craft

Paper: Jolly by Golly ( cosmo cricket), Black, Real Red, Vanilla,

Other: CM cutting system, Janome Sew Mini, stickles, PTI vintage buttons, twine,  curly label punch, dimensionals, TPS buttons, ribbon (hobby lobby), TH antique linen distress paint, sponge, scalloped edge punch