Cardstock and Ribbon

The theme for this months card swap over at Red Letter Journals was to only use solid colored cardstock and ribbon.    Here is the card I made.

The stamp is called Halloween Magic and is by Stampendous.  The ribbon and embossing folder are both by The Paper Studio.




Challenges I'm entering:
Craft Us Crazy - Favorite Embellishment (ribbon)
The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles - Use Circles
The Pink Elephant - Make It Girly
ATC's With Attitude - Anything Goes
Fat Pages with Attitude - Anything Goes
Stamp Your Life - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes  RANDOM WINNER

WOYWW

It's almost that time again.....WOYWW over at Stamping Ground.  It's still 30 minutes till Wednesday..but I'm hoping to get closer to the beginning of the list this time around so I wanted to have my post ready and waiting for Mr Linky.

I'm working on my cards for next months card swap group over at Red Letter Journals. 

Christmas Card

Here is a CAS Christmas card I made for this months card swap.

If the gem on the big snowflake looks familiar...it is.  I had some left over from last months card swap.  I used a retired Stampin' Up set called "Snowflakes".  And a Close to My Heart stamp from the set "Holiday Commentary".  I know...shame on me for mixing companies.

Here is a close up...trying to show the iridescenty embossing powder.....but I just couldnt seem to get a good pic of it.

 

 

Challenges I'm Entering:

Bearly-Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge - Christmas

Crafty Bloggers Network - Christmas

 Everybody Art Challenge - Embossing

 Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

 Creative Craft Challenges2 - Special Occasion/Not Birthday

 One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

 Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Christmas Cards

Pile it On - Make it Sparkle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween Card

Here is the Halloween card I created for card swap this month at Red Letter Journal.  The theme for this month was to include five elements that could be left over from other projects.  Mine were patterned paper, stamped image, flowers, brads/gemstones and punched shapes.

The digi I used is one that I won from Simply Betty Stamps and is called Little Pumpkin Lilly.  It can be found in digi form here or in rubber form here.

Challenges I am entering:
My Craft Spot - Boo to You
Pause Dream Enjoy - Halloween
Paper Playtime - Trick or Treat
Crafts and Me Challenges - My Sentiments Exactly
Clear It Out - Orange, Purple and Black
Just Keep on Crafting - Anything Goes

WOYWW

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been a week already!  Not a whole lot has changed since my last weeks WOYWW post for Stamping Ground.  I've gotten my digi image from Simply Betty Stamps resized to the size I want and printed onto cardstock.  I got those cut out and have started to color them.  I still need to color her stockings and a few of the pumpkins.  And then figure out the rest of the card.

 

 

I always like to have a scratch piece of paper to work over to protect my table.  It's also great for testing colors, drawing layout sketches and keeping track of measurements on.

WOYWW

Wow!  It's been almost two months since I got the chance to join in on the WOYWW over at Stamping Ground.  I just haven't had much crafting time lately.  Thank goodness for the card swap group over at Red Letter....I have to set aside a little crafting time each month for it.  Tonight I went through my stash as well as went to the store to purchase a few items for my cards for next month.  I haven't started them yet.....but here are the supplies I plan on using or am still debating over.

The theme for next month is to use five elements that you might have left over from another project.  Since we have to make six cards for the swap they don't have to be actually left over, just elements that could potentially be left over.  I chose to use paper, ribbon, stamped image, flowers and gems/brads.  I'll post the finished cards after the swap group meets (October 7th).

Baby Crab Cakes

A friend of mine is having a baby shower.  This is her third little one.  She already has a little boy and a little girl.  And she decided to be surprised with this ones gender.  I love shopping for babies....but it was kinda hard this time.  She said she still had plenty of clothes from her other two children.  And trying to find gender neutral items is hard....especially if you don't want to go with the (much needed...but boring) diapers, shampoos, lotions, etc kind of gift.  So, as I walked around the tiny baby section for the third time at a local store....I finally stumbled across this cute little crab mirror.  I was debating if it was gender neutral or not and then I saw the crab clacker toy.  I just love when everything matches...so I decided that was what I was buying.

Next, I strolled over to the card isle.  Did I really think I'd find one with a crab?  Well, not really...but it's still fun to look at the over priced, mass produced, no personality cards on the shelf.  Not a one with a crab.  But, no worries...now I have an excuse to have a little "me time" in my craft room while I make a card.....cause the card has to match. 

The image is a freebie over at Dulemba's Blog.  And of course I need a matching gift bag too.  I actually did find a gift bag that had a cute crab on it...but it was just a little too small for the mirror to fit into.  Luckily, my pack rat, hate to throw anything away self had saved all the gift bags from my baby shower.  And there happened to be one in there that worked perfectly.  All, I had to do was.....make it match.

I used the same crab image as the one I used for the card....so my card and bag match perfectly.

And, put it all together and what do I have?  Gift, card and bag all in a cute "little crab cake" theme.