Autumn Days

 Autumn is officially here!  I am happy for my wallet since we aren't running the air conditioner as much but will definitely miss my warm mornings with bright sun rays shining in my window.  Sigh.  I do like Falls gorgeous colors and some trees in my area already showing the red foliage.  I would love to venture up to Maine and see the trees in their beauty during the Fall.  It's on my bucket list.  One day!  :-)

I made this card for Sentimental Sundays challenge this week which is Autumn and features a Saturated Canary image.  I wanted the apples to be the focal point so I colored her dress and hair in muted tones.  I added red buttons to resemble apples on the ground.  I used a SRM Sticker from the Fall sheet for my sentiment.

Anyone go apple picking?  I am planning a trip with daughter.  She went last year but we had so much rain the grounds were soaking wet and the apples were mushy.  The few she did pick were not the big red fruit I envisioned but we peeled them and made an apple crisp which was quite tasty.  This year, I would love to make spiced apples.  Moving on before my mind fixates on this too much.

The pattern papers are MME which were in my scrap bin.  I used a variety from different lines.  One is Valentine's oriented as you can clearly see.  I liked it though and went for it.  I added a sparkle green trim for added interest as after thought.  Just isn't a card if it does not have some bling or shine.

Challenges I would like to enter my card in:

Crafty Catz: #51 Buttons

Challenges 4 Everybody: #3 Anything Goes

Fairy Tale Challenges: #50 Autumn

Just Keep on Creating: #3 Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Challenge: #71 Fall into Fall

Saturated Canary Challenge: #26 Use B items (buttons, blue, and bling ribbon)

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge: #8 Sewing

You Make Me Smile!

 Back to share another kid inspired card with you.

This is Toby and he's from Digital Delights by Louby Lou.  I colored him in with my Copics and layered him on a Pink Paislee paper using foam dots.  He sure makes me smile.  The sentiment and banner are from SRM Stickers.  I used Pink Sorbet twine.  A fun little card to put together. The Sentimental Sundays challenge is cards for kids this week so hope you will drop by and join us with a kid inspired card.  

Challenges I would like to enter my card in:

Card Patterns: #163 sketch

Crafty Catz: #130 Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments: For a Child

Secret Crafter: #183 Cute & Fluffy

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A sweetheart of a snowman and winner from blog hop

Happy Sunday!  Almost forgot to get this post up today!  Sorry about that, but sometimes the day gets away from me.  :-)

For Sentimental Sundays the new challenge is to use blue/snow/glitter.  It can be all or just one.  You get to decide.  I went with blue and glitter for this week's card.  This little fella can be found here at Bugaboo.  I colored him in with Copics, cut out with scissors, and used  my craft knife for inside areas .  Then he got a snow bath in glitter.  He's glistening with glitter.   Can snowmen be sassy?  He looks it a little with his hands on his hips.  But the red heart shows he's all love in my eyes so I paired him with WRMK's papers for a whimsical touch.  That's a SRM sticker at the top of his hat with a few rhinestones for accent.  At the bottom I did a little fussy cutting of a banner from the paper and popped it up a foam dot.  I guess you can't really snug with a snowman but he sure seems like a cuddly buddy in my opinion.  can you tell I like snowmen?  I tied a little twine with a button to finish it off. 

The winner from the blog hop is:

#8

who is

Craftygirl!!! 

Please email your address so I get this out to you!

I hope you will join us for the challenge!  I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursdays: #198 Anything Goes (new stamp)

Let's Craft and Create: #35 Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time: Use Embellishments

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Really Reasonable Ribbons: #39 Sparkle and Ribbon

The Paper Shelter: #45 Anything Goes

Supplies Used:

cardstock: Paper Studio

pattern paper: WRMK Love Struck

digi image: Bugaboo

sticker: SRM Stickers

glitter: Martha Stewart

rhinestones: Michael's

twine: Divine Twine in aqua

button:craft supply

other: corner rounder and circle punch

Your Phone's Ringing!

Does your phone ring too much or too little?  Funny how you wish for it to ring less and then when it does it makes you a little sad.  I currently have 7 messages waiting to be heard so I am posting this card really quick to take care of them.

I have to be honest and say I was getting tired of holiday cards.  Honestly, I have made so many and also mailed out a bunch so I needed to move on and try a typical everyday scenario.  I will be back with some altered projects I made for Christmas to share soon.  I had to break up the consistency because I am like that.

Today's retro phone card is filled with some new papers I purchased recently.  The shame!  I was pretty determined to use most of the of the bag but at this rate, not going to happen until 2013.  In fact, I think I am going to give my scrap bag away because I can't remember what collection the papers are from any longer. 

So this card uses the new Head Over Heels paper from lily bee design.  What a cute line!  It was created Julia Stainton.  I have long admired her work and love that she is creating beautiful paper lines.  I used lots of punches on this card.  I was also happy to use my new Copic in warm grey.  I bought the W7.  I used stone grey twine that I curled to make the cord on the phone.  It needed a little more so I added the black pearl for the center of the phone dial.  I remember using these types of phones very well.  My ex MIL was using her dial phone into this decade because she did not like the push button.  She would get frustrated when the answering machine came on and would instruct her to press one to leave a message because she couldn't.  Bless her soul! Funny how things have changed.     :-) 

Challenges I would like to enter my card into:

Card Patterns: # 145 Card Sketch

Crafty Catz: #112 Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge: #50 Bingo (Buttons, Die cuts/punches, Pearls)

Ribbon Carousel Challenge: #33 Tangled Twine

The Crafty Pad: #151 Send Someone a Smile

The Cutie Pie Challenge: #7 Use a Sentiment

Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge: #96 Anything but Christmas

Supplies used:

cardstock/base: The Paper Studio

pattern paper: lily bee design Head Over Heels Smitten

image: Bow's and  Berries retro phone

stamp: CTMH Say It In Style

iink: Hero Arts black

twine: The Twinery stone grey

pearl: Kaiser Craft black

button: Making Memories

craft: ribbon

punches: Marvy, EK Success, and Fiskars

markers: Copics

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Pure Joy

Happy Monday to you!  This post comes to live from the beach!  The girls and I are having a little down time before we gear up for the new school year but don't want to neglect my responsibilities while away so I am here to share with you my card for Elizabeth  Mae's Designs this week. 

We have a "Cute as a Button" theme so interpret as you may and come join us!  I used the Baby Girl Sidney because I thought she was as cute as button.  I didn't get the stamp with this sentiment in time so I am using a few rub-on's with lots of buttons.  :-)

I bought a  new Copic that matches this SU mint green paper.  I know they retired it but I have so much!  I used to love this color when I first started crafting.  The Copic color that matches it nicely is BG34.  So now you know,either buy it if you like it or steer clear if you don't .  LOL! 

I am still plugging away at my scraps.  The large gingham print (The Girls' Paperie) was cut and angled with a large scallop die cut that had print on it but I covered with a large circle (Paper Trey Ink) I punched out and added the round rub-on by combing "pure" and the word "joy".  I like cutting my rub-ons to make my own.    A tiny remanent of lace with buttons was added and then Sidney was popped up with foam dots.  Lastly, a few rhinestones and little line about fingers and toes was applied.  I stitched around the panel and applied to a white cardstock base. 

*****There's still time to enter my giveaway!  Read all about it here!*****

 Challenges I would like to add this card to are:
CardMadFairy's Digi Days: Buttons
Creative Belli: #124 Gingham
Fab'n'Funky: #86 A Stitch in Time
Ruby's Rainbow: #10 Stitching
The Paper Variety: Thread
Truly Scrumptious: #63 Lace it Up!

Back to school we shall go

but not today :-)  We still have a few more weeks of freedom.  I am sad it's coming to an end.  I love getting ready to go back to school and meet my new students but that means I am going to be unable to craft as much as I want .  I guess that's reality. 
I have a tag to share with you this Monday morning.  A sweet little tag that I plan on tying to my daughter's lunchbox to completely humiliate her.  What a great Mom huh?  Yeah.  I'm like that.  I believe it's a sweet gesture but a high school student thinks it's rather "uncool".  I think the days of me giving her a kiss good bye with a big hug in public are over.  I am just glad it lasted this long.  I will admit that in 8th grade, I begged my parents to drop me off around the corner for any event so no one saw that they drove me.  Looking back, that seems silly since no 13 year old can drive legally.  Can you tell I might have recaptured my mind?  LOL!

At Paper Playtime, we have an anything goes challenge for this Monday.  Our sponsor is Whimsie Doodles.  I chose the apple from School Goodies for my image and went to work.  After coloring it in with my Copics (seriously addicted to these!) I trimmed it up and layered on a white circle.  It needed a little something, so I stitched around it with green floss to add the pop of color.  I love my polka dots and thought it was a fun print to use with this.  The bottom border is a gcd Studios paper strip.  It's all mounted on a bright red cardstock tag that I made myself.  I found one of my daughter's old colored pencils and decided to attach it this tag with floss and a tiny star button.  The little first day sticker is from Junkitz. Yeah a blast from the past huh?   I added the '11 SRM sticker  so we could remember the year.  I plan on scribbling a little note on the back for DD. 

I hope you like and here's hoping you will come join us at Paper Playtime!

****Don't forget about my giveaway! You can read about it and enter here! ****

Challenges I would like to enter this card in:
Amber's Craft & Stuff: #22 Back to School **so sad to read this challenge blog is closing :-(**
Celebrate the Occasion: #25 Back to School
Creative Inspirations: #66 Back to School
Cupcake Inspirations: #123  Photo inspiration
Dutch Dare Card Challenge: #125 Back to School
Incy Wincy Designs: #106 Something old(pencil and tiny first day sticker)something new(image and floss)
Little Darlings Challenge: #5 Back to School

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