Miss You - A RS Notecard Fav

Are you came for another post adding to my favs in a large number of notecards I'm making for Relief society? This one I like because of the colours - so bright and cheerful.

For this card, not only did I use scrap papers, but I also went into my box of ribbon scraps too. For a bit of a fun look I inked the edged of the medallion with a bright pink. Well, a simpe card doesn't require a lot of discription, just a picture to share it with you.

Hope you're having a good day, and thanks for stopping by again.

Another RS Notecard Fav

Here is yet another fav of my RS "scrap-using" Notecards. Nothing fancy, but pleasing to the eye.

I have a few more to make with another to post. After making more I might have a couple more to post.

Nothing more to say about this card...more of a "show" than a "show and tell".

I am, however, glad to be getting rid of some of my many scraps. I have so many of them that I have four 3 drawer bins organized to sort my scraps by colour - white, cream/ivory, yellow, orange/peach, pink, red, purple/mauve, turquoise, blue, green, brown, and black. And when I'm in the mood, I take some of these scraps and make embellishments like rolled flowers, die-cut a bunch shapes ready for quick cardmaking, or punch a bunch of leaves and shapes. These too I have sorted in either jars or a wood box that has 9 small drawers.

Thanks so much for stopping by again today. Be sure to look at participating in a fun activity here on our blog and see if you can win a great prize! Happy crafting !

Accordian Lesson Handouts -RS- & Two Hours Sleep

Every second Sunday, I teach a class for the ladies that attend Relief Society. Though the message is based on religious beliefs, I thought that you might like to see the design of the project/handout. Believe it or not I made 50 of these things, all from scraps with the exception of the buttons, and ribbon. As to the time involved...it took at least five times longer than I thought it would. And despite the fact that I had planned well in advance and started the project 4 days before, it turned out that I only had two hours of sleep before going to church to teach that lesson. Guess what I did when I got home?

I came up with the idea of creating an accordian file with three vellum pockets to hold 3 tabbed cards.One card to have an image while the other two would include points discussed in the lesson. I have three left after handing them out on the 12th and these are they. I meant to take a photo of all of them in the basket. What a beautiful sight it was with all the various colours- pastels, bright and vibrant, dark and earthy, you name it, I had made it. Really wish I had taken that photo. Here are the three I had left.

To give you an idea of their size, they are 3 3/4 inches (9.525 cm) tall and 2 1/4 inches (5.715 cm) wide. I made the ribbons long enough so that if untied they could be hung from a door, dresser, cupboard knob, or hung from a rear view mirror, etc. Inside, this is what you find.

And, taking the tabbed cards out...

Just for an interesting tidbit, I used 6 rolls of double sided adhesive crafting tape that I get from the Dollar Giant. One roll usually lasts me a while. Well there you have it. Thank you for stopping by again today, and happy crafting!

TOOLS & MATERIALS

Spellbinders: Labels Four, Labels Fourteen
Paper and Cardstock Scraps
Handmade Rolled Flowers made earlier from scraps
Martha Stewart Punch: Evergreen Branch
PTI Buttons
All text printed from Word documents/computer
ScorPal
Xyron sticker maker (for the tabs)
Fiskars: Apron Lace Border Punch
Ink Blending tool
Assortment of inks to match paper colours

Giveaway Reminder

Just a reminder that our American Crafts giveaway here ends next week! Link up a photo (or video!) of the exterior of your home or neighborhood!

What's your weather like? Mine in Calgary, Alberta has taken a turn towards wintry and there is snow everywhere, though not as much as there will be!

Another for the RS Set

In a previous post  I mentioned that I was asked to make a large quantity of cards for the Relief Society. I have made several, not the required amount yet, but due to technical difficulties of an old laptop, have not been able to post all the ones that are my favorites. Since then I ended up having to by a camera and a new laptop. Well, not new exactly, but new to me. I actually purchased a reconditioned used 2 year old laptop. So now I can post again!

But back on topic with these cards, I don't know if I should post several at a time or spread them out a bit by posting them individually. For now I'll continue as I started by posting them individually.

This one is a CAS and as per the previous posting I'm using as much of my scraps as I can.

You might be asking, "What scraps?" On this one I used a white cardstock strip for the ribbon, and with white scraps die cut two Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Accents. Stamped one with a JustRite stamp from a set that I can't remember the name of  or find to show you;). Then at right anglesI placed the stamped one over the other and created a square diamond shape with them; popped it up and added the large pearls. And there you have it.

Really appreciate you stopping by and we love hearing from you. Happy crafting!

   P.S. Be sure to check out and participate in the fun giveaway we have on this blog, here!

Colour Create Challenge 84 - DT Inspirational Submission

I love the colours that Kerry chose for challenge 84 at Colour Create! Beautiful, soft, feminine, with an air of sophistication - Pink, white and gold. For me it was the softer pinks that appealed and I decided to see if I could make a Christmas card using those colours. Looks like I wasn't the only one on the DT that had the idea. Here's my pink, gold, and white design.

To the left is a straight on frontal shot. Hopefully you can see the paper piercing on the pink paper that I stamped and heat embossed white with the music background. I used a white gel pen to connect the holes to make it look like it was sewn. (Need to get a sewing machine)  Continuing with challenge, everyone that enters challenge 84 has a chance to win the prize of a gift voucher worth $15 at Michelle's Scrapbooking & More.  Craft shopping is so much fun! There's a lot to find there. And, there's something else you can enjoy while visiting;  it's a pagefilled with a variety of fantastic tutorials!

Thanks for stoping by and leaving your comment. I would love to see your creative entry your creation for this challenge and will keep a look out for any of our followers. Happy crafting everyone!

P.S. There is a fun giveaway on this blog here!

TOOLS & MATERIALS

Spellbinders: Fleur de Lis Boarderbilities, Create a Flake One Shapeabilities
Provo Craft: "For You " Ornament Tag Die
Liquid Pearls: Petal Pink & Gold
clear jewels
antique gold paper
Stamps: Hero Arts Cling Music Backgfround, (sentiment stamp unknown)
Paper Piercer
White Gel Pen
Ink Blending Tool

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge and Carbon Copied

Hooray, it's my turn to share a challenge with the fabulous Karen Baker of The Bald Dragonfly! It's so fun to see the Carbon Copied posts go up! Just a warning that I am not nearly as deserving of all that praise she gave of me! She's far too sweet!

We decided to use the Teeny Trees stamp set for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge this week.

I think that this is my first tri-fold card so I kept it simple.

The snow and icicles were done using shimmery white cardstock.

I created the window using dies listed below and some clear cardstock. To give it a frosty look, I covered it with Crackle Accents.

Here is the Christmas tree I created inside:

And a look at the tri-fold:

Be sure to check out Karen's inspired gratitude project here!

I am also submitting this for CAS-ual Fridays "Over the Edge" and the Waltzingmouse Christmas card challenge (in the forum) for September, which requires acetate.

Thanks for visiting!

{Supplies}

• Cardstock: Stamper's Select White, Enchanted Evening, shimmer (all Papertrey Ink)
• Stamps: Teeny Trees (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
• Ink: Versamark (Tsukineko), Scattered Straw, Mustard Seed, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Ranger)
• Dies: Alpha Blocks, Sending You frame (Papertrey Ink)
• Other Tools: icicles punch (Martha Stewart), gold embossing powder (Filigree), rhinestones, Crackle Accents (Ranger)

Technical Difficulties & Soaked Boxes

Hi everyone! You might be wondering why there haven't been  the usual number of postings on our blog lately. Dana has been very busy for a while, and so have I. However, I do have more time than Dana does as all my children are grown up and living their own lives now, and Dana still has her young family keeping her very busy.

 

My recent concern is that suddenly my computer will no longer read my camera so that I can get the pics into the computer and posted. It did just fine until Friday when I wanted to post some new cards. It's a good thing it didn't happen for the Colour Create Challenge entry the day before. I've made abolut 20 cards, and can't post them! Not that I want to post them all, just the ones I like best. So if you'll be paitent and hang in there, I  hope to have that problem resolved soon as I do have another challenge to design for and will need to be posted on the 17th!

 

Do  you want to hear something funny? Well I had to go out to my storage shed the other day and as I pulled and dragged the doors open (slightly rusted door groove) i saw that almost everything in there was soaking wet! The shed is leaking! I should have thought about that when my landlord repaired the rotted wood floor. It rotted for a reason, right?

 

I had to pull everthing out with some of the boxes falling appart they were so soaked. One of those boxes was my beautiful one year old white Christmas tree box. So now I have stuff everywhere in my 550 square foot suite and a white tree that I had to put up so tht it could dry out. lol Though I didn't feel like laughing at then time. The tree had actually begun to rust a little. Can't see it though when the tree is put together. A little early to have the tree up, wouldn't you say. I'll have to leave it up until I can find a way to store it again after Christmas.

 

Hope you are all having a great time crafting since Christmas isn't far off! Thanks for stopping by. May your design mojo be overflowing for the next couple of months and may you have the strength to accomplish all your Christmas plans.

 

 

Exciting News & Colour Create Challenge 83

I'm so excited to tell everyone, that along with three others, I've been chosen to join the design team for Colour Create Challenges!

Colour Create Challenge 83

The colours that Julie chose, for this Colour Create Challenge 83, are turqouoise, dark pink and ivory with added option of using glitter. The team has some great inspiratrional creations for you to check out at the Colour Create Challenge blog.

And the prize? A coupon for Bunny Zoe's Crafts! I just love the cute Pickle Penguin stamps you can find there. They also have some great charms and spacers that would great on cards.

I'd love to see some of our blog followers enter their creations and check out what you can find at Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

This is the card that I put together to be included in the DT inspirational creations.

Turquoise, dark pink, ivory and glitter (Stickles in this case) I used to create a card that is mailable. That means no handmade flowers, beautiful big bows, or too many layers, etc. After a long time of making thicker cards, it was a bit of a challenge to come up with something a little thinner. I think I would like to try making a few more cards with this colour combo.

Hope you'll join us at Colour Create Challenges and enter your design. Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting everyone!

TOOLS & MATERIALS

STAMPS: PTI Botanical Silhouettes
INK: Momento Black Tuxedo
STICKLES: Mermaid
PTI Buttons
Cuttlebug Kassie's Brocade embossing folder
SPELLBINDERS: Beaded Ovals & Labels Fourteen

RS Set - Thank You

It's hard to believe that it's actually November today!

I was asked by our Relief Society president to make a bunch of inexpensive cards to have on hand; Thank You, Just A Note, Missing You, Happy Birthday, and Get Well. Since I have a ton of scraps I'm using as much of that up as I can. Sunday evening I made up 9 cards, I particularly like this one and thought I would post it.

Now, once again IRL (in real life), the colours of the gems and card base are much closer in colour. I just love that glossy black paper with the contrast of the contemporary plant-like white imagry. I may post a few more as I put this set together.

Thanks for stoping by today.

TOOLS & MATERIALS