Happy Hellos

I'm sneaking this one in under the wire....Stacey always has great inspiration with her Jewelry Color Inspiration challenge, but this is the last one! I just had to play, even if it meant staying up...and finding suitable colors.

Sitting in the basement the only part of the jewelry I could remember was the disc like shells, once used as currency. I'm sure I read a post where someone made a card with circle punches like this once, but I have no clue who! If it was you, let me know! I also decided to incorporate the serendipity technique, which I saw both Susan and Steph do this week for the Cuttlebug Spot Challenge. I thought I'd never get all those circles glued, but it was worth it when I ran it through the Big Shot with the lots of dots embossing folder.

I'm so sad to say goodbye to the Jewelry Color Inspiration challenges, because that was one of the first challenges I ever tried! Have no fear though, for Stacey promises to bring more inspiration with her new challenge.

I'll see you for curtain call!

Smiles,

Paper: Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel, not quite Not Quite Navy and not quite Ruby Red
Ink: Midnight Blue Stazon
Stamps (SU): Lots of Thoughts
Other: Circle punches, pop dots, lots of dots embossing folder

Last minute JCI

I wasn't planning on playing along with Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration this week because I had none of the colors...well just white. But since a random participant could win Rich Razzleberry I figured I'd give it a shot somehow. Turns out I had a couple pieces of cardstock that could pass for Razzleberry and some close to the other colors as well. Ink on the other hand...I went with black.

I picked up these great medallion stamps from the $1 clear stamp section at AC Moore. There are three other designs, just under an inch square each. I paired it with silver cord and brads since that's the only kind of jewelry I tend to wear.

Not bad for not having any colors but white, huh? For now, it's back to watching some TV, and making announcements for my nephew, who still hasn't arrived. Since my SIL is overdue my mom and I went to hang out with her and I got to play with the future big brother (and my favorite little boy) yesterday at the lake.

It was a good day for splashing in the water!!!

Smiles,

Jewelry Color Inspiration

After quite the day at school (children who wouldn't listen, whiney children, a crying child at dismissal, sand all over the floor, stolen Pokemon cards--Pokemon cards period!--and a screaming, crying child that I dragged to the bus with the asst. principal) I needed to make a card! So I sat down with Stacey's colors for this week's Jewelry Color Inspiration and Our Creative Corner sketch for this week.

There wasn't much stamping on this card. I drew the stems for the flowers, which were stickers! Feeling much better now, though I'm jealous of all you on summer vacation already! 13 days to go....but who's counting?

Smiles,

Paper: Garden Green DSP, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, pink (as close to pretty in pink as I could)

Ink: Certainly Celery

Stamps: Refuge and Strength (SU)

Other: Sandylion stickers, pink ribbon (unknown)

It's Friday!!!

One last card before I head to school and then off to NY. I love Stacey's jewelry color inspiration and managed to find something teal to work on this one.

I paired it up with this week's Sweet n' Sassy sketch (love the size) and here's my card:

My camera died (well the batteries) after I took this picture so I couldn't get a better one. How will I take pictures of the new Yankee Stadium??? Perhaps DH will be running an errand before we leave today.....

Smiles,

Celebration!

I've got another card to share tonight, that I made for a challenge at Stampin' Out Alzheimers. Linda asked me if I make a card everyday, and when I sleep. This week I'm working on making a card every night but I know I won't keep up with that! I am giving myself a bit of a time limit in creating so I can spend time with DH. There are just so many great challenges to work on and like Cinderella at the ball it will end at midnight on May 31st...so I'm working hard to do as many as I can. It's all for a great cause and a whole lot of fun!



Anyway, the sketch is from Taylored Expressions and the colors are this week's Jewelry Color Inspiration from Stacey: Real Red, Whisper White and Brilliant Blue. Here's my card:

I can't wait until the rain stops! My picture will look much better outside in the daylight....of course I'd need to finish my card the night before I want to post it!

It would've made a wonderful masculine birthday card if I hadn't put the bow on it. But all the ribbon I used was found ribbon and the bow was already tied. So it nicely hid where my other ribbon began and ended! Now I'm off to watch a bit of the basketball game and to bed by 10...I do make sure I get almost 8 hours of sleep each night. I can't survive otherwise, and I'm jealous of those who can!

Smiles,


Paper: Whisper White, Real Red, Brilliant Blue
Ink: Black Stazon, Real Red
Stamps (SU): Tag Time, On Your Birthday
Other: 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, blue Making Memory Brads, red ribbon, blender pens, blue crayola marker

106 days of birthday fun!

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”

~Winnie the Pooh

My great-great-aunt Greta (Marguerite) will be 106 this August. When she came upon 100 (living in her own room at an assisted living home) we thought it would be fun to celebrate the 100 days leading up to her 100th birthday. And she loved it so much we've done it each day since. "We" are led by my father who organizes everything through e-mail to her hundreds of neices and nephews scattered up and down the east coast and across the country. The Woodbury women always outlive the men, but she may have lived the longest by never having gotten married or having children!!! But she says the children, grandchildren and so on, of her brothers and sisters (8 or 9????) are like her kids. So here is my first card to her to celebrate the 8th day of celebrations:

I used the layout for this Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge, and the colors are from Stacey's fabulous Jewelry Color Inspiration Challenge. Boy was it a challenge for me! A few weeks ago I was seeing these cute littel crocheted flowers everywhere, and I wanted some. Too bad I could only find them to win, or for sale. So I sat down with some yarn from my stash and a small crochet hook and gave it a shot without a pattern. I'm not loving all the ones I came up with but wanted to use one on a card anyway. I'll probably give it a try again and see how they turn out with a bit of tweeking. If you do have a pattern to share, please do!

My card is larger than I normally do (just under 5 x 6 1/2) because at 105+ Aunt Greta's eyesight isn't the best (she's in a nursing home now) and I write large so she can read it without waiting for someone to come by and read the mail to her. I've been writing to her for almost ten years now, since I was a freshman in college and discovered there's nothing worse than an empty mailbox! Since them I've tried to write a weekly or biweekly letter and it's a good outlet to send off many of the cards I've made. So here's to birthday celebrations and family...enjoy!


Smiles,

Paper: Baja Breeze, Creamy Caramel, Whisper White, Chcolate Chip, Washington Apple DSP
Ink: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip
Stamps(SU!): Love you Much (heart), Friendship Blooms (bg flourishes)
Other: crocheted flower, white ribbon, Blackbird Brads

Sweet Stuff

The colors that Stacey chose for this week's Jewelry Color Inspiration challenge sent me in a Willy Wonka direction. Combine that with Mojo Monday's sketch and I've got a very sweet card:


I love how each piece turned out when double (and triple!) mounted. Plus, being wild and wacky they just couldn't sit straight either. This will be a nice card to stick away for whenever and I can add a birthday, thinking of you or just because sentiment. Hope your weekend is going well...don't forget to check out Sketch it Saturday over at Unscripted Sketches.

Smiles,


Paper: So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Lavendar Lace
Ink: So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Black Stazon
Stamps: Very Punny (SU!)
Other: Cuttlebug folder spots and dots, circle punch, scallop border punch (SU)

Mom is...

This is my card for Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration #35. As usual I forgot to play along until the last minute, but got it in under the wire. I didn't have Cameo Coral but found this ribbon that seemed close. The other colors were Ballet Blue, Kiwi Kiss and Very Vanilla.

I don't have any Mother's Day stamps but picked up a $1 pack of clear stamps that included 'Mom is..." and ran with that. I inked up bits and pieces of sentiments from throughout my collection in Ballet Blue and tried to say what Mom is. Love how it turned out...if you want to know where any of those sentiments came from just ask--it was late and I wasn't in an organized state of stamping!
Here's the inside:

Hope all you moms out there have a WONDERFUL Mother's Day!

Smiles,

Thanks!

After mostly cleaning up my rearranged stamp area I set out to work on Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration challenge for this week. I always want to but somehow don't get to it. This week I combined her colors with the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday sketch challenge.

I also finally took the advice of Steph and my mom to take my pictures outside. I love the result, though the Certainly Celery clashes with my TicTac green house! Editted to add: The four square panels were embossed with a fun square stitched embossing Cuttlebug folder.

After dinner it's back down to work on some other sketches. Have you played along with this week's Unscripted Sketch yet? Check it out!

Smiles,


Paper: Certainly Celery, Whispher White, Perfect Plum
Ink: Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum
Stamps (SU!): Tag Time, Thank You Kindly
Other: ribbon, Making memories hardware, Cuttlebug embossing folder

Bee-utiful and Fabulous!

Last night I went to town in the basement with some stamps and many color challenges. I wanted to make a card or two to send for Jen's fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association. She's also giving away sweet blog candy so go check it out. Cards for a cause, I love it! I'll be sending the two below along with a few others.

This first card is for Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration Challenge 30. I look forward to these every Sunday, but never seem to have the colors or anything close. (I'm not good at straying off the beaten path.) This week wasn't too different and I was about to give up on finding anything near Bravo Burgundy....then I found a piece of ribbon. Actually a ribbon about two feet long, and on the side adhered to the paper is the name of a candy company near my old school. I don't remember the candy, but I could've spied the ribbon and asked politely if it was going to be thrown away! To color the flower I used a Crayola marker that seemed close....they make those 50 packs for a reason I guess. Add Basic Grey DP, Yoyo Yellow that I'm sure I've never used and some Making Memory brads and it came together fairly easily!

Dawn McVey has started an aweseome Raspberry Suite color challenge. You can tell just by the few hundred people participating that she's got quite the following. I played last week and this week I loved the colors so I thought I'd give it a go again. I love the fact that I found the celery scrap and ribbon sitting out on my table--cleaning up and creating all in one. I stamped the F (hero arts) twice--once on turquoise before embossing and once on white. I cut the turquois out inside the stamped line so it made the F appear to be tri colored. Despite cleaning, my favorite part of this is the beginning of the message "It's your day. Make it...." All those reward cards in my purse seem to remember my birthday and when April rolls around I get cards with coupons. This one said to Make my day count, and was chocolate colored writing! So I cut it up and now my raspberry suite is also recycled.

Boy that was a long one, hope you stuck with me! Don't forget to stay tuned to find out about the NEW sketch challenge design team I'm a part of. Check out the other lucky ladies on my side bar while you're at it!

Smiles,

Jewelry, Mojo and a warm welcome

Tonight my husband was helping his mom carry upstairs/setup a new TV, so I had some extra stamping time. After creating my fun, but time consuming, Jazzy Inspiration card I wanted to make a clean and simple card like I hear so much about. I'm no good at those I discovered. But it only took me about 25 minutes so that's something to smile about!

I'm usually a stickler about following sketches EXACTLY but this Mojo Monday sketch kept getting lost under a pile of scraps and I'm enjoying the changes made. I wouldnt' normally combine these colors, but these came from Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration. My favorite nephew will be getting a little brother this summer, so maybe this card will welcome him to the world. I guess I'll need to have two favorite nephews at that point too!

Thanks for stopping by. If you're in the mood for something sweet, check out Jenny's blog candy!

Smiles,


Paper: Whispher White, Real Red, Bashful Blue, Barely Banana, Delicate Dots DSP
Ink: Real Red, Bashful Blue
Stamps: Everything Baby (SU!)
Other: Making Memories star brads, ribbon, scallop edge punch (SU!)

Be Who You Are

This morning after making my Mojo Monday card, I found Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration challenge.

Isn't the necklace adorable? Made from a Scrabble tile I believe. I always love the jewelry she picks out, but I never have the colors, or anything close. I thought the same thing today, but discovered I had all but Kiwi Kiss. So I dug out a Making Memories rub on that was close and the polka dot ribbon has been lying around waiting for a good home. I didn't have ink for any of the colors so I just worked with my Sizzix and rub-ons.

This card will go to my husband's cousin in college. She's an education major, like I was, and I remember the winter of junior year being especially difficult. Everyone in my family probably remembers that too....so just a pick-me-up for Kaitlin incase college life isn't all fun and parties!