Mojo Monday #134 - Sympathy

Good afternoon from my craft room! I wasn't going to make another card today as I'm suffering from a nice head cold *UGH!* but I decided to take some Benylin daytime capsules and give it a shot! LOL..I'm glad I did cuz this card turned out pretty good (I think - wink!) I've had this set from Verve for a while now and I've been wanting to ink it up - today's Mojo Monday sketch made that possible!!

Stamps: Forever in Our Hearts - Verve; Paper: Very Vanilla, My Mind's Eye DP; Ink: Sage Shadow Classic Ink, Choc Chip Craft Ink, Close to Cocoa Classic Ink (sponging); Accessories: sponge dauber, choc taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, clear embossing powder, scallop trim punch

I don't think I'll be back again tonight. DH is on his way home (yay!) so I think I will have a hot bath, a hot rum toddy, and crawl into bed early. I will be back sometime tomorrow with another installment.

Don't forget to hop on over to Picture Perfect Creations Crafty Challenges blog and give this week's color combo a try....it's a gooder!! *wink* Happy crafting!!

3-in-1 Valentine's!!

Good morning from a snowy central Alberta. It's lightly snowing and sure looks pretty outside! Yep, I love the snow :o) I know..I know...C-R-A-Z-Y right?! *insert big grin here*

I worked on a couple more Valentine's Day cards last night using 3 challenges. The first was from Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog where their challenge this week is to use scallops anywhere on your card. The 2nd challenge in my card comes from the Creative Card Crew blog where their challenge this week is...yep, you guessed it: "Valentine's!" Yay me!! LOL....and the 3rd component of my card came from Mojo Monday's challenge sketch:
....and here is the card I created using all 3 challenges listed above:

Recipe:

Stamps: Love You Much
Paper: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweet Always DP (retired)
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Scallop edge punch, scallop circle punch, nestabilities scallop circles, brads, chocolate chip ribbon, dimensionals, pretty in pink marker, gems

Shhhhh...can you hear that??!??

.......it's Q-U-I-E-T here! NO KIDS!! Now, don't get me wrong, I totally *heart* my kids :o) but a day off of school and the whole house to MYSELF is such a treat these days hahaha...both kids are at friends houses for the day and so I will do some laundry up and create - either in my craft room or I'll work on some afghan projects I need to complete...or BOTH! HA!

Scrapmaster's Paradise has a very "masculine" color challenge this week so I decided to make a birthday card for a good friend of ours. I had to find a sketch to go along with it, so I hopped on over to Friday Sketchers.



This is the sketch challenge from Friday Sketchers Challenge Blog. I knew I wanted to use Lovely as A Tree as my main image (my good 'ol manly standby stamp set lol)....

...and this is what I came up with.....hope you like it. I'm not too sure about the pearls on there, but I guess they are on there now :) Hope he enjoys them too HA HA HAHA...:o)


Recipe:

Stamps: Lovely as A Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Basic Grey, Naturals Ivory
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa
Accessories: Sizzix embossing plate, sizzix dots embossing folder, grey satin ribbon, paper piercer, dimensionals, oval punches, scallop oval punch, scallop edge punch, spiral note punch, dimensions, adhesive pearls

My first pop-up birthday card!!!

Well, I did it!! I made one of these ADORABLE pop-up birthday cake cards...wheeee! They are a lot of fun to do. We will be making these this weekend at my stamp club. What do you think??

Stamps: On Your Birthday
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Paper: Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Sweet Always DP
Accessories: Pop-up Birthday cake die, scallop border punch, sticky strip, brown ribbon, brown half-back pearls

Parisian MOJO75

I finished Julee's Mojo Monday Challenge from yesterday...if you get a chance to play along, that would be great! CLICK HERE to head on over to Julee's blog and play with us!
Here is my card that I created using her sketch....I hope you enjoy it!


Recipe:
Stamps: Pocket Sillouettes
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Whisper White and Parisian Breeze DP
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: dauber, nesties, scallop edge punch, choc brads, ticket corner punch, dimensionals, felt flowers

CASE'ing Stampin' Up!

Good afternoon PEEPS! It's been a very tranquil morning here at my house...snow is lightly falling, candles are lit, coffee is tasting yummy and I've been going through my catty finding projects that I can CASE or alter. My first one is from page 46 - I changed the set from Font of You to Pocket Sillouettes and added a bit of ribbon, sponging and of course, some pearls....thanks for looking!!
Recipe:
Stamps: Pocket Sillouettes
Paper: Kraft, Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Sage and Chocolate markers, scallop border punch, vanilla ribbon, sponge dauber and chocolate half-back pearls