Sunday Bliss

Happy Sunday afternoon everyone!  I've been busy creating some really cute Halloween projects to share with you this week.  I'm starting it off with an adorable card (in my humble opinion) that I created to play along with sketch challenge and the Pretty Palette challenge at My Time Made Easy.  I have had a super great time playing along this entire month with their challenges.  And this is also the 4th installment to my DT application.

My sister, Theresa, gave me the Fall set that CC Designs released probably 2 years ago or so.  I dusted it off (literally) and had an inky fun time.

Now, it's definitely not as symetrical as the sketch, I decided to go a little quirky since it's a Halloween card.  And the color combo for Pretty Palette is black, orange, purple and green (a popular color combo this week - but hey, it's a week before Halloween).

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Black
Paper:  Web (DCWV), Halloween (Heidi Grace)
Stamps/Ink:  Fall set (CC Designs), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics:  BV00, BV02, C8, C10, E00, E02, E29, E33, R11, W-0, W-2, W-3, YG06
Tools:  Circle Cutter (CM)
Embellishments:  buttons, Honeydew Baker's Twine (SNSS)

I hope you're enjoying your Sunday and I thank you for taking a part of your day and sharing it with me.

Happy Birthday...

.... to the Paper Prettiest Girl of all!!

Today we are celebrating Heather's birthday, owner of Paper Pretties and of course, we doing it with a blog hop.  The card I created features Max Splasher, but instead of this little guy jumping into pool - he's jumping into a giant cupcake.  Come on... who wouldn't love to just jump right in to a sugary, ooey - gooey, cupcake on their birthday?

The cupcake image is an image from Soft Pencil that worked so well for this fun birthday card.  I kept the colors soft with just a couple of bold touches.

Supplies:
Image: Max Splasher (Paper Pretties), Ratiny's cupcake (Soft Pencil)

Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Certainly Celery
Paper:  Springtime (Echo Park)
Copics: B23, BV00, C8, E29, E34, G02, R02, R11, RV000, RV10, Y11, Y15
Tools:  Dot border punch, label punch, 1" circle punch, word window punch
Embellishment:  Baker's Twine - Denim (SNSS), button, Sugar glitter (Martha Stewart)

Thanks for stopping by today, your next stop on this birthday blog hop trail is Nancy's blog.

Delightful Challenges

Hi Everyone!  I hope you're week is going well.  It's Thursday and you know that means another fun challenge at Delightful Challenges.  This week's challenge is....

HALLOWEEN

Of course, there are lots of choices in the Digital Delights store to use to play along with this challenge, although, not required but since the digis are so reasonably priced, why not treat yourself to an image or two and play along.

Here's my card....

I created a window card featuring Sasha the Witch (little cutie), Spooktacular digi paper and Halloween 2 Sentiments.

This inside is Sasha in all her adorable-ness....  Have any of you read Wicked (or seen the play)?  Well, this is how I sort of imagine Elphaba as a little girl.

Supplies:
Images: Sasha the Witch, Halloween Sentiments 2

Paper: Spooktacular Digi Paper
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Black (Recollections), Gable Green
Copics: BV00, BV02, BV04, C8, C10, E30, E34, E37, E53, R11, YG03, YG06, YG17
Tools: Circle & Oval cutters (CM), Scallop Circle Nesties (Spellbinders), Flower punch (SU!), Silver
Metallic marker (Elementz), white gel pen
Embellishments: purple satin ribbon (Offray)

I do hope you play along - we'd love to see your Halloween ideas.

Operation Write Home Fundraiser

Hello everyone!  I have been given a great opportunity to share with you about a fundraiser that I hope you will all help with.  Everyone in the cardmaking world knows about Operation Write Home, an organization dedicated to helping our troops stay in touch with their families.

* Operation Write Home is a not-for-profit organization that collects and sends handmade greeting cards to American soldiers for their use in keeping touch with their families back home. They need to raise $13,000 to cover holiday shipping costs.

* Among other fundraisers going on at the same time, K 'n K Designs will be selling 7 new digi sets designed exclusively for this cause. These include 4 sets by Katlyn and 3 sets by Deedee. Each "set" includes an image and some greetings, in both Jpeg an PNG file formats, all in a zip file.

* These sets are available for just $2 each, or in various value bundles (e.g. get them all for just $10!), with all proceeds (minus Paypal fees) donated to Operation Write Home.

* The sets can be purchased at the K 'n K blog (NOT their store) from October 17th thru noon November 1st.  All purchases will be emailed out within 24 hours of payment clearance.

* Those who don't craft but would still like to aid the cause can donate directly to OWH. Info on how to do that is at this page: http://operationwritehome.org/donate.html

So here's the card I created to show off one of the adorable sets created by Deedee.

I created this card with the help of some really great challenges, too.  The sketch is from Mojo Monday, the color combo (white, black & bright blue) from My Time Made Easy Pretty Palette and added score lines from The Pink Elephant.  They didn't photograph well, though and the space I created for the ribbon ended up not being quite wide enough for the ribbon.  But I love the results of my card anyway, I think it turned out fun!

Supplies:
Image: Thoughtful Teddies

Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Black, Bright Blue
Paper: Echo Park
Copics: BG01, BG05, E30, E34, R02, R11
Ink: London Fog (Memento)
Tools: Cuttlebug, Rectangle Straight Edge Nesties, Rectangle Scallops Nesties, Scallop Circle Nesties, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, white gel pen
Embellishments: twill ribbon (Offray)

Please head on over to Kaitlyn's blog and help with this effort.  Your support would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #116

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday and the weather is starting to cool down a bit... I am happy!  As we continue our Think Pink challenges this month and feature another fun sketch I just want to give you a gentle reminder that it's really important to take good care of yourself.  Have your mammogram done.

Now here's my card, this is featuring a freebie available on Print Candee's website.  Print Candee is sponsoring us this week, along with DRS Designs.

Theresa created a great sketch for us and make sure you check out what the DT created.  One word... AWESOME!

Supplies:
Image: Fair Fairy (Print Candee)

Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Pink Pirouette, Always Artichoke
Paper: Sugared collection (Basic Grey)
Copics: B000, EOO, E02, E34, E37, RV000, RV02, RV10
Stamps/Ink: Wish (TAC), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Embellishments: Pearls (Recollections), Iridescent Ice embossing powder

Thank you visiting me and I hope to see you over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Paper Pretties Monday

Good Morning!  I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I know I did.  I had such a great weekend, so productive... the apartment is super clean, the laundry was done by 9am yesterday morning  and then Sunday was spent hanging out with my stamps, my kids and my friend.  Yep - great weekend!

There's a fun, new challenge over at Paper Pretties.  This week's challenge is...

HALLOWEEN

Of course, that's where most minds are now.  Creating some super cute Halloween greetings and goodies to share with family, friends and classmates.  So I created this adorable card that features another sweet digi by Artish.  This is Mumford....

My card also features some really great, adorably cute Halloween paper by Print Candee.  They are one of the fabulous sponsors we'll be seeing this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  The layout is from a My Time Made Easy.  My 3rd installment to my DT application.

Supplies:
Image: Mumfred
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Pumpkin Pie, Black
Paper: Halloween Horros digi paper (Print Candee)
Copics: B97, E30, R27, YR16
Tools: Cuttlebug, Distressed Stripes embossing folder, Label punch, 1" circle punch, small oval punch, corner rounder
Embellishments: purple satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you'll swing by and play along with us this week.  Thank you so much for stopping by.  Happy Monday!!

Delightful Challenges

Hi everyone!  I hope you're all doing well.  I am so happy that we're on the downhill side of this week.  We've had new trainees sitting with us listening to calls to prepare themselves to start taking calls.  It's a bit exhausting.  I laugh because it was a year ago that I was in their position - now I'm considered old news at work.

So it's October and with this season, thoughts are turned to cooler days, blazing colors of golds, reds and browns.  Of course, I don't see or feel any of that here in Florida.  I want Autumn weather!  But thank goodness for the challenge over at Delightful Challenges.  We're playing with...

FALL COLORS

And here's my card....

The image featured on my card is the sweet little dog found in Fall Kids digi stamp set.  The digi paper featured is from the Simply Fall collection.  I created the flowers using a really old flower punch from Stampin' Up! - yay me, I'm actually dusting stuff off and using it!

Supplies:
Image: Fall Kids

Paper: Simply Fall digi papers
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Creamy Caramel, Summer Sun, Chocolate Chip, Garden Green
Copics: E30, E34, E37, E53, G99, R11, Y17, YR16, YR23
Ink: Potter's Clay (Memento), Summer Sun (SU!)
Tools: Circle Cutter (CM), Flower Punch (SU), 5/16" circle punch

I do hope you join us this week - we love seeing your work!  Thank you so much for stopping by and saying hello!