Warm Bermuda Boot

Well, it's Wednesday and I finally made it back into my craft room and finished to card I started for the Merry Monday Challenge this week - to create a Christmas Card using Aqua, Silver and White.

I chose to use Bermuda Bay as my Aqua colour - I love love love Bermuda Bay!

I used the Paper Players sketch from this week too - clean and simple - so the card came together easily.  I still have a difficult time with complete empty untouched space - so I threw down a few rhinestones for fun!

Tomorrow is a half day of teaching so I'm hoping to get a bit more stamping done - if I'm not exhausted again from this dog-gone cough I've still got!

Hope you are healthy and happy in your little corner of the world

Thanks for stopping by - 

Joan

Flower Shop Trio and Christmas Stack

Today's card features one of the flowers from the Flower Shop set - I love all the designs and it's great having the matching punch!  I've used the Dynamic Duos colours - Daffodil Delight and Strawberry Slush.  I added the bit of Strawberry Slush ribbon to help perk things up a bit.  I've noticed I haven't been doing much distressing lately - Hmmm.

This is a pretty clean and simple card that would be easy to do for card classes.

I am holding my Christmas in August Stack on Thursday.  Here are the cards we're going to be doing...

I have some of the new Christmas stuff now - so the October and November stacks will include some more of the products from the Holiday Catalogue.

I'm off to continue getting ready for Thursday.  Hope you have a terrific Tuesday.  Thanks for dropping by...Joan

Merry Snowflakes

Well, with the temperatures outside today - this card is fitting!!! Yikes!  Although I actually think it's too cold to snow!!!  The Merry Monday challenge this week was a TicTacToe challenge - I love those....it's fun to decide which direction to go in...

I went across the top row using the Northern Flurry Embossing Folder and stamping the Snowflake Soiree onto a torn piece of Vellum cardstock.

Hope you are keeping warm in your little corner of the world.

Thanks for dropping by.

Joan

Snow Boarding Birthday

Woo Hoo - I've done another challenge; and one I've missed for quite a while so it feels good to be playing along again with......Friday Mashup

1. Make a project using "Snowflakes".
2. Or Make a project with the colors "Whisper White, Pool Party, Midnight Muse, and Basic Black".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Snowflake Project with the colors Whisper White, Pool Party, Midnight Muse, and Basic Black".

I've also included the card in the SUO Challenges this week for their "True Blue" challenge.

Since I pulled out the retired Extreme Snowboarder, I decided to use the retired snowflake embossing folder too. Fun, fun, fun.

Off to create some more.....thanks for visiting today - Wishing you a FANTASTIC 2013!!!!

Joan

Masking and Scrapping

I feel I kinda cheated on this challenge this week from Freshly Made Sketches.  The sketch is pretty much bang on - except for the masked stamps along the bottom.  The "cheating" comes in because I pretty much cased the base of the card from the Stampin' Success Magazine on page 7.  I added the wee little 5 cent stamp next to the twine and then changed the bottom by adding the masked stamps.

I'm using this card as one of my techniques in September.

Sorry to the FMS ladies!

This is the Day 21 page for the 31 Pages in 31 Days.  Stamping on the cotton ribbon is sooooo easy.

Day 22 of the 31 Days is a double spread.  I had never created the pin-wheels before.  It was fun, and I added a bamboo skewer for the handle as Lyssa had done.  I am loving getting these old pictures scrapped!

I'm off to get more photos printed.  WoooHooo!

Hope your day is going well - Thanks for stopping by.

Joan

Season of Sweets and Beyond

This week's challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments is "Anything But a Card"...and while my last project is a card, the rest of the projects are not.  My goal today was to use some of the new products from the Holiday Catalogue.  I was reminded at Convention, by Bonnie Thurber, to show ideas to do with various products outside of what they are "suppose" to be used for.

All of my projects are based on the little envelopes included in the Season of Sweets Designer Kit.  For the project shown above, I used the envelope as a little frame, tucking Elliot's picture inside and decorating the outside.  

To ensure the "frame" stays standing, I added an "anchor" using the Modern Label punch.

Next, I created a scrapbook page using the envelope as a frame again, but adhering it to the page.  (That's Elliot's father, Grant, at his second Christmas.)  I stamped snowflakes from Snowflake Soiree, and used the Snow Flurry  Big Shot die to create the snowflakes with Very Vanilla Cardstock and the Champagne Glimmer Paper.

Finally, I used the envelope as the base of a card.  I covered the inside with card stock and created a belly band to keep it shut using a strip of the die cut elements from the Design Kit; including the little holly leaves and berries.  The berries are covered with Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details to add a bit of bling.

I'm on a roll here - so I'm off to play some more.  Thanks for stopping to visit.
Joan