Yesterday's Sketch

Here are two cards using yesterday's Sketch Challenge (shown in the thumbnail)

For the snow card I used the Night of Navy Craft ink sealed with clear embossing powder. For short spaces it's easy to use the ink pad with the rollers!!! I used a small piece from the Ski Slope Designer paper and dabbed around the edges of the snowflakes with the Baya Breeze. (Seems an odd name for a colour to use on a "snow" card!)

The second card uses up the last bits of the Flower Power Card Elements Kit.

I'm hoping to delve into some Christmas decorations this afternoon....if I don't delve into a book instead....LOL. I really can't go from sitting to sitting some more!!!!

Hope you have a great day - Thanks for visiting. JOAN

Sitting in the Leaves

Well, we have certainly moved into a different colour scheme! Today's Colour Challenge was - Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Pixie Pink. It was awfully hard fitting the pink in while my mind was thinking about fall leaves.

I embossed the leaves in gold onto velum cardstock and used the blender pen to colour them in.

This card also uses last weeks Sketch Challenge.

Have a pleasant evening! JOAN

Three More

Here are three more creations from the "left overs" from the Flower Power Card Elements Kit.
I used a Sketch Challenge and a Ways to Use It challenge for this first card. The "Ways to Use It" required that a quote of some sort be used on the card. I also used the Big Shot to punch out the flower - I have a bunch of extras punched that I'll have to use up on the remaining cards.

I cut one of the die-cut stickers in half and snipped out the centre for this Thank You card....just for something different to do. I love
this funky little flower shape.

The Hi card is based on this past Weekend Sketch Challenge from Beate.

I may venture away from these papers this afternoon and try today's colour challenge....or just finish up with the scraps. Who knows! I'm a wee bit weary having gone to physio at 7:30 this morning - but I gained another 6 degrees of flex in my knee so that's good. Hope everyone has a wonderful day. JOAN

Flower Power

Good Monday Morning:
Here are some of the cards I created on Saturday. I took out my "Flower Power Card Elements" Kit that I had purchased a while ago - Dutifully I created the three cards that were designed for the kit. Then I decided to use the rest of the materials to make original creations. However, I decided that for each coloured card base, I would have to limit myself to the adhesive die cuts that were used for the original card.

So, here are the other two cards that I created using the Old Olive base. And....wait for it....I finally completed some challenges with these cards. I haven't done a challenge in soooooooo long!!!!!

The Celebrate card is the Sketch Challenge from October 22. It also incorporates the Ways to Use It Challenge by having only one word on the card. I used
my Big Shot and the Naturally Serif die to get the letters for the word.

The Thank You card is the Sketch Challenge from September 16. I liked how I could split up the different pieces of designer paper to make the various sections.

I'll get into the stamping room this afternoon to finish up some more. I had a pretty good weekend.....had a visit from the girls from work - Including Amy! It was good to sit and chat. My daughter and I went to a purse party yesterday, had a great time and spent too much money. But
my husband did tell us to buy something ( I believe his exact words to Allison were "make sure Mom buys a purse") and to have fun. So - we did!

I hope you are all having a wonderful beginning to the final week of October. Happy Stampin' JOAN

Final Two

Here are the last two projects from Regionals....

It was funny to see three tables full of Big Shots lined up for people to use in order to make this little basket. Talk about your mass production!

The portion of the scrapbook page which was ACTUALLY from Regionals is the smaller Pacific Point section with the "Snow" word. Since I'm in the process of making scrapbooks for the kids I decided I might as well turn that small page into a 12x12 right away; so I dug out some pictures of Grant in snow from 1992. I then used the Big Shot to punch out snowflakes. I'm actually happy with the way it came together. Grant's snowsuit was red and blue so the red strip they included
worked out.


Tomorrow I will hopefully get to something new and original...I have physio though and was wiped out by it yesterday, so we'll see.

Thanks for stopping by - hope you're not getting blown away by the wind!!!!
JOAN

More From Regionals

Here are three more projects from Regionals this past weekend. (I only have two more to complete)

The little note card set was cute....the "folder" is very simple and the envelopes fit on one side and the notes on the other. I liked adding the little piece of designer paper to the inside flap of the envelopes - kicks them up a knotch!

The ribbon flower was simple! We used the star from the Scandinavian Season set - stamped onto the back of the paper; used a hole punch at the central and outer points of the star and then used
the ribbon to sew up and down. I added an extra layer since I was doing mine at home. The original card had only the designer paper as the front of the card. They also used a different sentiment.

Last for the day is a little gift packet. Simply folded and it's supposed to be closed with dimensionals. Because I'm not using it yet I added a bit of ribbon to a tiny clip. I liked how we used the versa mark with the roller along the bottom of the package and then coloured in sections with the versa mark pen. Again, the star was stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with the aquapainter.

I now have my cards for the Christmas Card Camp posted on our website. Once I get the last two Regional projects finished I can move on to other things.

Hope you're having a great day - Thank you for all the
healing wishes. I'm coming along - getting frustrated at times because I can't move simply, but I'll get stronger!!!
JOAN

One From Regionals

Here is one of the cards that we completed at Regionals this past weekend. It uses watercolour paper using the ink pad and the aqua painter to colour it.

It was fun at Regionals and to see Shelli and some of the people from head office in our little part of the world. A bit uncomfortable sitting for me at times, but we had a good time.

There will be more to come as they get completed. Thanks for dropping by.
JOAN

My Own Limited Supply Challenge.....

Well, I've finally done some stamping, but there's a story here.....The night I had my knee replacement surgery Amy was doing our monthly workshop by herself. I'd cut everything ready for her for the two cards I'd designed. When she came to visit once I got home she dutifully dropped of my box with the left over supplies (yeah, I always cut extra!) And of course no one in the house has taken it to my basement stamping room yet....so today I thought I could handle sitting at the diningroom table putting together the extras of one of the designs.
Well....if you've been visiting the blog you can scroll down and see the original card. There was no way I wanted to put together so many extras of that design using the word window punch.
So, I decided to give myself my own personal limited supply challenge. The paper was already cut, I had two inks available, three punches and some dimensionals. I'd already stamped the card base and the sentiment before deciding to change the layout a bit. I was lucky that I didn't run out of adhesive!!!! I can't just run downstairs to grab stuff on a whim right now.



























So, that set of cards is done. I now have the challenge of using up the extra pieces of the second design. I won't be doing that tomorrow though because I'm going to the Edmonton Regionals! Can't wait!!!!!!

Can't promise I'll be here everyday - but I'll post when I can. Thanks for dropping by!
JOAN

Last - for a while

I'm not sure that I will have a chance to add another post before Friday - At which point I'm heading to the hospital for my knee replacement and probably won't be back in front of my computer for a while.....or at the stamping table for that matter I guess. I'll have to rig up something to prop my leg up onto under the table. LOL

Anyway - I'm heading to a team meeting tonight where we're swapping cards made with the sets from convention AND a card using the sketch from the card shown on page 91 in the catalogue. We're wanting to show how the ideas in our catalogue can be used with any stamp set....so the "So Kind" creation is my case. I used the priceless stamp set and the new Ski Slope Designer Paper.

The second is a creation I'm not totally thrilled with. I had to use the Ronald MacDonald House Set - "Say it with Scallops. I do like the set, but just had a hard time coming
up with an idea for this card. I guess it would have been easier if I had the stamp set that matched the "hi".

We are back into "summer" mode here in central Alberta and I for one am loving it. Hope all of you are having a fantastic day - I'll try not to stay away too long.

JOAN

Windows for You

Good Morning:
Here is another card that we'll be doing for our October Technique workshop. I've made a card before using the window punch this way (which I cased from Stephanie at Inkgenious Inkling, so this is a case of a case - LOL)
This time instead of using pieces from my scrap box I featured only the Urban Garden paper. With the smaller "feature" there's enough variety to provide interest.

I also had to share this photo I took of my Allison. They played last night and won. I just love how her toes are pointed - she danced for 11
years - once a dancer, always a dancer. (Which is why I can be seen doing pirouettes in the hallways at school - well - when my knee was better.....so by the next year I'll be dancin' again too.) I took this shot during their warm up drills.

I hope everyone has a fine fall day. I've got choir tonight but I'm hoping to fit a card in after school. Thanks for stopping by - JOAN

Magnetic Evening

We had a fantastic time Tuesday night creating these magnet boards. Each person had pre-ordered a package of Designer Series Paper. Our Edmonton team had some 12x12 metal boards made to be mounted on the wall. It's amazing how many different designs were created.

The first is created by Kelsey.....sorry you can't see the designer paper under the glass bead magnets. I love how she cut out around the silhouette flowers and created a unique angle with the blue paper.





My daughter, Allison, created a board to match her bedroom - and to match her love of volleyball....The "memories" is magnetic too so it can be moved around as necessary when she adds pictures of her team mates.













I love this one created by Barb with the Urban Garden. The flowers, glass beads and scallops are all magnets.














Amy's sister-in-law, Camille, created this bright fun board. I love the fruit magnets, and the "family". She also spent a lot of time colouring each line of the "Many Happy Returns" stamp.













Diane began the idea of cutting out around the silhouettes. I love how she accented each one with a punch and brad.









Linda found this fantastic piece in her package which included a lot of designs on one sheet. She then created a number of awesome little arrow magnets!








Amy's mom, Lin, created this bright and beautiful board. I absolutely love the magnetic tags she created.

Everyone certainly had their mojo on this night. And, everyone decided that they wanted to order everyone else's paper!!!!! Too funny.

Hope all of you have your mojo on - Thanks for visiting. JOAN

Fall Leaves

Here is one of the cards I created for our October Technique workshop. Amy, bless her heart, is going to have to demo all the cards because I'll have just had my surgery that day.
The base of this card is Baja Blue - some of the Autumn Vine Designer paper has Baja Blue, Rust, Mustard and Chocolate chip. I didn't end up with the blue anywhere else but it still works. I worked a bit on the leaf piece before it "came together" The gold embossed leaves are coloured in with marker on the bottom piece of whisper white and then again on the top velum layer.

Tonight we're doing our magnet board workshop. I'm also meeting parents from my second school at a corn roast outside. Should be a good time at both events.

Thanks for dropping by - JOAN

Fall Silhouette

Howdy Friends - It's been forever....sorry.

I found out shortly after school started that my surgery for my knee replacement would not be in December - it's set for October 3!!! I'm happy and scared, and now doing all the little things that need to be done before I go in. Yesterday, I had my son help me dig out all the Christmas decorations to have easy access to once Advent arrives. I literally mean digging them out too - from underneath the stairs. My daughter says she'll do the decorating when the time comes.

This coming week we have a swap amongst our Edmonton Stampin'Up! team for those who were at convention. We're swapping cards using stamp sets we received in Salt Lake City. That way we have a variety of examples of sketches for each set. I cased my own card for this one. Originally it was monchromatic -now I've created a silhouette. I almost wish I could have a goose flying over that sun-set type background!

I hope everyone is well - thanks for stopping by. - JOAN

Orange Coffee

This challenge is from last week's Limited Supply Challenge. The limitations were any shades of orange and coffee. Well, I used Tangerine Tango and the new Haiku paper.
It feels as though it took me a week to get this card made. I had one little cup completely finished and when I got back to my desk do you think I could find it - nope. I think I made 6 cups in the process of finishing this card....I did not however drink that much coffee. (Although I am capable!!!!!)

Thanks for visiting - JOAN

Young Artist

Since I don't seem to be finding any time to sit down and get some cards made during this start up of the school year - I'm posting a couple of 6x6 scrapbook pages I made quite a while ago.

Allison was always doing something artsy and that girl could make just about anything out of paper at a very early age. I have her pictured here at various ages, and using various mediums. I was so excited that she came to our workshop this past week - she used to stamp with Amy and I every week until she decided that what she was making wasn't good enough - silly girl. But a friend of hers is excited about stamping and made her come along to stamp. Yipee & Thanks Kelsey! (She's 17 now)
At convention this summer we got some FANTASTIC instruction on taking a 6x6 page -
done up at a workshop - and then showing people how they can use that page as the basis of either a 8-1/2 x 11 or a 12x12 page. I will be turning these two into 12x12 eventually.

I will get back into the routine of stamping each day - we had "Meet the Teacher" at one of my schools tonight. It was fun seeing the former students and meeting new parents....but I didn't get home until after 7:30 - so at that point I want to hunker down and read - but I thought I'd better get something posted.

Thanks for stopping by - Hope everyone is well....JOAN

Green Leaves

I'm late completing last weeks' Color Throwdown #8 ...maybe I'll use their new one today and be "caught up". Last week's colours were Certainly Celery, Old Olive and Cameo Coral. I ALMOST left this a monochromatic card because I had the two pieces and couldn't decide how to incorporate the coral. It's not flashy, but it's there.

I got the idea for the front frame from Julie over at Paper Pleasing Ideas on September 2. She has some fantastic ideas - this is using the new scallop punch on a 2-3/4" square piece of paper. She has fantastic pictoral directions on her blog.

I've been lucky so far this week - Tuesday and Wednesday I only taught half days at the two schools I'm at. Today - I go whole hog flying from one to the other and teacher all day. I may be tired by the end of the day - so I'm glad my husband hasn't started choir yet. I'm having a blast though -

I hope you have a fantastic day and thanks for dropping by. JOAN

Loving the Baja Breeze Paper!

These pieces of designer paper (Urban Garden) were still sitting on my stamping table from a card I made the other day - since they blended so well together I decided to use them for today's sketch challenge and yesterday's monochromatic colour challenge.

Ya gotta love the designer paper because it allows you to put a piece together quickly and easily.

Hope everyone is having a great day - my life is a song right now and I'm loving it!!!! JOAN

It Must Be Wrong...

It must be wrong, on so many levels, to give a beer to a sock monkey. But as I was looking through the catalogue trying to decide what set to co-ordinate with "Cheers to You"...this little guy, with that happy little grin, jumped out and said..."pick me!!!!". So I did.

I'm not sure that this is totally monochromatic, as I think of it, but that was the colour challenge for today.

My first day of school went well - I love teaching music because I can be my immature silly self most of the time. It was good to see the kids again, and I didn't forget many names at all. Tomorrow....I will begin to tackle the approximately 150 more names at the second school.

Cheers to you - thanks for visiting. JOAN

Who Knew...

Even though I did a number of things this summer to prepare for my music classes this fall - I still have been totally absorbed in preparation - thus the lack of stamping and postings.

PLUS - the fact that someone/thing hacked into/stole my hotmail e-mail has had me dealing with that. If you are a blogger who ended up with an e-mail saying I'm in Malaysia - I'M NOT! (And don't send money!!!!)

So - the first card shown here is for yesterday's Featured Stamper Challenge - Niki. She used a Hanna teacher so I pulled out my Bella teacher and used the new Urban Garden Designer Paper.

The second card is a Thank You I received from DeAnna (deestampstoo on Splitcoast) . I love the colours and the designer paper - she put it inside the card also - it's so nice!!!
I know I'm going to one of my schools this afternoon just to take in some supplies - then I hope to get some more stamping done this evening. So many grooves to get back into at this time of year.

Hope all is well with everyone - Thanks for stopping by - JOAN

Thinking of a Wonderful Friend

Yesterday's Inspiration Challenge was from Marimekko Petrooli Umbrellas - wow - what fun!!!!! I chose the one shown on the side.
I also used the sketch challenge from LAST WEEK's challenge at Our Creative Corner. (They now have a colour challenge up - so I'll have to work on that next.) I'm loving the new scallop punch!!!! Gone are the days of using the corner rounder to create scallops - wooohooo!!!
I added some non-SU bobbles on the bottom set of flowers. They are tinted pink, but you really can't tell in the photo. Oh well.
I decided this afternoon, that I had better give my Big Shot a try. What fun too!!!!!! I sponged the edges of the flowers and then used my gel pen to add the white dots. (I bought a couple of new ones so I'm not using white-out anymore!!!) At convention we saw how we could remove the rhinestones from the "brad" so I did that for the centres of the flowers.
The colours for this card are from over at Colour Throw Down (Ballet Blue, Bashful Blue and Apricot Appeal) - my apricot is a bit washed out in this photo. I think I must create a little photo corner for myself so that things turn out truer to life.

I'm off to do a bit more music planning. The count down is on, but the days are still passing relatively slowly - Yipeee!!!!
Thanks for stopping by,