CCC Kerry's challenge

The challenge for this card...which was due the end of July!, is by Kerry who wanted everyone to use a robin, holly, and an optional mailbox on the card. I think I got it covered!! I really have fun playing along with the challenges but it seems that I have good intentions to get them done but allow myself to be distracted!



My distraction this week is that I will be leaving Thursday to go to Virginia to help take care of my 30 month old granddaughter while her Momma and Daddy go to the hospital to bring her new sister home. My son called to day and said that the doctor told them that she wouldn't make it to her next doctors appointment on 6 September because she ready to pop!! We had planned on going out the 10 September but this works out better for us because we will be there about 2 weeks and then we will come home and get ready to go to Spain for just over 3 weeks! YAY!

I am so looking forward to the cooler weather because it has been over a 100 deg F, 39C, most every day since last June! Someone asked about my electric bill the other day since we have to run air conditioning constantly and it has cost about $130 a week or >$550 a month.

Hope everyone has a good week and I will try to log online every chance I get.

Materials:

Graphic 45 Christmas Past paper.
Red card stock
Tim Holtz bird and branch dies, UTEE, Age Linen for distress
Spellbinders Scalloped Rectangle
Stampin UP! Label punch, Riding Hood Red card stock and ink, Always Artichoke seam binding,
Flourishes Stamps, mailbox
Copic Markers for coloring.

WOYWW #117

WoW! Wednesday again! I know that sounds old and trite but...I don't know where this week has gone. I went to Tulsa, OK with my sister for a wedding shower for my nephew and ended up staying all night and I have yet to get into my schedule again! Curious what WOYWW and Wednesdays are all about? Click on the link to Miss Julia's blog, Stamping Ground and she will tell you all about it!

My desk is cluttered as I am working on a card for the Christmas Card Club that I was invited to join.

I have fallen behind and I am now trying to catch up but...looks like I will be leaving for Virginia early Thursday to help my son and daughter-in-law when their second child comes. My husband and I are planning on driving out so it may not be possible for me to visit very many blogs but I promise to try!

I will post a picture of the finished card later. Have a great week!

Christmas Card Club

I am about 3-4 weeks behind in the Christmas Card Club due to other pressing issues around here. I decided today to make a big effort to get caught up because in a little over a month I will be going to Spain and I don't want to get any further behind! I got one card done before getting sidetracked looking for a stamp that I want to use on the next challenge. I really have to get more focused but with the FM and ME that is a challenge in itself!!

This card is inspired by Sally's challenge...Santa Claus is Coming to Town (use Father Christmas Image or animal dressed as Father Christmas)


I used Graphic 45 Christmas Past card stock from 2 years ago...yes I hoard a lot!! I made the card with Pear Pizazz from Stampin'Up! and layered the Graphic 45 paper on top as a mat for the Santa image that I cut out of the opposite side of the layer paper! The ribbon is SU. I finished it off with a little sparkly red bling from my stash of stuffs. It is an easy peazy card and I am happy with the way it turned out. (I am not so happy with the picture cause it looks so blurry and dark to me.)

Check back tomorrow and hopefully I will have found the stamp I was looking for or I will have found another one that will work just as well. If you are interested in playing along with the group and getting a head start on your cards this year just contact one of us, names and links are on the side bar, and we will tell you how to get started.

Amy Duff Papertrails Leaver 500 post giveaway

I surfed into a blog today that has an awesome candy giveaway. Amy Duff is celebrating 500 blog posts on her blog. Amy blogs about her art creations, home situations, and being the mother of an autistic daughter. I read through several posts and I decided to share the site and add her to my Google reader! I think she has a lot of good ideas and thoughts to share. Check her out!

Traveling Time

Decided to enter this tag into a couple of challenges this week. DragonsDream Tag It On and Simon Says has Travel as their themes this week. I think that this tag fits that catagory!

The stamp set is from Tim Holtz but it was one of the clear acrylic ones from Micheal's that I bought before I got smart and started buying online. Now the store where I shop has started carrying Tim Holtz products.

WOYWW #116

I just got back from a design team meeting at the store where I do my classes and it looks like there is going to be some fun things happening the next few months with the holidays and changes going on. We had the opportunity to look at some of the new products that are rolling in from CHA and got the skinny on when we can expect some things to show up at the store. It has been and interesting week around here first dashing this way then that. I have managed to get a couple of blog posts in around the goings on to show off some of the things I have been doing and creating.

A picture of what my desk looks like today. It is in a messy state but it sort of lives there most days. I spotted up the pristine looks of my cutting mat by accidentally dumping some acetone on it and it immediately lifted some of the markings and the vinyl from the top. You can't see it in this photo so I don't know why I am telling you...guess as a warning to be careful with acetone around the cutting mats. As you can see in addition to crafting I have continued to take stamps off their wood mounts and those stamp cases have stamps that need the glue applied. I did about another 10 sets but they are already in the cabinet. I decided to reorganize the stamps according the the Stampin'Up! categories or Nature, Occasions, Elements, Holidays, etc. I think it will make it easier to find what I want. I plan on putting a list of stamps accessible to the shelf so you will know what section to find what set in.

Here is a picture of the goodies I picked up at the store tonight. We all decided which products we were going to showcase for our projects and I won out getting to do a Christmas Canvas with the Graphic 45 Christmas stamps and papers. Yay!
Last picture...here are the last two tags I made for the tag class the beginning of the month. I thought I had posted them on WOYWW #114 but it was only the leaf tag! Everyone who took the class enjoyed making them.
WOYWW is a fun time of the week for me going and snooping around other peoples desks and seeing what it up in their corner of the world. It is a small world on WOYWW cause we go all over the world from the comfort of our desk chairs. No visa required!! If you are interesting in following along or joining in the fun go to Julia's blog, Stamping Ground and check it out.

Bingo!

This is the last card for the class this Thursday night. The Texture trades, Playing games was used in the making of the three cards. The first card is called Admit One, second card is Who you are, and the third is simply Bingo. Remember getting a game box for Christmas and when all the covers for the bingo game went missing we would steal buttons from Momma's button box to cover the numbers!

There are still a couple spots left in the class. If you are interested in taking the class contact Whole Lotta Scrap at 310-3400 to reserve your seat. There will be 3 cards/tags made in the class. Class is from 6-8:30pm August 25. Class fee is $22 and you will receive the embossing folders and supplies to make the tags. Equipment you will need to bring a paper cutter, scissors, glue/tape runner, craft mat, and if you have them your distress ink pads. Hope you see you there!

Materials:

Kraft Card blank
Tim Holtz Texture Trades Playing Games, Bingo Texture Fade
Retro Grunge Paper Stack
Tim Holtz Ideology Bingo pieces
Buttons, paper flowers
EK Success leaf punch
Distress inks, walnut stain, vintage photo, fired brick, scattered straw, black soot
Bakers twine