Fall Hello

I made some fall cards that I will be sending out for Thanksgiving. We will be spending Thanksgiving week on vacation on San Diego, visiting the zoo, Legoland and some other fun places. We are not spending it with any family, and since Justin has the whole week off school, we decided to get away and relax a bit. The best part is that Justin has no idea we are going to Legoland and will be thrilled when we pull up to the park!

This card uses some scraps of Crate Paper that I had out and another rimmed tag that I've had forever and am trying to use up. There are only a few left, but they say "lucky" on them, so I guess I'll be making a few St. Patrick's Day cards with them in a few months. I'll be glad when they are all used up! I'm trying what we all do - not buy anything until some of my supplies are gone...

Have a good Monday. Thanks for looking!

A New Use for Mulberry Paper

I've seen everyone making such beautiful layered flowers with fabric, patterned paper, tissue, etc. I found some old mulberry paper in my piles of stuff and decided to give it a try myself. I used some orange and some brown mulberry paper, and cut out several sizes of Nesties Blossoms Two shapes. There are 6 layers of each size, attached with a fancy brad in the center. In real life, it just pops off the page! It will definitely need a padded envelope and extra postage, but it's worth it.

I was in the mood to make a fall card, and scrounged up my last scraps fo this Crate Paper striped pp. Not that I don't have new fall paper to use (I found an entire paper caddy of pp that I never unpacked!). I eked out a few of the rick rack shape (die from MFT) and used the rest of it on some cards I'll show tomorrow.



I hope you had a beautiful weekend. It's been gorgeous weather-wise for us. We had a huge yard sale Saturday, so my crafting time was cut out last week, and hubby was out of town all week. Yesterday, he let me take a few hours to hole up in my craft room and I cranked out several cards. I'm hoping to catch up with all the laundry today and be able to sneak back up during naptimes. Wish me luck!

Thanks for looking!

CPS141

It's been forever since I've completed a CPS sketch, so I went to work on the new sketch yesterday. It is #141 and I love the simplicity and versatility of it.
These Martha Stewart gold leaf stickers have been in my stash for a few years now and I decided to use them up on a batch of cards. The papers are Crate Paper Lemon Grass Collection and Little Sprout Collection that I picked up at the LSS on my last trip. Since I only had 5 stickers and made 6 cards, the last card has the leaf from SU! Tags & More cut from some of the dp. The rick rack is from American Crafts and the base is SU! True Thyme from years ago. I still love that color, though! Scalloped squares are made with the Nesties and Cuttlebug.
Well, Carter is crying in the other room. He seems to think that less than one hour is acceptable as a morning nap, and I feel otherwise. Time to try to coerce him back to sleep for a bit or our afternoon is going to be miserable.
Thanks for looking!

Thankful Cards

I managed to eke out another 2 cards this weekend. I'm determined to complete at least half of the sketches before deadline!

Last night I stayed up way too late and finished sketch #10 of the 31 Days of Angelosity. I am quite pleased with this card, which is a 4" square. I tucked into the Perhaps pad from Basic Grey for the background. The stamp is SU! Small Script, stamped in True Thyme on green paper (a scrap, unaccounted for). The "staples" are lines drawn with my metallic gel pen. I pierced all around the border, then went over the holes with the metallic gel pen to make them stand out a little more. This Basic Grey dp speaks for itself - it is so gorgeous! I wanted to tuck this card into my dh's suitcase before he left on another business trip tonight, but didn't get a chance. I'll sneak it to him when he returns.


I also got to complete Sketch #5 today. We had a birthday party to attend this morning, and then tried to go to the local kids' Halloween parade which proved too scary for ds. Since the parade was a bust, we spent some quiet time "being busy." That means I start a card, he colors for about 10 minutes then starts bugging me play with him again. So I finished this card after he went to bed... Anyway, here are the details. A Rust cs, 6" by 3" in size. The dp is Frances Meyer East India which I have used probably too many times before, but I adore it. The sentiment is SU! Everyday Flexible Phrases in Really Rust and punched with the word window. Maple leaves are Lizzie Anne Designs Celebrations, stamped in Really Rust and watercolored. The ribbon is SU! grosgrain, but I'm not sure of the exact color name. My "staples" are actually stitches made with embroidery thread. DMC #400 for those of you who are curious. This is one of my favorite cards of the weekend. It just came together for me, which made it easy and fun. And isn't that why we do this - to have fun?



Time for me to turn in. I'm reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter and have to get it done so I can find out what happens! Thanks for looking!

Seeing Threes

Cruising through the stamping blogosphere yesterday, I came across this challenge from Sharon at No Time To Stamp. 3x3s are something I have not done yet, and I don't know why. They are so fun! And so quick! I'll be making more of these in the future, I can assure you... Here are my debut 3x3s. The challenge was to make 3 of them. The base is brown cs. PP is Frances Meyer East India, which is one of my favorite papers in my stash. The leaf (SU! Tags & More) is stamped in Really Rust on a rust square from a Scrap Pack. Eyelets are rust, and the brads are copper. I paper pierced one around the edge and tied jute on the third one.

This is the last day of my vacation, which was everything I wanted in a week off. I got to putter around, shop, clean, relax and STAMP! I feel recharged, and happy that this is a 3-day weekend, so I don't actually have to report back to work until Tuesday. Also, I still have 2+ weeks of vacation to use before the end of the year, so I can do this again closer to the holidays :)

I've got an eye on my visitor counter, and am thinking that I will do some blog candy sharing at 500 hits. I'm not quite there, yet, but that gives me a goal to look forward to. Thanks for helping me reach it!