CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #26 Laura's Sketch

I finally found some time to make a few cards so I made one for this week's challenge for CAS-ual Fridays.  But before I could get my card made I had to make a last minute treat for Ashleigh to take the Halloween party she was going to tonight.  Oreo mummies are pretty quick and easy to make, so I headed off to Target first thing this morning to pick up the supplies and this is how they turned out.

Now on to the card...I bought the stamp about a year ago when an online stamps store was going out of business.  I spent about an hour going through all of the stamps and found a lot of Impression Obsession stamps that I just could not pass up and the Thanksgiving one is my favorite.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Stamp: Impression Obsession
Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia
Buttons: PTI - Autumn Mix
Dies: PTI - Simple Circles and Nestabilities - Scalloped Squares
Printed Paper: PTI - Fall Prints and Patterns
Card Stock: PTI - Rustic White
Pearls: Kaiser

Have a Sweet Birthday

It seems like it has been forever since I made a card to post.  Last week was so busy with trying to get ready for Halloween.  I finished Ashleigh's costume today and it turned out just way too cute!  I baked cupcakes today and turned them into little monsters to celebrate Halloween tomorrow at school.  What do you think?

Here is a close up of the little guys...

They were so much fun to make.  I used my cupcake and frosting recipes from the TeaCake Bake Shop. I colored the frosting and coconut with some food color and then put some Dots candy on a toothpick and added the edible eye ball with a dab of frosting.  Hope the little muchkins like them.

Now on to the card I made today.  I love the PTI Sweet as Can Be stamp set and love pairing it with Funky Town paper, such a great combination. I have collecting felt for awhile and decided this would be the perfect card to use a bit of it on...it really makes the best scoop of ice cream and then a red button to take the place of the cherry.  Thanks for taking a peek.

Ingredients - All PTI

Printed Paper: Funky Town

Card Stock: Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores and Ripe Avocado

Felt: Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores and Fine Linen

Dies: Sweet as Can Be and Half & Half

Stamps: Sweet as Can Be and Half & Half

Buttons: Fresh Snow and Pure Poppy

Bakers Twine

Week of Rock and Roll!

Did not get much crafting done with weekend but did take in a bit of music.  My daughter, Ashleigh gave my husband and I tickets to see the Foo Fighters for our 20th anniversary and I had a blast (Ashleigh went too and got the set list)! My husband is more into jazz and does not like what he calls "yelling", but I do have to say it was one of the best concerts I have been to! We went last Wednesday and rocked the night away for 4 and 1/2 hours. I have a secret crush on the drummer, Taylor Hawkins, he is just too adorable.

Taylor Hawkins

Dave Grohl

Then on Sunday Ashleigh and I went to Shoreline in Mt. View for another concert.  We went to the 25th Annual Bridge School Benefit and what a show! The concert started at 2pm and ended at 11pm and was non-stop big music stars from start to finish.  We saw the Foo Fighters again, Arcade Fire, Tony Bennet, Mumford and Sons, Carlos Santana, Beck, Nora Jones, Neil Young and many more.  This was an early Christmas gift from Ashleigh to me and it was so much fun and for a great cause too. 

The Bridge School is a special school started by Neil Young and his wife Pegi for children with special needs and they have this concert every year as a fund raiser.  100% of the proceeds for the show go right to the school so how can you miss, great music for a wonderful group of children.  Here are a few pictures from the night.

Bridge School Children

Beck

Foo Fighters

Mumford and Sons

Neil Young

Thanks for taking a peek into my week of music.

CAS-ual Fridays #25 Just Add Color

Last card to post tonight...As all of my stamping friends know, I DO NOT color! But I thought just for this challenge I would give it a try.  I used some stamps that I have never used before.  When my sister went 100% digital, she gave me just about everything she had.  I fell in love with the stamps she had from The Stamps of Life, so I decided to use one of their sets.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Stamps: The Stamps of Life - flowers2share set #15
Card Stock: PTI & CM
Buttons: PTI
Markers: Zig Writers

MIM #37 Layered Mats and Frames

I finally got my card done for MIM and since I was lucky enough to get my PTI release order so quickly I wanted to use some of my new toys.  The card was so much fun to make and like my friend Joyce would say, it practially made itself! Really, the card just seemed to fall into place and I am really happy with the way it turned out and plan to make a few more using the same technique of the layered mats and frames.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!

Ingredients - All PTI

Card Stock: Rustic White, Spring Moss and Dark Chocolate

Stamps: In the Meadow and Background Basics-Sheet Music

Ink: Spring Moss and VersaFine Vintage Sepia

Felt: Spring Moss

Dies: In the Meadow, Limitless Layers and Layerz Mat Stack 1

Bakers Twine: Dark Chocolate

Another Christmas Card

It has been a busy week and now that Saturday is here I have a littel bit of time to put a few cards together and post to my blog.  I cased this card from No Time To Stamp, Sharon is very creative and I just fell in love with the tree stamp with all of the blue bling floating through the air.  I don't usually buy wood mounted stamps but as you can see, this one was just too beautiful to pass up.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black and White, CM - Light Blue
Stamps: Penny Black - Snow Dust and PTI - Stylish Sentiments - Holiday
Ribbon: PTI - Fresh Snow
Bling: Kaiser
Brad: MM

4 of a Kind Challenge with Up, Up and Away

This is month 3 of our 4 of a Kind Challenge with Cathy, Joyce and Renee and this month will take you away... 

Since I don't have this set, it was such a treat to put these cards together using stamps and papers that are new to me and I just fell in love with the polka dots. Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea did an amazing job of putting these kits together...here is what I recieved in the mail,

There was so much to choose from that I was able to make 2 cards and still have plenty left over for at least one more.  She even inclued black stamped images that can be hand colored and since I don't color I opted to use the hot air balloons that did not require this. One of my favorite pieces of this kit were the clouds dies cut out of felt, they are just too sweet and really gave the look of floating in the sky!

Thanks for taking a peek! And be sure to check out the cards from the other three "4 of a Kind" ladies,

Jocye - Cards-by-the-Sea

Cathy - Empty Nest Crafter

Renee - It's A Patchwork Life

ColorQ Challenge #106

I am sooooo excited,  I was named a colourQueen Courtiers from their last challenge for the card I submitted. What an honor! This was only the second card I have posted a card on their site.

I fell in love with this weeks colors too and decided to make a Halloween card using some stamps from a muse that my sister and I bought a while back to share.  I love their little stamps, they are so cute, it is hard to pass them up.  Thanks for taking a peek!



Ingredients
Black and White Check Ribbon: Michaels
Inks: VersaFine - Black and Ranger Adirondack Brights - Sunset Orange
Card Stock: PTI - White, Orange Zest, Smokey Shadow and True Black
Stamps: a muse - Parage, Bat Trio, Lampost and Tiny Pumpkin
Circle and Oval stamps unknown

Fa la la and Merry & Bright

Here are two more cards that I made on Saturday and I just love them.  My sweet friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea sent me these adorable snowflakes and she was kind enough to send me lots of them and all in beautiful colors.  I added a bit of glitter to both of them by painting on some Martha Stewart Glitter Glue and then dusted each  with her crystal fine glitter. I also did a bit of sewing on them. They were so much fun to make and Joyce is always so nice to share her dies with me.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients

Glitter & Glitter Glue: Martha Stewart

Card Stock: PTI -Whtie and Pure Poppy

Printed Paper: PTI -Christmas Prints

Stamps: PTI -Tag-It's #8

Ink: SU - Real Red and VersaFine - Black

Dies: PTI - Limitless Layers



Fleet Week and the Blue Angels

Did not get any crafting done on Sunday like I had planned.  We spent the entire day in San Francisco for Fleet Week and to celebrate my friend Christina's birthday. We surprised her with a day in the city. We hit Pier 39 at 10:00am, did a bit of shopping and then headed to Bubba Gumps for a wonderful lunch.

                                                    Ashleigh, Kathy, Dwight and Christina

After lunch we headed to the very end of the pier to get a good spot for watching the air show.  The jets were so loud I thought I was going to jump out of my skin!  Here are a few picutres of the jets.

The show with the Blue Angels was canceled due to the fog so we did not get to see them this time.  We will try again nect year. We still had a blast and headed back down the pier for some ice cream, donuts and to see if we could find some men in uniform to take pictures of with the Birthday Girl, Christina!

                                                                Kathy and Christina

We all had a great time...thanks for taking a peek at our day in the city.

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #23 & a Hop

The card I made for this challenge was inspired by my friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea.  She purchased this really cool pinwheel die and was sweet enought to send me enough to make 2 pinwheels, one large and one small. Once I got the hang of it, they were very easy to make.  To top off this fun little surprise, she packaged it in this fabulous seed packet! This really made putting this card together very easy...I just added the pink card stock and a little bling.  Thanks for taking a peek.

Ingredients
Card Stock: PTI - White and Raspberry Fizz
Seed packet & Pinwheel: Joyce
Brad: unkown
Bling: Hero Arts

Joy & Happiness

I made this card to play along with colourQ Challenge #105.  When I saw the color combination I was in love! I cased a card that was used for last months PTI Blog Hop, it was simple yet beautiful. I would have never put these colors together on my own but plan to use them over and over again.  It is the perfect combination for Thanksgiving cards too.  Thanks for taking a peek.

Ingredients
White and Black Card Stock: PTI
Green, Brown and Purple Card Stock: SU
Stamps: PTI - Half & Half
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black
Brads: unknown

Trick or Treat

I made these today for a few of my co-workers.  They were so much fun and so easy too! I recycled clear plastic boxes that the PTI stamps come in (my boxes will never hit the recycle bin again).  I even put out a search on the PTI forum for extras to use at school for a craft project for my kids, should be lots of fun.
Thanks for taking a peek!

I used scor-tape on the outside of the boxes and then placed the ribbon over the top and back around to create a handle.  Cut some Halloween paper to line the front, back and bottoms and then filled with candy. I added some decorations on both sides that I found in Target's scrap booking isle on clearance and then a card in each.  The candy keeps the paper in place so no need to add any more adhesive.  Can't wait to make the deliveries tomorrow!

Ingredients
Printed Paper: PTI - Hocus Pocus
Ribbon: PTI and Michael's
Embellishments: K&Company - Spooktaclar
Adhesive: Scor-Tape
Clear Boxes: PTI

Homemade Buttons

I really loved what my friend Joyce, from Cards-by-the-Sea did with the ingredients from last months "4 of a Kind" challenge.  With so many of the supplies left over from making my own card I decided to case the card that Joyce made with just a few little changes.  A while back Joyce made the beautiful buttons and whenever I make a card that needs buttons I pull out the little bag that she sent me to see if any will match and this time it was the perfect match!  What a talented lady she is! Be sure to check out her blog too. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients - All PTI
Solid Paper: Royal Velvet and Rustic White
Printed Paper: Pacific Vineyard
Stamps: Button Boutique
Dies: Button Boutique and Dress Form
Ink: Distress - peeled paint
Buttons: Joyce

Well it has been a long week...

I had intended to make this a very productive week with some card making but by Monday afternoon I could feel a migraine starting and it lasted for about 4 1/2 days.  I had made a few cards to post but just never really felt up to it. So finally headache free and after a fun day at our school/church rummage sale I am ready to post the cards I made last week.

The first card is one for a girlfriend of mine who turned 62 this past friday.  I had planned to post it to the CAS-ual Fridays challenge but that never happened. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Paper: SU - white
Printed Paper: Cosmo Criket Mini Deck - DeLovely
Dies: PTI - By the Numbers
Stamps: PTI - Big Birthday Wishes
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black
Flower: Prime Fairytale Roses - Buttercup

The next card is one I made for Christmas and just love how fun it is.  Last Christmas my mom had used these little santa hats on gifts, so I made sure to save them all.  I knew at some point I would find a use for them and here it it.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Paper: Creative Memories
Printed Paper: Doodlebug - Christmas Pack
Santa Hats: My mom
Dies: PTI - Dress Form and Fiskars - Snowflake
Stamps: PTI - Signature Christmas and It's Offical
Ribbon and Lace: Britex Fabrics
Ink: VersaFine - Onyx Black and SU- Real Red