The 12 Kits of Occasions - October Edition 2013

Wow...where has the year gone??? Tomorrow will be Halloween and then only 54 more shopping days until Christmas and yes you all wanted to know that!  It will be sad to say goodbye to Halloween but then on the bright side, I have an entire year to plan for the next one!  Since the weather is a bit cooler and the leaves are starting to turn, it is the perfect time of year for out next kit...Kara from kandrdesigns is our fabulous hostess this month and her kit is amazing.  The colors are so beautiful with oranges, browns, yellow and gold, a wonderful palette to work from.  I have only 6 cards to share, I made 8, one went into my "ugly" card file for future use and the other decided to do flips on my desk while I was reaching for another card to stamp the back and landed front side down on an open dark brown ink pad, so needless to say that card hit the recycle bin.  Kara's kit is amazing and you can see all the cards from this talented group of ladies on our The 12 Kits of Occasions Blog...you will also find a complete list of supplies there as well. Kara is offering a stamp/die set to one lucky commentor on our 12 Kits blog, so be sure to check it out! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to peek at my cards....have a wonderful rest of your week!

Simon Says Stamp's current challenge is Anything Goes so I will be submitting a few of my cards to that too.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving...November our hostess will be Kelly Schirmer from ginghamgirlsadventures and we will be making more holiday cards and just in time too!

Addicted to CAS #25 - One Layer

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend...mine has been pretty quiet, yesterday we went to Travis Air Force Base to do our grocery shopping, came home and made a pot of homemade chicken noodle soup, love soup and the weather is getting a bit cooler.  I finished laundry and cleaned my craft room up a bit so I would not feel guilty playing with some of my new stamps.  When I saw the City Scene set from PTI I knew this one would be coming home to live with me, just wish it had San Francisco in it too.  Maybe it will be in an additions pack in the future.  I decided to use the set to make a card for this week's Addicted to CAS challenge, one layer cards...I don't do many of these so this was a bit of a challenge but lots of fun using my new stamps.  Since going to Paris is on my bucket list I decided to play with those stamps first and made a little scene of Santa flying over the Eiffel Tower.  Thank you so much for taking time to peek at my card...have a fabulous day!

Ingredients - All Papertrrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White

Stamps: City Scene and City Scene Christmas Sentiments

Ink: Smoky Shadow and SU - Pear Pizzazz, Baked Brown Sugar, Smoky Slate and Real Red and VersaFine - Black

PTI October 2013 Blog Hop

Once again it is time for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop and this month the theme is tags.  I don't typically use gift tags on my Christmas gifts but thought it would be fun to play along anyway.  I has planned on making a tag or two and then was informed by a sweet friend that it was a set of 5.  So I got to work and got them made with a few hours to spare, nothing fancy by any means but now I have 5 tags to use, so it is all good!  Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to peek at my blog...have a fabulous weekend!

3 Cards for Thursday...

Happy Thursday...and no school tomorrow so I am excited about having a long weekend.   I have 3 cards to share tonight, my first card is for this week's CASology #67 and the cue card is "country".  I really struggled with this one and even made 2 cards but the first one will go into my "ugly card" file for when the ugly card challenge rolls around again.  I am not a country girl at all, in fact I don't really like to be outside, too much dirt if you ask me.  Then it finally popped into my head, use On the Farm from PTI and here it is.

Next card is for ColourQ #211 and once again it was my second attempt at a card, not because I was unhappy with my first one but because I lost the fabulous pair of paper pieced witch feet complete with orange and black striped stockings.  I know they are here somewhere and will most likely turn up around Valentine's Day or they may even be in one of the Halloween cards I sent out...so if you happen to see them, have fun with them and please share what you make. I am also entering this in this week's SSS challenge for Halloween cards.  

My final card is for the current challenge over at Serendipity Stamps...there are some beautiful stamps on this site.  I only have a few of them but they are truly fabulous!  I was so excited that I won there last challenge for paper piecing, I was blown away.  Thank you Mary for this incredible honor!  You can see my card here.  This challenge is for "words and verse" and like I said I don't have too many but this one is at the top of my list of all my stamps, it is just too cute!  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...have a fabulous weekend!

Muse #40

A quick post today for this week's Muse challenge...my sweet friend Darnell from djkardkreations is this week's guest designer and she made a lovely card for inspiration.  She choose to focus her card on October - Breast Cancer Awareness month and she made an amazing card.  I looked at for a while and tried to figure out what to make and piece by piece it came to me and I have to say that I am very happy with the way it turned out.  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my card...have a fabulous week!

Darnell's card

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White and Hibiscus Burst

Stamps: MFT - Poppies and A-Muse - Breast Cancer

Ink: Ripe Avocado and Hibiscus Burst

Dies: Headlines Alphabet and Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles

Patterned Paper: ripe Avocado

Muse #39

Happy Sunday, I have a turkey meatloaf in the oven and will be baking some homemade brownies next, a nice quiet day...I another card to share and this one is for this week's Muse challenge and what a fabulous card for inspiration from Marion Vagg, love her clean look.  This is still a bit of time to play along too. Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card...have a wonderful day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White and Pure Poppy and SU - Pacific Point

Stamps: Bountiful Banners 

Dies: Double Ended Banner and Heart Prints and Lil Inkers: Pieced Chevrons

Ink: SU - Pacific Point

Waltzingmouse Pajama Party - October

I know I have been missing for a bit in blogland...have been sick and finally I am feeling almost human again. I apologize to everyone for not leaving comments in the past week and will be doing my best this weekend to get as caught up as possible.  I have a few cards to share and will be getting them in just under the wire for this month's Waltzingmouse Pajama party challenges.  Again, sorry for not leaving comments this week and thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards today...have a wonderful weekend!

Greenish Halloweenish Card

Victorian Ghost Stories Card

Art Deco Card

Four of a Kind - October Edition

It is that time again...time for our Four of a Kind cards and what an amazing kit we have to share this month! Our hostess with the mostest this quarter is Renee from It's A Patchwork Life and her kit is all about the ocean and anything nautical with enough supplies to make at least 6 or 7 dozen cards and that is no joke!  A fun kit from start to finish and so many leftovers that I will be able to case everyone's cards. Renee, thank you again for a fabulous kit! Thank you all so much for taking time to stop by and peek at my cards...have a fabulous week!

October's Kit

Be sure to check out the creations from the rest of our fabulous four-some...

Renee - this month's hostess

Joyce

Kim - that's me

Cathy

ColourQ #210 , CAS(E) the Sketch #49 and Reverse Confetti - fetti finds

Yipppeeee, it is Saturday, time to get my hair colored & highlighted and hide my ugly roots!  Can't wait!!!  I have two cards to share this morning...my first card is for this week's Reverse Confetti - fetti finds, I have my first set form RC, Halloween sentiments, what a fabulous set!  You can never have too many Halloween cards, right??? And you also must have black card stock, but believe it or now I ran out, wrong time of year for that to happen, but Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea came to the rescue and popped several sheet int he mail so I am back in business.  I send out just as many as I do Christmas cards, so start watching your mail boxes!

My second card is for ColourQ and CAS(E) this Sketch...I am not a pet/dog person by any means, you can ask any of my friends, I always say my pets are stuffed as in stuffed animals but I fell in love with this sweet dog set from Paper Smooches, they are so cute and lovable and even better, they are paper! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by and peek at my cards....have a fabulous weekend!

Ingredients - all Papertrey Ink unless listed

Halloween 

Solid Card Stock: Black and SU - Pumpkin Pie

Patterned Paper: Pebbles - Trick or Treat

Stamps: RC - Spooky Sentiments

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Circles

Ribbon: Britex

Spider: my stash

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Dogs

Solid Card Stock: White, Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart and Hawaiian Shores

Patterned Paper: Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart and Hawaiian Shores

Stamps: PS - Woofers and Tweeters

Ink: VersaFine - Black