The 12 Kits of Occasions - October Edition

It is almost Halloween and also the end of the month so that means it is time for our 12 Kits of Occasion's post. This month our hostess with the mostess is Jessica from Paper Parade and what an amazing kit she sent out. I could not wait to play with my kit but I wanted to save it for my trip to Minnesota and I have to say the my blogging friends loved getting a little bit of a sneak peek. The colors and images from Jessica's kit were just perfect for the setting I was in, fall all over the place, every where you turned, it was just beautiful and so much inspiration for my cards. I have 5 cards to share with you today and as always, lots of leftovers to play with later in the month. Be sure to head over to The 12 Kits of Occasions blog for a peek at every one's cards and links to their blogs. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by today...enjoy the rest of your week.

This month's kit...just amazing right?

Prior Lake, Minnesota - Adventure of a Lifetime

Shopping at Mall of America

Seriously....where do I start??? I have to say this was one of my favorite vacations...really a dream come true, spending 6 days together with 5 incredibly talented and amazing women in a beautiful house on a lake, what more can you ask for? 

I spent the week with Anita from My Papercraft World, Ardyth from Maskerade, Bev from Happy Dance, Darnell from djkardkreations and Geri from Manitoba Stamper. You can click on the links to their blogs to see what wonderful stories they plan to share.

We came up with at name for our group...BABES - Benevolent Association of Beloved & Esteemed Stampers. 

Our first meal together....we ate at Buca di Beppo's and what a wonderful meal and so much food left over...we ate off of it for days and it was just as good!

Our home for the week...so incredible to be right on the lake. We all seemed to click right away, like we had been friends for years...so fun to meet your blogging friends in real life and have them be just the way you thought from everything you had been reading.  We did a little bit of everything with the exception of cooking and watching television (other than watching the World Series two nights). So nice to spend the time just crafting and being yourself, sharing a very large dinning table...so many wonderful memories.
 At times we laughed...really laughed and so hard some of us had tears streaming down our cheeks and times where the laughter would not stop...just so much fun. At time we were very serious,  solving the worlds problems. Then we shopped...lots of shopping, everyone searching for the elusive VersaFine ink pad in Black! I learned some new stamping techniques, we made cards...lots and lots of cards, did a few projects, ate at some fabulous places, I love the 90 second pizza at Punch's, thank you for the suggestion Miss Bev, this place did not disappoint (we need one much closer to my house).  Geri was so sweet to share her chicken wings with me one night, you must ask her to share the story. 

The rest of my post will be in photo's...I selected a few of my favorite from our trip, hope you enjoy them. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your day!

Mall of America

Fancy dinner out at Sul Lago

View across Prior Lake

Messy table that never had to be cleaned off until the end of the week...

Snowflake...our mascot.

Creek Water Memories

Lunch at Punch's

The Card Concept - Challenge #22

Hello...it is time again for The Card Concept...challenge #22 and it is a photo challenge this time around. I am on the Wild Card team at The Card Concept until the end of the year and we get to select which type of card we would like to make, so I went with Freestyle Collage. I hope you will be able to find the time to play along with us. Looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week.

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: SU - Tangelo Twist, Michael's - White and PTI - Simply Chartreuse

Pumpkin & Leaf: Lucy

Burlap Ribbon: Britex

Stamp: Stampendous - Autumn Words

Ink: SU - Baked Brown Sugar

ColourQ #265

Hello and Happy Tuesday and welcome to my blog...first off I need to apologize for not being on top of commenting, I was on vacation last week and now trying to play catch up with home, work and crafting too. So I will be getting back into the swing of things this week and will be back to blogland sooner than later.
I have a quick post today for this week's ColourQ #265 challenge...aren't the colors just amazing! They scream Halloween, right???? My card was inspired by a new technique I learned last week and I have to say I am hooked, so hooked that I will be ordering all the mini Tim Holtz distress ink pads and adorable tin storage containers. More on where I learned this on tomorrow's mid-day blog post. Anyway, I took me about 4 tries to get my sky looking some what decent and spooky all at the same time. Well I hope you will find the time to play along with us at ColourQ, you can never have too many Halloween cards.
Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your day!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black & Simply Chartruese, SU - Tangerine Tango and Michael's - White

Ink: VersaFine - Black and PTI - Royal Velvet

Dies: Spellbinders - Circles and PTI - Spooky Sweets II, Inital Thoughts and Full Moon Clouds

Stamps: PTI - Spooky Sweets II and Peddler's Pack

Happy Birthday Shirley-Bee

Happy Birthday Shirley-Bee...wishing you a wonderful day and hoping all your wishes come true. Maria from rieslingmama is throwing the birthday bash for sweet Shirley and we are all invited. 

I was away last week with a wonderful group of extremely creative ladies and we all took time to make our cards together to celebrate Shirley's special day.  Below is a photo of all of us with our cards. So here's to you Shirley....Happy Birthday!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by, enjoy your day!

more details about our trip later in the week....

The Card Concept - Sunflowers

Hello...it is already Wednesday, this week is zipping by. I have one card to share today for the new challenge at The Card Concept and it is so perfect for this time of year. Sunflowers are so pretty, we grow them at the school I teach at and harvest the seeds each year. I had no clue how many of those little seeds come off of one sunflower, just amazing.
My card is for the Classy and Elegant style...I really struggled with this one and hate to admit that lots of samples hit the recycle bin. I finally pulled out some rainstones and thought they added a bit of class to my card. The sunflowers were so much fun to make and I hope you will find the time to play along with us at The Card Concept. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week.

ColourQ #263

Hello and Happy Tuesday...are you ready for another fabulous collection of colors for this week's ColourQ Challenge? They are amazing and so so perfect with Halloween right around the corner. I have to admit that Halloween is my favorite holiday and these colors were so much for to play with. I hope you will find the time to play along with us this week, it is a great time to make a few extra Halloween cards to send out to all your favorite monsters. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black and White and SU - Tangerine Tango

Ink: VersaFine: Black and SU - Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry and Daffodil Delight

Dies: PTI - Happy Haunting

Stamps: RC - Spooky Sentiments and PS - Spookalicious

ColourQ #262 and Happy 5 Year Anniversary!

Happy Tuesday, hoping for a much better outcome to tonight's Giants game, the Dodgers lost so the planets much be in alignment, right?
I have one card to share today and it is for this week's ColourQ #262 challenge, we are celebrating their 5 year anniversary and also October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. I hope you will find the time to play along with us this week, as always looking forward to seeing your amazing creations this week.
Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week and Go Giants!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black, SU - Pink Piroette and Michael's - White

Breast Cancer Ribbon: Lucy

Stamps: Amuse - Fight like a Girl

Embossing Powder: Ranger - Silver

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

Two more jars....

Happy Monday, or at least is started off happy...I am a bit sad right now since my Giants lost their game today, but they will play better tomorrow and win.  I have 2 more jars to share that I finally finished, these are a bright orange and I really love the look. These are so so easy to make and are fabulous gifts. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your day.

Papertrey Ink - Make it Monday #182 Mason Jar Stamping

Just a quick post for Sunday...there are two post season games on today that I will be watching and being crafty too. My sweetie bought me a 5lb. bag of peanuts, hope they will last until the World Series is over, with 18 inning/6 hour games you just never know...LOL

I have a jar to share with you today for this weeks Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday. Painting the jars was easy, I have 4 made to use as Halloween treats for friends, 2 black and 2 orange. The stamping portion was not so easy with the curved edges of the jar, so parts of my spiders are missing but I still love the look of the silver spiders on the black jar.  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your weekend.

World Card Making Day 2014

Happy Saturday! Hope you are having a wonderful day. I spend part of my day at a spa with a girlfriend and a nice lunch to celebrate her birthday. I feel a bit like a noodle right now but it was so nice to be pampered. I have 2 cards to share (I cas'ed Tracey from In My Creative Opinion, in fact I have a little book to share that was cas'ed from her too). You can see Tracey's cards here. Today is World Card Making Day and this is the first time I have ever played along, so much fun.

Happy World Card Making Day!

You can see Tracey's book here...so fun to make. I did not have food themed paper so I bought some digital paper from Etsy, so fun to print my own paper.