Vintage Christmas

Hello...I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend. Yesterday we spent the day in San Francisco, it is a Black Friday tradition for my family. I get dropped off downtown at Union Square and hubby and daughter head to Haight Street to Amoeba Records for Black Friday Record Store Day. All the stores I wanted to shop at did not open until 9am, so I had almost 2 hours to kill, so I walked all around downtown, checking out the window displays and then took a break at Peet's Coffee for a warm treat. By the time my family picked me up I had walked 5.5 miles, could not wait to get home for some yummy turkey leftovers. I went to Sephora, The Container Store, Paper Source and my all time favorite Britex!

I spent the evening in my craft room doing a bit of cleaning and came across these sweet vintage post cards from October Afternoon and decided to whip a few cards. They were so much fun to make and I love the look of vintage anything! Would love to have the kitchen on I Love Lucy show but with modern appliances. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by....enjoy the rest of your weekend!

ColourQ #294

Well...today is Tuesday, my second official of summer vacation and so far I am having a blast! I do have to go in for some classroom clean up and tomorrow I have a student helper so I am hoping we can just about knock it out!

Tuesday also means a new color palette is up on the ColourQ blog and wow, I really love these colors. They were fun to play with and I love my cute card. I pulled out some October Afternoon patterned paper and matching card stock stickers. I have had these forever so it was nice to finally put them to good use. I hope you will find the time to play along with us this week, I know your cards will be absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your week!

SSS - Transport, Cards for Maddy, CTD #246 and CFC #105

Happy Saturday! I have 3 cards to share today, 2 of them I made last night but it was too late to get them posted so I made one more to add to my little bundle today.  I was a bit stumped last night on what to make and Joyce mentioned making a card for Maddy and I used the sweet color combination from this week's Color Throwdown Challenge #246.  She is a sweet young lady who is battling cancer, no child should ever has to go through this. Simon Says Stamp is hosing this challenge to send her as many cards as possible. The staff at the hospital have a map and pin where all the cards come from, it would be wonderful to see all the cities and states pinned.  You still have plenty of time to play along you can find the link here.

My next 2 cards are for SSS - Transport and CFC #105 - Mapquest.  I have this fun little collection of cars and buses for Lucy (my Silhouette) that I have been wanting to play with them and thought this was the perfect challenge to do so. Ashleigh came in while I was making my little bus and started singing "we all live in a yellow submarine", I had to stop her!!! I am not a big fan of the Beatles and this on at the bottom of my list of their songs I will tolerate.  Not to get too far off track but I do love Sir Paul McCartney and will get to see  him at Outside Lands in August. Once I finished my card I thought it needed a hidden Mickey on it with the colors I used.  

My final card is for another travel card using the new October Afternoon - Travel Girl patterned paper. I used the luggage tag die from Taylored Expressions that I forgot I had until I saw Tracey from In My Creative Opinion use one that I sent her.  Funny how you get so many supplies and forget what you have! I am sure that has never happened to any of you right?  It was a fun card to make and I paired it with the Destinations stamp set from PTI, such a great match.  Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and peek at my cards...have a wonderful weekend and Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dad's out there!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Card for Maddy

Solid Card Stock: White and Simply Chartreuse

Patterned Paper: Sweet Blush and Spring Moss

Stamps: DayDreamer and Side by Side Sentiments

Dies: DayDreamer Beautiful Butterflies and Taylored Expressions - Luggage Tag

Ink Spring Moss, Memento - Angel Pink and VersaFine - Black

Pearls: SU

Sequins: Neat & Tangled and Ellen Hutson

School Bus

Solid Card Stock: White and MFT - Lemon Drop

Stamps: School Time

Dies: Clouds and Limitless Layers

Patterned Paper: Black and Beautiful Blooms

Ribbon: Black

Travel

Solid Card Stock: Rustic White and New Leaf

Patterned Paper: October Afternoon - Travel Girl

Ribbon: Britex

Dies: Pinking Edge and Taylored Expressions - Luggage Tag

Stamps: Destination

Ink: VersaFine - Vintage Sepia

Baker's Twine: my stash