The Challenge #70 - Masculine Inspiration

Happy Monday! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Mine was quiet but busy too, cooking, cleaning, you know all that fun stuff! I have one card to share today for the new challenge at The Challenge #70

Once again I am behind in commenting....way behind so please be patient I am working hard to get caught up.

This is the perfect challenge to add a few masculine cards to your stash, now I have 3! I generally like to make pretty or floral cards. I had so much fun making my card. I pulled out several stamp sets from The Alley Ways Stamps (I sure do miss them) and decided to use this fabulous space ship sitting on some gray smooshing to look like outer space, only took me 4 tries to get the look I was going for. I hope you will find the time to play along with us this week at The Challenge #70! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your week!

I am entering my card in the Vehicles Challenge at Inkspirational.

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White and Strathmore - Mixed Media

Stamps: TAWS - Lite Bright, Phone Home and Blast Off

Patterned Paper: PTI and MFT

Ink: VersaFine - Black and PTI - Smokey Shadow and Soft Stone

Stars: My Stash

CAS-ology - Java #109 and Back to School

Happy Saturday....I have one card to share and one fun back to school gift tag. My card is for the current challenge at CAS-ology and it seems like it has been forever since I have played along with them. When I saw this week's cue card, I did not want to miss playing along. So I have a question for you...how my coffee stamp sets does it take to make just one CAS coffee card??? In my case 3, Paper Smooches - Cyber Cafe, The Alley Ways - Breakfast Club and Reverse Confetti - Be a Barista. What a fun card to make too.

We started school this past Thursday and I wanted to make some fun treats for my sweet co-workers and I saw this adorable little book worm some where in blogland and had to purchase the files from Silhouette and make some too. Don't you think he is just the cutest!  I filled treat bags with some yummy candy (Twix, Sour Patch Kids and Plain M&M's) and tied them off with black and white gingham ribbon and red bakers twine. Thank you so much for taking time to stop by...enjoy the rest of your week!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Rustic White and SU - Baked Brown Sugar

Stamps: PS - Cyber Cafe, RC - Be a Barista and TAWS - Breakfast Club

Ink: SU - Soft Suede, Baked Brown Sugar and Chocolate Chip

2 cards for Saturday and a Giant's game too...

What a fabulous day! My sweet daughter took me to a San Francisco Giant's game today, it was my Mother's Day gift and we had an amazing day. And to make the day even more special, it was Dave Dravecky Day, what an amazing man and ball player, so inspiring.  And all the old Giant's players were there too, so many wonderful memories of games from back in the 1980's and so many tear jerking stories too, I thought there was no crying in baseball??? So thank you again Ashleigh, I had the time of my life!

Now on to my cards...2 of them for the same challenge. I fell in love with this week's colors at ColourQ Challenge #249, so I could not stop at one. My first card is using a NBUS that I won from The Alley Ways Stamps, Mrs. Rogers Neighborhood, their stamps are very whimsical and fun. While looking around their site for some inspiration I found that they added cut files for most of their stamp sets, so much more affordable too...a $1.50 for cut files for an entire stamp set!

My second card is using a wonderful set from Verve...Poppy Birthday and I took some inspiration from Joyce's card at Cards-By-The-Sea and you can see her card here. Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards...enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Ingredients

Mrs. Rogers Neighborhood

Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White

Stamps: TAWS - Mrs. Rogers Neighborhood

Washi Tape: We Are Memory Keepers

Ink: SU - Hello Honey, Real Red, Bermuda Bay. Memento Teal Zeal and VersaFine - Black
Poppy Birthday
Solid Card Stock: Michael's - White
Stamps: Verve - Poppy Birthday and Mama Elephant - Make A Wish
Ink:  SU - Hello Honey, Real Red, Bermuda Bay. Memento Teal Zeal and VersaFine - Black
Sequins: Neat & Tangled

World Card Making Day 2013

Happy World Card Making Day 2013! I had a fabulous day today, spend the morning with my mom making cards and lunch out too.  I spent my time making birthday cards my little sweeties at school, I pulled out a bunch of old scrapbooking supplies that my sister gave to me some time back, finally found a fun use for them.  Thank you Robyn!

This was my side of the table, not too neat

My mom's side of the table...very neat and clean!

My mom 

When I got home I finished up the little details that my cards needed and made two more.....these cards are for a few different challenges, The Alley Ways Stamps, CAS(E) this sketch, ColourQ, Cut it Up and Fusion #19.  To top it all off I always cased Joyce's card from Cards-by-the-Sea, thank you for the inspiration! Hope you all had a fabulous day being crafty! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards...have a fun rest of your weekend!

ColourQ #204 and Simon Says Anything Goes

Just one more card for today...was afraid I would miss the deadline with ColourQ if I waited until tomorrow. I love the colors from this week's challenge and really wanted to make a card to play along. I am also entering my card in this week's challenge at SSS, Anything Goes.  So, thank you again for taking a peek at my card...enjoy your evening.

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White, Limeade Ice and Hawaiian Shores and SU - Coral Calypso

Patterned Paper: Royal Velvet

Stamps: TAWS - Gotta Bug and  PS - Sentiment Sampler

Dies: Lawn Fawn - Speech Bubble

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Colorthrow Down #250 and ColourQ #197

Happy Sunday! I spent some of the day crafting and more time getting my dolly domestic chores done so I will have lots of play time this week.  I have two cards to share today...my first card is for this weeks Colorthrow Down #250 and they are having a big party over there and you still have time to play if you hurry! They are celebrating 5 years of fabulous challenges! I had no clue they were at the beginning of all this fun of cards challenges but I am happy that they are.  They have some amazing prizes too so pull out your card stock and make a card!

My second card is for ColourQ #197, the colors this week are just so cute! Not sure what it is about that color combination but I just love and so happy I still had time to play along this week.  I pulled out a few NBUS for this card too, thanks Darnell!  I pulled out stamps from both Clearly Besotted - Build a Bug and The Alley Ways Stamps - Gotta Bug? and a new die from My Favorite Things - Grassy Edges.  It is always fun to play with new toys! Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my cards....have a wonderful week!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Bug 

Solid Card Stock: White and New Leaf

Patterend Paper: Orange Zest

Stamps: TAWS - Gotta Bug? and Clearly Besotted - Build a Bug

Baker's Twine: Paper Source

Button: Summer Sunrise

Ink: Summer Sunrise and VersaFine - black

Dies: Lil Inkers - Polaroid Frame and MFT - Grassy Edges

Get Well Wishes

Solid Card Stock: White and Kraft

Stamps: WP9 - Fresh Baked

Dies: WP9 - Fresh Baked

Ink: Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst, Lemon Tart and Classic Kraft

Dies: Spellbinders - Circles and Lil Inkers: Flag Tag

ColourQ #192 and CASology #47

The colors for this week's ColourQ #192challenge are so beautiful and look amazing together. When I started my card it was for this week's CASology #47, as soon as I saw the cue card was wheels, the wheels in my brain started to turn and I thought roller coaster!  I have these fabulous little roller coaster dies that I purchased a 100 years ago from Quickutz when they were one of the few companies who sold dies.  I love these little guys and so happy that I held onto them.  When I was pulling out paper to use the light went off again, combine it with ColourQ. I love it when I can make one card for more than one challenge.  Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card....have a great evening!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White, Soft Stone, New Leaf Hawaiian Shores and Spring Rain

Dies: Quickutz - Roller Coaster

Stamps: The Alley Ways Stamps - Life is Short

Epoxy Dots: Basic Grey

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Roller Coaster: Lucy (my Silhouette)

DD #50, CASology #42, RS #61 and BE Inspired #27

Happy May 1st...wow, where did April go? It seemed to just fly by.  Today I have 2 cards to share with you for 4 challenges. My first card is for this weeks Dynamic Duo and CASology. The cue card for CASology is Care and thought this sentiment from The Alley Ways stamps was perfect with a few butterflies, what better way to share someone that you care about what they are going through.

My second card is the current BE Inspired challenge over at The Alley Ways blog....I love the sentiments from the set life is short and the crayon one is my favorite and the patterned paper from Doodlebugs Take Note pad is a perfect match with all the colors! And for this week's Retro Sketch (thanks Joyce). Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards...have a wonderful day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Butterfly

Solid Card Stock: White and Berry Sorbet

Stamps: Beautiful Butterfly and TAWS - Life Is Short

Ink: Berry Sorbet and Sweet Blush, VersaFine - Black

Ribbon: Britex

Crayons

Solid Card Stock: White

Patterned Paper: Doodlebug - Take Note

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Pearls: Kaiser

Ribbon: Britex

Stamps: TAWS

Two Cards...Two Challenges - ColourQ #185 and The Alley Ways #26

Happy Friday...today I was able to spend most of my day being crafty and so far I have 3 cards made and will be posting 2 tonight, the third one is for Waltzingmouse, they have a Flower Show challenge on Tuesday.  There is still plenty of time to play along, you can find all of the information here.  My first card is for this week's challenge for ColourQ and what a lovely selection of colors to use for inspiration for my card. I even pulled out some stamps that have never seen ink too, so fun to play with some new stamps that are not really new anymore. Who does not love a fresh box of crayons??? The smell alone sucks me in, so that is what I used to make my card, a color crayon stamp.  

My second card is for this week's challenge at The Alley Ways Stamps, Be Inspired.  The set I used is Ooh La La, I won it some time back and have only used it once before, so it was fun to pull it out again to play with. I also tried out my new bottle of Glossy Accents, this stuff is amazing! I love the way it looks on my bottles of nail polish.  Thank you so much for stopping by to take a peek at my cards...have a wonderful weekend!

Ingredients - all Papertrey Ink unless listed

Crayons

Solid Card Stock: White, Hawaiian Shores and Winter Wisteria 

Ribbon: Hibiscus Burst

Stamps: The Alley Way - Life Is Short and Paper Smooches - I Heart Art

Ink: Winter Wisteria, Hawaiian Shores and Hibiscus Burst and Hero Arts - Soft Cantaloupe and VersaFine - Black

Nail Polish

Solid Card Stock: White, Orange Zest and Hawaiian Shores

Stamps: The Alley Ways - Ooh La La

Bling: Stash

Twine: The Twinery

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles

Ink: VersaFine - Black

CASology #31 - Red

It has been a crazy week...I am sooooo far behind in leaving blog comments (I am so sorry, I get caught up and then the craziness starts). I will get started back with comments this weekend.  My week started with having the carpets in our entire house cleaned on Monday, then on Tuesday and Wednesday nights Ashleigh and I went to see Soundgarden at the Fox Theater in Oakland (it you have never seen these guys, you need to add it to your list of bands to see live). The house is still not put back together so there was no time to spend in my craft room. I spent Thursday trying to get caught up and everything back to it's place and I get called in to sub all day Friday...I am so happy to have a 3 day weekend. While I was working all day, my sweetie went out crabbing, he caught 14 of these yummy guys too. Once the mess was cleaned up and found my way back into my craft room and made a few cards. The first one is for this week's CASology challenge. This week's cue card is Red and with Valentine's Day just yesterday I thought this would be a fun card to make.

Thanks for taking time to stop and take a peek at my card...have a fabulous day!

Kiss Me

 Chris Cornell and Soundgarden

Fresh caught crab for dinner

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy and White

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles

Stamps: The Alley Way - ooh-la-la

Pearls: Doodlebug

Ink: SU - Real Red and VersaFine: Black