Seize the Heroes #2

I am playing along with Seize the Heroes at Seize the Birthday. This is my second card and it has been lovingly made as my husband was a firefighter for many years, it was a job he loved.  I found a super cute firefighter at Dearie Dolls Digis, they no longer make new digital images but you can go and look and still download them free.  Here is my card.

I must admit this was pretty easy, after I coloured the image (due to a miss with the red marker) I had to fussy cut him out, The background I had made early March but abandoned it for a different one, so when I saw it in my "parts box" I thought wow this is perfect!!. I then layered it on a red base and die cut two red sentiments and a white shadow. 

Love this Thanks die and thought it deserved a "selfie" 

I am entering this in:

Seize the Heroes #188 

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies

I am so happy for this challenge as I have been struggling to be motivated just to sit at the desk and work on something, this has gotten my mojo working as I still have more on the desk. 

Thanks for visiting today "again" and don't forget to say Thanks to all the front line workers. 

Seize the Heroes!!!

There is an extra challenge at Seize the Birthday blog and it's called Seize the Heroes, make a card for one or more (up to 3) for the challenge to say Thanks to our frontline workers. The first card I made is to honour my daughter's profession, Cleaning!! Along with their regular cleaning of buildings they were asked to disinfect a retirement building.

The digital image is from Lacy Sunshine, I love these images and it's hard to find something pertaining to cleaning, I'm glad I had this one in my stash. I followed the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 There are two sketches to choose from. Thanks was cut three times from navy cardstock and glued together for elevation. After playing around with many many many pieces of cardstock to match the turquoise paper I had to go with navy and I love it.  "note to self AGAIN...pick paper first)

Couldn't resist a close up, look at the "dust bunnies" 

I am entering this in:

Seize the Heros ~~ #188

Sweet Sketch Wednesday ~~ 

Thanks for visiting today and check out the the challenge and make a thank you card for our frontline workers. (I will be dropping this off at my daughter's house tonight so she finds it when she gets home from work)

It's time for a NEW Challenge at Shopping Our Stash ~~ So Thankful

Shopping Our Stash has a new challenge and it's So Thankful, you can join in the  fun by making a Thanksgiving card (a little late for Canada) or just a Thank you card. I made a Thanks card. I needed a few thank you cards and needed them to be easy and simple, and believe it or not it I made a one layer card.  Earlier this year I found a huge box of note cards (A2 size) at the local Goodwill store, they were printed on the front and blank on the inside and had envelopes too. "score" . Here is how I decorated my "thanks" card.

I die cut the Thanks out of foam core and adhered it to the card, then added a trio of pale coral flowers with leaves to the corner I then coloured some rhinestones with a dark yellow marker an attached them to the centers of the flowers.

The flower dies are from a Stampin'up set I don't use very often and there are gorgeous flowers and leaves, they also some with stamps and co-ordinating paper.

Thanks for stopping by today and head over to the main blog and check out what the rest of the teeam are Thankful for.

It's Tuesday and time for a new Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.....

Are you ready for a really, really good challenge at Shopping Our Stash? Well do we have a dandy this week!!! Challenge #330 is a Thank you card in less than 30 minutes!!! We want you to set your timer for 30 minutes and create a thank-you card, very important to set the timer and let us know how long it took.  I guess I kind of cheated a bit, since I am still in chaos from bringing my things home from the lake I did a bit of prep work. I picked my sketch (pinterest) picked my cardstock and my dies and stamp I wanted to use then I set my timer.  My card was made in 22 minutes and 50 seconds

The poinsettia was already cut and glued together (it was something I made just in case I needed it for a tag for the 25 days of Christmas Tags) I did add glue and some chunky gold glitter.  I then cut the banners from scraps fish tailing both ends. (you will see later) cut two Thanks one black one red and glued them together. The lace is from the dollar store and is adhesive, just peel and stick. My colours are Crumb Cake Red and Very Vanilla all were from my scrap or file box. 

Close up of the poinsettia which is an unbranded die. 

Now you see why I cut both ends of the strip of patterned paper, so I could use the end bits on the inside. I also finished it with a really nice stamp.  When I bought the stamp the top of the wood said From all of us, when I stamped it it had For All You Do well so much time had passed they no long sold those stamps but it sure works for some occasions (I'm still looking for From all of Us)

I'm entering this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Giving Holiday Thanks

Thanks for visiting today and now is a good time to get a jump-start on those thank you cards you will need after Christmas or just an every day one for your stash.  Head over to the Main Blog and check out how long it took the design team members to make their cards. 

It's a Colour Palette at Shopping Our Stash!!!

I can't believe it's November already, here in Canada we went back to Standard time and it sure plays havoc with my sleep and eating patterns but I'll survive. At Shopping Our Stash for Challenge #328 it's an Autumn colour palette and here it is.....

Gorgeous colours

I went completely out of my comfort zone for this one which is why it took me forever. First some coaching from the Colorburst Queen aka Lauren and some casing of one of her cards when placing and gluing the leaves then what to do with that brown ribbon? I made a rosette, it doesn't look too bad.

As you see I used an old dictionary and colorburst, my first attempt (I need more practice) The leaves are a set of 4 leaves. Thanks is an unbranded die I've had for a long while and never used. 

Since I am not sure of the recipient I just finished the inside with the leftover leaves. they look pretty good for the colour palette if I say so myself.

Everything on my card was from the scrap box except the dictionary pages, the leaves were cut with Cuttlebug leaves dies that came 4 in a package and are metal an foam I have had them as long as my cuttlebug over 15 years.

I'm entering this in:

Hiding in my Craftroom ~~ #325  Fall colours

Just Us Girls ~~ Word week Thankful

Thanks for spending time here today and the colour palette is beautiful and I'm looking forward to seeing your projects. Head over to the Main Blog and check out what the rest of the design team has made for the challenge

Shopping Our Stash #228 wants you to give Thanks (US Thanksgiving)

Thursday November 26th will be the U.S. Thanksgiving and Shopping Our Stash  would like you to make a project to say Thanks or to make a Thanksgiving card/project. Since I am Canadian and our Thanksgiving was in October I made a "thank you" card. The stamp I used is from CardArt Flower Thank You from Hero Arts.  I'm not even sure it has seen ink before today but it sure made a quick card, or would have except I did some fussy cutting lol.

I layered the image on black then on pink, the flower was stamped, coloured and fussy cut.

I used Brilliance coral ink for part of the image, and added a few pink rhinestones 

I left the inside blank as I will write a personal note.

Thanks for visiting today and for my U.S. visitors have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Challenge #178 Thanks or Thanksgiving

Looking for my Clear it Out post scroll down or click HERE

Wow this challenge couldn’t have come at a better time,  our neighbours dropped a lovely thinking of you card and a box of chocolates into our mailbox one day. I have been so busy I hadn’t made a card yet. (where are the extras when you need one?) I also needed to make it fairly simple of course because I was running close to the wire (again) Is there a procrastinators anonymous? 

One of our ladies at our last “get together” showed us how to make this card. The punch is retired from Stampin’ up but any punch that cuts a strip will work and there are lots out there. The sentiment was cut with spellbinders oval and the lacy oval is a Nellie Snellen die. I added the butterfly and rhinestones.

Close up of the Butterfly

The inside is finished with a plain white piece of cardstock and I have plans for a very short sentiment that we really appreciated their kindness.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will have time to join us for the Thanks/Thanksgiving challenge. Head over to the blog check our the rules and see what the rest of the team has made for your inspiration. Just click HERE.

Challenge #20 T is for Thanks (for nothing)

I must apologize for being tardy with my blog post, our TOPS fall rally was today, I  was finishing a few insides of the Christmas cards to take to sell and helping fill the goodie bags to hand out with the name tags and totally forgot I had a card to blog about.
The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge is to make a Thank you card or a Thanksgiving card if you are in the U.S.A.  If you feel the desire to make a snarky comment go for it!!

Pink and grey goes together so well and I love this paper I found at (of all places) Wal-Mart.The image is used is from Bugaboo Digital Stamps I didn’t put thanks on the front, perhaps I should before I give it away.

I used white opal liquid pearls to make the froth on the cup, I now need to buy a new bottle as it works for snow and fur too. I coloured with copics and added a few flowers from my stash. I even broke out a new roll of ribbon,

Not sure but this could be taken as a tad snarky it depends on how your mind reads it. The sentiment came with the digital image.
I am entering this in:
Catch the Bug anything goes challenge for November.
Thanks for looking today and I hope you find some time in the next two weeks to add your project to the SoSS T  is for Thanks (for nothing) challenge.

Splish Splash I was Taking a Bath…….

Looking for my Clear it Out Tuesday post just scroll down.
Well not really but I did get out the “wet” products, The theme for challenge #163 at Shopping Our Stash is Splish, Splash and it mans to use a wet element on your project.Twinkling H20s, water colours, glimmer mists, check with the blog on more ideas. I had so many ideas but I decided on making two cards, the first I made a background with  Shaving cream & re-inkers. on shiny cardstock.

I love how this turned out, it reminds me of a wild storm. The boats are layered under the background and framed with the oval.

close up of the sailboats.

And now for the second card I wanted to use something I had only used in a class, I googled how to use it and this is what I came up with.using Silks Acrylic Glaze.

I smeared the glaze on  my silicone pad and inked the Hero Arts Flower Bursts Pattern background stamp then set it aside to dry as once dry it is permanent. Next step was to take a dab more of the glaze and add water to it then painted over the whole image,‘

I can’t remember the name of this punch from Stampin’up  but you can find the tutorial on how to make a coloured base for it HERE.

Since this is a thank you card the inside is blank so I can write a personal note inside.

Thanks for stopping by today  and I hope you can find some time to join us in the Splish Splash challenge.

SoSS #13 - L is for Layer

Welcome back for another Sisterhood of Snarky stampers challenge! This week our Alphabet Soup theme is "L is for Layer."

The sisters would like you to make a one layer card (one layer on top of a card base is OK, but no more than one layer).

Here's what I came up with for the challenge:

 

I went for a CAS look on this card, I scored the sides of the card base to give the illusion of another layer, but there's really just one!

Visit the SoSS BLOG for all the details on this challenge and be sure to visit the sisters and show them some crafty love too.

If you want to play along with the challenge, you have until 11:55 pm (EDT) to upload your project on the SoSS BLOG.

Clear it Out Tuesday’s Challenge #39 Thank-You

Hi,  welcome to a new challenge at Clear it Out Tuesday the theme of the challenge is Thank You and the stash item is something you have been saving because you haven’t found the right place for it. Most of my stash is things I haven’t found a place to use it. The challenge is for two weeks and we have three sponsors again this week that means a triple chance to win. Stamping chef, Bugaboo, and Lacy Sunshine are all fabulous sponsors and are very generous with their prizes.
My image is from the Stamping chef, I chose it because it is a cause close to my heart. I made this for my very dear friend Lynn that is having chemo for cancer.  I am so glad she is a FIGHTER!!

The image is coloured with prisma pencils and OMS, I painted the wings with Silks acrylic glaze, Ice it gave them a nice shimmer. The cardstock I used is bashful blue, pacific point and GP white  My stash item is the rhinestones on the edge, I have had them for 3 years and finally found a sketch I could use them in. I also used some tiny sticker aphas to spell out. Thanks for being strong.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you find some time to create a Thank you project for Clear it Out Tuesday’s challenge, remember the stash item.
Happy Crafting.

For all You Do…….

#1 You still have time to get in on the fun at Clear it Out for the Warm and Fuzzie’s challenge, it closes Monday January 14th you will find the information HERE
#2 Drunken Stampers Challenge is for all of January, it closes on February 1st. You will find the All that Glitters challenge HERE..
Hope to see you enter both challenges. Now on with my card……
At a hostess group before Christmas we made a snowflake card with this layering and I loved it. I needed a thank you card and decided to try my hand at the technique. I saw it for the first time at Stamp and Scrap with Frenchie and you will find her video on how to replicate the card HERE.
                            

What I used…..

Stamps……..SU mixed bunch, Stampendous sentiment

Cardstock………GP white, Bravo Burgundy

Ink……..Purely Pomegranate Regal Rose

Paper flower from my stash.

Thanks for looking today and check out the challenges on Drunken Stampers and Clear it Out.

Time to make those Thank-You cards

First of all I would like to wish everyone that stops by a Happy New Year and may 2012 be the best ever.
With the start of the new year comes the new challenges, today January 3rd is the start of a challenge at Clear it Out Tuesday to make a Thank-you card. You have two weeks to design and post your card.  I have made one of my favourite folds…..an easel card. I find them really easy to do and they look awesome. The stamp I used is from Layers of color, it is a cling stamp and it is made for the Spellbinder label 16 set of dies but it works just as well with the Label one as well. I coloured with pencil crayons and oms, stamped the thank-you from the cute & curly retired set from Stampin;up and punched it with the punch that goes with the set. The colours I used were Early Expresso and Pink Pirouette. the dp is from a DCW stack pack and the ribbon from Offray. I added the tiny butterfly and the pearls to finish it off.
                               
Thanks for stopping by today and hope you will join us at Clear it out Tuesday. The next challenge will be January 15th so don’t forget to post your project for the challenge.
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
Richard Monckton Milnes

Time to be Thankful

It’s Thanksgiving week in the United States this week and there are a couple of challenges featuring “thankful” cards. The first one I found at Crop Stop and you have until November 29th to put your “thankful” card on their blog. I’m also entering this one at  Use it Tuesday and there is 4 days left on this challenge there too. I love the concept of Use it Tuesday as it is to use your stash and boy have I got lots of it. Stamps that have never seen ink and paper I’m saving.
The stamp is from Unity Stamp company, the image just lends itself to a circle, so used my plain circle nestabilities (my first set of nesties) The background is green vellum I found on one of our yard sale ventures earlier this year and I embossed it with the birds and swirls cuttlebug folder. I attached the vellum to green cardstock  with brads and then adhered it to the card base.
                            
Thanks for stopping by today and try to take some time to for yourself.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Time to be Thankful

I am addicted to the House Mouse and Friends challenge blog, the challenges are every two weeks, the first and third Monday of the month and you will find the current challenge HERE. Two week challenges are great because they give me more time to create.
The Canadian Thanksgiving is over but the American one is coming up soon, on this 11/11/11 Remembrance day we have a lot to be thankful for. I read a post on Facebook that read “Superheros don’t wear capes, they wear dog tags” how true that is. We need to be thankful for the men and women that are fighting to keep the peace.  Here is my card for the “thankful” challenge.
                          
This is one of my favourite, sort of CAS sketch, it’s about as CAS as you will find from me. The stamp I used is Taking Notes. The colours are Cherry Cobbler and GP White. I coloured with Prismas and oms.
I am also entering this in the Crop Stop Challenge to show my flag's colours, being Canadian ours is red and white. 
Thanks for stopping by today and think about what you are thankful for.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon