New Monday challenge at The Cheerful Stamp Pad

Oh my goodness two weeks are gone again, and where did they go? These days are just moving way too fast for me, I want to enjoy the Fall season for a long time. Winter is way too long here in SW Ontario
If you haven’t been to The Cheerful Stamp Pad blog yet don’t forget to head over there and see what the other members of the team have done..Our sponsor for challenge #70 is Lunagirl and the theme is “TAGS”.

Like every Friday I am rushing to get ready to go to the cottage and being the great procrastinator I am, I left printing my image until last minute. Can you imagine my surprise when without warning I was out of colour ink in the printer. It did print the pictures but they were in a sad state of different colours. I picked the best one that was sort of shades of blue and coloured it with my spica glitter pens. I was so happy when it was finished  and really looked good.

Supplies

Image…. Lunagirl  awesome digis you have to check them out.

Cardstock…GP white, wisteria wonder, patterned paper from $ store

Accessories… Spellbinders small long rectangles, Sizzix tag die, pearls, lace.

Thanks for visiting today and hope to see your Tag on the Cheerful Stamp Pad blog.

Happy Crafting

Barbara

Happy Pumpkin Season!!!!!

Happy Sunday, nice and warm and was sunny earlier and such a beautiful fall day. Traveling around Norfolk county there are rows and rows of pumpkins in the fields, I even saw a tractor with two trailers hooked to it just chocked full of pumpkins. So this is the Pumpkin Season. In a small town near us when we are at the cottage has a Pumpkinfest, prizes for the best decorated house….they know how to do it up big!!
I got this digi from Bugaboo on their Freebie Friday, and just ran out of time to get it finished for their challenge, story of my crafting life, usually a day late, but it worked perfect for a sketch challenge at Freshly made Sketches.  The card is 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 inches square the patterned paper is from a prize I won at least a year ago.

Usually when I take a picture outside I make sure part of me is not in the picture but missed this time I see a shadow on the corner darn!

supplies

Image is a freebie from Bugaboo

Cardstock…GP white and orange

paper…Halloween pack

Accessories…Spellbinders circles large   7/8 scalloped punch, black bling from Jolee’s, stickles

Sentiment… SU A round array

Challenges I am entering this in are:

Sketch #105 at Freshly Made Sketches

Anything goes at Simon Says Stamp Blog

Nice to see you today and come back again Monday for the Cheerful Stamp Pad.
Happy Crafting.

It’s Saturday and time for a Drunken Stamper challenge!!

Team Yellow Canary invites you to join the fun at the Drunken Stamper’s Saturday challenge. The theme this week is THINGS and the  thing is DIE CUTS, what could be easier unless you don’t have a single die.

I hope you will head over to the Drunken Stamper’s Blog and see what all my Yellow Canary teamies made to inspire you. You can also click on their names on the sidebar of my blog. Here is mine……

Just imagine I made something without an image and no colouring “gasp” it sure doesn’t happen often. But I saw this design and just had to try it. I used two dies to make the focal point. The lattice sizzix die and the Window Frames from Stampin’up. There is vellum behind the die cut. Ribbon and sentiment were added along with rhinestones which seem to have been lost in the picture. This looks so awesome IRL.
Thanks for looking today and come back again soon. You have until Friday October 4th at Midnight to enter the challenge.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Fall is here!!!

Almost the end of September where has our summer gone? I like the Fall, daytime temperature in SWO is 20 C and the night temperature is usually 6 to 9 degrees Celsius nice and cool for sleeping.. I haven’t put the furnace on at home yet but the cottage is a lot colder due to it being a “summer” cottage. It would be winterized but it’s nice to have a change for the Winter.
I follow House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge Blog and love to make cards with my favourite rodents so try to do as many as I can, some weeks it just doesn’t work out for me, that being said it’s been  three in a row….Wow.

The challenge at House Mouse & Friends is Monochrome…..I love doing monochromatic cards, they are so easy just find shades of the same colour. I was working on this image for a fall birthday and when the challenge was posted  I thought “perfect” I addend the small flowers for fun. There was a Sunflower challenge and I didn’t bookmark it but I am sure it is over. 

Supplies

Image Sleeping in the sunflower House Mouse Designs 

Dies….SU Apothecary set and Sizzix Flower die.

Cardstock…GP white Crushed Curry, SU dsp and Early expresso for the flower centers.

Accessories…a touch of stickles and ribbon.

I am entering this in the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge there is still time for you to enter it doesn’t end until October 5, midnight EST.

Thanks for visiting today and come back again soon.

Happy Crafting

Barbara

One for the Boys Week 2 at Clear it Out Tuesday

It’s Tuesday and time for the mid-challenge reminder, you still have a week left to get your project in for the One for the Boys challenge at Clear it Out Tuesday don’t forget to use the stash item….Punches and/or Die cuts, isn’t that going to be easy!! Two sponsors again this week QLR Stampede which I used last week if you missed seeing it just click HERE. The second sponsor is Digi Darla Designs and I used an image this week from there. Check out both of our sponsors they are very generous with their prizes, and make sure you read the rules of the challenge at the Clear it Out blog.
If you checked out last weeks card you will notice a theme here, Old Cars…you can make some great masculine cards with old cars & trucks. I went out of my colour comfort zone on this one,

Even if I went out of my comfort zone with using green I went with a favourite die to use, a Nellie Snellen scalloped oval. I used paper glaze on the windows and the headlights, of course the biggest thing was that I distressed the crumb cake, “gasp”
Supplies:
Image…..Digi Darla Designs
Cardstock…..Crumb cake, Garden green and GP white
Accessories…Nellie Snellen die, wood grain background stamp,
Paper glaze from Plaid, screw brads from the dollar store 5 years old.
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can find some crafty time to make a project for the challenge.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Second Week of “I Love Your Hat” Challenge……..

Summer is over and fall is upon us, the days are nice but the nights are cool. Soon it will be time to bring all my crafty stuff home and figure out where to put it until I find it’s proper spots. 
There is still another week to join in the fun at The Cheerful Stamp Pad the sponsor is Rick St.dennis digitals.  This week I used the same digital stamp I did last week but made it smaller to look more like a cameo.

I used the gold glitter flourishes to accent the feathers on the hat. I used tiny pearls on her earrings.
supplies
Image by Rick St dennis
Cardstock…turquoise . GP white and gold glitter cardstock
Dies.. spellbinder oval large, Opulent ovals and Tim Holtz flourish die
Embossing folder…cherry blossom from the Asian Cuttlebug pack.
Thanks for taking time from your busy day to have a peek at what I’ve been making. Don’t forget to head over to the Cheerful Stamp Pad and join us in the “I Love Your Hat” challenge.
Happy Crafting
Barbara

Born to Shop……..

Wow a second post today, I am just catching up some of the images that are already coloured. When I saw the image I knew I wanted to enter the challenge at Catch the Bug, It’s a BINGO challenge, you get to pick a line and make your card to match. The line I chose was Sentiment, Twine and Button. I picked an easy one but it matched the sketch I found at Freshly Made Sketches. If you haven’t seen the sketches they are great!!!

It’s overcast here in SWO today, last night we had had torrential downpour and it’s still damp here at the lake. I much prefer taking my pictures in the sunshine on the porch, although too soon it will be time to pack up and winterize.
Supplies
Image is from Bugaboo JJ shopping (I didn’t print the sentiment)
Cardstock, GP white, always artichoke and Pear Pizzazz
Patterned paper…a scrap from my table.
Twine…green and white baker’s twine
button…from CTMH pack
Embossing folder….from SU mosaic
I am entering this in the following challenges:
September Bingo ….. Catch the Bug challenge Blog
Sketch # 104 at… Freshly Made Sketches
Thanks for checking out my blog today and keep checking I seem to be on a roll.
Happy Crafting
Barbara.