Old Chap

This is for my husband's and my good friend's 70th birthday.  He has a great big mustach, like the one in the card.  When I saw the Less is More Silver color challenge today, I thought . . .  PERFECT! 
Hubby bought him a card, but I know Vin's wife would love to see a handmade card - after all . . . we became friends through our husbands; but very good friends through our crafting hobbies!

So I was able to pull this together fairly quickly (I am a slow creator).

School (work) has been crazy - So card making has taken a back seat (so has housework, but that is a different story :)  So this card will go into the Old Back Porch 52 Card Pick Up challenge (which I need now!)

I know it is Card-Making weekend, but it also family weekend in my life . . . birthdays and anniversaries galore inside of one week!!  So we had several days of family visits, celebrating and eating some yummy faves. 

Supplies:
stamps: Pink by Desing
Paper: black - PTI; silver - unknown; pattern - Momenta
other: versamark, silver embossing powder, corner rounder

I embossed the mustache, and swiped Versamark around the paper, and embossed that too.  You can't tell, but I distressed the edges of the paper too.

Anyway, thanks for looking!!  I hope you are enjoying a great fall weekend. 

Birthday doilies

 

Yeah!!  A four-day weekend - I got to "play" today.

My Mom's birthday (and a few other special women) is coming up.  This will be for her.  My mom and I share the same birthday!!  I was a very special gift for her - at least so she says.  :) 

I used the Retro Sketch Challenge and colors from The Play Date Cafe challenge .  The peachy and aqua colors are my mom's favorites.  In fact I just picked up a sweater and scarf set for her birthday, with these colors.  How great is that the card will coordinate!! 

 

I'll also put this into the 52 - Card Pick Up challenge as my card-making time is limited.

 

supplies:

• cardstock: PTI
• stamps: My Mind's Eye
• other: scallop die: PTI; button: Stampin Up, lace: JoAnn's; white embossing powder; ink: Stampin Up

Thanks for looking!

Sending Prayers

 

The challenge this week at Less is More is to use

Brown & Pink

 

I used this sketch from the Clean and Simple blog

 

 

and I embossed the rectangle area for One Layer Wednesday (OLW) being hosted by Karen at Snippets -

 

I wanted to create an illusion of a sunset on the border, with the color going from brown to pink. . .  It's ok, of course it looked much better in my mind than it does on paper. 

 

Here are a few snapshots of how I accomplished the outer area with the embosssing:

 

This may be my last post for a bit.  School starts tomorrow.  It's been a great summer!

 

supplies:

• stamps & paper: PTI
• ink: PTI and Stampin Up and Staz-On
• butterfly: stamped with Staz-On and colored with copic - a bit of glitter on the front

Thanks for looking and your lovely comments.

Rats!

I do have a stash of cards - most of them on the feminine side.  So when my nephew-in-law's birthday came up, I did not really have a card for him.  I've had this stamp for quite a while now, and have always wanted a chance to use it.  Here is that chance :)

I used sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the colors from Play Date Cafe .

 

 

Patrice over at The Old Back Porch has some great photography going on.  She also has a 52 - Card Pick Up Challenge going on. . .  to make one card a week for 52 weeks.  Now on Tuesday, I am going back to work (I am a teacher).  So my time for card-making will become very limited.  I am not a fast creator.  Ideas need to mull around in my head for a while.  I start and stop my creations - sometimes they come out like the ideas in my head. . . sometimes not.   Anyway the reason I told you all this is, that I think the challenge of one card a week (for the rest of the school year) will be a good one for me :)

 

On a personal note: (skip if you'd like)

Now it is Labor Day Weekend - a big BBQ weekend.  Hubby got a call to invite us to a Q and bring a side dish.  Me, I am not much of a cook, and I would just go to the local deli and get some type of salad.  My husband really does not cook - except for an awesome breakfast, and to BBQ what I put before him.  Once in a great while, he will get the urge to cook.  And that is happening now, while I write this post.  Here is the photo of his finished creation:

 

Here is the link for the recipe: Festive Pasta Salad - he said to let you know the tomatoes were his own idea :)

Looks yummy, and tastes good too!

 

 

supplies for "Rats" (the card, not the food)

• paper: cardstock: PTI (green), and unsure about the purple
• patterned paper: My Mind's Eye
• stamps: Whipper Snapper
• ink: Memento and Stampin Up
• colored with Copic markers

 

for you

My aunt is turning 93 this week.  This is for her birthday.

I used the Less is More challenge  of   3 - 2 - 1 

Here is my recipe:

3 potted plants

2 words

1 glass of wine bow

 

 

I followed the sketch from Retro Sketches - I am really loving the sketches here - you can make them as simple or complex as you'd like.

 

I used the inspiration photo from Just Us Girls for my colors. I love the soothing tones in this picture:

 

Over at CASology the challenge is create a card with the cue word: RELAX.

Gardening is relaxing for me and for my aunt.

 

supplies:

• stamps - image: Whipper Snapper; sentiment: PTI
• paper and ribbon: PTI
• other: color pencils, nestabilities

As always, thanks for looking, and your lovely comments.

And to those of you who have started following my site, thanks so much!

Papertrey Ink August 2012 Blog Hop Challenge

Yeah, I have a blog! I can enter blog-hops!  Paper Trey Ink's August Blog Hop is about autumn textiles.

 

I used rustic cream paper, and embossed with PTI's linen texture plate (it doesn't show up too well in the photo).

Surprisingly, I did not stamp anything.  Hmmmm.

The pattern paper is from Paper Trey.  The blue is "Enchanged Evening".  I used Mega Gracious Vases, and the flowers are cut from fleece using Flower Fusion dies.

I used the sketch from Mojo Monday , just flipped it on its side. 

 

 

supplies:

paper, dies, ribbon, string, embossing plate: all Paper Trey Ink

buttons: unknown

 

Thanks for looking! 

Without a Microscope

I made this card for several challenges:
The first is for One Layer Wednesday - to make a one layer card inspired by your favorite subject.  Well, I am a sixth grade science teacher  . . . (and it is  my favorite subject!). 
My school term starts in one week.  I can't wait to start.  I've already been up to school 3 days to set up my class room.  So exciting!!

I also wanted to incorporate the challenge from Less is More which is "Tearing".  I accomplished this into a one-layer card, by masking torn paper. 

I used the colors from the CR84FN Color challenge which were aqua, kraft, and white. 

I followed the sketch from Sketch Frenzy Friday , while I don't have "texture" on the top portion, I am hoping that the "text" background will suffice.

Creative Card Crew's challenge is to use script, or newsprint, or maps. 

supplies:

• microscope and paper clips: Gina K Designs
• sentiment: Sweet and Sassy
• text background: unknown
• inks: Stampin Up and PTI chai and chamomile

Thanks for looking.