Dreary Dreary Day

It has been awfully dreary in my part of the world. Hope there is some sunshine soon. The temps did not get out of the 50's today. It is early for that low temps this early in Oct. But turned out to be a productive day for me since I was home from work. I made a batch of Pumpkin Butter, and a batch of apple butter and completed the challenge card. At 365cards we had the colors above to fashion our card from. My colors do look like the ones in example but poor photography, doesn't' help. I punched out little mini butterflies out of all the colors. I chose Kraft paper card stock for base of the card, then the peachy pink for the frame. I used Best Occasions Textured card stock for my color matches. Picked up the green to make my bow, and then used brown in the sentiment. Thanks for taking time to look.

Same, but different

That was the challenge for 365 cards today. Pam said to use the same DP but in a different color. I hope mine qualifies, I used a silver and red foil paper, by AC Specialty Paper, that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. After I had taken pictures of mine, I saw a lot of things to do different, so I will work on that part tomorrow. I made another Christmas card. Does everyone know it is just around 9 weeks till Christmas. Here's the card
In the last picture you can see that the same paper was used just in different colors. I used little gold seed beads for the center of the flower. The next one I make, I will use the green that comes in the pack, and will sand down the gloss of of it. I will also sand down around the edges of the red petals. It would look a lot more realistic.

POULTRY IN MOTION

Today at 365 cards we were to depict motion on our cards in some ways. I have a friend whose B/D is next week so decided to use this challenge for making her card. The chicken stamp is by The Cats Pajamas. Also the grass stamp comes in the same set. I used a coil out of a ball point pen to give the chicken its SPRING. I don't know why I chose the blue gingham ribbon. I found it at Big lots a couple of weeks ago for $1.00 and just thought it was pretty on this card.

Now to Monday's Card which was to use the word SO on it. This is one of the very first stamps I got. Pat from One little Spark gave it to me for Christmas, before she was One Little Spark. I have used this one over and over again. I have used it to make whole sets of note cards too. I stamped the dress in the Tuxedo Black ink, on one layer, then stamp it again on a scrap piece of patterned paper. I cut it out and piece it over the first stamp. I have made it in so many different colors and designs. It is my go to stamp when nothing else works. It is from Inkadinkado. Thanks for looking tonight.

Just a Minute

I will take just a minute to post Sat. & Sunday's 365 Cards Challenge. We are celebrating our Son's 37 Birthday. It is really tomorrow but My Mother can come today. They will be here at 5 and all I have done is the Red Velvet Cake. They still get homemade cake of their choice, but I don't have to decorate them like I did when they were little. Now on to the cards for 365. First Saturdays. Day 224 - Two Techniques
I know many of you have already done a lot of layering on your cards, but now I want you to use it along with some fussy cutting to create a foreground/background image. Make sense? The idea is to use these techniques to create some perspective. If you often do this on your cards, you will be quite at ease with this challenge, but if not, then this is the time to give it a try.

I use my Cricut Christmas Cartridge to do almost all of this. The man in the chair was googled and printed out and cut. That was the fussy cutting part of the challenge. It was really tiny little cuts around his face. The packages under the tree was from some stickers. I used the foam dots for dimension. I used the pale yellow card stock behind the cut out window, so it would look like the light inside the house. I used the gray card stock for base, so it would look dark outside the window.

Now Sundays Super Sketch.This one is pretty self explanatory. Thanks for looking. Now I am off to get ready to party!!!!

I HOPE YOU ARE READY

I sure hope you are ready and have a little time to sit and look. This is going to be another long post. I have 5 yes I said 5 365 cards post, and one for Pat at Southern Breezes. I won't talk much, just post the pictures.

Monday was to use weaving:

Tuesday was to use cross stitch:

It is hard to see the cross stitches, but where the little gold seed beads are, I done the first stitch of the cross then threaded a little bead on the second stitch. But you can not see it very well.

Wednesday was to let Denim be your inspiration:

My son Chris' Birthday is on Monday, I thought I would give him this card, since he does like denim shirts. It needed to be a lighter shade, but already had then one cut out. I faux stitched around the color and on the button placket. I put the collar and placket on with foam dots. I used little studs and my cropodile to sit them.

Thursday you were to use 5 things:

I made 6 of these. 2 of each kind. I needed a little B/D gift, so I incorporated that into the challenge.

Friday was in the shadows:

I cut the branch out using my Cricut. I used the shadow feature to cut the bottom branch. I used the Nestability to cut my frame, and used foam dots to lift up the frame and the branch.

Pat's Saturday Night challenge was to use dimension. So this will qualify for that too. Thanks Pat and Pam for all the work you do to make the challenges possible. If you see some typos and such, it is because Flossie Mae insisted on helping me tonight.

3 Days 3 Challenges

The weekend is almost over. and that makes me sad, I just need a little more weekend. There is just not enough time to do everything I want to anymore. Summer is coming to an end, and that is way to soon for me. The fall is a beautiful time of year, but I dislike winter so. Continue to pray for Karen's Mother, she is not doing well at all. My DH had a good weekend. Him and son went Trout fishing up in the mountains yesterday. He caught the largest trout, but now I really didn't see it, am just going by what he and Son said. It was catch and release, so he didn't bring it home. So I just have to trust that he wasn't telling me a "fish tale". Then after coming in from fishing, he went straight to the golf course. He had the winning score in his foursome. And he was dancing a jig (well not really, his back was hurting) for his accomplishment on that, he usually does not do that well with the ones he was playing with today, they usually get the lower scores. The great thing about all of Allan's hobbies is that it gives the time to myself to do my hobbies. Ahhh, the Good Life. it looks like this will be a long post. I have three of 365 Cards' challenges to share with you this afternoon.

Friday Day 216 was Ad Inspired

I chose to use black and white with a splash of teal

The flowers are some new ones I found really reasonably on Friday. The paper and ribbon was from some scraps.

Saturday Day 217 was to use the same color of ink as our card stock to stamp a background.

I used Burnt Sienna from Color Box Fluid Chalk. Added a sentiment and a googled pic of the pumpkin patch.

Sunday Day 218 Super Sketchy Sunday

I soon will need a baby card, so I used coordinating papers from Zoophabet by Cathy Heck to pull off this challenge.

It is hard to see but on one of the layers I used little rub ons on the edge where the papers join, that say Butterfly Kisses. Another layer, I used little buttons, and on the other, faux stitching. Ribbon was from stash, Rubber Duckie Die Cut from ?????? which was adhered using foam dots for dimension, and the sentiment was computer generated. Thanks for taking a little of your Sunday afternoon and spending it with me. I love it when you do.

The 4 Elements & A Simple Card

Good evening, I am so glad that tomorrow is Friday. This has certainly been a very long week for me. Pat had a easy peasy challenge this week. She said just make a simple card. And I did with stuff I had lying about my desk. I will send this one to Karen's mother who is facing bypass surgery in the next couple of days. Please remember her. All the colors did match, well at least they did in natural light. Just a pattern piece of DP folded into a card base. More corresponding paper with the little poppy. A ribbon, sentiment, and flower, and it was finished.

The second one is from the DT, at 365 cards. Today's challenge was to divide your card into 4 parts representing the 4 basic elements: water, fire, earth, and air. This was hard for me. So I googled the elements and found this picture. Layered it on several different colors and now I have to come up with a sentiment to put inside. Thanks for looking tonight.

Hope everyone has a terrific weekend. It is suppose to be a beautiful weekend with sun and a nip of chill in the air in my part of NC.