One more

Hello again....

Ok, I decided to clean off my craft table before heading to the kitchen...

Here is another Queen & Co shaker card.  It is one of my favorites.  I just love all of the fall colors.  The reds, oranges and yellows....One of the reasons Fall is my favorite season.

      Challenges I am entering....
      Simon Says Wednesday - Fall/Autumn Colors
      Creative Knockouts - Embossing Delights
      Di's Digitals - Halloween or Harvest
      Cat's Pajamas - #362 - Fall
      Catch The Bug - October Fall Challenge 
      Dream Valley - Add A Sentiment

I have two more cards but I will show them to you tomorrow. 

Have a good evening.  Chat with you later.

Queen & Co

Hello again.

 I have so many stamps, dies, etc that I bought and I just love them but I just never getting around to using them.  So this weekend, I pulled out my Queen & Co notebook and started using the fall and winter ones. I am going to be posting a few of the cards over the next few weeks.

I had to start with Halloween, even though it is too late to mail the cards.  I will have them for next year.  The Halloween Hoopla set is just so cute.  I love all of the dies in the set.

Actually, I just love shaker cards, which means that Queen & Co is one of my favorite companies.  I  really should use them more often.



Challenges I am entering....
Just Add Ink - #480 Add a Technique (Shaker card)
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Halloween
Di's Digitals -  Halloween or Harvest
Tiddly Inks - Trick or Treat
Die Cutting Divas - #444 Anything Goes
Polka Doodle Craft Challenges - #43 Anything Goes

 I need to go clean the kitchen and then get things ready for tomorrow.  I hope everyone has a great evening.  I will chat with you later.



 

Halloween Batty Lantern

Hello.  How is everyone doing?  I have been busy with life the last few  days but I do have a couple of projects to show you.

The first is a simple bat lantern from the Silhouette Design Store.  Once a month, I make up kits for some of my friends that are learning to make cards.  I added this lantern, just as something fun to make for Halloween.  I had a couple left so I am going to make them up and put them in my neighbor's mailboxes tomorrow.

I haven't completed any challenges in a long time, so I thought I would see who still sites.  And see if I can get back into doing them.



             Challenges for this lantern:
             Give You Give a Crafter A Cookie - #128 Halloween
             Double D Challenges - Silhouettes
             Polka Doodle Craft Challenges - #43Anything Goes
             Gem of A Challenge - #21 Anything Goes
             Crafty Challenges - #401 Anything Goes

I don't know how often I will do challenges but it is fun to do them so we will see.


Off to fix up the last two.  Hopefully I will be back in a little bit with something else fun.

Chat with you later.  Have a good one.

Shopping

Hello.  How is everyone on this cloudy dreary day.  It is 2pm and the sun is no where is sight in Michigan.  Oh well, I will just stay inside and get a few things done.

I spent the last few days at my son's.  There wasn't a reason for the trip just a chance to hang out and relax with him and his girlfriend.  It turned into a craft shopping trip.  Kailey (my son's girlfriend) and I went shopping on Wednesday and every where we went I found craft supplies.  This picture doesn't come close to showing everything.  I have three big paper packs, two small ones, lots of loose paper, two Becky Higgins albums, two die sets, etc.  The list just goes on.

Now I just need to organize it all and then sit down and play for a little while.  Hopefully, I will be back later with a project.

Have a good afternoon.  Chat with you later.

 

Birthday cards

Hello.  I don't know how much I will be around this week, but I will try to post from time to time.  I still need to post the rest of the birthday cards.  I am still receiving them but hopefully by the end of the week, I will be up-to-date.

I received this first card from my in laws.  My mother-in-law isn't crafty but she has made some friends that make these wonderful cards.  It isn't it a great card.  They have been trying to get her to make them but she says at her age the work is just too small.

I have never tried the stitching on cards but it should does make some nice cards.  I should look into it but I have enough for now.  I will never get all the cards made that I want to make.

The next card just came in today,  It has definitely been cooler here.  In the 50s to 60s most days and 40s at night.  I think we are going to skip fall and go straight into winter.

The card is made by Solanie.  It was the only 5" square card, I received.  They were all standard A2 cards except the shadow box cards.  So it was a nice surprise to get a different size card.

Check out the boat one.  It is just too cute.  I love the wave.  I can't tell if it is a stencil or just paper, but amazing.  The boat is even named LFA for our group which stands for Lawn Fawn Addicts.  The twine is also Lawn Fawn twine.  Teresa made the card and she did a great job on it.  Just wonderful.

I know I keep using the same words but it is because I can't tell you how much these cards meant to me.  It was so much fun receiving them.  Every card put a smile on my face for one reason or another.

I have saved all of the cards.   I just like looking through them from time to time.  The next one will be going in my Elephant stash.  This is one of my favorite Lawn Fawn stamps.  I use it a lot.  The elephants are so cute.  The white paper has the stripes cut out so the green paper shows through.  I love the 3d effect.  Molly, if you are out there reading this.  Thank you for putting the smile on my face.

Well, I really need to get into the kitchen and cook dinner.  Hopefully, I will be back later.  Have a great evening.  Chat with you later.

Another set of Birthday cards

Hello.  I hope you are doing well today.  I am going to spend the day catching up on things I need to get done.

I have a few more birthday cards for you.  I hope you are enjoying looking at these cards.  It meant so much to receive all of these wonderful cards,  I just want to share them.  If you haven't seen the previous ones, you can check them out here, here and here.


The first one, today is a cute hippo.  I have seen this set but it wasn't on my list but the card may change my mind.  The card came to me from Katie.  I like the simple cleanliest of the card.  Sometimes they are the best ones.

Owls,  if you has some of my friends, they will say, I love them.  And I do.  When they first started showing up as stamps a few years ago, everyone had a cute one and I just had to have it.  So yes, I have tons of them. 

However, I didn't have these. Aren't they just so cute?  I had to go look at Sunny Studio's website.   I now own this set and one other. 

I will be working with them this weekend hopefully.  The card was made by Inger.  It was the first card I received from the birthday club.

Oh, I forgot about the inside.  Inger cut Happy Birthday out of cardboard and then covered it with orange polka dot paper.  On the black card, it really popped when you opened the card.  I will definitely be borrowing this idea.  I just loved it.

Debbie made the next fall one.  It is using the 'Jump for Joy' stamp set by Lawn Fawn and as I mentioned, it is one of my favorites.  I liked the little leaves added to the tree and the glitter on the leaf pile.  The plaid paper matches the scene perfectly.  Super cute card.

My only child/son is grown and so are all of my nieces and nephews.  And they are just starting to make families, so I don't make many cards for kids.   Hopefully, that will change soon.  My niece's kids are just getting to the point where they like the cards. 

So with that said, I was surprised when I opened the envelope from Patty and saw dinosaurs.  Not my norm, but look at the card.  The colors, the shapes,  the detail.  This is a sharp card.  Thank you so much for sending me a card outside of my box.  I may have to relook at some stamp sets.








 Annette sent me the next one and it is a bear holding a present with a balloon on the side. I am so bad about forgetting to use my twine.  I am getting better but a little twine adds so much to a card.   Thanks for sending me a cute card.

Wow, this is a long post.  I am so sorry.  Hopefully, you are enjoying the birthday cards.

I am off to mop the kitchen and work on some other things.  I will chat with all of you later.  I hope you have a good one.

More Birthday Cards

Hello.  I am only going to post a couple of cards tonight.  There is rain in the area and I always getting a small migraine and I am just going to spend the evening watching TV with my husband.  I will be back to normal tomorrow.

  The first is another shadow box with fairies and a unicorn.  Another card my niece's daughter would love.  She can never see this card in person.  I will lose it.  lol   I just love the bright colors that Lori used.  Absolutely amazing.  The rainbows and unicorn shimmer so I am assuming she used Winks of Stella or something similar on them.  Unicorns and fairies are magical so the shimmer is a perfect touch.

I am going back to the larger pictures.  I just like them better...

As I have mentioned, I love fall.  So the next two cards were great.  I will probably keep these out with my other fall cards.  The others are going in my keepsake box so that I can pull them out when I need a smile.



One of my favorite cards to make is a shaker card.  Doreen, I have already told you on facebook that I loved the card but once again, I love it.  Orange is a favorite color and it is fall.  And a shaker.  I don't know what else to say.  But thank you.

 The last one for tonight is another fall (as I mentioned).  This is one of my favorite Lawn Fawn Fall sets.  It is sitting on my craft table waiting on me to use it for some of my fall/Thanksgiving cards.  Who knows I may even make a few birthday cards with it.  Jennifer from Canada made this one.  Great job on the coloring and just putting the card together.

I will post more tomorrow.   I really need to get my craft table cleaned off so I can work on some projects. 

Chat with you later.  Have a great evening.