"Warm" cards

This card was for the GinaK color challenge to use Pumpkin, Chocolate, and Vanilla on a card. I used all GinaK StampTV items in this card. The image and sentiment are both embossed and up on pop dots. Even though it looks almost black in my picture, I did use the "Pure Luxury Chocolate" cardstock.

This card is the final WCMD that I have to show you. This was a Gratitude, Chocolate, and a Sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

I've not finished anything new yet this week, so I better get cracking so I have something to post!

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Paper Garden WCMD Challenge

The challenge from Paper Garden Projects was to make a project inspired by some of your favorite things about fall. Well, I love my new Brentwood stamps from Jessica Lynn Original that just arrived Thursday (happy mail!).

I colored Brentwood: Thanksgiving Turkey with Copics & Bic Mark-it pens. The sentiment is also from the same set. The DP, burlap swatch, and pumpkin spice cardstock are all from GinaK Designs Signs of Autumn StampTV kit. Base is PTI.

So....did anyone else make several cards Saturday for World Card Making Day? I worked on challenges on Splitcoast Stampers (along with this one), and will be posting those throughout the upcoming week. I was really on a roll...which made me happy since I'd been on such a dry spell!

Happy crafting!

Sharon

StampTV Kit

Short and sweet post here! Stamps are from the "Signs of Autumn" StampTV Kit. Top image is up on foam dots. Ribbon from Hobby Lobby last year, but I think I saw the same thing in there the other day. The layout was from StampTV's sketch challenge a couple of weeks ago.

Split Screen

Another day, another StampTV challenge card! Melanie issued a challenge to make a card using a split screen image. This was something I have not done before, and it was a fun card to make! Right away I thought of using this little giraffe from Hero Arts...and to say something with "Stretching" for the giraffe's long neck!! I'm goofy that way! From PTI I used Lemon Tart as my card base, and Summer Sunrise for the back of the image panel. I had to hand write the sentiment, (Stretching across the miles......to say, "Hello!") as the cardstock will not run through my printer. Button is from PTI, and the gold flowers were a gift. I had a different piece of DP all picked out, and when I went to put things together, this Digi piece from Gina K was laying there from yesterdays card, and I used up the scrap. Then I thought...oh tee hee hee, these are Gina K colors of the yellow, green, and a bit of orange!!! Didn't plan that at all, just one of those coincidences!

Happy crafting!

Sharon

StampTV color challenge

Cindy over at StampTV has a color challenge this week using the SU! (or close to it) colors of: Always Artichoke, Apricot Appeal, and Pumpkin Pie. I used the "close to" option when coloring my owl from Hero Arts. I used colored pencils (various brands) and baby oil. I had planned on trying the "kissing technique" but discovered I don't have any solid stamps to try that with! I also thought I was going to do the sketch challenge over there, and that wasn't clicking , either!! And it's such an easy sketch! Maybe it'll work for me tomorrow! I hadn't planned on trying the color challenge, and that ended up being the one that worked! My ribbon color actually coordinates better IRL! It's from Target $1 Spot, and has little circles, just the DP. Both of the DP's are digi downloads from Gina K.

Wow!! It's been three months since I started my blog, and people other than my Mom read it!!! DH was pretty amazed when I told him tonight that there are people subscribed through Google Reader and who show up as a "Follower"!!! Thanks to all of you...! If you had told me at this time last year that I would be making cards, writing a blog, entering challenges, having fun in the stamp community...I would have laughed at you! I thought blogs were a nutty idea ;-) Didn't know about crafting blogs!! Not so nutty anymore. Anyway, thanks to everyone who follows along and checks up on things!!

Happy crafting!

Sharon

Round Top Box

I saw this box template a week ago over at SCS, and printed the box out on white paper, but couldn't figure out how to go "cute" from there. Well, when I downloaded my free digi papers from Gina K, I knew I could use them to print my own "cute" paper! I just printed a different "paper" on each side of Georgia Pacific cardstock, then ran it through again to print the template out. Cut, put together, what could be easier or cuter!!! The brown is also from the same digi pack, sentiment from PTI, dew drops on the circle. This is my first ever non card (or scrapbook) paper project!!

I really wish I had some chocolate & strawberry whoppers to add for the picture, but when you live 30 minutes from the store...you don't make extra "little thing" trips. We truly do not have any chocolate goodies or any other candy in the house for me to add to the box!! I ate it all this weekend!!

I'm also going to use this as my entry to Stamp Something's challenge to create a 3D something this week!

Happy crafting!

Sharon