Halloween Card for Joan's Gardens Challenge...

Good morning everyone.  I'm here today to share with you a card I made for the Challenge over at Joan's Gardens.  Every week Joan hosts a challenge and I love to play along with these as they keep me on my toes.  Joan has a web shop and has lots of wonderful items and when you order everything arrives in pristine condition.  She is a class act!  So why don't you go over and have a look around and maybe you will decide you want to enter her challenge.  This week's guidelines for the challenge are:

Fall card (possibly with a pumpkin)

Tree

Polka Dot back Ground

Grass

And here is my card:

I think I covered all the bases on this one.  It will make a cute card for one of my grandsons.  I'm always needing just one more Halloween card when it comes time to mail them out. 

The weekend is upon us and it's a holiday weekend to boot!  Have a wonderful holiday and be safe whatever you are doing. 

WOYWW 169

Good morning everyone.  It's time once again to show you my messy desk.  I'm afraid I'm a closet messy person and I'm just too ashamed to show you the real me.  In all honesty, I do try to keep my space clean because I find if there is too much clutter I lose everything I need.  I do have some stuff piled up on a desk beside me that really needs to be put away, but I'm not going to show that little project.  So if you would like to participate in my addiction just head on over to Julia's blog and have a look around, you can visit every one's desk from there and see what we all have going on.  You can also link your own desk there and become one of us.  So join us if you dare!

 

You can see the latest image I've been working on with my distress inks; also a brand new jar of Gesso and some charms that I plan to make moulds with.  Then I can have my own charms whenever I want.  and of course, my new best friend...my I phone. Lying behind my phone is the case for my inks and of course just some clutter and "stuff" that is usually present at all times. 

 

So that's it for me this mourning....now I'm going over to Julia's and have a look around and see what all the rest of you are doing.  First things first...I need more coffee!  Have a great day and I hope you have some time to be creative.

Life Involves Passions.....

Good morning bloggers!  I'm here this morning to share a card I made using a sentiment that I love.
It is another of my old stamps that was just sitting waiting for me to use it and I decided today was the day.  If I remember correctly, this is from Cornish Heritage Farms and they are no longer in business but I love this sentiment and decided to use it anyway.  Of course I used Spellbinders dies, Ranger Distress Inks, some Prima paper and some purchased floral pieces.  I don't know if the pink in the paper shows up well or not, but the flower actually matches the paper. 

Well that is it for me this morning.  Life is happening all around me this morning and thank goodness I don't have a job that I have to go to!  I hope your day is a good one and that you have a little time to be creative!

Pumpkins...

The days are, little by little, getting shorter, the temps are starting to cool and there is a hint of fall in the hour.  So in honor of all this I've been working on these little pumpkins.  The stamp is an oldie from Just Rite Stampers and I colored it with my distress inks.   I used Spellbinders dies to make the frame and the orange decorative square.  Then a little white ribbon and it is all ready to go.  I also stamped some swirls on the orange square just to fill in space.

Pretty soon there will be frost on the pumpkins and I will be all ready with my little card. 

 

I also wanted to share a picture I took through my craft room window.  I have been waiting for several years for the squirrels to come to my yard and this is the thanks I get!   The little rascal spilled several seeds before he realized  he was just too big to fit the feeder.  I suppose now I will need to buy him some peanuts!   

 

Have a wonderful day and I hope you find a little time to be creative!

WOYWW 168

Happy WOYWW and welcome!  Wednesday brings us all out of the woodwork and into the lime light.  Suddenly you don't see the gorgeous creations, instead you see our little mess it takes to bring about the other.  Mine isn't too bad this morning, as  I am in the process of doing a general clean up.  Just some leftover stuff from my last project that  need to find their way back to their home.  And of course my ever present cup of coffee.  Some ink, some glue, some scissors, some Pop Dots and a little paint here and there.  Not really messy but things I need to put away before I begin again. 

So if you are wondering why I should show you my little mess; just head over to Julia's blog and she will tell you all about it.  You might even decide you want to become one of us.  I have become addicted and don't know how on earth I would pass my Wednesdays any other way!  So now I'm off to visit everyone else.  I've shown you mine, now show me yours!

White on White

Good morning everyone!  Now don't faint because I'm posting on a Tuesday, but I just had to share this Christmas Card I have made for the challenge over at Joan's Gardens.  Each week Joan issues a challenge and you can win a nifty prize if you play along.  Joan always makes me think outside the box.  The instructions for this weeks challenge were to:



Make a Christmas Card

Use All White

Use something from Nature

Use glitter or stickles

I just had to add a little red to that bird.  Hope this doesn't disqualify me!  Have a great day and try to find a little time to be creative.

A Rose is Good .....

I'm here this morning to share another card I have made coloring the image with my Ranger Distress Inks Re-Inkers.  I have had this image for several years and was going through some drawers feverishly looking for another stamp and saw this.  Oh, I must ink up this baby and so I did.  I love the way this turned out.  I stamped the image onto Canson Watercolor Paper and cut out using the Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles and then matted it onto the blue.  The little sentiment is from Heartfelt Creations.  I inked only one word on a larger sentiment and cut out with Spellbinders Fluer De Lis Squares.  My ribbon is seam binding colored with the Distress Inks so it would match. 

For years, when I was working, I purchased crafting supplies by the arm load.  Brought them home and stored them away.  I used to laugh that I liked crafting, but I was really all about the buying.  Well when the job was gone and along with it the money, I vowed to use what I have first.  Of course I'm like the rest of you...I have my little addictions that I can't do without but let's face it, if I don't use what I have, who will?

So be frugal where you can and indulge yourself now and then...after all, we don't want to put anyone out of business.  Now, that is my little insight for the week.  I hope you are getting off to a good start and that your week is a good one.