Cardinal Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends!

Today was a busy, fun-filled family day here at our house! I hope you all enjoyed a blessed Thanksgiving Day with your family and/or friends! I also hope you had time to reflect on all the things in your life you can be thankful for.  I know God has blessed me is so many ways...but I am especially thankful for my family, my church, my health....my spiritual health in particular! I can say without a doubt that I am heaven-bound because Jesus bought and paid for me with His death on the cross and has given me such an amazing life here and now, with the hope of heaven awaiting me. That's a whole lot to be thankful for! Leave me a comment and let me know what YOU are thankful for today!

So here is my Christmas card for the weekly challenge at SweetStamps this week!

This is my last week as Guest Designer on their blog. Its been a fun and busy month!

They have such great products in their store...its been amazing to be able to showcase some of them for you!

This week's challenge started on Tuesday. It is #145 "The Holidays".

You still have four days to enter, so why not pop over to the SS blog and get inspired by the DT samples and then get creative...and join the challenge! There is a nice prize you could win too!

For this card I used the SweetStamps stamp set called "Cardinal Pair & Warm Wishes".

I colored the image with alcohol markers, colored pencils and ink. Then I added some Stickles for sparkle in two colors: "Crystal" & "Holly".

The dies I used are the "Standard Circles Lg" by Spellbinders and the "Catalina Wreath" by Memory Box.

The background layer with the grid design is also shimmery with Smooch Spritz in a lime green. The green base card stock is stamped with pale green and white ink using an evergreen tree from Stampin' Up.

The card stock is mostly scraps from my stash, as are the gold twine and the sequins.

I used a sketch from the Technostamper blog:

http://technostamper.blogspot.com - Mon Lunchtime Sketch Chall #290

More challenges:

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com - #182 Winter Wonderland

http://ShoppingOurStash.blogspot.com - #121 Holidays or Winter

http://Cardsundmore-challengeblog.blogspot.com - #95 Advent/Christmas decoration

http://avenue613.blogspot.com/ - #47 Anything Goes, Optional Twist:

Create Your Own Challenge (use chart)

Here are the things I used-

Col. 1: image, sentiment, patterned paper, solid paper

Col. 2: any sketch, die cut

Col.3: Stickles, Glimmer Mist (Smooch Spritz)

Col.4: Sequins

Col.5: twine (gold)

Spring is Coming! Happy Easter!

It doesn't feel like it today...its only 35* outside & very cloudy...but the calendar says Spring is on the way!

I really enjoy the change of seasons and the beauty in each season! Many of the challenges this week are asking for Spring themes or Easter themes, so I've combined those two and here is what I came up with.

For the Easter theme I chose Tilda holding the little lamb, and the "Happy Easter" sign.

For the Spring theme I used spring/pastel colors, robins and flowers (and the baby lamb).

Ingredients:

The yellow flowered background is a recycled card,

the green pattern paper below is Paper Studio

The vellum flower is Jolee's

The stamped images are both Magnolia: "Tilda with Lamb" & "Sign with Birds" -

(colored with colored pencils)

Swirl die cuts are TH/Sizzix "Elegant Flourishes"

Rhinestones are KI Memories - "Sweet Life"

Inks: Memento "Bamboo Leaves" & Stampabilities "Lime Green"

Adhesives: Glue Dots minis, ScorTape, Scotch ATG tape & gun, Scrapbook Adhesives foam squares

Ribbon: American Crafts

Ranger Stickles "Star Dust"

The challenges I've decided to enter this one in are:

http://dutchmagnolialovers.blogspot.com - #53 "Use a Little Wood" (sign post)

www.flourishes.org/category/challenges/timeless-tuesday - #212 "Bring on Spring"

http://papercraftstar.blogspot.com - #137 "Birds"

http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com - #94 "Easter"

http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup - #64 "Spring Colors"

Happy Retirement! Me Too!

Well, it is Tuesday again, time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge! This week's challenge is all about using really old DP (designer paper)...any paper or cardstock with a print on it. And not just OLD but the OLDEST in our stash!

Challenge #90: Use Your Oldest Designer Paper

 I had to really dig for this one AND test my lazy memory! I chose an outdoorsy pine tree paper that I bought way back when I only did some scrapbooking, in my pre-card making days...I'm thinking around 1995 or earlier. Here's what I did with it:

My brother just retired from US Gypsum after 33 years so I sent him this card and it should arrive there today. Hope he likes it! The cute "guy" image is from Pollycraft called "Maurice-Ready for business". I colored him with Memento & Spectrum Noir markers. And that DOES kinda look like my brother! He was the IT guy (geek) at USG, has worn glasses forever and is definitely kinda pudgy! But the tie...nope, only at funerals!

The sentiments on the front and on the inside, and the Bible verse, are computer-generated (that font is called "Fineliner Script"), the old DP is from Hobby Lobby and the rest is just from my stash; the die cuts on the front are Spellbinders Labels 15 and the little sparkle dots are EK Success.

I'm entering this card in just a few challenges:

http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.com - "Something for a Man"

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk - #209 "Men Only!"

http://www.totallygorjuss.blogspot.com - #171 "For the Men"

http://guylousinimitability.blogspot.com - "bingo Card Challenge"- I used the middle row across: starts with a G (Guy in Glasses), *FREE*(bling), die cut

So, about MY retirement...well it is not from a job, it is from this DT! I decided to step down from Shopping Our Stash too. I left another DT last month and decided I needed to simplify even more yet. This is my last contribution to the SOS team. This has been such a fun design team to serve on! My fellow DT members are SO creative and witty and funny! It has been a pleasure to get to know these uber-talented girls! Thanks, Girls, for sharing yourselves a bit with me, especially the individual creative genius each of you brings to SOS! I will miss the weekly interaction but will definitely be popping in to check up on everyone from time to time. Thanks especially to Carla for her patience and encouragement as well!

And thank you, Reader, for stopping by today and diligently reading all the way to the bottom!! I hope you are inspired to join in this challenge that should certainly help you use up some of your stash!

Have a very blessed day, my friends!

Happy B-day to Clayton & Calvin!

Its Tuesday again and time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge! This one was perfect timing for me...I had 2 birthday cards I had to make for 2 of my grandsons. Yep, that's this week's theme:
Challenge 89 - Birthday theme- birthday card or layout, tag, etc.

Clayton's card

Clayton just turned 11 and his 2 main interests are 'video' games (I think they are called something else now!) and skinny jeans. We got him a couple pairs of skinny jeans and he was quite pleased....whew! It helped that his older sister told him they were cool. (Thanks, Pearl!)

For his card I wanted something not "little boyish" so I drew a simple pair of jeans, long and skinny, and painted the image with watercolor paints. Added a sideways sentiment and a little strip of denim* with faux stitching instead of ribbon. And not even any Stickles! But the brad does have a black rhinestone!

*the denim has been hanging around my laundry room for years for patching (which I haven't done in years!)

Calvin's card

Inside

For calvin, who is only one year old, I could still do a cutsie little-boy card! The image is a digital one from Pollycraft Stamps called "Frog" (go figure!). He is colored with Spectrum Noir and Memento markers. I used my Spellbinders Standard Circle die and Lg Scalloped Circle die, Microsoft Word to make the "1st", Stampin' Up HB stamp, and several really old buttons. On the inside the greeting is computer generated and the Bible verse is a JustRite clear stamp. The striped paper is a few years old and was a bit dog-eared...had to trim all the edges to use it. Super-old heart stickers too!

Everyone needs birthday cards frequently, right? Why not whip one up and join the challenge at SOS this week. We'd love to see what you create!

I'm also going to enter these in a few challenges:

Skinny Jeans card-

http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.com/- #37 "Cards for Boys"

http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/- #60 "Sewing, Real or Drawn"

http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/- #119 "Favorite Color Combo" (red, black, white)

Frog card-

http://avenue613.blogspot.com/- #6 "Sketch #1"

SOS Challenge #87- A Choice!

Well, its Tuesday again...time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge!

This one is #87 and the challenge is: Valentine/Love/Hearts/Red- You Choose!

Lots of choices...this should be a fun challenge!

I chose RED.

I had already made a Valentine card for my only Valentine, my hubby, so I decided on a Get Well card for my sister in Wisconsin who had surgery a couple weeks ago. Now she has to do physical therapy so probably needs a bit of encouragement.

On both the outside and the inside I used doilies; the one on the front I cut and placed where it needed to fit, but on the inside I just mounted the whole thing and had it go "around the corner". The picture makes it look a little lop-sided but it really works well. Here is the list of items used for this one:

die cuts- Spellbinders Labels 20

matching stamp- JustRite "Fleur De Lis Labels 20"

"get well" stamp- Clear Dollar Stamps "Wistful Wishes"

dragonfly stamp- StampingScrappingDesign "Tab Basics 1" set

(the little heart on the inside is also SSD)

DP, and card stock are scraps from my stash 

as are the doilies, Red ribbon and Red flowers 

The Bible verse and the sentiment inside are computer-generated.

Now would be a great time to get that Valentine card made for your special someone! Why not join in the fun at Shopping Our Stash...link up your creation so we can all enjoy it! For some inspiration check out my fellow DT memebers' blogs (see sidebar) and/or the SOS blog!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Dig Out Your Old Ribbon!

For our challenge this week at Shopping Our Stash, that is what we want you to do...dig out your old ribbon...the older the better! That is one of the things I love about SOS...it makes me use up that stuff that is just sitting there collecting dust, but really IS very useable and even lovely (well, sometimes!). The old ribbon I found is a spool of  kind of an odd color of grossgrain ribbon. Almost an ugly color. One of those muted, grayish, "subtle" colors I used to think were very "modern", "sophisticated", "trendy"...so I would buy clothing in those colors. But I looked like death warmed-over in them! "Sophisticated" death warmed-over! LOL 

The spool of ribbon was purchased at Old Time Pottery near Gulf Shores a couple years ago while vacationing there. It was in the Clearance department and looked like it had been there for years already. $.88 for 5 yards. I bought 3 spools, 3 different ugly colors. This is the first time I've used this one!

The ribbon color is more accurate in the picture below. The light blue die-cut with the leaves printed on it going up the left side of the card is another "stash" item that I've had for a few years now. It is from a whole set of 12" border die-cuts by K&Co. I really thought I'd use them more (that's why I bought 4 pkgs!) but I just don't think of them! They'd be great for scrapbooking...which I never have (MAKE) time for any more!

List of ingredients:

Ugly OLD ribbon - from my stash

border die-cut - K&Co. "SW Botanical Foil"

die-cuts - Spellbinders "Labels 20"

sentiments - "Sympathy" (borrowed from friend)

Bible verse - JustRite Clear "Cast All Your Cares"

background stamp - JustRite Cling "Elegant Fronds Background"

white card stock - my stash

print card stock - K&Co. "Julianne" Designer Mat Pad

flower & leaves - StampingScrapping "Color Me, White"

(colored with Memento, Promarker, MEPXY markers)

flatback white pearls - Pizzazz Aplenty

pearl sprays - Hobby Lobby

Glue Dots & 3M Adhesive 

I certainly hope you now feel inspired to join our "Old Ribbon" challenge this week! If you need a little MORE inspiration, check out my fellow DT's blogs (find them in my sidebar!) and/or visit the SOS blog!

As always, thanks so much for stopping by today! Please leave a comment and let me know you were here...then I can come visit your blog too!

I am also going to enter this card in a few challenges:

Word Art Wednesday - #63 "Anything Goes" (I Peter 5:7)

Sugar Creek Hollow - "Tic Tac Toe" (flowers, pearls, die cut)

Card Crafter's Circle - #58 "Layers" (I have at least 7 layers!)

Paper Pretties - PWC 241 "Ribbon"

Shopping Our Stash #85 "Suits Me to a T"

Happy Tuesday!
It is time for another challenge at Shopping Our Stash!
Challenge #85:  "Suits Me to a T"- use at least two items that start with "T"- for example: tag, tape, twine, trees, tinsel, tattered angels products, tin foil, tin cans, trim, tea bag, tea cup, tomahawk, tangerine, tigers, turtle,  etc.  Be sure to list what they are in your post!
At first I was a little stumped and could only find one or two things to use so I let my project sit overnight and when I came back the next day....voila! several other items came to mind!

Thinking of You card

"T" ingredients + other stuff:

Teal card stock- Paper Studio

Teal Prima roses

Twine- Sew Easy "Fancy Floss"*

Tea-dyed Bias Tape

Texture plate- Fiskar "Filigree"
Tim Holtz Distress Ink- "Evergreen"*
 "Tattered Sparrow" stamp- Tim Holtz*
"Thinking of You" stamp- Clear Dollar Stamps
"Tacky Glue"- Aleene's*
Flatback pearls- Pizzazz Aplenty "Lt. Coffee"
Brown Dye Ink- Vivid/Clearsnap
Sponge Daubers- Imagine Crafts*
Dot Card Stock- Imaginisce
Glue Dots*
Spellbinders Dies- "Fleur de Lis Accents"* &
"Card Creator/Fancy Ribbon Threader"* &
"Card Creator/A2 Matting Basics A/B"*
Button is from my stash
* All the starred items can be purchased at www.stampingscrapping.com 


The oldest items used are the bias tape and the button (they are both 20+ years!) but all of the other stuff has been in my stash for at least a year or two. All the smaller paper/cs pieces are from scraps I saved from other projects.
As always, I hope you are inspired to join in this challenge! Please visit our main blog and post your project there so we can see all of your "T" craft items too!


I am entering this card in a few challenges too!
Hiding in My Craft Room - #80 "Super Scrap Saturday"
Our Creative Corner- "Shabby Chic Style"
Sketchbook Saturday- #87 "Sketch by Iwona Palamountain"

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 84 "Buttons"

Yes, its time for another challenge at Shopping Our Stash...another FUN challenge! This one is all about BUTTONS...especially OLD buttons! Buttons that have been in your stash for a long time. I have bags and jars and tins of buttons that I have been collecting since I was a high school girl, and since I am 60 now, I'm sure some of my buttons are real antiques (like me!).

Next week my hubby turns 61 on Wednesday so I needed a b-day card for him. I'm hoping I pulled off a "guy" card even though I used buttons. I know he will understand.

This had been an unusual holiday season for us this year because he has not been feeling so great. He has vertigo...its been a month now and its just as bad as when it started. The doctor says it should "go away" within about 6 to 7 weeks.(Yikes!) So far he has tried the Epley procedure, motion sickness meds, gluten-free diet, dairy-free (almost) diet, and massage. We are scheduled to go in to an allergist on the 15th but may go back to our family Dr first. Friends have suggested going to an ENT too. He's getting kinda desperate...any suggestions?

And here is the inside of the card...with even more buttons!

Now I will list what I used to make this one. 

First for the cover:

Blue cs and striped paper are both Paper Studio

Brown, white, and aqua cs...scraps from my stash

Brown ink is Vivid/Clearsnap

HB stamp is All Night Media

Lighthouse stamp is Our Daily Bread 

The mesh is wallboard seam tape

Old buttons from my giant button stash!

Next for the inside:

Same materials, but different stamps...

"Wonderful B-day" I borrowed from a friend

Bible verse is a Verve stamp

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you can join our challenge this week!

For more inspiration check out my talented team-mates' blogs...they are all listed in my sidebar or you can go to the SOS blog and see them all there.

Happy BUTTON-crafting!

Warm Wishes for a Winter Birthday

It is Tuesday again...but what a special Tuesday...the very first Day of the New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone!

We have a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash today. It is Challenge #83:

Use all white OR ivory/cream (with the exception of skin tones and hair color on "people" images, and the sentiment, of course.)

This was a really easy one for me because I love using all white and have done it many times. I knew I wanted to use plenty of texture so I first chose my ribbon and then the cardstock color to match; I chose ivory...warm and elegant!

I HAD to use embossing, so I picked the folder called "Fleur de Lis" by Cuttlebug.

Then I found a die to match, Spellbinders "Fleur de Lis Accents".

The small circle is from the "Standard Circles Lg".

The cardstock was from my stash as well as the ribbon, which I'm sure is several years old!

The ivory flatback pearls are from Pizzazz Aplenty.

The sentiment, which is a bit hard to read in my pictures but reads OK up close, is a JustRite stamp from the "Special Occasions" set. I stamped it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in "Antique Linen".

Now, can you believe I didn't use ANY Stickles on this one?!

Please check out the inspiring creations of my fellow DT members at

http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com

or visit their blogs as listed in my sidebar.

Then join us this week for this fun and easy challenge!

Thanks for stopping by! Praying God blesses each of my online friends in this New Year!

Winter Challenge at SOS

This week at Shopping Our Stash we are having a special challenge...a two-week challenge so we can all take a tiny break for Christmas! This is Challenge #82 and it runs from December 18 through December 31. The theme is Winter...but NOT holiday...just anything that makes you think "winter", like snow, mittens, penguins, polar bears, sleds, a fireplace, hot cocoa, snowmen, etc. I went with snow and pine trees.

The ink I used to stamp the tree (Stampin' Up) and the HB sentiment (Stampin' Up ) is Tim Holtz "Evergreen" distress ink. I actually found the exact same color cardstock for the main card, then used kraft, dark brown and white...all from my stash of scraps. The white background is embossed with the Sizzix folder called "Evergreen"... do you see a theme here? The snowflakes are punches I bought on ebay long ago (brand...??). I added Stickles "Star Dust" to the flakes and the tree. The die cut is a Spellbinders, from the "Pendant Fleur de Lis" set.

My pictures don't show all the sparkle very well, but it IS there...lots of it!

Thanks for stopping by today! Please come play along in the SOS "Winter" challenge that lasts all this week AND next!

Merry Christamas to you all!

SOS Challenge #80 "Snow/Winter"

Sorry I have been away for a bit...very busy time of year and we are in the process of becoming "empty-nesters"! We moved one of our boys into his own house a week and a half ago...first had to do LOTS of cleaning! But OUR house is actually looking a little bit emptier....now for son #2....he will move into his own place hopefully in January. More packing and more cleaning. Yikes! I'm getting just a little sick of it! But it is really fun to see how excited they are. I will miss them though...they are great guys and we get along SO good. You know, its nice to feel needed! But, yes, my hubby will still need me. Its all good!

So this week I made a quick card for the challenge at Shopping Our Stash...I AM still on their DT. 

I say "quick" because of the digi images and papers I used...made it super easy to coordinate everything! The digis are from Daydream Designs by Diane Noble and her co-designer, Kris Breach. The image set is called "Snowbabies Color Digi Set" and the matching digi papers are from the "Winter Chill" and "Winter Flakes" sets. The sentiment is from "Snowbabies Sentiments" (of course!). The punched snowflake I got on eBay and I'm not sure of the brand. They have a nice coating of Stickles "Star Dust" on them too. The snowballs are hand-drawn (by me!) but there are some included in the digi sets. I knew I wanted to draw the "splatted" snowball on the inside so I just drew all of them and fussy-cut them.

The border punch is a Martha Stewart..."Doily", I think.

Well, now that its done, I'm not sure who to send it to...some people I don't want to encourage to throw snowballs because I have a good idea who they'd throw them at!

I hope you can join our challenge this week at SOS: you have two choices, either the one I used, "Snow/Winter" or "Christmas/Hanukkah".

Thanks for stopping by today!

SOS Challenge 78 ~LEAVES~

If you are looking for the Daydream Designs Blog Hop, please scroll down to the next post!
At Shopping Our Stash this week we have a really fun challenge using leaves!

Challenge 78 :  "I'm Leafing it up to You" - use a leaf or many leaves on your project! Images of leaves are fine too...plants, trees, etc. and/or dimensional leaves- punches, die cuts, prima-esque, etc.

Lots of possibilities there!

The card I came up with uses the same oak leaf stamp (SU) that I used on another card recently...yes, it is an old favorite (a garage-sale find!). I once again made a background paper with the stamp, then spritzed it with Smooch Spritz.

The cardstock is all from my stash; the dies used are some fairly new ones from Spellbinder called "Fleur de Lis Squares"; the real leaves I used are some tiny ones I found last year in our woods and pinned them on my bulletin board in my craftroom (they've been hanging there over a year and are a bit brittle!); the sentiment is the Bible text that is offered as a digital image this week at Word Art Wednesday. I am entering this card in their challenge.

Since I just love trees and leaves this was an easy assignment this week. I hope you like leaves too and will join in our challenge this week. For more inspiration visit our main blog and/or the DT members' blogs. Lots of really talented ladies!

Shopping Our Stash- #77 "Thank You"

With the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching, this week at SOS the challenge is simply to make a Thanksgiving card OR a Thank You card. I have several Thanksgiving cards made already so I decided to go with the 2nd option. YOU can make either one (or both!) for this challenge (#77) at Shopping Our Stash.

The flower on my card was sort of an experiment...I saw one like it on a blog I often visit because I absolutely love her creations! Her name is Julie and she is uber-talented; she's from London, England, and I just love her style! The flower is made from Nestie circle die cuts and the button in the center is really old: its been in an old button tin that moved with me from our first house at least 16 years ago. The aqua paper is from one of the packages of scraps you can buy at Hobby Lobby (like I needed more scraps!). The embossing folder is called "Flourish Dots" from Sizzix; the Thank You stamp is from Stampcraft; the die cut leaves are Spellbinders "Foliage"& the square is "Labels 15"; ribbon and gems are from my stash.

I hope you feel inspired to join in this challenge this week!

THANK YOU for stopping by!

Shopping Our Stash #76 "Oh what a deal!"

This week at Shopping Our Stash the challenge is:

Best Deal Ever - create something using one of your best bargain/had to have it- it was on sale! purchases (be sure to tell us what it is).

I am a real "bargain hunter", "deal finder", "hollander", "clearance sale queen", etc. etc. so it was kind of hard to chose just one. I seldom buy anything unless it is on sale and a real deal! I remember starting to collect supplies for cardmaking when I first started and found a good-sized bag of the Flora Doodle glitter flowers on a half-price sale. They have lasted over 2 years, but I don't use them much any more...only for "little girl" cards. So here is my girly card for my granddaughter Pearl, who just turned 14. The photo is of her when she was just a sweet 5-year old.

I was running short on time so didn't do much on the inside of the card.

The dies used were Spellbinders "Scalloped Edge Frame" (inside) & "Labels 20"

The corner punch is a Martha Stewart - "Double Loops"

Ink: Memento "Tuxedo Black"

Stamps: HB is Imaginations

Bible verse is Verve Stamps

DP is K&Company, the "Julianne" collection

Glitter flowers - Flora Doodle

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you will join the challenge this week at SOS and show us what item(s) you got a bargain on and just HAD to have!

One more picture...as you can see I changed things a bit...just wasn't happy with "the look" of my card. So do you think this is an improvement or not?

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #75 "Flowers"

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #75 

Flower Power- Use your handmade or 3-d flowers!  (your project can include stamped images but it also needs to have at least one flower that is either handmade or a 3-d flower you bought.  Think Wild Orchid Crafts, puffy stickers, Prima's, etc.)

Please join us this week at SOS with your card or project that includes a 3-d/handmade flower of some type! Can't wait to see what all you creative people come up with! For inspiration check out my fellow DT  members' blogs...listed in my sidebar!

My card features a flower called a "Gardenia" that I purchased at www.stampingscrapping.com about a year and a half ago...when they stopped selling them! Now they only carry the white ones (which you can color yourself!). The leaves and stem are Stampin' Up stamps; the HB stamp is from Bildmalarna.

The edge border punch is a Martha Stewart called "Doily".

I am also entering this card in the special anniversary blog hop challenge #4 at Perfect Sentiments.
 The "challenge with a twist" was to make a card with a sentiment that has a bird or a bloom on it, or a combination of both! Obviously I did just the one flower!
http://perfectsentimentschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/10/psc53d-birds-blooms.html

Shopping Our Stash Challenge # 74

Good morning! And Happy Tuesday! Are you ready for a new challenge at SOS!?
This week its a really fun one! Here's what we want you to do:
Challenge 74 - "Out of the Jar": use anything that came in a jar- flower soft, glitter, perfect pearls, embossing powder, etc.,  OR a jar image - OR make something using a jar! (decorate a jar) I chose that last one...use a real jar for something. I needed another button jar so I decorated one for white buttons. My craft room has kind of a black and white and pink theme so that's what I went with! What do you think?

Here's the "before" picture!

I will list my ingredients later today when I have a few minutes!

Thanks for stopping by today! Check out the SOS blog and my fellow DT members' sites for some inspiration...join our fun challenge this week!

A Tic Tac Toe Challenge at SOS!

Happy Tuesday, my Friends!

Its time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge again! So here we go!

Challenge 72: A Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I chose the top row:

Brad, Kraft, Embossing

and decided to make a birthday card for my grandson Daniel. He will be 3 on October 21.

He loves tractors, especially John Deere...green & yellow!

My brads are 3 cloth-covered ones that I've had in my stash a couple years and have no idea where they came from. You can see the kraft which I embossed with a Sizzix folder. The stamps of the earth-moving machinery are a 1990 Stampin Up set. The HB stamp is also Stampin Up.

We'd love to have you join us this week at SOS with your creation based on the Tic Tac Toe choices!

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #71

Hello! Yes, its Tuesday already! Time for the next Shopping Our Stash challenge!

Here are the details:

Challenge #71 "Go Green", either use the color green or RECYCLE something!

You have until 11:59 pm on October 8 to enter your project in this challenge.

With the cooler temps lately I'm starting to mentally prepare for winter...

 so I came up with a snowflake card.

Obviously I didn't use the color green so can you guess what recycled item I used?

In the picture below you can see a couple seals taken from Jif peanutbutter jars.

I used a couple "Fleur de Lis" Spellbinders dies to cut out the pieces of my snowflake & glued it together with Glue Dots (minis).

The medallion stamp is a CDS that I purchased last year and stamped in several colors 'cause I was so excited to get  it...then forgot about it! I found this gray-stamped one while hunting for something else and decided it would go well with the silver snowflake. I did add little "extenders" around the stamp with a tiny stamp from the "Frou Frou" set from StampingScrapping.com. Also added lots of Stickles to the stamped image, then clear rhinestones. The "Merry Christmas" stamp is a Stampabilities.

The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder, "Dots, Circles, & Stars".

All the cardstock is from my stash and/or scrap box.
I hope you can join us this week at Shopping Our Stash!

Check out the other DT members' blog for more inspiration...they are all listed in my sidebar.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #70: Fur & Feathers

Welcome to the new challenge at Shopping Our Stash! This week we have been asked to created something that includes our "Furry or Feathered Friends"- anything that features furry or feathered friends! Any animal, bird or animal/bird print paper -No Insects or spiders, please! You have until Oct. 2  to enter your creation in this challenge!

Here is the card I came up with:

The polkadot cardstock (DCWV) and the striped paper (My Mind's Eye) have both been in my stash for over a year now. The little rooster stamp is one I bought last year and never used yet. It is a CDS stamp. The buttons are probably the oldest...I collect them wherever I find them, even removing them from old clothes before discarding. Anyone else do that? The sentiment is computer generated.

I am entering this in one other challenge:

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com - "Photo Inspiration" + buttons + polkadots

Here's the inspiring photo:

Yum!

Emboss It! SOS Challenge #69

 Hello everyone!  This week at Shopping Our Stash the challenge is to use EMBOSSING! Your project must contain something embossed, using either heat or dry methods or both!  The talented DT has some wonderful samples to inspire and encourage your creativity! Check out the main SOS blog as well as the individual DT members' blogs...they're all listed in my sidebar!

For my card I decided on a Christmas card because I love the scrolly letters of that sentiment when richly embossed with gold or silver. I used Gold Embossing Powder from PSE, which has been sitting in my stash for over a year...and that was after it sat in my MIL's stash for several years! She "gifted" it to me along with her heat gun! I also used Tim Holtz/Ranger "Distress Embossing Ink".

I also wanted to use a Sizzix embossing folder I bought on sale last year and never used yet! It is called "Evergreen" and this tree-lover here is thrilled with the dry embossed effect. I even dabbed a little white ink on it to make the detail show a bit better.

The green cardstock is from my stash and the print holly paper is from The Paper Studio.

The die cut is from the Spellbinders "Fleur de Lis Accents" set.

Rhinestones and ribbon...from my stash as well.

And a touch of Stickles, as always!

Hope you will join us for this easy challenge at Shopping Our Stash!

Everybody likes to emboss, don't they?

See you there!