Wrangling scraps and OWH Sketch #214

Sunday's sketch just got my creative juices flowing...or maybe it was that 2nd cup of coffee.  But I grabbed a couple of the 6x6 pads I have been hoarding and decided to cut into them.  It doesn't hurt after the first incision.  And then I went nuts and made probably 20-25 cards using this sketch.  Fun, fun, fun.  Here are some that will be going to OWH and a bunch of them are going in my card drawer so I have cards on hand to send to friends and family when an occasion arises.

OHW Sketch #214

DP Bo Bunny (6x6 pad)

CS - stash

Pearl Pen cream dots

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Sentiments - Hero Arts / Word Borders

Hero Arts / Whimsical Message

Then I made a bunch of birthday cards...

OWH Sketch #214

DP My Mind's Eye (6x6 pad)

CS - stash

Sequins - CTMH

Sentiment - OWH Hero Arts - Year Round Sentiments set

Who's idea was it to use up scraps?  Great idea!  And Debbie Doty Caldwell gave me another great idea she CASE'd.  I think I'll steal that one too.  :)

OWH goes for a Western Challenge. Yee-haw!

The challenge this week is to make western theme cards for one of OWH's contacts.  Well, it just so happens, I DO have some western type stamps, so I dug them out and made some cards to send to Sandy.  I do not have any herds of wild horses stampeding across the plain, or cowboy type stamps, but I think these will work.  I hope you enjoy them...I had fun making them.

The following two I made using a stamp set from CTMH called Southwest Pottery.  I do not believe they make it anymore.  I've had it over 10 years.  It was fun to get it out again.

CS - stash

Striped DP - My Mind's Eye - Wild Asparagus

Ink - SU Soft Suede

Sentiment - Hero Arts / OWH - Dude

Ribbon was in a multi-pack of ribbons I received for some entry on the OWH site.  (I'm sorry, Sandy, I don't remember what I won this for, but LOVE the ribbons.)

Brad - stash

The treatment of the stamps here just shows portions of them, but there are 4 and they really are very nice pots.  

DP - Jet Set Sunny - Shimmerpaper - KI Memories

Ink - CTMH Autumn Terracotta

Raffia and brad - stash

Image and Sentiment - CTMH "Howdy" set

CS - CTMH and some more of this YELLOW paper Sandy gave us at one of the OWH card making sessions a couple of years ago.  Yeah, still trying to use it up.  :)

Ink - SU Soft Suede and Memento Tuxedo Black

Image colored with Copics

Spilled milk - Creme Pearl Pen

OK, OK, cowboys don't herd dairy cows, but I told my husband that she kicked over the milk pail because she wanted to roam the prairies with her western bovine cousins.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Yee-haw.

Let your light shine...and the mid-week throw down.

This last weekend I went to my very favorite LSS in Beaverton, OR, The Peddler's Pack.  It's hard to go there and not come out with a bag of goodies!  Someone had posted a card with a circle with ribbon snippets fanning out from behind and it made me think of a sun, so I went there to specifically to find a "You are my sunshine" stamp.  Well, alas, they did not have one anywhere, but the owner  said they could custom make me one on the computer right then and there!  And I could have it the very next day.  Yow!  Unfortunately, I was not going to drive all the way back to Beaverton the next day (about 20 miles from my house), so she said she could pop it in the mail.  Monday was a holiday, so it took 2 extra days to get to me, but there it was, in the mail Wednesday!  AND The mid-week throw down was for light, or sunshine, or light bulbs and it was MEANT TO BE!  Can you say serendipity?  Enjoy my take on the theme.

CS - my stash

Sun stamp - Zap stamps (dollar bin at Michael's)

Ribbon - my stash

Dry embossing - Cuttle Bug

Gold heat embossed sentiment - CTMH embossing powder

Cloud effect - CTMH stencil

Sentiment - custom acrylic stamp by Peddler's Pack, Beaverton, OR

Thanks for stopping by.

Mid-week throw down...punny cards.

This week's challenge for OWH is punny cards.  And if you know me, you have to know I would want to be in on this one.  I'd say one fourth of my cards are word plays...and probably half of my stamps are funny.  I can't help myself.

Here is one I made recently that will be on the way to Sandy soon in a box from East Woods Presbyterian Church where I conspire with my Vancouver BFF stamping buddies, Esther and Ellen (the E Sisters), and others, to make cards to send to OWH.  They're not really sisters, but we are all sisters in our hearts.  (We call ourselves S.I.S.T.R.Rs - Sisters in Stamping That Really Rock.   OK, it's corny, I know.)

The fox stamp is from Inky Antics, and the sentiment is computer generated.

The ink is CTMH Autumn Terracotta, the DP is "Groovy" from KI Memories, and the CS is from my stash.

 I made this one yesterday:

The fan is from Viva Las Vegas Stamp that I bought at the store in Vegas!  It has thousands of stamps and you can spend a couple of hours in there just ogling the stamps.  They have a fantastic web page too.  Go check it out.  http://www.vivalasvegastamps.com

The  sentiment is B Line Designs that I purchased 2 weeks ago up in Tukwila, WA at Impress by South Center Mall.  We were all anticipating the Super Bowl Game on Feb. 2nd,  and of course, they had a large display of sporting stamps and papers.  I thought this one would be a perfect pairing with the fan stamp.  If you're in the area and haven't visited this store, you MUST go.  Drool.  Sandy Allnock taught a class on fancy folds that I took there.  She is teaching more classes each month, so do go check out their website too.  http://www.impresscardsandcrafts.com

The papers were in my stash and the orange was embossed with my Cuttle Bug.  This is the very last of that cute ribbon I had in a drawer.  I like to think those flowers are dandelions and you know that is in keeping with the theme of the mighty wind the fan is blowing too, right?

Thanks for stopping by.  :)

Penguins for the General

Sandy sent out a call for penguin cards last month.  Seems one of her contacts loves penguins and requested a box of cards with them featured!  I bet he had no idea what his request would result in.  LOL  I haven't heard the total Sandy sent to him yet, but I'm sure it was overwhelming.

Here are a few I sent in.  Who knew I had so many penguin stamps...and these are just half of them.  I should make up some more for our winter theme boxes for next year.

Sentiment - CTMH - Sweet Talk

Penguin - Inky Antics

DP - Doodle Bug Designs

Lime DP - my stash

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Snowflake brad - stash

This darling penguin stamp was given to me by my BFF, Lanora.  There were no markings on it, so I have no idea who made it and she said she had it for ages.  I'm pretty sure it it no longer available from whoever made it.  I made this card for Sandy especially.  I will probably make up a batch of them for next year because who wouldn't want to have some skate boarding penguins?  That paper was from a 6x6 pad of BoBunny Papers (I think), and the maroon ribbon is CTMH.  The dots are Pearl Pen.

This cute little penguin is a Whipper Snapper Designs stamp.  The CS and DP are from my stash and the tag I punched from some CTMH CS and tied with some waxy flax from CTMH.  They don't make this anymore (the waxy flax) and I am sad.  I love this stuff.

CS - stash

Penguins on a sled - Art Impressions

Sentiment - Inkadinkado

Ribbon - CTMH Wild Berry Chiffon

Image colored with 'Copics

Sentiment stamped with SU Tempting Turquoise

CS and DP - stash

Image - Inky Antics

Sentiment - computer generated

Image colored with Copics

Our next challenge is bunnies, so be watching for lots of those.  

Punches and kid cards...

This week I've been making cards for kids for OWH and mulling over other ideas.  Here's a pic of a few that will get sent to Sandy this next week.  And later I'll post some that I've made over the last month.  It's finally sunny today after 3 or 4 days of fog, so I think we'll go out and about today and I'll finally get off the computer.  :)

These were made using punches and Cuttle Bug dies.  And I got the lovely vibrant colored paper from Craft Warehouse.  Love me some Bazille paper!

December already?

Well, I see I've been VERY bad at keeping my blog updated this past couple of months.  I guess it's partly because Grant has been using my camera for a photography class he took this term, which is nearly over, and partly because fall and Christmas approaching have kept me busy.  OK...and the ooh shiny thing.  LOL

I did get a new camera this weekend.  With Pete and Grant egging me on (OK, it didn't take too much convincing), we went to Best Buys and got me a new digital camera.  It's small and compact and easy to use and it's RED, like our new Scion we bought ourselves last month.  Well, that isn't the real reason I bought it, but it's a bonus.  This is a Samsung SMART CAMERA with WiFi connectivity, 10x zoom lens, 24 mm Ultra Wide Angle and 16.2 megapixels.  I intend to upload pics more often now.  I love the other camera, but it is very big and kind of hard for me to handle.  (I'm a delicate flower, don't ya know?)

Now, on to cards...

I will post some cards I've made this fall that have gone on to OWH and some to friends and try to catch up.  Then, with paperwork (can we still call it that in this digital age?) out of the way, I can hit my craft table and get going on my Christmas cards.  I have some made already, but lots more to do because I LOVE sending Christmas cards.  I know most do not send them anymore, but I still love the tradition of writing out folks addresses and putting stamps on envelopes and taking them to the post office and sending them on their way in those blue old fashioned post boxes.  I'm not as ADD as that actress in that movie with the guy* (her name and the movie name escapes me right now) that put her Christmas cards in the box one at a time and then checked the pull down flap after each one to see that it did indeed go into the box, but I do enjoy that act of shoving them in the box.  :)

These are some we made at an OWH party this fall that went into a box for Sandy.  

And these are ones I made.  Most of the design ideas come from OWH sketches and some just come from my musings after looking at the OWH site, the OWH blogs, the FB page, numerous magazines and just ideas from my other card making buddies.  We love to CASE (copy and share everything).

One of my many Any Hero designs.

I computer generated the sentiment for this one.

DP - We R Memory Keepers/Passport Stamp/Mail Cancellation

DP - Red Petite Prints/Doodlebug Design, Inc.

CS - Brown mat SU Chocolate Chip

Card base - stash

Sentiment - Computer generated

CS - CTMH Vinyard Berry

Ink - CTMH Vinyard Berry

DP - Gingham CTMH Vinyard Berry

DP - Flowered paper from my stash

Stamp - Letters CTMH "Pen Pals"

Stamp - Paper Smooches - Circle of Honor OWH fund raising set.

DP and CS from my stash.

CS - stash

Sentiment - CTMH "One of a Kind"

Ribbon - CTMH

Heart is from some gift tags in my stash

Sentiment - Hero Arts "This is Big"

CS - stash

Ink - SU Tangerine Tango

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peeled Paint

The following 4 cards are ones I made at Tracy Nolta's card making classes.  She is a SU demonstrator and has one class a month.  It's fun, stamping, socializing and getting new card ideas!

These are Any Hero cards I made that were shared with my other besties at OWH card making meetings at Ellen's and East Woods Presbyterian Church and Emeritus Senior Living.  And most of them have been written in and sent on their way to the troops to bring cheer and a shout out from Vancouver, WA.  We <3 our troops.

Thanks for stopping by.  Stay tuned for more Christmas soon.  

*Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail.