Willow & Paisley

Papertrey Blog Hop

Hello Papertreyers!  Can you believe I am actually joining in this month?!  Woohoo.  I love PTI Blog Hop but I just keep forgetting about it every month until it has already come and gone.  Story of my life!

So anywho....I made a really fun wine bottle tag.  There couldn't be an easier gift than taking a bottle of wine to a friends house....and making it pretty with a keepsake ornament is just perfect.

I picked up these silver glitter tree ornaments on Christmas clearance last year (75% off).  I thought that I'd attach them to presents but this year my family has decided no adult gifts will be exchanged.  Kids only.  I am so happy about this as none of us need a single thing and it will be great to focus on making Christmas very special for my nieces and nephews.  

For the tag I embossed the Giga Guide Lines (and an image from the 2008 PTI Anniversary set) with some really great Martha Stewart red, green and blue embossing powder.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a fun fun fun Blog Hop night!

 
  

Thank You X 2

 

One of my projects this weekend was to make my sister some Thank You cards for the baby gifts she's been receiving since my gorgeous little nephew Ryder was born.  I based them on this baby card design from a couple weeks ago but just a little simpler.  I will get them sent off in the mail to her tomorrow. 

I wasn't sure how many baby Thank You's she would need so I made her these generic cards too.  That way she can use them for every day use in the future if she has some left over.   Easy Peasy.  Have a good day everyone!

 
 
 

Loonie Stampers #67

Happy Friday everyone.  Well if it's not a bright and cheery morning for you THIS card will certainly help you with the "bright" part.  Poor Wendy has taken a beating from all of us regarding her colour choice for this week.  It's really hard to wrap your head around these bright colours in the middle of November.  But that's Wendy for ya....she loves to torment really challenge us.  Since it was Wendy's week I found it fitting to use the gorgeous stamp set she gave me.  I embossed the image on the tag and I just LOVE this image!!  I love anything to do with birds for that matter.
  

I don't know about you but I CANNOT wait to see what the other girls did with these colours.  Check 'em out.

Dee    Jewels    Regan    Maria    Wendy
  

OH MY LORD~~~does everyone realize that Christmas is only 1 month and 5 days away??  I haven't even come up with a Christmas card design let alone started making them.  Don't' even talk to me about Christmas shopping.  Yikes.  The good thing is my side of the family has agreed to NO adult presents.  We are to buy only for the kid-lets and that's always fun but I better be getting on that!  So what about all of you??  Have you even started shopping or prepping for Christmas?

  
 

Elzybells Challenge - Seeing Stars

Hey everyone.  How are you all doing?  I managed to catch a cold so I have been lazy in front of the tv rather than creative in the craft room.  I did manage to whip up these 2 cutey cards for the Elzybells DT challenge.  What's the challenge you ask?  Use  STARS on your project.  Easy right?  On this first card I chose Sleeping Reindeer because it already has a star on the tree!  How smart am I?  Haha.  Don't you love his paper pieced blanket?  So cozy.

 

Originally I punched out a zillion stars and after using only one above....I still had a zillion minus one left over.  So I was just playing around and got this.  I love love love this Elzybells set called Bubble Greetings.  I know it's far away but I think this might be a fun little card to send when my niece and nephew pass their school year. 

Before I go....I wanted to tell you about FREE SHIPPING from Elzybells. Read about it here.  I know I am going to be picking up a few things!  There's a lot of great stamps...singles and sets.... that would make GREAT stocking stuffers for your stamping friends!  Have fun shopping! 
 
 
  

Merry & Bright----Literally

I often think I need a reason to share a card with you.  Like a certain event or challenge.  I need to work on that and share more ---just because.  Here's one of those cards I made ---for no reason at all...just because.  Hope you likey.

 

Loonie Stampers Challenge #66

Hey All!  YAY, it's Friday.  I have been in Edmonton working this week~~~which is great as I've been able to spend the evenings with my sister and her family~~~but I always get home sick so easy and will be very happy to get home and spend the weekend with Mike.   Let me just say....a household with 3 kids under 3.5 yrs old is a very BUSY household indeed!

This weeks challenge was chosen for us by Maria.  They are such great colours together.  When I pulled the cardstock the overall effect came across as very soft to me and I made a baby card.  I have been making all kinds of cards with circle punches.  I could get obsessed with that circle punch of mine!

Hey Loonie ladies.....hope you rocked your cards this week!

Dee    Jewels    Regan    Maria    Wendy

 
 

Embellish~~With Owls

 

Well Hello!!  Hi Everyone....hope you are having a great week.  I also hope you had as much fun as I did with the Embellish Color Challenge with Owls.   A big thanks to Ashley for providing those amazingly cute owls.  I couldn't resist printing and using the little guy on my cards rather than the owl stamps I do have.   

Card #1

  

Card #2 

 

Be sure to go and check out all the entries for the challenge on the blog.  AMAZING I tell ya. 

Thanks for stopping by ----see you tomorrow for Loonie Stampers Challenge.

 

Glittery Goodness

Hi All.  Just wanted to share a mini set of cards I made to donate to a fundraiser for a good cause (although that's obvious right?  Why would anyone have a fundrasiser for a bad cause?  LOL).  It's a super easy layout and a little quirky with a bunch of fun colours.  The glitter card bases are DCWV which I bought a couple of years ago and never got around to using them until now.   You gottla love the glitter without the mess.

 

Thanks for stopping by.  Now go and relax by making a beautiful creation!

 
 
 

{{Thank YOU}} .....& looking for Denise!

Thank you so much to my fellow Loonie girls for planning the surprise birthday hop for me yesterday.  I really was duped and had no idea because my friends know I usually like to just have a nice low key birthday without the attention.  Since my b-day was Nov 3 I really was surprised on the 6th when I discovered what you all did.  Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart.  It was fun to spend my morning hopping when I should have been cleaning.  Haha.  Next year I am going to be 40 (WHAT?!!!) so it's probably best everyone just ducks and hides for that one.  LOL. 

I thought I'd share this card with you that I made a little while ago so that you all know I am sending hugs-n-kisses to each and every one of you that visit me and are just so incredibly supportive of me! 

BTW-----the winner of the Papertrey Anniversary set hasn't contacted me.  Does anyone know Denise?  You can see her comment here by scrolling to the bottom of my post.  It doesn't appear that she has a blog and I don't have an email address as I deleted all the emails I get when notified of the comments.  Anywho....if I don't hear from Denise by Nov 13 I will re-draw for it.  I will be away next week for work and won't be back till the evening of the 13th.  Have a WONDERFUL weekend everyone!!

Loonie Stampers Challenge #65

Pink, Orange and Red.  Amazing right?!  Dee you are brilliant and I LOVE these colours together.  I used a toned down orange (Summer Sunrise) and Berry Sorbet and just a smidgen of red.  Oh yeah baby....LOVE!!  Isn't it great when someone decides the colours for you....makes life easy!

The sentiment was originally on a journal strip (Cosmo Cricket) that comes on a 12x12 sheet.  I trimmed it out which is a perfect way to make those items you think can only go on a scrapbook page work on a card.  You know I am all about the cards!

Thanks for stopping by everyone.  Have a GREAT weekend and be sure to check out my wonderful Loonie girls to see what they did with this fabulous colour combo.

Dee    Jewels    Regan    Maria    Wendy