Believe - in Halloween and Christmas!

With everything busy around here, I'm taking another minute out to post a card for two challenges. This one is supposed to fill the requirements for Card Positioning System sketch 139 and for the Color Throwdown #66.

Check these sites out if you haven't already. Great inspiration from the design teams and participants!

This card made use of cardstock I had in the stash and my new Papertrey Ink set, Holiday Button Bits. The Button Bits series is just too cool for school - fun to use and gives you built in embellishments!

Have a safe and happy Halloween and enjoy the extra hour of sleep tonight. I'll miss daylight savings terribly. I suspect all procrastinators do!

Merry Kissmoose on Halloween!

Happy Halloween! We have a busy household watching that football team with the Herschel Walker record breaking quarterback and waiting on Trick or Treaters. Emma is in seventh heaven since Blondson and his girlfriend are here for the weekend. AND, they brought Nigel! If the rest of the kids were home Emma's life would be complete. She helped with the photos today just to keep her out of the football viewing area.


Today's challenge is for Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combo #21 and 2 Sketches For You, Kazan's Sketch 38.

Here's the card

How cute is that moose? And better still I WON HIM! For real! One of the comment lotteries on Papercraft Magazines blog. So if you've given up and believe no one actually wins, it's not true. I won this set, Christmas Critters, from Cornish Heritage Farms. I won others too, but I'm using them in challenges later. The papers I used are from Basicgrey's Christmas issue a couple of years ago and the cardstock and buttons are from the stash.

 

Torn Tree

This tree was a quick entry into Hero Arts blog challenge this week. The topic was torn paper and I ripped this out quickly. 

The 'joy' is stamped using Hero Arts Designer Alphabet. I did some stitching on the kraft cardstock to give the look of snow falling. 


Am I the only person Blogger gives grief or does he move photos around on everyone?

Happy Birthday!

Here's a cheater of a birthday card. It fits the challenges for Card Positioning System challenge 138 and Color Throwdown challenge #65. It's also submitted to the Paper Craft Planet blog for Susanna's birthday. The real cheat? I made it for my mom's birthday and it's in the mail on the way to her.

Here's the card I finally came up with to meet all the qualifications.

I used Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button bits and a K&Company designer mat pad for the papers. The buttons and ribbons were from the stash. The original design of the stamp calls for it to be a topiary - it's really pretty and elegant that way too. I just made it a flower stem and added the wings from the bird in the button set to make the flower leaves. Love that about Papertrey designs, most of their stamp sets work in several ways.

Hope you have a great weekend! We finally have the family room painted and now we're in the process of putting it all back together and shampooing the carpets as well. The heat is on since we leave on a short vacation Monday and I hate the idea of coming home to a mess!

A JUGS3 Card and a New Grandchild!

I just scooted in under the daylight wire for this card today. Kept saying it wasn't going to happen again and then I got distracted. By this:

Meet my new grandchild, Cobalt, Colby for short. Redheadedson is the world's biggest dog fan and has waited until he graduated from college and got a job to get his own dog. He's a chemical engineer, this is an Australian Cattle dog, a Blue Heeler, hence the name Cobalt. Colby's seven weeks old, comes home as soon as he's old enough and Redheadedson is MORE than ready! He's known about it for weeks but didn't tell us until today. 

Meanwhile, the JUGS challenge this week was a color combination:

I find blues of any kind hard to work with so my card definitely emphasized the red and cream.

I used Papertrey's Winter Swirls (again - better learn to pick up a different stamp set!) and Basicgrey paper from a couple of season's ago. The ribbon is on sale at Michaels this week and the buttons are from Papertrey's new vintage mix. I adapted the sweater pattern from an old one I save published in Papercrafts a couple of years ago.

Thanks for reading! (If you're a dog fan - there are photos of our first grandchild and Emma in the post "Please Pardon the Interruption".)

It's Beginning to Look a Little Like Christmas

So I think I've got it together. Found a sketch and a color challenge that I can use with each other and I got them done well before the deadline. Ha. Completely forgot about the photography issue. I've learned I'm much better off outside in natural light. But that same natural light starts to fade quickly in October. What seemed like all the time in the world rapidly became just a couple of minutes. I got the photo and my accomplice looks pretty good in it!


The card is for Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combo #19 and There She Goes Sketch 24

My accomplice is a hand made bear from my aunt. She rescued pieces of a quilt made in 1886 and created this bear for me in 1986 when my first son was born. Pretty nifty huh? And he's a great help - never says a negative word!

I used the stamp set Winter Swirls from Papertrey Ink and it's rapidly becoming one of my all time favorites. I like all the options it offers - focal points, backgrounds and sayings. And it dresses up and down very easily. I used the snowflakes and Versamark to create a subtle pattern on the purple cardstock. Did that again on the white cardstock before I sponged the blue ink over it to create the hill and sky. And I used the snowflakes one more time with white ink on the brown cardstock. The cute little tree is covered in glitter because Christmas always needs a little bit of extra glitz.

The sunlight here is almost gone and I promised the Emma dog one last frisbee session before it got dark. Enjoy!

Hello Pumpkin!

There's a just a hint of change in the air here this morning. If you didn't live here you probably wouldn't notice, but it's FALL! The forecast shows us only in the upper seventies over the weekend. I'm not a cold weather person, but Emma is going to be thrilled! And it'll be nice to have the windows open while I finish painting the den and kitchen.

Here's the sketch for 2sketches4you this week:

 And in the spirit of the season, here's my card:

It has a cut-out front so here's the inside:

 

Sadly it took longer to line up the letter stamps for the saying than it did to make the rest of the card. Even with tweezers! The paper used is from K&Company, I picked up the ribbon and charm at Michaels on clearance and the flowers are probably all Prima of one kind or another. The stamps are a zillion years old from Close To My Heart.


We're off across Alligator Alley this morning to visit Redheadedson - hope you enjoy your weekend as much as we will!