Labor Day Weekend VCMP 2013 Challenge #2

Oh, Boy!! I completed another challenge  last night but I had to head to bed so

 I could make it to work today before I could post it.

Diane's challenge at http://dianecreateswithpaper.blogspot.com/2013/08/owh-vcmp_31.html

was to create a card using items that used the letters OWH in the card. 

I used Sketch #36 for this challenge.

I used pinky-Orange papers from a spring DCWV stack and Oval punches.

I had a set - Hey There- by Amy Tangerine (American Crafts) which I purchased at Archiver's and 

used the three Houses and the Hello stamps from the set.

I used 2 pieces of White paper with the card.

Hopefully, my nod to OWH with my ovals, orange, houses, hello, and white is good for the challenge.

I have half of the challenges done now. 4 more to go!

Sketch #170

Sketch #170

I had to use my film strip punch with this stamp - Riley as a flying money. I used some more Graphic 45 paper from Tuesday Morning spree. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession's Oz Collection that I purchased at Archiver's one night at Table 7. I added green ribbon and green oval jewels to complete the sketch. I used colored pencils by American Crafts to color the Riley.

Assorted cards from during Christmas break and today 1/13/13

 During the Christmas break, I spent a lot of time organizing the scrapbook room and putting things away. I did take a bit of time for a few cards.

Cards after going back to school

The January card is a subway art from Create with TLC. I added a couple of snowflake stickers and a Hampton art stamped sentiment matted and pop-dotted.

I have the typewriter in the stash of images and realized it was too big to use the way I had originally thought about. I used a strip from a glossy 12x12" paper from the DCVW Timeless Type to mount the typewriter on. I loved the old typewriter keys on the paper!! I used a free font to print my sentiment.

Below, the coffee cup and sentiment sticker are from Target's $1.00 bins. I used the Simple Elegance paper stack from Hobby Lobby again. The stickers had silver in them so they coordinated  nicely with the Simple Elegance's foil papers.

I love this pup on this photo-themed paper from Micheal's clearance bin over the summer. The double-sided paper had the pups and pictures on one side and the rows of cameras were on the other side. No sentiment yet and this one might be sent to my kiddo and not OWH.

I love Dearie Dolls at http://deariedollsdigis.blog.com/ . They are too cute. I used colored pencils on this cutie. The papers are actually from the Winter DCVW stack but it complimented the doll very well. A simple stamp from Inkadinkado tags expressions stamp set is inked on a small scalloped oval and I was done.

I had used this car from Create with TLC before on cards about a year and found more of them. Hopefully, no one will notice. The car is the same but the papers are different this time. Most of the papers were in the scrap corral bins.

More from the scrap corral. OWH had done a video about wrangling your scraps so that you use them up more often. I decided to call my scrap bins a corral. It is definitely not organized as OWH's Sandy's is but at least I have the corral near me for easier access.

That said, the purple card is from the corral. I had purchased the cake slice from Joann's on clearance and the letters too. They were in a chipbox by K& company. I ran out of some letters so I used flowers for the o's.

1/13/13's cards

Today 1/13/13,  it had been raining most of the day. My hubby had his own projects going on so I spent a lot of time today in  my scrapbook room. I did watch the Purdue basketball win and a bit of the Patroits football game. I got a few different designs done. I used lots of pink paper and items!! I made several of the giraffe cards but the rest of the cards are few than 5 per designs. I usually make about 25-30 cards per design so I have some for the box to OWH and some for the friend/family stash.

This fun blue one is made with 2 coordinating papers from a DCWV stack, a big sticker with snowflake gems, and a tiny sentiment from Pat Catan's (formerly Crafts 2000). 

Pink paper from the corral! The cute ribbon is from American Crafts, the VW was a $1.00 stamp from Micheal's that I fussy-cut out, and a little pink button.

I have had this cute little giraffe from Meljean's for a while. I had sized it too big and somehow it got printed on a variety of colored papers. I used Copic markers on the giraffe. The pink one has more of the polka-dot ribbon from American Crafts to cover up the image's necktie. The pink paper is by Elsie and it is embossed with rainbows. Its sentiment was from a Hero Arts set. The yellow one has papers from the stash of zoo papers. Its sentiment is one I generated on my computer. I had printed it in dark yellow but it was too light so I had to reprint it in brown. The yellow one has black dots of Viva's Pearl Pen, which I am getting better at making small dots instead of big blobs.

More pink papers from the corral of scraps. The pink striped paper, ribbon and buttons (all from Hobby Lobby) were leftovers from the album I did for a friend's bridal shower. The sentiment is a favorite cling stamp.

Christmas time

Oh, My!! Christmas came early this year as my family celebrated on Sunday due to some work schedules. So, we were home on Christmas without the kids so we enjoyed a movie date together. We liked the movie Lincoln, which was good. It started out slow but ended nicely. We hadn't been to the movies in awhile so it was fun to be out. We had tried to go earlier but the movie was sold out. It used to be that the movies were empty when we went with the boys.

Anyway, I did get cards crafted and mailed in a timely manner. I had colored Riley the Wreath in Oct. while watching TV with the hubby. I added a bit of gold glitter stickle on the ornaments and a bit of red stickle on the holly berries. The little sentiment was a free digi, which I didn't make a note about it. I cut it with a scalloped oval and popped it on a slightly larger oval. I layered Riley on red cardstock and then on Michael's Recollection's Christmas striped paper. I put a piece of glitter ribbon by American Crafts across the bottom of the striped paper. I used the dark green cardstock for the bases. It was a bit dark for writing on so I used a white pen or a green Sharpie to sign our names to the cards.

Of course, I didn't make quite enough of the Riley cards so I did a Plan B card, which was some more of the cards I had done for my sister's retreat. I used Michael's Recollection 8 1/2 x 11" Christmas paper pack, using most of the pack for the cards. I added a bit of icicle stickle on the little squares, outlining the squares. I used most of the Recollection paper cards for the friends at work and other people like the UPS guys and the mailman.

One gift I got from a co-worker was this cutie. The Santa will have

 a new home in my scrapbook room 

since he has the cricut green trim instead of the 

traditional white trim on his suit. I love him!! 

Of course, the Hershey Kisses are gone!

Speaking of my scrapbook room, I need to do a bit of reorganizing in it. My older son got rid of some items in his 1/2 of the closet so I have a bit more room in it now. I think I'll get a few more cubes from Michael's and put them in the closet. The closet doors will close now!!

 My younger son and his fiance' will here for a few days if the snow lets up so they can safely drive here. My photo above of my dog Ace as a Christmas tree won us 4 tickets to the light display at the zoo. So the four of us are going tomorrow or Friday, depending on the weather. It will be fun!! Thanks, Ace!!

I'm enjoying my school break but it is flying by so quickly!!!

I do hope you all had a wonderful Christmas 

with your family and friends. 

Hopefully, you will find a few crafting moments 

in your busy holiday time.

Sketch #62

Sketch #62

At Table 7 the other night, I was scrapbooking a dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Russia and had some papers and stickers left over. Just enough for 3-4 cards. Here's one of them, using Sketch #62. I may go back and redo the Let's Party sentiment (Paper Smooches) as the Distressed Green Ink is not quite dark enough on the green background. The pinata was from a sticker set by Sticko (EK Success). I didn't keep track of the various papers - cardstock from Archiver's, and the green checkers are American Craft's travel paper pack. The green peppers paper is from Archivers too but I have seen it at Hobby Lobby and maybe Joann's but I can't think who makes it. The Baker's Twine is from the big roll I got at King Arthur's store in Vermont.

Sketch #135

Sketch #135

I used lots of PINK!!  This pink patterned paper is from Scrapbook Queen's retreat. It is the other side of the rainbows/peace paper. I used the new American Crafts stars/scalloped border punch, some chipboards flowers from the stash, an embossed paper by Elsie, and assorted pink cardstocks. The sentiment was from a tiny stamp set from Joann's. I inked the edges of the patterned paper. I think the cards need something else but I couldn't decide what else to add so Sketch #135 is done.

Sketch #139

 Here is another sketch I did at the scrapbook retreat the first weekend of Oct. It is #139 and it is suppose to have SRM stickers on it. I don't have many of these as most stores I go to don't carry these. I was at the retreat so I didn't have my computer handy when I did sketches, just the printout of the sketch. I meant to use these as Any Hero cards but then I just put them in the box as blank cards. The stickers is from Michael's clearance aisle. The sentiment is a wooden one I bought at a garage sale last summer. The papers were a pack of 8.5" x 11" paper on clearance at Hobby Lobby and I wasn't too sure what was in the pack. I lucked out with all the patriotic papers. The pack also had a bunch of Valentine papers. I used a piece of American Crafts glitter ribbon, which didn't seem to flake. I used a Fiskars punch to make the shape behind Uncle Sam.

VCMP #2

Another Challange is done!! Challenge #2 was a recipe of 1 image, 2 patterned papers, and 3 words. 

I recently bought a Snag 'em Stamps by imaginisce and used it to make my image. 

The cute little smiley glue bottle reminds me of Back-to-School. 

I had the small sentiment from the 

Charming Whimsies set by Jillian Vance. 

The school lined paper and the school themed paper was in the stash.

 I used a punch that looks like notepaper ends and it was in American Crafts' Knock Outs set. I used it on the glue bottle's scalloped rectangle too. 

Hope you like my card.

Finally, I got one done!!

Sketch #130

I finally got a sketch done from the past weeks' OWH postings! Here's the OWH sketch #130, a cute easy sketch.

And Ta Da,  here's my version!

 The photo of this card using sketch #130  looks darker than it really is - silly cell phone.The green outside is just my table. The card is a piece of blue dotted paper from Bo Bunny's Mama-razzi set. I added a piece of red textured paper from Micheal's clearance rack and the bunting is from K & Co. July 4th set. The Mailman Riley is from Riley and Co. I love the little guy!! I colored him with my Bic markers and a few other markers. I used some of my airmail colored twine I found on my trip to Florida (I actually have 2 rolls of this cuz I really love it!) I actually finally used my American Crafts punch set as it had been sitting under my scrapbook table hiding for a while. The sentiment is from a sentiment set I use a lot but I can't think of the company. Maybe Hero Arts or Stampendous from a bit ago.

Ok, that's it for now. I have another sketch card to photography and I'll post it tomorrow. 

Thanks for stopping by. Later!