For the Fellas - Creative Craft Challenges #11

Hello!  It's time for another challenge over at Creative Craft Challenges!  This week we are celebrating our guys, so we are making cards "For The Fellas"!

 

I've had this embellishment set from Bo Bunny for a while now and thought it was a good time to use it.  The background paper is from The Paper Studio. 

 This stamp is from Fiskars, part of a birthday set.

 Really neat, stretchy cloth ribbon is part of the Bo Bunny set.

The inside sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

So come on and join in the fun...after checking out all the DT inspiration over at Creative Craft Challenges!

Western Birthday - New My Sheri Crafts Challenge!

Hello!  I hope you're having a wonderful Saturday!  I love this spring weather and as this post goes live the hubby and I are strolling around Silver Dollar City enjoying the Bluegrass groups and the sunshine.

This week at My Sheri Crafts teamie Sandy Palmer has asked us to remember Father's Day with a male card/project that includes embossing. 

I used all scraps on this one!  I love it when that works!  The stamp is from Stampin' Up.  I got the bottom part a little crooked, but actually it's straighter than the first attempt! The ovals are cut with Creative Memories oval cutters, they're mounted on a Spellbinder's Die and accented with a few pieces of raffia.  The brown paper is embossed with a Paper Studio woodgrain folder and the brads are from my "stash of treasures obtained over the years".  :>) 

I love the slight dimension you get from foam dots! 

 

Now it's your turn!  Head on over to My Sheri Crafts and get inspired, then join in the fun!  See you there!

 

 

The Crafter's Café - for a man or woman
ABC Challenges - at least 3 embellishments
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - use foam tape

Tuesday Throwdown #148

Hello!  As I write this entry tonight for tomorrow's post, my heart hurts for all those in Moore, OK, who have lost everything in the tornado.  Also, those sweet little children who were in school when the storm hit and destroyed their building.  So many little lives lost.  Praying comfort over those families tonight and for healing of all the little ones in the hospital.  Sometimes it's just hard to understand, but yet I know God is in control of all things. 

On to the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.  This week we are sponsored by  and got to use images from their "Sail Away With Me Set".  It's a perfect set for our challenge this week as our theme is "Sail Away". 

This fun little card was so simple!  That awesome paper is from The Paper Studio Nanna's Kids collection.  I just colored the MG image with Spectrum Noir pens, used a stamp that I've had for years bought from LTD Commodities and added some brads that I've also had forever.  I used a Royal Blue stamp pad around all the edges.  I also added a few asterisks around the sentiment with my silver gel pen.

That's it!  Now it's your turn to show us your Nautical side and "Sail Away" with us at Tuesday Throwdown (after you go check out all the great DT inspiration) !

This card entered here:
Incy Wincy Designs - use metal (star brads)
Creatived Creations challenges - for a child
Love to Create - for the kids
Paper Playtime - buttons or brads
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - Happy ______

Creative Craft Challenge #10 Just Checking

Hi Bloggies!  It's time for another challenge at Creative Craft Challenges!  This week we are sponsored by

and our challenge is to add "checks" to your project.  No check-marks, now! 

I had this little sweetie from WhoopsiDaisy already colored and just laying on my desk, waiting for me to use her.  The red check paper is from The Paper Studio.  The tag is a Just Rite stamp, cut with Spellbinders Lacy Circles die with a bit of Trendy Twine.  The brown check is a strip of fabric ribbon that was in my garage sale basket. 

Thanks for stopping by today to check out my work!  Now go over to Creative Craft Challenge, check out all the fantastic inspiration and join in the fun!


This card is entered at:

Creatalicious Challenges - For the Girls
Crafter's café - For Mom/ or For A Woman (2nd entry)
Whoopsi Daisy - anything with a WD image
Lady Anne's Challenges - anything goes

My Sheri Crafts #110 3D flowers

Welcome to another Saturday challenge with My Sheri Crafts!  This week we are going 3D!  We were challenged by teammate P.G. Lamb to create a card/project featuring 3 dimensional flowers. 

I used a digital flower file from Fred She Said to create my card.  I colored all layers (5 of them!) with Spectrum Noir pens, cut them out and connected them with a brad from my stash.  Then I curled the edges of each petal using a quilling tool.  It's matted on two Lacy Circles Spellbinders dies.  That fun burlap ribbon was in a basket full of ribbon I found at a garage sale!  The shiny pink came from Wal-Mart.

This sentiment stamp is from Just Rite, stamped on another Lacy Circle, matted on two Adorning Squares dies.  Can you tell I bought some new Spellbinders?  LOL!

This shot is just to show all the dimension of the card.  The paper is from Anna Griffin.

I hope you'll join in the fun at My Sheri Crafts and show me your flowers!  Be sure to check out all the team's great inspiration and leave them all some sweet comments!


You can find this card entered here:

The Crafter's Café - for Mom / a woman
Color Me Creative - anything goes
Shop Pumpkin Spice - flowers
Rogue Redhead Designs - May Flowers

Throwdown with Tuesday Throwdown! Lacy circle card

Good morning!!!  How are you doing this fine Tuesday morning? 

What crazy weather we've been having!  Seriously, SNOW in May in the Ozarks?  Wow!   Anyway, it's supposed to be nice today and tomorrow, then back to more rain.  At least the drought is over!  :-)

Ah well, on to the challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.  This week our theme

is "My Mother, My Friend"  and we are sponsored by

Here's my card with one of Robyn's cute images:

When I saw this digi I was reminded so much of my Mom.  In my last post of the scrapbook page about Mom, I mentioned that she did a lot of gardening work.  We had a large strawberry bed and she made the BEST strawberry jam and jelly!  I just loved getting a sample while the jelly was still warm! 

That's it!  Sweet and simple!  So now join us with your Mother's Day project, after you go over and check out the great inspiration from the rest of the team of course!  Anxious to meet you over at Tuesday Throwdown!

Supplies:

George & Basic Shapes - circle card base, welded on my Gypsy

Spellbinders Dies- Lacy Circles

Papers - My Minds Eye & Karen Foster

Ribbon - Craftsmart

Digi colored with Spectrum Noir markers

Glitter Glue added to flower

 

This cared entered here:

Kaboodle Doodles - For the Ladies

Anything Goes - Shaped, Not Square

 Love to Create - For Mom or special lady

 

 

My Sheri Crafts #109

Hello!  It's time for another challenge at My Sheri Crafts.  I gotta tell ya, I struggled with what to do for this one!  Sandy Palmer hosted this one and challenged us to "show us what makes your Mom unique".  My Mom had LOTS of what I think of as unique traits and I didn't know what to focus on.  So I finally decided to use all I could think of.  Once I figured that out, I had a ton of trouble with a Cricut cut I wanted to use.  When I finally got it cut, I didn't like it after all.  Then I got out the brads for my flower cluster and dropped the whole box in the floor!  Now I don't know about you, but I had one of those divided craft boxes with 16 individual squares and all my brads, eyelets, etc. sorted by color and size.  What a mess!!!!!  I still don't have them all sorted again.  About 1/2 of them are still in a bowl.  Anyway, I did eventually get the layout done, but was late getting the picture posted for Sheri to get it into the blogpost!  Sorry Sheri! 

Just last weekend I met with my brothers and sister and we went through Mom and Dad's house to divide up things.  My Mom died in 1993 and Dad just passed away in February.  A couple of things I got were some of Mom's craft supplies, her jewelry box and her button box.  I remember so much time spent playing with her button box.  So the little lace rosette in the top right is topped with a button from her box.  The button on the bottom of the doilie is also from her box and it's off one of my Dad's work shirts. 

 As I said, I decided to use all the things I could think of and fit into the layout.  If you can't read them, I listed these things:

MOM
* was a pole vaulter in high school (this was a real shock to me as a teenager!)
*finished college with 6 kids at home ( I can't imagine doing this)
*was voted favorite elementary teacher by one of her classes when they graduated
*spent summers working up produce from a large garden and an orchard
*could sew anything, including my wedding dress (she was also a quilter and made one for all of us kids and had enough quilt tops made up that we made quilts for all the grandkids who came after she passed)
*could paint, crochet and had her own ceramic shop
*married the man of her dreams
DAD

Flowers and brads were all from my stash, the lace is from a DT sister.  This is really not my usual style, so I struggled with that, too.  I finally was pleased with the page, though, it just took me a long time to get there! 

So now you show us what your Mom is like with your card/project and join in the fun at My Sheri Crafts!