World Card Making Day CANADIAN Blog Hop

Hello World Card Making Day CANADIAN Blog Hop hoppers!!!

Welcome! Glad you found your way to my little blog :)

For this CANADIAN blog hop, I wanted to something patriotic to showcase our RED & WHITE pride...what could be more Canadian than the maple leaf and moose?? OK...well maybe a beaver...but I will leave that to someone else.

So here's my World Card Making Day CANADIAN Blog Hop card, thanks for stopping by!

Next on your blog hopping adventure you are off to visit Annie at http://creativeunwinding.blogspot.com/

If you arrived at my blog accidently and want to start the blog hop from the beginning, there are two groups, one starts here with Tara at http://creativeaccents.blogspot.com/

The other starts here with Nicole at http://www.canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/

Happy hopping and Happy World Card Making Day!

More ATC love :)

Here's another ATC I made this morning

This one is for the Autumn ATC swap on Swap-Bot

Can ya tell I am trying to use up the stash of DP I have????

I was surprised how nice this Halloween DP looked with the new SU colours (wisteria wonder and lucky limeade)

ATC love...

I joined a few more ATC swaps on SC and Swap-Bot

Here's the ATC I made for the Halloween swap on Swap-Bot

The brads are very cool! I love them, my friend Judy brought them back for me from a scrapbook store in Paris!! (as in France!!)

You're my cup of tea...

Anyone who knows me knows that I love love love tea!
Tea granny - that's me - and yeah, I likely do get the love for tea from my grannies :)
So when Ter posted a tutorial for a starbucks inspired cup card...how could I resist?

If you want to try it out - here's a link to the tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oouz-j6i0tY&feature=player_embedded

And here are the two cards I made (I scanned them on a yellow piece of cardstock so the white lid would show in the picture). You can also use these as gift card holders! I know I would love to receive a Starbucks gift card in a card shaped like a cup!!

So here's my Starbucks inspired cup (complete with sleeve kept from a Starbucks chai latte earlier in the week):

And here's the more generic one:

True Blood ATC swap

I am all about making ATC's lately...maybe because they are so small?? Dunno..

Anyway...I have joined a few ATC swaps on SC and signed up for a True Blood themed ATC swap on Swap-Bot. In case you are wondering...ATC is Artist Trading Card, and they measure 3.5" x 2.5"

I have even set up a binder to hold all of my ATC's in clear sheets that I am sure were meant for sports cards...but they work great for ATC's.

For the True Blood themed swap, couldn't decide if I wanted to go vamp or were, so I did one of each...here's what my partner Meagan (in Illinois) will be receiving:

Holiday Sneak Peek Part 4

Here's a link to Jen's blog.
The cards she made for last night were SPECTACULAR & FANTASTIC :)
http://j-inky.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-card-night.html

Holiday Mini Sneak Peek Part 3

OK we won't be making this one in the workshop this week - I only have one of this stamp set and I think making three cards with the same set might be a bit much when working in a group...so maybe we will do this one another time, but I wanted to make this one to show how versatile one stamp set can be...so far we've seen the Stitched Stocking set as - well stockings...then baby booties...and now...TA DA...a hobby horse...cool huh?
I didn't add a sentiment, and the ribbon folded funny in the scanner - but you get the idea...

Holiday Mini Sneek Peak Part 2

Here's the second card I made with the Stitched Stocking set and punch

The stockings make really cute baby booties ;)

Not sure why the colour came out so off in the pic...it is one of the new SU in colours, Pool Party.

Thanks for lookin'

Holiday Mini Sneak Peek #1

Jen and I are doing a holiday mini sneek peak workshop this week

I wanted to do a few different cards with the Stitched Stockings set and coordinating punch.

Here's the first card I came up with...kinda tedious with the piercing....but I am happy with how it came out. I love the little jingle bells - they even ring!

I also learned a new skill...using a needle threader to get the twine through the bells. After 5 minutes of looking at it like a monkey, I Googled it - DUH - hahaha I can tell you that putting the thread in the needle threader THEN putting it through the bell didn't work ~~ and yes Jen I can still hear you laughing!!!!

Happy Birthday Adrian!!

Today is Adrian's first birthday!

Can't wait to see him later and give him a BIG birthday hug!!

Here's the card I made for his birthday, this is a CASE of a card Deb showed us at a recent Stampin Scrappin Roadtrippers get together she hosted last month.