Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - October 30, 2013

WOW can you believe it's the last Wednesday of the month already??? Where has the time gone?? Are your little ghosts and goblins ready for Trick or Treating tomorrow night??

Since it's Wednesday, it's time for another Wild Card Wednesday challenge at Scraptures. 

Like my other cards this month, I am creating them to send to Canadian troops overseas...if you'd like to do the same, here's the address one more time:

Any Canadian Forces Member
Op Attention
Kabul
PO Box 5140 Stn Forces
Belleville ON K8N 5W6

 

I had never tried a sunburst card before and thought I would try it out with the papers from the Fancy Pants "Memories Captured" paper pack.

 

 SUPPLIES:

White & blue cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

"Memories Captured" paper pack (Fancy Pants)

Operation Write Home stamp set (Hero Arts)

Black grosgrain ribbon (October card kit)

Mini maple leaf punch (Recollections)

 Tuxedo black ink (Memento)

 

 

Drunken Stampers Challenge #147 - Person / Goth

Woo Woo it's Halloween week!!! Are your little ghosts and goblins ready for Trick or Treating??? I have already called dibs on all the Crispy Crunch chocolate bars in our house...ratts I should have called dibs on the Reece peanut butter cups too...

For this week's challenge the Yellow Canaries are scaring up a PERSON challenge. You can use a Goth or Halloween for your inspiration this week.

Truth be told, I make LOTS of Halloween cards, I probably have more Halloween supplies than Christmas in my craft rooom. You have no idea how I hmmmmd and hawwwwwwwd about using this much washi tape on ONE card!!! Thank goodness I ordered two sets!! Hahahahahaha

SUPPLIES:

Black cardstock (Recollections)

White cardstock (under the washi tape, gift from my friend Georgina)

Witches Brew washi tape (SU)

Tags 4 You stamp set (SU)

Versamark ink

Black embossing powder

Label Bracket punch (SU)

Pumpkin Pie marker (SU)

Skull and bat brad (gift from my friend Judy)

Happy Haunting!!!! 

 

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - October 23, 2013

It's Wednesday, over on Scraptures that means it's time for another Wild Card Wednesday challenge. This month I have been making cards to send to Canadian troops overseas using the "Operation Write Home" stamp set that came in this month's card kit. I think this one is my favourite so far.

I inked up the stencil with early espresso ink and then rubbed it directly onto the kraft cardstock.
I wanted the card to have a distressed / well travelled look, so I shredded all the edges with scissors and crinkled up the leaves.

SUPPLIES:

Early Espresso cardstock (SU)

Kraft cardstock (Recollections)

Cranberry cardstock (October card kit)

Early Espresso ink (SU)

Operation Write Home stamp set (Hero Arts)

Woodgrain Stencil (Prima)

Maple Leaf punch (Martha Stewart)

Remember, if you want to send a card overseas to show your support of our troops, here's the address again:

Any Canadian Forces Member
Op Attention
Kabul
PO Box 5140 Stn Forces
Belleville ON K8N 5W6

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday, October 16, 2013

It's Wednesday!! Over on SCRAPTURES that means it's time for another Wild Card Wednesday!! I have loved working with the stamp set and papers in this month's card kit. This one will also be sent to overseas to a member of the Canadian Forces, if you'd like to do the same, here's the address:

 Any Canadian Forces Member
Op Attention
Kabul
PO Box 5140 Stn Forces
Belleville ON K8N 5W6

The house was stamped three times, first time on white, the roof and chimney coloured in, then again on the DP and cut out, the last time again on white, the doors and windows coloured and cut out. I wanted the house to look a bit like a polariod picture, so I layered a piece of blue cardstock on the white with a wider edge at the bottom (the white is 3 x 3.5" the blue is 2.75 x 3 ").

Because the card is going overseas, I added two tiny maple leafs again in the bottom corners with my $1.50 punch from Michael's.

 SUPPLIES:

Blue & white cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)
Walnut Stain, Weathered Wood & Pumice Stone distress markers (Tim Holtz)
Baja Breeze ink (SU)
Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
Memories Captured paper pad (Fancy Pants)
Operation Write Home stamp set (Hero Arts)
Maple Leaf punch (Recollections)

Happy Thanksgiving - part two

We are off to Oshawa today to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family and to celebrate #1 phew's birthday. Before we go, wanted to show you some projects we made in the craft room yesterday.

Here are the Thanksgiving cards I made for family this year, Joel helped by punching and crinkling the leaves for me. Pretty easy cards to make, kraft cardstock base (Recollections), old olive (SU) layer, strip of DP (retired SU), coloured the sentiment (SU) with pumpkin pie and old olive markers (SU) on whisper white cardstock (SU). The leaves are early espresso, dusty durango (SU) and kraft (Recollections). The leaves were punched with a Martha Stewart punch, water spritzed and crinkled.

Joel wanted to make some more Thanksgiving gifts, this time for aunts and uncles. Here are the toilet paper roll turkeys we came up with. We covered the toilet paper roll in kraft cardstock (Recollections), made the beak from dusty durango (SU) and used the modern label punch (SU) to make feathers from cardstock scraps.

Gobble till ya wobble!!!

I'm entering my Thanksgiving card into the following challenges:

Little Red Wagon - Thanksgiving

CRAFT Challenge #228 - Autumn / Halloween / Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Sending Happy Thanksgiving wishes to all the Canadian peeps who are celebrating this weekend! We have not one, but TWO big family turkey dinners this weekend (one with each set of grandparents).
Today we worked on some Thanksgiving presents for grandparents, a paper pumpkin for the table and a turkey card.

Here's the pumpkin, complete with a paper vine and leaf, Joel wanted to put some straw inside to make it look like it just came from the farm.

To make the pumpkin we cut 8 strips (1' x 11") from dusty durango cardstock (SU). Punched a hole in the top and bottom of each strip, secured with a brad and them moved the strips around to make the pumpkin shape. The vine and leaf are gumball green cardstock (SU). Joel drew and cut out the leaf, we wrapped the vine strip around a pencil to make it curly.

 

For the turkey we traced and cut out two hands, one for the base, one for the fingers. Good thing I stocked up on washi tape! We used the snowflake punch (SU) for the turkey feet and the word window punch for whatever that thing in that turkeys have hanging off their neck. Then we addded googly eyes and a beak and voila...turkey card.

Gobble til ya wobble!!!

Drunken Stampers Challenge #145 - Place - Carnival

Happy Saturday!!! Time for another Drunken Stampers challenge! This week team Yellow Canary are coming at you with a PLACE challenge....a carnival! Perfect for this time of year when there are so many fun fall fairs going on!

Be sure to visit the DRUNKEN STAMPERS BLOG for all the details on this week's challenge and to show the Yellow Canaries some crafty love!

Here's what I came up with for this challenge:

 

SUPPLIES:

Kraft cardstock (Recollections)

Marina Mist & Very Vanilla cardstock (SU)

Marina Mist ribbon (SU)

Feeling Sentimental stamp set (SU)

Frayed Burlap Distress ink (Tim Holtz)

Design paper (SU, retired)

Square Lattice embossing folder (SU)

Want to get in on the fun?? Upload your project to the Drunken Stampers blog by 11:59 pm PST on Friday October 18th and you could be our next Life of the Party!!

 

Star Trekkin Across the Universe...

Tomorrow is #1 phew's 16th birthday!!! I wanted to make him a Star Trek themed card.

I even looked up how to say Happy Birthday in Klingon for the inside ("qoslIj DatIvaj" in case you are wondering).

I really really really really really really really hope he knows what this is supposed to be ha ha ha

Happy happy happy birthday #1 phew, I love you to the moon and back, the normal earth moon, you know, not any kind of weird Star Trek related moon.

 

And now, for your listening pleasure...sing along if you know it :)

STAR TREKKIN ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Qalpa!!

Scraptures WCW October 9, 2013

Happy hump day!!! It's Wednesday, time for another WCW challenge on SCRAPTURES.

I made two of these cards to send to troops overseas, here's the address again if you would like to send a card:

Any Canadian Forces Member
Op Attention
Kabul
PO Box 5140 Stn Forces
Belleville ON K8N 5W6

I used gathered twigs distress stain directly on the embossing folder before running it through the cuttlebug to get a better woodgrain look on the kraft paper...I'm pretty happy with how that came out. The little maple leafs are a punch I got at Michael's for $1.50...how could I NOT buy it???

SUPPLIES:

Operation Write Home stamp set CL583 (Hero Arts)
Early Espresso ink (SU)
Cherry Cobbler seam binding ribbon (SU)
Vanilla and kraft cardstock (Recollections)
Cherry Cobbler cardstock (SU)
Woodgrain embossing folder (Sizzix)
Gathered Twigs distress stain (Tim Holtz)
Maple Leaf mini punch (Recollections)
Design paper (SU, retired)

More Christmas Cards...

Here are the other two Christmas card samples for our JHS / United Way Christmas Card fundraising campaign.Trying to keep them kinda simple so we can mass produce them without too much effort.

SUPPLIES:

Red cardstock (Recollections)

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

Riding Hood Red ink (SU)

Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)

Santa's List stamp set (SU)

Design paper (SU, retired)

Fishtail Banner Die Set (Your Next Stamp)

SUPPLIES:

Gumball Green cardstock (SU)

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina) 

Gumball Green & Crumb Cake ink (SU)

Lovely as a Tree stamp set (SU)

From the Heart stamp set (SU)

 

 

Fight Like a Girl

A friend of mine joked about my Halloween card that she needed a pink skull card to represent the poisons that are going through her body...like I really needed an excuse to make another skull card???? And a PINK one to boot??? 

You know who you are...keep up the good fight and remember that many of us are on the journey by your side. MUAH!!!

SUPPLIES:

Pink & black cardstock (Recollections)

Skull design paper (SU)

Skull die (Provo Craft)

Alphabet punches (Martha Stewart)

Christmas cards already???

Yep, I've started making some samples for our annual JHS Christmas card fundraiser for the United Way. Hard to believe this will be our third year making Christmas cards to raise money for the United Way of Burlington & Greater Hamilton!! We usually get orders for more than 150 cards so I thought I better get crackin' with the samples. 

My friend Lynn took me to Duffy's in St. Catharine's, they have a great selection of stamps and other crafty goodies...I couldn't resist this stamp, she's called Postcard Pretty (Stampendous).

SUPPLIES:

Kraft cardstock (Recollections)

Cherry Cobbler cardstock (SU)

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

Postcard Pretty (Stampendous)

Frayed Burlap distress ink (Tim Holtz)

SUPPLIES:

White cardstock (gift from my friend Georgina)

Midnight Muse cardstock (SU)

Silver cardstock (Recollections)

Snowflake, word window and modern label punches (SU)

Faded Jeans distress marker (Tim Holtz)

Punch Pals stamp set (SU)

Scraptures WCW October 2, 2013

I am "on deck" for Wild Card Wednesdays this month at SCRAPTURES and since the stamp set in this month's card kit is an "operation write home" set, I thought I would send the cards I make this month to send to Canadian troops overseas for them to send home to their families, friends and loved ones. 

My challenge for you this month is to do the same, send a card to "Any Canadian Forces Member" here's the address you can use to send a card to troops in Afghanistan:

Any Canadian Forces Member
Op Attention
Kabul
PO Box 5140 Stn Forces
Belleville ON K8N 5W6

Here's what I came up with for this week's card:

SUPPLIES:
Memories Captured paper pad (Fancy Pants)
Operation Write Home stamp set CL583 (Hero Arts)
Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)
Cream and cranberry cardstock
Retired design paper (for the kites)(SU)
Cherry Cobbler & Old Olive markers(SU)