Color Q #62, 4 Crafty Chicks #14 & Fall To Layout #119

Alrighty this is going be a very short post because it's already 12:36 AM and I need to work in the morning! And you read correctly. I am making another card for 4 Crafty Chicks and Fall to Layout! I had made a birthday card for my friend and posted it yesterday. The colors I chose were very close to this week's Color Queen Challenge. Although it was close, it still wasn't the exact colors and you could definitely tell so I wanted to make an exact replica of the card using similar colors. Here is it along with Clean and Simple's Fall To Layout #119 again. Love this sketch!!! And yes, it again does qualify for 4 Crafty Chick's challenge 14, to make a birthday card. Have a great night everyone! 

PS. I miss my beloved Circle Circus stamp set! I'm glad I busted it out again! 

PPC-CC #41, 4 Crafty Chicks #14 & Fall To Layout #119

I can't believe it's another Monday already!! Have you started our Christmas shopping yet? I've been sick sick sick lately and haven't really done much of anything! First it was the flu for 2 weeks, then numerous bouts of nausea and vomiting. Then on Wednesday night I sneezed a couple times and felt a tickle in my nose. Thursday morning I'm down with a cold. I've been out of commission all weekend. We did manage to go to Jamie's work Christmas party but I went to the washroom every 10 minutes or so to clear my sinuses. Good thing the washroom wasn't too far away. Today I took a sick day from work because with my hacking and green snot, I'm not visiting new born babies and I can't even imagine having to talk to parents for 4 hours on their child's growth and development. Is anyone else having as much illness this winter as me? My manager and Arlie keep telling me to start taking Cold FX. I think I just might. Onto today's card! Boy I haven't done a triple play in a long time. I really wanted to make my friend a birthday card for her 30th birthday and I know she loves green so I decided to combine Picture Perfect Creations #41, Fall To Layout's #119 and 4 Crafty Chicks #14 birthday card challenge. Here's what I came up with. 

I'm loving the ribbon and I think I just might need to do more of that! Works great with Stampin' Up's satin ribbon. And the big ol' button is from the winter mini catalogue's Big Designer Buttons. I might need to redo a card that's more "wintery" for my friend's birthday as I'm not so sure I chose the theme very wisely.... Hope you get a chance to join us at PPC this week and pop on over to see what the other creators have made! Have a great day! 

4 Crafty Chicks #13

Boy it's early... 2:12 AM early! Today is the last day of my week long vacation and I'm sad I didn't get in more crafting time. But I am happy to say that we got a lot accomplished still. We managed to book our wedding photographer, our ceremony location, our reception and we bought a new fridge and dishwasher! So all the appliances for our future kitchen are purchased! The fridge and dishwasher were delivered today so I made Jamie help me wipe down the new shiny fridge and move everything over from our old fridge. One thing I noticed about fridges though, the veggie/fruit bins are never big enough. Perhaps we buy a lot of produce but seriously, we needed to make the entire shelf on top of the bins a designated "produce shelf". Hopefully Jamie will be able to install the dishwasher in the next week even though we'll be ripping out all the cupboards around it. I just really hate washing dishes! Such a waste of my precious life minutes. Can you tell it's late and I'm just doing some late night ranting? Onto the purpose of the post! This week over at 4 Crafty Chicks, it's an inspiration challenge. Can you believe it's already week 13 those gals are up to? Here's a CAS card I created using colors from the photo. Hope everyone has a great Friday and pop by 4 Crafty Chicks if you get a chance! 

PPC-CC #37, Fall To Layout #114 & 4 Crafty Chicks #9

Good morning everyone! Can you believe it's almost Christmas?!?! Ha ha, right? Hope everyone had a safe and fun All Hallows Eve. I managed to find some time to do some crafting this busy busy weekend. Can you believe we're up to Picture Perfect Creations #37? Wahoo!! I definitely didn't think these colors would look good together but I'm actually happy with how the card turned out. I combined the colors with Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #114. I have a really hard time with single layer cards and I'm not sure if this technically qualifies as one because I didn't just stamp onto the card front. Those that know me, know I love layers. I love those little flowers and I'm so glad I have the Big Shot and punches for them. Can you imagine cutting those little suckers out?? Over at 4 Crafty Chicks, this week's challenge is to "Roll with the punches!" so I did just that! Anyways, the stamp set is Stem Sayings. Big Shot accessories include the Floral Fusion sizzlit and the Little Leaves sizzlit. The punch is from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack. Uber cute right? Hopefully you get a chance to play along this week. Both challenges are will definitely require you have some creative juices. Have a great week! 

4 Crafty Chicks #5 & The Color Dare #78 (again!)

Another beautiful fall day in the neighborhood! It's a day before the craziness of influenza starts and I had a chance to do another little card using The Color Dare #78 and 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #5. The colors are Vanilla, Chocolate Chip and Daffodil Delight. The challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks is to put a "chick" on the card. Speaking of 4 Crafty Chicks, I was given a Golden Egg Award for my card last week. The girls over at 4 Crafty Chicks are amazingly talented and I feel very honored to have been chosen out of all the entries they received so BIG thanks to the the 4 Crafty Chicks team. I was thinking this card could be used as a sweet little wedding card. Those little chickies are just so cute! The stamp set is called Happy Together and the DSP is from a retired hostess lvl 3 set from last year's SU catalogue. Another card down for my No paper/product buying challenge! Hope you get a chance to enjoy the gorgeous weather we're having (in Alberta anyways)! 

PPC-CC #32, 4 Crafty Chicks, SSC170

Good morning everyone! Hope you all got out and enjoyed the lovely autumn weather this weekend. I had to work this past weekend again but did get to enjoy some outdoor shopping at the downtown farmer's market. Learned a few things like how brussel sprouts grow! We did see a lot of families out taking photos with all the fall leaves. I'm doing a triple hitter today. I've combined this week's Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo with 4 Crafty Chicks "Fall" themed card along with Stamping 411's Saturday Sketch Challenge. I haven't done a triple challenge combo for a very very long time. I often don't like combining this many challenges because I don't like visiting blogs that make 1 project and list about 10 different challenges that it remotely qualifies for. 

I'm really liking this French Foliage set from SU. You can't tell from the photo but the main image is actually stamped onto glossy card stock and then colored with a sponge dauber. It looks really pretty in person, I swear! I had to move the main image to the other side because I wanted to put a sentiment and it just didn't fit if I tried to squeeze the panel beside the bow like in the sketch. Hopefully I don't get my hand slapped too hard! The sentiment is from a retired hostess set called Holiday Best. That ribbon is the new poly-stiched ribbon in Pear Pizazz. Another project knocked off my list for the No paper/product buying challenge. Hopefully you get to join in on at least one of the challenges! 

PPC-CC #31 & 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #3

Good morning everyone! Hope everyone had a better weekend than me. I had to work all weekend so today was finally my Friday. Working 6 days straight sucks. Some of the girls on the PPC-CC design team joined up and started a new challenge blog! It's called 4 Crafty Chicks. This is their third challenge and this week it's to emboss! I'm really enjoying this week's PPC-CC colors that Megan chose. I know it doesn't seem like I embossed very much on my card but I often do this style of embossing because it just adds a tiny detail that I quite enjoy. Just make sure if you're planning on embossing, do that before you add all the embellishments because I tried to emboss after I tied the ribbon and added the flower. It's a lot harder. I'm happy to knock another 2 projects off my No paper/product buying challenge. I made 2 of the exact same cards. The paper used is from SU called Love Letter. The ribbon is actually from when River Rock was around the first time! The stamp set is For You Flower. Hope you get to pop over to either PPC-CC or 4 Crafty Chicks to join in on this week's challenges!