FTL #266

I love me a simple sketch! What I don't love is how it my end products always look like they only took 10 minutes when in reality it took me 1 hour and 10 minutes. I rant on this all the time so why stop now? That bloody cupcake stamp set and coordinating paper punch... Why did I buy you?!? First I had to stamp the images, then punch them out, then layer them. Not a big deal except that the punch includes all 6 pieces to the cupcake. And you can't change how it punches... Not a big fan at all. It's no wonder I waited, what? 2 years to use it? Anyways that's enough ranting for a Tuesday evening. Here's my take on Fall to Layout #266. Have a good evening! 

FTL 262

A quick post before I head off to bed! Here's my take on this week's Fall to Layout #262. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone! 

FTL 260

Happy Sunday evening everyone! You know it's a productive day when I am able to get work on a card! I thought this Fall to Layout 260 would be easy breezy, but it took a lot more creative juices than I thought. I had a hard time with the specks on the side. I originally had cute little enamel dots all over but didn't like it so I peeled them off. Then I took the plunge and used some Liquid Pearls and you all know there's no changing your mind with those suckers. So I added. And I added. And I added a few more. I don't love it, not one bit. But the deed is done and I am ready for a late dinner. Have a great week everyone! 

FTL #241

It's been a while since I've done a Fall to Layout Challenge on Clean & Simple Stamping's blog. As I mentioned in previous posts, I am now a subscriber to Studio Calico's monthly card kit and I'm loving the simplistic cards I've been making with these kits. I'm also getting the chance to use a lot of new products that I've never experimented with before. This card uses chipboard, transparent die cuts and gold plastic stars. Have a great long weekend everyone and hop by FTL's blog to play along! 

FTL #221

I got to spend a lovely afternoon with my good friend Jinnee from Sketch Cuts. We got our December order from Studio Calico, called 34 Street Card Kit and we decided to make a pact with our new subscriptions to their card kits. We would get together monthly to use our new kits rather than have supplies accumulate and collect dust. That's exactly what we did today! Our goal was to make 8 cards since there was 4 sheets of card stock in the kit but we only got to 3. I chose to use Fall To Layout #221 as a layout so here is my take on it! 

PPC-CC #51

Good morning everyone and happy Monday! Can you believe it's already March!?! It's so scary how fast time flies when you have a big event coming up like a wedding!!! My BFF (holy when was the last time I used that phrase?) today exclaimed "Ahhh! 5 months and 3 days left!" I can totally sense panic starting to set in for myself as well. I have a lot to do still. Onto today's card! We're up to Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo #51 already! How insane! I've combined it with an old Fall To Layout Sketch #113. I wanted to keep the card really simple with 4 colors and I like how it turned out. You can literally stamp any sentiment on this card and it'll work. Well, maybe not for a manly card but anything else! If you get a chance, pop by the PPC blog to see what the other DT members have made! Have a great week everyone! 

PPC-CC #46 & FTL #124

Happy Monday morning everyone! I love having Mondays off! It gives me time to run errands and avoid the evening rush hour. I've been working on my wedding invitations, trying to choose what design I'd like to use. Today I'll run to the stationary store to pick up some sample papers to print on. Jamie's leaning towards linen paper and I'm leaning towards shimmer paper. Guess I'll need to make samples with both and see which one looks better. Onto today's card! It uses Picture Perfect Creations #46 and Fall To Layout #124. I'm very excited about all the goodies I got from Papertrey Ink. I love the stamps and even got some Nestabilities! Super fun!! Looking back as I load the picture, I would've put a scalloped circle underneath the circle just go give it more pop. Oh well! Head over to PPC to see what else the other team members came up with! 

PPC-CC #45 & Fall To Layout #122

Happy Monday everyone! Hopefully you all had a great weekend. I spent most of my weekend at home because we had a major dump of snow in Edmonton. I managed to do a bit more wedding planning so that's a bonus! Onto today's card. This week over at the Picture Perfect Creations blog, we're up to challenge #45!!! Boy Megan really stumps me sometimes! It's fun creating with colors that I'd never normally put together. I absolutely hate River Rock and Wild Wasabi. I met both colors when I was first introduced to Stampin' Up. I was a complete beginner and ended up ordering a bunch of random stuff. Well, can you believe I still have my packages of River Rock and Wild Wasabi? That's how much I use them. Enough about my dislikes! I've combined this week's colors with Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #122. I ended up flipping the sketch just so I could make 2 cards out of 1 sheet of card stock. I'm really loving the sketch and I'll definitely be going back to it! Hopefully you all get a chance to pop on over to PPC to see what the design team has created! 

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! 

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! 

PPC-CC #36 & Fall To Layout #113

Good morning! Boy it's been a LONG week. I'm still sporting the cough and over the weekend I came down with something worse. I'm not sure if it was food poisoning or the stomach flu. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea is not fun. Nausea is probably the worst thing for me. Especially when I'm away from home and need to curl around a friend's toilet. I'm feeling a bit better now and even managed to do a bit of crafting. This week's Picture Perfect Creations #36 colors are something that I would have never put together but Megan did some awesome pairing! I joined it with Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #113. Hopefully you all get a chance to join us at PPC this week!

PPC-CC #35 & Fall to Layout #111

Well I had a total brain fart while making this card. I thought the Tempting Turquoise was a Bashful Blue and didn't realize my mistake until I went to upload the picture! It was too late to make another card so this will have to do for now. I've been MIA for the last bit and that's because I've been sick as a dog the last week. I had to call in sick for work for 3 days last week and had a complete meltdown at 7 am yesterday because after making Jamie drive me around to find a store open to buy cough syrup at 2 AM, I was only able to sleep from 3:30-6:30. I woke up and tried sleeping on the cough but I couldn't sleep from all the hacking. So finally I made Jamie take me to the Medicenter for some prescription grade codeine loaded cough syrup. It totally did the trick and I was zonked out like a little zombie. I've slept so much in the last 5 days it's gross. Enough about me though. I've combined this week's Picture Perfect Creations Color Combo with Clean & Simple Stamping's Fall to Layout #111. I love the clean lines and simplicity of the cards. Hope you all get a chance to join us at PPC this week! In the meantime, stay crafty and healthy! 

PPC-CC #30 & FTL 107

This post is a little late but better late than never! Hope everyone had a great weekend. It was my good friend, Penny's, birthday this weekend so we spent Saturday night celebrating with her in her GORGEOUS new home. Being in a house like that makes me wish our home was bigger but as Jamie said, "The house fits us right now". This week's Picture Perfect Creations colors are just absolutely beautiful together. I combined it with Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #107. I used the new level 3 hostess stamp set Playful Pieces. The sentiment is from my beloved Watercolor Trio. Hopefully Penny liked the card! I managed to squeeze in some DSP for my No paper/product buying challenge! Woot woot! 

Hope some of you get to play along with us this week over at PPC! 

PPC-CC #28 & Fall To Layout #105

Happy Monday everyone! This post is a touch late because blogger was uncooperative yesterday. I'm officially on vacation for a week but unfortunately I have to go in for a meeting tomorrow morning. Jamie and I both took a week of vacation to work on the house but it looks like the time will be used to do more catch up than renos. We've got a huge list of things to do before we even touch the kitchen renos. First off, we need to finish that darn laundry room. So Jamie was madly doing laundry today so we can unplug both machines and hopefully drywall tomorrow. We need to bring Khuno for his yearly shots and check-up, he desperately needs to be groomed and I also need my annual check-up! I've also set up a couple lunch dates with some friends and on Saturday we have an all day concert to go to. To end off our vacation, we have a friend's wedding on Sunday. Phew! Just thinking about it makes me feel like I have no time at all! To top that all off, I've finally booked an appointment and saw a chiropractor today about my numb foot issue when I run. The consult alone cost me $89! Gee whiz. So tomorrow I've got an appointment to do some work on my lower legs so that'll be another $39. Lets just hope it works! 

This week over at Picture Perfect Creations, the colors aren't ones I usually put together but I think it worked out in the end. I combined the colors with Fall To Layout #105. The technique used is double emboss resist and the DSP is from Walk In The Park. Yay! Another project down for the No paper/product buying challenge. I do have to confess though, I did put in an order recently for paper that I need to hold an upcoming workshop. Technically, the paper really isn't for me..... So I'm going to keep going with the challenge! Hopefully you have time to join us at PPC this week! 

PPC-CC #27 & FTL #104

Welcome to the second last Monday of the month! Fall is looming and Megan over at the Picture Perfect Creations blog has chosen some fun non-autumn colors this week. I combined this week's PPC #27 challenge with Clean & Simple's Fall To Layout #104. This card had only one stamp and I even mucked that up! I went to stamp the sentiment but my Stamp-a-ma-jig was sitting on top of the knot so I ended up rocking my stamp a bit too forward and got a little line. I tried covering it up but couldn't so I just added more lines! The sentiment is from the Wow Flowers stamp set and the DSP is from a retired hostess 6x6 paper pack. Isn't that new poly-stitched ribbon great?? I'm definitely glad I got all the colors! Worth the splurge! And whooo hoo! Another card using up some DSP for the no paper/product buying challenge! Hopefully you all get a chance to play long with the rest of the design team this week over at PPC! 

Play Date Cafe Challenge #42 & Fall To Layout #103

I wasn't very productive today. I had every intention to be productive! Alarm was set for 9:00 AM and Jamie even came to wake me up at 9:30 but then I convinced him (wasn't hard) to nap with me till 10:00. He eventually got up at 11 or 11:30 and I woke my lazy butt up at 1:00 PM!!! Jamie asked what I wanted for breakfast and so I asked him what he wanted and he goes "Well it'd be lunch for me." Ouch. Anyways, I managed to muster up a card today. The photo is the inspiration from the Play Date Cafe Challenge and I paired it up with Clean & Simple's Fall To Layout sketch 103. I got to use some patterned paper for the No paper/product buying challenge and you get a sneak peak of a stamp set that will be available in September from the new winter mini catalogue! Don't be upset with the very Autumn looking card. I swear fall is here already because Jamie and I already saw yellow leaves on some trees on our dog walks. 

The leaves are from the new stamp set French Foliage and the sentiment is from a retired hostess set Flower Lines. I wanted the patterned paper to show through so I used some vellum and got to try out my new Scrapbook Adhesives vellum adhesive. Not too bad but it does tend to clump a bit at the start and end. You can see a little blip of it on the top left corner. The rest is still pretty invisible so I'm happy with it. Worth the $8. The ribbon is Chocolate Chip taffeta and I'm in absolute love with it! The sheen it has is so gorgeous in person. Hope you all had a great weekend! 

PPC-CC #25 & Fall To Layout #100

Boy weekends go by way too fast don't they? This weekend we had a great BBQ with Jamie's family. The weather was perfect and we got to watch a bunch of amazing people pass our house all weekend while they were doing a 60km walk for the annual Weekend To End Women's Cancer. Such inspiration! Last week I missed out on Megan's Picture Perfect Color Challenge #24 but not this week!! Head on over to the PPC blog to play with this week's colors. I paired this week's colors with Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #100! Nice milestones for both blogs! 

The PPC Creators and Megan are SOO super excited to announce our 25th week and #25 Color Combo at PPC, that we just had to celebrate with some super-de-duper Blog Candy!

How about an...

Assortment of Stampin' Up! NEW In Colors Cardstock!!!

Includes: 4 each of 5 NEW In Colors (8-1/2 x 11): Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade and Concord Grape

These NEW In Colors are abosolutely fabulous! The cardstock will definitely, as they will be included in our upcoming challenges! :)

HOW TO WIN:

• Become a follower at PPC, if you're not already one.
• Leave a comment at the bottom of this post.
• And if you would be so kind and crafty, please partipate in our PPC-CC 25 Color Combo Challenge this week!

That's it...sooo simple and easy! Contest ends next Monday, August 16th at 10am.
Good Luck!
 

PPC-CC #22 & Fall To Layout 99

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! I definitely wasn't very productive on my weekend. On Friday night I slept for a whopping 15 hours!!! Someone asked if I was preggers and I can say definitely not! This week Megan over at the Picture Perfect Creations blog threw me for a loop! I had such a hard time with this challenge that it literally took me two whole afternoons! I'm not sure if it's the Cajun Craze or if it's just because there were four colors. Here is my first attempt using The More The Merrier retired hostess set from SU. 

I didn't like how this card turned out so I made another card using Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #99 sketch. I used the stamp set Embrace Life and filled in the flower with some Crystal Effects. The paper used is the retired Walk in the Park DSP. 

Hopefully some of you get a chance to join us this week over at PPC and fingers crossed that you have an easier time than me with these colors!