365 Cards Day 46 & Mojo Monday Week 82

Well I can't believe I'm 4/4 since I started this. It's already 1 am and I'm absolutely EXHAUSTED!! Good thing I don't work early tomorrow and can sleep in for a couple hours. Definitely wouldn't call it catching up though. I was just telling Jamie these 5-6 hour nights of sleep are killing me! Anyways I'm absolutely hooked still on 365 Cards.  Here's my take on the matchbook card. I combined it with the Mojo Monday Week 82 sketch.  I hope you like it!! 

Stamps: Friends 24/7 (SU)

Paper: Stampin' Up cardstock in Basic Black, Cameo Coral, and Whisper White; DSP from SU

Accessories: Silver Brads (SU)

Supplies: Scalloped edge punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig

P.S. I know it's also a Wednesday but I didn't want to post this as a WUAC Wednesday post as well. The main thing about WUAC Wednesdays was to get me off my butt to make a card and I've already  made one today so my goal is met =) Bedtime!! 

365 Cards Day 45

I'm super impressed with myself!! I've been 3 for 3 so far since I started making cards for 365 Cards Challenges.  Today's challenge was to make a trifold card. I haven't made one of these yet and I followed the tutorial found on Tammy's blog but I found the card a touch skinny so I wasted some cardstock and rescored my card at 2 1/4" and 6 1/4". 

I know the extra 1/4" doesn't seem like much but it makes the card feel just wide enough to make me not notice the skinny-ness. 

Anywhooo, I am quite happy with how little Ian turned out from The Greeting Farm. It's the first time I got to use my Hello Ian stamp and I'm so glad I decided to buy him. I stamped him in Staz On on watercolor paper and colored him with a blender pen an Classic SU ink. I also stamped him again on patterned paper and cut his hat and scarf out. The hat is popped up a bit even though you can't tell in the picture. Finished off the card with some satin ribbon from SU (love love love it) and some silver brads and pewter large eyelets all from SU. 

And once again, thanks to all the ladies that stopped by and left comments. Everyone's kind words absolutely warms my heart an makes me feel all bubbly inside. Makes me want to keep pumping out cards just so I can read more comments!! 

Stamps: Hello Ian (The Greeting Farm)

Paper: Stampin' Up cardstock Basic Gray, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black and DSP from SU, watercolor paper

Accessories: Satin Ribbon, Eyelet, Brads (All SU)

Supplies: Crop-a-dile, ticket corner punch, blender pen

365 Cards Day 44 & Color Throwdown #37

My oh my, I thought I was a night owl but the team at 365 Cards is just as late as me! As I mentioned in my very first 365 Card creation, I am very excited that I found a blog that has a different challenge EVERY SINGLE DAY!!! Where they come up with ideas, I have no clue but I definitely find this blog different than many of the others. The main difference for myself is most challenge blogs host a challenge once a week or once every other week. This gives procrastinators like myself a load of time to push it back and keep pushing until the time limit is up and Mister Linky is closed. The difference with 365 Cards is I don't have slack time to play around with!! If I don't muster up a card for that days challenge, I'll fall behind because there'll be a new one up the very next day!! And in this case, within the next 12 hours or so!! I feel like I'm in school where I can't miss a day because I'll fall behind and never be able to catch up! So that's why I'm up till the wee hours of 1 am just so I could finish my money holder! If you can't actually read what the sentiment says, here it is. The front says "Shopping with your husband is like hunting with the game warden." And on the inside I typed up "Take this money instead and buy yourself something nice." and printed it on white cardstock. 

This card also used the colors of this week's Color Throwdown. Boy was it hard to just have the 3 colors to work with and all 3 colors were on the lighter side. 

Now I know you may all be thinking "TEN BUCKS?? What a cheapo!" I just want to say that I only used the $10 bill because of the color contrast!! A nice pink $50 would have looked great but I definitely don't have any of those floating around these days. Anywhooo off to bed! 

P.S. Thanks to all the ladies that stopped by from the 365 Card team and leaving such lovely comments. I can't wait to keep playing and being inspired by you gals! 

Stamps: Park Avenue Patterns (SU), LOL Taglines (There She Goes)

Paper: Stampin' Up cardstock in Sage Shadow, Pink Pirouette, Cameo Coral

Accessories: Sage Shadow Grograin Ribbon (SU)

Supplies: Coluzzle, corner rounder, dimensionals, embossing powder, heat gun, stamp-a-ma-jig

Color Inspiration 49 & CPS 111

I've been trying REALLY hard to get the card making mojo a kick in the butt because lately I've only been posting once a week for WUAC Wednesdays. Here's my attempt at Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge tagged along with Card Positioning Systems 111 sketch. 

I wanted to fit in the 4 squares but just didn't have enough room. And why not make the card longer you might ask? Because then I'd have to make an envelope to match!! 

Anywhooo, wishing everyone a Happy Easter (again..) =)

365 Cards Day 43 Challenge

So as I was surfing the web a few days ago (because I had soooo much extra time on my hands....) and came across this fantastic blog called 365 Cards.  I absolutely love making cards for challenges because to be completely honest, I just don't have the creativity to sit down and come up with my own sketches, color combos etc etc. The most awesomest (not a word I know but it sounds cool) part of the blog is that there's a new challenge EVERY SINGLE DAY!! If it was new years when I discovered this blog, my resolution would be to take part in every single challenge. But alas, it's April and it's not resolution time =) 

So today's challenge was to make a gift card holder. How perfect is that?? I was going to make them at my open house a few weekends ago but decided against it in the end so I whipped up this one for the challenge. I know the stamping isn't the greatest but it's Easter Sunday.... So lets all forget about the nitty gritty-ness of cardmaking and as the card says, "Enjoy"! The template I used can be found HERE.  Now I know the tutorial uses the Scor-pal rather than a Scor-it but I don't have a Scor-it and the more I read about a Scor-it the more I want one. I really do find it troublesome to have the premeasured score lines on the Scor-Pal. If the Scor-it is as easy to use as the Scor-pal but yet allows me to score at whatever intervals I want, I'm SOLD. Hopefully the random number pulls me out of the hat!! 

Happy Easter everyone! 

Cuttlebug Challenge Spa Weekend!

I found the Cuttlebug Challenge blog some time ago but had never participated in a challenge simply because I don't have a Cuttlebug! Hopefully that'll change with this awesome 1st Anuual Spa Retreat! This spa retreat prize list is INCREDIBLE!!  Entering is super easy and and spreading the word is even easier!!! Visit the site for more details! This is definitely one blog candy you do NOT want to miss!! **Fingers crossed**

Mojo 81 and Late WUAC Wednesday

Here's another cool layout from Mojo Monday. I had to combine it with WUAC because I've been so uninspired lately. And I know it's technically Thursday now but I was making it on Wednesday! (If that counts!) The card ended up really really busy for me and lots going on. I usually like the CAS (clean and simple, I finally learnt) cards and my stamps ended up being way jimongo for my card. Jamie said it's very Easter and he's absolutely right! I wasn't trying to make it Eastery but I was really liking the patterned paper and the rest sort of followed. The card also took me ridiculously long but then again, when does a card ever not?


 

So Regan, this week's challenge is to play the Mojo 

Monday because there's a prize! If you're not feeling it, then perhaps make something that uses patterned paper since I know you got that huge bag from Costco like me! And if Arlie is reading this... I WANT TO SEE YOUR STUFF ALREADY!!


 

Ingredients: 

Stamps: Snag 'em Stamps from imaginisce So Tweet and Chick

Paper: Stampin' Up cardstock in Lavender Lace and Barely Banana, K & Company patterned paper, paper flowers from Staples

Accessories: So Saffron grosgrain ribbon from SU

Supplies: Coluzzle, corner rounder, dimensionals, white gel pen

WUAC Wednesday

So this week I've decided to change it up a little bit. I'm not sure how useful it was for me to post all the pictures of the cardmaking process. From now on, WUAC Wednesdays will just feature a card I've made! Plain and simple. And Regan, as you've probably noticed, you're the only one who plays! And I know sometimes it's a challenge for you too! So I've decided to not add Mister Linky because it's just extra work that isn't needed. Regan can you just put your link in the comment section? Please and thank you!! 

Now moving onto the actual WUAC part. I had an open house on Saturday and had prepped a bunch of little 3x3 cards. No one ended up making any so I took the luxury of making all of them myself! I used a bunch of random things and got to use my punches! I'm really loving the new scalloped oval in the new mini catalogue that is available TODAY! The coordinating set is super cute and I'm glad I got good use out of it. Now a challenge for you this week isn't to relate your card to mine but to create a cute little 3x3 card! Simple enough still right? 

And I just had to throw in some pictures of Khuno. He's in almost full shed mode. Well at least we think so. It's our first "shedding" season since we've had him and yesterday night I managed to come out a little ball of it from JUST the bottom half of his two front legs.... Now can you imagine the rest of the body?!?! And just to let you know, the picture of the black thing is actually my pants!!