MFTWSC150 {happy holidays}

I spent some time with my MFT stamps and Die-namics this weekend. I have an order coming to me this week and I needed a warm up. I haven't posted to the Wednesday Stamp Club (even though I've used the past couple of sketches) link up in months! I was excited to play along this week. It's WSC 150 and you can check out the sketch and link up HERE. 

Check out my card. 

 I used the pretty Basic Grey papers from last year, Aspen. I just adore the colors. Thanks to Tara, I found this Basic Grey Challenge blog and I'm entering this card there, too. 

 I cut a layer of Kraft card stock and created the notebook edge with the  Notebook Edge Border. I love that I can create this fun and trendy edge on any project, any where with this Die-namics. 

I also stamped the beautiful large polka dots from Large Scale Backgrounds. I just adore Sweet tooth ink stamped on Kraft! The square is Sweet Tooth card stock and I used one of the Square Stax 1 Die-namics for a perfect fit. 

In place of that label die in the sketch, I went with this gorgeous Poinsettia and a Fishtail banner piece for my sentiment. I used two of the smaller flower pieces and layered them up. 

The sentiment is from a set released last year (I think), Clearly Sentimental About Christmas. I stamped it in Jellybean Green ink on JellyBean Green cardstock. I swiped on some Sweet Tooth ink around the edges to soften the look. 

Stop on by the MFT Blog to see the rest of the link ups. Lots of inspiration always. 

Catered Crop {thankful}

The other week, I linked up to the Catered Crop Recipe Swap. I worked with Linda on the MFT DT for awhile and I have been stalking her Recipe Swap Challenges. I had some time to join in on her Washi Challenge. 
I was excited to find out yesterday that I was chosen as one of the Winning Recipes. woohoo! With that honor, I was invited to join in this week's Quick Fire Round for her Thank-you Kindly challenge. 
I am always making thank-you cards, so this was no big challege for me. I pulled out some My Favorite Things supplies and got busy. It has been awhile since I worked with these goodies and it was like visiting an old friend. 

I LOVE MFT Die-namics. I used the Thank-you Die-namics, along with the beauitful Modern Morocco Cover Plate. I added a pretty text to the background with the scripty, Art Expression Text. It's tone one tone, Sno Cone ink on Sno Cone cs, it's subtle and oh-so-pretty!

The gorgeous color combo is compliments of Joanne B. She used MFT Olive, Sno Cone, and Fuse Green beautifully during Teaser Time last week, I just had to give it a go. I have another color combo she used in mind for a card coming soon. 

I was following the current Seize The Sketch layout for my card. For that embellishment piece, I decided to use one of my all time favorite MFT stamp sets, Thankful Leaves. I also used the dies to match, Fall Leaves.  

Be sure to check out the latest Catered Crop Recipe Swap. It's fun! 

Reverse Confetti Nov. Color Challenge

Hello! and Welcome to the first Reverse Confetti Color Challenge. Jen decided to change things up a bit starting this month by adding in a new challenge. That means another reason to use your Reverse Confetti stamps, get stamping, AND another chance to win a prize!

Here is my card. The colors this month are: Gray, Orange, and Navy.  I went a bit trendy trendy with an angled panel and the stripes from So Stripey. I used three different stamps from that set. Two on the banner pieces and the single, solid stripe in the back ground in Orange Fizz ink. 

Here's a close up of the small tag an the stripes I added to the fishtail banner pieces. I did a lot of tone on tone stamping. I really like the look.  I used the new TAG Me Confetti Cuts  for that small tag and two of the banner pieces. I added some Whole Lotta Dots polka dots. 

I used two sentiments on my card. The larger one on the Sweet Tooth circle is from Lots To Say. The hello on my tag is from Arrows 'n Elements. You know how I love to mix and match my RC stamps. 

Here is the Challenge Graphic. Isn't it great?!! I have another card, that I'll share later next week. 

Check out the stamps I used today. 

and here are some details you may want to know about

• There will be a new Color Challenge posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on the 16th of each month.

• The Color link list will be open from the 16th until noon CST on the 29th. The color challenge will be posted in the sidebar and you will be able to click on it to get to that month’s challenge post with the link list during this time.

• Just like the Sketch For You To Try, we are allowing “anything goes” until the end of the year. Note, that we will be adding the Reverse Confetti stamps only in January.

• You may enter as many times as you wish.

• There will be a winner each month and that person will receive a $20 gift certificate to the Reverse Confetti store and claim the title of 'Fetti Fave. The winner of Color Challenge will be posted on the Reverse Confetti blog on the 30th of each month.

Good luck and have fun! Now be sure to hop on over to the Reverse Confetti Blog to see the rest of the challenge inspiration. Jen's got the list on her blog.

Unity Thursday {be inspired}

Hello! and welcome to

another week of 

Unity fun. 

It's our Thursday HOP!!!

and we have a new 

{Be inspired} challenge. 

I made my card 

using the new color inspiration

and a bit of the Inspiration photo. 

Lucky me....there is a gorgeous feather 

included in this month's

SMAK kit!

{be your own beautiful}

All of my stamped images are from this fabulous kit. 

I loooove that background stamp. 

It's all one block of those fun, graphic circles

I used my Distress Markers to ink up each one.

Gave it a huff and then stamped it onto my card base. 

I stamped the feather in Broken China Distress ink, cut it out, and

then tied on a twiney bow. 

The fun all starts

at the
Unity Blog. 

If you are in the middle of the hop

then I'll send you on your

way to 

Thienly. 

 Here is this week's PRIZE!

It's up for grabs to one lucky winner

All you have to do is 

leave some love

on all the 

DT Blogs

that are hopping today!

Come play along in our 

{Be inspired}CHallenge.

Have a beautiful Thursday!

Happy Shopping!

Unity is helping out the Phillippines

for Every sale, $1 is donated!

and some NEW!

TCPNOV13-What's on your desk {part 2)

I am up again this week with another sample for the November TCP Tuesday Challenge. I told the girls yesterday that I really enjoyed this challenge. I love the fact that I walk away with 3 finished cards after 1 crafty session. Have you played along? It's a What's On Your Desk Challenge: Make 1 card and then with what you have left on your desk, make 2 more!

I had fun with the newest penguin trio, Peace, Joy, and Peguins. While I love that tower of fun, I wanted to show you how to get a little bit more mileage out of this stamp set. I actually stamped them once and then cut out two of penguins to use separately, on two different cards. 

Here is the card I started with. I kept it with the holiday theme and used the beautiful Snowflake Lace Paper Cutups to add an embossed panel to show off my candy cane penguin.  I just added an embossing matt to my stack, and removed the adaptor shim before I ran it through my Vagabond. I really love doing this with so many dies....another money saving tip!

While I had it out, I cut a full doily from some Sweet Tooth cardstock. I used a punched out snowflake to help accent my card. 

The layout for this one is from the current Deconstructing Sketch 126. Not sure you can see it so well here, but that snowflake is sugared up with some Distress Glitter. 

Next is the gifty penguin. I used the same papers from Basic Grey and went with a bit more of a clean and simple layout. I wanted a non-holiday card for this sweet little guy. See....getting more bang for your buck! He's got a stack of birthday gifts and the Celebration Toppers Cutups was perfect to accent him. 

 I also added a strip of Icing Cutup in Wild Cherry cs, tied on a twiney bow and adhered a few white sequins. It's a party!!

Here with my final card, you can see where I used the full Snowflake Lacey Paper Cutups. It fit perfectly with the Retro Sketch89  for this week. 

Again, I went with another clean and simple card. I cut out a circle of the pretty pattern paper scraps from my first card and stamped a sentiment from this same Peace, Joy, and Penguins stamp set. 

I used more of those sugary snowflakes along with a few olive green sequins, while I still had my sequin jar on my desk. :) 

Easy Peasy! Thanks for stopping by. Be sure to hop  over to Alma's blog to see who else has fun samples for the second week of this challenge. 

Here are some details about the November TCP Tuesday Challenge. 

Here are the Deets.

1. The First Tuesday of the Month I will post a challenge on this blog. That’s right! Here!
   The challenge will also be posted on our Splitcoaststampers forum and on our Facebook page
2. If you want to play along you just upload your design right here on this page using the InLinkz button. (The challenge button will be posted on the right hand column of this blog so you don’t have to search around)
   If you want to display your pretties on Splitcoaststampers using keyword TCPTUESNov13. But, only entries uploaded to the Inlinkz button will be considered for Swanky Stamper
3. The Challenge will be a month-long challenge and you can play as many times as you like during that month.
4. Cards and projects must have at least one Cat’s Pajamas Stamp or CutUps die in the project.
5. On the First Monday of the Month a winner will be chosen from the previous challenge and crowned Swanky Stamper.
6. The Swanky Stamper will not only be acknowledged as the Swankiest Stamper for that month, but will also receive some of the stamps from our next release and get to play along with us at our Pajamas Party and Blog Hop. AND… They’ll even get a special spot in the Gallery highlighting the project that won them the gig AND as snazzy badge to display on their blog.
7. The winner will be announced the First Monday of the month on Splitcoaststampers, Facebook page and this Blog

Have a great Tuesday!  Come play along with us, this month. 

Sweet Sunday Sketch 197 {holy shitake}

I was dying to use this new stamp from Unity Stamp Co. It's new, and it's small, it's sooooo punny.......AND  it's only A BUCK!! Holy Shitake!  

It's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch. I know you'll all have some thing fabulous to do with it. 
Here is my take.

 I used some holiday papers with this non-holiday stamps. These papers are from Glitz-Hello Dear.  The little wide banner piece is the smallest tag die from the new Reverse Confetti-Tag Me Confetti Cut. 

I colored the mushroom with my copics and added  a touch of stickles. The sentiment cracks me up. 


Here is this week's sketch:

Start the fun over on Karen's blog. 

She has all the details for the challenge.

Need some inspiration?? Check out what the SSS team has done with the sketch. 

Dana White

                                               Dawn Easton <---------Taking the week off

                 Jackie Pedro                   

Jodi Collins 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put 

  Melissa Hubert 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

Thanks for coming by today. I always appreciate your kind words. 

Moxie Fab Thanks Cath: Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to what might just be the world's largest Blog Hop. And it's all for Moxie Fab Cath!! She has been an inspiration and supporter of the card making world for years! This is our chance to say thank-you for all she has done. 

You should have arrived here from Julie Cambell's blog. She's #189 in the Inlinkz list below. 

I made a card to show my appreciation. It uses some of the just released Reverse Confetti stamps-So Stripey and Lots To Say. 

I used the layout from this week's Seize The Sketch challenge. It was perfect for my graphic and fun card. I used the Tag Me Confetti Cuts to cut my fishtail banner piece from Sweet Tooth cs. Then I ran it through my Vagabond with the Dots Cutups from TCP and wrapped around some navy twine. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

 And a HUGE Moxie FAB Thanks to Cath!!! I wish you all the best!

Here's the big link up! 

Follow the list and have fun hopping.

I am #190.....so head on over to my Friend Jimmi's blog. 

She is #191.