Christmas Cards All Year Round August Challenge

Hi there!  I promise I haven't dropped off the face of the earth...it's just been a crazy summer.  My mother-in-law was here for a month, then we went to Toledo to see my family, and of course there was work.  I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things this weekend. 

Here is the challenge over at Christmas Cards All Year Round:

Happy August Everyone! Can you believe we're about halfway through the summer? I hope it's been nice weather for you!

Here's our challenge for August.... Since many of us have had a lot of heat this summer, we're going to cool things down with SNOWFLAKES! Yes, as some of you guessed from the sneaks, your cards this month need to have snowflakes of some kind - in the paper, embellishments, stamping or whatever you like!

Here is the card I used:

Don't forget to go over and check it out!

TFL!

VSD #4 - Challenge #5

I had a busy weekend so I could only make one more card and of course I had to make a Christmas card!

Here's are the details on Melanie's challenge:

Christmas in July (???)

Since we are just a few short days away from July I thought for our 5th challege we would do a Christmas in July theme.

So your challenge is to create a Christmas card. That is it, nothing special required. NVR, just please try to use a minimum of 1 stamped image on your card.

Have fun!!

Here's my card:

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to make a couple more cards this week. 

Have a good one!

VSD #4 - Challenge #2

Here is Challenge #2 from Melina:

Hello ladies!!!

Are we having fun yet?

Wasn't April's challenge great! I've never made one of those!

CHALLENGE #2
I've got a color challenge for you with a theme twist...

Your colors are:
Chocolate Chip
More Mustard
Old Olive
Basic gray
Very Vanilla

Now for the theme twist. I NEVER have masculine cards around when I need them. I'm not good at doing masculine either....so.....Make your creation with manly men in mind.


Also, use pewter or silver embellishments.

I never have masculine cards around either so I hope this fits the bill:)

TFL!

VSD #4 - Challenge #1

The first challenge for this weekends VSD was to create a card made out of acetate. I didn't have acetate but I did have an acrylic tag so I used that. Here are the details to April's challenge:

Hello Ladies.....How is everyone today? I hope you are ready for your first challenge of our wonderful weekend VSD! I told you all you'd need acrylic or transparency sheets for my challenge because we are making acetate cards today!

Here is the tutorial on SCS~acetate card

If you need some more inspiration...as if mine isn't enough...lol...here is the gallery FULL of ideas~acetate gallery

This card can be any theme you want it to be and you can make it any way you want it. You don't even need to stamp on the acetate directly if you don't have the right kind of ink. Once you look through the gallery you will see many ideas and veriations on how to use this awesome stuff. Can I just say...I loved making this card and will surely be doing more of them!

Tips:
~if stamping directly onto the acetate....take your time and be very careful, if you use Staz-On ink other and opaque white the ink is very slippery on the acetate and will smear....keep a wipe or something handy to quickly wipe away your mistake and try again. The opaque white works pretty good though..it's a bit more sticky.
~don't use stickles on the acetate...I did as you can see here and when I folded the top down I hit the stickles and they literally popped right off so I had to do it again...so stickles are not friendly on this surface.
~have fun with it and try different things...it really is fun to work with and play around with. I really love the way my card came out (I don't brag very much about my work but this one...I love).

Here's my card:

Thanks for a great challenge April and thanks for looking!

Cardabilities May 30th Reveal

Happy June Everyone! Here is another great sketch from Karan over at Cardabilities....

And here is my take on it...

I hardly ever get to make any boy cards so I had a lot of fun making this one.  I hope it's not too girly.

Don't forget to hop on over and see the rest of the ladies cards, they are beautiful!

TFL!

Mother's Day Blog Hop Winner!!!

I am so sorry...this post was suppose to be posted already, I don't know what happened.

The winner of the candy on my blog is Sherri, congrats!!!  I feel horrible that this didn't post sooner so I am going to throw in some extra goodies to you:)

Have a great week!

Cardabilities - May 15th Reveal

Good Morning!  It's going to be a beautiful weekend here in sunny Florida!  Do you have any fun weekend plans?  We had to have Steph's dance recital pictures done today so we were pretty busy with that...her costume is just too cute. 

Here is another card for the fabulous Cardabilities blog.  Another great sketcht his month. They are also having a Design Team Call...you can check out all the details HERE.

Supplies:  Paper: PTI; Stamp: Tiddly Inks; Copics: Face: R00, R20, E00, E97; Hair: E00, E15, E19; Clothes: BG15, BG18; Cupcake: RV17, RV19, E35; Other: BG10 and Blender; Other Supplies: PTI Ribbon and Button, Flower, Bling, Pearls, Stickles, Cuttlebug Folder, and Nestabilities.

TFL!

Christmas Cards All Year Round - May Challenge

Can you believe it's already May!  How many Christmas cards have you made so far this year?  I always say I'm going to send out cards and then they never get done. Hopefully this year I'll actually be able to send them out:) 

The challenge for this month is to use flowers, ribbon, and buttons...go check out the beautiful creations at CCAYR.

Supplies: Paper: MME and SU; Other: SU Ribbon, PTI Button, Snowflake, and Flower.

TFL!

Celebrating Mother's Blog Hop

At JMS the DT love our mums/moms and to show our appreciation for everything mothers do we are celebrating mothers in our blog hop this week.

The hop officially kicks off at 9 am (NFLD time zone), and ends at Midnight (NFLD time zone).

There are 18 stops along the way, some have blog candy up for grabs (but you'll have to find them for yourselves we don't want to ruin the fun!). In your travels don't forget to collect the words to complete the quote and take it back to Just My Sketches & the Blend to enter the major prize drawing worth $30!

If you have only just found the blog hop, go back to JMS to the start. If you have been hopping along you will have come from Lisa and your next stop will be the wonderful Ana.
The words you need to collect from me are: in my

Here's my card and have a great time hopping around:)

I'm also going to offer a prize...just leave me a comment and I'll put your name in a hat. I'll throw in a couple of other goodies too.

Have a great Mother's Day!

TLF!

Just My Sketches - May Reveal

Happy Saturday to everyone!  Sorry I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks but I've been so busy at work and I've been going to bed really early.  I'll start posting more this week though, so stay tuned:)

You have to checkout the cards and layouts over at Just My Sketches....there is a lot of inspiration there this month.  Here are the songs for this month:

LIVE LIKE WE'RE DYING
Kris Allen

KISS A GIRL
Keith Urban

FROM A DISTANCE
Bette Midler

I BELIEVE IN YOU
Tyler Hilton

DANCIN' ON THE CEILING
Lionel Richie

I love the song Kiss a Girl by Keith Urban..here's my card:
 

Can you believe I didn't use any stamps, gasp!  All the supplies were PTI except my cuttlebug folders and Stickles.

TFL!