ho challenge #2 single layer

This week's Ho Challenge http://craftyhoschallenge.blogspot.com/ is to make a single layer card with ribbon and button (s). I just got these Alice in Wonderland stamps from RedEowyn because my son's school is performing the play and I wanted to make the adults in charge thank you cards. Let me know what you think, good enough for the director? I am not sure if I like the coloring on this one. It came out brighter than what I wanted. I do love the wood button and it is the only one I have.

This card fits in with the teapot tuesday challenge here: http://mothermark.blogspot.com/2010/...ht-hed-be.html

Crane cs

SU ribbon

wood button

watercolor pencils and blender

Stazon brown ink

My family played a game tonight at dinner. We almost always play a game at dinner, tonight we played Pigs. You roll two rubber pigs and get points assigned to how they land. Someone has to keep score and when we play we have to search for paper and pencil. So tonight after dinner I came up to the craft room and made this folder. Inside is a 5x8 pad of paper. The flap has a magnet holding it closed. I used SU retired dp and the stamps are also SU called card game. I love the red satin ribbon across it with the little heart brad. So now when we need to keep score we will still have to search, but hopefully we will find this cute pad!

another challenge! CPS155

I remember my friend Joy - aka Daiseyfreak http://daiseyfreak.blogspot.com/ - saying, once you start challenges they become addicting, and since she is an addiction therapist I think she knows of what she speaks! Well just what I needed, another addiction, but wait, this is a good addiction because it helps me use the stash from my craft supply hoarding addiction LOL!

For this card I used SU's French script background on some KandCompany dp also where the dp strip came from, a chicken wire background (cannot remember where I got this). The rooster is from Rustic Rooster an old SU set it is popped up with dimensionals and the sentiment is from Carte Postale, held on with hodgepodge hardware. The twine was in the garage.

I seem to be in a French mood looking at the past few cards I made. I guess because my 6th grader is taking French this marking period and comes home talking about it (not speaking in French though). I think I will give this to one of my daughter's most remarkable and talented teachers, Kate, she gives Abby singing lessons, is her choir teacher and she and her husband bought an old farmhouse they are rebuilding. With all the work they needed to do just to live comfortably in the house they still decided to build a chicken coop and take care of chickens, a 3 year old and a newborn. Makes me tired to just imagine this.

This card was made using the sketch from this challenge:

http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/

now since I am just jumping on the challenge bandwagon I am not sure I am doing everything I am supposed to do to fulfill the challenge. I am just starting to randomly find challenges that look interesting to me. I found this on the most talented Jeanne Strieff's blog: http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

If I didn't do anything I was supposed to please let me know so I can become a better challenge player!

Thanks so much for looking. I am off to look at the 80 cards posted ahead of mine. Hey it's a snow day I am stuck inside anyway :)

Spring Ho Challenge

I have met a great group of ladies on Splitcoast Stampers. We have gotten together from all over the country to stamp together. Some of my fellow stamping ho's are setting up weekly challenges, so of course these are some challenges I am going to make sure not to miss. This week is the first one, think spring! I think I have been saving this stamp just for this card. So putting ink to new rubber I bring you my first spring card. You will recognize the saffron background as the same one I did for this morning's card. I goofed on this one but the image covers it nicely and I couldn't throw away a perfectly good piece of card stock LOL! this card uses all StampinUp! materials, elegant eggplant, so saffron and whisper white cardstock, white taffeta ribbon and a piece of silver hodgepodge hardware (oh yeah I broke that out from my hoarding!) the image is Serene Spring. The challenge can be found here if anyone wants to play along: http://craftyhoschallenge.blogspot.com

Moxie Fab World Trigger Tuesday entry

I got inspired by a challenge today. I don't really do many of the challenges I find out there, but I thought it might be a good way to start stretching my creativity. I used all StampinUp products, the cs colors are black, kraft and so saffron. I embossed the french script background in white and embossed the bird in black. The greeting and bird stamps are from the set Carte Postale. The white ribbon is the very elegant taffeta ribbon. The border punch is a SAB reward from SU. I found this challenge here:

http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2010/02/tuesday-trigger-inspiration-straight.html

let me know what you think :)

I have another challenge to work on today, but I thought I might post this before life got too hectic.

family banner

Today I decided to try to finish putting things back into the craft room, when I got a bunch of boxes emptied and put away, I rewarded myself by making something just for me :)

I made this banner from a mega pack of stuff from Cosmo Cricket I found in an outlet store.

I think I will hang it in the craft room or maybe by my bed.

A Blog Hop!

For my friend Gabby

I took a long time trying to photograph this card and still all the glitter did not show up. She has pink sparkles in her hair and the blue background is outlined in sparkles. I took the inspiration for the colors from my daughter's room.

Rock on Gabby

This digi stamp is being offered at Paper Make Up stamps with all the proceeds going to Gabby's family.

you may need to scroll down to Moody for Rock. Thank you for hopping with us all today, I hope you enjoyed all the creative cards my friends designed.

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