Another Sneak Peek

Today I have another sneak peek for you....this is a new Framelits die that will be available Jan 3rd in Stampin Up's Occasions Mini Catalog.  It is called Be Mine Stitched Framelits and it has 16 dies.  This set is designed for layering and has some great detailed dies as well....a must have!!  I picked the sketch challenge from Sunday Stamps to showcase this set.  Thanks to Sunday Stamps for the inspiration!  Materials used:  Stampin Up's Be Mine Stitched Framelits...sentiment from their Waterfront stamp set...retired designer papers...bakers twine.                        Day 21 of the Kindness Challenge:  Donate unwanted clothes to charity.  When read the challenge for today, I smiled!!  Just this week I did some closet clean up and started a bag of clothes to donate.  

The Wonder of it all....

Mojo Monday offers us a fun sketch for our inspiration.  When I first starting posting my card years ago on Splitcoast Stampers,  Mojo Monday was one of the first weekly challenges that I played along with.  They took a break for a while and recently started back up....I am excited to be playing along with Julee again!!

Materials used:  Stampin Up's Smokey Slate card stock and bakers twine, retired designer paper & dies...silver card stock...Verve sentiment stamp...snowflake brad.

Day 20 of the Kindness Challenge:  Feed animals (birds, deer, etc.).  Another suggestion that comes easy for me...we have a bird feeder right out our living room window.

Sale-A-Bration Sneak Peek

Today I am giving you a sneak peek at a stamp set that will be available from Stampin Up during their Sale-A-Bration event.  I always look forward to this event each year....who doesn't like getting a free stamp set!!  To show case this stamp set,  I decided to use the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.              

Materials used:  Stampin Up's soon to be available Home To Roost (Sale-A-Bration stamp set)...Soft Suede and Very Vanilla card stock...Basket Weave embossing folder...Watercolor pencils...twine.   

Day 19 of the Kindness challenge:  Offer to help someone.  Here in the Florida Panhandle we have been doing that a lot since Hurricane Michael hit on Oct 10.  Helping someone has become a way of life.  Communities have come together, worked together and really supported each other, but here we are over two months out and there is still so much "helping each other" to be done.

Inspirational Holiday Challenge

Paper Craft Crew has given us an inspirational Holiday challenge this week.  The inspirational photo reminded me of a technique I haven't used in a long time....the one where you create a background using metallic ink/glossy paper/alcohol/reinkers.  I can't remember what the technique is called but I had fun giving it a try.


Materials used:  Stampin Up's gold embossing powder, stamps, gold cord, Encore gold ink, Basic Black ink and Real Red ink.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Day 18 of the Kindness challenge:  Pay for a strangers coffee.  This one will be tough for me because the little town that I live in does not have a coffee shop.  Oh well...I will look for other ways to show kindness today.

Season's Greetings

Season's greetings!!  The count down is on!!  We are getting super excited about our kids coming home.  Still have a few more days of stamping and posting before I take a break for the Holidays.  That being said I am playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge today.  This sketch is great for showing off designer paper.                          Materials used:  Stamping Up's Dashing Along designer paper and matching yardstick...Tim Holtz's reindeer die...bakers twine...retired sentiment from Stampin Up...Memento's Tuxedo ink                                                                                  Day 17 of the Kindness Challenge:  Tell someone that you love them!  This one comes easy for me because in our family we regularly say....I love you!!                             

                                                                                      

Happy Holidays II

Today I am using the Fusion sketch challenge again, along with the inspiration challenge from Inspired By.  The Chocolate Chip rectangles are the cut out from my window card that I made a couple days ago.  I try to use my scraps when I can to create a second card...this cuts down of the amount of waste.  If I do it right away I can usually come up with a plan, but if I just pile it up I often end up throwing it away.  To my fellow stampers...how do you handle your scraps??

Materials used:  Stampin Up's Night Owl thinlits die for the greenery...their Winter Wood stamp set and matching thinlits die for the pinecones...a retired sentiment

Day 16 of the Kindness Challenge:  Smile and thank someone who serves you!!  For me that would be the sushi chef that made my lunch.

Happy Holidays

This is our last sketch challenge for Sketch Saturday before we take a break and begin a new year of challenges.  We hope this sketch inspires you to play along and share your creativity with us.  We always look forward to seeing your interpretation of the sketch.  Our printer died this week and I was not able to use the digital images from this week's sponsor....so I kept my card this week super simple.  Basic stamping of the sentiment and then just some layering of papers and tying of some ribbon.  Sometimes a super simple project is a very good thing...back to basics.

Materials used:  Stampin Up's designer paper and card stock...ribbon...retired Stampin Up sentiment.

Day 15 of the Kindness Challenge:  Write a thank you note to someone.   I love this one...especially since I am a card maker.  With all of today's technology we are loosing the art of written word.  Take the time today to write someone a special thank you note.