Cheers!

One of the girl's at work wanted a card for her friend's 40th birthday - although he apparently only ever turns 33.  ;)  So I pulled out a Stampin' Up image, Lawn Fawn alphabets stamps and some felt letters I've had kicking around for a while and came up with this.  As it's for a guy I'm going to enter it over at Young Crafters Unite's challenge to create a masculine card.


I spent today puppy sitting Franklin, my friend's new chocolate lab.  He is the cutest, chubbiest little guy and also the sleepiest puppy I've ever met!  He'll scamper around for about 45 minutes and then pass out for the next 2 hours!  He'll even pass out mid-play like in the bottom picture - asleep with his toy still in his mouth!  

  








Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI, (White)  Bazzill Basics
Stamps:  (Beer from Cheers to You)  Stampin Up, (Letters from Smitty's ABCs) Lawn Fawn
Inks:  (Memento Tuxedo Black)  Tsukineko, (Night of Navy) Stampin' Up
Colouring Medium:  Copics
Letter Stickers:  Craft supply
Other:  Glossy Accents

Butterfly Kisses & Dandelion Wishes

It's been a crafty kind of weekend - rain and gale force winds! Not much else to do but hunker down and make some cards.  :) For this card I used the colours from The Colour Throwdown and a sketch from Skipping Stones Designs.  This is my first time using my Skipping Stones stamps and it's also their 100th challenge - a perfect time to join in!  I turned the sketch on it's side and used stamps from two different sets: Dandelion Dreams and Frills.  Can't wait to play with some more! 
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White)  Bazzill Basics, (Crumb Cake)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Dandelions  butterflies from Dandelion Dreams, Plaid from Frills)  Skipping Stones Designs
Inks:  (Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake) Stampin' Up
Other:  (Baby Blue Stickles)  Ranger

Good Vibes

I've been waiting for a chance to use this awesome guitar image from Market Street Stamps and this week's ColourQ colours provided the perfect opportunity - a cute little Just Because card.  Initially I had the red guitar standing vertically and the sentiment off to the side but it seemed a bit off.  I wasn't sure if the sentiment would stand out enough stamped over the guitar and, although it's a bit dark in the photo, it's fine in real life.  :)
I've been meaning to tell this Halloween story since Tuesday but kept forgetting.  We very rarely get trick or treaters as we live at the end of a dead end road.  This year, however, a little group turned up (just as we were sitting down to dinner of course!)  Anyway as I opened the door the little girl at the front of the group yelled, "You got any candy in there?"  Seriously?  Whatever happened to "Trick or Treat"???
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Guitar and sentiment from Hippie Chic) Market Street Stamps
Inks:  (Pumpkin Pie, Island Indigo, Soft Suede) Stampin' Up, (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Gems:  Doodlebug
Copic:  BG09

The True Spirit of Christmas

***This is my second post of the day.  Please click here for my Friends with Flair/Wee Memories/Use It Tuesday/Simon Says Stamp card!***

I decided to rebel against my usual schedule and not do any cleaning this morning.  I went to the Craft Cave instead for a little play time and made a card for the current Less Is More challenge to use stars.  The picture is kind of dark and I don't have time to mess around with Photoshop as I have to be out the door in 15 minutes and off to work.  It'll have to do as I won't get home in time tonight to fix it and make the challenge deadline.  
I've had these stamps for ages now and I think they were a freebie with a magazine.  I stamped the sentiment with ColourBox Burnt Copper which I've never used before but I like the reddy colour of it.  I had nothing to match it for the stars so I inked up some cardstock and die cut the stars out of that.  I like that the smaller one came out a little darker than the larger one - gives it a bit more dimension I think - and I added some Doodlebug gems and Glossy Accents for shine!  Gotta jet now!  Hope you all have a lovely day! 

Thankful Trees

Hello, all! Popping in with a quick card for several challenges. First off, if you have any Unity or Ippity stamps you should definitely join in with Unity's Friends With Flair weekly event.  Not only do you get to see a ton of fabulous cards but you have two chances to win a prize - one by entering and one by commenting on the other cards.  Easy!  I'm also going to enter my card in The Paper Players fall themed challenge, Wee Memories' Brads, Buttons or Bows challenge, Simon Says Stamp's button challenge and Use It Tuesday's Orange, Black or Purple challenge.  I bought those little buttons at the dollar store about 3 years ago and since then they've done nothing but look cute in their little storage drawer.  Now they finally get to look cute on a card!  :)

And just an update to let you know that the puppies that Atticus donated blood to are doing really well.  It was amazing to watch their transformation as the blood was infused.  At the start they could barely stand.  Halfway through they were looking around and reacting to what was going on in the room.  By the end we had to hold them down because they were up and about and wanting to scamper around!  A beautiful sight!  :)

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI, (Old Olive)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Trees from Bella Trees, Sentiment from Sept 2011 KOM - All Seasons) Unity Stamp Co
Ink:  (Chocolate Chip, Cajun Craze) Stampin' Up
Buttons:  Craft Supply

Letter to Santa

I pulled out my Purple Onion Designs stamps to play along with CAS-ual Fridays sketch challenge. I love this stamp - it's pretty much how I feel every year!  :)
Poor Atti had a bit of a rough day yesterday.  We had two young puppies come in to work that were severely anemic due to a nasty case of hookworm. They both needed blood transfusions immediately and normally we are able to get a dog from the SPCA to take some blood from.  Unfortunately all they have at the shelter at the moment are little purse dogs which are too small.  So Atticus (at 91lbs) was volunteered to be a blood donor. He was so excited to go for a ride in the car and then ended up getting sedated and drained of blood!  Poor guy wouldn't eat before he left the clinic, was sick on the way home and then climbed into our bed and passed out for the next 6 hours!  He finally managed to get up later and eat some dinner before settling onto the sofa for the night.  Today he's back to his normal goofy self, thank goodness, and Jem is happier too - he couldn't figure out what was wrong with his brother last night!

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI, (White) Bazzill Basics, (Cherry Cobbler)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  Purple Onion Designs
Ink:  (Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko, (Cherry Cobbler) Stampin' Up
Markers: (E35, E71, R59) Copics, (White Souffle) Sakura

Other:  Glossy Accents

Merry Drinks

Whoop whoop!  I just discovered that over at ColourQ I am Co-Colour Queen with the fabulous Jenny!  And then I found out that I won some Unity goodies from the Friends With Flair blog hop!  I was worried what the day would bring when it started with Jem stealing half my breakfast but after all this good news even he is forgiven!  :)  
My card today is an entry for Jay Gee's Nook's latest challenge to use holiday stamps to make non-holiday cards.  I'm hoping to give this challenge another go at some point and use some actual holiday images but for now I'm using this holiday sentiment from Hero Arts.  It's from a set called, appropriately, Get Merry and is a 2010 release.  I thought the sentiment would work perfectly for a boozy birthday card and used it for one of the girls at work.  
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Melon Mambo)  Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Drinks from Cheers to You) Stampin' Up, (Sentiment from Get Merry) Hero Arts
Ink:  (Memento Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko
Impression Plate:  (Sunshine ) PTI