Get Well & Sympathy

**This is my second post for today.  Please scroll down or click here for my CAS-ual Fridays/Jay Gee's Nook post.***

Almost missed the Paper Smooches Sparks deadline again but I am sneaking in the last few hours.  I was inspired by the grey and peachy pink colours and the heart.  The mug is paper pieced from some textured Bazzill paper although you can't see it too well in the picture.  I had a few different ideas for this picture but I didn't have time to get to them today as I ended up making a couple of sympathy cards for clients at work.  Not my favourite job but Darwin and Jeter were pretty special dogs and I wanted their owners to know that their sweet boys touched us too.

Supplies for Get Well card:
Cardstock:  (White) Handy Hippo, (Grey) Bazzill, (Calypso Coral) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Mug, shadow and swirls from Hot Concoctions, Heart from Falling for You, Sentiment from Chit Chat) Paper Smooches
Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Calypso Coral, Basic Grey) Stampin' Up
Copic:  R22

Supplies for sympathy cards:

Cardstock:  (Kraft) Gina K, (Early Espressol) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Single paw print & sentiment from With Sympathy: Loss of a Pet) PTI, (Multiple paw prints) Bouji
Inks:  (VersaMark) Tsukineko, (Early Espresso) Stampin' Up
Die:  (Swirly alphabet) Cuttlebug, (Block Alphabet) PTI

Fabric, tag & twine - Craft supply

Bright and Fuzzy

I think this is now the third time I've paper pieced a Purple Onion Designs image for a CAS-ual Fridays challenge. I really need to change it up a bit but when I made this card on Monday I was in need of bright cheeriness and this card did it for me!  The challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays is to use ribbon.  That is something you rarely see on my cards despite the large quantities of it that can be found in the Craft Cave...  However, I pulled out this fun red fibre to add to the plant pot.  I love the fuzziness of it!  And since I needed bright cheeriness I knew that the challenge at Jay Gee's Nook was perfect as the inspiration photos are full of rainbow goodness.  


Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill
Stamps:  Purple Onion Designs
Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Cherry Cobbler) Stampin' Up
Patterned Paper:  (Cherry Cola, Orange Cream, Lemon Drop, Fuzzy Navel, Deep Blue from Lime Rickey collection) Basic Grey
Ribbon:  (Adornments Fun Fibres) EK Success

A Splash of Pink

Here's card #2 from Monday's battle with my mojo!  I decided to play along with the Play Date Cafe's colour splash challenge.  This is quite an old Unity stamp (from 2009!) that has never seen any ink.  I thought of it immediately when I came to this challenge and was glad to give it a chance to see the light.  I used some Liquid Pearls in the centres of the flowers - so excited to finally have some of that stuff.  I embossed the tree and the sentiment and didn't spill a drop of embossing powder at all during the making of this card! Whoop whoop!  :)


I also wanted to say a big thank you to everyone for their sweet messages on yesterdays post.  You all sure know how to make a girl feel better.  :)


Cardstock:  (White) Gina K, (Melon Mambo, Basic Black) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Tree from May '09 KOM - Another Sweet Day) Unity, (Sentiment from Think Big Favourites #5) PTI
Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaMark) Tsukineko
Embossing Powder:  (Clear, Seafoam White) Ranger
Dies:  (Nesties Standard Circles Large) Spellbinders
Other:  (White Opal Liquid Pearls) Ranger

Battling My Mojo

Last week was one of those weeks when everything at work was an emergency.  Sometimes we have days where it seems like all we have happening are basic things like vaccines, nail clips, spays, neuters, dentals, etc.  Then there's weeks like last week when nothing is basic - GDVs, broken limbs, pancreatitis, bite wounds, RTAs, etc.  Just when we thought we were getting under control something else would turn up.  The vets and nurses were going straight through from 7:30am - 7pm not even stopping for lunch breaks.  It was nuts.  And it was heartbreaking as we lost several battles.  I was totally fried by Friday night and more than a little depressed.  I know that we can't save everything and you have to have a level of stoicism for this work but sometimes it wears you down.  Needless to say my mojo was NOjo this weekend.  Didn't get any crafting done at all.  Just tidied the house, hung out with Luis and the hounds and spent Sunday doing my best impersonation of a sloth.  When I woke up this morning I was still feeling a bit blah but I was determined to get that mojo kick started.  It was a struggle but I pushed through and got 3 cards made.  Nothing amazing or wildly imaginative but I got something accomplished so I'm feeling a lot better.


So this card is for the Just Add Ink colour challenge - a sweet spring colour palette.  Unfortunately the gale force winds outside are not exactly spring-like today but I found this lovely image from Unity that definitely is.  :)
Cardstock:  (White) Gina K, (So Saffron) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Flowers from Jan '11 KOM - To The Moon & Back) Unity, (Sentiment from Everyday Sayings) Hero Arts, (Bit of Burlap) Market Street Stamps

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaMark) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Ranger

Punch:  (Corner Punch) Marvy Uchida

Copics: Y21, YG63, G21, BG10, BV23

You Hold The Key

Popping in with one more challenge card today.  This month's challenge at Young Crafters Unite is a sketch challenge and I broke out some new PTI stamps to play along.  It took a lot of fussing and rearranging and colour changes before I came up with something I liked but I'm glad I didn't quit because it means I've conquered yet another sketch challenge!  They'll probably never be my favourite challenges but I'm definitely feeling more comfortable with them. 




Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Melon Mambo, Basic Grey) Stampin' Up

Stamps:  (Banner from Bannerific) Lawn Fawn, Sentiment from Lock & Key) PTI

Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Melon Mambo) Stampin' Up

Dies:  (Heart Prints, Lock & Key) PTI 

Sweet Lil' Boy

I needed a baby boy card for a friend and wanted to use this sweet Purple Onion Designs stamp.  They have a whole series of these little framed doodles which I think are so cute!  I dug out this fun paper pad by Deja Views that I've had since late 2007.  I remember very clearly that I REALLY wanted this paper collection and ever since I got it it has looked lovely on my shelf!  :)  Now it finally gets to see the light of day!  I'll be entering this in the Love You to Pieces challenge at CAS-ual Fridays and the patterned paper challenge at Lily Pad Cards.    


Cardstock:  (Kraft) PTI
Patterned Paper:  (Pear Collection) Deja Views
Stamps:  (Bear Framed Doodle) Purple Onion Designs
Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Hello Hello

I've got a multi-challenge card for you today.  I started out with the colours from the Play Date Cafe.  I love their bright and cheery colour story this week.  Susan of One-Layer Wednesday has challenged us to use more than 5 circles on our card and Chrissie and Mandi at Less Is More are looking for one-layer cards with stripes.  I figured there must be a way to combine these and I ended up using my new (to me) Background Basics: Retro stamps from PTI which incorporate stripes and circles!  Using the PTI stamps also made this eligible for A Passion for Papertrey's stripes challenge.  A CAS four-challenge wonder!

Cardstock:  (Rustic white) PTI

Stamps:  (Background Basics: Retro) PTI, (Hello) Woodware USA

Inks:  (Pacific Point, More Mustard, Night of Navy) Stampin' Up

Gems:  (Bumblebee Assortment) Doodlebug