Quilt Weather

When I was a kid, my brothers and I would hate when it was cold on Halloween.  It was so hard to wear a winter coat under our costumes.  The three of us walked from house to house looking like we were muscle bound sumo wrestlers.  I stuck to witch, gypsy, clown and hobo costumes.  A ballerina was totally out of the question!

Today is Halloween and it's cold!

In the spirit of keeping warm, I've made 2 quilt patterned cards to share with you.  It's hard to make just one!

Panda is a Stampin' Up stamp.

Snowman is a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamp.

 I love this combination of navy and, what CTMH calls, thistle. In fact, last year I found a sweatshirt in just these colors and immediately added it to my wardrobe, price be damned!  To me, they look both warm and rich together.

 My inspiration for these two cards came from the Fab 'n' Funky 500th Challenge Celebration and blog hop. 

Additional Challenges being entered: Get Creative Challenge #96 - Favorite Color Combo (navy and thistle); Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG; The House That Stamps Built Challenge 02820 - AG; As You Like It Challenge - Favorite Color to Pair with blue (thistle, it looks very regal to me and I am a Red Hat Queen); Crafty Catz Challenge #525 - All Dressed Up for Winter (The hat and scarf are paper pieced.); Just Us Girls Wild Card Challenge #560 - Word Dies; Allsorts Challenge Week #596 - For children or teens; Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #514 - Anything Christmas Goes with option of something beginning with "H"  Hat                                                                                                                               

Turkey card for MFT Color Challenge

This is turkey card #3.  For this one I've used my favorite turkey stamp.  It's from CTMH and has a matching cricut cut on the CTMH Artiste cartridge.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

 The colors I've used are from the MFT Color Challenge #152.  The dies I used for the squares and the decorative link border are all from My Favorite Things. 

I colored white pearls with a marker to make them orange.  I rarely buy colored pearls or gems anymore.  It's too easy to color them and know they will match.

Challenges I am entering today:  The Artsy Stamper Challenge #26 - Halloween Colors; Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG; Krafty Chicks Challenge #531 - AG; Polkadoodles Challenge Wk 44 - AG; Aud Sentiments Challenge #253 - AG with a sentiment; My Favorite Things Color Challenge #154 -  

 Pinspirational Challenge #274 -

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The sun just came out.  

Looks like the rest of the day will be nicer than the last couple.  

Hope you have a nice one!

Thanks for visiting.

Turkey Card #2

Yesterday I posted my first turkey card of the season.  

Here's my second, and it has been a nightmare from beginning to end.  I won't bore you with the details.  Suffice it to say, there is a reason why I don't do a lot of distressing.

Papers and stamps are all retired CTMH products.

The design is kind of a joy fold, a card in a card, with a latch.

Inside of the fully open card.

Challenges:   Krafty Chicks Challenge #531 - AG; Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #133 - Fall/Autumn; Scor-Pal More Than One Score October Challenge #75 - AG or Harvest/Halloween (both cards are scored); 613 Avenue Create October Challenge - AG optional Things with Wings; Crafting Happiness Challenge #69 - AG; Through the Craft Room Door Week of Oct. 27th - AG; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG; The House That Stamps Built Challenge - AG; Creative Moments Challenge #201-AG  

Now I have a broken ribbon jar to go clean up.  I told you this card was a nightmare.  And notice there isn't even a ribbon on it.   TTFN 

 

Bird is the Word

 In a few days Halloween will be over.   Then we only have a few weeks until it's time for Thanksgiving.  After that it's Christmas all the way.   I pulled out the few turkey stamps I have and decided to make a card with each.  Here's the first using a Great Impressions turkey stamp, Lawn Fawn sentiment stamp, and the sketch from My Favorite Things.

 

Challenges: 613 Avenue Create Challenge - AG option:winged things; Make My Monday Challenge #134 - masculine; Dream Valley Challenge #235 - Autumn Colors; Through the Craft Room Door Oct. 27th Challenge - AG; Cardz 4 Guys Challenge #256 - Colors of Fall; Arty Divas Challenge #30 - AG; Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG; My Favorite Things Wednesday #513 Sketch Challenge - 

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches #578

 

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

Here's the sketch for this week and my card.

I was really getting tired of making fall/halloween cards and using the autumnal colors.  So I switched it up for today. 

I have a birthday coming up next week, and I'm just about this excited about it!

 The ape image is by Tim Holtz.  I stamped, fussy cut and then paper pieced this handsome, cheerful fellow and glued him on the embossed card front upside down.  This explains why the layout is reversed from the sketch.  Luckily, I hadn't already adhered the front to the base yet.

 

 

 I hope you'll play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

Challenges I am entering:

Seize the Birthday Challenge #202 - Texture; Scribbles Design Challenge #93 - Feature a Creature; Crafty Friends Challenge #147 - Embossing; Simon Says Monday Challenge - Movie Inspired (King Kong); Make My Monday Challenge # 134- Masculine

Pretty Tea Pot

The card I have to share with you today started out as my entry for this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge. 

 

Pulling some scraps from my stash, I glued the pieces together according to the sketch.  When it came to the 5 circles, I hit a mental wall.  I laid that aside until today when another idea presented itself and I wandered off in an entirely different direction.  

The die cuts are from IO and ODB and the sentiment stamp is from Joy Clair.   

The card won't work for the MFT Challenge, but it will for the following:

Crafting Happiness Challenge #69 - AG; Craft-Dee Bowz October Challenge - AG; Festive Friday Challenge #FF0070 - Pick 3 from the Insp List (I chose hot drink theme, ribbon, die cut)

 

 

Why have I never used this stamp?

 It is amazing what gets buried in our stashes.  Last evening, while searching for a certain stamp, which I eventually did find, I came across this one by Stampendous.

I followed the TMS for this week, 

colored the image and white pearls with markers, added 3 strips of washi tape and a bow using some fun ribbon from DL.Art.  The sentiment is from CTMH.

Challenges:

DL.Art Thankful Thursday Challenge #270 - Pumpkin (I hope my pumpkin person counts.); Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #212 - Halloween Colors; Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge - Purple, Orange, Green, EEK! It's Halloween; Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge #59 - Meowloween; Through the Craft Room Door Week of October 20th - AG; The Artsy Stamper Challenge #26 - Halloween Colors; Coloring in Scrapland October Challenge - Happy Halloween