NO more 12x12 DCWV!!!

Okay... it's time to say goodbye to my obsession with the 12x12 stacks from Die Cuts With a View.  I am sooo in love with them  And they would probably be great if I did scrapbooking....but really since I've started my blog pretty sure you've seen one...yep one scrapbook page.   So it's time to cut those babies up and make cards!  I made 12 last night out of DCWV and ummmm I still have a lot of paper left.  I think the cards I made will be great masculine cards for OWH!  So my OWH box is filling up!  Whoooot!

Friday!

Thank goodness it's Friday. Again...another super long week-yikes.  Work has been nuts-- I think the snow and cold weather are finally getting to people.  But it's Friday!  And of course that means it's time for another Friends with Flair challenge with the awesome people at Unity.  I did have to of course use another sketch challenge from OWH and I think it turned out pretty well :)

The Deets:

Stamp: Unity Stamp Company

Paper: SU! and DCWV

Copics

Brads from the stash

Friends Uplift The Soul!

I can't believe it's only Tuesday...ugh all day I kept thinking it was Wednesday...but alas it's Tuesday.  I found some time tonight to enter one of my favorite challenges.  I simple had to join my friends over at  Ippity Chick Challenge.  This week's sketch challenge was super challenging for me... I kept looking at it but was never able to get a card put together.  I hope you like what I ended up creating!

The Deets:

Paper: solid SU!, DSP DCWV

Twine:The Twinery

Stamp: Ippity by Unity Time for....friends and wine

Coloring: Copics

Lots and lots of gold!

Happy Sunday friends!  I hope this post finds you well.  Today I found some time to be working on some card sets for my mom to give as Christmas gifts.  I had been checking out the talent over at SCS and decided that I was going to case a card from mommy fink.  This is her card:

I really liked the layout/sketch that she used so that is what I decided to case for my card.  I must say I am in love with this fabulous DCWV stack-- DCWV Fresh Floral  I typically shy away from the non cardstock stacks but I was really drawn to this one...and I am happy to admit that I have been using this paper like crazy! 

The Deets:

Summer Sun SU! cardstock

DSP: DCWV

Twine: The Twinery

Punch: SU!

Sentiment: Unity



Back to Thanksgiving...

So yesterday I posted a Valentine's Day card and have a couple more for later posts...but today during lunch I whipped up these cute wrapped candy bars for my staff to let them know how thankful I am for them :)   These are super easy to make...used a full size kit-kat, a 6x6 piece of DSP and some scor-tape and a crimper!  I can't remember where the idea for this came from...only because it's so easy and I didn't book mark it when I found it years ago!  Enjoy!

Chick Challenge #2

Friends...ovals are NOT my friends!  I had a really hard time creating this card... I apparently do not mesh well with ovals!  But I had to use an oval...well had to is a bit extreme but I wanted to so I can join the other chick over at Chick Challenges!  If you've not checked out these chicks I highly recommend you peep on over and see what all the fuss is about!  I didn't think I'd love new stamps as much as I love my Unity and Ippity stamps...oy!  They are sooooo much fun to use.  So pull out your Ippity stamps and join the fun!!

The Deets!

Stamps: Ippity All Things Are Possible

Paper: Solid is SU! which you can't see

DSP is from a DCWV stack

Ink: Black Stazon

Cricutless!

Hello my bloggy friends!  I hope you're doing well and enjoying the day.  It's soooooo warm here in MN today--at one point I thought I was going to melt right there in my office.  Yuck!  Tonight I finally had some time to do a little creating.  I am soooo far behind on challenges that it makes my heart sad.  But I did stop over at  and visit Emma's Throwback Thursday and her challenge today was to go Cricutless...yikes...that's almost like going nude to me!  Yikes!  But I managed to leave my cricut alone and create a card using "black, green, purple and orange" for this old school cricutless challenge. 

I was inspired by the great work or her design team.  But I decided to be quite simple with my card and I used a couple new Halloween stacks from DCWV.  All of the punches that are used were from SU! and the ribbon was just in my stash.  I hope you like it!

OWH Sketch Challenge #72

I'm a little behind in posting but I did create this card for a challenge I found over at Operation Write Home my box to be sent off is slowly starting to grow :)  I really liked this challenge and I encourage you if you've not stopped to check out what OWH is you really should! But only if you want to of course--no pressure. 

I do love this little tree cut from Create-A-Critter and the sentiment is from a set of My Pink Stamper stamps and it's heat embossed but it didn't show up in the picture at all.  Hope you enjoy it!

The Deets!

Paper: Solid SU!, DSP DCWV

Stamps: My Pink Stamper

Cut: Create-A-Critter

Pearl: random from stash

So many challenges...so little time :-)

There are soooo many fun challenges out there this week and I had a blast playing with a handful of them I came across while searching some of my favorite blogs!  The Creative sisters Linda and Patti-Lynn at http://lindascreativity.blogspot.com/ had a challenge today to use something that is embossed--I embossed my coffee cup!  Challenge #48 at http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/ was also to emboss!  So I thought I'd would enter this challenge as well :)

Also while I was wandering around the Internet I noticed yet another cool challenge and this was found at http://cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/  The challenge presented here was to use a cup!  So I took a look through my cartridges and found a cup that I enjoyed!  And lastly for this card I also embossed as that was the challenge at http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/  the ONLY cooking I really do is with my Cricut!

Recipe:

Cricut: Lyrical Letters for the coffee cup

Paper: dsp DCWV stack, SU! Sahara Sand solid

Ink: SU! Sahara Sand

Punches: SU! small oval and key tag punch

Stamp: saying is from MorningStar stamps

Other: I used a white gel pen to do some random marks around the card