I'm Back!

I have not made anything crafty in months.  We were on a house hunt and packing, then bought a house and spent a month moving in.  We kind of gave up on doing anything for a few weeks because we were burned out.  I am about 3/4 way through setting up my craft room and decided to make cards today instead of organizing.  My room is coming along but I really wanted to use some stamps that I had bought a while ago and never had an opportunity to break them in.

So, here is my first card in the new house.  I wanted to enter a challenge that also used some of the new colors that I have not played with yet.  I love them.  I couldn't find a nice clear area to take a picture so I threw my card on my chair and then realized that it was a nice plain background.  It makes the colors really pop!  I really did use Bermuda Bay, although it kind of looks like the Island Indigo color in my picture.

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

Stamps: Best of Butterflies, Itty Bitty Banners

Framelits: Bitty Banners

Paper: Bermuda Bay, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake

Ink: Bermuda Bay

Punch: Elegant Butterfly

Embossing Folder: Woodgrain

Challenge Entered:

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #186

Owl Greetings

For this card I combined three different challenges: Merry Monday, Mojo Monday and The Color Throwdown.  I love the Aviary stamp set and have always wanted to use it in a Christmas card but never have.  I think this owl is just the cutest thing!  I was able to use the Bitty Banners Framelits to cut out my little red flags.  I tried to use a pearl pen to add a little extra pop around the scalloped circle, of course my practice pearls came out nice and the real deal came out like black blobs.  Oh well.

  

Stampin' Up! Supplies:
Stamp: Aviary, More Merry Messages
Ink: Crumb Cake, Real Red
Cardstock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Garden Green, Real Red
Framelits: Bitty Banners
Extras: Embossing Folder/Scallop Circle Die (Sizzix); Black Pearl Pen (Viva Decor)

Challenges Entered:
Merry Monday #55
Mojo Monday #286
Color Throwdown #234

Snowman

The Merry Monday challenge this week is to use a snowman theme and for my card I kept it very simple with a snowman as the focal point.  I can't remember where I got this snowman stamp from but I really like it.  I thought that I would keep it simple by just using Island Indigo with Whisper White.  I also tried to incorporate the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  I found out that my snowman was much bigger than expected and I had to alter the layout a bit.

 

Challenge Entered:

Merry Monday #54

Freshly Made Sketches #77

Happy Birthday Butterfly

Today has been such a busy day, I'm glad it was my day off because I was able to get so many things done.  Here is a card that I made before I got busy, it is a combination of two challenges and five hours later, I now have time to post my card.  With these colors, I wanted to make something spring related and I thought the butterfly would tie in perfectly.

 

Challenges Entered:

CAS(E) this sketch #19

Color Throwdown #233

Whole Latte Love

For this card I combined the the Stampin' Royalty color challenge with the Deconstructed sketch.  I really like the way this color combo turned out.  I also got to finally break in my free stamps from Sale-a-Bration!

 

Stampin' Up! Supplies:
Stamp: Patterned Occasions
Ink: Soft Suede
Cardstock: Sycamore Street DSP, Sent with Love DSP, Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White
Punch: 1/2 inch circle
Die: Scalloped Square (Sizzix)
Embossing Folder: Sizzix

Challenges Entered:
Stampin' Royalty #167
Deconstructed Sketch #93

Happy St. Patty's Day!

For my St. Patrick's Day card I combined the color combination from ColourQ and the Mojo Monday Sketch.  I used my Silhouette to cut out my horseshoe and clover (I don't have any St. Patty's stamps).

 

Challenges Entered:

ColourQ #180

Mojo Monday #284

Party Time Tuesdays #111

A butter knife went through a pipe...

When I got home, I began to cook eggplant parmesan for dinner and as soon as I had the eggplant cut, pan heated and water boiling, I heard some water trickling... When I looked UNDER the sink water was leaking from the P-Trap.  I called Todd over and he said there is a knife sticking out of the pipe... there was a butter knife sticking through the pipe!  Stupid rental house!!!  It was NOT our knife either.

Todd was attempting to fix it himself when he realized that this was so corroded he couldn't even unthread the pipe so we had to call the emergency hotline.  Lucky for us, the plumber lives in the same town and arrived fairly quickly.  It only took him an hour to fix and replace the pipes and he even left to purchase supplies.  Now we have a new PVC pipe and he asked me to take pictures of the pipe (below) so he could show the property management company.  Not only did we pull out the knife, there was another hole at the back near the wall.  Now we are just waiting to see if the ceiling will fall through in the basement cause who knows how much water has leaked.  Just joking (hopefully).

The nasty rusty part on the far left is where Todd pulled out the butter knife!

So, after the plumber left I made this card.  I loved the colors from the Paper Players challenge this week.  I used the Secret Garden stamp set and framelits to get my flower collage.

Stampin' Up! Supplies:

Stamp: Secret Garden, Bring on the Cake

Ink: Early Espresso

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Framelits: Secret Garden

Embossing Folder: Sizzix

Challenge Entered:

The Paper Players #136

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