Not Too Shabby !

I don't do shabby chic/vintage very often.   But I did try my hand at it again . 

Not much explanation is needed.  I embossed the top leaf and the sentiment to make them stand out, distressed the dictionary page.  Die cut is Marianne. Sketch is the Craft's Meow

Challenges:
Stampin Sisters in Christ
A Blog Named Hero - emboss
Cutie Pie - no flowers
Ribbon Carousel - bows
Simon Says - stamp
Do You Stack Up - birthday
Raise the Bar -Fall
Lothian - use Marianne die
Mema's - Fall

Friday Came Quickly

Yikes!  This week went fast !  It is already Friday so that means time to post another card for Unity's Fridays with Flair as well as for some other wonderful blog challenges:

I wanted to see what I could do with the sketch for My Favorite Things.

The stamp set I used is Thankful For You by Ippity.
Usually I make masculine cards as Hero cards to send to OWH but our deployed women need our thanks too.  This is one of the cards of thanks that I am including in the box headed to our shipper.

Challenges:

Crafty Cardmaker
Great Impressions - sentiment
 Simon Says - stamp
Unity Stamp Co.

Very CAS Thank You

In the process of getting a box of cards ready to send to Operation Write Home , I was shocked to see that I had not made any Hero cards for awhile.  So I got busy and made two today.  Going to make a few more before closing up the box.  And they are going to be  simple so I can get this in the mail by the end of this week.  Here is one I made today.

It is great to find sketches which use up some of my scraps.  This sketch is at Stamptacular Sunday 

Verse is by Our Daily Bread Design

Challenges:
ODBD - stitching
A Blog Named Hero - emboss
Cutie Pie - no flowers
Simon Says - stamp
Craft 4 Eternity - less is more
OWH ODBD
Stamptacular Sunday - sketch 
Word Art Wednesday

YeeHaw Partner

Sometimes a card just comes together and you end up loving it.  This is one of those cards.

This little guy is sooo cute.  It is a 2 CUTE rubber stamp. The sketch is Sweet Stop 

I had a piece of embossed red cardstock in my scrap box.  It is embossed with paisley which I wanted to incorporate into the card even before I found the scrap.  The boots piece is a scrap of vellum and the middles piece is a scrap of DP from an old Christmas stack.
After I colored the image and glued it onto the red circle, I added the gold brads and then popped up the whole piece with a circle of fun foam.  I use that quite often - just the right thickness for some dimension.

Challenges:
A Blog Named Hero - emboss
Stamp and Create - anything
Simon Says - anything
Pink Gem - boy
Sweet Stop - sketch
OWH VCMP challenge - western
Our Daily Bread - stitching

Second Post - More OWH Challenges

Here is another card I made for the VCMP weekend at Operation Write Home.
This was a new technique that I had never tried.  Donna challenges us and gave us a great tutorial.   Check out her cards.  They are lovely.

Flowers are from a Unity set, Now and Always.  The butterfly is Our Daily Bread Design.

Three of the flowers were outline images so I filled in a little color.  They just looked too plain.

Challenges:
Crafty Cardmaker - wings
Craft Your Passion - floral images
Paper and Such - wings
Simon Says - anything
Craft 4 Eternity - less is more

Last of the Summer Memories

I've never been surfing.  The coastline in Washington State is not conducive to surfing.  But these surfboards by Tiffany Doodles is so cute and I am entering several challenges that I thought they would be great in.

The sky is sponged and the rest of the card is paper pieced.  Sentiment is by Raindrop Echo.

Challenges:
OWH - sports
Crafty Creations - summer scene
Simon Says - anything
Pink Gem - boys
Craft for Eternity - less is more
Wags and Whiskers - sports
Speedy TV - CAS and sentiment
Great Impressions - sentiment
CDAC - progressive challenge

Just Monkeying Around

The first of another month so you know what that means?  Doodle Pantry Release.  Here are two cards today using two of the new digital sets that Laurie has designed.  The first is "Lil Cowkids".  It comes with outline and colored images.  I chose to use a colored image because as you probably already know, I have three grandchildren from Ghana and how perfect that Laurie included colored images with darker skin colors.   One of my granddaughters just got a pair of cowgirl boots so how perfect to use this new set for a card.  Just an amusing note: my Ghanaian grandchildren say they are brown and that we are peach colored.  I love the fact that we are not into the black vs white thing.    Color is not a big thing to them or to us.  In fact my 8 year old (bio) and 9 year old (adopted)  granddaughters dressed alike for the first day of school and thought it was so funny because then no one would be able to tell them apart !  Oh, if all of us could be that color blind !

This was a fun card to make.  I used a new banner/pennant die by Verve and a hat die by Cuddlebug.  Flowers were punched out and I added liquid pearls to the centers before putting them on the banner.

Entering this card into these challenges:
Pile it On - something with p
Sentimental Sundays - stitching
Love to Create - handmade flowers
Digital Tuesday - coral, tan, digital
Party Time Tuesday - anything
Simon Says - anything
Speedy TV - hard to sketch, no sketch

 Here is another card made with the outline versions of  "Mister Monkey"

  
Check out the new images at Doodle Pantry then join the challenge here. 

Receive this set for playing.   And one more thing - there is a Labor Day sale that you will want to get in on.
Check out the details HERE

Have a great weekend.