These Will Mark The Spot

Scraps of paper, receipts, gum wrappers, travel tickets, napkins.  I've used them all for bookmarks.  Hopefully these markers that I made for a couple of grandkids will be used instead of whatever is close by.

I really love the sentiment on the first one.  I needed that kind of encouragement when I was in school.
The only stamps that I can identify companies for are the note paper on the first and the books on the second.  They are both Gina K Design.
I recently received some washi tape from Kraft Outlet so I used a strip of the ruler tape on each bookmark.

Challenges:
Penny's Paper Crafting - anything
CASual Friday - back to school
Crafty Catz - bookmarks
2 Sisters - back to school
Ribbon Carousel - back to school
Your Next Stamp - photo inspiration

Thanks By the Basketful

Someone recently gave me a box of apples (Washington, of course) so I made this card to express my appreciation.

I love images of baskets or barrels of apples.  This image and sentiment are by Gina K Designs.
Colored with Prisma pencils.  I made the plaid paper with my stamp by DRS Designs.
Card base is GKD Ivory.  The little piece of twine is Earthy Colors Help Cord from Kraft Outlet.  I love it because it is real soft and ties easily, unlike other twine I have that is stiff and hard to work with.
The sketch - Seems a Little Sketchy

Other Challenges:
Perfect Sentiment - twine
Great Impressions - Fall colors
House that Stamps Built - no squares
Penny's Paper Craft - twine
Bearly Mine  - Fall colors
Sister Act - anything

Autumn, Sweet Autumn

As you know, I love Autumn - the colors, the harvest from my garden, the weather, the leaves.  This card captures a bit of thing I love.

I think I used a record number (for me) of GKD products:  three stamp sets, three cardstocks.
The sentiment is from Flowers for Daisy.  Leaves from Autumn Leaves.  Pumpkins from Signs of Autumn.  Cardstocks:  Sweet Mango, Sweet Corn, Ivory.
Pumpkins are popped up a bit with dimensional tape.
The leaf off to the side is a dark bronze metal brad.
The designer paper was so busy and all my ribbons clashed with the orange coloring so I used a piece of the Mango CS and then because it looked too plain, I did some piercing.  Now I am thinking I should have done some piercing in the right corner of the ivory panel but, alas, it is all glued in place, so this is the final product. 
Sketch is MFT

Challenges:
MFT - sketch
Great Impressions - fall colors
House that Stamps Built - no squares
Sister Act - anything
Word Art Wednesday - anything uplifting

The Last Card

This is the last card for this weeks Mojo Monday sketch, the last card for my OWH box of 40 to be mailed tomorrow, the last of this wonderful snowman designer paper, and if I don't get any cardmaking in today, the last post for a while.

This description might sound like a re-run :
designer papers from Echo Park
Snowman image - ? company
Card base - Stampin Up Baja Breeze
Sentiment - Stampin Up

Challenges:
Clearly i Stamp - thank you
Created with Love - snowflakes
Crafty Cardmaker - Snow and Ice
Mojo Monday - sketch 
Sister Act - anything

A Minie Mouse Moment

It is so beautiful today so my hubby and I have been trying to catch up on yard work that went by the wayside due to a week of rain.  I am taking a mini ("Minie" break - smile) break, posting a card I made the other day. 

I love this sheet of designer paper that has these squares Disney faces.  The other two designer papers are from the Celebration Stack by DCWV.

Sketch is Mojo Monday
I really like this sketch .  I made four cards with it.

Other Challenges:
Sentimental Sunday - happy birthday
Simon Wednesday Challenge - animals
Stamp and Create - birthday
Divas That Cut - celebration
Sister Act - anything
Brown Sugar - animals

When All Else Fails...

You have heard it said, "When all else fails, read the instructions."  Well, I read the instructions but obviously not carefully.  I wanted to try the challenge #1 at the OWH VCMP.  So I cut out my one inch squares, put the card together, only to realize that all the cards posted were Christmas. Yes, I missed that part of the challenge.  So here is the first card that I made:

Sentiment is by MFT.  Card base is Real Red by Stampin up.  Embossing folder is Cuttlebug.

An now for the Christmas card I am entering into the OWH challenge!  I decided to use some designer paper that was a sheet of old world Christmas stamps.  I cut out each stamp. Had to line them up a little differently but I do like how it turned out :

Sentiment for this card is by Verve.  Card base is Artichoke by Stampin Up and embossing folder is Cuttlebug.

Challenges:
OWH VCMP #1
Divas That Cut - celebrate
Verve -tic, tac, toe inspiration (grid)
Our Daily Bread - one layer

Winter Card

Even though I am trying to do Christmas cards to send to OWH,  I am also making a few winter cards that can be used after Christmas. I think this one could be used for either.

The snowman image is a single stamp = ? company.  Sentiment is Sweet n Sassy.  Background paper and red strip are from the 6 x 6 pad Winter Park by Echo Park. Aren't these beautiful colors?  The card base is StampinUp Baja Breeze. 

This is a loose translation of the MFT sketch

My original plan was to fussy cut the snow man  and put him where the arrows are but the BG paper was so busy, I thought it best to keep him on the rectangle.

Challenges:
MFT - sketch
Crafty Cardmaker -  snow and ice
Pink Gem - 2 backing papers
Sister Act - anything
House that Stamps Built - no square
OWH VCMP #2 - O=Only snowmen (or oodles of snowmen -haha), W = White, H = Hugs