Oldie Moldie Monday June 14, 2010

Good Monday Morning – a quick post before I head out the door to work. Yes it is Oldie Moldie Monday – time to dig into your old papers and show them some love. You bought them so you loved them once. I know they will make beautiful cards.

I finally got a chance to try the challenge on Clean and Simple Stamping
I always look at their sketch but usually can’t think of any simple stamping to do. Sometimes I just can’t do simple. I do like how my card turned out. The patterned paper makes the card. I love to stamp on patterned paper – it adds depth to your stamped image. If you can see I added brown ink to the red of the cardinal so the red wasn’t too bold.

The holiday cards are my start on holiday cards for Operation Write Home. If you have some oldie moldie paper you would love to use – Operation Write Home – is a wonderful place to do some creativity with all your paper. They have a card making blog also and have a sketch on Sunday and also a midweek challenge.

Everyone have a wonderful Monday and I hope there is some creativity in your day.

Card details:
Size – 4.25 x 5.5
Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye
Bird Stamp: A Muse Artstamps
Sentiment Stamp: Skipping Stones Design http://skippingstonesdesign.com/
Rub on: Making Memories
Ink: Colorbox Chalk Ink by Clearsnap

Good Monday Evening

Good Monday evening - I had a wonderful week end - spent the week end with a group of very special friends I call "the Ya Ya's" - I have known some of them for 30 years. We ate, drank, shoppped and in the middle of all of it on Saturday - one of the Ya Ya's had to go to the hospital for the birth of her grandson - he decided to do a little "trick or treat" since he was 2 months early. All are doing well.

My card tonight is a thank you card for the hostess of our week end event -we stayed in her big RV. Barb is getting back in shape and has started to do biking so I could not resist using this image on her thank you card. The card is based on the sketch at Card Patterns. The lighting is not very good - I apologize. We are going into the dark months now.

Paper - Basic Grey

Stamp - Amuse colored with Copics

Rub On - Melissa Frances

Everything else is from my stash of supplies

Blah Blah Blah

Had one of those days where I felt very blah, blah, blah - nauseated - so stayed home from work - not for sure I feel that much better - but I will return to work.

Made this card over the week end - this is from scraps laying next to the paper cutter - Both are double sided papers. I have these smaller envelopes so this card will fit into those envelopes. Luckily the scraps worked just fine for this card. The red pin dot is My Mind's Eye and the stripe - I don't know - sorry.

Stamp - A Muse - stamped with red for the bird and brown for the branch. I highlighted the berries with a Sakura glitter pen.

Everyone have a wonderful evening.

Sow's Life

I see I got a circle of light on my card - hmmmm - I thought I had that problem figured out - I guess I don't. Photography - always an adventure where I am concerned.

This card was based on the Cupcake Challenge, Friday's at Taylored Expressions.

Pig Stamp - A Muse
Sentiment Stamp - Inky Antics
Bazzill cardstock
Making Memories patterned paper

Everyone have a wonderful evening.