Saturday, October 29, 2011

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C111

Hello Friends! It's that time again! Crazy 4 Challenges time! I'm sorry I haven't been blogging. . .do I say this every week? I think I do. . .but yeah. I've been in crafting hibernation and I don't know how to get my mojo back. I do have my moments from time to time but I can't seem to make it last long enough to actually work on a project. Thank goodness for Crazy 4 Challenges . . .I can honestly say, if it weren't for the weekly challenges, I don't think I would step in my craft room at all. I'm hoping the new year will bring back the spark and I'll find it all exciting again. It's been a rough crafty year for me. . .maybe, I need to take a step back and do other things, clean out my craft room, and maybe, just maybe, I'll be back to make crafty self again. We'll see.

Anyway. ..I digressed. . .yes, it's Crazy 4 Challenges time and this week Tammy has come up with a fabulous challenge. The challenge is to incorporate some sort of candy to your card design! Before I go on. . .we'd like to bid Tammy farewell. . .she is stepping down from the design team to focus more on life and her family. We'll miss her beautiful cards on C4C but she'll still be in blog land so not to worry!!


My card is rather simple. . .just a printed vintage image with lace, ribbon, and crochet flowers added to the mix. Although I haven't been crafting much, I do still crochet when I'm sitting down watching television and I've been making the 1 inch crochet flowers that you see on my card. I crochet to keep myself from falling asleep while watching television with my family. . .it's either that or eat . . .which I don't want to do. I actually need to lose weight and I am having a great deal of problems with that. Ugggh! That's a whole other story. . .I could write a book about my countless attempts to lose weight.

Anyway. . .stop by C4C and check out the lovely cards the crazy gals created this week or stop by their individual blogs!


Saturday, October 22, 2011

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C110

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday to you all! It's Crazy 4 Challenges time again and this week Tammy has come up with a simple but yet difficult challenge. The challenge is to create a "One-Layer CAS – cards with the base of the card as the only “layer” today! Only exception is cutting out images and/or one die-cut embellishment".

* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett


I think this is the most simplest card I've made in a long time. Creating one layered cards takes a bit of creativity considering you can't add additional layers and embellishments. It's tough for me not to add a ribbon or embellishments. I did add a bit of glitter and dew drops to the stamped images.


Anyway. . .gonna cut it short today. Hope you all play along with us this week!

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C109



Happy Saturday, Friends! It's Crazy 4 Challenges time again! Before I discuss today's challenge, as this week is a sponsored challenge, let me introduce this month's sponsor which is Outlines Rubber Stamps. They have lots of fun stamps on there site, so if you haven’t visited them before you might want to head on over there to see their range. Outlines has generously offered a $25 gift certificate for one lucky person who plays this week's challenge.


Tammy came up with a great challenge this week! The challenge is to create a holiday card and incorporate some sort of heat embossing to your card.



* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett


I used Outline Stamps Large Frame Design for my card. I rubber stamped the image on a Navy colored card stock and heat embossed the image with glittery silver embossing powder. I cut the image and remounted the image using foam tape.


Okay. . .hope you all stop by and play along with us this week! Gotta run! Hope you have a fabulous Saturday!

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Stampin Up Winter Greetings







Happy Wednesday, Friends! I actually started on this card on Monday, finished it on Tuesday, and took the photos today. I had fun making this card. . the snowman is so adorable.


I'm not going to chit chat much today. I'm so sleepy right now. I slept late last night and had to wake up early this morning so I had about 5 hours of sleep. The snowman image is by Stampin Up. I colored it with my Copic Marker and to create the snow, I used Tulip puffy paint with a little glitter sprinkled on it while it was wet then I heated it with a heating tool until the paint puffed up.


To embellish the card, I added designer paper by K&CO, crochet lace, a K&Co snowflake embellishment and grosgrain ribbon.


That's about it, folks! Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday.. . .I'm off to take a nap!


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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C108

Hello Friends! It's Crazy 4 Challenges time again! Tammy came up with a fun challenge this week. The challenge is a recipe challenge. . .here is the recipe: . Use only LEAF images, your card must include a rust or burnt orange color (but is not limited to only this color), only 2 fibers (ribbon, lace, twine, fabric) and only 3 embellishments (but whether you choose to use just 3 embellishments, or 3 different types of embellishments is your call!) No leaf images? Use a plant or flower with leaves image! Hope you'll play along with us this week. . .be sure to stop by the C4C blog and check out the beautiful cards the crazy gals created for this challenge or stop by their individual blogs:


* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett



I decided to work with Mulberry paper for this card. I have a bunch that I bought years ago when mulberry paper was a popular material to use on cards. I adhered the mulberry paper on to a vanilla card stock then rubber stamped leaf images on to it. I then stamped the same leaves on to card stock and cut them out.


To meet the rest of the recipe, I added lace and twine for the fiber requirement and a button and 2 brads for the embellishment requirement! Mission accomplished! This was a fun challenge.

I'm really proud of myself. . .I've created 3 cards this week! Yippee! I'm trying to create one card everyday. . hopefully, I can keep up with this goal. Okay, that's it for today! Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!

Friday, October 7, 2011

Thankful Thanksgiving Card



 Happy Friday Friends!!  Gosh, it's beginning to feel like fall.  I dropped my daughter off at the bus stop this morning and it was 43 degrees.  It's probably colder where you are at but 43 is chilly to me.  I worked on a Thanksgiving card yesterday.  I decided to give it a more shabby chic appearance using lace, crochet flower and a stick pin!


 I came across my Penny Black rubber stamp with the cute mouse and pumpkin and I actually had a different design in mind initially but it evolved into this shabby chic style.  I'm going to be honest with ya'. . .many times my card design is a result of whatever material I have at the top of my pile of craft goodies.  I don't like digging through containers because wow, it can be a big mess so if it's easily accessible, that ends up being the materials I use on my projects.  From time to time, I'll be motivated to look through my things and find something interesting to use.  
 

I had dyed the crochet flower a while back and decided to use.  I also had worked on a few stick pins using opal heart beads and used one of them on my card.  I rubber stamped the  image on to watercolor paper and colored the image with my Copic Markers.


I glued on the Prima flower on to the crochet flower and added lace to the card and that's basically it.  Anyway. . .that's it for today!  I hope you all have a fabulous Friday!!!

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Thanksgiving card - Give Thanks


Hello Friends!!  I worked on a Thanksgiving card yesterday!  Yay!  My goal is to be more focused on finishing a card or project on a daily basis.  I've been a little ill focused the past few weeks.  It's always at the back of my mind to work and finish something but I can be quite ADHD sometimes.


Just a little detail about this card.  I rubber stamped the image on to watercolor paper and colored it with my Copic Markers.  If you've never used Copics on watercolor paper, I do recommend it!  It seems to blend easier and the funny thing is that you really don't need to be as careful when coloring for some reason.  I colored the image so fast that I was amazed how quickly I was able to finish the card. 



I did work on another card today but I'll share it tomorrow.  I'm going to cut it short. . .I have to run!  Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!!

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Photos of the Day - La Jolla, San Diego


Hi Friends!  Happy Wednesday. . . gosh, I almost didn't know what day it was.  Time flies so fast.  Speaking of time. . .I was meaning to post these photos a few weeks back  but I kept forgetting to do so; therefore,  I decided to just post them all at once.  I drove to La Jolla, a town located in San Diego, a fews weeks ago.  It's an upper-scale community with beautiful homes, beaches, shops, and hotels.  My goal for driving there was to take a photo of a sun setting at the beach.  Believe it or not, since moving to California from Hawaii a little over 6 years ago, I've never stuck around to wait for the sun to set at the beach. I was a little bias I believe.  In Hawaii, I've seen a lot of beautiful sunsets so there was never a strong desire for me to see it set here in California.

While waiting for the sun to set, I took a bunch of photos at Seal Cove.  The photo above was an "intentional" shot. . .meaning I had my daughter pose because I wanted to capture a "serene" back drop but when I looked at the photo after I downloaded it to my computer, what I felt was a sense of "loneliness" instead.  How strange is that?


I took a ridiculous amount of photos. . .LOL!  I hope you don't mind all the photos I posted.   Do any of you watch Hawaii 5-0?  Well, I don't know if you noticed that it almost appears that the show is taken in "technicolor", where the scenic back drop appears almost "Photoshopped" and unrealistic. . .but there is some reality to it.  It is a bit over worked in the lushness of it but, in real life, the mountains are very green, the beaches and sky are very blue, the sand very white, and overall, everything do appear much more brighter and colorful.





When I moved to California, I immediately noticed the color differences.  In California, the colors of the leaves, the mountain, the sky, the beach, the sand. . .appeared "duller" in color.  It took a while for me to become accustomed to it.  It's like seeing things through hazy tinted glasses. I still see things the same way after 6 years, but I've come to appreciate living in California.  There are so many things to do and see that just driving around never gets boring.

With this shot, believe it or not, I don't recall seeing this part of the cove . . .it's funny how our minds sort of just scan things. . .and we don't really see things, especially when there are many things to see.  The beauty of taking photos it captures things that we may have looked at but did not really capture into memory.


This is a photo of a tunnel through the rock .  I don't know if it's man made or it was naturally created.


As I walking on the rocks, I noticed that a lot of rocks had carvings of names.  I wonder how they did that?  The rocks must be soft or something or they spent a lot of time carving their names.




I call this photo "poop heaven".. . .LOL!  Do you see the beautiful white color of the rocks?  Well, the color was created by layers and layers of bird poop and it smelled like it too!  


There were a lot of birds just bathing and hanging out at the cove.  I was actually quite far away but I took the photo using a telephoto lens.  I took this photo at 300mm.


Aww, look at this seal. . .sleeping so peacefully.  I love how he tucked his tail in.


This bird looks like he is pondering life. . .just thinking.


Finally. . .the sunset. . .


Although I loved the sunset. .. the sun appeared so far away.  I now want to drive to LA or somewhere in Orange County. . .maybe Santa Monica or Laguna Beach and take a photo of the sun setting.  I think the sun will look bigger there.  Nevertheless, it was beautiful.  I'm glad I stuck around to take a photo of it.

Anyway. . .my goal today is to work on a few holiday cards.  I actually worked on a bunch of crochet hats but I still need to take a photo of them
 
That's it for today!  Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday!



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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C107


Hello Friends!  Hey it's Saturday and that means it's Crazy 4 Challenges time again!  This month Tammy will be hosting the challenges and she's kicking off World Card Making Day by coming up with a great challenge.  Not only it is a great challenge, it's an important one! The challenge is that you can make any card you want. However, find a worthwhile charity that you can donate your card(s) to after today, and follow through and DO IT! Call a local nursing home... the residents love to have cards they can send to their family members. Check with your local hospital and see if you can donate cards to their gift shop. Maybe a local senior center?


 Tammy will be donating cards to "Operation Write Home" and if you want to learn more about it, stop by Crazy 4 Challenges for more details.  Also, while you're there, check out the fabulous cards the crazy gals created this week.  You may also stop by their individual blogs:


Just a little info about my card. . . .this card went through an evolution of sort.  I first started off thinking I would make a Christmas card.  I looked through a designer paper pack and saw the pretty designer paper patterns and ended up going shabby chic-ish instead.  The designer paper is from "Linen Closet" pack by DCWV.  Anyway. . .I intended to stamp and color an image but I had stopped by Jo Ann's today and bought the Tim Holtz "Mini Paper Rosettes" die set so I decided to use it rather than stamping an image.  More often than not, when I create cards, I usually will start off with one idea and completely end up making something completely different.

Anyway. .. that's it for today!  Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!
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