Sketch Challenge

Hello Friends! Happy October 1st Eve! I hope you're having a great one! We've got the pumpkin bread almost ready to come out of the oven, a delicious aroma is filling our house, it's 56 degrees outside...fall decorations have adorned our home...it's cool weather time! Yea!

This morning, I had just a few minutes to stamp and wanted to accomplish a sketch challenge, so I grabbed the latest LAD sketch which you can see here, and made my card! I was happy that it all came together and that it was an under 15 minute card! Don't you love those? Thus, the joy of using a sketch to jump start your productivity!

The sketch can be found here on the LAD blog. You'll also learn that the new Singles for October and November will be revealed tomorrow....be sure to check back in to see some fun samples! Perfect for the upcoming Holidays! And in celebrating the 3rd Annual World Card Making Day, this Saturday the 3rd, LAD will have a great promotion, so be sure to check in on Saturday!

Now, onto the main event!

This is a great sketch, very simple and clean. I grabbed some SEI paper, and went to town! These stamps are both from the October Montly Mix-avaliable the 15th of October. This mix rocks, really...I've had a great time with it thus far! I'll have many more samples to share next week from the Mix, so be sure to stay tuned

My card base is Not Quite Navy, then my SEI patterned papers. I love that this paper has a bit of foil--the leaves are all foiled and so shiney in real life! I added my three chocolate chip brads to the bottom of my floral paper with the help of my paper-piercing tool and mat, for perfect placement...love that, then added my paper to the card(so as not to show the brads on the inside of the card).

I stamped my leaf image with Not Quite Navy ink and on white cardstock and mounted it on Not Quite Navy cardstock. I added it to my card with dimensionals. My sentiment was stamped with Not Quite Navy ink as well, and then punched out with my 1" circle punch. I mounted it on a 1 1/4" Not Quite Navy circle and then on a 1 3/8" yellow circle-from the SEI paper collection. My button, a retired SU button, was tied with linen thread and added with a glue dot.

Super quick and simple and will go perfectly with the pumpkin bread I'm going to deliver to my friend this afternoon! I love this time for showing more gratitude and love...yea!!

See you tomorrow, thanks for stopping by and be sure to make it a great one!!

BOO!

Good morining! I hope you are all doing well! I'm trying to decide if it is time to turn the heater on...we've been having beautiful fall weather but then getting really warm in the afternoons...but we all woke up today freezing...so fun!! I think today is a definate soup and cornbread day...maybe some spiced cider too! YEA!

As I was working on some projects, I came across this sketch from Caardvarks. It was from the Sktechfest they had last week. While I missed the opportunity to play along with the sktchfest, as it is over now, I thought I'd still like to play along with the great sketches! So, here is the sketch I used for my card.

I had a lot of fun with the sketch and am happy with the results. I did take a little creative liberty with the sketch and move the sentiment up a little...but that is the joy of a sketch!

So, I started with a pumpkin pie card base. I layered some basic black and some night and day paper onto my card base. I used my circle scissor cutter and made a basic black circle and attached it to the left side of my card and trimed the excess off.

I used my flower layers die and the Big Shot to create my flowers. Two of them are the Night and Day paper and then the harringbone one is actually fabric. I gave all my flowers their centers, a pumpkin brad, large black grommet, and pumpkin rhinestone brad; and then attached them to my card. The smallest flower is added with dimensionals.

For my sentiment, I used some retired SU halloween rubons. My large oval punch punched the pumpkin paper out, then I made a nice home for it with my scallop oval and black cardstock. I added the sentiment to the card with dimensionals also.

My last addition to the card was the white spider rubons...aren't the a great touch!? They are the same retired halloween rubons from SU.

I know just who this card will give a fun scare to this Halloween....I can't wait to get it in the mail! Thanks so much for stopping by! Make it a great one!

Happy Treat!

Good morning friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We had the most pefect weather for Fall...oh, it was delightful! We enjoyed a more relaxing weekend--well, minus power-washing the house-than we've had in a while and it was much enjoyed!

This morning I have a little treat idea to share with you all! I found these cute little clear acrylic take-out boxes on clearance at a random shop a few weeks ago and knew that I could for sure find something fun to use them for!

We made these for my kids for their teachers. I simply filled the little box with yummy kisses...these are the pumpkin spice kind..have you tried that flavor yet? And then tied it all up with some wired chocolate chip ribbon.

My stamps are from the Hallows Eve stamp set by LAD. I used my markers to color the stamps-only coloring the Treat part of the Trick or Treat stamp and then used my pumpkin marker to color the happy and add it to my little senitment. I used my oval nestabilities to make a perfect little tag! I punched a hole with my crop-a-dile and then added a little pumpkin button to cover the hole, while allowing the linen thread to tie the tag to the chocolate bow.

I hope you have a great Monday. I've got a list a mile long...we'll see how far we get today! Have a great one and thanks for stopping by!

Hello Again!

Good late morning/afternoon friends! I'm happy to be with you this morning! I've had my family in town for the past week--having a wonderful time--and just didn't quite get to sharing my postings! It was great to have them up, my mom and dad, older brother, and little sister and cuteness family came for a visit! We went to the Mariners vs. Yankee baseball game, Wicked(oh my word the 3rd time, it's still my favorite!), sightseeing in Seattle...it was a perfect weekend! The weather was WONDERFUL....completely fall...oh, it was just perfect. My kids enjoyed the time to share their "turf" with their cousins, it was just 100% perfect!

So, they all left yesterday, yes, my daughter and I did cry...it is hard to have the fun end and our dear ones go home! I'm playing catch up this weekend, that's for sure! I'm excited to share some fun projects with you!

This project today is a fun-kind of non-traditional halloween color card. I have this great paper-it is from the DCWV Mod stack--it's such a great combination of papers! I thought it would make a fun halloween card....what do you think?
The beautiful stamped image comes from the LAD Hallow's Eve stamp set. Isn't it divine!? I love it!! I've got a fun little project to share tomorrow that I made, using the stamp in an entirely different way!

My card is a pumpkin pie base. I attached my patterened paper and the added my scalloped(ek success) lilac cardstock. I added a strip of pumpkin ribbon with some sticky strip. I tied my bow, leaving a really long left side--and then just stuck it down on the sticky strip and there you have it.

My sentiment was stamped in pumpkin ink and stamped onto vanilla paper. I added a 3/4" lilac circle, punched out with my circle punch, then added a pumpkin brad just overlaping the circle a little. I mounted it onto pumpkin cardstock and then added another lilac scallop. I mounted them both on a layer of saffron cardstock. I attached this layer to the card with dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you are enjoying the wonders of Fall...where ever you are!! Make it a great one!

Happy Halloween

Happy Wednesday friends! I'm happy to get a chance to sit down and share with you today! I've had some fun with "Fall" being in the air...it is so delicious! I found some pumpkin ice cream today at the store...my daughter's b.day party will be that much better with pumpkin ice cream! I'm so excited. I've got the Ginger candle burning, bring on the red leaves, soccer season, crock pot dinners, spiced apple cider...I could go on and on!

So, my card today is another sketch from LAD. It was last week's sketch from Joslyn #95. I love her clean fantastic style...and had fun making this card! I used the Hallows Eve stamp set again for this card. I think this Halloween stamp set is so fun, great sentiments and fantastic images! I do love this black cat!
So, onto the card. I used a white card base. My dsp is from Stampin' Up!. I stamped my cat with black ink, then ran my Versamarker(aka favorite tool today!) over it and then shook on some clear embossing powder and heated it with my heat tool, so the cat has a super shine! I love the part of embossing that encourages people to touch the shine...love that!

I mounted my cat on black cardstock that I used my EK scallop border punch on. I know it's hard to see in this photo--if even at all, but in real life you can see it easily! I used some circle punches to make my little circle embelishment. I used 3 nesting sized and then just "scrunched" my paper up until it looked like I wanted it to. I punched a hole in the center of all three and then tied my ribbon into a bow, and put the long ends behind the circle--and attached the ribbon to the card with some sticky strip.

My sentiment was stamped in two parts, and then punched out with my word window punch.

I hope you have a great day today! We're getting ready to have some soccer tonight, family come to town(we're going to see WICKED on saturday...YEA!), and all sorts of fun! Thanks so much for stopping by! Make it great!

Spooktacular and Blog Candy Winner!

Hello Friends! I'm happy to be back to the blogging world. I had a few days off to play with my sisters and Mom, and it was TOO much fun! I had a wonderful time! My mom's birthday was simply perfection. She was so surprised to see my sisters and I...it was so fun!!

**Penny, you never responded about your address and such, so I'll have to pick another name for the blog candy...can't have that sittin' around!**AMY you said, "I love stopping by to see your color combinations and your cork creations! Those pencil toppers were so cute, too."
Please email me and let me know where I can send you your blog candy!**

But, being out of town and away from the daily stamping scene, makes it a tad daunting to see what comes from a few days off! I was excited today (yesterday I had too much make up to do to get time to stamp in!) to jump right back into the groove with a great sketch! I've used the LAD weekly Sketch, #96 for the inspiration and starting point for today.
I used the great tree and sentiment from the LAD Hallows Eve stamp set...I love how great they corrdinate! In real life, the bat and the "S" in spooktacular are all glitifed with Black stickles and are lovely! The patterened paper is from the DCWV Mod-Retro paper pack...deliciousness for sure! I used rhinestone brads on top of 3 1/2" black circle punches for the detail down the left side. I colored my moon and "S" with a pumpkin pie marker. I also used Black Palette ink for my sentiment and spooky tree! Oh, and it is all on a vanilla card base.

I'll just tell you the ingredients today, I've got a bit more catch up to do! The fridge is calling my name, it wants food in it!:) I've got more Hallows Eve for you tomorrow!! See you soon!

Simply Thanks!

Good morining friends! I hope you've had a great week, I can't believe it's already Friday! This fun week of mine has flown by too fast!! I've had a wonderful time with my mom and sisters and brothers...I love my family! And here's to my sweet husband for letting me take a few days "off" and really have a lot of fun! I'll be heading back to Seattle tonight, and am excited to see my little ones...I sure do miss them when I'm gone!

My card today is more fun from the September Monthly Mix. I think this thanks sentiment is a super fun image! I thought I'd just keep it the focal point of the card. So, this one is pretty simple!
I stamped my sentiment with chocolate ink onto vanilla cardstock and trimmed it up. I mounted it onto some chocolate cardstock and then onto a strip of paper from MME. I mounted my sentiment layer onto my card, which had a layer of MME polka dot paper-my patterned paper is from the All Boy collection.

I tied a ribbon round and then added a brad over the knot of my ribbon...and there you have it! Just a little simple somthing! Have a great one friends!!

Winter Wishes

Good Morning friends! I hope that you are all doing well! I'm enjoying a few fun filled days with my mom and sisters--so I hope the auto publish is working!:) Today I wanted to share a fun non stamped card...inspiration from a magazine a while back.
I started this one with a white card base. I mounted a red/white polka dot paper from SEI, onto my white card base. Next I added a strip of bermuda bay cardstock to the lower portion of my card, and then put a strip of real red cardstock that had been "scalloped" with my fiskars border punch over it, you can just see a hint of it under the red cardstock. I used some sticky strip to attach some bermuda bay ribbon-and didn't want to the polkas so I just used the "back" side.

I ran some white cardstock through the Big Shot with my snowflake BigZ die, and then mounted these fun to flakes onto my card. I used my nestabilites to make a bermuda bay oval and real red scallop for my oval to fit into. I used some alphabet stickers from MM to create my sentiment. The letters are glittered and very sparkly in real life!

For the last hurrah, I tied up a little white button with some red/white twine that I have been saving from some gifts my friend gave me...they were all tied up with this great twine! It felt the perfect little finish to my card!

Winter Wishes, well, in Utah right now, it isn't even feeling like Fall yet, but the wish is there still!:) Have a great one!!

Birthday Wishes

Good Morning Friends! I am so happy today! Today is a special marker for my mom, she is 70 years old today! I've flown in to surprise her with my two sisters that live in Florida and Texas. We've been keeping secrets from my mom, and are planning so much fun! She'll read this and giggle as she will already know we've arrived for her special day! I love surprises!
This card is one that we made at a my last card class. Everyone had a great time with it, and using the very versatile Sincere Salutations it could be a card for any occasion! So, here goes the scoop.

We started out with a white card, and a soft suede layer on the card. Next we used melon mambo, crushed curry, and rich razzleberry cardstock and ink. We stamped the corresponding ink onto cardstock with the Circle Circus stamp set. We used the corner rounder on each of the corners of the colored cardstock.

We ran the Melon Mambo cardstock through the Big Shot with a swiss dots embossing folder and then used the Blossom Party Original die and the Big Shot to cut the fun flowers--they all layer so nicely!

I hope you all have a great one today! I'm so excited for what today has in store!!

Happy Fall

Happy Fall Y'all! I think Fall might finally be here in Seattle...it's been raining for a couple of days and I've needed a sweater/jacket...and I'm so happy about that! I'm excited for all that comes with the wonder of Fall...it is a definate one of my 4 favorite seasons!

This card is a fun sample of the September Monthly Mix from LAD. This fun little acorn is so fun, don't you think?
My card started with by stamping my Happy Fall circle, also from the September Monthly Mix, in chocolate ink. Next, My acorn was stamped in chocolate ink into the center of the Happy Fall circle. I used my 1 3/4" circle punch to punch the white cardstock out. Next, I stamped my acorn onto some Ruby Red dsp. I cut the body of the acorn out and attached it to my acorn. The I colored the leaves with a Rucy Red marker and added a couple little while polkas to the leaves with my white gel pen. I used my nestabilities to make a chocolate chip layer and a scalloped Ruby Red layer.

My card base came together like this...A ruby red cardbase with a layer of chcolate chip cardstock. I used my fiskars border punch on a piece of white cardstock and attached that to my chocolate layer. I addeda piece of ruby red dsp right at the top of my white strip. I added my chocolate chip ribbon and then attached the layer to my card.

I stamped the fun bracket stamp, also from the Montly Mix, in chocolate chip ink onto a white rectangle. I used my corner rounder on the right two corners of my white layer. I layered the white cardstock onto some chocolate chip and then attached it to my ruby red dsp, I slipped it in right under the ribbon, then used a mini glue dot to hold the knot of the ribbon in place.

I added a couple of little loops of ribbon to the left side of my acorn scallop and then attached it to my card with dimensionals!

I hope you all have a great day today! Happy Fall to you all! Oh, and Penny if I don't hear back from you today, I'll have to choose another winner of the blog candy....please shoot me an email!

Love the Allens

Happy Labor Day friends! I've enjoyed a nice lazy--even get to sleep in a little--morning! Yea for no hurries or schedules on a day off! Yes, we'll have a bit of "labor" inside today, but it feels good to just have a lazy day!

It's time to let you know who won the blog candy that ended Friday. I appreciate you all sharing wiht me...those of you that are first time commenters, I'd love to see you around! I appreciate your sharing with me!! The winner of the blog candy was #7, Penny. So, Penny, if you'd email me with your information I'll get your treats right out! And again, thanks for your sweet comments!
Today I've got another JustRite Christmas card. I think these stamps are super fun! I love that you can do so much personalization by using the alphabet stamps! I think we'll make a bundle of these cards to add to the stack!

My card is a vanilla cardbase. My patterened paper is a piece-the Olive and the Christmas tree-from Senic Route. I used some 5/8" grosgrain chocolate ribbon and my stapler. My stamps were from JustRite and I stamped the with chocolate ink. I used my circle nestabilities to cut the circles and scallop...from olive and soft sky cardstock. My button is a nice shiney red and tied with some gingham ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by today! I think Fall is here...we're all bundling up today...yea for fall!! I'm excited to have some time to play today! See you soon!! Penny, please let me know your infomation! Make it a great one!

An Apple A Day

Good morning friends! I hope you are ready for a great weekend! I'm so excited that today is finally here...one of my best friends in the world!! is coming for a "sleepover" tonight! I can't wait! Isn't it fun to have fantastic wonderful friends...I count myself very blessed in that regard!! And speaking of wonderful friends, thank so much to all of you for you sweet comments...you have made my last few days very happy! I appreciate your comments and support! Don't forget you have until tonight at 10pm (pst) to post a comment on this post to win some fun from me!

Today's card is a nice crisp fall card...is there anything worse than a mushy apple? Nope. I was thinking of how much I enjoy fall and the apples that start to come around...I can't wait! This card is a perfect September card, don't you think!?
I stamped the apple image with chocolate chip ink onto kraft paper. The apple image is actually 4 apples combined, it is part of LAD's September Mix stamp set, I used my SAMJ to line up my apples perfectly(love that tool!!). I stamped the image 4 times on my card and then stamped it on a scratch paper and colored the apple with my markers and cut it out and then attached it to my card right over the kraft apple.

I cut the bottom 1 1/2" off my card and added a chocolate chip scalloped edge, with one of my fiskars border punches. I attached the chocolate chip to my kraft card, and then tied it up with some 5/8" grosgrain ribbon.

My sentiment, which is from the Everyday Sayings stamp set, was stamped with chocolate chip ink and then punched out with my window word punch. I used some ruby red dsp and my modern label punch for the home for my sentiment. I attached the sentiment with some dimensionals!

Thanks so much for stopping by friends! Thanks for sharing your love and support with me...it is so great to have so many great friends that I haven't even met in person! I'll be back with the name of the winner of the blog candy tomorrow! Have a great one!!

Thank You!

Good morning friends! I hope you are all doing well! We woke up to a wet earth this morning...don't you love waking up after a good rain!? There aren't many things better than that! How great, that rain/earth talk leads right into my card for today! I love this tree image! It is from the LAD September Mix. You are now able to nab the Mix set...don't delay!
I stamped the tree with Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock. I mounted the Vanilla on a piece of MM patterned paper-all of my pp is from the MM Just Chillin' set. I love this set, it coordinates wonderfuly with the SU in colors! Yea for that! So, I mounted my tree on a piece of lime polka-dot paper, then Chocolate Chip and then a piece of Bermuda Bay. I used a fiskars border punch on the left and right sides of my Bermuda Bay cardstock. I attached some nice lime brads to my tree, they are Bazzill brads.

I whipped out a Chocolate Chip card base and mounted the polka dot paper onto the cardbase. I attached a Very Vanilla border to the bottom, that had been treated with my fiskars border punch as well. I added a little ruffle of some old SU ribbon...love that little stash...I love this ribbon!

Once I had my ribbon on my card, I mounted my tree image with dimensionals. The sentiment is from the Everyday Sayings stamp set. I stamped it in Chocolate Chip ink, the punched it out with my small oval punch. I layered it on a Bermuda Bay large oval. I attached it by stacking a couple of dimensionals on the right hand side and then just attached the left hand side of the sentiment with some regular adhesive...I Love dimensionals!!

*I was reading my new Creating Keepsakes magazine last night and noticed that the SU Dimensionals were listed among the top 5 dimensional adhesives...WAY to go Dimensionals!!*

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Don't forget to leave a comment on this post for a chance to win some lovin' from me...Thanks so much to all of you that have left comments! It is great to see the names of those of you that have been following/subscribing and have just commented...I appreciate knowing you are out there!:) Friday night is the deadline to be entered into the drawing! Have a great one!! See you tomorrow!

Merry Christmas!

Good morning friends! I hope you're having a great Wednesday! I'm really enjoying getting a little head start on my holiday card stash. I do love to send Christmas cards and moving like we have, my list of people I love keeps growing bigger and bigger! I feel like if it is the one time of year I connect with some of them, I do want them to know we're thinking of them...so I have a lot of cards to get finished! I also love having a variety of cards to send...just mix things up a bit!

Today's card shows some great stamps from Justrite. This week is my first time playing with this type of stamp and I have had a great time! I think I'm going to enter this into one of the Moxie Fab holiday card contests as well!!
I started the card with Beate's Weekend Sketch #95. I thought the sketch was perfect for these round stamps! I used some old pp that I've had for probably 5 years--at least! I don't even know who made it! But I LOVE it! I started with the back panel, mounted on Real Red cardstock and attached to my Whsiper White card. Next came the light green stripe, which is the back of the green polka dot paper.

I used some Real Red 5/8" grosgrain ribbon to tie around the belly. I used my hobby blade to cut a track for my ribbon into the spine of my card. My Circle Scissor cutter went to work to make the large green polka dot circle. Have I told you lately that I love that cutter? I do!! I mounted the circle onto my card with dimensionals.

My image was stamped in Real Red ink, and the stamp is from the new A Merry Little Christmas stamp set from JustRite stamps. I used my EK 1 3/4" circle punch to punch my sentiment out of my Whisper White cardstock, and then my nestabilities went to work on making me a perfect scalloped home for my sentiment!

I love making Holiday cards...now I'm TOTALLY read for fall...come on sweater/cocoa/jeans and jacket weather! Don't forget to drop a comment on the post from yesterday to win some fun blog candy...it's a bit overdue to some great buddies of mine!

Have a great one...thanks so much for stopping by!!

Joy...and Blog Candy

Good evening friends. I hope you've had a great day today. Today was day of school #1 for my son and he had a great time! Grade 1 is good! I'm so happy that he loves going to school...what a blessing!

Tonight, I'd like to share a fun quick card. I love the flourish from the Baroque Motifs stamp set...yum! I thought it would make a nice background for a little Delightful Decoration! I think I might even enter this into the Moxie Fab World Stretch Your Style Holiday Card Challenge...
This card was a super quick one from my thought of how it might work, to grabbing the supplies and having it all done! Here is the drill

Whisper White cardstock. Old Olive ink with the Baroque Motifs flourish. Real Red ink, Delightful Decorations stamps...Ornament punch...dimensionals. Quick, fresh, clean and very mass producable for those of you that like to mass produce Holiday cards! These stamps and the punch are avaliable for purchase in the Holiday Mini catalog starting today!

Next on the scene, some blog candy! The items below, a pack of rubons, patterned paper and some stamps...for being such great support to a blogging buddy! All you need to do is leave a comment and tell me something that you've enjoyed seeing here on My Stampin' Spot. You'll have until Friday night 10 pm to post you comment. I've got stampin' buddies all over this wonderful globe, so international buddies are welcome to enter the candy drawing!
Thanks so much for being great supportive friends. I appreciate your daily visits and love hearing what you have to say! Thanks so much for stopping by!!