All Monkey Business...Raspberry Suite Challenge

Quick card I made for the 3rd Raspberry Suite Challenge at Dawn McVey’s site.
Don’t know if this card qualifies as my PP has an extra color not in the challenge.
Its dusk here…and there was no sun today so my photo isn't true to the colors.

In fact, it was windy and quite chilly and it’s actually snowing in the Mountains of Pennsylvania, where my husband is driving to come home from his teaching gig at Penn State. We leave town tomorrow and I won’t be able to craft or blog, so I was hoping to get in one more card and challenge before we leave…now I have to finish getting us, and the house, ready for our departure.

I’m glad to see I have my priorities straight…craft first, everything else later!

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday…whichever you celebrate!

Opps...forgot to include

this photo of the "Save the Date" card I made for our friends for their son's Bar Mitzvah.

Again, I used a little piece of paper to cover the rest of his name.

Bar Mitzvah Invitation…

Our best friends’ son will become a Bar Mitzvah this coming June. His mom has asked “moi” to make his Bar Mitzvah invites. What sweet friends! So I’m currently working on the invites and reply cards. Later I'll work with her on the name place cards, the program and any little hostess gift boxes, etc.

Fortunately, it’s a small group of invitees (30 or so) so it’s still fun making the cards. Thought I would show you what she’s decided on and how it evolved….

This is a photo of the invite. There's a little torn piece of paper covering up the rest of our young friend's name.

View of the inside, which I again covered up personal information with some plan cardstock and

on this view I used the silk flowers as a cover up.


The navy cardstock is Deep Blue Sea by The Paper Company and the gray cardstock is by Die Cuts With a View. The field paper is Lux White from the Paper Source. I found the Star of David buttons at G Street Fabrics here in Northern, Virginia but I know they can be found online. Everything was printed on my computer in Microsoft Word.

This was how it all started with this 'save the date card' sample I gave to her and which she chose to use as the invite...only larger.

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On the road again...

Decided to give the Hero Arts onelayer challenge another go using this Tim Holtz visual artistry set I've been wanting to try. It's a quick and dirty card since I was supposed to be watching a movie with my two men.

My son wanted to watch Kung Fu Panda, which we've now seen three times. So while he and his dad snuggled together in the big chair...I worked at the kitchen island, which is essentially in the same room, to sneak in some stamping.

It was a bit challenging since all my supplies are upstairs in my craft area and I had to keep running up and down the stairs. But my son wanted some family movie time together and he's pretty sensitive if he feels one of us isn't part of the movie watching experience...so I had to be a bit sneaky. I find it appropriate that my card of this evening is of a masculine nature...being with my men and all.

I'm not good with a craft knife and I really need to get some more HA sentiment stamps since I seem to be using the same ones over and over. Also, my photo isn't the best since I took it real quick thinking I had 3 minutes to post, and then realized...I'm on the East Coast!!!

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Don’t it always seem to go…

that you just don’t…

see what additional tweaking you could have done on a card until after it’s been posted?! Well, maybe not to all you rock-star paper crafters out there, but it always happens to me. Take for instance my most recent post for the one layer challenge at the Hero Arts Club Blog. NOW I can see that the card size is actually too large for my little beach scene…or that I could have added some stitching or ribbon (or something) to my little magazine to give it more dimension, etc. etc.

So…I agree with Joni (or Counting Crows, depending on your age) that…”Don’t it always seem to go, that you just don’t know… “

Happy Sunday…and the beginning of Spring Break for some!

Hero Arts Blog Club - “Onelayer” Challenge

Card I created for the current Hero Arts Blog Club…onelayer challenge. The genesis for this card was when I found this package of about 20 surf boards in the clearance section at Michaels. Figured I could do something with it and some bikini buttons by Dress it Up that I had at home. But I didn’t think about the challenge until I saw the White Out patterned paper by We R Memory Keepers and it grew from there.

Close up of details.

The hardest part was getting the sandals to have a pleasing appearance and I’m not really happy with the so-called cold drink with straw…bet you didn’t know that’s what it's supposed to be!! So any suggestions you have out there would be welcome.

The sentiment is from a Hero Arts “Anyone Can Stamp” clear birthday set.

I took some additional photos since I decided to try and add some writing to the magazine. I used the friend stamp by Rubber Stampede since I really don’t like my handwriting, but I see I needed a stamp with much smaller lettering.

Another close up of deatails.

I had fun making this card and I hope you enjoy seeing it!

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Ain’t No Sunshine…

here today, so photos don't really capture the colors. Wanted to submit to the Raspberry Suite Color Challenge (2), but I didn’t get home from work in time to post. I did get to play with an earlier card so I’m not too bummed.

I decided to do some hand stitching…but don’t look too closely.

I realized too late that I hadn’t either sufficiently inked my stamp...or pressed firmly enough into the dark chocolate ink pad. The image is too light for my liking.

I wasn’t intending to submit this card to the current Caardvarks sketch challenge, but when I went over to take a peek at the amazing cards posted on the site, I realized…hey, I think this might fit. Second time this has happened to me this week!

Tomorrow it’s supposed to be sunny but then rain again on Friday. Can’t complain too much however, as there’s snow in Wyoming...where we’ll move this August.

Hope you’ve had a great day!