cruisin' by to say hi!

Happy Friday!!!!

Another busy weekend planned for me...we'll be celebrating my Momma's birthday and I'm hoping to work like crazy on some pub subs:)

Remember on Sunday when I told you that I walked away from a project because of a lack of time?  Well, I managed to incorporate it into a new challenge because the original one that I was working on has since ended.  

Introducing Cruising Chloe'ster:

Chloe has been paper pieced with 6 different patterns from the New My Minds Eye Gertie line...how can anyone resist all those fab colors?  Yup, her shoes have even been paper pieced!

I was inspired by CPS206:

This week, Card Positioning Systems is being sponsored by my buddie Sparkle of Sparkle Creations!  Chloe is my favorite from Sparkle's line of stamps!

I'm a big paper piecer and learned something new this week from Laurel Seabrook who is Yvonne's guest blogger.

 Can you guess what it might be?  Well, if you don't know, you'll just have to check out Laurel's challenge:)

I'm also linking up to the Moxie Fab Paper Piecing Challenge!

How's that for a multi-tasking card?

Have you been keeping up with all the festivities over at Card Patterns??!!!

You don't want to miss out on all the fun and prizes!!!!

**Just a Reminder**

Flashback Friday 8.0 is going strong....you have until next Friday to link up your first 3D project!  You have to check out all the fab linkies...so much inspiration!!!  Pop over to the Flashback Friday blog today...I randomly highlighted some of the projects that have been shared...you're going to LOVE them!

I'm so very thrilled to have Nikki Sivils as the Super Sponsor of Flashback Friday 8.0!

I'll be back tomorrow with the NEW Card Patterns sketch challenge!

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to wonderful you...from grateful me...

Happy Saturday!!!!

I decided to join our 365 Cards Saturday Gal, Heidi,  in her challenge...the recipe from all the bits for the 365 Cards Vintage Week!  It's a regular Martha Stewart recipe...meaning alot of ingredients:)

Here is the final recipe:

1) Pam - Piercing

2) ME - Stitching (real or faux)

3) Sophia - Button

4) Tesa - Die Cut

5) Rose - 5x5 Card

6) Gloria - Stick pin

7) Audrey - Stamp

8) Kim - Distressing

9) Hannah - Dimensional sticker

10) Sophie - Lace

11) Heidi - Card Recipe

Here's my card:

I have to be honest, the dimensional sticker threw me....but I found a fun crown sticker in my stash that I went ahead and distressed with Memento Rich Cocoa...the edges of the floral base have been distressed using my Heidi Swapp distresser {brownie points for both types of distressing?!}...you can't tell by the pic but the diecut has piercing along the edge...Here's a close up shot:

There are 3 prizes to be won this week, and there are 3 different ways to win.  The first is the usual way - just participate in the challenges and earn up to 7 changes to win the random drawing.  The second is to leave comments on each of the designer's blogs on their blog hop posts (but read carefully, you may have to answer a specific question to qualify).  The third is to participate in the Card Recipe challenge!

This is a multi-tasking card because I'm linking it to some other challenges out there in bloggie land...the first for Yvonne Yam's Guest Blogger's challenge by Julie Tucker-Wolek.  The challenge is to make a card with new and old stuff...The new stuff is all the G45 goodies that the fab Gloria Stengal shared with the 365 Cards Design Team {woot woot Gloria} and the old is that dimensional sticker... 

The next challenge is ala These Are a Few of my Favorite Things Challenge blog , Julie Tucker-Wolek is the hostess with the mostess!  There are a couple gals in need of thank you cards so the challenge is to make a fall colored thank you card...I decided to make one for Dolores {Julie's bloggie friend} who's best friend is fighting breast cancer on a very limited income being a teacher...the gals have asked for Thank You cards to be sent to them to have on hand for the many, many, many people that are assisting them in their time of need.  

Next up is my Mitten Weather Card!

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel peeps...it's almost been a whole month since I challenged myself to design a card with Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather paper/elements.  It all started because of the Cosmo Cricket December Guest Designer Contest...random draw...yadda yadda...BUT I've managed to learn some stuff about myself...I'm a tried and true Cosmo Cricket fan...seriously love their stuff...I've been averaging 2 projects a day on a daily basis since I started this self-challenge...I gotta tell you, if I didn't start the Mitten Weather challenge, I'd be a hurtin' unit for Christmas Cards...haha

A little bit of zig zagging sure does dress up a card:)  I used a bunch of the Mitten Weather stickers on this card...Sweater Weather...gotta love that...I'm such a sweater girl!

I was inspired by Laura's 2s4y sketch:

♥♥sneaky peek♥♥

Here's a sneak peek of my December Daily pages...

I thought I was being such a smarty pants by using the Making Memories Noel Advent Calendar for my December Daily....using that kit and teaming it up with the Noel 8x8's....plus all the other Noel goodies I have UNTIL I realized that my Advent kit is missing a '1'...grrrr...it is for day '19'....I've sent an email to Making Memories and to the store that I bought the kit from...crossing my fingers I get some type of help...seems silly BUT...come on...it's a kit...I'm into the matchy matchy thing...

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hip to be square...

I am hoping that Aimes smiled when she read the blog post title..more on that in a smidge...

I've been having fun making little gifties...trying to stock up for the holiday's and I really don't have fun mass producing so if I do a couple gifties a week, I should be good by the time Christmas rolls around...which by the way is in almost, gulp, 3 months?!!!!

I can't remember who's blog it was but the girl ran out of patterned paper and had to order more...dang, who was that? Anywho's, I probably have a small lifetime supply of the stuff and I'm trying to use what I have {notice I didn't say that I wasn't going to pick up anything new..sigh}

I do love MME...their papers are soo nice and fun:)

What's that? I KNOW...I inked up some Papertrey goodness...LOL...most of you know that I'm a coffee-a-holic but maybe what you all don't know is that I have tea while I'm at work..black tea...

Get it...wisdom = owls....haha..okay, okay, I just had to fit that sweet paper in somehow:)

Here's the little surprise giftie...

The Tea folder is wrapped up with some Stampin' Up twill...no sewing on this puppy as I created it while the kidlets were sleeping...{nice momma}...

The total icing on the cake, or Tea Folder is that it emcompasses many challenges...I'm trying to multi-task here:

First up is Paige's challenge of Cards with Pockets:

The next challenge is over on Yvonne Yam's blog....her Guest blogger is Julie Elak and her challenge is to create a non-card/layout:

Last but certainly not least....woot woot Aimes...I finally made it over to A Passion for Papertrey!!! The challenge is "Hip to be Square" :

Next up is another card:)

I used my Bo Bunny Peacock Lane papers...

The inspiration for the card is from a couple different sources...first up is the CardPatterns sketch:

Love the sketch and basically stitched almost every panel INCLUDING the scallop-ie peacock panel:)

The sentiment is from Schlosser Designs Furnishing Fun:


Did you know that Schlosser Designs is sponsoring the EtsyInspired Challenges??!!!!

This week's etsy shop is Pegasus Maiden...I picked out this headband:

aha...so now the Peacock Lane papers make perfect sense now, right?! LOL...thanks so much for stopping by and be on the look out for my other post for today...it is regarding the Skipping Stones Designs Blogs 4 Boobies fundraiser that ends today....and don't forget that today is the last day to enter the E.A.D Designs Farmer's Market Color Challenge!!!!

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have a tweet day...

Happy Friday!!!

Woot Woot!!!! Long, relaxing weekend ahead!!!!!

Okay, here's my card for today:

Have you seen who Yvonne's Guest blogger is? It is thee wonderful Karen Baker! She did a tut over on Yvonne's blog on a grid technique. I'm patting myself on the back for completing it...as many of you know, I'm a lazy crafter..LOL.

I was going for a monochromatic card with ♥POW♥....I have a couple bottles of the spray inks and thought I'd give it a try....so I went to the garage, popped the card into a box and sprayed away...nothing...nada...the spray seemed to be on the fritz?! So I unscrewed the cap and tried to do the spattering technique...jury is out on that...thank goodness I didn't use white ink {is there such an ink color...I'm sure there is....} because then it would look like bird poop...hahaha..but glad that I at least tried it:)

I used a brown PTI button...{looks black on my computer monitor} and a sweet blue Making Memories button...

I used the Schlosser Designs, Have A Tweet Day:

♥♥Partial Project♥♥

Maybe some of you peeps remember my blog post last fall about going to Jennifer Pebbles' garage sale...you know, me and my stealth ninja shopping moves?

Well, {ahem}, I finally did something with the printer type trays that I picked up from her...partial project because they aren't in their permanent home...have to decide if I want to wall mount them or use them as flat trays...

Okay peeps...that's it for me for today! Remember to check out my other post for the day...it contains the EAD Designs Weekly Steal..you don't wanna miss it:)

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Happy Wednesday on Tuesday:)

Surfs Up!!!

This is a multi-tasking card:)

TONS of paper piecing on Sparkle Creations Surfing Oliver....He's been pieced with Cosmo Cricket Early Bird...the background is Cosmo Cricket Snorkel. Lots of stitching, some Making Memories alpha stickers and some mystery white twill that I found:)

Yvonne Yam over at Do more with less, has a challenge that ends tonight...hence my Wednesday post on Tuesday:) Her Guest Blogger, Sparkle Smith of Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, issued a dream vacation challenge. Well, I was kind of liberal with that challenge...my boy had a BALL Paddle Board surfing in Hawaii last year so I knew that I wanted to use Surfing Oliver. Any beachy place is a dream vacation for us!
I'm also playing along with Sparkle's "anything travel" challenge over on her blog. Who wouldn't enjoy a tropical vacation?

My card is based on the oh-so-fun sketch over on Skipping Stones Design:
Okie Dokie peeps....thanks for stoppin' by!!!

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