Blogger's Challenge #44

Evening y'all! Well again tomorrow is going to be a slammed pack day so i am posting a little early. This week was a color combo challenge. We had to use Brocade Blue, Oh Saffron, Certainly Celery and Chocolate Chip. I am not sure what was happening this week but this challenge was so hard for me to do. I wanted to use my Seriously Sassy stamp set that I just got and so i forced myself to come up with something ... so it was like a challenge within a challenge ... but i finally figured it out and i am quite pleased with it. TADA!!! I used the polka dot and petal stamp for the background on the oh saffron paper. Can you see the "bling" on the word sweet. I thought glitter would add a little umph .. i am glad the camera picked it up. And the brocade blue was killing me because it did not look complete ... at least to me and so i think inking the edges completed the whole card. Looking back i think i could have added eyelets on the ribbon but it's okay. It's late so I am off to bed. I'll venture off and see what others have done whenever i can sneak a minute or two! Happy Friday (or thursday depending on when you are reading this) Nite Nite!!!

Bloggers Challenge Week 43

I know today is not friday, which means i am posting my challenge just a few hours early. I have company coming tomorrow and i didn't want to be late posting my challenge. This week we had to create something using chipboards. Well ... that is one supply that i am short on. I have letter chipboards and i really didn't know what to do with them ... i basically could not come up with anything creative. So off to AC Moore i go ... long story short ... i totally missed the chipboard the FIRST time and found them on the second trip. So here is my card. I really wanted to do something different so i decided to make a flap card. I couldn't get a good picture to show the flap but basically the part that the chipboard is on opens up and the part with the butterflies open down. My chipboard is the flower and i embossed it with some embossing glitter from the local craft store and i used the Garden Whimsy stamp set in Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip. Since the card is not the standard card size i also made an envelope to match. To keep the card closed i used velcro. i really like this card ... it's probably my new favorite card! Can't wait to see everyone else's creations, especially Claudia's ... she is probably going to use her new chunky glitter that she got in today ... i'm so jealous :c)

Today was just one of those days!

First ... i called out from work because i have company coming over and well my house is not ready for company so I knew that i would not have enough time in between dinner with mom, a class with Claudia, a vet visit and a blogger's challenge to clean. I didn't get everything done but i got most. Then Snowflake is driving me CRAAAAAZY!!! There were moments where i wanted to put her in her room and listen to her scream than just dealing with her ... even at this moment she is trying my patience. Then the cherry on top ... i went to the laundry mat to wash my blanket and well half way through the drying cycle i realized that my bedspread was DRY CLEAN ONLY!!!! So something that once was an oversized queen blanket will now comfortable fit a twin size bed. This meant i had to spend almost 2 hours looking for a new bedspread that was a reasonable price and was WASHABLE since I still have a dog that is not fully housebroken. Good thing the bedspread i was eyeballing at Target was still there and i didn't notice it until the 3rd trip down the bedding aisles. So needless to say i am definitely ready for bed and i cannot wait until the weekend ... and Claudia's class ... nothing better than crafts to make everything better!

Yesterday's lesson of the day

So as i am organizing stuff on bookcase i hear Snowflake tearing something up ... she has a fasicnation with paper and loves to get her teeth on them and rip it apart so thinking she just grabbed a sheet a paper i continued to work on my bookcase. I turn around and then gasp ... so what was the lesson of the day ... don't leave stuff that you have made within reach of a dog who loves to tear stuff up ... here is what's left of my triangle box ...


So now when i look at this box all i can do is laugh. I guess my dog likes crafts as much as i do! LOL! I hope you all have a great day!

It's a beautiful day ...

And Snowflake and I really should be outside enjoying it. Instead i am inside making cards to give to those who came to my stamp camp last weekend. I am not overly happy with it since i had to make something quick ... i have to go back to studying Calculus since i haven't cracked the book in two days and the final is on Wednesday (yikes!!!). I used the Perfect Princess set with Mellow Moss for the background and the greeting was stamped with Lexicon of Love and then embossed with some embossing powder i bought from a local craft store. I feel like i should have matted the greeting but i did not have any cardstock that would have matched :c( I can't wait for my order to come in since i have some paper in there and other wonderful goodies. Well i am off to take a nap ... hopefully Snowflake will cooperate and take one with me.

Bloggers Challenge

Evening everyone ... for our bloggers challenge this week we had to create a triangle box. Well this was something totally different and definitely something i have never done so i was amazed to see how many triangle boxes there were out there. I got a little overwhelmed with choices :c) So here it is ... my triangle box! YAY! I had something different in mind but it was too simple. So while digging for something i came across my bag of flowers and was like ... hey i think i can do something with these and well i did. I was going to use a greeting but i think that would have been too much so i left it like this. The stamps that i used are polka dots & petals from stampin up. i had an angled picture of my triangle box but for some reason it is not acting right when i try to upload ... I think this picture is a little blurry but i just wanted to make sure i was able to post this before Friday ended. This was definitely fun and all the boxes i have seen so far are absolutely AMAZING! I had fun doing this and can't until next friday!!!