Fall colors!

My husband and I got some time alone this week, and we were totally inspired by the changing colors of fall. When everyone left for school and work this morning, I went out to my craft area and decided to see if I could re-create the look of fall.

After dripping different fall colors on alcohol ink onto glossy cardstock, I was quite pleased with how the background turned out, and it just called out for some Tim stamps!! I started stamping away and before I knew it, the time flew by, and I had another Christmas gift done!

These note cards turned out totally different that the cards I usually create, and will be a great gift! I should get away more often, it did my creative side good!

Recipe: Glossy white cardstock by SU, alcohol inks by Ranger. Stamps are from Tim Holtz's Stampers anonymous collection, stamped in black Stazon ink.

Time for our Anniversary!

I can't believe it. Where has the time gone?? Another year is upon us, and I can't even keep up with the last one. Today my DH and I celebrate our anniversary. I thought this card was appropriate since our time together really has flown by! I remember our wedding day like it was yesterday - the warm weather, the beauty of the Yosemite valley that surrounded us, and the bees flying into my bouquet.

I used the Sense of Time stamp set from Stampin' Up! stamped onto very vanilla cardstock, in not quite navy ink. I used the edge of a ruler, run through the ink pad to add a distressed look to the cardstock, inked the edges in the same color ink, and mounted them onto not quite navy cardstock. A few little metal embellishments added the masculine feel I wanted to my anniversary card.

We've moved - not really!

A friend of mine is moving to a new house, and I wanted to make her something special, something useful, something that she would not do for herself. So I decided to make her some note cards to send to her friends and family with her new address.
I used an old retired Stamp set from Stampin' Up! that is so adorable. Just right for those "Thanks for the hospitality" notes, and "We've moved! kr{e}ations. I stamped the image on water color paper and used the water color pencils to give the image a soft look. I am such the perfectionist stamper and colorer that it it hard for me to watercolor, but these little houses just called for a softer look. I love the fence punch from Martha, and cute little houses just called for a picket fence - doesn't your house? Anyway, I packed up 12 of these little notes. I hope that she enjoys them!

Candy dish

While on our trip to Creative Escape, we came across this cute pattern for a coffee table candy dish. This week while out at our LSS finishing up our CE projects, we decided to give this pattern a try. Boy did these little containers come out soooo stinkin' cute!

These paper candy dishes are so adorable! They are surprisingly durable (...well... they were created using four sheets of cardstock and two sheets of patterned paper..)

I made both of these using Halloween paper, but you could create one for any occasion. I bet my family will be seeing this adorable little container a lot over this holiday season! Shhhhh - don't tell them you saw it first!

Creative Escape!

What a fab weekend we had at Creative Escape! The projects were both challenging and rewarding. The food was delicious and who can't resist eating desert first! Yep - we had desert first on closing ceremony night. This picture is of Debbie, myself, Katherine and Cheryl on closing ceremony night - dressed in our finest creative escape dinner clothes. We had our pictures taken so many times that night in our outfits!

Taking Tim's class was one of the many highlights of our trip. We made these cute little suitcase journals that are so Tim! He is just over the top of being creative! Don't you just love our matching aprons! Katherine made them for us, along with our matching sandals - ever so clever that girl!

Iris Folding

I went shopping with a good friend on Friday to pick up ATG adhesive for our upcoming trip to Creative Escape! (Yipiee, I might add!) She she stopped to admire the origami papers that this store had. What do you use these lovely papers for I asked? Iris paper folding she replied. An idea struck me then and there for a new card. I searched for a template and located the one I used from Splitcoast stampers, and away we went!

Here is a close up of the technique. I used DSP from SU's new catty called Razzleberry lemonade. It went really well with the pumpkin pie cardstock that I had laying on my craft table from earlier.

The picture does not do the card justice, it is really stunning in person. Thanks Deb for the inspiration!

Card recipe: Pumpkin pie, rich razzleberry and white cardstock. Razzlebery lemonade DSP. Sentiment from the good friends stamp set. Flowers and bling from the pretties kit from SU, inked with pumpkin pie ink, then covered with dazzling diamonds glitter from SU. Wide oval and scallop oval punches from SU. Snail adhesive and stampin' dimensionals.

Birthday Thanks!

My birthday was this week, and my closest friends, who happen to also be my CE sisters were nice enough to celebrate with me. I just love, love, love all the GREAT friendship, and gifts from the heart they shared. You all know who you are, and without each of you my my birthday would not have been as special as it was! Thanks for your heartfelt thoughtfulness and most of all your friendship! On to CE girls!