CQC #58 sympathy

Good morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I spent mine visiting one of my best friends who lives in B.C. and currently pregnant. It was fantastic, but it definately started my biological clock ticking!

This weeks ColourQ challenge colours are amazing as usual! Arielle has picked some fantstic colours.
I thought they were sort of subdued and unfortunately I needed to make a sympathy card, a friend of mine's father passed away this weekend.

I was able to get my hands on this beautiful Hero Arts stamp, long stem flowers, I have admired it on so many other cards! The polka dots stamp is by Cornish Heritage Farms, the sentiment and papers are Papertrey Ink.

There is always fabulous inspiration from the design team to check out so please do over at the ColourQ blog, then play along!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! :)

using up scraps

I was cleaning up my craft space, which is currently the dining room of our temporary living quarters, and I was astounded at how large my scrap bin was.

So I picked up a few scrap pieces and made this simple little card.

The frame was one I cut out with my Silhouette that ended up being to small for what I wanted. The butterflies are the middle pieces I cut out from the frame I made in this card. I coloured in a few spots on the flourish with a white gel pen.

I'm going to try to use up more scraps over the next little while, although it would take years to make a dent!

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CQC #57

I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween weekend! We moved recently and I thought for sure we would get a lot of trick or treaters, but we only got 3! And boy did those 3 hit paydirt!
Oh well, next year we will be in a new community with plenty of kids. I love seeing what creative costumes come to the door!

Well it's Tuesday which means another fabulous colour combo over at ColourQ. 

For my card I took inspiration from the change purse in the picture. I used a stamp set by Close to My Heart and had a lot of fun colouring it with my copics!

The background was embossed with the linen impression plate from Papertrey Ink.

The ColourQ design team has made some AMAZING cards this week to inspire you.

head over and check them out, then play along!

Thanks for stopping by! :)

frames for play date cafe

I had been going through my list of challenges and came across one I hadn't tried before so I gave it a go! Plus the Play Date Cafe colour challenge colours just made me happy! :)

And when I saw that this weeks Splitcoast "ways to use it" challenge was to use frames I had an idea. I have seen this technique where you place buttons underneath a negative die cut space, and I love the way it looks. I was looking through my sihouette library and found this fabulous butterfly and thought I would give it a try.

It took a while to get the buttons just right but I think it was worth it. I had also wanted to put a sentiment somewhere but ended up liking it as it is.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

No i love you s'more!

I have been looking at the current Embellish Magazine Colour Challenge for a few days trying to figure out what I was going to do. Because.....I don't really do vintage well. I'm OK with it, it's just not really my style. Don't get me wrong I love vintage pieces here and there, I'm just not great at designing vintage!
The Mr. Campy line by Cosmo Cricket reminds me of that old pre-movie jingle "Let's all go to the lobby". It totally cracks me up!



Don't you agree? :)

This is the closest thing I could muster to vintage. ;)I based the layout on an old Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge sketch.



Also a first for me.....no stamping! Yikes!

All supplies were from the Mr Campy digital set I got from Jessica Sprague's website.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day! :)

Thanks for being my friend .... CQC#56

Good morning! Whew...it's been a crazy weekend! I do not love moving. I actually like unpacking but not moving! And knowing that we have to do it all again in 2 1/2 months makes it more fun. :)

I made this card for a friend of mine who was my maid of honour and has always gone above and beyond. Her and her fiance have helped us move twice now, and hopefully we will be able to repay the favour soon!

This week's ColourQ colour challenge colours threw me for a bit of a loop! But when I came across my Hero Arts stripes stamp I had to play with it, I had to figure out a way to make the colours work for me!

The stamps are Hero Arts, inks are Close to My Heart and the flower is coloured with copics.

Please stop by the ColourQ blog and check out Arielle and the design team's fabulous inspiration for this week, then please play along.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day. :)

Color throwdown and CAS90 combo

Quick post of a card I made using this weeks Color Throwdown colours,

and the Splitcoaststamper's Clean and Simple ways to use it challenge, gingham.

Super simple pre-work card! The sentiment is Hero Arts, the flower is CTMH and the gingham paper is amuse.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day. :)

Welcome home!

Good evening! I wanted to share a card I made for the people who bought our house. We are moving this coming weekend and i wanted to leave a little gesture for the people moving in.  They needed an quick possession date because they are getting a puppy and since we can totally relate to that situation (and because we are so grateful that we sold the house in this market!) we got them a puppy toy.  It's one of those fabulous ones that let out kibble as they play with it.

Anyway here is the card, made using this weeks Curtain Call Color Challenge.

The background stamp is Close to My Heart floral elements set, the house is from Unity's July 2010 KOM, the welcome is from a 2006 stampin up set (I have no idea what the name is!) and the stickers are brown felt Thickers by American Crafts.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great night. :)

In honour of breast cancer awareness.....

This week for the ColourQ challenge we are honouring Breast Cancer Awareness month by using a pink colour scheme. This does hit close to home as I know a few women who have been diagnosed and won their battle with it, unfortunately I'm sure we all do. Hopefully more and more battles can continue to be won.

I made this card for one of those fabulous ladies, one of my mom's best friends.

The patterned paper was made using a couple of flowers from Papertrey Ink's With Sympathy set. The sentiment is from my all time favourite Hero Arts sentments set, All Occasion Messages.

I also made a card using the other colour combo Arielle put together.

I made it using a technique I saw recently, using your embossing folders for a sort of letterpress technique. I inked up the back plate of my folder, placed my cardstock inside and ran it through. I did this with my argyle folder and red and orange inks. I then punched out the hearts using a Fiskars punch.

So, please play along with our TWO fabulous colour combos over at ColourQ this week. To make it even sweeter, I believe Arielle is offering a special prize to someone this week who creates and posts a card for each colour combo! Wooohooo!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day. :)

Clean & Simple with Color Cue {9}

Good day, or good night! I was on my way to bed and discovered these 2 challenges, one just ending and the other just beginning. So I felt the urgent need to make something, here it is:

I made this combining the past weeks Clean & Simple fall to layout #111,

and Wplus9's Color Cue challenge {9}.



The stamps I used are from a Unity KOM and the polariod shape was cut from my Sihouette.

Thanks for stopping by!