Another Fall Birthday!!

Happy Sunday!!  I hope everyone is having a good weekend!

This weeks theme at Stempeltraume is The Alphabet!!  I wasn't sure what I was going to do, then I remembered I needed to make a Birthday card for a friend of mine.  I tried a simple Monogram card but it just wasn't working for me so I dug out some old chipboard letters I have and made this.  I really liked the way it came out.  Originally I was not going for the distressed look but then I wanted to add some color around the oval and then wanted some green on the letters and when I layed it out thought that I needed to complete the look by distressing the CS & DP.

This was lot of fun.  You should join the fun and pick some letters and see what you can come up with!

There are alot of wonderful challenges out there.  Mine fits the following:

A Pocket Full of Posies - Autumn Leaves - Unfortunately the leaves where I live are not longer bright red and yellow but more of a dull orange and brown.  I love the fall colors I just wish they were around longer.

Crafty Calendar - Autumn Birthday - I have alot of Birthdays in Oct & Nov.  I always struggle with what to do for them so they don't look the same year after year.

Paper Play Time - Ribbon, Buttons or Rhinestones - I just got some beautiful lace ribbon and knew I had to use it on this card.

Creative Inspirations - Birthday - I don't see the friend getting this card often but she loves receiving my cards and tells me she saves them so I will always make her one.

The Townscrapper - Distressing  - I think distressing can add so much to a card.  I especially think that it adds to this one.

Crafty Creations - Sketch - I loved this sketch.  It calls for a circle in the middle but my saying wouldn't fit in a circle so I modified to an oval.  I think it was perfect for what I wanted to do. 

For Fun - Something you never used. - I bought these chipboard letters a couple years ago thinking I would use them on everything.  I can't thing of anything until now I have used them on.

Sarah Hurly - Flowers - I love the look of layered flowers.  I bought these green roses a while ago and thought they would compliment this card and the other flowers perfectly.

Charisma - Autumn Colors - I love all the oranges and greens of Autumn - I wish the season was longer before we are talking snow.

Digi Doodle's Shop Best - Orange - When I think of the color Orange I think Fall!  I always like the way it looks on cards.

Paper Romance - Halloween or Fall - I usually make this friend bright pinks and blues.  I'm glad I went with Fall colors this time.


If the Shoe Fits - Distress - As I put in my post, this card was not intended to be distressed but as I was making it I just kept distressing it more.

Crazy 4 Challenges - Birthday - I have alot of Fall Birthdays and I wait until the last minute for most of them

Challenge up your Life - Autumn - Orange and Green are my favorite Autumn colors.

Secret Crafter - Distressing - I think that the distressing so much character to this card.

Thank you for visiting.  I hope you like my card.  A special thanks to everyone who leaves a comment.  I love reading all of them.

Peggy

Happy Birthday

Good Morning.  I hope everyone is having a good weekend.  I am heading off today for a day of stamping with Friends.  These days are so much fun.  The only think I hate is the packing.  I want to bring everything but really try to concentrate on the things I know I will use.  I think I did well this time.  We will see what happens the 1st time I say "I wish I had brought....."

It is Sunday so that means it is a new Stempeltraume challenge.  Today's theme is Animals!  My biggest challenge was what Animal to use.  I decided on this Sassy Cheryl freebie!  I just fell in love with him when I saw it.  We all have animal stamps.  Play along!  You can win a prize for just doing what you love!

The other wonderful challenge themes this card meets are:

Secret Crafter - Distressing - I distressed the edges of the CS.  I think it really looks good with the colors that I chose for this.


Dare you to digi - Flowers - This was easy.  The bear is holding flowers and I added flowers at the bottom.

Simple Doodles - Not a spring Chicken - You need to use something that is old.  Mine are the dew drops.  I bought a whole bunch of these when they first came out and I never use them.  I'm not sure why but they are not something I ever pick up.  The ribbon is also old.  I found it at the bottom of my ribbon holder.  I had just enough to make this bow.

S2G - Spring has sprung with Flowers - At my house one of the things that says Spring are the Bees.  I have a real problem with them every year.  Unfortunetly they are not as cute as the one on this card.  I love the flowers that this bear is holding.  It looks like he just picked them from the garden.

Fab & Funky - Get it all out - These challenges are a challenge for me because I always want to use my new stuff but .... I really needed something different than brads or pearls so I used my dew drops.  I can't remember the last time I put these on a card.  I used 8 on this card which is good to use up some of my stash of them.

Crafty Creations - Distressing - I distressed the CS.  I have always liked a distressing on cads.  It adds texture without adding additional items.  I thought it fit well with this card.

Everybody Art - Sketch.  - I loved this sketch when I saw it.  Once I picked the stamp to use for this weeks challenge I knew I could use this sketch.  I love the way this came out.

Creative Card Crew - Happy Birthday - I thought this would make a cute Birthday card.  The Bear with the flowers reminds me of kids when they pick the flowers in the backyard and give them to you like they are a bouquet of roses. 

A Spoonful of Sugar - Happy Birthday - This is the one time of the year I have no family Birthdays.  I guess this card will go into my file for the future.  It's always good to have them already made.

Pile it on - Spring - Flowers and Bees - Hello Spring!  I love flowers, and hate the bees they attract but this one is cute and can't sting me. 

Stamp with Fun - Animals - I love this little bear.  I couldn't wait to use him!

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you like my card.  Thanks to everyone who leaves a comment.  I love hearing from everyone.

Peggy
Supplies:
CS:  SU Tempting Tourquiose, Elegant Eggplant
DP: We R Memory Keepers
Stamps:  Sassy Cheryl, SU
MISC:  Ribbon (?), Dew Drops, Prima and SU flowers, MS punch, Stickles

In Everything GiveThanks

Good Morning. How is everyone doing? The weather this week has given me a severe case of Spring Fever! The temps have been in the 60's and Sunny. Today is suppose to be cloudy and rain tomorrow but I'm still There is no snow in site!! This is good because Easter is right around the corner.

It's Sunday so that means it is time for the Stempeltraume challenge. They have great themes. For those of you who like challenges you need to check them out. I loved the theme this week. Purple and Green. I decided I wanted to go to the pastel end of the spectrum and it allowed me to use my new Bildmalarna stamp. These are so cute!! I bought mine from Paper Jewels. I couldn't wait to get them. Luckily I got them in less than 2 weeks.

My card fits the following wonderful challenges:

Crafty Creations -Spots & Dots - I love polka dots!! They look good on so many cards.

ABC Challenge - Q for Quotation - Mine is In Everything give Thanks

Creative Card Crew - Going Dotty - I have the spots on the dress and I used my dotted swiss cuttlebug folder on the green paper which has small polka dots on it.

Pile it On - Pastel Colors - I love that I am using lighter pastel colors now!!

Pink Elephant - Spring! - I love that I now am using my Spring stamps with light airy colors.

Everybody Art - Sketch - I loved this sketch and just knew I had to do it!

Fab & Funky - Something new - This was easy because I just got my Bildmalarna stamps.

Little Red Wagon - Copics - I use copics all the time so this was a great theme for me.

Thanks for stopping by. Thank you to everyone who leaves me a comment. I love reading all of them.

Peggy
SUPPLES:
CS: Shimmer paper, SU Lavender Lace, Certain Celery
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: Bildmalarna, SU
MISC: Prima's, Recollection Dots, Ribbon from Michael's

Sassy Gal

Good afternoon. I hope everyone had/is having a nice weekend. Today is a holiday at work so I can play! YEAH!! It's a nice day here so I really should go out and enjoy it before the snow tomorrow but I know I would end up shopping and spending $$ so I think I am better off staying inside.

Isn't this stamp from The Greeting farm cute!! I love her attitude. I usually like to pick out copic colors I feel like using before I pick out my paper and hope I can find something to match but this time I wanted to use some new papers I have from Memory Box so I picked the background and stripes and then decided what stamp and copics to use. I really needed to move away from all the reds and pinks from Valentines.

The challenges I found that work with this are:

Stamp with Fun - I liked this sketch and it let me use 3 dp's from my new paper.

Fussy & Fancy - Dazzle us - I hope this card does!

Incy Wincy Designs - Punch it out - I love this MS edge punch.


Lexi's Creations - Spots or Stripes - I used my striped paper and my spots are the spots from the punch.

Pile it on - Flowers - I am hooked on these roses from Prima. They are so dainty!! I layered them on regular prima flowers. I hope they accented the flower on her hat.


Fab 'n Funky - Shabby Chic - I tried to get the shappy look with the flowers and the swirls on this card along with this image. I hope you think it is.

Paper Jewels - Cute and Girly - I recently found this stamp company and she has the cutest stamps. I saw that with their challenge you get a chance to win one and to enter you did not need to use one of their stamps, which I don't have yet. I just had to try to win.

Paperplay - A birthday card for someone special - I have a good friend a work who just had a birthday and I didn't get around to sending her a card. This is going to be her belated birthday card. I still need to figure out where to put the Happy Belated Birthday, probably inside with a friendship saying outside.

Thank you for coming by. I hope you like this card as much as I do. I look forward to reading all your comments. Thank you to everyone who leaves one.

Peggy
Supplies:
CS: SU
DP: Memory Box
STAMP: The Greeting Farm
MISC: Prima flowers, MS Punch, Spellbinders swirl die cuts, Recollection dots

True Love

Good Morning! How is everyone's weekend going? So far mine is great. We saw the Sun yesterday!! The last 3 weeks have been nothing but clouds and rain. It was so nice to have a sunny day!!

This is a weekend of traditions for me. Today my sister, niece and I are going to Rockport, MA. My sister and I have been doing it for years. My niece started joining us a couple of years ago. Rockport is a little seaside artist town. There are little shops all along the main street. We spend the day going into all the shops (and yes, spending money) and end the day at a little restaurant for a fried clam dinner.

Tomorrow I am getting together with 2 friends who I have know for 30 years. We get together around this time every year and spend the day drinking champagne and eating a lobster dinner. If you can't tell by now, I love shellfish. I made this card for one of these friends. The 3 of us are single and have never been married. One of my friends, Pauline, met a man about a year ago and they just got engaged. I am so happy for her.

This is a Motivet stamp I bought at the convention I went to a few weeks ago. These are the cutest stamps. I posted earlier about their blog candy. Today is the last day to try and win. You should check them out. Their new releases are absolutely fabulous.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe 4th. Thanks for stopping by.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Craft and Night of Navy
DP: SU
Misc: MS punch, SU pearls and Ribbon, Prima and SU flowers