Opus Gluei challenge - a picture is worth a thousand words - 2011 365 #107

 This is my attempt at being graphic for the Opus Gluei challenge...the object of the game is to make a card with no words on it...to let the image speak for itself..mine is a birthday card...did you get my image?  hope so...I am not good at making cards with no words...it just looks like it is missing something....I got the little butterfly as a prize from a contest a while back and thought that it kind of fit in here...I used scrap papers again (trying to consistently use up my scrap stock...have so many half used sheets of paper)...I put stickles on the fairy wings to give them some bling...not sure if you can tell from the picture or not on that...but she looks good in real life...the embossing folder is one that I have never used, but it seems that it matches the background paper to a tee...bonus!  Why not join in the fun over at Opus Gluei this week??

SOS challenge 10 - buttons blooms and bananas - 2011 365 #106

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is buttons, blooms and/or bananas...I chose two out of three for the challenge...I used a scrap from my box for the card base and scrounged around through my buttons to get a good mix of colours and sizes.  The flowers are paper and are supposed to look like a cloud...not sure if I achieved the look on the computer, but they are puffy and have iridescent Smooch on them, so they look a little blingy...can't get that blingy look in a picture, but you get the gist of it...I even cracked out the white craft ink..never use that not fast drying stuff ever...but hey, this challenge blog is all about using that kind of stuff up, so I am making my best effort!  Come on out and join us for this challenge...it was a fun one to complete!

2011 365 #105 - elegant rose card

this is another card I made for the retirement...one of my other friends needed one to hand in...I made the rose out of the sparkliest black ribbon that I have ever seen...been hoarding it for a while cuz I didn't want to use it up...it was too pretty...but I am trying my hardest to get out of that mindset...plus I had made a whole bunch of giant glue dots that were just calling my name to use...I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Kaboodles Doodles: embossing
Make it Monday: anything goes
Happileigh Scrapping : make your own embellishment

and for those of you playing along on project 365, did you know that today is day 202 of the year?  How are your projects adding up?  I am at 360 projects completed...my goal is 1000 in 365 days, not quite half way there...must get my butt in gear...how are you doing?

2011 365 #104 - retirement card

one of the ladies at work is retiring and they are doing a black and white theme for her, so I whipped up this card to add to the mix...I love the bling designed for the nestabilities...that stuff is fun...it is all done in satin paper so it looks a little more elegant in real life than on the computer screen...

I am entering it in the following challenges:
Paper Pretties - embossing...I embossed the background as well as debossed the nestie cut out
Bearly-Mine - use a tag - made the retirement tag
Simon says stamp and show - embossing

SOS challenge 9 - technique turn back - 2011 365 #103

 This is my card for the turn back technique for Shopping our Stash this week. I used a few techniques with this card (none of which I really seem to like the effect of mind you)...the main technique that I used was the emerging colour technique...this involved lots of ink, stamps and embossing powder...I don't use embossing powder or the heat gun very often at all anymore...or coloured inks for that matter...I also made my own ribbon flower on a giant homemade glue dot...and then I used the distresser for the edges...why don't you come on down and play with us this week? Use up some of those supplies and go back to some of those techniques that you wanted to try and never did!

I am also entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp anything goes challenge...

Opus Gluei - beat the heat challenge - 2011 365 #102

This week over at the Opus Gluei we are trying to beat the heat any way any how...how much more sunny and summery can you get than a smiling sunshine and a ferris wheel...while we should be roasting here this weekend, there is nothing like thinking of a summer fair to be at...so that is what I created...the sketch I followed is from Mojo Monday.
Why not play along and show us the way that you cool off in the summer?

SOS Challenge 8 - Out with the old in with the new - or Hoarder no more - 2011 365 #101

this is my card for this weeks' challenge over at SHOPPING OUR STASH...it is titled out with the old and in with the new, or what I thought was titled "hoarder no more" and I know it should appeal to a vast number of cardmakers our there...I am a Chatterbox paper hoarder and I whole heartedly admit it...it makes me cringe when I have to cut into a new piece and I save every last scrap from it, as the colours and textures and patterns are my absolute favorite out of any paper company out there...and no one really sells it any more, so it is not easy to replenish...I cut into two new pieces today :( and came up with this card...(I am also a ribbon and button hoarder, so I made this rose and used up some buttons/bling on it to truly unhoard from my collection)...I made the rose from a home-made glue dot (just can't bring myself to spend sooo much money on gluebers when i found out that it is just as easy to make them myself)...I used the sketch from Card Patterns, so I am also going to enter my card in that challenge...thanks for looking, and I hope you come and join us this week and lighten that hoarded stash a little!

2011 365 #100 - first crocheted project

this is my first ever crocheted project...if you can call it a project???  my mom showed me how to make a chain and I kind of connected it to try to make a flower...then I thought that it just had to go on a card on some of the scraps she had lying around in her craft area, so this is what it ended up being....I am entering it in the following challenges once you stop laughing at my crocheting skills:
I did it creations - flowers
scrappy frogs - flowers

SOS Challenge 7- Kits, Raks, Swaps and Swag - 2011 365 #099

This is my use of RAK's and prizes for Shopping our Stash this week...I also used the sketch from the sweet stop...boy do I love their sketches...they always seem to work out perfectly for my projects!my mom won this paper and the embellishments at a crop about 4 years ago...she didn't know what to do with it, so she added it to my Christmas present...inside the card it says "40 in the card are better than 40 in the yard"...flamingos in the yard around here are kind of a normal thing on your 40th birthday...all papers and embellishments are American Crafts...except the little star in the corner, which came to me via a matchbox swap...thanks Electra for that little cutie!  I think my brother in law should get a kick out of this one...hopefully!  So dig out all of that stuff you won here and there or received as gifts etc and put it to good use! 

Opus Gluei Challenge - Red White and ???? - 2011 365 #098

The Challenge over at the Opus Gluei today is red, white and ????  We are celebrating Canada Day this weekend...it is our country's 144th birthday...but it is not usually an occasion that I run around handing out cards for, so I decided to follow the country's birthday theme and made a red and white birthday card instead....I got the roses in a swap and my mom crocheted the border for me...going to have to get her to whip up a few more of those for me...love the way they look on this card...I also used only scraps for this card, because I have been in a scrap using binge lately...join in the fun....