Thinking of you

Hope everyone is okay this morning after Superstorm Sandy, especially those of you on the east coast!

My card today is a Thanksgiving card created for my daughter and her new husband. Well, he'll be her husband by Thanksgiving. Their wedding is in less than 2 weeks!! We are super excited!

Last weekend I purchased this picket fence die and could hardly wait to try it out!  I stamped the Easy grass background stamp in Old Olive and then sponged some More Mustard and Antique Linen around the grass. I sponged Bashful Blue to create the sky, then stamped the sentiment in Memento Black. The October Pumpkin image was stamped in Memento black, colored with Copics, fussy cut and attached with pop dots. I added some green dew drops in the upper right hand corner to complete the look.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Until next time,
shelia

Challenges, challenges, challenges

Today I have two cards to share, both for challenges. This first one is for DRS Designs' Thursday challenge. This week we are to use Fall sentiments on our card.

My card base is pumpkin with a layer of green. On top of the green is a cream layer that was stamped with DRS Designs Maple Leaf in More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Cranberry Crisp and Old Olive. The sentiment was stamped in black on the same cream, then layered on the pumpkin CS before attaching it to the card. I added some tiny punched maple leaves and some cream ribbon to complete the look.

The second card is for Lesley's Merry Monday challenge. My card is loosely based on her sketch for this week. It has all the pieces, just not in the exact same places. :-)

The only stamping on this card is the Merry Christmas sentiment which is stamped in silver and embossed in silver. The base is white with a layer of blue and then a layer of white that was embossed with the CB snowflakes folder. Some blue ribbon and silver ric rac were added to the white layer before attaching it to the card. The tree is die cut with a new Cherry Lynn die that I just got at a stamping show in Cleveland. I think it is so pretty! I layered it on a circle cut with nesties and then embossed with the same folder. Some silver half pearls were added to the upper corner to finish it off.

There's still plenty of time to join in these two challenges!! Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia

DRS Designs' Cat Challenge

Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a good weekend. I had a fabulous weekend. I was able to go to a stamping show in Cleveland and meet some fantastic DRS Designs' ladies!!  :-) We had such fun together. I hope we can get together again whenever another stamp show is in the area!!

This week's challenge at DRS Designs is Cats. So my card today features a new Halloween cat stamp from DRS.

The empty spider web was stamped in Memento Black on green card stock and attached to the black card base after adding the EEK ribbon at the bottom. The main image was stamped in black on white card stock and layered on black that was punched with Fiskars spider web border punch. I stamped the vertical sentiment on white and layered it on black to finish it off.

We'd love to have you play along in this week's challenge. You might win some awesome new stamps!

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia

DRS Designs' Weekly Challenge

This week the challenge at DRS Designs is to use cats on your card. I automatically thought of Halloween, so went with that. Here's my card:

I started with a yellow-golden base, added a layer of pumpkin and then another layer of lighter pumpkin that was stamped with DRS Designs' new Accent Bats stamp. The sentiment is stamped on white with Memento black, corner punched and layered on the darker pumpkin. The main image was stamped in Memento black on white, colored with Copics, corner punched and layered on the golden paper. Some punched bats were added to sides and it's complete.

Check out this week's challenge here. We'd love to have you join us and you could win some awesome new stamps!

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia

You're So Sweet!

Wow, can you believe it's already October 15th? The month is half over. I'm thinking the time is going by way too quickly. Maybe that's because my daughter is getting married next month in Virginia and there"s still a bit to do!!

Today I have another Halloween card to share.

I found this glitter card stock at JoAnns and just had to get it. Boy is it ever messy! I had glitter everywhere - even on the poor dog!

The card base is basic white with a layer of the glitter orange. The Precious Pumpkins were stamped on white card stock, colored with Copics, fussy cut and layered on a strip of the black glitter paper that was punched with a border.  I added a strip of black velvet ribbon and tucked the You're So Sweet sentiment underneath to finish it off.

This week's challenge at DRS Designs is Witches. We'd love to have you join us! You can see the details here.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia

DRS Designs & Merry Monday Challenge

This week's challenge at DRS Designs is to use witches on your card. Here's my card for the challenge.

The image was stamped on not quite navy card stock with versafine ink and then embossed with detailed black embossing powder. I sponged in some white and yellow chalks for the moon and windows of the house. The backgrounds were created with the Spooky Eye background and the Eeek Background. The Happy Halloween was stamped in Memento Black on green, layered on black card stock that was punched with a spider web border. Some black ribbon was added to the right side to finish it off.

I hope you'll stop by DRS Designs and join in the Halloween fun. You could win some awesome new stamps!

I finally found some time to play in Lesley's Merry Monday challenge again.  Here's my card for this week's sketch challenge at Always Playing with Paper.

I stamped the giant poinsettia three times, colored them with copics and Spectrum Noir markers, cut them out and layered them with glue dots.  The sentiment was stamped on white, cut with nesties and layered on cranberry. I added three gold half pearls to the flower so I could also enter this in today's Ways To Use it Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia

Wishing you a Spooky Halloween on Columbus Day!!

Hello Everyone,

My card today features a couple of DRS Designs newest Halloween stamps. They have some really cool new stamps!

The card base is purple with a layer of Bazzil grey which was stamped with the Tree Limb and the double deal Bats and Stars stamps. I stamped the tree limb vertically in Memento Black several times to look like trees, not a limb. The bats and stars were also stamped in Memento black. A strip of black card stock was punched with a fence border punch and attached to the base of the card. I added some purple ribbon to it first. The Run in Fear sentiment was stamped in black on gray and layered on a purple nestie square. Some bats were punched out of black card stock and added to the sentiment layer.

If you haven't joined in this week's challenge at DRS Designs, there's still time! This week's challenge is leaves. We'd love to have you play along.

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia

Happy Halloween!

Can you believe it is October already? Were did September go??

DRS Designs has some new fun Halloween stamps that were just released. My card today features the new Fuzzy Spider image and the Batty Happy Halloween greeting.  I started with an orange card base and added a layer of black after running it through my Cuttlebug using a Fiskars big spider web plate. The fuzzy spider was stamped in Memento black ink on white card stock, colored with copics and fussy cut. He's added to the spider web with some foam dots. The sentiment was stamped in Memento black on white, cut at angles and added to the top right corner of the card. Some orange dew drops were added to finish it off.

Be sure to check out all the fun new stamps at DRS Designs. Also this week's challenge is to use pumpkins on your card. We'd love to have you join in the fun!

Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time,
shelia