his and hers (CFC, CAS(E))

Yippie... I've used up some more PP.  And I've got sore arms cuz I've finally taken the plunge and chopped the majority of my 12x12 up into 6x6 pieces.  I truly think this will help me use it more often - it worked this time!

TIP:  Think about pieces with special patterns that you might one day want to actually scrapbook on - don't chop 'em!  Keep some pieces for making envelopes or pillow boxes or book covers (I kinda forgot about that in my cutting craze.)

Anyhoo, here are my tags:

Know which challenges I'm playing?

Found this Webster's Pages paper pack, red/white/blue and bingo.  CASual Fridays #102.  I really like the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #29 so I went with it for my tags.

Now what are these lovelies adorning, you ask?  Well, it's a huge soccer day in Germany because the Champions League final (like a European Cup but with pro teams as opposed to national teams) is happening this evening in London.  And amazingly enough, two German teams are playing - Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.  I'm rooting for Dortmund cuz their trainer, Jürgen Klopp, commonly called "Kloppo"  is uber cool and got his start at our area team, Mainz 05!  Anyhoo, probably more than you really wanted to know.  But we are joining friends to watch the game and this is what I'm taking as host/hostess gifts ;)

Yep, we live in wine country but we can't ignore beer now can we?  Fair's fair!  Hope your weekend is nice.  Cheers to all the Memorial Day celebraters...

Supplies his and hers tags:

Paper: CS Bringmann, PP Webster's Pages

Stamps: 

Ink: 

Tools: tag and circle die MFT, alpha die Memory Box

Other: Cutter Bee tool, gold star sequins, ribbon Sew Sweet

giving gallery idol a go! . three (PC)

Here's my last birthday card for the open auditions at Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2013 challenge. Have you joined the fun yet?  As another wise man once said  "Ever tried.  Ever failed.  No matter. Try Again.  Fail again.  Fail better."  Lookin' kinda regal and elegant from the little photo, eh? When I showed DD this one, she wrinkled her nose.  Well, keeping with the theme "Birthday Cards for Teens and Kids" please meet "for a 16-year-old-kitschy-but-true":

What was I thinking when I bought that shaggy neon pink fabric?  Pillow.  Nuff said.  It will never meet my sewing machine.  But my Big Shot, yep!

Have a good one.

Supplies dreams take flight

Paper: CS Bringmann, vellum The Paper Company

Stamps: Hero Arts, sentiment PTI

Ink: Versamark, Versafine

Tools: heart die Sizzix, butterfly die Hero Arts/Sizzix

Other: white embossing powder Stampendous, washi Masking Tape, gold wire, shishkabob stick, glue dots

stamp on PP (CFC, ATSAM)

In just under the gun.  Again.  With a digital stamping on PP for the CASual Fridays

Just love that sentiment and thought this little worm girl looked like she was wigglin' it!  Sequins on a stick pin - you've seen that before.  And even with her wiggly eyes this little lady was a Paper Crafts reject.  Oh well.

Hope she made you smile.

Hooking up at Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes.

Supplies happy dancing:

Paper: CS Bringmann and Am Crafts, PP Echo Park, Basic Grey

Stamps: PC generated sentiment from The Hickmann Five at  h5cp.blogspot.com, other Casual Fridays

Ink: orange Hero Arts, Versafine

Tools: PC, scissors

Other: wiggly eyes, sequins, beads, pins

giving gallery idol a go! . two (PC, Craft Stamper)

Here's another birthday card for the open auditions at Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2013 challenge.  Keeping with the theme "Birthday Cards for Teens and Kids" please meet "for a 13-year-old-alcohol-inks-and-artsy":

I applied alcohol inks to glossy card as seen at Craft Stamper and therefore I'm also hooking this up to the Make it Take it #2 challenge to rip and tear - perfect for vellum.

Thanks for looking.

Supplies OMG:

Paper: CS Bringmann, glossy card Ranger, vellum The Paper Co.

Stamps: PC generated sentiment from eyechartmaker.com

Ink: alcohol inks

Tools: plastic spatula

Other: glue dots

giving gallery idol a go! . one (PC, ATCAS, ABNH)

Morning.  Broke my heart to hear about the tornado victims in Oklahoma.   Cars and horses flying through the air???  Are we responsible for the crazy changes in weather recently???  Even got an email from Mom saying that in MI last night they had crazy storms and then a "totally pink sky" like she's never seen before...

Well, maybe it was the holiday weekend in Germany (the third this month already... can you say lucky?) but something moved me to create cards for this year's Gallery Idol competition over at Paper Crafts.  I'm not expecting anything out of it, but it's kinda like the challenge of all challenges in my book.  And as a wise man once said, it's all about the journey, not the destination.  Get your thinking cap on and give it a go too!

The theme for the Open Auditions is "Birthday Cards for Teens and Kids".  Now that is truly challenging for me.  Introducing "for-a-four-year-old-in-primary-colors":

The mug in the mirror - moi!  Just add a "9" to the "4" and it'd be true.  Playing in the Birthday challenge #13 at Addicted to CAS and the Clean Up Your Act challenge over at A Blog Named Hero.

Thanks for visiting and stay safe.

Supplies look who's 4:

Paper: CS Bringmann, mirror card

Stamps: Stampendous

Ink: J Versafine

Tools: square punch EKS, die Memory Box

Other: sticker Lego

took me... fishing (WPlus9, ABNH)

Here's Mood Board #12 at WPlus9.  At the risk of repeating myself...I love that company.

But alas, I'm still limited to my two and a half stamp sets.  So when Dawn said "use the mood board as a starting point for a card, tag, layout or any project...where ever the inspiration takes you! " it took me fishing.  Birthday, bold stripes, masculine, primary colors.  Never would have imagined how happy this stamp set makes me!

We've got a neighbor who loves to fish.  This card'll be bobbin' his way .  It's also bobbin' over to A Blog named Hero where the current challenge is Clean and Simple.  Yep.  Have a good one.

Supplies wiggle it:

Paper: CS Bringmann, scrap

Stamps: WPlus9

Ink: Jenny Bowlin, Versafine

Tools: 

Other: crochet thread

yippie... (CASE, Inspired By)

...I've used up some letter stickers!  That's certainly not what you were expecting, eh?  But after thinking of "the best laid plans..." and "neglected children " as post titles, it occurred to me that something positive occured here.

Backtrack.  DS takes a final exam in German today.  Four hours long.  DD has a Math test and let's just say she and Math don't get along well.  And there's this saying in German that loosely translates to "the shoemaker's kids have the worst shoes in town".  I'm whipping out cards all the time, but rarely for my own kids.  That's about to change.

Since I had two cards to cover and Alicia T.'s bitty bag had been playing in the back of my mind, this is what I did.

Printed the "yes you can" (nod to a certain presidential campaign) then placed the "you" stickers on one card and misted with blue Dylusions and the "can do it" stickers on the other card and sprayed with pink Dylusions.  Took the letters off the cards and adhered them to the "other" card - get it?

TIP:  If you want the letters to look clean after they've been misted... they probably won't.   Maybe they would if you wiped them quickly with a baby wipe.  But I didn't.  So I now have some yellow-misted-pink  stickers back in my stash replacing the clean ones I had to pull out to use on the blue card!

I'm hooking up at CASE Study - #141.  I had Maile's hearts in mind when choosing the colors to use for the two cards and I just love the words-on-top-of-gobs-of-color idea.

And I saw this cool photo at Inspired By #45 and that stark "E" at the top inspired me to use strong black letters in the pink mist with the design flowing from upper left to lower right.  Cool photo Laurel.

Thanks for visiting today.  May the sun be with you this weekend, wherever you are.

Supplies you can do it:

Paper: CS Bringmann, copy paper

Stamps: none!

Ink: Dylusions

Tools: 

Other: letter stickers Pebbles and KI Memories