have a great day

Happy Monday lovely people!  Hope all is well in your world.  Just a quick little post from me to play along with the current A Blog Named Hero challenge (watercolouring) and Inspired by All the Little Things (see the image below).  I used this technique from Ardyth (so cool & fun).  I didn't mean for the colours to turn out quite so 'autumn' but I guess that's what happens when pink and yellow mix ;).

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you have a great week.

Glenda

Card details:

Have a Great Day - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: SU! (card base), watercolour paper

Ink: Versafine Black, Archival Ink Black, Distress Inks - Festive Berries, Mustard Seed and Twisted Citrus

Accessories: Hero Arts gems

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Sketchy birthday

Happy Thursday!  Hope you are enjoying spring (or fall) and getting some time outside.  I just had an extra long weekend (it was Victoria Day on Monday and took Friday off) and it was a perfection combination of productivity and relaxation!

Welcome to another Seize the Birthday challenge!  As always, it is 'anything goes' and the topping this week is 'tags'.  I did my card last minute (which is not unusual) and the tag was just not speaking to me so I went super CAS.

Be sure to check out the blog for all the details and check out the amazing designs from the rest of the team!  Leave them some crafty love!

I am also playing along with Lesley's Sketch Challenge:

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Always appreciate the comments and visits!  Have a terrific day and a wonderful weekend.

Glenda

Card details:

Happy Birthday - 4"x5.5"

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Communique Sentiments, Unity Stamps flowers

Paper: white and kraft card stock 

Ink: Memories White, Memento Tuxedo Black and VersaMark

Accessories: washi tape, A Muse Studio pearls

You colo(u)r my world

Happy Saturday all... hope your weekend is going well so far.  No complaints for me as I had yesterday off as a flex day.  Love my three day weekends.  Managed to go to yoga for the first time in two months... oh boy, did I need that!  Must not let it go so long until the next class.

I feel like my mojo is a little lacking these days so thought I would jump-start it by doing a challenge card before tackling some publication submissions.  This is "2 for 1" card.  I'm playing along with the Cool Shades challenge over at Paper Smooches Sparks (see colours below) and the Camera Craze Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.  I love this sentiment but always think it looks funny without the 'u' in colour.  Plus, my spell check always underlines 'color' to say it's incorrect.  Hee, hee.  Couple of notes about the card: there is Diamond Glaze on the camera lens (didn't show up well in the photo) and I adhered the base of the clip right to the card and popped up the other side so I could put the ribbon in. It's how a clip would normally be on a clip board so I figure it works!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!  Hope you have time to get crafty.

Glenda

Card details:

You Color My World - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Clipboards, Perpetual Bliss & Word Salad

Paper:  SU! Very Vanilla, Paper Crate On Trend (wood grain), Basic Grey True Love (blue), A Muse school lined paper

Ink:  SU! Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Paper Smooches Notebook Basic die & Clipboard die, Cuttlebug, May Arts ribbon, A Muse Studio twinkle stickers, EK Success corner rounder punch, JudiKins Diamond Glaze

I heart Sparks

Happy Wednesday!  Another quick post to play along with Paper Smooches Sparks Designer Drafts Challenge (see the sketch below).  So happy to have time to play along with a few challenges lately. Kim is also having a Valentine's week challenge to make something with a heart on it.  I always need more birthday cards so manage to put a heart on this birthday card... it's a balloon heart, but a heart nonetheless.

Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to the Sparks DT for all the inspiration.
Have a great week,
Glenda

Card details:
happy birthday - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps:  Paper Smooches Hullabaloo & Sentiment Sampler
Paper:  Basic Grey Clippings, white card stock
Ink: SU! Cherry Cobbler & Chocolate Chip
Accessories: SU! corner rounder punch, American Crafts twine, We R Memory Keepers cinnamon floss, A Muse Studio chocolate pearls

It's all about the polka dots

Happy Sunday!  To my fellow Canadians having a long weekend (I know it's not everyone) - hope you are enjoying it!  To my friends in northeastern North America... hope you are staying warm, still have power and the snow isn't impacting your life too much.

I was never a fan of polka dots until I started crafting.  Recently, my mom saw me in a polka dot top and she was quite shocked!  I chalk it up to all the fabulous polka dots in crafting.  Paper Smooches Sparks is highlighting the polka dot trend in their challenge this week!

I wish I could say this simple card was a 'quickie'.  Alas no... many iterations... it almost didn't happen at all!  However,  I had some more coffee and stuck with and it *mostly* turned out how I wanted it.  ;)

The sketch I used is from CAS(E) this Sketch #14.  It's so fabulous!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to both of the DTs for all of their fabulous inspiration.

Glenda

Card details:

hey there - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler & Geo-Graphic

Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury White, Jillibean Soup Blue Soup Staples II

Ink:  Hero Arts Splash Chalk, Staz On Black

Accessories:  A Muse Studio twinkle stickers, EK Success corner rounder punch, Lifestyle Crafts hexagon die, Cuttlebug, Lil' Inker Designs heart die, red polka dot washi tape, acetate

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Cool Shades

Welcome to the Paper Smooches Sparks Cool Shades Challenge! This is our colour challenge week.  This is the combo we have for you...

I must confess this was a little tough for me.  Dark purple, royal purple, eggplant, blackberry... we get along very well.  Lavender and I, not so much.  So this was definitely a challenge for me but I managed to pull in some lavender baker's twine to finish off this card.  The bottom left colour looked yellow to me but now that I look at it again... it looks more brown.  Oh well... I'm pretty close with a pale yellow.  I'm inking up my Friendly Flowers set for the first time too (why I didn't get this set sooner, I'm not quite sure). The 'Hi' is from My Peeps.

Please be sure to check and see what the rest of the fabulous design team has in store for you this week!  

Heather

Kasia

Lori

Savannah

You have until Sunday, June 24 at midnight PT to play along!  All the details are on the Paper Smooches Sparks blog.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Thanks for stopping by.

Glenda

Card details:

Hi Friend - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Friendly Flowers and My Peeps

Paper:  A Muse wood grain, gingham & buttercup, cream card stock

Ink: SU! Real Red and Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Jillibean Soup baker's twine, EK Success corner rounder punch, A Muse Studio Pearls, Martha Stewart glitter

Playing at Splitcoast

In continuing my weekend of playing over at Splitcoast Stampers, I'm doing two more challenges.  The first one is today's Featured Stamper Challenge.  I couldn't resist playing because it is the fabulous Emily Keaton!  She is really talented and such a super sweet person!  Congrats Emily!  I chose this card of hers for inspiration.  I was inspired by the patterns (polka dots and chevrons) and the colours.  I wanted to play along with the Hero Arts Thinking of You contest theme this month too. The Hero Arts Zig Zag background was perfect for this and I thought would use some of my new washi tape and one of the new wood veneers.  I'm on a travel themed kick so the postage stamp die and sentiment (two combined/masked) from XO were perfect.

The next challenge is another Virtual Stamping Night Challenge.  This is for the Map Element/Globe challenge.  Well, hmm... do you think I have any map paper/stamps/embellishments?  I have such a stash of travels stuff that this was an easy one for me - just a matter of picking a colour palette! Decided to use the books & globe from Paper Smooches Smarty Pants and the sentiment from Get Outta Town to make this fun little bookmark.  

If you want to play along with any of the 'Journeys' themed challenges for Virtual Stamp Night, you have until tomorrow night!

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Glenda

Details:
Sending Big Hugs
Stamps: Hero Arts XO and Zig Zag
Paper: Hero Arts Kraft note card, cream card stock, Jillibean Soup (polka dots)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and SU! Regal Rose, VersaMark
Accessories: Studio Calico heart wood veneer, SU! ticket corner punch, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders postage stamp Nestabilities, washi tape


Go To Your Happy Place
Stamps: Paper Smooches Get Outta Town and Smarty Pants
Paper: Gina K Kraft, Basic Grey What's Up and white card stock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: SU! eyelet, Jillibean Soup twine, Copic Markers, EK Success corner rounder punch

Journeys

If you stopped by last night, you saw that I hosted a challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers' Virtual Stamping Night.  I couldn't resist playing along with a few more challenges today since the theme is 'Journeys'.  This lends itself to all sort of travel-ish challenges and you know how much I love travel stuff!

This first one is for the Luggage/Bags challenge.  Couldn't resist inking up the luggage from Get Outta Town from Paper Smooches (inking it up for the first time, I might add).  It lends itself so well to paper piecing!  For the coconut drink, I used my Copic blender pen to make the 'texture' of a coconut.  The sketch is very loosely based on this one. I just couldn't get the image and sentiment to work with a square so made it into a rectangle.

This one is for the Landmarks/Scene challenge.  I just got these Studio Calico Veneers and the Hit the Road design card for my Slice so couldn't resist using them!

I hope you have time to play along with the challenges.  The challenges have to be completed in 45 minutes but you have until Monday night to upload them.  All the details are here.

Thanks for stopping by.  I always appreciate it.  Hope you are having a great weekend.
Glenda

Card details:
Happy Hour - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: Paper Smooches Get Outta Town
Paper: white card stock, MME Be Amazing
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: A Muse pearls, Copic markers


Miss you - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler
Paper: Jillibean Soup (Neopolitan Soup - green), MME Bright Side (yellow & orange), white card stock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Real Red, Hero Arts Cerulean Blue
Accessories: Slice Elite & Hit the Road Design Card, Studio Calico Veneers, A Muse ribbon

Way to Go

Now for something completely differently... well, not completely.  It is a challenge (which I love) but it's over at Splitcoast Stampers Virtual Stamp Night and I am hosting!  The challenge is to use any mode of transportation on your card (stamped/paper/embellishment) - airplane, hot air balloon, bicycle, boat, car, truck, motorcycle, skateboard... whatever strikes your fancy!  You know I love my travel themed stuff so this whole VSN theme of Journeys is right up my alley!

Here's my fun card... love this car... so fun!  Note the glossy lights... ;)

Hope you have time to play along with my challenge and some others this weekend.  The card/project can only take you 45 minutes but you have until Monday night to upload your creations.  Check here for all the details. I'm going to do my best to play along with some of the fun challenges too.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Thanks for stopping by.

Glenda

Card details:

Way to Go - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler, Car from My Guy, Dots from Sunny Side Up

Paper: SU! Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla, My Mind's Eye Away We Go

Ink: SU! Chocolate Chip, VersaMagic Pumpkin Spice

Accessories: SU! Vintage Trinket brads, JudiKins Diamond Glaze, EK Success Zig Zag chain punch

Anything but this...

It's a super quick post for this card because right now I should be doing anything but crafting/blogging. Cleaning, cleaning, and cleaning... and if it was daylight & the weekend, yard work, yard work & yard work! Well, I do have crafty 'work' to do too but this challenge card was not included on my list of must-do tasks. Hee, hee. This card is for one of the contest sketches this month at Hero Arts and for the current challenge A Blog Named Hero - Color Me a Hero (use 2 of their logo colours... I used 3 out of 4 because you know my feelings on pink.)

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are having a great week.
Glenda

Card details:
Happy Birthday - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps:  Hero Arts Find Joy
Paper:  kraft, white, My Mind's Eye Be Amazing
Ink: mystery ink borrowed from a friend at crafty night
Accessories:  Jillibean Soup Baker's Twine, May Arts natural twine, EK Success Plaid edger punch, SU! ribbon, A Muse pearls

go. see. do.

Happy Sunday everyone and happy Memorial Day weekend to my American friends!  Hope you are having a glorious weekend and the sun is shining where you are.  It is shining here (thankfully).  We've had a fabulous weekend so far.

Playing along with a couple of challenges today - the Unity May Challenge (stripes) and the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol (Encouragement).  I really like how this turned out - love the washi, love the travel themed set (go.see.do. - perfect encouragement set) and love the fun layout.  I know the stripes might be a bit of a stretch but I think the chevrons are stripes and the 2 bottom washi pieces are stripes too.  It's called creative license... hee, hee.  I also have congratulate myself for using three (!!!) of my clear buttons.  I would normally not buy them but they come with the Basic Grey solid buttons. I have such a hard time using them but the seemed to work for this. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by and hope you are having a great day.

Glenda

Card details:

go. see. do. - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Unity Stamp Co. go.see.do.

Paper:  white card stock

Ink: Hero Arts Cerulean Blue, VersaMagic Mango Madness

Accessories:  My Mind's Eye decorative tape, Basic Grey buttons

happy place

A quick little post for a quick little card.  Life seems to be crazy busy right now (or you know me, I would start babbling on about something).  One of my friends is going through a tough time this week so wanted to send her a card.  Hope it puts a smile on her face.  Will be throwing this in for the Gingham Challenge in the Moxie Fab World and for Paper Crafts' Gallery Idol  - Encouragement, just for fun.

Hope your week is going well.  Still enjoying the sunshine here.
Thanks for stopping by.
Glenda

Card details:
Go to your happy place - 4.25"x4.25"
Stamps:  Paper Smooches Get Outta Town and Unity Stamp Co. Absolutely Priceless
Paper: Gina K Kraft & White pure luxury, A Muse Buttercup, Grass and Cherry Gingham
Ink:  VersaMark, Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Slice Elite and Remember This Design Card, Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Sending hugs

Playing along with the Hero Arts Contest Sketches again (see below).  I've definitely been loving all my travel themed supplies these days.  If I can't travel all the time, I can at least bring 'travel' to my craft table!

Sending hugs to all of my fabulous friends and blog readers who gave me so much love yesterday.  Thanks again! :D

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

Card details:
Sending hugs - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Hero Arts XO and Air Mail
Paper: kraft, blue and white card stock, Studio Calico Abroad
Ink: VersaMark, Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Tea Leaves
Accessories: EK Success Round Binding punch, eyelet, Crop-a-dile, The Twinery Buttercream baker's twine, My Mind's Eye map chipboard button, Jillibean Soup star sticker

Monday Hugs

Happy Monday!  Yes, Mondays can be happy... it's all about attitude really (blah, blah... are you nauseous yet?).  I always try to go into the day being positive... Monday just doesn't always cooperate with me....;)  Oh yes, and happy April.  Wait... April? What?  Wasn't it just January? 

Yesterday I played along with the 90 minute scramble over at the Hero Arts Flickr Group.  Cheiron always keeps me informed about this fun challenge.  I, in turn, dragged Emily into it this time as well.  So the challenge this time was a doozy - in honour of 4-1-2012, the challenge was "4 like elements, 1 patterned paper, 2 colors minimum, 0 black ink, 1 ribbon, and 2 stamps minimum (at least one must be Hero Arts)".  In 90 minutes?  No problem.  The problem for this CAS gal was implementing all of these and not making a really busy (possibly ugly) card.  Needless to say, it took a while to decide on the patterned paper, the layout and which die cut to use.  Many pieces of paper were recycled in the making of this card.  In the end, I actually like how this turned out.  Miracles do happen...

This also for  the new A Blog Named Hero challenge - create a project using your favourite Hero Arts products.

I have 4 pearls (can you find the 4th one?), 1 patterned paper (one on my many new patterned papers - have I mentioned my addiction?), 2 colours (4 actually), 0 black ink (the sentiment is brown), 1 ribbon (yep, just a wee bit),  and 2 stamps (3 actually and all Hero Arts).

So, got a new light box/light combo (it was my hubby's idea - don't you just LOVE that?!?) ... what do you think?  I like the lack of shadows... might have to do some more brightness adjustments in Photoshop.  It will solve my issue about taking photos at night though.  Just love my hubby for suggesting it...

Hope you have a fabulous week and thanks so much for stopping by.  I really appreciate it.
Glenda

Card details:
sending hugs - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps:  Hero Arts Untitled Hearts and XO
Papers: white card stock, SU! Soft Suede, Studio Calico Abroad - reverse of Departure
Ink: VersaMagic Aegean Blue, A Muse Studio Buttercup, SU! Soft Suede
Accessories: A Muse Studio pearls, Crate Paper ribbon, Spellbinders Postage Stamp Nestabilities, Cuttlebug

Happy Sunday

Hope you are having a great day so far.  I'm still in my housecoat drinking my coffee so no complaints!  Was able to get some crafty time yesterday so was able to play along with some challenges.  This is for CAS-ual Friday 45 - pastels and black as well as the Hero Arts March Contest (this works for both the flowers and velveteen stamping).  

This is the first time I've tried this velveteen technique.  It's pretty cool.  I'm not usually into pastels but this combination seems to work well.

It's sunny here so I should really tend to my severely neglected garden today.  I'd rather just stay inside to read and craft.  Enjoy the sunshine from the inside (cause it's really not that warm out!).  We'll see...

Hope you have a great day.  Thanks for stopping by.

Glenda

Card details:

Be Happy - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Hero Arts Zig Zag, sentiment from Be Happy and Luscious Bold Flowers

Paper:  white and black card stock

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Sea Breeze, A Muse Studio Sage & Buttercup, Memories White

Accessories: A Muse Studio Onyx pearls

Party on Friday

A quick little card to play along with Unity's Friends with Flair, Ribbon Carousel 45 - Baker's Twine and Paper Craft's March Gallery Challenge - Rainbow.  Had to use my new dies which I own thanks to some enabling from Emily. She's dangerous on the bank account, that woman!  LOL... love her to bits but she is an enabler.  Thanks Emily!  Love them....

I have the day off today but must run... have an action packed day!  Have a great day and a great weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.
Glenda

Card details:
Party! - 4"x4"
Stamps:  Unity Small Party
Paper: white and black cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo black
Accessories:  Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Postage Stamp Nestabilities, Copics, various and sundry baker's twine

Smile, it's Friday!

Well, it's not quite Friday here but close enough!  I'm smiling cause it's almost the weekend.  It's seemed like a long week with work being really busy and the weather being pretty ugly.  Bits of snow, plenty of rain and the strongest of winds.... was really happy to walk home in the sunshine late this afternoon though.... and it's great to see the flowers blooming here.  :)

A quick little card to play along with the colours over at the Hero Arts Contest this month.  They aren't exact but pretty close... using up some scraps in this one so that is always a bonus.  It also works for the CAS-ual Friday Challenge 44: Easy as 1, 2, 3 - Use a pattern, an image and a sentiment.

Random question... do you know a lot of people with birthdays this week?  At last count I know of 12 people between the 10th and the 16th (except none today, weird).... so count back 40 weeks from now... hmmm, frisky spring I guess!  Hee, hee.

Hope you had a great week and a fabulous weekend.  Looking forward to hooking up with some friends who moved away last year... they are back in town for a couple of days.  Miss hanging with them so really looking forward to it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Glenda

Card details:

Smile - 3.5"x5"

Stamps:  Hero Arts Be Happy and Untitled Hearts

Paper:  Gina K white and kraft, A Muse Studio Grass Gingham and Bermuda, Jillibean Soup (yellow - the name escapes me at the moment)

Ink:  A Muse Studio Buttercup and VersaMagic Aegean Blue

Accessories: A Muse Studio Grass button, Basic Grey blue button, Jillibean Soup blue twine, May Arts Natural twine

Scrambling for inchies

Wacky title I know... will explain momentarily....

Cheiron told me the Hero Arts Flickr Group hosts a 90 minute scramble challenge every Saturday.  Decided I would play along today.  90 minutes to create and post a card... no problem.  The challenge?  Use 3 inchies on the card (1" x 1" squares).  Ack! That is a problem. I've mentioned my dislike of repeated elements before... getting the lines straight, lining them up on the card.  Thank goodness for a 1 inch square punch. Cutting a 1 1/8" with my trimmer was a little more difficult.  To make this a little easier, I went to one of my go-to colour combos - red, white, black and kraft.  Always a winner.  Anyway, enough babbling... here's the card...

I was inspired by this card from Sue, who was hosting the challenge.  Just realized I can throw this in the Hero Arts Flower contest for March too. Always love doubling up on the challenges.

Hope you are having a fabulous Saturday.  Thanks for stopping by.
Glenda

Card details:
Thank you - 3.25"x5"
Stamps:  Hero Arts Find Joy, La Lettre and Luscious Bold Flowers
Paper:  SU! Crumb Cake & Real Red, white and black card stock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMagic Sand, SU! Real Red
Accessories: Martha Stewart Crystal Fine glitter, Cuttlebug, Script embossing folder

Winter smiles

Blue ranks just above pink in colours I don't use very much/not that fond of.  To challenge myself, I thought I would play along with the Cure for the Winter Blues Challenge in the Moxie Fab World, which says to use navy in an innovative way.  This also works for the Hero Arts Flower Challenge this month.  So my cure for the winter blues is a winter smile.  :)  Smiling right now cause the winter snow we got on Sunday was just a skiff and melted right away!  

I don't know if this is innovative way to use navy... just decided to let it speak for itself and then added a little whisper of red (because I can).  No matter what I did with that red floss, it wouldn't stay where I put it so I left it skewed (because I can).  

Hope you enjoy your upcoming weekend.  I know I'm looking forward to it.  Mine is lasting three days so that is another reason to smile. :D
Thanks for stopping by.  Always appreciate it.
Glenda

Card details:
You Make Me Smile - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps:  Hero Arts Zig Zag & Made With Love
Paper: SU! Night of Navy, white card stock
Ink: VersaMark, SU! Night of Navy
Accessories: Basic Grey button, We R Memory Keepers Cinnamon floss, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders Anemone Flower Toppers die cuts, American Craft white embossing powder (which does not make me smile)

Friday Love

Loving being back at my craft table and some how, I actually have a little mojo.  Must be riding the wave of vacation bliss.  I promise, I will stop talking about my vacation soon.  :)  Uploaded a few more photos to flickr if you are interested.

Playing along with a few challenges today:

• Unity's Friends with Flair
• Unity's Kit of the Month Sketch
• Unity's February Challenge - hearts that aren't red or pink

Needed a birthday card for my hubby and thought this would fit the bill.  Hope you have a great day and great weekend.

Thanks for stopping by, it's always appreciated.

Glenda

Card details

Love you - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  Unity's All you Need

Paper: SU! Night of Navy, Echo Park Time & Season

Ink:  SU! Night of Navy, Old Olive and Bravo Burgundy

Accessories:  The Twinery Honeydew baker's twine, Basic Grey buttons