A Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Thanksgiving Card

Hi there!

I am still up to my eyeballs working on a fun project I can't quite share yet so today I thought I would dig out a Fall card I made a couple years back using Cosmo Cricket's Nutmeg collection and some stamps by Unity...

My husband is returning from a long string of business trips which has kept him away from home for all but about a 1-1/2 weeks since the late September.  I was doing pretty good, but this last week has been hard as I realized how little adult conversation I am getting and how much I'm craving it.  And then there has been the dreary Northwest rain which hasn't helped (rain and dark skies can be seriously depressing).  But he'll be here on Saturday so I can see light at the end of the tunnel--I am so excited to have him back home!  He might actually get to stick around for two whole weeks before sneaking in another trip before Thanksgiving.  ;)

 

I hope you have a great day!  Thanks for stopping by!  :)

 

A Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Card

Today I am sharing one of two Jillibean Soup cards I submitted using their fun and happy Watermelon Gazpacho Soup collection.  Using these papers inspired me to pull out the matching stamp set by Unity Stamp Co. that I had purchased awhile back (found here) which had never seen ink.

 

I used the watermelon image from the set to form 3 scallops that continued from the 3 strips of patterned paper.  I punched slightly larger circles out of the green polka-dot to form a contrasting rind which I traced with a black sharpie over scratch paper to give the matching outlined look of the stamped image.

 

The Bracket label is a Quickutz die, the ric-rac trim was cut using a border die by Papertrey ink and the yellow ribbon is some Pebbles Inc. ribbon from my stash.

 

Thanks so much for hanging with me today!  Make sure to check back tomorrow when I share my first set of projects made using Lori Whitlock's super fun Halloween shape files!!!

 

Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety Farm Themed Cards

Happy Friday!!! 

Today I have a couple more cards to share that I made almost a year ago for yet another Craft Warehouse Stamp Club challenge.  ;)  The first one was for the official challenge which had us using the clear acrylic element (by Tim Holtz I think), a teal note card, jute twine and a "farm" theme. Let me just say that this was one of the hardest challenges they've ever given us.  The clear tile and the teal color just didn't seem to go with the jute and farm theme...

With that said, I knew I wanted to use Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety Collection and the matching stamps by Unity that I had never been cut into or seen ink before.  I can't tell you how much of this paper I bought (and bought).  I couldn't get enough of the happy colors and cute little faces on the vegetables.  Too bad I don't garden because I have no idea how I'm ever going to actually make a dent in what I bought.  :)

 

I was having so much fun with the stamps and paper that I decided to go ahead and make another card.  Unfortunately my hubby has zero appreciation for cards so I have no clue who I thought I was making this for.  LOL!  :)

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper- Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety

Cardstock- Bazzill Basics (red), Neenah Solar White

Farm Stamps- Unity Garden Variety

Cloud Stamps- Papertrey Ink Up, Up & Away

Gingham Background Stamp- Impression Obsession

Gingham Ribbon- American Crafts

Red Twine- American Crafts

Ric Rac- May Arts

Grass Border Punch- Martha Stewart

Scalloped Border Punch- EK Success

Heart Die- Sizzix Sizzlits

Ink-Versafine Onyx Black & Satin Red,

Colorbox Frost White Pigment & Chalk Queues

Ranger White Enamel Accents (for tomato's eyes)

Button- Making Memories

Thanks for stopping by!  :)

A couple more Spring Cards

OK, so I completely dropped the ball on having a new post for each day of the week last week so today I have two cards to share. :)

I made this card for last month's Card Club using Unity stamps to match Cosmo Cricket's Pixie-Licious Mini Deck. We were challenged to use the green ribbon and little "beads" on our card in some way...

This second card started out as a Craft Warehouse make-n-take at Card club this month, but it was a bit too simple for my taste, so I dressed it up to put my own mark on it. I added the pink stripes (using Impression Obsession background stamp), cut out a scalloped frame (using Spellbinder dies) which I stiched on, added the fun little white enamel dots to the berry (by Ranger) and added the bow, button and baker's twine for some extra flair... Between the two of us I think it turned out pretty cute--Marilyn had the most clever idea to use flower petals cut apart from a daisy punch to use for the green part of the strawberry! (Other supplies: patterned paper by Doodlebug and Itty Bitty Stamp by Unity).

My card featured in Lawn Fawn's CHA booth!

I am literally buried under a mountain of work. The day after Christmas I bought over 1500 Spring and Summer clearance items at Gymboree to sell on Ebay and for the past 1-1/2 months I have been preparing those listings and selling the items off. It actually took me about a month to get them ready and I then listed them all at once. Anyway, in the 19 days since I listed them I have sold and shipped out 1000 items. Phew! I am exhausted and unfortunately barely have had time to sleep, let alone be crafty.

I did just finally get around to catching up over at the lawn fawn blog though and thought I would share a picture she posted of my card that was featured in their CHA booth. Yeah! It's so fun to see it among all the other great winners!


They're pretty simple, but here are a few other cards I managed to sneak in just in time for Valentine's Day...

The first two feature Unity Stamps that I just had to have a year ago and they're just now finally seeing ink. Colored the images with Copics and finally played around a little with masking off the mailbox image and pulling out my Copic airbrush for the background. I still have some learning to do in that department.


This last one uses just some of those cheap $1 stamps from Imaginisce and some paper scraps I had laying around. I made several so I could have some quick birthday cards on hand. The sentiment is by papertrey ink who I am in love with.

Thanks for peeking. Hope you all have a very Happy Valentine's Day! :)