Blogger's Challenge

It's Friday! My goodness this week has gone quickly but I am still so glad it is Friday!

Welcome, to Blogger's Challenge #122. This week's challenge is to make a no layer card. Interesting, I thought, as I had this same challenge just last week for another group. Anyway, as you can see I went with the same idea as yesterday only executed a different way. This time I made a stencil out of my Ornament Punch by just punching it through a piece of a window sheet. You then just make your ornament by sponging the color in the punched out area. Believe it or not I just stamped one of the trees from Lovely As A Tree a couple of times for the branch. The silver cord is from the Holiday Mini Catalog. Now, the sentiment on the ornaments is from an old set of rub-ons from Stampin' Up! but I don't recall the name of it. My colors for this card are Bravo Burgundy, Apricot Appeal, and Handsome Hunter (yes, you do see some HH where it isn't supposed to be but don't tell anyone!). I was hoping the colors would look a little vintage Christmas. All of the items you see on the card, including the Shimmery White cardstock (yes, again!) can be purchased through my SU! website for which there is a link in my right side column.

I'm hoping to work on making a Holiday Planner today. I'm also hoping I can have it done today so I can show it to you tomorrow so please stop back. I'll leave you with a Psalm and comment...

"For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people." Psalm 144:4 I take pleasure in all of you, my online friends!

3 Clovers Designs Challenge

Happy Thursday morning to everyone! Welcome to 3 Clovers Designs Challenge day. Sorry my post is up a little late!

Today's challenge was my favorite...a sketch. Head on over to Kerry's blog to see the sketch. I've been in a Christmas card making mood so today and tomorrow you'll see Christmas cards. For today's card I used the SU! set called Delightful Decorations for my main image. I really wanted the ornament to stand out so I heat embossed it with Winter White embossing powder and left it on just red cardstock to have it pop even more. The paper is from the Christmas Cocoa Designer Series Paper pack and the sentiment from TeenyTiny Wishes (love that set...I get SO much use out of it!). A fancy border, some silver cord and I called it done. Oh...the holly image you see on the red and sentiment pieces is from the set called Leaf Lines. If you haven't taken a look at that set, you should, it is very nice! Oh, and one more thing...all the white cardstock you see is Shimmery White which has become a favorite recently. Everything I used on this card can be found in my Stampin' Up! website that you can find a link for in my right side column!

I hope that you'll all hop over to Kerry's blog to see the sketch and what the other DT members have to show ya and then...participate! It is a lot of fun!

Today is very busy for me today so I should scoot! Have a super day!

A Few Photos

Morning all! I told ya yesterday that I'd share a few photos from our trip to WDW with ya so here ya go!

Above is the lovely view from the balcony at our resort. Yep, that is a golf course and it is a golf course that is used for PGA play. I loved going out on the balcony in the morning...except for the major humidity we had. It was 90 and about 85% humidity most of the time. Such is life though!

The above photo is just a photo I took on Tom Sawyers Island. When I saw the water wheel I thought it would make a good picture. What do you think?

And here is Todd after the Pirate of the Caribbean ride. That one wasn't quite what we were thinking it would be but neat none the less.

This is one of the first photos we took. Everyone has to have one with themselves and the castle, right?

I think I forgot to tell you I got to see my BFF while at WDW...lol! No, seriously, Belle is my favorite Disney Princess. I'm not sure why but I love her.

Back behind the trees is the ride Big Thunder Mountain. It is a tame but VERY fun roller coaster. I haven't been on a roller coaster since my teens but I could have done this one over and over again. We did go twice!

And finally a washed out (sorry about that) photo of Todd and I at the Biergarten in Epcot. German food and October beer...yummy! The final full day was spent at Epcot as we wanted to ride the Test Track and they were having a Food and Wine Festival. There were little stands throughout the country part of Epcot that sold food from lots of different countries. Needless to say...that was my favorite day!

We were up early (at 2 a.m. PT) to head back home. The flight is a 6 hour flight home as there is no tail wind to help us along...my goodness it was long but at least it was quiet and we had a nice lady sitting in our row! I don't know how Todd could stand his really long international flights....ughh!

Anyway, see ya tomorrow with my card for the 3 Clovers Designs Challenge!

Tall Thank You Box

How about this? I'm posting something crafty two days in a row! Wow!

At Kyler's school each family puts in an hour a week at the school...it is called a PIP (parent involvement time). It helps keep the costs down by not needing to hire additional people to do the extra things that teachers need. Anyway, my PIP this year (and probably until Kyler leaves the school) is to set up and run the crossing guard program. While I was in WDW a wonderful woman filled in for me and did a great job...as I knew she would. I brought back a silicone trivet shaped as Mickey's hand for her (practical and cute! and the place I linked you to is way more than I paid at WDW) so I needed to make something to place her gift in. This box is just perfect!

I got the directions on how to make this box, which was SO easy, from Becky Roberts blog. Check it out HERE. Instead of Christmas colors I used the Thoroughly Modern designer series paper. The flower is from the Flower Folds Bigz XL die...again. I do love that die...can ya tell? On the lid of the box I stamped different 'thank you' sentiments from the Thank You Kindly set and then embossed the panels with one side of the Stampin' Up! Perfect Detail Texturz Plate. To make the box a little luxurious I added some retired chocolate chip satin ribbon for the bow as well.

Overall this project only took me about an hour to knock out...pretty darn good, I think, for the results...which, I think, it turned out wonderful!

And now a little run down for the rest of the week. Tomorrow I will be baking pies during the day for PEO on Thursday night so I thought I'd share some photos of our WDW trip then Thursday is 3 Clovers Designs Challenge, and Friday Blogger's Challenge day. I'm exciting to have an (almost) full week of stamping to share!

For now...I hope you have a super day! "Marvelous are thy works." Psalm 139:14

Table Favors

Good morning friends! Are you shocked? I'm actually posting something crafty! I know, I know...I'll get back into the swing of things soon!

Today, though, I want to show you the table favors I've made. In addition to getting the table decorations together for the Care Net Dessert Buffet (next Monday!) Todd and I are also hosting two tables of our friends. When the Care Net director (Hi Judy!) said it would be okay to make table favors I knew exactly what I'd do. The colors of the banquet are black, white and our accent color, red. I just got these big tins in a bulk buy on the LNS Demo group so they were, of course, screaming out to me to use them. I used a retired jumbo wheel to decorate the nuggets as the heart is part of the Care Net logo. In the current set Baroque Motifs there is a fabulous swirl stamp that I used in red on Shimmery White card stock to make the belly band and add some color to the sentiment circle. The flower is made from the Flower Folds Bigz XL Die and my Big Shot...those two things made this project a breeze! A little bit of black ribbon to finish the tin off and wahlah...all done! Really, once I figured out what I wanted to make it didn't take me anytime at all to put 8 of those tins together!

Now, the little tin I made for the speaker. The speakers name is Nina Fuller. She has a wonderful family including two girls with Downs Syndrome which is what she'll be speaking on. The shocking statistic is that 80-90% of the babies diagnosed with Downs Syndrome in utero are aborted. Here is a little from Nina's website..TESS-TIMONY of HOPE – Nina’s internationally popular presentation will take you to the heart of the pro-life vs. pro-choice issues of today. You will hear firsthand why Nina did not abort her fourth child even when her own life was compromised while carrying a baby with Down syndrome and heart defects. Deuteronomy 30:19, 20. I used the 'cherish' from the Baroque Motifs set for the sentiment on the sides of the tin and decorated the top by places a stamped piece of paper inside the top of the tin. Again, a little ribbon to finish it off and I was done.

If you've read this far...congrats! I was a little long winded this morning for sure!

I hope that you all have a super wonderful day!

Deals of the Week #3

These are GOOD!!

The third deals of the week are from October 19, 10 AM (MT) through October 26, 9:50 AM (MT).

Item	Page	Description	Regular Price	Special Price
114348	179	Basic Jumbo grommets	$6.95	$4.49
109857	179	Mini Library clips	$12.95	$8.99
112571	179	Circle Designer brads	$5.95	$3.99
112581	179	1/2" Library clips	$6.95	$3.99