You'd Think (and Cancer Crop creations)

 I was busy this summer or something?  It's not like I haven't created something over the past five months.  Geez!  Yesterday was the first crop at Picture This I've been to this season and it was the annual Cancer Crop.  I've always wanted to go to a Cancer Crop and it does feel weird that this was my first time ever. Although I do not have a picture to show you, I was the only one not wearing pink.  Out of all the people I personally know, only one was diagnosed with breast cancer.  The others were rectal cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer and lymphoma.  So I chose to wear my lime green "paper is my weakness" shirt to support lymphoma.  Sharing a few photos of yesterday and the creations I made.

This is what it looked like outside, so it was perfect to be inside at the Cancer Crop

My area, I did eventually take up more space use up this whole side of the table.

The prize table

My second creation of the crop yesterday

I think this was the third creation,
but I was also working on the Christmas tag
and was stumped at how to finish it.

Chalkboard technique I really love this look

Yep, I really do like this look!

And that's it for now. For whatever reason, blogspot is not letting me go back to the body of the post it's still typing in the caption font and size UGH!  Hope you have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by to take a peek!  Well, well at least it looks like I was able to correct it. Oh and I bet you're wondering what my first creation was?  Well it was a cookbook cover and back.  I don't want to show them just yet.  But I will show them once I've got them together.  

Squirrelfriends

That has become our nickname for each other. I am pretty sure it was started by Dawn S.,  and squirrelfriends seems to be the perfect definition of us, when we get together at a crop to scrapbook or make cards. Squirrely. Ok, so I was just informed by Mitch that squirrelfriends is from TV and not Dawn.  So I guess my TV watching kid gets the honor. Sometimes Mitch comes along...either to create or just to chit chat, laugh with us or show us comedic videos on YouTube, Facebook or Pinterest. This past weekend was a Crop 'til Midnight on Friday and an All Day Crop on Saturday at our LSS Picture This.  Mitch got off of work at 6:30 pm on Friday, so I just brought him along. Ally from work joined us and to my surprise Dawn was cropping too!  So we had a great time creating, chatting and laughing. I must say chatting and laughing oh and eating were most of my Friday night.  I think I created one card and tweaked two other cards.  Saturday was a little better for me, although I still spend too much time thinking vs actually creating.  I need to figure out how to break myself of this.  There are times when I've been on a roll creating card after card or scrapbook layout after scrapbook layout.  But lately it seems it's been a more difficult process.

I had my laptop along so I could look at sketches or get inspiration from blogs, etc.  Mitch used it Friday night for his entertainment and sometimes ours. But on Saturday it was only Ally and I. We were able to get ideas online and since Ally is new to this craft I was able to show her what distressing ink is and does, different ways to layout a page, etc.  I also noticed that CAS-ual Fridays was doing a no stamp challenge.  So I thought I'd create a card for that challenge.  I won a bunch of great stickers from SRM awhile ago.  One of my favorite sticker shapes, is the round ones. Probably for the simple reason that I have a few different circle dies I can use with those stickers.  Plus, the smaller doilies work really well with the larger circle stickers and I like adding doilies to my creations.  I followed a card sketch I had pinned on Pinterest from an older Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 176 and this is what I came up with.  

For CFC95 - no stamps

I used Lilybee Designs Double Dutch line, which made it go together quickly.  Of course, the SRM sticker made the perfect topping on the cake umm card. 

Since this got to be a little long, I'll post the other cards later this week.  Thanks for stopping by! 

Happy Fall!

It seems like I say this a lot, I really need to get back to posting on this blog more.  I do like to share my creations and photos. Speaking of photos, I am thinking that maybe I should try Fat Mum Slim's Photo a Day challenge again. You can see how far I got in July, grins.  Who's gonna join me?  It does help you to look at your subjects differently.  Here is the link for the October Photo a Day challenge. 

A month or so ago, on Facebook I was the lucky winner of generous package of SRM stickers.  I do enjoy their wonderful stickers.  As a person who has to watch her finances, stickers are a great choice for me. And hey you can still use them with your stamping, scrapbooking and lots of other fun ideas.  You can follow SRM stickers on Facebook here.

So here are a few of the cards I've made using SRM stickers:

Birthday Wishes from decorative Birthday set

Used a mini calendar on a card

Hello and Bluebird from a from a small sticker set 

Birthday Wishes from the decorative set and  the stamp is TPC.

With Sympathy is from a smaller set -
for those that know me gingham is a favorite  of mine.

Here is the SRM sticker blog if you'd like to stop by and be inspired.  I also like that they support Operation Write Home, one of my favorite causes.  I'm just starting to use my stickers that Susan sent me. All of the above were from stickers I purchased from my LSS Picture This. A HUGE thank you to Susan McShirley and SRM stickers for choosing me for such a generous prize package!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by! I hope your week is fabulous.  Hard to believe October is tomorrow.

Hugs and smiles,

Carmen

Sweet or Savory?

I can't believe Valentine's Day is just over a week away!  Where does the time go?  I mentioned before that I've made some scrappin' friends. We really enjoy getting together when we can. I also love that Mitch goes to crops too.  One Friday he and Dawn went just the two of them.   

 I'm thrilled to be holding my first ever Altered Frap set class on Saturday Feb. 11 at 1pm at Picture This.  I have made two samples and will let them choose which one they want to make.  My creative and clever son Mitch came up with Sweet or Savory as our way to promote the class.  The choices are to make a Valentine's Gift Set or a Picnic Storage set.  I think the picnic storage one is winning out from the ones I've talked to.  

 I filled the Valentine frap bottles with foot soak salts, chocolate and hot cocoa mix.  It's up to your imagination what you can put in the bottles and of course make these gift sets for. Dawn and Mitch are always coming up with new ideas. 

I've been pretty creative lately. On Friday Mitch and Dawn had the day off (they work together) so Mitch went over to her house to see about viruses on her computer and then later we met at Picture This to do some card-making and scrappin'.  I made three whole cards in the time that we were there...but it's just nice to  be able to talk, laugh and relax a bit. Being creative always improves my mood. I will show you the cards I made and Mitch's scrapbook pages.

Love this Unity stamp and the embossing folder

Dawn let me use some of her punches and I punched a lot of paper.   All of a sudden this card came together. Another great Unity Stamp.

I thought it would be great to make a card to go with the Valentine's Gift Set.

Mitch is doing fashion layouts. I think he wants to show his great fashion sense.

 

Well that's it for now. I don't want to overwhelm you with all I've been creating lately.  My neglected blog needs more posts then, don't you think?  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week!