....These Are a Few Of My Favorite Things

A recent challenge on SCS asked us to use some of our favorite things to create a card, and these are some of mine. Colors: Black and white is a favorite color scheme...clean and classy. Paper: My all time favorite designer paper is Basic Grey. I never met one I didn't like. Stamps: Swirls and flourishes are very popular right now and I love them. This one's from Inkadinkado. Ink: When I need black, I always use jet black Archival Ink. I love the super large inkpad, the fact that it's waterproof, and the true black color. (Let me say here, that I love Stampin'UP inkpads and use them most of the time. But I do not like or use their black...it has a very definite purple-ish cast to it.) Accessories: Love love ribbon. And it really helps that I live near a town that has a fabulous Offray ribbon outlet. I can indulge without guilt! I also love Stickles. It's easy to use, comes in oodles of colors, and adds a very subtle touch of bling. In this case I colored the black strip of cardstock with black Stickles.

Critters Baby Cards

These little stitched critters are from a very cute stamp set from Heather at H & M Stamps. She so generously provided each of my CCEE group of stamping friends with a set of our choice. I chose this one because I didn't have many stamps appropriate for baby cards. On both cards, the images are stamped on patterned paper and cut out. The horse card is created using the sketch provided for today's challenge on the SCS website.

Recipe for elephant card: stamps- Generations of Stitches (H&M Stamps); paper- white, certainly celery (SU), dp (DCWV); ink- black archival; accessories- Cuttlebug, grosgrain ribbon (Offray), oval punch (SU).

Recipe for horse card: stamps- Generations of Stitches (H&M Stamps), sentiment (Savvy Stamps); paper- vanilla, mellow moss (SU), burgandy linen, dp (Kelly Panacci); ink- black archival; accessories- brads, daisy punch (Punch a Bunch)

Okay, So Where In the Heck Is the Snow??????

I know...I used a euphemism (boy, did I ever have to look up the spelling of that one!) (and did you ever notice how hard it is to look up the spelling of a word in the dictionary when you don't know how to spell it in the first place?) (after exhausting the u's, I vaguely remembered that it might begin with eu) (and that leads to the whole subject of my belief that our language really should be spelled foneticly...uh, phonetically).
You see, this whole lack of snow thing is really doing a number on me. I'm totally discomboobulated. Most winters we have an occasional good snow, which doesn't last very long because of mild temperatures. This winter is the coldest I can remember for a while, but there hasn't been any snow. An occasional dusting at best, and I mean dusting. Can't we get the two together? We just need one big snowfall, and the cold would keep it around for the rest of the winter.
And I'm sure you've noticed my lack of a seasonal header picture. I'm really getting sick of this fall basket. My plan was to get a good winter photo from the first snowfall. Well......so much for that!

No Stamping Card

This card is for the November 24th CCEE supplies challenge. Charlene (LilLuvsStamping) supplied us with the beautiful red starburst translucent paper, three poinsettias and leaves, some snowflakes, and the gold cord and ribbon. We had to use some of the red paper, at least one poinsettia and either the gold cord or ribbon or both. The use of the snowflakes was optional. I layered all three poinsettias, added a cuttlebugged snowflake panel, and used a beautiful paper lace sticker from Mrs. Grossman.

Recipe: stamps- none; paper- red designer (source unknown), white; ink- none; accessories- Cuttlebug, silk poinsettias, gold ribbon, gold cord, lace (Mrs. Grossman's stickers).

Autumn Basket

I just wanted to post a pic of my fall basket, because I'll be replacing my title pic with a winter one. I love this basket. I got it at for half price at Michael's a couple years ago, and it has become my holiday basket I keep on my kitchen island. It holds pumpkins and gourds in the fall, pinecones and Christmas decorations in the winter, marble eggs in the spring, and miscellaneous themes in the summer. Time for the seasonal change!

The Hurrieder I Go....

...the behinder I get. I love that old Pennsylvania Dutch saying. I can remember visiting my great grandmother, Memmie, when I was little and hearing her converse on the phone in German Dutch and thinking it was the coolest thing. When the house was messy, we had to redd up, and when you left a room you needed to outen the lights.

As for being behind, I really am. In getting ready for Thanksgiving I got a lot accomplished, but not in blogging or stamping. It meant getting the house clean and ready for family coming home. Always a wonderful thing.

This card was for my CCEE challenge for November 17, for the featured SCS stamper name...Eggette. It had to have at least one egg, the color green somewhere, and some ribbon. The chicken and egg are paper pieced.

Recipe: stamps- Best Of Cluck (SU); paper- white, SU designer series; ink- black archival, always artichoke SU marker; accessories- black grosgrain ribbon (Offray).

Think Pink!

In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, all the challenges for one week on SCS included the use of the color pink. This cause has become especially meaningful to me because of a precious family connection. So I combined the color challenge of pink and black, with the CCEE Monday challenge to use sketch #75 (changing the square to any other shape) and to use eyelets. I used a black eyelet for the hole in the tag.

Recipe: Stamps- Bella Toile and Too Terrific Tags (SU), butterfly (PSX); Paper- black, pink pirouette (SU); Ink- black archival; Accessories- black eyelet, black ribbon (Offray).