Fri. Sept. 30, 2011 OLW65

I really enjoy playing along with the One Layer Wednesday challenges.  This time, we were to make the sentiment the focal point, even if there is an image on the card. I sure I hope this qualifies!!!

The tree is a Michael Strong cloisonne' stamp and the sentiment is from PTI (love this!)

Thank you for letting me share today!

Thurs. Sept. 29, 2011 Mojo Monday 208

I haven't played the Mojo Monday in a while, and since I wanted to use some new Tim Holtz stamps I recently purchased- I figured this sketch would be perfect.I love this color combination too, so I was done in hardly anytime at all.  Thanks for stopping by.   ...Karen

Wed. Sept. 28, 2011 Apple Picking

It's the time of year for apple picking, taffy apples, cider donuts, colorful leaves and all things Fall.  To celebrate this wonderful season, I wanted to share this card, using an image from Gina K's "Autumn Splendor" stamp set.

I layered a die cut Lattice from Cheery Lynn Designs (love them!) over a subtle dotted bg.  I colored the image with Copics and popped it up on another die cut- Spellbinder's Lacey Rectangles.

I am not quite sure why I coloring apples, but I really do!! LOL.

So glad you stopped by!

Tues. Sept. 27, 2011 STVMONDB4 challenge card

Donna's Magic challenge had us stamping with white ink and then coloring the image with colored pencils.  I was very happy with the result of this one.  The image is from Theresa Mober's "Hope Grows" stamp set, available at Gina K. Designs.

 Glad you stopped by!

Mon. Sept. 26, 2011 Non-traditional Christmas colors

 I made this card over a week ago for a StampTV challenge. The background was made by cutting a bunch of snowflakes with my Cricut, using a piece of vinyl.  Then using that as a mask, I gave my Copic Air Brush a workout, with about 3 or 4 different colors.
I heat embossed the trees and added Stickles, although I just couldn't get them to show up in the photo.
Thanks for visiting today!

Sun. Sept. 25, 2011 Speedy Challenge #74

I made a tag for Speedy's challenge this time.  Carol's challenge was to use wings.

I used the little pig image from Mark's Finest Papers "Fun on the Farm" set, and a tree from MFP's "A Walk in the Woods" set. The butterfly wings and the fence are die cuts.

Thanks for stopping by!

Fri. Sept. 23, 2011 CSS Treasure Chest Hop

I am so excited that it is time again for another CSS Treasure Chest Hop. We have lots of inspiration for you and hope you enjoy hopping along! If you arrived here from Linda's blog, you are in the right place.  If you'd like to start at the beginning, click HERE.

****Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (September 27), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will get a stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

 Here is the challenge Carolina gave us this time:

Let's SHAKE things up for the FALL! For this hop, I'm issuing you a double challenge. You need to create a Fall themed card and it must be a shaker card. The shaker part can be as big or as small as you'd like but it must include some type of shaker element. If you're not familiar with shaker card, Gina put together a two-part video where she gives you step-by-step on how to put one together. Here are the links to those:

Shaker Cards Part 1

and

Shaker Cards Part 2

...and here is my shaker card.

The tree image I used is from Theresa Momber's "Fanciful Fall" stamp set. I inked the image with Memento markers and sponged the sky with Distress inks. The pumpkin was colored with Copics.  The large oak leaf was die cut and sponged with distress ink. I used a punch for all the little leaves in my shaker.

Be sure to watch Gina's videos and try making a shaker card and post it on StampTV so we can all see your lovely cards.

 Thank you for visiting my blog today, and now it's time for you to be inspired by the super talented Joy Hadden.  I am positive her creation will knock your socks off!

Fri. Sept. 23, 2011 Happy Friday

I am posting this early!!
I have a card and a matching box to share with you.  I entered this into Joan's Garden's challenge as well as the Scor-Pal challenge.

I love making boxes and I always use my Scor-Pal- love it!

Thanks for visiting! I really appreciate comments!

Thurs. Sept. 22, 2011

The StampTV Facebook challenge this time around is to make a card with 3 different patterned papers. Fun!!! I love coloring this apple from Asela's "Fruitful Harvest" stamp set from Gina K Designs.  Used my Copics, of course. That's all for today, and thanks for visiting!

...Karen

Wed. Sept. 21, 2011 Another GKD Release Party challenge

Good morning dear friends!

Last week was the Gina K. Release party and Deb Felt challenged us to make a card with four colors, three embellishments, two die cuts, and one stamp set.
  I just love these gorgeous Authentique papers to make this Christmas card.  The mug image is from Melanie Muenshinger's "Mugs and Kisses" stamp set available at Gina K. Designs.  It is so much fun to paper piece this mugs!!!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Tues. Sept. 20, 2011 Two cards for you today

The SCS CAS 135 challenge called for me to make this sketch Thank You card.  I used lots of texture, and a tree image from Mark's Finest Papers "A Walk the the Woods" set.  I inked the tree with Memento markers, and the sentiment was heat embossed with Platinum EP. 

This next card is for StampTV's Release Party challenge gkdsept11db.

 Donna gave us a color block sketch.  I am lovin' how this turned out.  The cupcake image is from Gina K's 100% Sweet stamp set by Asela, and I colored with Copics.

Thank you for letting me share.

Mon Sept. 19, 2011 Autumn Blessings

Happy Monday morning!  I hope you all had a nice weekend.  Weather here was gorgeous on Saturday, but very gloomy and rainy all day yesterday. 

Blechhhh!!!!

The card I have to share today uses one of the images from the new Mark's Finest Papers "Autumn Glory" set.

Since it was such a dark day when I made this, perhaps I should have made a brighter colored card-hahaha. I started with brown cs and I stamped the leaf from this set, with bleach. Makes for a marble looking background.  I used a piece of text patterned cs to stamp the pheasant image in brown. The sentiment is also from this set, so makes for a pretty quick and easy Fall wish!

Have a wonderful day!

Sun. Sept. 18, 2011 Halloween Invitations

We have wonderful neighbors who host a Halloween party every year, and I volunteer to make invitations for them. I used an image and sentiment from Mark's Finest Paper "Boo to You" set. The background was a clip art image from years ago, that I made into a negative in my photo program- cool, huh?

Here is a close up view.

Thank you for stopping by!

Sat. Sept. 17, 2011 STV challenge # STVFRIJM2

Jimmi had a challenge for us on the 9th to make a sympathy card, and I didn't post it here yet- at least I don't think I did-LOL. I haven't tried sewing on a card in a long time, because I was never happy with my results.  I had better luck this time around, and I think it turned out great for this one and the distressed look I had in mind.

So glad you visited today!

Sat. Sept. 17, 2011 Speedy Challenge #73

Linda challenged us to make a 1 layer CAS card this week, and I decided to use an image from the new "Boo to You" stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers.

I stamped the image on MFP's 140# white cs, with Memento black ink and then heat embossed it.  I colored the image with Copics.

 

Thank you for stopping by today!

Fri. Sept. 16, 2011 MFP Blog Hop Day 4

Hello! Welcome to the September 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Autumn Glory, Boo To You, Covered Bridges, Get Your Broom On .For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

Here is my card to showcase the "Get Your Broom On" stamp set.

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Get Your Broom On? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Get Your Broom On. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Faith
Dawn
Marilynn
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen K
Pam
Joanne
Markie
Carol
Mark’s Finest Papers

Thurs. Sept. 15, 2011 MFP Blog Hop Day 3

Hello! Welcome to the September 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Autumn Glory, Boo To You, Covered Bridges, Get Your Broom On .For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

Here is my sample for the "Covered Bridges" set.

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Covered Bridges? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Covered Bridges. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Faith
Dawn
Marilynn
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen K
Pam
Joanne
Markie
Carol
Mark’s Finest Papers

Wed. Sept. 14, 2011 MFP Blog Hop Day 2

Hello! Welcome to the September 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Autumn Glory. Boo To You, Covered Bridges, and Get Your Broom On.For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

For my sample today, I made the background using alcohol inks and a felt applicator. I cut the ghost out and then an extra pumpkin, so I could pop it up for more dimension.  I added Glossy Accents to the pumpkin too! Isn't this little guy adorable?

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Boo To You? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Boo To You. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Lois
Vicky
Dawn
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Linda
Karen
Patty
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Debbie
Mark’s Finest Papers

Tues. Sept. 13, 2011 MFP Blog Hop Day 1

Hello! Welcome to the September 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Autumn Glory. Boo To You, Covered Bridges, and Get Your Broom On. For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Autumn Glory? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Autumn Glory. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Lois
Vicky
Dawn
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Linda
Karen
Patty
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Debbie
Mark’s Finest Papers

Mon. Sept. 12, 2011 Halloween Sneak Peek

I have had so much fun creating cards with the new Mark's Finest Papers upcoming stamp sets.  They will be for sale tomorrow, so I hope you will hop along with us.

I used an image from the "Boo to You" set here.  I colored this guy with Copics.  The bg was CB'd and then I added little dots of black enamel accents. I cut the Nestie frame, and popped it up for more dimension. 

Thank you for popping in!