Celebrating National Cake Day

Several Challenges this month were centered around National Cake Day. And I being a novice cake decorator, have been very intrigued lately with the whimsical tilted cakes and so that was in inspiration for these cards.

Keywords: CCREW1113HF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM, CC454, MMTPT278,

Stamps: Sweet Treats

Paper: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, White, DSP Scraps

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note, buttons, punch, markers

Gettin' Cows

About six months ago my cousin moved here to the beach and she gave me some old pictures of me and my family from years gone by. So I have been putting together a book of memories for us to share with the rest of our family for Christmas. This is one of those pages. The photo is of me and my dad "Gettin' Cows" off the mountain in the fall. One of my favorite childhood memories. Also you will see a lucky penny i found that day and a dried wild daisy that I picked and saved from the mountain that day. Yes, I am a die-hard collector with a passion for persevering memories and historic details.


Also I combined few challenges, so here are all the extras...

• For the Creative Crew Challenge I use my photos of my favorite childhood past time.
• For the Monthly scraplift, I cased eeddmm "Rehearsal"
• For the Inspirational 146 Challenge I used my favorite saying and the colors and textures from the Pier1 table scape "Fall Shimmer" 

Keywords: CCREW1113SF CreativeCrew SUO SUM SIC146 sbc13nov SPLT13nov

Stamps: Weathered Background

Paper: Early Expresso, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Soft Sky, Retired DSP SCraps

Paper Size: 8x8

Ink: More Mustard

Accessories: Ribbon, dried flowers, crimper, lucky penny

Double Chocolate Fun

Our recipe today was Dori's Double Chocolate Cookies found on page 329 in the "Baking with Julia". Today we decided it would be fun to combine a little crafting and kitchen time together, so for this challenge I made my own Tag Boxes and Tags to go along with the cookies. These are fun little cookie boxes that I made to share with my Stamp Camp Ladies and a few friends from my church to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Love these cookies... simple and sweet goodness that works both as a drop cookie and a rolled freezer cookie. They make great gift or sack lunch cookies because the hold there shape very well and yet stay soft and chewy. We love to dunk them is milk!

Keywords: CCREW1113CF CreativeCrew SUO SUM

Stamps: Turkey Talk

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry,Green Garden, Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: crimper, markers, jute twine, cookies,

Techniques: Tag Box, Gift Box, Tags

Weathered Wreaths - TSSC289

Loved all the challenges for today and I just went crazy with them all... :)

I made my wreath using the Stampin' Up! three-in-one Dollie punch. I punched three whole ones and cut each in half, over lapping the edges and securing with a brad.

Keywords: CCREW1113DF CreativeCrew SUO SUM TSSC289 TLC456,

Stamps: Four the Holidays

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, sliver glitter paper, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, White, Crushed Curry

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Crimper, Dollie punch, brads

Techniques: Paper Bows,

Blooming Candles

Yesterday at church, we talked a lot about the power of prayer and the light it gives in our lives. Also about the warmth we feel when we know that God has answered our prayers. While I was looking through Kristine's awesome gallery, I kept being drawn to her very pretty candles, so that is where I got my inspiration from. Hope you all enjoy! :)

Keywords: FS352, 

Stamps: Mixed Bunch

Ink: Mellon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Lucky Limeade

Accessories: Wax paper, tissue paper, candle, markers, ribbon

Thanksgiving Charm - IC413

Our Saturday Inspirational turned out to be one of my all time favorite cake decorators, Duff at Charm City Cakes. The Cake, I chose as my inspiration, was a great cake to celebrate a fall style wedding and brought out all the fun fall colors that I love from our SU! collections.

Also, many of you know, because of my limited stamping time, I often like to combine challenges... So with this card, I followed the sketch 275 challenge at "Creating with Connie & Mary".

Keywords: IC413, CCMC275, LNS234
Stamps: Turkey Talk
Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, DSP Scraps
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Early Expresso
accessories: Punches
Techniques: Paper Piecing,

Glittered Apples - F4A193

makes me really frustrated when the picture I take to up load does capture all the details of the card. :( I used three different types of glittering techniques, only one of which you can see, the brads. For the other two, I sprayed the main background card with shimmer paint and then the apples are also glittered up with red liquid glitter glue.

Additional Info

Keywords: F4A193 MIX40

Stamps: Farm Fresh

Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Expresso, Lucky Limeade, Orchard Harvest DSP

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Mellon Mambo, Early Expresso, Lucky Limeade,

Accessories: Glitter (shimmer) Spray, Crimper, brads, glitter glue, chalk, jute ribbon, big shot,