Whole lotta playin' going on!

Sunday (after church) is usually my play day.  I missed last Sunday because we were out of state.  So….today I'm catching up on fun time!  Although I really enjoyed our trip last week :o)

Truthfully I made these cards a few weeks ago but it haven't had a chance to post them yet and I think these are good entries for the Love Inspired theme over at H2H as well as their Hearts Galore challenge.  

Cards like this one with little hanging banners go together so quick that you might as well make a couple with your scraps at the end of each creative session.  

I was inspired over at Studio Wow Joy to make this rosette with the new CTMH gold polka dot Washi tape. 

I made the rest of these using the sketch that I sponsored over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I love CTMH mini stamps - they're only $2.95 and each one is so fun it's hard to stop stamping them!

I figure that I can use the next two to send along with the St. Patrick's Day t-shirts I bought last year for this year for my grand kids.  This stam

This showcases the same sketch, just had some fun using embellishments that I already had out, and the glitter strip is made just using double stick tape.  Fun!

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Wild About Love - CTMH February 2014 SOM - Stamp of the Month

Just posting real quick to show some cards made with the current Close to My Heart Stamp of the Month - Wild About Love - I LOVE it!!

I'm sponsor this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches!! TMS #204

Wahooo, I'm the sponsor this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches….I hope you play along and WIN!!

I've been so excited for my sponsor week to come and now I can hardly believe it's here! 

The winner gets $20 in free CTMH products.  If you win you can shop my site and email me your order of any of the products you choose.  I will enter your order and have it shipped direct to you.  

In addition if anyone shops the "Tuesday Morning Sketches" gathering and places an order of $25 or more I will send them a free current CTMH catalog/idea book. Plus ++  if there are at least $150 in orders placed I will draw a name from the shoppers to win the Hostess Rewards of $25 or more depending on what it qualifies for!! 

Of course I just had to play along too, so far I have made 12 cards! In this post I'm showing you all the baby cards I made.  I really enjoyed making this simple sketch and keeping it simple with just a few embellishments.  

I sent the TMS Design Team some of the CTMH Mini's  because at only $2.95 I could afford to provide them one.  Leave a comment if you're interested in purchasing a Mini Packet that includes some 4 x 6 papers and one of the Mini's along with some embellishments for only $10 including shipping. 

Ok now for the sketch and cards. . .

 

Only one more day….

Yes, once again here's a couple cards I made for a sketch challenge last month but never got around to posting them.  I was pretty darn happy with the fact that I used a bunch of stuff that had been laying on my desk for hmmmm dare I say maybe even years!! 

This first card features a pretty Jolee's bird sticker that I had been hoarding - I'm trying to stop that!

This second card features some background paper I made using the ghost stamping technique years ago, I think I tried to toss it out a couple times but just couldn't do it.  It feels good to have finally put it to use.

Color Challenge

I'll be real quick here, this is another card I made using a sketch and color combo challenge from a couple weeks ago, I think it was Color Throwdown.  I remember thinking I may not be able to pull it off but I actually really like the end result. 

Baby Girl Card

I'm really going to try and post something every day this month.  I think I can pull it off because that's what I was trying to do last month and I made lot's of things to share but between being busy and ISP frustrations it just wasn't happenin' - lets just say!

So in celebration that this month, this Tuesday Feb. 4 to be precise - I am sponsoring the weekly sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches!!  I'm VERY excited.   I can't share what that sketch will be yet but this as well as the next couple of posts will be of challenges I participated in but never entered.  

I still LOVE this CTMH stamp, it's discontinued though but still thought I would share the card I made using Blush & Baby Pink ink and paper, as well as some DCWV paper and ribbon I had picked up at Melrose Vintage quite a long time ago.

CTMH Huntington Paper - Discontinued EOM

Here are a couple more cards that I made over the weekend.  They're a little dull after the crisp and bright cards that I posted the last couple days. I was originally only going to use the Washi tape on the first one to hold the little banners temporarily but decided to leave it, however it lifted up a bit after a couple hours so I needed to use additional adhesive.   

My daughter gave me the little thinking of you wood shapes last year for Christmas and I managed to hoard them for a year so figured it was time to use them.   The paper on this one is from a My Mind's Eye 6 x 6 pad. 

 This was a Thanksgiving card, but I swiped the embellishment off of it to use on a scrapbook page instead.  So, this nice little card base had some possibilities but I didn't do so well on it.  I had to be sure and cover up the spots that were damaged and I was running out of time so I was only grabbing things (you guessed it off my desk).  It clearly still needed something…..

So I resorted to garbage picking….and pulled out the packaging from the Jillibean Soup wood shapes then cut the little bracket out - I think it helps but not a card I would write home about.  By the time I took this photo it was later/darker so at least you can see the warmth of the colors better.  The paper is CTMH Huntington….yet another paper kit that will be discontinued at the end of this month. Can you tell it's time for the new catalog??