Friday, September 25, 2009

Just under the wire


Good morning! Today is the last day to play along and enter the Kitchen Sink monthly contest. The challenge this month was: Use school supplies or items to make a card or project. You can alter an item too! Extra apple points for a school themed card. Well here is my try at it. The green card stock is Stampin Up Old Olive, the other card stock is assorted Bazzil. The ribbon is random from my scraps and the boarder punch is from EK Success. The School items I used are a red paper clip and a scrap of a post it note from a pad. The lines are already pre printed on the post it note and it reminded me of way back in the day when you went to school and practiced our writing on our Big Chief tablets with all the lined paper. The samples that the teachers would give out would always start with the dotted line letters to give you an idea of what they are supposed to look like. So I hand wrote Happy Birthday in the lines just like the old days! The ind I used for distressing is Wild Wasabi. And the tie to Kitchen Sink is the Hey Chick stamp that I stamped in Wild Wasabi as a background on the orange panel. I hope you all enjoy it and I hope I win some more Kitchen Sink stamps so I will have some more to play with!!!! Thank you ladies for sponsoring such wonderful contests. Again, I'm sorry the image is so small, but if you click on it, you can see a larger image.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Long Time Ago


Hello All it has been such a long time since I was here and I'm sorry if you have been looking for me. Work and family life took over for a time. I am happy to say that I seem to be having a bit more time lately to get some things done. For instance I was able to play along with two sketches this week. First things first: Tuesday Morning Sketches. I flipped this one on it's side this week and I altered a couple of things. I made the sentiment the focal image because I needed a birthday card for a co-worker and thought this would fit the Bill (that's really his name) perfectly. I didn't get too carried away with embelishment because I wanted it to stay classic and manly. What do you think? The recipe is fairly easy although there were a lot of things in this pot. Paper: Brown - Bazzil, Blue-Bazzil Swiss Dots, Pumpkin Pie, and unknown DP from The Greeting Farm. Ink: Pumpkin Pie. Other: Wavy boarder punch, scrap ribbon. The inside has a small strip of the DP along the right side as an accent. Well I will put up my other sketch tommorrow. Enjoy! Sorry the picture is so small. If you want to get a better look, you can click on the image. Thank you.