January Colors

I posted a card very similar to this one about a year ago. At the time, I made two and this is the first one, I posted the second one I made. Anyway, I like the motif I used (don't remember where I got it) and I like the layout. Hmmmm, I like the colors too. As some of you may know, I'm color challenged, never been able to coordinate "acceptible" color combinations.  Why am I telling you this? Well I took over a swap where I must pick out new color combinations each month. I'm still trying to figure this one out, however, I am up for the challenge.

Colors for the month of January are Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie and Real Red.
Before I made the color commitment for January, I went to visit my local SU rep. I couldn't figure out the Color Coach and color coordination being a  challenge, I needed to learn to use it. She explained how to use this accessory and some tips on picking out popular and/or new color combinations.
I hope you try these colors and while I would like to see what you come up with, I will just have to put it on my wish list.
Let me know what you think of my color combo. If  by chance I find where I saw the motif (it was on a card), I will post it on my Pinterest page.
Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  Take care

Thank You

Aren't challenges fun? For me, they keep me actively crafting and thinking. I use my brain in fun ways, I play games. I love word games, scrabble being my favorite. But my passion is crafting. I like putting things together but most often need a pattern of some sort. Knitting, crocheting and counted x-stitch, I follow patterns. The same goes for my card making. I move faster if I have a sketch to follow. I am not an artist, can't draw worth a darn, and am never satisfied with my own creations, so I follow patterns.

The sketch here is Mojo Monday #213, the colors are from Hand Stamped Sentiments #91 and the sentiment is for Tuesday Throwdown #73. Wow, I got three challenges into one card. Keeps the number of cards I make to a minimum. I make cards, I don't send cards. Its now time to get my cards boxed and sent off to OWH.
Paper is SU: Cherry Cobbler, Real red, Wild Wasabi and Very Vanila. (the pp is from probably DCWV, but I could be wrong)
The circles and oval are Spellbinders Nestabilities, the stamp is Inkadinkado, and lastly, that little bit of embellishment is from Recollections.
Thanks for stopping by Take care

Lovely friend

Its Thursday, and here I am trying to get things uploaded for this week's challenges. I have been very busy in my craft room finishing up last month's swaps, so now I can concentrate on November.

I wanted to make a card for Designs2delight digi challenge but I was having a problem with a layout. What do I do if I need a layout? I got over to Mojo Monday or Splitcoast Stampers.
I used this weeks SCS sketch,  SC356 for my layout, the stamp is a digi from Designs2Delight called Lovely tree and the colors,  rich razzleberry, kraft, cream and green are for a color swap. There was one problem with this sketch, it only uses three layers. I made four layers since I need to have the four colors on my card. I cheated a little bit on the green, I used Zig markers instead of green paper. Hope you like my card. Thanks for stopping by. Take care

Wax resist

I haven't done this one before, so the technique is new to me. Hiding in my craft Room's challenge was to make a project using the wax resist technique. Here is my take on it.

I apologize for the shortness of this post I'm leaving on a camping trip in about 10 minutes and Friday got here before I was ready for it.
So, go check out HIMCR. Check out her blog, really neat stuff goes on there. The cuts were made for the Simply Charmed cartridge. Thanks for stopping buy and I will be out and around your blogs next week.
Take care

Hanging Out

I'm still doing Halloween, I think I have said before that I never do Halloween, but...  Trick or Treat night is fast approaching. My grand kids are getting their costumes made and are excited about going to  "Parents Night Out" at the gym. They go in costume and there will be a contest. Unfortunately I can't tell you what they are dressing as or show you a picture. However I can show you a card I made.

Would you believe I worked on this for nearly three days? Well, not every minute, but it took me three days of think, cutting, coloring and gluing for it to come to completion. The pumpkin image is from Designed2delight, I printed them on vellum then colored them with Zig markers, I don't have any oranges in Copic. I cut the tree from the Simply Charmed cartridge. I placed the tree and the moon on my card base, placed the vellum over it and then glued the bat and phrase on the vellum. I am entering this in the Friday's image challenge over at Designed2delight. Well, I was going to enter it, but I can't get into their website so I cannot vouch for the link.
Thanks for stopping by and Take care.

Pinterest - A new learning experience

I got me a Pinterest account. Not too sure why, but it seemed the thing to do. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use it. They want me to download apps, put a Pinterest button on my blog and make a board. Ok, I got the button, its over there on the left. If you are reading this and its Sunday, come back another day to click on the button. Why? cause I don't have a board yet. Gotta figure out how to make one. I tried pinning something, but it failed. Or at least it didn't show up on my board (maybe because I don't have one?). It could be fluttering out there, lost in cyber land looking for my board. Guess that means I must download some app. to make it work. My project for this evening is to make a board.
I am also following people that I will probably never visit. They were added automatically and I understand why. But there doesn't seem to be a button to "unfollow". There are a couple that I would like to remove because there is no commonality. I will have an initial visit, its the polite thing to do, and who knows, there just might be something to keep me going back. A few of my friends showed up on my list, that makes me happy. I added one on my own, figured out how to find her and add her. And already, I have been added to someone's list. Thank you Jennipher. Now that I have bored you to tears, I will close this. I will be adding some projects tomorrow or Tuesday. Thanks for coming by. Take care.

Hope in pink

Is it pink enough? While I have a lot of pinks, I just can't seem to find any that go together very well so I selected a pink, wine and cream. There are various shades of pink in the patterned paper which I thought went very well with the sentiment of this card.

I am going to upload the card to Link up for Pink linking party. I hope my card is pink enough, but then there are gazillions of cards over there, who would notice. Go check out the site, this is their first annual Link up for Pink linking party.  If I don't see you there this year, maybe next year.
Also entered at
Hand Stamped Sentiments Think Pink Challenge 88
Tuesday Throwdown 70 Think Pink Challenge

October is National Breast Cancer awareness month. If you haven't done so, go get your mammogram. 

Take care