Holiday Preview

I can't believe that I am actually making some Christmas cards! Oh boy, maybe this way I will have them all done when it actually comes time to mail them! Ha- This week on the Magnolia Challenge they have us using a Magnolia stamp to make a Christmas card, it didn't have to be an actual Christmas Image but just to make it holiday"ish". So I had this Rufus and I have not used him AND I got this tree which I love and have yet to make anything with (never mind all the times I stamped it, colored, and messed up!). Anyhow I knew what I wanted to do with Rufus and the tree and that was to put lights on the tree. The little box of ornaments, that is from my Precious Moments stamp and I stamped it, colored it and cut it out and popped it up. The paper is what is cool- not your traditional Christmas paper but love it once again- used the Rose Red from SU as the layering color with some stitched ribbon. The tags are die cuts w/ my sizzix, had to ad a little snowflake too! Then finished off with a star button on the top of the tree. Now- some of you may ask, how could it be Christmas with the beautiful leaves on the trees? Well here in Michigan that is not possible you are right but I started thinking that not everywhere do you have tons of snow and leafless trees- so I figured I could get away with it. Do tell- what do you think?

BLOG CANDY ALERT: I have my blog candy roll call- don't forget to check it out. Shelly has some fabulous goodies to win!

A little less skin?

Here is another little Sarah Kay image that I got and I was set to do the Friday Sketch Challenge and I had the challenge sketched on a paper piece and did the card and then went "oops!" - I didn't tear and put the image inside the window. Otherwise it is the same sketch. I love this card, I got the papers from a blog candy win- it is PaperPazazz and I just love the paper with the little girl. So, you mom's will get a kick out of this, remember I have boys- so I take it to show to my hubby, which I do on occassion if I am really happy with the outcome to see what he thinks. The first thing he says to me is, "Shouldn't she have a little less skin? Can't you color her shirt a little lower or something" Oh, I was laughing so hard, I can just see me trying to put MORE clothes on Sarah and I am sure her designer would be oh so thrilled! The flowers I also got with my blog candy and it matches so well with all the goodies I got. I took 3 of them and layered them to give me so me more depth and then I also popped the image up along with the flower. Put a missing you tag on it and done. Notice that I put the piece of paper under the image diagonal and that is because I have seen several of the ladies doing this and I really like the contrast I get. I feel like I do a lot of squares and everything symetrical so I wanted to change that up some. That is it for the evening.

Tata-Heidi

Spoonful of Sugar

Is this little girl the sweetest? I love these Sarah Kay images and one of my new friends, a dynamically creative lady Suzanne sent me some of these images. I was so afraid to even use one for fear of just ruining it. But I thought, well whatcha gonna do with them then. So, this is my take on this one. This weeks challenge was to recycle, well I am not sure how I could do that but almost all the papers here are from my scrap box, the flower..... that is a whole story in its own but the brown one was in the garbage (talk about recycling!).

Paper: DCWV paper stack, SU apricot appeal, real rust, wasabi.

Accessories: SU celery grosgrain, prima flower.

Sentiment: computer generated ( I made it up)

That is it for this Thursday evening, I am so thrilled that tomorrow is Friday. It has been another long work week for me so I am anticipating some relaxation (dreaming is more like it) and then some family fun. I have a couple more projects and if I get a chance I will load them for you later this weekend.

Tata for now!

heidi

Sweet Drink

I had seen this tutorial on SCS some time ago and thought it was just the cutest thing and so I decided to give it a try since I know several of my friends have ordered this set AND word is, it is still in the new catty! I have not see this thing that some talk about, I think that Michigan is one of the last states to get them, but it will be here soon!
For those that want to give it a try it is quite simple, I used a plastic cup and just traced the sides and cut it out of vellum. I then folded the two sides inward so that I could attach it to my nesties rectangle. Before I attached it I used a sponge in rose red and so saffron and sponged the inside to give the color of the drink. I used tart n tangy to stamp/cut the lemon and the strawberry. I used the cuttlebug to give 1/2 of the card a design, this is one of the new folders from the last release and I love it. I mounted this all on a light yellow bazill cardstock card base.
It just felt like summer................ have a drink on me and enjoy ladies!
Tata-
Heidi

For those new- check out my Blog Candy Roll Call- lots of beautiful work and some goodies too!

The Mega Load!

Boy, I hope that blogger can accomodate all that I need to do today. I have busy trying to make cards following some of the fun challenges out there. As I have said, I do better if I can really use someone's design or if they just tell me what to use (does that sound silly or what? ) So, this first card is for the Friday Sketchers Challenge. This week Kimmie is the sketch designer and so I used her sketch and just tweaked a few things with it. This little mouse is a Whipper Snapper I believe and I used the copics to color him in. I then used glaze for the suckers and stickles for the ice cream and the ice cream he is sitting on. I think he turned out so cute.
The next picture is for the challenge on Papertake which was to make a Christmas card. Now, I have not even thought about Christmas and as you can see I even shot the photo in the back yard with the greens. Hanna is decorating her Christmas Tree which has lots of sparkled. I paper pieced her skirt from the opposite side of the paper which is K&Co and it just isn't Christmas colors so I enjoyed that.

Are you ready for one more? Possibly two- yeah, can you believe that I have 4 to post that I have done! Yikes................ I am already having problems with the system so lets try the Spoonful of Sugar Challenge picture. It had to be a High Hopes, Sarah Kay or a couple other brands and so I chose this little guy. I got this dog because he reminds me of our dog that passed away- just love him. Anyways- I am using paper from the DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies and the SU Gable Green, added a few primas to make it a little girly. I had to change the sentiment because I always got licks from Saibo. What do you think? Ok, Saibo never had a pink collar either but well- I just had to "bling" it up some! LOL!

Okay, one last one and this is for the CuteCard Thursday challenge which I have never done before. It had to be something "In the HOuse" and well, what else do we have in the house but a cup of Java! The papers are some that were sent to me and I believe they are B.G. This is a small 3x3 card because I always need cute little note cards to give as thank yous.

I think that is all that she is going to take today ladies. Thank you so much for looking today- it has been a busy Saturday. Have an awesome weekend!
Heidi

New Color!

I just love this card, it just pops I think. I used Garden Whimsy from the SU line and then I used two of the new colors that SU has put out for Fall 2008. It is Baha Breeze and ....... oh my gosh I forgot the name and can't find my catty. But it is a nice fall/soft orange. I stamped the butterfly in the orange and the flowers in the baha, sprinkled a little stickles on and now they sparkle a little bit. The satin ribbon is from Micheal's dollar bin and it matches perfectly. The corners I did with my piercing matte. The sentiment is actually a partial of a sentiment in my new set (freeby for SAB) called God's Blessings.
I hope you all have a great Friday and catch you later!
Heidi

What is Blog Candy?

Good morning ladies! I just wanted to share with a few of you, for those that are stuck on what blog candy is. I mean, can you eat it? No Can you unwrap it? Well, I guess you can if YOU win it! Can you buy it at the store? Once again- possibly but really, who wants to buy it if YOU can win it!

A lot of wonderfully creative ladies are out there and they offer wonderful little packages of goodies to you- a thank you for visiting their blog. Now, I typically sign up for blog candy if it is a site that I frequent or that I really find creative motivation from that person. It is also a great way to get new viewers to your blog- lets be honest here. But I think that the real thing is that we all like to "give" to others............... and sheesh, who doesn't like to get a little prize here and there, right? (hand waving in air!).

So as you check out my blog- check out those wonderfully creative ladies on my blog candy roll call to the right and who knows what you might win. I added Piper, Jacqui, and Hanne to my list yesterday and today!

Have a good one and I will be back later to show a card I made with 2 new SU colors!
Heidi