So hubby and I are headed out for a long weekend soon, so I'm posting a bunch of cards quickly, and I apologize for the lack of commentary (and poor bookmark photo)!! 
Materials- paper from my stash, Brads: makingmemories, Gems: Recollections, Ink: Staedtler, Ribbon: Offray
So hubby and I are headed out for a long weekend tomorrow, so I'm posting a bunch of cards quickly, and I apologize for the lack of commentary!! 
Color Chef Challenge #11- white & tan
So hubby and I are headed out for a long weekend tomorrow, so I'm posting a bunch of cards quickly, and I apologize for the lack of commentary!!
Wow, isn't this card gorgeous!?! Well it's from sweet Gretchen over at Happiness is... There was a little mix up during a recent blog birthday bash and we had to switch prizes, hehe, no problem, and she included this super sweet card when she mailed my gorgeous BasicGrey pad over to me! Again, so beautiful! Go check out the rest of her work on her blog, you won't be sorry ;)
Quick post before heading to bed. This is for CB's Movie Inspired challenge this week! I chose Passion of the Christ. Intense, moving, emotional movie. I used my new BasicGrey paper for bkgd, ANW brown paper, K&Co gems, Mark Richards letters, stampcraft ink for distressing (along with edge distressing and sanding), and kraft ribbon.
This is for Moxie Fab World's go green, find vintage theme this week- to use one actual "old" item! The decorative piece on the left was off an old entertainment center. The lace is also from an old sewing kit, I think, that was passed down to me. I distressed and sanded the edges of the patterned paper and also crumpled it. The colors ended up fitting the Raspberry Suite Color Challenge too! :)
Materials- Paper: DCWV (patterned), Stamps: K&Co, Ink: stampcraft, Brads: makingmemories, Sentiment: Cloud 9 Design
Mother's Day
My little brother just got his license, scary! My mom will be giving her Camry to him once her '91 Bimmer is finished in the shop (it's been there for about 2 years, so now they have to put a rush on it hehe). Well, I picked him up just a little gift- some shammies and a big sponge so he can help clean HIS car! So I put a little decorative wrapping on it with a note- used the 2RedBananas/CPS sketch for the week and the colors from Raspberry Suite Color Challenge. The paper was all from my stash, Offray ribbon, makingmemories brads, and Stickopotamus letters! Super simple, and I think he'll like it :) Well, mom might like it more because now she can tell him to go wash all the cars!
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I'm putting together my Father's Day gift for my dad and needed to figure out a way to package some Adirondack Maple Syrup I picked up this weekend. My MIL found huge boxes of white fry boxes at a local swap shop (a place at the dump where you can bring good stuff you just don't want/need/have room for anymore!) so I decided to put one to use! I added some Me & My Big Idea background paper, some JoAnn brads, Offray and Micheals ribbon, and some extra paper from my college's school store and best occasions, then topped it off with some Current letters and bang! This is what I got, using the sketch from Sketch & Stash. I'm also entering in Caardvarks' 3-D challenge for the week!
So my hubby was having a long week and culminated with an event that he reaaally didn't want to go to, and he just left to come home now. So I wanted to make a card to cheer him up. I thought I was done with cards n such for the day, but I somehow ended up making another one! Don't ya love it when that happens ;) hehe. Anyways, I added a few elements from different challenges in on this one- 365's Super Sketchy Sunday, combined with Jennie's candy giveaway and the dragonfly element, and color chef challenge of black, white, and another color (light blue for me!). Well, I should get going before he gets home! :)
This is the last part of the baby gifts that I'm sending out tomorrow to my friend who is expecting her first bouncing baby boy :) She's due soon too! Sorry, that just dawned on me, hehe. They are baby announcements, using the sketch from The Fresh Batch. The back is a stamped image that has "name: weight: length:" etc.
So as part of a baby gift package I'm sending to my friend, I'm including some bookmarks (seen a few weeks ago) for reading little ones bedtime stories :) I created a package for the bookmarks, and the layout for the top flap is a take on The Sweet Stop's sketch this week. When I traced the yellow circle, I really like the bleeding effect it left on the ribbon, unintended, but I like it :)
This is a framed card project for a friend of mine who's expecting her first little girl! The layout is this week's CPS sketch, the colors match Stampin For the Weekend's first challenge of purple and yellow (though late, forgot the time difference:/). I included the cute ribbon frame from this week's Next Level challenge... and their handmade prima's from last week! Cindy's Blog over at CPCM had a cute challenge (CPCM-FOF09), to identify her two themes and make a card... well she posted the themes over at the gallery- veggies and fruits! (initially my guess was circles and foods that grow on trees/vines) Anyways, note the grapes on the frame, and the close up photo where you can see the stem inking and curly vines! :) 
