Pretty in Purple

Here is my entry in the C4C4 Crazy 4 challenges newest challenge. I used 2 different cuttlebug embossing folders, the middle layer is a paint chip, I also used black ribbon and a Magnolia stamped image. It is one of the new images I got in the Fall surprise stamps. I like how she turned out, hope you all do too.

Happy Crafting,

Janet

SSS22 sketch for the Sweet Shop

Here is my Sketch with a spin It is a lot of fun to do the different sketch contests. I didn't know there were so many places that have them. Hope everyone enjoys my card. The spin for this sketch was to use tan's, black and red. It makes a great fall or Thanksgiving card.

Happy crafting.

Janet

Autum Leaves are Falling

Here is my entry in The Scrapped to a Frenzy sketch contest

I hope I managed to link it correctly.

My card has four matted layers. The center is cut with my nestibilities and has heat embossed maple leaves on it. I used silk flowers and buttons, ribbon and embossed the edges of the center layer of the card in gold. The leaf stamps and verse come from Wal Mart. I bought them a few years ago.

I hope everyone likes my efforts and I know someone will enjoy this card at Thanksgiving time this year.

Happy crafting,

Janet

Ice Cream

As promised here is another of my Sept. sketch cards. I love this little Magnolia image. I think she turned out really cute. As with the other card I used colored pencils for my image. One of these days I will figure out how to use the water color pencils so that things look good. So far I am having problems and they don't turn out very well. I hate ruining my images so I don't do the water colors much.

Everyone have a wonderful day. I am going to do some yard work. The sun is shinning and the weeds are growing so I need to get busy.

Happy Crafting,

Janet

Midnight Magic week #20 sketch challenge

Here is my entry for the Midnight Madness sketch #20 contest. Thanks Priscilla I think I have it now.

Janet

Beading class results

Here is a scan of the bracelet I made today. It is a new pattern for me and is called a Diamond Back. I am in the process of making a second one. Always do that when I do a new pattern so I can get it fixed in my mind. I think it turned out pretty nice. Love my new emerald crystals. I bought a pack of them from Firemountian since they are my birthstone so I want to make myself some pretty jewlery.

Off to mow the lawn. Enjoy your day everyone.

Janet

Cupcake revised

As per a suggestion from one of the ladies on Just Cards I have cut out the white cardstock between the legs of my image. She looks so much more finished now. Thanks for the help ladies. I guess we all need to learn not to forget the little things. As I have said in an earlier post I welcome any positive suggestions on how to improve my tech. We are all learning something new each day.

I am off to a beading class in a few minutes. This is a new craft for me so I am learning a lot of new things and fighting thread as you who bead will understand.

Happy crafting,

Janet

Cupcake

Here is one of the newest Magnolia stamps. I don't know the names of the little girls but this one is so cute. The cupcake stamps are from inkadinkado. This was made for a sketch challenge for a group I belong to, so someone will be getting her next month.

Nite all,

Janet

Smell the flowers

This is one of the 3 sketch cards I made for my HMCFE group. The little girl I received from a image swap on Just Cards. I used colored pencils to finish off the image and matted it on light blue, using pink and a multi colored pattern paper to finish off the sketch. They all turned out great and I will share the others in the next few days.

We had a great time making baby quilts today. Five other ladies came and we managed to get 11 completly finished, 10 still need tieing, 4 are sandwitched and ready to finish off and we have a couple dozen tops made and ready to add batting and backs too. We will have more ladies there to work on Sunday so I hope to get most of them finished. My goal is to get at least 50 completed quilts. At the moment my back/shoulders are hurting but it will be fine by morning. Bell Choir practice tonight so I guess I should take a short rest. Thanks for looking at my site and have a good evening.

Janet

Fall is in the air

Cool temps. at night now, fall is on it's way. I will need to start getting my flower beds cleaned and ready for winter.

Cantata rehearsal went better than I had expected, I am going to enjoy this new experience in my life. Today I am working at the church making baby quilts for our Faith in Action program. I organize the quilt portion of the event and decided to have an extra day to sew this year. This way we will have more quilts to send to the mission in Mexico that we help out each fall. I am hoping to have a room full of ladies to work on the quilts. We will work again on Sunday and then I will mail the quilts off to their new home.

My card today is string embroidery, tulips to remind us of spring. The little butterflies are easy to make out of silk flowers. Just clip off one petal, glue to your card attach a crystal for the body and draw in the antenna and flight path.

Have a great day,

Janet

Recycling old cards to make something new

For this card I cut a card I had received into two pieces and matted them on black. I matted a piece of blue that went with the pictures in black and placed it in the middle of my card. I then fastened my two recycled pictures to the card. Stamped and embossed the flourishes on the top and bottom and there you have it a beautiful card. The inside verse on this one makes it a Thinking of You card. You can do any kind of card and make double use of some of the cards you receive that are too pretty to throw away.

Happy crafting,

Janet

Created today - Pretty in Blue

I made this today using one of the images I received in a swap with Annika on my Just Cards group. Not sure who makes the stamp but I think it is a Magnolia stamp. I used colored pencils to color the image and a Fiskers corner punch for the edges.

I hope you enjoy the card.

Janet