Fall Roses

 

Good Morning! How are you doing post-Thanksgiving and post-Black Friday?  Thought I'd share some non-holiday goodies today.  I figure there will be plenty of time to share more Christmas & Hanukah creations, but these seem kinda fall-ish colorwise.  I'm running outta fall time!

 

I had fun using up the tags I had cut from the pumpkin tags I shared last weekend.  They had a little bit of color on the tags and these were all plain woodgrain.  Rather than use glossy accents to adhere the buttons, I used gold Stickles. Just a hint of sparkle peeks out when you look closely at the buttons.

I love the shabby-chic vibe of these tags.  They'd make a great decoration on birthday, anniversary, or thank you gifts!  Well, I'm off.  We might go to see the trees at the Methuen Festival of Trees.  Gotta go early to beat the crowd!!

Treasure

I thought I'd share a wicked old project.  Remember when Oprah told us about her journal where she wrote something like 10 good things about each day?  Well I thought I would do that, so I recovered a fat mini notebook years ago.  I recently found it in the drawer of my nightstand. :) 

I remember that I had fun creating the sparkle of the paper with Stickles and using different ribbon scraps for the floofy edging.  I didn't follow though with the writing though. :(  I have another project that I'll share that I have used to record memories- I think y'all will like it!

Amy Update-  Sadly she was diagnosed with bladder cancer.  It's fatal in felines, but she is doing well right now.  The vet thinks we'll lose her by the end of the school year (June 28th for us this year).  Of course she also said that my husband and I work wonders with animals (got Cad kinda walking & we had a cat that lived to be 26 years old- no joke), so we could get more time.  Special medicine is coming from NJ, but in the end if the cancer doesn't get her, the medicine used to keep it at bay will trash her kidneys.  We talked about chemo, yup they can do that, but Amy is 18.  I've seen what chemo can do and given the stage she is in, I can't put her through that.  In the meantime we are spoiling her with canned cat food, catnip, and lots of ear scratching (she prefers that to lap sitting!). 

Hug your furry loved ones for us today,

Just My Type & Teaser

Happy Saturday!  Today is my gram's birthday.  I figure I can mention that her gift came from when DH and I went to the Stonewall Kitchen flagship store in Maine last weekend.  We had fun putting a goodie bag together for her. :)  When I mentioned to the cashier that it was all for my gram's birthday she said "Oh, Do you have 10 minutes?  Wait here and I'll make it all pretty for you!"  My goodness!  I wish I had taken a picture before I mailed it.  She bagged it all up and had ribbons 'n pretty stuffing.  It really was so wonderful of her!

School has started and I keep telling myself I should be creating fall-ish cards, but I've a total mess goodies in parts in my workspace begging to be finished!

 

This was one of those begging for a finish. :)  One down and a bazillion to go! LOL!

Now, here's the teaser.  Over at The Hen's Den we're having a sketch off today.  You have to guess who made which project based on the sketch.  One is mine and hopefully the peek above will help you to decide...

Good Luck!

 

What Will You Have?

 

So the majority of you felt that last weeks drinks were appletini's. :) This time it's a variety pack.  So what do you think?  I thinking that the one in the middle is either a Shirley Temple or a Poinsettia. 

I promise you that this was a 10 minute card.  Really.  That's mostly because I never throw anything out. All of this was in my stash.  The scalloped circles and ovals we punched last year by my DFIL and DMIL when they helped me pare down some of my scraps. (thanks Don and Barb!)  I had set some aside to make tags last season and never got to them. :) I had even mounted the BG paper on the red card base last year and then, well, my muse left until the other day!

These cocktails were already colored too!  They were part of the first round of cards that got created (and then cannibalized) when I made the appletini card.  :)  So I guess you would say this was a "10 minutes to prep" and "10 minutes to cook" card a la Rachel Ray. LOL!

Well the card way layered, mounted, foam taped and done in about 4 minutes.  Then I decided it needed a little umph.  I added some shine with my gloss pen and put a little bling on the holly with Stickles.  Just a little, sumthin, sumthin. :)

This card went home with a Stamp Club member at our monthly meeting and raffle this past Tuesday.   My friend, Lisa, taught an A-MAZ-ING punches class that night too.  I may have to craft some goodies to post here using her tips. :)

I've put on my party dress and joined the fun here:

Speedy the Cat's Friends- have a circle on your card

Crazy 4 Challenges- circles

One Stitch at a Time- pick a season or event

The Crafty Pad- use red and green

Cheers!

Cozy Christmas

Okay so I know you are probably thinking "seriously, another Christmas card Moriah?!?" What can I say. I like making them, I send a ridiculous number of them, and I host a pay-it-forward event involving them so I am always thinking Christmas. The irony is that it isn't even my most favorite holiday. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Christmas. I decorate the heck out of my house (actually I con get help from my DH's family to decorate), but Halloween and Thanksgiving are more fun for me, probably because they are less work.  ;)

In keeping with my "deck the halls" spirit, I used my Amuse stamps to "deck a house". :)  Isn't this so stinkin' cute!  I decided to only use brown, blue and white as a color scheme to give a cozy look to the whole card.  It also happens to be the color theme for The Shabby Tea Room Challenge.  Go figure. ;)

I tried to get a close-up shot so you could see that I even Stickled the lights.  This card does really look pretty in the sunlight.  Hope you enjoyed a snowy card on a sunny day!

Better lucky than good...

There's a LONG tale of adventure here. If you just want to see pickies of the card, scroll down a ways. :)

My husband jokes that it's sometimes better to be lucky than good when things go really well for us. Take this past week for instance. We finished celebrating Curious Cupid at school and I got my Reveal Present! Yummy sweets from one of the first grade teachers. I, of course, gave my gal a little basket of cards. :)Then it was time to pack. Tom proposed to me in a little town outside Asheville 10 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary we were supposed to stay at a beautiful cabin near Asheville. Have you heard about all the snow in the South?!?!? We joked about it and drove down to see friends in DC on our way to NC. (To say that DC's neighborhood roads are a disaster is like saying that a broken leg is just a scratch. It is awful to drive on anything but main roads and I love to drive in all weather, on all roads.) Just before we were supposed to leave DC for Asheville I got an email saying we might not be able to get into the cabin because of snow. Well, we figured we'd start the drive anyway and see what we could do when we got there. In the process of leaving we got stuck in our friends driveway, then as the guys were trying to rock push the car, I got a phone call. The owner of the cabin needed to refund my money because there was no way we could get to the cabin with all the snow. (The poor folks in NC, they never get this kinda weather!) What to do?!? Drive to Savannah of course!
We were already driving a long ways and Savannah would only add an 1 1/2 hours to the trip (the Asheville part was going to be a LOT of backroads). We scrambled and found a fantastic place I had been looking at on HomeAway was available. It usually works that you send emails to the owners, but I bit the bullet and called. Jackpot! The owner said the place was available, but worried about how quickly I needed to get in. No worries, I told him, we were a good 10 hours from Savannah. :) We traded a couple of emails for contract/agreements/rules/check-in/directions and then we were off!
The place is gorgeous, but the cold has come to GA. Highs have been in the mid-40's with a heck of a breeze. Glad I had packed for a cabin and not Savannah or I would be cold right now. It's right on River Walk, so the view is amazing!
This is from the little balcony looking to the right so I could get the cobblestones and ship in the picture. It's too cold to sit outside, so I'm sitting on the sofa right now sipping coffee and looking out at the Savannah River (I think that's the name). Yesterday we got the chance to see two huge (I mean HUGE) cargo ships come down the river. It's amazing to see how big those ships are and how quickly they move! Anyway, this loft is in a great walking location to shops and restaurants. We're hoping to be very touristy and go to Lady and Sons for lunch today. :) I'll post pictures if we make it! So basically we got lucky. We had planned for a totally different vacation and ended up with a fantastic last minute Plan B vacation. Life is good right now and we both know it and completely appreciate it.

Now for the inspiration piece!!!
This is a ridiculously easy card. The image is a Penny Black sticker that I Stickled and then stamped some black swirls around. You should see how it sparkles in the light! Folks love these cards and since there are so many PB stickers the possibilities are endless.

What kind of big or small adventure have you had? What great and easy cards have you made? Tell me, tell me, tell me! I love to hear a good tale. :)