Orange Sunrise

Well the sunshine we had this weekend was short lived!  Pouring rain and clouds are back. :(  It has brought some of the color out in the leaves though, so I guess it isn't all bad.

This is my latest creation as the October Guest Designer for I Heart {Ippity}!  It was so gloomy and the first card was so cheery that I decided to make a whole set of "thank you cards" to brighten anyone's day. :)

 To make the cards I used paper from Echo Park- Seasonal Stripe (backside), Bazzill- Olive Green & Orange Shimmer, Melissa Frances- Daniel, and a Memory Box card base- Squash.  Pumpkin StazOn ink stamped the half sun from the Quotes a'la Happy set and the sentiments come from the Simple Things set.

In each set, you get all the images you see on some fab red cling rubba'!  Makes for a nice little mix 'n match fun don'cha think?  

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.  I'm spending all day Saturday in a literacy class and Sunday I'll be having fun making tags with some PTI friends in Burlington.  Maybe I'll get some tags photographed and posted next week. :)

I've "let it shine" as these fun places:

For Your Inspiration- Photo inspiration- I chose the all the colors :)

Do You Stack Up- Use your scraps- the orange paper and the blue polka dots were scraps

Crafts and Me- Orange- I ADORE orange

Discoveries

Here's yet another card from the illustrious kit.  :)  The sun has been out for the last 2 days, it's been summer-weather warm, and a 3 day weekend is just what we all needed here in the Northeast!  Yahooey!

We have an amazingly large dragonfly that buzzes us when the sun is out.  Really, I think he could haul off with the corgi or at least the tabby!  Biggest one I have ever seen.  So of course when I die cut the orange shape, and it looked so sunny, the dragonfly stamp had to be added!

A sunny yet "fallish" card perfect for a day like today.  The die is from PTI, the orange paper is BG from the Life of the Party line, and the rest is from the kit.

With the passing of the great American inventor Steve Jobs, this sentiment rings even more true.  Encourage discoveries in your life today!

I've buzzed around and discovered some wonderful challenges here:
DYSU- Brown
Fussy and Fancy- Fall or Halloween (fall colors)
PaperPlay Challenges- Autumnal colors

Guest Designer for...

I'm so excited!  I've been sitting on this for a while and now I can finally say that I am the October Guest Designer over at I Heart Ippity!!!

As part of this cool gig Heather shared some of her awesome stamps with me!  I sat down with my kit club papers and the Top Tip Tuesday sketch to come up with this creation. :)

The sentiment stamp is from the Quotes a' la Happy set.  The papers are Kaisercraft Hunt & Gather (the blue ppr is cut with an MFT die), BG scrap of Jasmine & Olive (die cut with a MFT doily die), card base from Memory Box trimmed to a 4.25"X 4.25" base (and the rusty wine scrap is leftover from another MB card base after I trimmed it down). 

So watcha think?

I'm bringing some sunshine over to these fab places:
Top Tip Tuesday- Sketch
Crafty Cardmakers- Anything Goes
Crafty Purple Frog- Lots of Layers

Rain, Rain Go Away!

Seriously!  It has been raining since Tuesday of last week!  Schools were delayed on the North Shore because of flooding.  Some areas got 6 inches in like an hour!!!  These cards seemed very apropos of the day/week.  They all used paper from this kit I used on WCMD with some orange BG & brown BB stash paper 'n Memory Box card bases.  The die and stamp are from MFT and the felt is from PTI.

Rain, Rain Go Away version A

Rain, Rain Go Away version B (the die on this one if from PTI)

Rain, Rain Go Away version C

Cute as she is, I'd rather stop having to be her. LOL!  So which one do ya like best?

I've put on my wellies and headed to see these folks:
Creative Belli- Paper piecing
Paper Crafting Journey- Die cuts or punches
Truly Scrumptious- Distressing
Fab 'n' Funky- Die cuts or punches
Cupcake Inspirations- Image inspiration

Gettin' sketchy with it

Apologies for not getting a post up on Sunday or Monday especially after that teaser on Saturday.  The rain was miserable on Sunday, but the good news is that I have more posts coming all this week with fun stuff.  So tune in, I promise it won't disappoint. :)

Hey folks it's another fun Tip Top Tuesday and this week we have a wicked awesome sketch for you!  But don't go yet, scroll down to see the pics and find out about more to come.

Now most of you know I am a teacher by day and crazy crafter by night. :)  What you might not know about most teachers (spoiler alert) we are always looking for loopholes to rules. Ironic huh. LOL!  So when I saw this sketch I went outside the card or layout box an decided to make gift tags instead.  Who says a sketch can't be used for tags too? :)

It didn't seem fair to make only one little tag and really wouldn't be much fun to make just one, so I came up with five.  I had that kit to use up after all. :)  Mom had one of the original "bugs" when I was a kid and I still remember riding around in it with her.  It didn't quite have this custom paint job though. LOL!

If you have peeked at the sketch, then you may be asking yourself "where is the flourish that's supposed to be at the bottom?"  Well here's my other "loophole".  I used a splatter dot stamp to add some random detail to mimic the swirl.

The vw bug stamp is from PTI (and I used the coordinating die to cut it out).  The tags are office supply tags, ribbon from the stash, Bazzill tealish paper, and I backed/outlined the office tag with Kaisercraft Forage paper.

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So hop on over to Top Tip Tuesday and see what the sketch and the rest of the DT has hotwired for you. :)

I've zoomed over here with these tags:
PaperPlay- Autumnal Colors
The Kraft Journal- Lavish Layers
Ribbon Carousel- Anything Goes