Another Rainy Day in :London!

It is Saturday- do you know what that means?
Another Drunken Stampers challenge! Yeah baby- our place this week is LONDON! Or we can use red,white and blue- so I did both! 

When I think of London I think of rain, the Olympics, Big Ben, rain, the royal family, rain, castles, double-decker buses, history, cool telephone booths, rain... so I pulled out some older stamps! The London postage stamp is by Hero Arts and my umbrella gal is from The Greeting Farm; she was colored with Copics. I paper pieced her clothing and the umbrella. The brad buttons were white and I used a red Copic to make them match her skirt. I made the postage stamp frame longer by the way I placed my cutting pads on my Big Kick.
You have to go to Drunken Stampers and see what the rest of the Tropical Hooters team came up with for this challenge- be ready to laugh out loud! Go-what are you waiting for???

Have a wonderful weekend and craft on,
Diane

OWH Sketch #190

Hello- wow, has this week flown by! I just realized that I never posted the winner of my blog candy from the VCMP! The winner is Nancy Y! I contacted Nancy and have mailed the package but I forgot to post it! I was quite the blog slacker this week!

This week's OWH sketch is based on a card made by Carol L:
                      

                      

Carol makes fabulous cards- visit her blog at 
ourlittleinspirations.blogspot.com. I love her patriotic thank you card- great sentiment!

My card is a digital image by Mo Manning. The red papers are glittery- I wish it photographed better. I left the sentiment off so it can be used for any occasion this winter. Colored with- of course- Copics. I learned to color (for papercrafting) with colored pencils- and have some wonderful Derwent pencils. I am thinking I just may pull them out and give them a try again- no matter the medium- I enjoy coloring- so very relaxing!

I also made a few other cards...a couple of hero cards and some more cards made with the cutie 'meoples' - from CC Designs, I cannot resist coloring this little angel! All very simple, nothing fancy- but I am happy with my creations this week.

I hope you check out all the fun birthday activities going on over at OperationWriteHome.org   You are sure to be inspired and motivated to support this organization and our troops. This time of year the shipping costs skyrocket as we send lots of holiday cards so that our military members can send cards home to all of their friends and family...so if anyone wants to donate to help with shipping costs- let me know or go to OWH and you will see a donate tab. I know lots of  people are starting to think of holiday donations so I would be thrilled if you made a donation to OWH and our very deserving men and women who keep us safe and free!
Craft on!
Diane

Playing OWH Catch-up

Welcome! Today I have a few cards to share!
This past Wednesday-instead of the mid week thrown- OWH and   Unity had a great Blog Hop-  inspiring stamps to make wonderful hero cards!

The tutorial this week was a VCMP recap-I learned lots of new things from the hop!
  http://operationwritehome.org/tutorial-vcmp-review/
 I was inspired by lots of cards at the VCMP and it would be too hard to pick my favorites! Along with the fact that I totally blew the first challenge- I  missed that the card should be a winter or Christmas card...I figured I would try again- plus- I like this sketch!
 So- this card is my do-over! LOL 

The monthly challenge for ODBD was posted yesterday.
http://operationwritehome.org/our-daily-bread-designs-september-challenge/
 ODBD not only gives gift cards to 2 of the card-makers each month, if we create and post 50 cards or more- they pay for the shipping for 2 boxes of cards to our troops! How cool is that?
Our challenge- make a card with wheels!

And today's sketch:
                      
                                  

I will be drawing the winner of my VCMP candy later tonite!

Craft on!

Thanks for visiting,

Diane

Drunken Stampers- Button, Button- Who has the Button?

Looks like a lot of us have the button and plenty to spare!
This week's Drunken Stamper challenge is to use....yup... buttons!
I am sorry I cannot add the graphic for the challenge- Yahoo is being a PIA- and I cannot copy the fun lady to introduce the challenge topic! Boo hoo!
Well- here is my card:

The buttons I had in my stash; the tree trunk is made of square buttons that were ivory and I used a brown copic to color them. I used glossy accents to glue all the buttons to a paper base.

The papers are all Authentique. The clear gems are brads- also from my stash and the red gems were clear flat back stones that I colored with a red copic marker. The banner dies are from LifeStyle Crafts  and the circle dies are Spellbinders.

Please play along with the Drunken Stampers- we all get so excited to see your creations! 

And did you hear....

http://wermemorykeepers.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/great-news-we-r-memory-keepers-purchased-lifestyle-crafts/comment-page-4/#comment-12129

Have a great week and always make time to craft on!

Thanks for stopping by,

Diane

And the Party Continues!

Hello! The OWH VCMP  has been so much fun...the final challenges were posted yesterday. Marlene got the day started with our Sunday sketch- based on a card by Seongsook.
                               

I used papers from a few Christmas 6x6 pads and my image is from Peachy Keen! Love this Santa!

Next challenge: This one almost stumped me.....then I stopped thinking so hard and just had fun! Sybrina K wanted us to make cards for kids....playing tic tac toe to decide what goes on the card!
http://scrappingwithpurpose.blogspot.com/2013/09/owh-vcmp-cards-4-kids.html
                          
I went right down the center row- I stamped and colored the Paper Smooches cow and used a sentiment that came with the set....super easy and fun once I stopped stressing-lol! All the papers are DCWV. I love their glitter paper because it does not rub off so it is perfect for OWH! I mounted the cow on an Action Wobble-let's face it- what kid does not like movement! I remember the simple thrill of spinning on a stool at the donut shop as a kid...it drove my father crazy! 
(LOL I forgot to insert my image of this card...only realized when I went to post it at Sybrina's link! I guess I am tired or old..or both!) 

Next up- Marilyn challenged us to make a fall card. I made my card based on sketch #179. My papers are scraps from other projects-yeah me!- and the sweet little gnome boy is a digital image-and I have no idea who made him-boo me! I regret that I did not save some of my digital images indicating the artist or the store!
http://marilynscards.blogspot.com/2013/09/labor-day-weekend-vcmp.html
                         

Thia challenged us to create a bee card with a bee sentiment. 

http://bluemooncreation.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-un-bee-lievable-challenge-owh-labor.html?m=1

The Stamps of Life stamps  to the rescue-used for the image and the sentiment. I put the bee on an Action Wobble too! Bees very rarely are still...always buzzing around! I used an embossing folder by ProvoCraft to mimic honeycomb!

And our final challenge for the weekend:

Donna inspired us to make a card using the negative of a die or a punch! Loving this! 

http://indianainking.blogspot.com/2013/09/owh-vcmp-play-along.html

This angel is a digital stamp and I know this is from CC Designs- the Meoples line and I am pretty sure the artist is one of my favorites- Amy Young.

I embossed pink cardstock and then cut a circle with a Spellbinders die, then I made a ring from DCWV glitter paper from that circle die and the next size up. I colored the sweetie with Copics and the wings with a Sakura clear star pen. Whenever I use glittery pens-I always use a Sakura clear glaze pen over the glitter- the shimmer shows thru but the glitter is sealed in! I adhered her underneath the circle opening and stamped my sentiment on an EK Success punch. Signo white stitching....and my challenges are complete! 

I have really enjoyed looking at a lot of the cards that have been made for our troops! I am impressed with the talent and creativity and love how everyone is so generous and shares their talent! OWH supporters ROCK!! (like always being on an Action Wobble! lol)

OWH is celebrating their birthday all month long! I am looking forward to more fun and inspiration....it would be great to have some cake and ice cream...some balloons, banners, music...I love parties!

Craft on and thanks for stopping to visit!

Diane

OH MY! What a Wonderful VCMP at OWH

Wow- great party over at OWH this weekend!

I did not have a lot of time to play yesterday- but I was able to make some cards late last nite- I had such fun with the challenges!
I love to see all the challenges as they get me thinking, trying new techniques and exercising the creative side of my brain!
I never posted my Midweek Throwdown- I think I delayed it due to my sadness about Jan stepping down from hosting! I loved her challenges and she was a joy to deal with! I am excited that her soap business is taking off  and I hope she still shares her card making talents with us! Her last challenge-Thank You cards. I have a lot of embossing folders and I want to use them more often...this came together very quickly!

Now onto the VCMP!

http://operationwritehome.org/labor-day-weekend-vcmp-master-thread-2/

Nancy started us off with a great sketch. I was a little frightened- I am horrible on aligning a lot of little pieces but Nancy gave us some tips and it was so easy I made 3 verisions of her sketch! The first was very clean and crisp- I see this as a masculine card! (I used my centering ruler to start the center square!)

I decided to make a more feminine card and ended up with 2!

           

My challenge was next- I cannot wait to check out all the cards...I saw a few and I am thrilled that so many people played along!

Seongsook then challenged us to make a Triple Die Cutting card.
It was fun to make a card without any stamping at all! I had a sheet of penguin die cuts from several years ago and never could figure out how to use them...it was sitting on my table with some of my other winter and Christmas papers....it was meant to be! LOL

Then Annette- celebrating her 29th wedding anniversary-fabulous- challenged us to make a love card with sketch #29-- very clever! I like how she thinks!  I tried to make another more masculine card and I like it! The colors are off- the base is kraft!

And my last card, created with tired eyes, was inspired by Donna, who made a card with a Masking Tape Stamping Technique. I hopped on over to Splitcoast Stampers and checked out a tutorial by Beate Johns. I love how she explains with words and pictures and then a video- I do so much better with a video when learning something new! I had painters tape, distress inks and glossy paper-the only thing I needed was to get over my dislike of messy techniques! LOL  It was not bad at all- I think a bolder silhouette stamp would have been more effective- and a larger sentiment- but I enjoyed this and will definitely try it again!

I am now re-energized and hope to have time to participate in the challenges posted today!
Thanks for stopping by!
ooops- almost forgot- craft on!
Diane

OWH VCMP

Welcome! I am overjoyed that you are here to join in the celebration for OWH's birthday! You show your support for our troops and OWH when you create wonderful cards but how about kicking it up a notch? Create a card with elements that represent each letter of Operation Write Home!
Can you see my homage to OWH?

O~ there are an odd number of octagons and an odd number of rhinestones
W~ warm winter wishes and a woolen hat and scarf,  and the star is mounted on wood
H~ On his head is a hat and he is happy and a tiny bit husky and even though I think those are cranberries- I could pretend they are holly berries!
And as a bonus- I have 1 more O---and ornament on the inside made from honeypop paper! Oooooh- don't you love when there is a surprise inside the card! (This card gets put entirely inside the envelope!)

I used Inky Antics stamps and honeypop paper, Copic markers, Spellbinder dies,  SU punches,Queen and Co gems, and papers from Bazzill, MME, American Crafts and SEI.

Do you need help and some hints, some words to get your creativity into overdrive? I bet if you look at your crafty supplies you will find lots of ways to put a little extra OWH into your cards! It can be in the sentiment, the theme- whatever works for you!

O- orange, ombre, orbit, outer space, over, orangutan, old, oink, one, otter, octopus, owl, oval, whiskers, wobble
W- wagon, wheels, watch, wonder, wag, worm, world, walrus, whale,  wolf, white, wreath, window, welcome, wings
H- hand, heart, hi, hello, howdy, hot air balloon, hero, house, harvest, hugs, helicopter, horse, HO-HO-HO

I hope you have fun with the challenge and share your card with us at the link below! And if you would like to win this very cool tool set by WRMK please leave a comment and a way to reach you- and I will draw a winner on Sept 8, 2013. 

Rocking a Child's World- in a good way!

Welcome! This week the challenge for the midweek throwdown at OWH is to make cards for our troops to send home to children.
I pulled out stamps with funny aliens and got to work!
I like to have some of my cards interactive so I decided to use an Action Wobble- I have not used one in a little while.

                Do you want to see it move? Of course you do!

                           

And here is the OWH sketch for today:

                                 

Jen created the sample card today- check out more of her amazing work at her blog sparklewithin.blogspot.com.

And here is my version...I liked making a card with the sentiment and the patterned paper taking center stage. I stamped 'so much' into some of the speech bubbles. I colored my white ribbon with a copic marker- surprisingly I did not have ribbon to match! The colors look funky here- the main color is a green that matches copic YG95 perfectly and the word bubble paper is a pretty blue. 

My camera skills and lighting are getting worse lately- the greens in the aliens card are also off. I need to try taking my pictures in a different location! In real life, I like the card and the papers and ADORE the sketch!

Have a great week and continue to craft on! Hey- don't forget to join the party at the Drunken Stampers! That pesky Yellow Canary team had more submissions for their twine challenge than the very talented, beautiful and down-right fun Tropical Hooters team had the week before....so come on- join challenge this week- Party Planner/Celebration! The Hooters really need your support! (I love the YC team... a playful competition is brewing....)

Take care and thanks for visiting,

Diane

You are Invited!

Wow- have you checked out all of the great creations that have been entered into the past 2 challenges at Drunken Stampers? Lots of fun and creative people have been getting in on the fun and you are invited to join in too!  Which brings me to this week's challenge:

                              

It's a party! Wahhhooooooo! I used a CTMH stamp and covered her with a purple glaze pen by Sakura- you know I love these pens! They give lots of shine, dry super fast and give some nice texture without bulk! The clipboard stamp is by Unity,the sentiments on the clipboard are from a variety of companies and I used a silver pen by Signo to color in the clip of the clipboard- doesn't it look real? LOL LOL   The ribbon is from my stash and matches the gal perfectly in real life- darn my lighting and camera skills! The zig zag/rick rack/chevron punch is by EK Success, the gems are Queen and Co and the fun ombre paper is by Studio Calico; Atlantic 6x6 pad. {Please take note of the order of importance of my party planning activities.... eat cake....yup. Always at the top of my list!}

Soooooo, I have not received your RSVP yet! Head on over to Drunken Stampers and join the party- no gifts required, no fancy party dress either-just some sharing of creativity and some lighthearted fun! I am sure you would love to be the Life of the Party for this challenge-come on- you can do it! 
Thanks for coming to my tiny little party and yup- craft on!
Diane

Friends, Twine and a Sketch

Welcome! I have a few things to share today.On 8/14/13 the Operation Write Home Midweek Throw-down challenge was posted...create a friendship card. I knew what stamp I wanted to use...one of the girlfriends from Art Impression- I won this stamp -along with many others- during a recent blog hop! I colored my gals and did not have time to create the card until yesterday and then I watched OWH TV and Sandy challenged us to make guy friendship cards! Yikes! Well, I stayed with my original plan and will keep manly cards on my to-do list! I sent a box of cards to Kris yesterday. I actually had to take out my small pile of Christmas/winter cards...they would not fit in the medium flat rate box but I did not have enough cards to fill a large box. I am trying to do better with getting my cards in a few weeks before deadlines so I really wanted to get the box out yesterday-so out came the wintery cards! At least I have a jump start on my next box! LOL

Here is my friendship card! Aren't these ladies a hoot! I added some glaze to the glasses, and use lots of copics to color them in! I wonder what movie they are watching? The curtains are a memory box die and the ticket was made with a WRMK corner punch.

                             

And continuing with the person-place-thing theme, this week the Drunken Stampers have posted a great challenge:

So, I thought I was being all fancy using the scalloped punched to wrap the twine around and I found some very old adhesive backed varigated floss braided trim for a tiny border.... but go look at what the Yellow Canary team came up with and  look at the entries that have been submitted! http://drunkenstampers.wordpress.com/
I feel like I am in kindergarten with my card and everyone else is in a Masters program! lol lol lol  I like my card just fine- as long as it stands on it's own....not up against some pretty incredible cards! 

Now onto today's OWH sketch-which I rotated:

                                         

Paula make a wonderful sample card!(Operation Write Home ) 

I used a Mo Manning digital stamp- soooo stinkin cute! All the papers are WRMK Winter Frost, stash ribbon, colors of copics:

C2,3,5,7   G0000, 00,02    B000, 00,01, 02      E21,51 YR000   R20

OK- that is plenty of chit chat from me today! Have a great week and please do craft on! (yes- Denise- continue to scrapbook- it is relaxing and rewarding!Your kids will thank you!)

Diane

Another Great OWH Sketch

Welcome!  This week OWH posted another great sketch:

Bonnie inspired the sketch with this card- what a sweet little puppy- I love the pop of red! You can see more of Bonnie's creations at bon2stamp.blogspot.ca

I made 2 cards based on the sketch...the red and black has an embossed music scale on the black panel but it is hard to see. And the 3rd card was made just because I had the paper out and decided to use up some scraps!

Craft on and have a wonderful week!

Thanks for visiting,

Diane

Beach Baby Beach Baby Give me Your Hand

Are you humming that song? Do you know the song? Beach baby beach baby give me your hand, give me something that I can remember........   Am I really that old? I cannot remember who sang it or what year! lol 
Today begins my first official post as a designated designer with those crazy gals at Drunken Stampers! We are on a rotation of person, place or thing and this week the challenge is PLACE and that place is the beach! 

This very cool cat is from Penny Black. He is just waiting to jump into the ocean and use those stinkin cute flippers to swim all over the place! I hope he does not lose his shades... I think they are RayBans!

So what are you waiting for? Go make a card or a scrapbook page and join in on the fun....you could be chosen to be the Life of the Party! drunkenstampers.wordpress.com. 
Thanks for stopping by and yes- please do craft on!
Diane