A (very) quiet day...

My (big) boy is having a play date today, and despite my very best efforts to force my (little) boy to stay awake and play with me, he'd much rather sleep! So... I've been forced to try and entertain myself. ;)

After a tea and a lovely snack of toast with apple butter, I got to 'work' on playing along with some challenges.

Lucky me, today is new colours day at one of my favourite challenges, the ColourQ (btw, if you haven't played along with them, you really should. They have a great team who comes up with wicked colour combinations - and the DT cards are always so pretty). Today's colours were Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie and White.

I used the colours to make this cute little Hot Chocolate holder for my son's friends for halloween. I found the tutorial on YouTube and couldn't wait to try it. I ended up making two of them exactly the same. They are going to two sisters, so I didn't want one to turn out better than the other ;)

Boo! 

 (CQC107)

I also played, for the first time (!!), along with Friday Mashup. How cool is that concept?! Their challenge this week was to choose one of the following:
1. Create a card with snowflakes
2. Create and easel card
3. Or "Mash it up" and create an easel card with snowflakes


I love the quote here: "A snowflake is winter's butterfly". I have a thing for snowflakes. I find them absolutely fascinating, and in fact, I have one tattooed on my foot.

I chose to do the mashup #3. I just recently learned how to create a twisted easel card when I was a guest at an SU demonstrator meeting, and couldn't want to try one for myself from scratch. Also, for the first time, I tried my hand at paper-piecing. Although time-consuming, I love the results and had tons of fun.

Merry Christmas

(FM28)

I'll be attending a Christmas Card class on Friday, and after that, I think I'll be done with Christmas cards for this year! Yipee!

Materials used for "Boo":

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock:Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie

Paper: "Pocketful of Posies" DSP, "Well Worn" DSP

Stamps: "Boo!" from Tiny Tags

Ink: Early Espresso

Embellishments: Lucky Limade ruffled ribbon, Pumpkins (??)

Tools: Decorative Label punch, Corner rounder (EK)

 

Materials used for "Merry Christmas":

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock:Early Espresso, Pool Party, Whisper White

Paper: "Mom's Diner" and some random plaid (both Recollections)

Stamps: "Merry Christmas" and snowflakes (Recollections)

Ink: Pool Party, Chocolate Chip

Embellishments: Pool Party ruffled ribbon, White ribbon (??)

Tools: Large Oval punch, Decorative Label punch, Scallop edge punch (EK)

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

-tb:oxo

Play Date Time

My take on the Play Date Cafe colours for this week: 

(Love the doorway image from the story board... and the bed! Would never have thought to decorate my room in those colours, but it sure is gorgeous.

Thinking of You

 

 (PDCC103)

Materials used:

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock:Whisper White, Island Indigo

Paper: Cajun Craze DSP

Stamps: "Hello" from Tiny Tags, "Thinking of You" from Essence of Love

Ink: Island Indigo

Embellishments: Buttons from my stash, Twine (The Twinery)

Tools: Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch

 

 

 That's it for today, promise ;)

-tb:oxo

A burst of colour

With all the comfort food, crunching leaves, and fireplace fires going on these days, there's no doubt it's fall! But I was in the mood for something a little more colourful today.


Using the Mojo Monday sketch, this was my attempt at recapturing the essence of summer (bright colours and pears! yum). And believe it or not - those cute little brackets were made using the Stampin' Up! Decorative Label punch. I LOVE finding new ways to use punches.

Quite the 'Pear'

(MOJO211)

Materials used:

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock: Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo

Paper: Anne Griffith

Stamps: Quite the Pear set (Studio G)

Ink: Lucky Limeade

Embellishments: Ruffled ribbon in Lucky Limeade, Pearl dots (MS)

And just for fun, I made this card. Another one of those "just because" cards to send my ma over on the island :)

Hello

This one was totally CASEd from the Stampin' Up! catalog (pg 103)

 

** ask me how disappointed I am that the "hello" is crooked **

Materials used:

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock: Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White

Paper: Random stash paper

Stamps: "Hello" from Tiny Tags, Bird (Michael's find...)

Ink: Wisteria Wonder

Embellishments: "Blossom" twine (The Twinery), Pearl dot (MS)

Tools: Scallop Border punch (EK)

Thanks for visiting! Have a wonderful Monday :)

-tb:oxo

Making Robots - Part 2!

If you've missed "Making Robots!" part one, you can catch all the fun here :)

A year later, our robot has become a little more sophisticated - most notably with moving parts! What most amazed me during all this was how much more 'structured' his imagination was. Whereas last year it was a simple "glue and stick" philosophy when it come to construction, this year, he really built the robot with a vision.

He gave it a face, hair, arms and even shoes! I love watching this kid grow and learn :)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend :)

-tb:oxo

Mmm autumn!

I love autumn. Not quite so much as I love spring (which means everything is going to turn green again!), but there is something so cozy about the colours, smells and tastes of fall.

This week's Pals Paper Arts challenge was to do a fall/thanksgiving/halloween themed project using this picture as inspiration. My oh my, how I wish I had a front entrance as inviting and festive as that! Alas, mine is about one tenth of the size, crowded, and the only thing rustic about it is the long-forgotten mailbox - which is actually more rusted, than rustic ;)

Last night I was fortunate enough to be a guest at a meeting filled with lovely ladies and lovely projects. Bottom line, it was lovely! We did a project using the Spice Cake DSP, and luckily for me, I had the foresight to purchase it a few weeks ago. So with that beautiful paper in my hot little hands, I created the following:

Every Leaf

(PPA115)

In other news my baby is 1 month old today. I just can't get over how quickly time passes when you get to spend your days in the company of such awesome little boys! :)

Materials used:

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla

Paper: Spice Cake DSP

Stamps: No stamp! Printed on my computer...

Ink: No ink! I know... for shame.

Embellishments: Ruffled ribbon in Pool Party, brad (random)

-tb:oxo

Very Merry Color Throwdown!

I still can't believe that I'm making Christmas cards! But then, it really is only 2 months away!! Today's card is using colours from the Color Throwdown challenge. I used the herringbone technique again, because I love it so much!


Once I saw the colours for this week's challenge, I was so excited, because they are all used in the Pocketful of Posies DSP pack - which I really, really like.

Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzaz, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso

Very Merry

(CTD163)

Materials used:

(All SU unless otherwise stated)

Cardstock: Pear Pizzaz, Early Espresso, Poppy Parade

Paper: Pocketful of Posies DSP

Stamps: "Very Merry" from Short & Sweet set, Penguin (??)

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Yo-Yo Yellow, Kiwi Kiss, Gray, Blue Bayou

Tools: Blender Pen, 2-way glue pen, Scallop punch (EK), Corner punches (EK), pearl dots (MS)

Thanks for looking :)

-tb:oxo

Key to my heart

"I got this from the school library. Did you know you could just borrow books from there?!" - Finn Hudson

I started watching "Glee". My sister-in-law lent it to me, and it's become my secret obsession :) This line cracked me up...

Anyway... moving on ;)

Made this card for two challenges: Mojo Monday sketch, and ColourQ colour challenge.

 Key to my heart

 (MOJO210)

(CQC106)

Off to borrow some books from the library :)

-tb:oxo