Falling Leaves Card

This has been one busy week for me. My oldest son had oral surgery on Wednesday (which went very well) and this morning I went on a class trip with my middle son, had a nice lunch with my hubby and finished off the day with an open house at the school!!! Tomorrow is a P.A day for my boys so all day it has felt like Friday but with the boys home tomorrow will mean that it will be a very busy day.

With everything I had going on today I was lucky enough to get some time in my craft room. I have been having a lot of fun creating fall cards and today I was back at it making another one :)

I made a video for my YouTube channel describing my card so I thought that I would share that here too:

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

 

 

 

Lots of Crafting!!! :)

Today was a quiet day for me at home. I took my moochy poochy hound dog out for two long walks and got lot of things done around the house and fit in some crafting time too!!!

I don't have much crafting to show you today, I recorded a video for YouTube that needs to be edited and posted. I made a video tutorial creating a another fall shaker card (the same as the one I posted on Sunday), so I will get that ready and posted over the next couple of days.
Here are the two finished shaker cards on a shelf above my kitchen sink waiting for me to fill them out and get them out into the mail...lol

I have crated a couple more backgrounds for upcoming YouTube videos but I thought that I would share them here today :)

The background on the right was created with some distress inks and the one on the right was make with my Inktense pencils. I love how they both turned out and I also love how different they both look!!

 I hope you have a great night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Falling Leaves Shaker Card

I love this time of year, all the beautiful colours, the crisp air (well not today, it was 24 with a humidex of 28!!!) and looking forward to all the wonderful things to come :)

After a lovely morning at church I had some time this afternoon at my craft table. I have been looking forward to crafting for fall and today was a lot of fun doing just that!!
Todays card is a fun shaker card:

I have been planning this card ever since I received the Papertrey Ink Shaker and Sprinkles kit back in August. I used the oval dies for this card and for the inside and background I have used the PTI falling leaves stamp set. The leaves inside the shaker are cut from the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge and inked up with Fire Brick red Distress ink.

I hope you have a lovely Sunday night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Happy Fall

With this being the last weekend of summer I am looking forward to fall. The leaves have started to turn and the colours are just beautiful.
This time of year I love to send out fall cards, I get so inspired by all of the beautiful colours around me and it's a great reason to say hello to family and friends :)

Todays card is a layered card with lots of colour!

I started off with some water colour paper and distress inks. I grabbed my Fire Brick red, Mustered Seed yellow, Wild Honey orange and Peeled Paint green. I water coloured all the colours all together for the background and then layered some vellum over top to soften the colours up a little.

I cut this cute little tag from my Cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolhouse and stamped the sentiment from the Papertrey Ink stamp set Falling Leaves. The yellow, orange and red leaves were cut with my Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge and inked up around the edges with the same colour distress inks as the background.

I had a lot of fun creating this card and I hope to make a couple more through the week :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



A Card For a Friend :)

Well here we are at the end of another week and I am really looking forward to the weekend!! We don't have any real plans but I have a couple of things that I would like to do :)

I have not had much time at my craft table this week but I did manage to make a card the other day. I made this card for a really close friend, who has been very busy at our church getting things organized and set up for a lot of our children's groups. I know this can be a very busy and overwhelming task, so I wanted to make a little card to show her some encouragement.

I used my Cricut and Plantin Schoolhouse cartridge to cut out the heart and put some watercolour behind. I used three distress markers to paint the background on the watercolour and then splattered the front of the card with the remaining colour. The sentiment is from a My Favorite Things stamp set, Cheerful Blessings. 

I love how this card has turned out and I really love that stamp set. I have had a chance to play with it over the last couple of weeks and cannot wait to share what I have created :)

I hope you have a great night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Trampolining...

It's been a really busy couple of days here for me, the weekends seem to just fly by!!! My oldest son was away on a sleep over and I had a bus
y day on Sunday at church.

About a week ago our neighbour gave us their trampoline that they were no longer using and our boys have just LOVED it!! They have coined a new term when referencing our new trampoline: "Hey mom, can I go trampolining"...lol

 Here is Bobby showing off his moves for me, so I thought I would grab my camera... I'm glad I did because what a fun shot!!! :)

I was humming a hawing about what to do for out neighbours to say thank you and a friend suggested I should bake them some cookies, so that's what I did!! I made them this card to go with the cookies:

I used my Create a Critter Cricut cartridge for the two houses and a Papertrey Ink stamp set for the thank you sentiment. I wasn't sure about the thank you neighbour part because of the spelling but in the end I thought it was to cute to pass it up and it fit my thought exactly!!!

On a much different note I thought I would share another picture of Bobby with on of his favourite things, a Tim Horton's smile cookie! He has loved these cookies for the last four years and today Mike surprised him with one after supper :)

I had a nice surprise today too, I had some happy mail!!! When I got home I had these lovely crafty goodies waiting for me in my mail box:

On September 1st Simon Says Stamp started their Stamptember and released a lot of new goodies. I have yet to decide what to order but I did know that I would love to have a nice new yellow ink. I know that is a rather odd thing to order on its own but I only have two dark yellow so this would be a welcome addition and by ordering the yellow ink I received these balloon dies for free!!! I cannot wait to play with my new goodies tomorrow and test out this yellow :)

Well I hope that you have had a great day today!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



A Very Pretty Surprise!!

Over the last couple of days my husband has been away on a training course for work.  He has to travel for work about once a month and when he's away we all miss him a lot!!
Today when he got home he brought me this pretty little surprize...

I love flowers, they are just so cheerful!!! It really brightens any room and I really love just passing by and looking at them, it really cheers me up!!

I love that crafting is such a fun and happy thing but every once and while it's sad when you need to pull out those with sympathy stamps. Well today was one of those days for me.
My son wanted to give his teacher a sympathy card, she has just lost someone close to her and he would like to show her he cares.

I did not want to make anything to fancy, I kinda think less is more, especially with a sympathy card. I used my Simon Says Stamps Handwritten Borders stamp and a Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl