Simple Elegance

First of all Happy Friday!!! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend ahead. Mine is going to be okay. My hubby is going hunting for the weekend so I am kinda bummed not having him with me. But I am a big girl and have done this many times before. I did decide though, since I actually have family so close I might as well take advantage of the time and go visit for the weekend. I do have a correction to make. I might actually have something to show you on Monday, Tuesday at the latest, probably. So please come by and see what you might find.

As for my project for today. I decided to go simple and tried another ATC. I wanted to be simple and not too over done.

I started with the paper which is PTI and added some Summer sunrise cardstock. I stamped the "happy harvest" (from PTI my punny valentine set) in palette brown. I also stamped the nut out from the same set and it was inked using caramel caramel and chalk's eye dark brown ink.

I figured it needed more but decided against the ribbon. I remembered the pumpkin stamp I got from Target's $1 spot and stamped that in the same chalk dark brown. I was going to color it in but decided I like the simple look of it. Then I couldn't leave the other corner empty so I got out some brown jewels I had (I think they are from Michael's).

I think that is it. Have a great Friday!!! And most importantly, thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy

Gotta love the oldies

Seriously, I am an oldies freak. I love just about everything oldies. If I could have been born in the 1950s I would be in heaven. I love everything about it. Of course, since I was born in the time I was born I am sure I would miss some of the "necessities" we have now. My favorite music is the 50s and 60s and some 70s. Of course, I am a product of the 80s (shudder, I actually fought that for a long time but you can't deny the truth for long) and there is a lot of the music I like but not much else.

What does all this have to do with my crafting? Well, not a whole lot just the fact that I didn't get a chance to get in my craft room yesterday. Busy day and then we had to "go into town" to wal-mart to get a few things that are needed for this weekend. Which, by the way, I will be gone so I won't have anything next week until Wednesday. My hubby is going to Lake Tahoe to go bear and deer hunting and I decided it would be nice to take my boys and spend the weekend with my family.

See, off on a tangent again. Anyway, because of our trip to the store I wasn't able to get in the craft room last night so I decided that I might as well show you something. Then I remembered that I have some stuff in my splitcoast gallery that some of you might not have seen. How fun to go back in time. Please don't laugh too hard, okay? hehehe No you can, I know.

Have a great Thursday and thanks for stopping by!!! i will do my best to get something new on here for you tomorrow.

Make a card and make a difference

Gina K. is the designer/owner of Gina K. Designs stamps has come up with this great idea. She is offering up some awesome candy from Gina K. What do you have to do? Just make some holiday/winter cards, send them to her, she will send them to the troops and you get a chance to win some goodies for every card you send. Let me rephrase that, for every card you send you get another chance at winning the goodies.

With all of that said, here is one of the cards I made for the troops. Now, this is a card to send to the cards that they can in return send to their loved ones back home.

I have to make this a really quick post so I am going to have to end with all of that. If you want to find out more info go to Gina K's blog here. I have read the blog info and can't seem to find out when these cards are requested to be entered to win those goodies. I have asked Gina K. as soon as I find out anything I will let you all know.

If you have any questions about my card then please feel free to ask.

Thanks for stopping by!!! Hope you have a great Wednesday!!!

Missy

Believe

Happy Tuesday!!! I am so sorry I missed you guys yesterday. I tell you things were just run, run, run, this whole weekend. When I say that we had church activities all weekend I am not kidding. So, needless to say I didn't get any crafting done this whole weekend so nothing to show you yesterday.
I did, however, get in the craft room last night so I would have something to show you today.
So church this weekend was what we call a General Conference. Everyone in the church listens and watches the Conference either with the TV or online or if they are lucky they get to go to where the Conference is held. To try to help me listen and remember what is said I like to write notes about what was said during all the talks.
The reason why I mention all this is because I bought a notebook a long time ago probably from Target at the dollar section, only I think it was $2.50. I had planned to alter it at some point but never did until yesterday.
I used this notebook to write down my notes from Conference and loved it. I decided to pull out this really pretty paper that I have had for a while from Joann's. The paper from the notebook is brown and antique looking so that is what I wanted to do with this paper. Instead of the crisp white background I took some creamy caramel ink and sponged it all over the paper and then used a little more and inked the edges more.
I love the "Believe" from the PTI set "believe". I just thought it worked perfectly for this notebook. The paper is SU! creamy caramel and a blue (LOL, i don't keep track of the colors) The ribbon, I think was again from Michael's, I think. The sentiment was outlined with my clear glitter pen. On the white flowers I inked them a little with my creamy caramel, again, I was just trying to take away some of the starkness of the white. The little flowers are all primas and the brads are joann's specials hehehe. I used my SU! punch to punch the edge for the the spiral and then I used modge podge to put the paper on the front and back covers. (tip: if you are altering a notebook and want to use modge podge make sure you can't take the covers off before you modge podge. I made that mistake and tried to use the modge podge while the covers were still on the spiral and ended up having to tear the modge podge off after it dried, fun times ;P)
Alright I think that is enough talk for now. Thanks for stopping by!!! Have a great Tuesday!!!
Missy

ETA: thank you Lorie. i was in such a hurry to write the post that I forgot to post the picture.

WCMD!!!

I unfortunately haven't had the chance to do much crafting today. This is a busy weekend for my church but I did want to come on here for a moment.
HAPPY WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!!
I hope the rest of you have had some fun in the craft room or have plans to do some card-making today. I will be back Monday with some eye candy for you.
Missy

MFT card

I was out late getting things done and trying to get some rest before work tonight. I work Thursday night/Friday mornings, don't get any ideas it is legal and way below my educations level hehehe (I am the paper delivery boy :P)

Anyway, Happy Friday!!! It is the weekend and one more day before WCMD wooohooo!!!

I sat down to make something and had no idea what to do. I realized I haven't used my MFT stamps in a LONG time so I went with that. I wanted to use the farm girl and thought she would work for a garden girl as well.

I paper pieced her shirt and pants. The shirt PP is from Joann's and her pants were paper pieced with kraft paper. Have you noticed I have been using a LOT of kraft paper. I am so going to have to buy some more. White just seems too crisp for me right now, I am trying to tone things down.

The ribbon is from a Michael's $1 find, I used versamark ink to stamp the flowers on the top part (red portion). The brown flowers are from Joann's as well (I think hehehe). The brads are Queen & Co.

I think that is about it. Have a great Friday!!! Thanks for stopping by.

Missy

ATS Challenge

Happy Thursday!!! The week is almost over and then we can relax for a little while, right? Yeah, sure.

I am sorry I am getting this on here late. I almost forgot last night to get in the craft room and make something. Luckily I did remember and also remembered that All That Scraps has a design team challenge. The challenge was a sketch. I just had to play along. Layout challenges are so fun because half of the work is done for you.

I wanted to use PP for the panels because I haven't used PP in a really long time and I do have a lot just hanging around. I was going to try to figure out a way to incorporate a certain color into my design but then I noticed a paper pack I bought a while back at Joann's and found 3 different but nice patterns that go well together. It makes the card more of an elegant, chic type card. It isn't really my style but I really like it. I think the PP pack is DCWV and is called "Old West". The matting is the opposite side of some PTI chocolate PP.

I also stamped the cute little bear on the same PTI paper just on the back side and that was matted with PTI Spring Moss.

The jumbo eyelets are from SU! and the ribbon is a Michael's $1 spot find (I just flipped the ribbon over because it was a little too harsh of a color but had a nice pattern). The flower is a find I found at Hobby Lobby while I was in Kansas for my brother's wedding and the brad is just a Joann's pack of brads. I colored the bear in with prismacolor pencils and baby oil. A tip: when using paper that has a pattern on the back side make sure you use as little baby oil as possible or use dark colors. Otherwise I found that the pattern will show through. I am not sure if that is the same for OMS but I did notice it when making this card.

Well, I think that is about it. I really hope that your Thursday is a great one!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Missy