Christmas Gift Basket & Craft Fair

Happy Father's Day

Just on my way to bed but thought I would make a quick post.  I have actually done a fair amount of crafting over the weekend....quite amazing for me, mojo has more or less been hiding but peeked its head this weekend lol.  I made my Dad a 12x12 canvas for Father's Day and also made Josh a little gift too.

Hello

Hello!! Wow...just about 2 months since I last posted. So much going on in my life right now my blog just got totally neglected. With everything happening I seemed to of lost my mojo....its is slowly but surely coming back though. Its so frustrating, I will go down to my craftroom and everything I touch just turns out to be a huge mess lol, either that or I just sit and stare at my supplies and can't make up my mind what to use. I have managed to make 2 cards (yay me lol) in the past 2 days, I have no info on them right now....that involves being organized and that just isn't me at the moment. I will post both of them and then I must get my butt into bed....I do promise to try and blog a bit more regularly. I also have been visiting all of your blogs, just not commenting....I will get back into that too!

Thank goodness its Saturday

Not many blog posts from me lately.  I have been sick sick sick, for like 3 1/2 weeks and I just can't seem to shake it, its now a cough....a bad cough, nothing works and I'm coughing all day all night and going BONKERS because of it lol.  On top of that its just been a kind of a crummy couple of weeks, my husband lost his job, his job of 16 years and it honestly came as quite a surprise.  His mill had slowed down and shut down for a couple of weeks but always with the promise that things were going to be okay.  I can't even go into detail as the whole situation in my opinion was handled so very wrongly and I'm very angry about the whole situation.  He was given severence...thank goodness for that.....now after 16 years my husband is searching for a new career, I have no doubt that he'll find a great job that he loves and perhaps this whole mess is a blessing in disguise. 

Onto other things.....like cards lol.  I have 2 cards to share.  One is my card that I made for Christmas Stampin All Year Long Challenge 8 and the 2nd is a card that I made for my girlfriends little girls first birthday. 

Charlene

Christmas Stampin All Year Long - Sketch #7

This sketch was "do it yourself", no sketch to follow.....uggh I really don't like mine at all, Maria deserves SO much better lol. All I can say is I was sick and boy did I struggle with this card LOL. Perhaps I need instruction lol. I just can't say where I went wrong...I just did lol Maria I promise to do much much better on Sketch #8. The other girls though did a fabu job...you have to check them out on the CSAYL Blog and don't forget to vote on which layout you'd like for Sketch #9....you can vote on the CSAYL Blog in the comment section or on Papercraft Planet.

Charlene

Mojo Monday - MOJO77

This is the first Mojo Monday Sketch that I've done, I visit their blog often and love browsing all the cards so figured maybe I should join in.  Overall I like my card but wished I had used a different colour base, the white is just to plain...too white....ahhh well...next time! 

Stamped Image by Whipper Snapper, Sentiment by Cornish Heritage Farms,

used Nesties to cut out circle and scalloped circle, Patterned Paper was scraps I had so no name that I could find (thinking maybe American Crafts...maybe)

Charlene

February Aloha RAK

Finally I'm posting my RAK that I received from De! It arrived on Wednesday but my daughter and I have both been sick and haven't had much computer time. De packaged my goodies in a pretty orange organza bag, I've had a thing for orange the last bit so of course I was oooing and awwwing over the pretty colour and then I opened it up to find a bunch of treats....chipboard, rubons, acrylic stamps, felt frame and the best smelling vanilla cherry lip balm (not in pic as it was in my purse upstairs at the time lol). And look at De's card, isn't it adorable, love the paper and colours. Oh and I can't forget to mention her business card she included, love the design and colours....of course I think I need some now lol. Thanks a bunch De, I appreciate everything!!

Charlene

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Sketch #6

Can you believe it...Sketch #6 already! I loved this sketch. With this sketch we were to use 3 (or more) eyelets but those were the only embellishments that we could use, easier then I thought!

Maria's Sketch

My take on Maria's Sketch

Items Used: Patterned Paper by American Crafts, Cardstock by Bazzill, Eyelets from Making Memories and Stamped Image from Hanna Stamps

If you should choose to play along here are the rules (copy and pasted from Maria):

In addition to the sketch challenge you will need to use eyelets on your card. The catch is you can ONLY use eyelets. You may use as many eyelets as you want but the minimum is 3. So. . 3 or more, okay! This means no ribbons, no primas, no other embellishments on the card. You may use die cuts on your card but it has to lay flat meaning you can't layer the die cuts to make it look like embellishments (i.e., layered flowers using die cuts). Using glitter or shimmez is okay.

P.S. - remember to post a link to your card on the Christmas Stampin All Year Long Blog (in the comments section)

Charlene

Upsy Daisy

I managed to make 5 cards over the weekend, 3 of which were made with my "Upsy Daisy" stamp set from Stampin Up.  I bought this set months ago and hate to admit I hadn't used it until yesterday.  Its definately a set I'll be using more often.

Items Used: Patterned Paper by October Afternoon, Stampset "Upsy Daisy" by Stampin Up

Items Used: Cardstock by Stampin Up, made the background with a stamp from the "Baroque Motif" set by Stampin Up, Main Image "Upsy Daisy" by Stampin Up

Items Used: Patterned Paper by "My Minds Eye", Image & sentiment "Upsy Daisy" by Stampin Up

Goodnight!

Charlene xx

New Crafty Secrets Stampset

OMG I love this stamp set! I had been waiting to get my hands on this set for awhile, finally my LSS got it in and then it sat in my craftroom for over a week...why do I do that?!  My card is pretty simple looking as you can see, the chandelier is just so darned pretty I didn't want to overpower the image with too much "stuff".  I used the martini glasses in place of where the bulbs would be....cute huh?!

Items used: DP by Crafty Secrets, Image by Crafty Secrets (Chandelier Fun), Clear Baubles

Enjoy your Saturday!

Charlene