Double Duty

We both got into the action this weekend.  The challenges earlier in the week were for flowers and clocks.  (ooops, looks like I forgot my sentiment on the clock card...)

The Sunday Sketch #170 was awesome.  We both enjoyed the heck out of it.   These are mine.

The card below goes to Joanne's cat rescue group, Absolutely Purrfect.  We don't send things like this to the heroes......

And these are Joanne's cards.

It was quite the productive afternoon!

~Nancy F.

Finally! A new post!

It's about time!  Talk about slacking!  Well, actually, the slacking was only in the posting, not in the actual card making......
For starters, here's Sketch 169 at Operation Write Home.  The stamp is from Circus Stamps.  I have a lot of these and they go way back.  Some of you know that I am a juggler.  Yes, I said it, a juggler.

Next is the midweek throwdown, a call for bugs.  I went with bees.  I'm also combining this with this month's boot camp - the rule of odds.

I suppose this would also count for the rule of odds, or maybe more like the rule of odd - odd like me.....  I got a little crazy in the booth with all the brads at the rubber stamp show last weekend......

This brings us to last weekend, where I apparently started to slack off.

Sketch 168.

Starting with Sketch 167............

Here we go again.  Racing to catch up!
First, here's Sketch 167 for this week.  I also combined it with Our Daily Bread's monthly challenge for postage money - Things With Wings -

And one without wings.........

I loved the tuxedo tutorial from the blog hop on Saturday!

Then there was the Midweek Throwdown, tags and twine.

What am I forgetting?   Sketch 166 from last Sunday!  I was going to cheat and skip it, since I "sort of" had already done it, but I made another card anyway.

And then, yesterday, Joanne tramped her way over to my house and we cut up paper, stamped and glue taped the day away. 

She was no slacker.

Wow, Joanne!

I made some more of these -

And then I made some of these -

 Then I made a few of these and I'm questioning whether they are appropriate for OWH or not.  We didn't like the part where it said "Good Bye" so I changed it to "Hi There".  Thoughts?

Thanks for peeking in!

More Important Easter Preparations......

It's a little sad what we make our pets do, just for our own personal amusement.  In Ozzy's defense, he runs whenever he sees these ears now....

This card is for Sketch 165.  I'm finally just getting around to it!  The stamp is from Picture Show.

Last Tuesday's tutorial was using bubble wrap as a stamp.  I decided to try some shelf liner.  It worked swell!  In fact, it was great, because it stuck to my acrylic block all by itself.  The stamp is Penny Black.

Wednesday's Mid Week Throwdown asked for stripes!  I wish I could remember where I got the rat stamp from....  Rat stamps come in so handy......  Sometimes.

Where is spring?

Someone tell me what happened to spring!?!?  We're finally seeing a little bit of the sun today, but not enough for me!  At least I've got plenty of cards to make, so that will keep me busy.  I'm still attending Design Boot Camp at Operation Write Home.  The latest lesson is the Rule of Thirds.   Even with other embellishments, your eye is still drawn to the hedgie stamp.

The Tuesday tutorial was about making fake wood grains.  I realized that I had a bag of small, old stamp
pads that I thought were pretty dried out, but they actually worked out really well for this technique.  I will try this again!

And to finish, the Midweek Throwdown was to make a card using Ombre.....  My imagination was sparked almost immediately by the first example.  

That's it for today!  I'm hoping to do some stamping with friends tomorrow.  The hardest part of that for me is not being able to drag along everything I own!     :-)

Sketch 164 and a wee bit o the Irish

It was another busy work week and I tried to do all my card catching up this weekend.  Sketch 164 is my tribute to St. Patrick's Day.  I altered the sketch a wee bit.

Next up is the midweek throwdown.  It called for using blue and green and adding a little orange.  I tried to think of something orange for my focal point.  Garfield was the first thing that came to mind.  

Last up are the "inchies".  They were mentioned on OWH TV on Thursday night and I went hog wild with them.  I love inchies!  I also used the ribbon/brad trick that was discussed on the Stars and Stamps blog last Tuesday.

Thanks for checking in!  ~ Nancy F.

Sketch 163

Finally!  I found some stamping time!  Here's Sketch 163 -

And the Midweek Throwdown - I used the bottom row of tic-tac-toe - rhinestones, ovals and embossing.

I also tried Tuesday's tutorial for spirelli, and used the sketch for today.  But I'm not too thrilled with it.

And these are from some of the new stuff that my friend, catwoman gave me last week.  You gotta love playing with new toys!

Thanks for checking in!

OWH Sketch 162

No frills blog post tonight.

ODB and MWTD at OWH

I was busy having a catch up day again.  I made the top card for the Our Daily Bread monthly challenge.
The last card is using the recipe for the Midweek Throwdown.  Now I'm ready for tomorrow's sketch!
But first - laundry!

Sunday Sketch Challenge 161

Happy Sketch Day!  I whipped up a batch of frogs on tricycles today.  The stamp is from Picture Show.  I've been getting some spam comments on the blog lately, nothing bad, mostly just sentences that don't make much sense.  I'm hoping it stops so I don't have to turn on a word verification.  Wish me luck!

~Nancy F.

Catching up on challenges

I had a great weekend with the blog hop, but never got all the challenges finished.  Today I took a few hours of mini vacation from work and got a few more cards done.  Jen asked for cards with a caffeine theme.

The Desert Rose Stamper challenged us to make cards with 3 layers of white.  This one was tough for me!
What a good challenge though.  I made a card that I like, and it's not like anything I normally do, so it was a great exercise in doing something new.

Over at 104cards.blogspot.com, the challenge was to go without glitter but still have some glitz.  I don't know if this fills the bill.  I might make another attempt at something better.

The next cards are my examples of focal points for Boot Camp.

This week's Midweek Throwdown was for a fancy fold card.  There are a lot of great ideas on the OWH website and I'm hoping to have enough time left today to go make some of the other examples.

That's it for now!  I'm off to make a couple cheeseburger and necktie cards!  Thanks for looking!  ~Nancy 

Sketch 160 and some more VCMP

I was too tired last night to continue on with my quest for the proper sandwich for selective embossing and so this morning, I went at it again, with success!  The proper sandwich was NO sandwich.  Who'd a thunk?...  I combined that quest with Things With Wings from Yvonne's Blog.  The griffin stamp is from Renaissance Art Stamps.

For the With Wheels challenge from Linda at Creepin' Along, I already had this Impression Obsession truck stamp colored, so this was a fast card.

To finish up for the moment, here's my take on Sketch 160.  The stamp set is from Unity.  I used mostly chalks on this one.

The caffeine challenge is up next, and for that, I need to go have some of the actual thing!