Archive for 2012

CR84FN #69

| Published 12.30.2012


Welcome to a new CR84FN color challenge! It's a good 'un!

But before we move on to the gorgeous graphic, we have a new guest designer for the month of January! Please give a hearty CR84FN welcome to Lisa Snowdy!!! Welcome Lisa - we are so excited that you are joining us for the month!


Because there's a brand new year almost upon us, I wanted to make an exuberant card. Of course, it's CAS but hopefully joyful nonetheless :)



I used a brand new Christmas present to make the drops...my new Silhouette Cameo! I used to own a Cricut, but this machine is much better so far. The biggest plus...no cartridges! I can't wait to have some more fun with it. 

After I cut the drops, I embossed them with a damask Cuttlebug folder for a little texture then I affixed them to the base. Add a sentiment, et voila!

Make sure to check out what eye candy awaits at the blogs of the other DT members (their links are also in my sidebar);
Lisa Snowdy (our guest designer for January)
Mona Pendleton

Thanks so much for stopping by!


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Just Us Girls #168

| Published 12.22.2012



Hello there out in blogland! Happy holidays folks! 

Back again with another fabulous Just Us Girls challenge! This time around, Vicki is our hostess and she has chosen a fabulous photo inspiration to challenge you.

Here's my take...


I wanted to create the look of fireworks so I used Dot Spots from Papertrey ink to make rudimentary fireworks. Make sure to swing by the Just Us Girls blog and check out what the other fabulous ladies have whipped up! Their links are in my sidebar too.

I've been swamped the past few weeks. But it's been a good kind of busy :) My in-laws are in town for the holidays and I'm driving three hours to pick my parents up for Christmas tomorrow. It'll be a full, happy house here over Christmas...and I wouldn't have it any other way :)

Speaking of family and full houses, my hubby and I have added to ours... this handsome fellow, Parker, joined our ranks this week. It was a sudden adoption but he's already made his mark. He's so energetic and sweet!!! We're smitten.


He's having sometime downtime for a few more days as he recently had his "jingle bells" removed :)



Clearly he's stressed in his new home - what a ham!

Many happy wishes from my home to yours this Christmas!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Just Us Girls #166

| Published 12.08.2012


Hello all!!! 

Back again with another fabulous Just Us Girls challenge! This time around, Lynn is our hostess and she has chosen the awesome, time-honoured and much loved technique, embossing!!! So emboss your hearts out and let's see what inspiration awaits!


Here's my take...


Hope you like my holiday card. Make sure to swing by the Just Us Girls blog and check out what the other fabulous ladies have whipped up! Their links are in my sidebar too.

That's it from here - we're spending the weekend at my sister's house and doing some Christmas shopping in the big city!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
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CR84FN #68 Take Two

| Published 12.02.2012

For my JUGS post, click HERE.


Week 2 of the latest and greatest CR84FN color challenge!

***As a quick reminder, this is the last post before we go on a holiday hiatus - CR84FN will return in all it's glory on Sunday, December 30th for CR84FN69.***


And here's take two for me...


Pretty clean and simple.

Make sure to check out what eye candy awaits at the blogs of the other DT members (their links are also in my sidebar);


Here's wishing all our CR84FN friends happy holidays! See you back for a brand new challenge after Christmas. Thanks so much for stopping by! 

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Just Us Girls #165

| Published 12.01.2012


I just love this time of year. Christmas music, (mostly) happy folks, family, tradition...yes, it's fair to say I always will love Christmas.

Welcome back for a brand new Just Us Girls Challenge. I'm the hostess this week and I came up with this little sketch;


I didn't stamp a single thing this time - all die cuts and paper. No ink at all.


Hope you like my holiday card. Make sure to swing by the Just Us Girls blog and check out what the other fabulous ladies have whipped up! Their links are in my sidebar too.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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CR84FN #68

| Published 11.25.2012


Time for another B-E-A-U-tiful CR84FN color challenge! But before we get to the colors, we just want to let all our loyal CR84FN followers know that this is the last post before we go on a holiday hiatus - CR84FN will return in all it's glory on Sunday, December 30th for CR84FN69.

But for the next two weeks, we have these fabulous colors to play with..


I absolutely LOVE this color combo - I really do. It is one of my favs to date. 

Given the impending holidays, poinsettias seemed to fit the bill for the burgundy in the palette. 


I used the Christmas poinsettias die from Papertrey Ink to create a partial die cut in cream cardstock. Then I stamped a few poinsettias on the cardstock, stamping one in place of the die cut. The cream cardstock was dry embossed with the linen impression plate from Papertrey Ink. I then clear embossed a background on a dark grey cardstock base and attached the cream cardstock.

Make sure to check out what eye candy awaits at the blogs of the other DT members;


Thanks so much for stopping by! 

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'Tis the Season

| Published 11.23.2012


Hellooooo out there! I hope all my American friends are enjoying family, friends and fine food on this Thanksgiving weekend.

This is a super fun post for me. I'm super excited to be playing along with the super talented and amazingly sweet Karen Baker from the Bald Dragonfly! The challenge is one Karen has created and is called Carbon Copied.

For this challenge, we choose a common item from our crafty stash and use it in a challenge. Same items, same challenge, but different designs. Fun, right?!? 

Karen and I have chosen to use our Quarterfoil plate from Papertrey Ink and we are also playing along with Jay Gee's Nook Challenge #25. This is my first time playing along over at Jay Gee's Nook and I am LOVING the inspiration photo!!!


And here's my take. As you can likely tell, my inspiration came from the top right in the inspiration photo, the pretty ornaments and silver background.


So how did I use the Quarterfoil plate? I used it to create an impression rather than a die cut. Then I tied a bow in a big, beautiful piece of satin ribbon and attached a couple of silver jingle bells.

Karen's work is amazing so be sure and check out her take on our Carbon Copied challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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CR84FN #67 Take Two

| Published 11.18.2012


Week two of the latest CR84FN color challenge.


These colors are so elegant and a perfect, non-traditional color combo for the yuletide season.


I clear embossed a tree on a die cut piece of craft, then adhered a few purple buttons. The background is dry embossed in holly leaves with some tan chalk ink rubbed over the surface to bring out the embossing (thank you Mona for the amazing inspiration!). The sentiment is gold embossed. The pretty gold ribbon is from my stash and it curled like that all on it's own - sweet :)

Make sure to check out what eye candy awaits at the blogs of the other DT members;


Thanks so much for stopping by! 

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Just Us Girls #163

| Published 11.17.2012


Helloooo JUGS fans!

Our sweet Maria's got a fall-inspired color challenge this week over at Just Us Girls...



And here's my card...




Although my temptation was to do something with pumpkins, I went in a little different direction. I bought the Banner Builders set from PTI a while back (quite a while back) but have never used it...EVER. There it sat, uninked and unloved. I thought I would use it a ton when I purchased it, but I seem to be a bit stupefied by it - I want to use it but I have trouble coming up with concepts for it. Anywho, finally I had the chance to show it a little love.

Make sure to check out the JUGS blog to see what the other amazing ladies have put together!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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CR84FN #67

| Published 11.11.2012



It's an exciting time over at CR84FN! We have brand new colors for our challenge this week, but first, some really awesome news!!!

 The CR84FN family has grown! Drum roll, please...

 Help me in extending a huge, warm welcome to;

 These fabulously talented, awe-inspiring ladies are going to add such amazing inspiration to the color challenges - make sure you swing by to say welcome and you'll see what I mean! Welcome ladies!!!! We are so, so ecstatic to have you all aboard!

 On to this weeks CR84FN color challenge. These colors are GORGEOUS! I love purple!!!

I had a few ideas for this palette; however, I must admit I had a bit more trouble than I bargained when trying to put together a card...I'll blame it on being tired :) But I seriously do love these colors. Talk about a fabulous, non-traditional color scheme!


The snowflakes are heat embossed in gold, then I used Concord Grape distress ink to make them stand out. 

Make sure to check out what eye candy awaits at the blogs of the other DT members;


Thanks so much for stopping by! 

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CR84FN #66

| Published 10.28.2012


Elegance is the theme with this week's CR84FN colours! 

They just exude class and style. 





I went for a simple design that I thought was elegant in it's own way. I die cut three colours of card stock using an undulating die from Papertrey Ink (In the Meadow). I then pieced the die cuts together and embossed the lot. I thought about adding a few more embellishments but then decided I liked it the way it was :)

Hope you'll join in on the fun! Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Just Us Girls #160 - Photo inspiration

| Published 10.27.2012


Hello all! It's Saturday - time for a new JUGS challenge. This week, Lisa has a BEAUTIFUL photo inspiration challenge for us all!


So many elements in this photo to sink your teeth into! The colors and fall theme caught my attention.


Pretty CAS...I know, something new and different for me LOL! I had seen a card a long time ago that had a tree on a dark background with a white circle behind the leaves so that's what I tried to recreate. It didn't turn out quite as I was hoping but I still like the end result :)

Happy fall y'all!

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