SOS challenge #21

This weeks challenge at SOS is to use anything spooky in your stash or use orange and black. well I used my black magic paper with the orange core. I used the Tim Holtz embossing folder (turned the wrong way) and some spiders I had cut out on my cricut several years ago (I have a bag full) and came up with this card. I love the colored core paper and was glad I had the opportunity to use it again. sorry for the messy background.

sos challenge # 20

this weeks SOS challenge is to make a Thanksgiving card or a thankyou card. Well I had to make a thankyou card for a male friend, I find making masculine cards  very difficult, but I've used this bamboo embossing folder several times to make masculine cards and I think they turn out okay.  for this one I used black paper with green core. I embossed and sanded the paper. I cut out a circle and colored the white card stock behind it to make it look like a full moon. I then colored a piece of whitecardstock to match and stamped it with the thanks, then used my nestabilities to cut out the tags. I also got to use my new dew drops. they don't show up too well in the picture, but they are there. thanks for looking.

SOS # 19

This weeks SOS challenge is to use Black and White and one other color. so I have two cards I wanted to share. the first one has a red background that I stamped with white snowflakes, it's hard to see in the picture. I used my sookwang tape and stuck it on a piece of white cardstock,cut out the design using my nestabilities, then covered it with glitter ritz, then stamped on the snowman, backed it with a piece of black cardstock using the same nestabilitie one size larger. then I did the same thing and used my nestabilitie snowflakes. I'm not crazy about the snowflakes. need to play around with them a little more.

The second card is a similar method, but this one I stamped on the cardstock, covered it with the tape, then used the glass sugar beads.  This card is Black, white and silver. I love this stamp (from Michaels) when it works right, I find it only stamps good if I use stayz on ink, but whatever works...My first couple of Christmas cards, still can't get in the mood to do them, even though the wind is blowing today, it is still too nice to think about Christmas. Thanks for looking.

sos challenge # 18

this weeks SOS challenge is anything but coloring so I made this card. I made the flowers from a video I saw on youtube, unfortunately there was no name on the video so I cannot give credit. I used the vintage paper I had left over from a previous card, and sanded it, then used my nestabilities to make the circles, I used Tim Holtz distress ink to ink the edges.

SOS challenge #17

This weeks challenge at SOS is "vintage or shabby elements and/or distress your project". Well it  just so happens that a few of my vintage friends and myself are turning the big 60 this year. This past week we celebrated my friend Linda's passing of the milestone. As part of that celebration I made this birthday card for her. I used a vintage paper that I sanded and inked with Tim Holtz distress ink. the girl is one of a group of 8 on a page I purchased in Stonewall (along with the cameo button). The ribbon is an old piece I had in my stash, it has pearls on it, that aren't too visible in this picture. the ribbon and the background paper are antique white.  I got to use my newly purchased nestability for the Happy Birthday message which is also inked with the TH distress ink. Thanks for looking.

this is the other step card I made for my friend who turns 60 this week.

sos challenge #16

I decided to try making a step card today, I have a couple of birthdays coming up and wanted to do something new so I made this one for my daughter who's bday is next week and it happened to be in the birds theme so I thought I would enter it in the SOS challenge Beasts, Bugs, Birds.