fresh & fun

I am sorry I haven’t posted for a while.  We had a great time with our friends this weekend. They left yesterday and I was plain wiped out from all the activity over the weekend.

There were 487 soda tabs in the bottle. Rebecca and I counted them before I took the picture.

Angela Knopf guessed it exactly right. Congratulations, Angela! Please contact me so I can send your stamp set out to you.

Three people missed  the exact number by only one!

Kristee guessed 486 and Amy and Melody guessed 488.

 Thank you all for playing. That was fun. I will hopefully get to stamp today. Austin and Rebecca woke up sick, sore throat and all….and I still have to catch up work that has been sitting here all weekend. Hugs and smiles

Deb Albright sent me this gorgeous Thank you card. You can find more of her great work on her blog Turtle Chronicles. Thank you so much, Deb!

Denise sent me this sweet card with red bling on it! Thank you so much.

Peggy Springer sent me this sweet card. I love how she used a wider space between the layers then my normal 1/8″ all around. Thank you so much, Peggy.

Here is my #10th Weekend Sketch Challenge:

I found this layout in the June 2007 Paper Craft  issue (I think).

This weekend, I will raffle away a new unopened spool of narrow black organdy ribbon. I am still in shock that we don’t carry organdy ribbon anymore. I LOVE the white one.

To enter the raffle: Make a card with the sketch and post it somewhere online (on your blog, on SCS or on another website). Then add a link to your card as a comment to this post. Every card entry is one raffle entry.

I will pick a winner next Wednesday at 10 a.m. with Random.org.

Here is my first sample with this sketch:

My card started with a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Purely Pomegranate piece of cardstock. I sponged the edges and set it aside. Next I stamped Tres Chic in Pumpkin Pie on a piece of 4″ x 5 1/4″ Pumpkin Pie cardstock, sponged the edges in Pumpkin Pie and taped it on to my Pomegranate card base.

The center panel is made of three layers. The top layer is a 2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Certainly Celery Prints Designer paper. Next is a piece of 2 3/4″ x 4″ piece of Wild Wasabi cardstock that was sponged with Wild Wasabi around the edges. The last layer is a piece of 3″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Purely Pomegranate Cardstock that was sponged in the same tone as well.

The flowers are from the Ginormous Flower stamp set. I stamped them in Purely Pomegranate and Pumpkin Pie. The bigger flowers are punched out with the Five Petal Flower punch that is new in the catalog! I love it! The flower centers are half pearls from the Pretties Kit.

The saying is from Absolutely Fabulous. I stamped it in Purely Pomegranate on Shimmery White and punched it out with the large oval punch. I layered it on Purely Pomegranate and freehand cut it out. I paper pierced a line under that. Just because it needed something and Paper piercing can never be wrong!

The Delightful circle is stamped in Groovy Guava on shimmery White paper, punched out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch and layered on a 1 3/8″ Wild Wasabi circle punchout. The stamp is from the Stamp set It’s All Good. I just love to to say the name of that set. It’s all GOOOD. I think there was an SNL sketch about a long legged woman that alway said that. LOL

The ribbon is the new and wonderfully gorgeous double stitched Purely Pomegranate ribbon. I love all the new double stitched ribbon. It’s so pretty! I hope when these colors retire, we will get other colored double stitched ribbon.

Renata Conrad sent me this beautiful trifold. Renata, that was so sweet of you. Thanks so much.

Well…I am close to 400,000 hits! It’s time again for some Fresh and Fun Freebies. This time I will raffle away an unmounted Simple Type Alpha. I really liked this Alphabet and was sad when it retired last year. The winner will also receive three packs of big gold rimmed square tags.

To enter, guess how many soda tabs are in the glass container ( I told you I LOVE diet coke). The person that guesses or comes closest to the number is will win the set! If I have more then one person guessing the right number, I will use random.org to determine the winner.

Please only one entry per person! Never mind about the entry# on this one. I am a goofy goober. Since it’s a guessing game, I won’t need it. (Sorry, that I made all the early poster do it. Hugs)

The raffle will end by Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. CST. I will announce the winner Monday morning. I can’t give you a definite time, since we will have guest from Friday until Monday! I can’t wait. Our old neighbors from Illinois are coming to visit. I am very excited.

So forgive me if my blog will be kind of quiet this weekend, starting today. I have been cleaning this morning. Hopefully I will get some stuff stamped for this weekend. I already stamped a sample for tomorrow’s sketch challenge yesterday. I really like it. Can’t wait what you think. Hugs and smiles

Here is a quick card I made with the Moose You set. I wish the sayings on it where a bit bolder. It’s still a super cute set.

I started stamping the Deer in Close to Cocoa on Shimmery White cardstock. Then I added Old Olive for grass, and Soft Sky as sky with my aqua painter. I punched out four Mega Scallop squares with my Marvy Uchida punch and layered them to make one scalloped rectangle. I used Close to cocoa cardstock, but it was quite a bit lighter then my stamped image, so I sponged the cardstock to make it darker.

Since the sponged cardstock was quite dark and I didn’t want to sponged the edges of my card base, I gave up and used my trusted Chocolate chip cardstock for that. It’s an odd sized card. I had pulled out a 4 1/4″ x 4 1/2″ piece of Soft Sky cardstock and liked the way the deer looked on it. So I cut my Chocolate chip cardstock 4 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ and folded it in half for the base.

The bottom part is a 2 1/4″ x 4 1/8″ piece of Old Olive Prints Designer paper with ticket corner punch used on the bottom to corners. It’s a standard layout, I know. But I do like the look.

Last I added May Arts ribbon and paper pierced the top right corner.

Linda Nicholson sent me this BEAUTIFUL, stunning, gorgeous Acetate card. I am still drooling everytime I gaze at it. Dang, that girl can stamp. Check out her relatively new blog Stamping in the Moonlight. Linda, thank you SOOO much!

I loved Garden Whimsy and the matching Jumbo Whimsy ever since I first layed eyed on it in the catalog. Of course it was on my first order. I had to have it!

I started out with a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Always Artichoke cardstock folded in h alf. I punched the two bottom corners of my 2″ x 4″ piece of Groovy Guava cardstock with the ticket corner punch and wheeled it with white cardstock and the Jumbo Rough Around The Edges Wheel.

Since my freaking scallop circle punch gave out on me yesterday, I reverted back to using my Marvy Uchida scallop circle punch. It’s a bit bigger then the one from Stampin’ Up!. I stamped the cute, cute snail with Chocolate Chip classic ink on Shimmery White (is there any other white cardstock?) and punched it out with the 1 3/8″ circle punch. Next I cut a layer of River Rock cardstock with my coluzzle.

River Rock Double Stitched Ribbon finishes this quick card off. I have to say I like how it turned out. I will have to use that color combo again. I love this saying! So perfect to send a card to good friends!

 Forgot to mention: The paper pierced trail of the snail is made with the Priceless Classy Brass. I had to have it and it’s wonderful for the paper piercing guides alone!