Ad Day For Daisies It's a Twine Thing and My Craft Spot 'Sew' Much Fun Challenge

First I need to apologize to my bloggie friends for not visiting regularly this month. To be honest, I'm just totally out of gas. I bit off more than I could chew in August...WAY more and I've been scrambling to complete my DT and guest DT projects as well as a comission (that I can't show you yet), but Thank GOD! it's finished and in the mail. (Just in the nick of time, I might add. Did I mention I'm the world's WORST procrastinator and slowest crafter on earth?) Also, being on a design team means commenting on the challenge participants entries and there have been LOTS!!!!!

I wasn't even sure today if I had it in me to craft. But I WANTED to, so I decided to do a sweet simple card for the A Day For Daisies Twine Challenge. I loved the free image provided for joining the challenge and since there wasn't much coloring... The image was colored with Copics and cut and matted with Nesties. All I needed was to add some twine.

But the My Craft Spot Challenge this week is "Sew" Much Fun. HHmmm...I've been dying to try my Sew Easy Stitch Piercer so I used the Scallop wheel. At first I tried stitching with 2 tone baker's twine but I didn't like how it was turning out, so I dug around in my fiber drawer and found this delicate hemp twine. The neutral color was the inspiration for the kraft paper and fairly monochromatic color scheme. Once I'd done the stitching, it was too late to run it through the computer to add a sentiment and my confidence in my stamping ability is pretty darn low (I would have DIED had I mess this up after all the hand stitching) so I used the Cuttlebug Friends Forever Card-Making Combo. The delicate font was just perfect. I don't do CAS very often, but I LOVE how this turned out!

Macabre Monday Freakers Free for All

I'm late again for Macabre Monday at Haunted Design House. I'll be back! As usual, just under the wire. This week the challenge is Freaker's Free for All...meaning do whatever you want. Hey, sometimes that's even harder, don'tcha think? I ended up doing another card using the new Oct 31st cart. This time it's shaped. LOVE it and can't wait 'til the new Happy HAuntings is out! I had to improvise the shadows but it turned out alright. Cranked it out in record time. The tombstone is embossed with a new Stampin'Up folder (who's name escapes me at the moment) and everything is inked with Distress in Forest Moss, Brushed Corduroy, and Dusty Concord (on the arm). The grass is Zooballoo.

A bit of popping and called it done. Would have loved to do a bit more detailing but time did not permit. Still deciding on a sentiment. How about "Hi there" ? LOL

Smiley Dog

Here's a cute little shaped card I did with Design Studio and Paper Pups. The paper I used was inspired by the cute rub-on sentiment. I added a bone paper clip from WalMart and some ribbon and Primas.

Gimme a Buzz

I was really missing my BFF from college (she's my best crafting buddy) so I made this card for her. I found the card fold on UTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDfbyHXKvY if you'd like to check it out. I used Design studio to weld the letters from All Mixed Up. The phone was a combination of the swoosh from Opposites Attract and the coneflower from A Walk in my Garden. I cuttled the petals with Swiss dots and doodled away. The bee is also from WIMG and I used the divine swirls on his wings. The phone cord is ribbon that I wound around a wooden skewer, sprayed it lightly with starch and baked it in a preheated 200 degree oven for 20 minutes. Let it cool and pull it off the skewer and voila! Isn't it cute!? Finally I added some little bee brads and skittles for fun.

Hey Lady!

This is the first (and only) card I made using a sketch. I don't know why I don't use them more often. It seems like a great way to jumpstart your creativity but my brain doesn't seem to work that way. Somehow this one called to me though, and allowed me to use some of that darling paper I got at JoAnn's. Aren't the little flowers, bees and ladybugs adorable? The words were welded using Cricut design studio using the All Mixed Up cartridge. The flower and bee are from A Walk in my Garden which I cuttled using Swiss dots, tiny mosaic, and divine swirls for texture. I used fun flock on the daisy center. The adorable bee and ladybug brads are from Queen and CO and a few heart rain dots are thrown in for good measure.

Let's do lunch

Don't you just love creative card folds? They add so much to a design. This is my first attempt at a double pocket card. Again I relied on my fave Walk in my Garden for the flower, caterpillar and words on the tags. I had to cut and paste the "let's do lunch" but I liked the font. The "hi there" was from Beyond Birthdays, the tags and leaf from Plantin Schoolbook. I added texture with my Cuttlebug and used mini pompons for the flower center. Finally I added ribbon, flower eyelets, and adorable garden brads from Queen and Co. for embellishment. I loved the way this turned out.