Happy Anniversary to a special Couple

A Very Happy Anniversary to a Special Couple

This is just a quick post to show you the card I made for some special friends that have there anniversary today..

Have a great day folks..

Take care

Layered Card ...

Well I had so much fun making this card I just had to share with you all.. I have seen cards done this way many times and have tried to make them a few times with no luck.. Finally found one made with instructions on Slipcoast Stampers.. Wow it is really quite easy.. Love the effect it makes with some stamps..

Thank you for stopping by here hope you come again soon..

I am entering this card in Crazy 4 Challenge

Take care

Graphicat Sketch #20

Well Graphicat has a new sketch up for this year..  #20  and it is a lovely one she even has a freebee for you if you enter.. so be sure to get your card/page done and entered..

At least pop on over to her site and see what great cards her DT have done.. I know Graphicat is not a big fan of Valentines day but she sure has fun with her sayings and imagines..

 Thats right I did a shaker card been ages since I did one.. found my stuff while cleaning the room a couple of weeks ago.. ( actually found a few things as I rearranged )   Papers are from a new 6x6 that I picked up just this week..

Thank you for stopping by.. Hope you have a great day..
Take care .. 

January Tag Day today at Creative Accents

Well we finally managed to all get together today and do Tim's January tag.. It was fun and we have had a new crafter join us.. We think she may be hooked, we sure hope so..

So here are our tags..

Wendy's        Janet's       Marianne's

Here are the individual pictures  Sorry they are not the best some were taken with my new phone camera and I am still working with that.. 

 Wendy's above

 Marianne's abvoe

Janet's  above

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look 

Please stop again..

The girls would love to hear what you think

Take care All

Marianne's Birthday Card

Well tomorrow Jan. 20, is Marianne's Birthday.. So a bunch of us got together and had a suprise super out with her.. I think we managed to pull it off.. I know I should have taken pictures but forgot my camera at home.. Just about forgot to take a picture of her card..

Any way I hope you have a very special day my friend.. Here is the card I did for her..

I wish I had a better picture.. the image is just touched with a couple of blues (copic's) then covered with double sided tape, which I amplied Glitter Ritz to.

I was so pleased with the way this one turned out I had to try another..

On this one you can see the Glitter Ritz much better.. changed it around a bit but much the same..
Now if you haven't hopped over to Creative Accents Challenge Blog  and looked at this months challenge you maybe should..  both these cards are on based on Jan. theme  Winter Wonders..

Have you done your card or layout and entered yet.. Sure hope you do..

Take care  and Thanks for Stopping by.. Love to see your coments..

2013 Creative Accents Newest Challenge

We're a bit slow getting things kicked off here, but I'm happy to be finally introducing you to our January Challenge- Winter Wonders!  Sorry Tara borrowed your script..

 
Create any paper crafting project that celebrates the wonders of winter... because if you live anywhere even slightly similar to us in Williams Lake, BC, you'll be dealing with winter for a while, so we may as well find the beauty in it :)

Here is my first card

Had fun with this one
-embossed the blue card stock with snowflakes and touched up with Distress Ink
-Stamped the snowmen
-used the Memory Keepers die for the snowflake circle
- alittle ribbon and bows

Second Card

Again just used paper and some of my Memory Keepers dies.. quick and simple..

Hope you all take time to enter your cards or layouts over at

Thanks for stopping by..
Take Care

Happy Birthday Neighbour

One of my neighbours is having a birthday today.. So had to get into the craft room and come up with something.. then deliver before they left for dinner with the family..

 

This is what I came up with just love these Tim Holtz folders 

got my achol inks out and had fun playing.. 

It was actually a pretty quick card to do once the idea came along..

Did do some cleaning up in there first.. 

Need to get all the Chrismas stuff put together and away for awhile..

Thanks for stopping by hope you are all having a very relaxing Christmas break

Take care

Firwood Hill Neighbour's Christmas Cards

Merry Christmas to all my friends in Blog land..  Christmas is coming fast and so much to get done..

Today is our annual  Neighbour Hood dinner party.. Do you all have traditions that you carry out every year you are able.. This is one we started when we moved to this area..  This afternoon is our 21st.. we have missed the odd year but have had a get together when ever possible at Christmas..

We have such great friends and neighbours around us on this Hill.. It started out as a pot luck and now we still do pot luck around the Turkey dinner I put together..  Today if all show which I am sure they will we will be 14 in all.. (7 couples) 

I started making the cards during the week and managed to get them finished yesterday..

I am hoping none of them check in on the blog till later..

I am just loving my TH Dies this year.. Also the Memory box ones as well..

Well Merry Christmas to One and All..

Take Care

Tim's 12 tags of 2012.. December

Oh what fun we had again doing Tim's tags.. We  ( 5 of us) got together at Creative Accents and did the tags on Saturday.. Love the tags this time ( not like we haven't loved the others)  I think this is the first time we have made our tags so close to the same I had trouble getting the right name to the right tag.. Let me know ladies if I got yours wrong..

First up the Snowman...

Here is my Snowman

See they are hard to tell apart.. 

Next up the Red ones...

Tara and Julie didn't have there's finished by the time we did for picture taking I am sure Tara will put there's up on Creative Accents Site soon.. Again hard to tell them apart.. but so much fun to make..

Here is my Red one 

Just love these tags.. I sure hope you have something special up your  sleeve for 2013  Tim 

Take Care and thanks for stopping by..

December Seriously Creative Challenges

Here we go with the last Challenge of 2012  sure hope you will join us at.. Creative Accents
This month it is 

So I know everyone is busy decorating or doing cards or baking what have you.. Me I have been doing some decorating and a lot of card making.. I made some really quick cards here and dropped them off at the store if you want to go see them.. Hope you enjoy and have a very Merry Christmas..

Two of the cards are made with some new embossing folders the store got in on the nice shiny paper (does it ever emboss nice and quick cards) added a bit of bling and ribbon and done..
The two others are made using Memory Dies.. Red on is the ornament just cut out of shiny paper again and a little ribbon added..
Top Left a little more work but love it..




Thanks for stopping by.. would love you to enter your handy craft items for our challenge..
Take care

Friends Birthday

Been a bit slow this month on posting on my blog here.. I have been busy doing Christmas cards and getting some other crafting done, but can't post those pictures yet..

Anyway I have a couple of friends that have a birthday November 30th... they are sisters as well ya you guessed it they are twins.. now I have known them for many years .. but have been really closer to them the last few.. I was really bad and did only one card cause one comes to visit me on a regular basics for tea.. 

Well here is the card I did..

Love this stamp from Graphicat and I used her sketch #13 .. and so love the Memory box dies for embelishing

Hope you all like this one..

Graphicat Sketch 19...

Boy I am behind on doing these Sketch's I love them and love how the cards turn out..

Today I did one of my first Christmas Cards for myself following the Sketch (will be doing a few more) really like this one.. You can find the site here   Graphicat Sketch Challenge 

Thanks for stopping by.. Off to the Craft room to make some more..

I should maybe say I have been working on Christmas cards for awhile did a bunch for my Daugther and they go off in the mail this week.. All 58 of them..

Take Care

Tim Holtz November Tag

Well we all got together again and had a great afternoon playing and making our Novermber Tag.. 

as we have already had our Thanksgiving up here and Canada our tags turned out a whole lot different.. but we all used Tim's tech. on them.. so here you go.. 

First up Marianne's 

Next is Barb's 

 Of course here is Mine

 

And the group shot  I am sure Tara will have her's up on Creative Accents

site soon.

 

This month I have entered Marianne's Tag in Tim's Tim Holtz 12-tags-of-2012-November

Good Luck Marianne 

Thanks for stopping by we enjoy your coments 

Take care 

Challenge Time Again.. November

Yes it is time again for another Creative Accents Challenge  

November really came along fast

Wonderful Wood is our theme this time. 

Now when I first heard this I panicked, my mind went blank 

So off to the craft room and started pulling anything I had that would work 

Well I got a pleasant surprise as I looked ideas just kept coming..

So I got a few things done.. First is this Tag I made with an Embossing folder, inked it up with some of my Disstress inks then sprayed with several different sprays.. 

Next I came up with this card.. Cut the Trees out of cork and sprayed with Perfect Pearls..

Used a wood grain stamp as back ground 

Embossed a saying I found in gold. 

 Quick and simple 

Next I did this card using lots of different items.. and tech.. like the way it turned out..

Love the little wood tags they just got in to the store.. they give such a nice touch.. 

Thanks for stopping by 

Hope to see your entres over at the Challenge blog

Take Care all

Happy Birthday Jason

Happy Birthday Jason.. (my Son-in-Law) 

Hope you have a great day.. I had a lot of fun making your card hope you enjoy it..

I embossed a metal sheet with gears then colored with Alchol Ink.. then just layed up papers till I was happy with the look.. Card ended being 5-1/2 square..

Take care and thank you for stopping by..

Be sure to stop back soon for Creative Accents November Challenge..

Halloween is Coming.. What do you do for it..

I have a great time this time of year.. HALLOWEEN.. we used to have so much fun with the kids.. costumes and decorating the house.. bond fires.. fire works..

Well with no one home or close now I do boxes to all the Kids and grand-kids and some of there friends..

This year I did tags.. Here a picture of some that I managed to put together..

These also would go for the challenge over at Creative Accents Seriously Creative Challenges..

These two above are for my youngest two grand children.  The tags are attached to little bags of candy..

My husband saw the empty box and just about had a bird thinking I had eaten it all.. cause there was candy in there he wanted.. Nope not me was very good and didn't eat any  but did do up twenty bags and tags to go in the mail.. Hope they all get there on time..

Here is a picture of the pile of them all together..

Had so much fun with them.. used perfect Pearls.. Tim Holtz Halloween Distress inks.. Stamps..
and lots of glitter spray..

Hope you all are having a great time creating your Halloween goodies..
Take Care come back again soon..
Have an awesome Birthday card that will go up on the 31st for my Son in law..  

Playing with Memory Box Dies

Last night realized I needed a quick card for a Birthday.. I have a small collection of Memory Box Dies and love the way these cut out..so I used them to create these two cards.. Think I am going to be adding a few more to that collection.. They have some in at Creative Accents and they have no problem ordering them in for you.. I have a few I have yet to play with for Christmas cards..

So here is what I put together last night.. (paper doesn't show as well as it should it is the new shinny stuff they just got back in at the store) Blue card will be in the store later today for you to get a better look at..

I also did the following card alittle while ago and will be taking it to the store sometime today for you to get a better look at.. It is done with TH Distress Pens and coloring the stamp..

Well thanks for dropping by


Take care

October Tim Holtz Tag

Today was Tag Day at Creative Accents..  We did a tag Tech. class first and then went on to make our version of  Tim Holtz October 2012 Tag

Here are our three tags.. Tara will have her's up I am sure on Creative Accents site a bit later.. she was a very busy lady today with customers and teaching at the same time.. Hers was still a little wet when ours were all finished..

Indivial Tags 

You all should come and join us one of these weeks.. We really do have a lot of fun..
Take Care and thanks for stopping by..

October Challenge Time At Creative Accents

Well September sure disappeared  quickly and we  are having some beautiful weather with the best fall colors happen- in..

So with that in mind as well as Halloween coming up fast here is your photo inspiration

I love the colors of fall myself.. (don't like the idea that winter comes next) 

walking in the dry leaves and the smells.. 

With that it mind here is my first item..

 

I used a Hero Arts stamp set with leaves.. 

Ranger Distress Inks in the fall pallet

Some nice ribbon in fall colors..

I stamped and cut out the stamp on post it note to use as a mask 

I laid the ink down on my work surface then wiggled and walked the stamp..

Masking off the leave before next stamp.. 

Also did a second item.. I can't remember for sure where I saw this I do believe it was 

Canadian Nickel Scrap'n

The picture is not the best.. It is a Pumpkin   

I used Halloween pumpkin paper cut into 1" x6" strips

Distressed the edges.

two brads one for each end of the Pumpkin

punched holes approx.. 1/2" from each end 

Alternated the paper strips and formed my shape..

I cut leaves in different colored scraps and a vine from my Memory Box collection

These were all sprayed with shiny spray ( sorry don't remember which one I used)

Rolled the leaves slightly to give some die-mention

Stem is some rolled thin wire I had..

Will make a lovey fall center piece  or what have you.. quick to make

Well thanks for stopping by be sure to take a look over and enter at 

Creative Accents Challenges   

Looking Forward to see what you do..

Thanks for stopping by..

Take care 

 

 

We have a Birthday Hop

Well here we go.. A Great friend is celebrating her Birthday Today..
This one seems to be bothering her a bit..
 Don't worry about the little ones Cheri you have a few more to go..

Happy Birthday Cheri  

The Hop started here  Cards and More Cards Eulanda's   So you may want to start there.. 
If you came from Chris's   you are on the right track

Barb also wanted me to post you a BIG BIRTHDAY WISHES from her as well

Here is what I have waiting at the office for you if you can make it down today..

Now Cheri is into Pink and is Queen of her Castle.. so here is her Castle

Jay don't take offence at the frog.. You are a Prince among men.. 

Hope you have a Wonderful Birthday today.. Best wishes from us all.. 

Next on our hope is  Jess  all the way from California.. Be sure to leave some Birthday wishes for Cheri along the way..
Thanks for stopping by.. Take Care