3 Challenges in One!!! (2 Sketches 4 You, Card*A*Licious, and Non-Trad Valentine)

• I've been super busy this week (and next week will be worse!). I don't know if sub-consciously knowing I was busy, I came up with this card that combines 3 challenges:

>Kazan's sketch for this week (week of 2/2/09),

>Card*A*Licious Challenge (3 patterned papers + orange letter stickers),

>One of the February Card Challenges at Scrapbook.com is to make a Non-Traditional Valentine

The background paper is Creative Imaginations that I picked up at Craft Warehouse yesterday at lunch! The other patterned papers are Me and My Big Ideas. I actually used 4 patterned papers if you are really counting! The cute flower brads are Making Memories. The book plate is a sizzix and the butterfly is one of the new quickutz revolution 3-D Dies ~ so I actually through in using a new die in this card too! Kind of scary!

My 2 good friends will be here at 8 a.m. for a day of scrapping! Breakfast will be ready for them ~ a egg and sausage casserole and overnight french toast with strawberries! I've got a bunch of other yummy food ready and Gail is bringing pork tenderloin for dinner!

I'm going to try to finish the calendar I'm making my parents and then work on some more valentines. I make them to sell for the Governor's food drive in February and even though we had a lot when we started the week, the stash is dwindling! Which means money for the food bank!!! Yay! But more work for me!

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!

A couple cards to share!

I haven't done the Card-A-Licious Challenge for a few weeks so here is my card for it. The cardalicious challenge 10 was to use a circle (this paper has lots of circles - dots are circles, right? and there are circles in the square), a flower, and something sparkly (w of the flowers are sparkly!). Patterned paper is Me and My Big Ideas, the square is cut with the mini-monograms cricut cartridge, thanks is from the cricut stamped cartridge.






I've been toying with the idea of applying for the 2 Sketches 4 You design team (applications are due tomorrow night at midnight mountain time). Both Laura and Kazan do a sketch and to apply you need to do a card for each. I made several versions for Laura's sketch ~ here are 2. I e-mailed pictures of the some of them and she and her friend helped me decide which one to use (I will show it off later!). I love the internet ~ who would have thought that people in Houston can help me Oregon make that decision! Love it!

Thanks uses pattern paper from Me and My Big Ideas, Thanks cut from the cricut stamped cartridge. Flourish is a quickutz revolution.



The 2nd card is an 11 year old birthday card that either my daughter can use for a birthday party (she will be 11 and all her friends are turning 11). She loves it when the card says the age on it. The paper is from my stash. Happy Birthday is a quickutz revolution and the "1" candles are 2 X 2 Quickutz.The patterned paper is from my stash.

With the help of my friend Gertie from work, we finished the scrapbook for my boss. It turned out great and everyone was quite impressed. Now I'm ready to tackle getting the 2009 calendar and album done for my parents and then move on to finish something else!!!

More Winter Weather and Some Reindeer Cards!

The Challenge at Card-A-Licious this week was to make a card with a Holiday Icon. I think reindeers are holiday icons! Aren't they??? I found this cute reindeer on the Cricut paper doll cartridge as an accessory! My daughter really wanted the cartridge and I wasn't sure we would use it and then this weekend I have been cutting out lots of reindeers! The card with all the little reindeer faces was a DCWV holiday glitter card that I had in my stash of cards (I knew I was holding on to them for a reason!). 'Tis the Season to be jolly is all from the quickutz holiday gift set for 2008. I had bought a whole bunch of the red fiber for our x-mas cards and I tied it around his neck to look like a little scarf - hope it keeps him warm!

This other cute guy with the X-mas Tree (another holiday Icon!) was also made with the paper doll cartridge. The tree and wreath came from the Joys of the Season cartridge. Be Jolly and the x-mas lights are from the quickutz revolution 2008 holiday gift set. Patternd paper is from the Me and My Big Ideas Christmas Stack.

We still have some incredibly cold and dangerous winter weather ~ quite unusual for the Northwest but for the past week it has snowed, thawed, snowed, thawed....you get the idea but last night and today we had a new twist ~ FREEZING Rain! Yuck! I hate freezing rain! It is so treacherous. I went out today for awhile and took this pictures. Doesn't Santa look like he has a stole around him of snow (and ice), the ice on the tree looks pretty. I'm holding up a piece of the ice that I picked up off the top of the snow. Everything was covered with a 1/4 to 1/2 inch sheet of ice. When you walked, you crunched through it but you had to be careful not to slip or get your foot stuck in the hole that the "crunching" made. My yard and driveway are sloped so as I broke up the stuff off of the sidewalk and driveway, parts of it would skid down like it was on a sled! I'm crossing my fingers that it will warm up over night before it is time to head to work! I've been wearing jeans and snow boots all last weeks and it looks like this week is starting out the same way!