Getting Triangular

Last Wednesday, Susan offered up the One Layer Wednesday challenge that freaked me out!

Use at least one triangle on a card. You may use a real triangle (stamped, sponged) or images that are have an overall triangular profile or embellishments arranged in triangles. You may even choose to make a triangular card base!

After a lot of thought and searching for triangles, I chose the Season of Friendship set.  Mainly because I needed some more Thanksgiving cards.  I see lots of triangle in this card when I look for them.

I used the colors from the Color Challenge at SCS last week.  They were Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, and Elegant Eggplant.

I inked the leaves in Pumpkin Pie and thumped with an Elegant Eggplant marker.  The sentiment is also in Eggplant.  The little bird was stamped on a scrap, cut out and adhered with a glue dot.

This next card has the triangular shaped trees and they are arranged in a triangle.

The sentiment was a bit too small and seemed lost so I added some scoring and ribbon.  Then I added some Dazzling Details below the trees for "snow" and some rhinestones on one tree.  It's hard to see, but I also used some glitter pens that I've had for ages.  They don't even have a  name on them.  Maybe you can see those details better here.

I've gotta tell you, I was terrible in geometry.  I'd rather forget that it even exists!  I can't break down a card and tell you why I like it or even why I lay something out the way I do.  I just go with what pleases me.  The theory behind it all is way beyond my understanding.  That's one reason I like to read Susan's blog.  She KNOWS how it all works.  I am always amazed at her explanations.  Then true to form, I promptly forget what I read.

 These days, the facts I know are that when you feed a baby, they promptly spit up on you and when you start to do anything that doesn't directly involve them, they cry.  If you ignore the cry, they scream.  Then the 3 yr. old starts yelling "take him out of here".  (We always remind him to say please.)  Can you tell it's been a particularly trying day?  Tomorrow will be better. 

Tomorrow will be better.

Tomorrow will be better.

Thanks for the visit and letting me whine.

Card Recipe (Thanksgiving card)
Stamps:  Season of Friendship, Holidays and Wishes
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant Marker
Paper:  Naturals Ivory

Card Recipe (Very merry)
Stamps:  Polar Party, Short and Sweet
Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Real Red
Paper:  Naturals White
Other:  Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pen, Dazzling Details, Real Red grosgrain ribbon, Simply Scored, glitter pen, rhinestones

Enjoy!

Hearts in October

Sorry I haven't been a faithful blogger lately.  Those babies take a lot of time and I"m no spring chicken! I wouldn't have it any other way though.  Taking care of them is the best job in the world!

I did find a few minutes to do a card for the Less is More challenge this week.

Being the second week of the month it is One Layer

An easy one for you it's

The ♥ can be singular, multiple, any colour, but, MUST be a one layer card, with no additional layers stuck on, apart from the odd embellishment or ribbon

I had to add a little bling to jazz it up.  Maybe you can see it better here.

It's not very original I know.  I've probably already done a very similar card.  I hope you enjoy it anyway.

One silver lining is that I can find time to visit your blogs and comment while I'm stuck holding the baby.  Unfortunately, Jack is so big now that it takes both hands to hold him and I have trouble typing comments.  I try, but he usually lets me know that he doesn't appreciate it.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  I {Heart} Hearts

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler

Paper:  Whisper White

Other:  Cherry Cobbler Sean Binding, Basic Rhinestone, Large Corner Rounder Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Your comments are so enjoyable.

Enjoy!

Color of My Eyes

This week's Less is More challenge is

THE COLOUR OF YOUR EYES

I'd say to guess what color, but I've been having some trouble guessing.  Sometimes the colors don't show true on my computer. So I'll tell you.  My eyes are brown. 

   

       Dark brown. 

       

                 Chocolate and Espresso brown.

 

I remember seeing this little flower from the Inspired by Nature set stamped in brown.  I'm not sure who to credit the idea to.  It was a long time ago. But the idea seems to have stuck in my mind.

I used a scrap of Watercolor paper and inked the flower with my Chocolate Chip SU Marker and stamped it.  I filled in the center of the bloom with Early Espresso. Stamped the sentiment in Early Espresso and used scraps from my brown bag to mat the design with a ribbon loop peeking out.

I was having a bit of an off balance day and kind of liked the layers akimbo.  What do you think?

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Inspired by Nature
Ink:  SU Markers (Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso)
Paper:  Watercolor, Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso
Other:  Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon

I'm so glad you stopped by to visit.  I've been enjoying your comments and creations.

Enjoy!

 

 

Thinking Fall

I love this Thoughts and Prayers set and I don't believe I'd ever used it as a Fall card.  I'm sure someone's lovely card gave me the idea.

Last Friday's SCS Queen for the Day was Dawn and she had just challenged us to use paper blocks for the Free 4 All challenge at SCS.  When I toured Dawns delightful gallery, I noticed that she uses a lot of decorative paper on her cards.  Looking at her creations, I can't understand why using decorative paper scares me so.

But I am DP challenged and I have a stockpile of unused DP to prove it!

And the Friday Mashup challenge this week is to do an Autumnal card or a card with brads. Or to mash it up and do both.  I didn't use lots of brads like Lisa requested (and used on her beautiful card).  But I did get a couple on there.

And, the Color Challenge at SCS this week was to use More Mustard, Soft Suede and Tangerine Tango.  The brown panel (the one that looks navy) is Chocolate Chip.  It's not an exact match to Soft Suede, but it's pretty close.  These are such beautiful colors for Fall.  Unfortunately these colors didn't photograph very well.  The close up turned out so much better.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers

Ink:  Chocolate Chip, SU Markers (Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Tangerine Tango)

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Scraps of DSP

Other:  Brads



Thanks so much for joining me today.  I haven't had much computer time the past couple of days, but I have really enjoyed your comments and visiting your blogs when I had a minute.

Enjoy!

Thinking about Christmas

Just a quick post tonight.  It was a busy weekend preparing sets for my first Christmas Card class this coming Saturday.  This is what we'll be doing.

Then I'll do it again in 2 weeks at my house.

Now I need to plan for the classes in November.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Enjoy!