Happy Monday!

Good Morning! We had a very busy weekend, busy, but a lot of fun. We had Kip's birthday dinner/party at the bowling alley on Friday night, Saturday was doing all those fun cleaning things that have to be done and then yesterday we went to see Samantha play the piano, got groceries then home for dinner and then to watch The Walking Dead. The grocery store was insane, I didn't think about it being the weekend before Thanksgiving before we went.

My card today uses an image from Sweet Pea Stamps, was colored with Copic Markers and paper, lace and embellishments are from Hobby Lobby. I used Twinkling H2O paints for the background.

Have a great day!

No Coloring Challenge

A no coloring challenge? No Copics or Prismas? Well that is the challenge on the Riley and Company challenge blog this week. I think it actually took me longer to make a no coloring card than it takes me to make one where I have colored the image. Since all white was too much of a challenge for me, I decided to stamp Riley onto kraft card stock and then I stamped it again onto a blue piece of paper and then again onto a brown piece. That gave me a little color to work with. I paper pieced Riley's cookie and the mug he is holding. I used Cookie Riley. papers from making Memories, a Fiskars border punch and a flower and brad from my stash.

I am still hard at work on hubby's birthday gift! Our anniversary is next month, the week before Christmas so I am actually trying to work on things for that too. I can't wait to tell you what I am doing for the anniversary! I am having too much fun, but can't show it yet because I am afraid he might look around my blog looking for hints.

Have a great day!

Riley--Oldies but Goodies Challenge

I almost forgot to post this challenge card! It has been a little hectic here, nothing major going on just lots of fun things to do so I didn't make it to my blog to post last week. It seems like the time between Halloween and the end of the year just zooms by. On the Riley and Company blog this week the challenge was use an oldie but goodie image, using an image that was released at least a year ago. I am getting another box ready to send to my friend's son that is in Afghanistan so I thought this would be the perfect image to use for this challenge and for the card that I will tuck in his box. I used GI Riley, DCWV papers, some leather photo corners and brads from Making Memories.

I have also been busy working on something for Kip. His birthday is Friday and I have a big surprise for him. I can't post it early though, because sometimes he checks out my blog!

Have a great day.

Fall Flowers

Good Morning! It is a cold and rainy day for us this morning. I think fall has really settled in for us. The colors here have been absolutely beautiful but a lot of the leaves have already fallen so I am seeing more and more bare trees on my way to and from work. This is a fall inspired color challenge for me. The stamp is from Impression Obsession, papers and ribbons from Hobby Lobby.

Thanks for stopping by today!

House Mouse Halloween

Good Morning! I have one last Halloween project to share with you. I am a little sad that Halloween is over. In part just because I love Halloween so much and because after Halloween the rest of the year just seems to zoom by in one giant big flurry of activity. Between Halloween and the end of the year we have Kip's birthday, Thanksgiving and travel involved with that, my grandmother's birthday, our anniversary, and the Christmas. Mixed in with all that is the shopping, massive baking and cooking sessions and different holiday parties.

Now on to my card, this is a House Mouse image and was colored with Copics. The little sentiment panel is a piece of thin wood, painted black and then I wrote Boo with a white gel pen. Pretty simple. I just love this image though! It's so funny though, for the longest time, I would only color House Mouse images with pencils and because I was never really happy with the result when I used Copics on them. I am pretty please with this one and now when I sit down to color them it just depends on whether I am in a pencil mood or a marker mood.

Have a great day!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

It's here, it's here, it's finally here! Halloween has finally arrived. If you are celebrating, have fun and be safe! My card today is for the Riley and Company Orange and Black challenge. I left Riley a little pale with very little shading since he has gone all goth with this image. I gave him some little diamond stud earrings and then added that skull and crossbones from Recollections. I don't remember where the paper came from, it was actually from a Halloween or two ago and I have been holding on to it.

I can't wait to see all the little trick or treaters in their costumes tonight. This is the first place that I have really ever lived that has lots of trick or treaters too and I love it. I remember my first apartment after I moved to Nashville, there were several kids around so I got my outside all decorated, bought tons of candy, got ready to pass it out and I had exactly one trick or treater. After we got married I asked Kip if there were a lot that came by here and he didn't know since he was normally gone to a party. I was thrilled to have so many.

Have a great halloween!!

Twelfth Day of Halloween!

Here is my final post for the Twelve Days of Halloween challenges with Simply Betty Stamps. And just like last year, I had a great time playing along with these fun, daily challenges. Anytime I can pull out the Halloween papers and embellies I have fun. Image is from Simply Betty, colored with Copics and the papers and bats are from K & Co and the ribbon from my stash.

On the twelfth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me,

Twelve bats a flying,

Eleven casks a-leaning,

Ten ghouls a groaning,

Nine ghosts a booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters,

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I had so much fun today. I went with a friend and her daughter to a cooking class at the Viking Cooking store where we learned to make pasta doughs and sauces. Yummy! I took a couple of pictures that I will try and post tomorrow.

Enjoy your Halloween tomorrow!!

Day 11 of Simply Betty's 12 Days of Halloween

I have another Simply Betty project to share with you today. I can't believe tomorrow is Halloween. We had a fun time last night with some friends and family at our Halloween Bash. I tried something new, I made some black bean burgers. I have one vegetarian friend and instead of buying some frozen ones I wanted to try and make them. I didn't think that many people would eat them so I planned on freezing some to have some quick lunches on hand. But they all got eaten! We made three kinds of burgers and they were the first plate to disappear. I will be making those again.

On to today's project! Our inspiration from the Simply Betty Blog:

On the eleventh day of Halloween

My true love gave to me,

Eleven casks a-leaning,

Ten ghouls a groaning,

Nine ghosts a booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters,

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I used this Edward Scissorhands image from the Burton Chibi line. When I saw casks, it made me think of a science lab and that make me think of this image. I love the Edward Scissorhands movie, but it makes me really sad. the image is Simply Betty, papers are from Martha Stewart and the border is from K & Co.

One more challenge post to go and then my Twelve Days of Halloween will be complete!

Tenth Day of Halloween

On the Simply Betty Blog:

On the tenth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Ten ghouls a groaning,

Nine ghosts a booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Seven pumpkins glowing,

Six goblins gobbling,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters,

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I thought this mummy image would be perfect for my groaning ghoul. If you look close, that background paper is full of the eyes of lots more ghouls!

Nine Ghosts A-Booing

Just a quick Saturday post from me today. We have until the 30th to load all of our 12 Days of Halloween projects on the Simply Betty Blog so I will be back today and then in the morning with the last of my entries. This have been another fun round of Halloween challenges! On to today's poetic inspiration:

On the ninth day of Halloween

My true love gave to me

Nine ghosts a-booing,

Eight monsters shrieking,

Six pumpkins a glowing,

Five scary spooks,

Four skeletons,

Three black cats,

Two trick or treaters

And an owl in a rotten oak tree.

I know that cat looks like he has been spooked by something. Probably all those ghosts in the background! Image from SImply Betty Stamps, colored with Copics, ghost from K&Co. and I am drawing a blank on the papers right now.

Gotta run, I am teaching a Copic class today then back home to get ready for our Halloween Bash tonight!!