Simple Saturday

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."

Aldous Huxley

Catch up time....

Was away for a few days on a family vacay and now back to work (the real world).  Hopefully in the next few days I'll have time to sit and create, and when I do you'll be the first to know.

Love Birds

Nothing says "Happy Anniversary" like a couple of caged birds.  Right??!?

Well, probably not, but I thought they looked cute.  This is a card I made for the 25th anniversary of a couple of friends of ours.  The stamps are from the Aviary set and the sentiment is from the Chit Chat Rub-Ons. The Scallop Trim Edge Punch and a bow of Very Vanilla finish things off. 

Simple Saturday

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Blings and Bows

Tags?!?  Yup.  I had this purple punched butterfly, so not sure of the colour of it, other than purpley,  stamped it willy nilly with flowers from the Cottage Garden set in Concord Crush, then stamped a sentiment from Occasional Quotes in the same colour.  You'll note I used the shimmer spray experiment (Champagne Shimmer Paint with rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle) and it worked ok for 2 pumps so I stopped.  Woot! I blinged my butterfly and used some just-happen-to-have-a-matching-colour-ribbon to finish things off.

This tag is one of my more 'elegant' creations.  No shimmer spray or bling. Flowers from the Friends Never Fade set are willy nilly stamped in Crumb Cake on the tag base.  I punched a Night of Navy circle with my shiny new 2 3/8" scallop circle punch and layered a white circle on top with my sentiment (it IS SU, but I don't remember the name of the set at the moment).  I used some Very Vanilla ribbon to make a bow and glued it to the bottom.

Extraordinary

More chipboard coasters! Yes.  That's more shimmer spray.  I used Pacific Point in the flower with some Crushed Curry for a centre.  I had a just-happen-to-have-a-matching-colour bling and some designer paper that had the right colour combo.   Then I used my Scallop Trim Edge punch on a strip of Pacific Point to tie it all together.  The sentiment (not SU) is stamped in Marina Mist.

I'm thinking I should get a display system for all of my chipboard creations.  Something like a spinny display with clips, there's a few out there that intrigue me.  Would be nice to have these on display on the mantle or coffee table or something. 

My first challenge

I really don't think I'm ready for this, but what the heck, it'll be fun. 
So this is my first challenge and it's from HSS - Hand Stamped Sentiments

This is my take on their sketch Challenge #25.  You'll notice that I've whipped out my Scallop Trim Edge punch, again.  The only SU items are the Pear Pizzazz cardstock, the Friends Never Fade floral and the sentiment from Occasional Quotes.  This is actually a card for my Mother's birthday which is tomorrow, I'm hoping she likes it.

Ok, so...that wasn't so bad. Challenge #2, where are you?