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Howdy boys and girls! (Well, ok, probably just girls.  Women in fact.)

Sorry I’m late.  I’m having a terrible time getting a decent picture of my card.  I’m posting what I have and will try to get a better picture later.

Usually when I make a card, the image is the main focus and if I add a sentiment at all it’s very small and simple.  I do have several sets where the sentiments are larger and wordier but I hardly ever use them.  It’s time I gave them a little more love.

So, the challenge this week is to make a card where the sentiment is either the focus of the card or shares the focus equally with the image.

Wedding

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I used:

Card stock: PTI – Vintage Cream
Stamps: Hero Arts (image), MSE (sentiment)
Ink: Memento – Summer Sky and London Fog

1. A one-layer card is defined as a single piece of cardstock folded in half.

2. Make a one-layer card using the sentiment as the main focus (or that shares the focus with image).

3. Please share your creation by posting your card online and then using  Inlinkz below to link to it.

4. Please make sure you are linking directly to the relevant post – not just to your blog.

5. Most important of all…HAVE FUN!

6. If I have confused you, please feel free to leave a comment telling me so, or email me for clarification

7. If you wish to post your creation to SCS, please use OLW65 as a keyword.

I am not quite back into the swing of things here on the ol’ blog.  I’m still getting used to a) getting up at stupid o’clock to get the spawn off to school and b) having one of those job thingies (ptooey).

Anyway, here is my card for Susan‘s OLW64.

Keep Calm

Clickety to biggety the pic.

Stuff wot I used:

Card stock: a muse studio – school lined
Stamps: a muse studio – vintage a muse
Ink: Memento
Markers: Copic

By the way, did you happen to notice that the lovely and extraordinarily talented Krystie Lee is also offering up a scrummy a muse studio prize for a randomly selected entry on Susan’s blog?  If not, you better run over and check it out.  You still have time to play!

Finally, here are some pics from the spawn’s first day of kindergarten.

Thumbs up

Backpack

You still here?  I bet you’re wondering who scored the a muse goodies for OLW63.

Well, stay tuned.  Winner will be announced this Wednesday!

Howdy, howdy everyone

I hope you have all had a lovely summer and are well rested and ready to rock!

We are not just back, we are back with an awesome giveaway!

The ridiculously talented and fabulously generous Krystie Lee is offering up a scrumptious assortment of A Muse goodies to one lucky randomly selected participant in this week’s OLW challenge.

Check it out:

OLW63 Prize

The randomly selected participant will receive:

Cling mounted stamp set – Smile Inside
Sampler of A Muse Studio printed papers – 45 notecards
Sampler of A Muse Studio buttons – 13 bags in assorted colors
Clear Twinkle Stickers
Two A Muse Studio Inspriation books

I wonder if I can randomly select myself

All you have to do for this week’s challenge is make a baby-themed one-layer card.

You don’t have to use A Muse stamps to play along.

1. A one-layer card is defined as a single piece of cardstock folded in half.

2. Make a one-layer card with a baby theme.

3. Please share your creation by posting your card online and then using  Inlinkz below to link to it.

4. Please make sure you are linking directly to the relevant post – not just to your blog.

5. Most important of all…HAVE FUN!

6. If I have confused you, please feel free to leave a comment telling me so, or email me for clarification

7. If you wish to post your creation to SCS, please use OLW63 as a keyword.

Oh, look, I made a couple of cards:

Cute and Cuddly - Boy

Card stock: PTI
Stamps: A Muse – Cute and Cuddly
Ink: Memento
Copic Markers: B21, B41, G21
Embellishments: A Muse Creative Candy – Pretty Pearls (Ivory)
Other: Crop-a-dile corner rounder (1/4″)

Cute and Cuddly - Girl

Card stock: PTI
Stamps: A Muse – Cute and Cuddly
Ink: Memento
Copic Markers: R83, R81, G21
Embellishments: A Muse Creative Candy – Pretty Pearls (Ivory)
Other: Crop-a-dile corner rounder (1/4″)

But wait, there’s MORE!  Check out the card that Krystie made for the challenge HERE.

Now if all this wasn’t enough, Krystie will also be offering up a prize to one randomly selected participant when Susan hosts the OLW challenge next week!

Greetings all.

As you may have noticed, I have been a bad, bad, bad, terrible no good host this summer.

I am behind on my commenting and I haven’t even been able to get into my craft room since we got back from holiday.

Susan has been sidelined with a bum elbow and she will soon be off on a lovely holiday.

Apparently summer is a busy time

So, OLW will be on hiatus until September 7th at which time we will return with a lovely surprise!

I hope you are all enjoying your summer!

See you in September

Well hello there bunnies!

We have returned from an absolutely lovely holiday.  I have to thank  Susan for covering my turns and doing the commenting.  Does she rock or what?!

While on holiday, I had the great pleasure to meet up with a cardmaking celebrity and her cutie-pie son.  We had a nice morning at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire followed by a lovely lunch at a local restaurant.  I may have touched her (although not inappropriately) in the hope of having some of her awesome talent rub off on me.

Also, while on holiday, I received my yummy and delicious A Muse Studio order through the absolutely lovely and spectacularly talented, Krystie Lee.

Speaking of Krystie, we have a couple of nice surprises coming up for you before summer is over.

And finally, this week’s OLW challenge.  I jokingly asked my five year old son for a suggestion for this week’s theme.

He suggested, flowers, trees, clouds.  These are things I usually ask him to draw when he is making a picture for his great-grandmother.  I thought about it for a minute and thought, hey!  Yes!  Clouds.  The theme will be clouds!

Graduate

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Card stock: something cheap from Michael’s (oh, the horror)
Stamps: Cloud background from Impression/Obsession (I may have had an order shipped to me on vacation),
Balloon (Studio Calico), Sentiment (Um, I forget)
Ink: Memento
Marker: Copic

1. A one-layer card is defined as a single piece of cardstock folded in half.

2. Make a one-layer card incorporating clouds.

3. Please share your creation by posting your card online and then using  Inlinkz below to link to it.

4. Please make sure you are linking directly to the relevant post – not just to your blog.

5. Most important of all…HAVE FUN!

6. If I have confused you, please feel free to leave a comment telling me so, or email me for clarification

7. If you wish to post your creation to SCS, please use OLW61 as a keyword.

Hello there mousies,

Before we get to the challenge I have to apologise to the three people who are still waiting for their stamps.  We’ve been soooo busy here (with what precisely, I am unable to say).  All I know is I’ve had close to zero time for stamping and no time for commenting.  Yeah, I have to apologise for the lack of comments on the last challenge.  Not to worry, I will get to them…soon…ish.  And the stamps, they shall be mailed.  Before the snow flies, I promise.
And, Tiya-B, thank you for your lovely, lovely offer and comments.  I will take you up on your kind offer when we get back

And now, on to the challenge.

We are headed off on holiday shortly and this holiday involves sun (we hope), sand and ocean.  So, this week’s challenge is to create a card that is inspired by any or all of the following: summer, the beach, the sea, sun, sand, the lake, the cottage – pretty much anything that says summer and/or summer holidays.

The first card is by my fabulous guest designer, Aidan.  Aidan dabbles in stamping but probably considers himself
more of a drawing kind of guy.  His usual subjects are Wolf and Dahdah – characters in a series of stories he writes under the name of Dr Gus or any or all of the characters from Super Mario.

Today, he agreed to play along with the challenge.  Here is his card:

Fishing at the Beach

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Here is a guy fishing at the beach and a guy relaxing under a beach umbrella.

Card stock: PTI
Markers: Crayola
Technique: Colouring

And here is my rather rushed card:

Summer!

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Card stock: PTI
Stamps: Stampscapes, Savvy Stamps, Hero Arts
Ink: Jenny Bowlin, SU!
Markers: Copic

1. A one-layer card is defined as a single piece of cardstock folded in half.

2. Make a one-layer card inspired by sun, sand, sea, summer, the beach, the late, the cottage (or all of those).

3. Please share your creation by posting your card online and then using  Inlinkz below to link to it.

4. Please make sure you are linking directly to the relevant post – not just to your blog.

5. Most important of all…HAVE FUN!

6. If I have confused you, please feel free to leave a comment telling me so, or email me for clarification

7. If you wish to post your creation to SCS, please use OLW57 as a keyword.

I will try to catch up on comments on my previous challenge as well as comment on the current challenge, but we will have somewhat limited internet access while on holiday.  Super Susan will step in and try to comment if I can’t.
Susan has also kindly agreed to cover my challenge turn while we are away.

Yay, I finally got a chance to play along with Jingle Belles again!  The challenge this week is to make a Christmas card using three (or more) patterned papers.

I used four!  Woot!

Tree-mendous Christmas

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Card stock: PTI
Patterned paper: Bo Bunny, My Mind’s Eye
Stamp: Hero Arts
Ink: SU!

‘Allo, ‘allo

Here are a couple of cards for Less is More #17 – Pick a Square.

Card stock: PTI
Patterned paper: Bo Bunny
Felt lamb: Martha Stewart

Card stock: Bazzill, PTI
Glitter heart: Doodlebug Designs

Hello peeplets!

It is once again that time (already!) for an odd-numbered One-Layer Wednesday.

Another easy peasy one.  Make a one layer card with a dog or a cat on it (or both).

Card stock: PTI
Stamps: SU!
Ink: Memento, ColorBox
Technique: Masking
Wall: Hand drawn and coloured with Copics
Now, while I quite like the idea of this card, I’m a little disappointed in it’s execution.  I may well redo it
and fine-tune a few elements.

1. A one-layer card is defined as a single piece of cardstock folded in half.

2. Make a one-layer card with a cat or a dog on it (or both).

3. Please share your creation by posting your card online and then using  Inlinkz below to link to it.

4. Please make sure you are linking directly to the relevant post – not just to your blog.

5. Most important of all…HAVE FUN!

6. If I have confused you, please feel free to leave a comment telling me so, or email me for clarification

7. If you wish to post your creation to SCS, please use OLW55 as a keyword.

Edited to add:

I couldn’t leave comments on a few of your lovely cards, for the OLW53 challenge.
In four cases when I tried to leave comments I was directed to a sign up page for Blogger.
Some of you don’t have a profile option for me to select.  I don’t use Blogger and if you don’t have
the “Name/URL” option available, I either can’t leave a comment or I might appear as simply “Jennifer”
with no additional info.  Not sure what that’s all about.

Here are four cards I made for the Less is More challenge this week.  I couldn’t stop at just one and will likely make
a bunch more.

I just love’em!

Click a pic for a bigger version.

Card stock: PTI
Stamp: SU!
Ink: Memento, SU!
Patterned papers: Various
Other: Butterfly punch