Viva La Verve November 2013 Week 2

Hi folks,

I am definitely starting to panic about getting enough Christmas cards made for this year. So, since I STILL haven't packed away my gear from the crop I attended the first weekend of November, I grabbed the same papers I used for my Week 1 cards to make my Week 2 cards.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base (and a slightly smaller mat for the front!)
• patterned papers: Kaiser Craft "Twig & Berry"
• stamps: Verve "Glad Tidings", "Ornamental Christmas" (twig is coloured with Copic G85)
• green satin ribbon and butcher twine from my stash
• Spellbinders Petite Circles, Verve "Pennant Die Trim"
• layout: Viva La Verve November 2013 Week 2

challenges for these cards:

• Christmas Card Challenges #50: this week is a sketch (which I didn't use - yet) but any Christmas card will do.
• Pile it On #45: Show us your tools (definitely my Cuttlebug - it was put to good use doing my die cuts AND my scissors and quilting ruler to get those fish tails cut for my other pieces of paper)
• Through the Craft Room Door (Nov 12-18): Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #32: Anything Goes
• One Crazy Stamper November Christmas Challenge

As always, thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to check out the new challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade! This week (and next), the challenge is a theme of "So Thankful". Team Yumi shared their creations this past Sunday and Team Fumi will be sharing this coming Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone creates for this challenge - I like to think that you can never have too many thank you cards in your stash!

Tuesday Morning Sketches with Jess' College Fund Digi's

Hi folks,

It's a long weekend here in Canada and I did manage to scrape out a little craft room time to make this birthday card for a friend of ours. She is an avid photographer (here's a link to her photography business page on Facebook if you would like to check it out - beautiful shots of the local wildlife) and I thought this new image from Jess' College Fund Digi's would be perfect for her birthday card (though without glasses would have been better in this case).

I can't encourage you enough to stop by Jess' College Fund to check out the very reasonably priced digital images. I have all but one - the most recently released image since I have been crazy busy this weekend and haven't had time yet to purchase it. Will fix that later today!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base and mat (I've taken a liking to doing an extra mat in the same colour as my card base recently. Love the extra layer.). Brown textured card stock from Michael's for the mats.
• patterned paper: Basic Grey "Sweet Threads"
• digital image: Jess' College Fund "Jess Taking Pictures", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E02, E93, E04, E43, E47, E49, E39, E29, E77, E25, YG0000, YG01, YG21, YG23, T4, T6, T8) with a little white gelly roll accent on the camera lens. I also sponged around the image with CTMH Blush ink to pick up on the pink in the papers. Yes, I DO have a Copic Airbrush and it DOES sit in one of the towers of my desk. I really should take it out and leave it ON my desk and plugged in so I can use it more often. sigh. Just call me Queen of the unused tools!
• sentiment: Verve "Borderline"
• Spellbinders Petite Ovals
• paper flowers and embroidery floss from my stash
• layout: Tuesday Morning Sketches #223 (oops - should have uploaded yesterday to meet the posting deadline!)

additional challenges for this card:

• Jess' College Fund: Anything Goes (with one of her digi's)
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday (I didn't do the optional "texture" toppings"
• Sister Act Card Challenge #32: Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes
• Crazy4Challenges 211: Frame it (I decided to sponge the background around my image and add another mat behind it to give it a bit of a frame with the spellbinders die)

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Viva La Verve November Week 1

Hi folks,

Well, the crunch is on. It is already November and I am really far behind on my Christmas card making for this year. So much so that I think I better start scheduling some serious time in my craft room to get a few more cranked out.

At last weekend's crop, I brought the Week 1 sketch for the November Viva La Verve challenge with the intention of making a batch of cards. I did six with that sketch - and here they are!

Of course, I'm a bit of an idiot. I decided I wanted to paper-piece the trees. I stamped them and proceeded to manually cut them out before I realized that I actually have the DIE for the trees as well. Could have saved myself some time if I had remembered that sooner rather than later!

I kept these cards very CAS as they will be going into the post and we all know what buttons and bling do to cards for mailing - it makes them cost a lot more!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 kraft card stock base
• patterned papers: Kaisercraft Twig & Berry
• stamps: Verve "Christmas in the Air", "Ornamental Christmas"
• techniques: distressing, paper-piecing

additional challenges for these cards:

• Pink Gem Challenge #104: Christmas is Coming 
• Simon Says: Clean and Simple
• Christmas Card Challenges #49: Dimension  (but any Christmas Card will do)
• One Crazy Stamper November Christmas Challenge

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Thoughts

Hi folks,

Last weekend I attended a crop and, of course, there were a couple of vendors there. I always have to check out the supplies they have for sale to see if anything catches my eye. Patterned papers are absolutely my biggest weakness when it comes to crafting and the papers I used on this card definitely caught my eye. So much so that I bought the papers at the crop AND set to making this card right away!

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 white card stock base, black card stock mats
• patterned papers: Prima "Firefly"
• stamped image: Yumi & Fumi Handmade "Yumi with Fan", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E02, E93, E50, E51, E53, Y21, Y23,BG10, BG11, BG13, BV01)
• sentiment: Verve "With Love"
• layout: Crafts 4 Eternity R#148

additional challenges for this card:

• Sister Act Card Challenge #31: Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door (Nov 5-11): Anything Goes
• Love to Scrap #17: Anything Goes

Be sure to stop by the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog today to check out the awesome tutorial Blankina has for you. And, don't forget that you still have time to link up a creation for the Hallowe'en colour challenge which ends on Friday.

Celebrating Again with Yumi & Fumi Handmade!

Hi folks!

Today we are celebrating another design team member birthday over at the Yumi & Fumi Handmade blog! Hip! Hip! Hooray!

Big birthday wishes are going out today to Cebelica! Be sure to stop by and wish her a happy birthday! I am sure she will be touched to read your birthday wishes.

I have it on the down low that Cebelica's favourite colours are blue, pink and brown. So, I gave Summer Fumi a pink and blue outfit to pick up on the colours in the Basic Grey Marjolaine papers I chose (yep - if you look closely you can see the pale pink in the argyle print!). Of course, the browns come from the kraft card stock and the ink for the sentiment.


Hope you are having a fantastic birthday, Cebelica, and that you get to celebrate all month long!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base, white card stock mats
• patterned papers: Basic Grey Marjolaine
• stamped image: Yumi & Fumi Handmade "Summer Fumi", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E02, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, B91, B93, B95, R00, R81, R83)
• sentiment: Verve "Making a Statement"
• Spellbinders Petite Ovals
• Layout: November Sketch For You To Try

challenges for this card:

• Sister Act Card Challenge #31: Anything Goes
• Love to Scrap Challenge #17: Anything Goes
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes  
• Loves Rubber Stamps #77: Anything Goes

Yumi & Fumi Handmade Challenge #27 - Hallowe'en Colours

Hi folks,

It's Sunday so that means I am sharing my Team Fumi creation for Challenge #27 over at the Yumi and Fumi Handmade Challenge Blog. Sorry I'm a wee bit late but the last couple of days have been very busy for me and I completely forgot to schedule my post!

Challenge #27 is a Hallowe'en Colour Combo (black/orange/green/purple) challenge and you have until this coming Friday to link up your challenge entries at the Y&FH challenge post for a chance to win!

It will probably come as no surprise that I just HAD to use one of the sweet stamps in the Kigurumi Series for my Hallowe'en creation.

Doesn't Yumicorn look like she is ready for trick or treating?

card details:

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, black card stock base
• patterned paper: CTMH "Hooligans"
• stamped image: Yumi & Fumi Handmade "Yumicorn", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, YG06, E27, V15, V17, V20, V22). I added some sparkle to her horn and wings with my Sakura Clear Star Gelly Roll marker
• layout: Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge 454

Be sure to check out the challenge details and the creations from the rest of Team Fumi - you can find their posts by navigating to them from the main post over at the Yumi and Fumi Handmade Challenge Blog or you can follow the list below

Senior Designer, Denice Bartucci:  http://being-craft-de.blogspot.com/

Sheena Brooks: http://kanatanewfpapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Kathy Dinh: http://ekboutique.blogspot.com/

Melissa Oeters: http://8ers.blogspot.com/

Annemieke Blanken aka Blankina:  http://blankinacreations.blogspot.com/

Remember you can now use ANY coloured images in your creations - with an extra entry if you use a Yumi & Fumi Handmade image! Sorry but sentiment only creations are not eligible to win the prizes up for grabs. And what CAN you win? The challenge winner gets a $10 gift certificate to the Yumi & Fumi Handmade store while the Top 3 get a 10% discount code for their next purchase! Be sure to check the challenge guidelines here for the most up to date information on how your entry can qualify to win!

Challenges for this card:

• Simon Says: Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge #31: Anything Goes
• Loves Rubberstamps Challenge 76 : Halloween
• 365 Cards: Day 298: Halloween
• Card Crafter's Circle #99: Cute Cards
• Cute Card Thursday #293: Sparkles

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Holidays from Yeti Yumi - SC458

Hi folks!

I'm finally back on the wagon, getting a few more Christmas cards ready for the coming season. At the crop I attended on Friday, I got out my Copics and coloured up Yeti Yumi for this card:

I have to say, this one is a fave. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way that I can gift it to myself instead of giving it away to someone! My dearly beloved commented that it looked a LOT like a friend of mine so I'm thinking I AM going to have to give this one away to her.

A couple of reminders before I give you the card details:

• You still have lots of time to link up your cards for the Hallowe'en Colours over at the Yumi & Fumi Handmade Challenge Blog
• Yumi & Fumi Handmade now have a company gallery over at SplitCoastStampers. Click on through to check out the fabulous creations already in the gallery. If you are a member over at SCS and upload your Y&FH creations, be sure to tag them with yumifumi so we can check them out! We're looking forward to seeing the gallery of inspiration grow!

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base, navy card stock mats
• patterned papers: Bo Bunny "Blitzen"
• stamped image: Yumi & Fumi Handmade "Yeti Yumi" coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E02, E93, E50, Y21, Y23, Y32, Y35, B97, B95, B93, B91, C6, Y13, R29, G07, B000). I added a little sparkle to the string of lights with my Sakura Clear Star Gelly Roll pen.
• sentiment: Verve "Holiday Greetings"
• from my stash: adhesive gem
• Spellbinders Petite Circles
• layout: Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge #458

Challenges for this card:

• Christmas Card Challenges #48: this week's theme is "Bows" but any Christmas card will do. As you can see, no bow on my card.
• Sister Act Card Challenge #31: Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Simon Says: Anything Goes
• Cute Card Thursday #293: Sparkles (I have a sparkly gem AND I added sparkle to the string of lights with my clear star pen)
• Graph'it Markers: Anything Goes or Tic-Tac-Toe (stripes, blonde hair and her furry coat!)